Pastors are tasked with the incredibly demanding job of caring for the spiritual, emotional, and, at times, physical needs of their people. While seminary is helpful preparation for many of the challenges pastors face, there's far more to pastoral ministry than what can be covered in the classroom. Designed as a reference guide for nearly every situation a pastor will face, this comprehensive b…
Things have a way of falling to pieces. The shingles blow off the roof. The fender rusts through and the exhaust pipe drags. Cuff fray, nylons run, hair fall out, joints stiffen, and wattles appear under our chins. Nothing is exempt, not even our ideas. [ 1st Paragraph ] This is one reason why I find the Incarnation compelling. For in the figure of Jesus Christ there is something that escape…
Here is the quintessence of the gospel, the new wine of God's kingdom at its purest for us today! Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Putting Amazing Back into Grace. - J. I. Packer (from the foreword) This book contains much biblical wisdom and is a welcome antidote to the cultural Christianity that has infiltrated even evangelical circles. - Donald G. Bloesch If there is any confusio…
There is a "crisis of truth in our time", asserts Michael Horton, "even in our evangelical church. And it is due at least in part to our cultural accommodation." Horton believes the time has come to call evangelicals back to faith and truth.
In this innovative work in theological method and hermeneutics, Michael S. Horton uses the motif of the covenant as a way of binding together God's "word" and God's "act." Seeking an integration of theological method with the content of Christian theology, Horton emphasizes God's covenant as God's way of working for redemption in the world. Horton maintains a substantial dialogue with important…
The first of a two-volume project delving into the doctrine of justification. Michael Horton seeks not simply to recover a clear message of its role in modern Reformed theology, but also to bring a fresh discovery of the gospel in a time when contemporary debates around justification have reignited. The doctrine of justification stands at the center of our systematic reflection on the meanin…
David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek re…
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widel…
Wherever he goes, trouble seems to follow Huckleberry Finn, an independent boy growing up in mid-1800s Missouri. Trouble finds Huck yet again on a great rafting adventure down the Mississippi River, where he runs into his old friend Jim. He also meets a few new acquaintances who seem eager to make Huck's life as difficult as possible.
How does the ordinary believing Christian "grow up" into spiritual maturity in Christ? Throughout Christian history in every age and every tradition countless answers to this question have been brought forward, raging from extreme legalism and salvation by "works" on the one hand, to the absolute passivity of quietism on the other. Now, Dr. Russell Hitt, a well-known and influential evangelical…