A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library (NYPL) Best Book for Kids A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Year Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Most Notable Book "A book to be read and remembered: a tribute to children whose lives were lost to forces not of their own creation." -- Kirkus ......
A collection of expressive and emotional psalms is paraphrased for young readers and uses simple yet powerful imagery to help children talk about their feelings to God.
In this book Peterson clarifies the pastoral vocation by turning to the book of Jonah, in which he finds a captivating, subversive story that can help pastors recover their "vocational holiness". Peterson probes the spiritual dimensions of the pastoral calling and seeks to reclaim the ground taken over by those who are trying to enlist pastors in ......
Believing that Scripture cannot be understood theologically unless it has first been understood grammatically, Harris provides a careful, thoroughgoing reading of the text of 2 Corinthians.
To follow Christ means to journey along a way that is distinctively Christian. That journey involves making many personal, sometimes difficult choices. In this acclaimed book Bruce Waltke distills from Scripture a handy six-point prioritized program to help guide Jesus followers on their step-by-step life journey. This second edition of Waltke's ......
Has something indeed happened to evangelical theology and to evangelical churches? According to David Wells, the evidence indicates that evangelical pastors have abandoned their traditional role as ministers of the Word to become therapists and "managers of the small enterprises we call churches." Along with their parishioners, they have abandoned ......
Pauls letter to the churches of Galatia was for many years a document of special interest and study for renowned New Testament scholar F. F. Bruce. This excellent volume in the New International Greek Testament Commentary series contains Bruces mature work on that important early epistle.
Seeking is in vogue these days. Many of us are continually, even obsessively striving and seeking-for something or other. But are we ever satisfied? What is enough? Holly Whitcomb presents the spiritual practice of finding as the antidote to chronic seeking and as the doorway to a grateful awareness of having received enough. She reflects on ......
The wind groaned and swirled that night and likely it seemed to tear the thatch from the roof. But when the baby gave her first cry, the wind shushed to a whisper and the stars began to sing. Brigid's Cloak retells an ancient tale about one of Ireland's most beloved saints. On the day she is born Brigid receives a brilliant blue cloak from a ......