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Authoritative yet accessible historical overview of Christian Sunday worship In this book noted Christian historian Justo Gonzalez tells the story of how and why Christians have worshiped on Sunday...

This wonderful book by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre offers fifty-two short, poignant meditations on the very real issues faced by people who are dying.Author: Marilyn McEntyrePublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans...

Accessible yet authoritative biography of the colorful character who instigated the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar who set the Protestant Reformation in motion with his...

Academy of Parish Clergy's Top Ten Books for Parish Ministry Vocational discernment, says R. Paul Stevens, is a lifelong process -- one that takes on even more significance in later life. In this...

Originally published: Philadelphia: Westminster Press, [1965, c1964].Author: John StottPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.Publication Date: Jul 03, 2017Number of Pages: 116 pagesLanguage:...

This book by Gregg Ten Elshof explores ways of using resources from the Confucian wisdom tradition to inform Christian living. Neither highlighting nor diminishing the differences between...

A timeless, little-known literary classic As the Black Death ravaged London in 1608, the theaters closed, many people moved out of town for safety, and playwrights scrambled to find other outlets for...

Over the last fifty years, Lutherans and Roman Catholics have engaged in profound theological dialogue leading to increasingly close ties between two church bodies that have historically been divided...

What did the first Christians say about Jesus? The good news about Jesus spread like wildfire through the Roman Empire in the decades between his death and the writing of the first gospels--but how?...

These letters--part devotion, part historical biography, part contemporary engagement, and part inspiration--reveal Carroll's curiosity and wonder about Francis. She celebrates his whimsical idealism...

Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse -- cataclysmic destruction and...

Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1997.Author: Marcus, JoelPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.Publication Date: Mar 27, 2017Number of Pages: 153 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Adoptionism--the idea that Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as a human figure who was adopted as God's son at his baptism or resurrection--has been commonly accepted in much recent scholarship as the...

On finding joy and spiritual meaning in life's small moments We all have moments of joy, moments that move us somehow, spiritual moments that we can't quite put a finger on. But then we rush on and...

Nobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people -- they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In Loving...

When Anne Robertson asked a bunch of people on the street what came to mind when they heard the word Bible, she was met with a flood of mixed responses--words like wisdom, lies, faith, rules, ancient...

When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a...

We live in an urban age. For the first time in human history, most of the worldÆs people live in cities. It is thus vital, say Mark Gornik and Maria Liu Wong, for Christians to think constructively...

Based on Between Two Worlds, first published 1982 in the U.K. by Hodder and Stoughton, London, under the title I Believe in Preaching and in the United States of America by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing...

Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in...

Author: Mr. Charles PeguyPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.Publication Date: May 15, 2005Number of Pages: 190 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0802808999ISBN-13: 9780802808998

What this book is concerned with are the words used in the New Testament to describe preachers and the task of preaching. - from author's preface.Author: John StottPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans...

Was Jesus ever married? Yes, indeed, says Addison Hodges Hart, who boldly asserts that the church's tradition has always regarded Jesus as "married" - but not in the way that recent sensationalist...

On Good Friday, March 30, 2018, Fleming Rutledge preached on the Seven Last Words of Jesus at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City. Her seven meditations, delivered over the course of three...

Max Ehrmann's prose poem "Desiderata," with its direct instructions --"go placidly," "enjoy your achievements," and others-- has inspired millions of readers. In the spirit of Ehrmann's "Desiderata,"...

Christianity Today, Award of Merit, History/Biography (2006) The well-worn saying about being condemned to repeat the history we do not know applies to church history as much as to any other area of...

Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 9 invites any who want to learn her ways to come and eat at her table--an image for the rich and satisfying teaching that she offers. In this book Barbara Reid invites...

A resource for both corporate worship and personal devotion, With All Our Prayers invites readers to pray, think, and live into God s purpose for the world and for their own lives. Written by a...