Just pretending offers parents and teachers an exciting journey through the imaginative world of young children. Inside you'll find techiniques to encourage and enhance a child's imaginative play at home and in pre-school settings, along with hundreds of anecdotes of children at play. You'll also discover how imaginative play helps children: develop social skills, express creativity, acquire k…
Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts. It integrates the best scholarship of the past twenty years and will appeal to undergraduates in all areas of cultural history as well as Erasmus specialists.
In this very readable biography, a noted scholar traces Erasmus's youth, his years as an itinerant scholar, sojourns in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, friendship with Sir Thomas More, and disputes with Martin Luther. The author also probes Erasmus's mind and character and discusses his writings.
"Many in the church are insulated from in-depth interaction of any kind," say Jerry and Mary White in Friends and Friendship. "We wish we could say that Christians don't experience this frustration in friendship. But we can't." God has placed within you a need for intimate companionship. When this need is unfulfilled, you're lonely. However, because of Christ's love you can deal with lonelin…
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. "The Weight of Glory," considered by many to be Lewis's finest sermon of all, is an incomparable explication of virtue, goodness, desire, and glory. Also included are: "Transposition," "On Forgiveness," "Why I Am Not …
"~This is a classic in the field of Christian counseling. It has helped thousands of pastors, students, laypersons, and Christian counselors develop both a general approach to Christian counsel- ing and a specific response to particular problems. Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of …
Seldom has a book written for pastors, Christian workers, and laypersons received such widespread attention and such avid readership as Competent to Counsel. First published in 1971, the book has been reprinted more than thirty times. It has assumed the role of a classic in the field of Christian counseling. The refreshingly new approach to counseling advocated in Competent to Counsel, now firm…
The New Testament writers proclaimed their message passionately and persuasively. This volume explores how we can preach faithfully from those texts. The chapters cover the main texts and genres of the New Testament, and offer particular insights into the infancy narratives, parables, miracles, the Sermon on the Mount, ethics, future hope and judgment, archaeology and history, hermeneutics and …
Many pastors find it easier to preach on the New Testament than the Old Testament, with its powerful and often shocking narrative, prophetic warnings and calls to holiness. For many preachers seeking to make the Bible relevant, it's far easier--and safer--to stay out of the woods and plow the well-worn fields of the newer canon. Preaching the Old Testament equips pastors to journey into the for…
Pastors today face a bewildering variety of models for church ministry. Jonathan Edwards, believing gospel ministry to be in jeopardy during his time, preached forcefully that a pastor’s primary concern must be the salvation of souls. If you have ever felt dazed by the multitude of voices about the way ministry ought to be done, Edwards will help you find a reliable foundation for ministry.