NIAT BAIK SAJA TIDAKLAH CUKUP - Melepaskan dan memperlengkapi orang untuk dengan efektif menolong kaum miskin memerlukan pertobatan dan kesadaran akan kerusakan kita. Buku ini menguraikan kerangka yang alkitabiah terkait dengan penyebab-penyebab utama kemiskinan dan pengentasannya. Apakah Anda terlibat dalam misi jangka pendek atau pemberdayaan jangka panjang bagi kaum miskin, buku ini memba…
What is a covenant? Asking for a definition of "covenant" is like asking for a definition of "mother." A mother may be defined as the person who brought you into the world. That definition may be correct formally. But who would be satisfied with such a definition? Scripture clearly testifies to the significance of the divine covenants. God has entered repeatedly into covenantal relationships wi…
This is a biography of a member of the prominent Drexel family of Philadelphia who devoted her immense fortune and her life to the services of others, and in the black habit of a nun was content to walk “simple, silent and unknown.” Granddaughter of the first Francis Drexel, who built up one of the large financial empires of our country, Katharine Drexel grew up in ease, even in luxury.…
A pithy collection of the best of Carl Trueman's articles on culture and the church. A compelling, challenging, and sometimes uproarious look at how the world and the church intersect. Like Luther before him, Trueman understands the power of humor because he understands the absurdity of human self-regard in the context of the fallen world. And like Luther, Trueman shows no mercy, either to his …
"~Can business activity in itself be morally good and pleasing to God? Sometimes business can seem so shady-manipulating the ""bottom line,"" deceiving the consumer, or gaining promotions because of whom you know. But Wayne Grudem introduces a novel concept: business itself glorifies God when it is conducted in a way that imitates God's character and creation. He shows that all aspects of busin…
Are you a workaholic? Or is your job just a necessary evil, a means of paying the bills? Do you feel guilty when you relax? Or when you groan 'Roll on Friday!'? God ordained both work and rest. This book will help you see the wisdon of that. It will enable you to think through a healthy, biblical attitude to your work and your leisure, and to move your lifestyle into line with his plan.
Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson's Backgrounds of Early Christianity has been expanded and updated in this third edition. The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds of a good historical understanding of the new testament and the early church. New to this ad…
In this revised edition of The Roots of the Reformation, historian G.R. Evans makes a substantial contribution to the current paradigm-shift in Reformation studies.
"~This volume is designed specifically 'for the general educated reader'. Here are great figures of the Reformation: Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox, and Cramer. Here are great events: the Diet of Worms, the Institution of the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome, William the Silent's struggle for Dutch independence. Here are great doctrines that created or grew out of the Pr…