Religious life and practice

Whatever life gives you and wherever life takes you, there is always a story.

Porneia means fornication, unchastity, desire for another's body.

This collection of essays on policing and the use of force, while written over the course of the last twenty-five years, remains relevant and timely.

Beginning with a conversation prompted by African American scholars like Dr.

Wisdom Beyond Measure examines Jesus' well-known Sermon on the Mount with simple and concise text geared towards the everyday Christian.

The aim of Sit on Our Hands, or Stand on Our Feet?

There are few situations in the life of a church that are more disruptive or destructive than the presence of sin in the life of its membership, especially the leadership.

What would it look like if an Avenger turned up to help in youth work?

As I reflected on working in a Teen Challenge Youth Emergency Accommodation Shelter, I began to realize that in serving others, I too had been greatly served.

The quick facts are these: Alzheimer's Disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and is the only cause of death in the top ten in America that cannot be prevented, slowed, or cured.

We humans are capable of great relationships.

Traditional apologetics is either focused on obscure, quasi-Thomist philosophical arguments for God's existence or on 18th-century-style answers to allegedbiblical contradictions.

Transforming Pastors presents fifty-two Bible-immersed, field-tested, discussion-welcoming, one-page handouts that offer spiritual guidance through the labyrinth of leadership.

Women are the majority in almost every cultural or social group.

The concept of self-sacrifice is highly important to Korean Americans.

A Journey to Bong Mines: Home Is a Place Best Known to You is a thought-provoking, non-fictional, and easy-to-read masterpiece which reveals the undeniable struggles of four brothers who risk their lives and all they had to reach a place to call home, in spite of the atrocities they had to undergo.

7 Key Qualities of Effective Teachers: Encouragement for Christian Educators aims to encourage and inspire Christian teachers in their critically important role as transformative educators who motivate and encourage others to become the best people God created them to be.

Walter and Ingrid Trobisch played a major role in shaping a transcultural conversation about love, sex, gender identity, and marriage during the mid-twentieth century.

Christianity is turning brown and moving south.

The Broken Leaf invites you to explore the beauty and gospel images found in Japanese art and culture.

The United States is one of history's great Christian nations, but our unique history, success, and global impact have seduced us into believing we are something more--God's New Israel, the new order of the ages, the last best hope of mankind, a redeemer nation.

This book initiates a new conversation about how theological education might be re-envisioned for the twenty-first century church.

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues.

This is a guidebook for archival assistants and new librarians.

There is a great deal of confusion and ignorance in the church today concerning the office of Elder.

Why Teenagers Matter in the Life of the Church

What is Catholic spirituality for the contemporary man?

What is the place of corporate worship in theological education?

This book enables worship leaders to skillfully guide spiritual novices, skeptics, and Christian veterans to the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy.

Romans and Christians AD 64 is an experiential learning module for use by youth ministers, campus ministers, and teachers of church history.

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Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

Today, too many Christians are followers of novelty, religious fads, and strange new doctrines unheard of in the history of the church.

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Don't Quit Your Church is a foundational philosophy of ministry that serves two distinct purposes.

This is a book for teachers and people who help teachers, such as writers and editors of curriculum materials.

Hiding secrets usually don't hide forever as I found out in my own life.

"e;No one can read the New Testament with any care and attention without being struck by the prominence given therein to faith or belief.

A charming, illustrated parable for all ages.

Eloise Daniel lived a brutal life colored by violence, racism, abuse, addiction, and abandonment.

"e;This is a book of mature wisdom--straightforward, lucid, inspiring.

ADULTERYRecognizing the Signs Stopping It Before It Starts Recovering from the DamageOne-half of the young and middle-aged couples in this country will at some time struggle with the painful and destructive results of an affair.

"e;Readers who have had the privilege of being Robert Gundry's students, as I have, will understand when I say his teaching always challenges you to think, inspires a deeper love of God's word, and leaves you hungering for more.

This is a study of the church's formulation of its teaching ministry in periods preceding our own, particularly in the Reformation era.

What does it mean to be both a Christian and a therapist?

"e;Peace is my farewell to you, my peace is my gift to you"e; (John 14:27).

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE SMALL MEMBERSHIP CHURCH is a comprehensive resource aimed at making religious education more effective all along the line in small churches.

In today's world the challenge of care is how to respond to people's emotional as well as their economic circumstances.

The widespread use of Marriage and the Family has proved its value as a textbook covering biblical, sociological, and psychological perspectives on the family.