Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works

Throughout her academic career, Christine D.

Throughout the history of the church, many excellent books have been written addressing the theological significance of Christian identity.

This book is intended to encourage the use of comparative theology in contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue as a new approach that would truly respect each religious tradition's uniqueness and make dialogue beneficial for all participants interested in a real theological exchange.

Christian womanhood.

This book seeks to press the wisdom of Proverbs into active duty in the trenches of everyday life and put the principles of character formation in working clothes.

Between these covers, in the form of poems and prayers, is condensed the insight and spirituality of a life lived fully in South Africa, a country first in struggle and then in transition.

How do you introduce people to Jesus Christ who have had no contact with the Bible or its message?

Are you are a busy Christian trying to navigate the demands and values of a culture moving at hyper speed?

We sometimes say that Muslims and Christians are part of Abraham's family, but while you can choose your friends, you cannot choose your family.

This collection of poetic reflections is a rich resource for a faithful imagination.

How do we create places and spaces for deepening our spiritual lives?

"e;All of us ought to be ready to laugh at ourselves,"e; wrote theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "e;because all of us are a little funny in our foibles, conceits, and pretensions.

A spirit runs through the interdisciplinary essays of this book--a spirit that lives within them and hovers above them, at once intelligent and profoundly simple.

Fire, Water, and Wind explores the forming of a healthy sense of personal identity.

Leaders of congregations want to foster change but how is rarely obvious.

As a writer and prophet Dostoevsky was no academic theologian, yet his writings are deeply theological: his life, beliefs, even his epilepsy, all had a role in generating his theology and eschatology.

The joyful premise at the heart of this book is that there is a table lavishly spread for all who hunger for forgiveness--the believer, the doubter, and the famished.

O'er All the Weary World is a lively collection of short stories for the Christmas season.

In the words of Saint Augustine, the Bible is long, complicated, and difficult to read.

This book is intended as a devotional guide for the Advent season.

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It is not possible to look at the ministry of Jesus without noticing his concern for the poor and the sick.

When you are young, how do you reconcile so many contradictions in your surroundings?

Grace.

In this collection of non-fiction narratives Steve Doughty offers an evocative exploration of contemporary spiritual seeking.

In this fascinating spiritual-theological autobiography, Robert Rakestraw tells of his lifelong, unceasing search for God.

What are Christian women thinking about mission?

To what degree does culture facilitate or distort the Christian faith, the gospel of Jesus, and the life of the church?

The prophet Jeremiah, mourning his people in the city of Zion, spoke of the balm that could heal them.

Soul Mentoring draws upon the wisdom of Gregory the Great (540-604) from his Pastoral Care, one of the most widely read books on mentoring from the ancient world.

If we are being honest, many of us would admit that we spend practically no time praising God when we pray.

A good quotation states an insight so shrewdly that not only do you get it, but you can't seem to forget it.

This biography of Isabel Crawford is a lively account of a feisty and fascinating Baptist missionary.

We live in the era of dialogue, an era Leonard Swidler helped birth.

After more than twenty years since the fall of the USSR, the evangelical movement in post-Soviet society has entered a crucial phase in its historical development.

David Wasserman served the church in a time that was exciting, challenging, and made progress for the Kingdom.

Most academic and therapeutic programs do not include spirituality and God as essential components of health and treatment.

Mulled Psalms is a book of poetry.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.

Succession is the hot topic in leadership development, but the subject has rarely been addressed in Christian literature.

Live Like You Give a Damn!

Do you struggle to get into the Christmas spirit?

There are unexpected, beatific moments when Rev.

Startled by the unexpected diagnosis of a rare and often-terminal cancer, JoAnn A.

This simple, accessible little devotional should be taken like a medicine in daily dosages: repeat as necessary until your spirit is heartened.

Do you wonder what our worship will be like in Heaven?

As a pastor and Secretary General of the Protestant Church of the Netherlands, Arjan Plaisier has a good observation point to observe the growing secularism of the Western world, including the widespread disenchantment with the church.

Wise Up!

Is there an answer for suffering?

The outrageous idea of this book is that God wants to use professors as professors to reach others, transform the academy, and meet the needs of the world.