How do Christians understand friendship and intimacy? How does worship form Christians into a community of the friends of God? What virtues does God call us to incorporate into our lives? In Becoming Friends, Paul Wadell explores the connections between worship, justice, friendship, and the life we are called to live. This engaging and accessible book offers a fresh viewpoint from which to e…
Few preachers in the Puritan era (or any other period of church history) match Thomas Watson for his ability to combine rich spirituality, nourishing doctrine and sane wisdom with fascinating illustration and a pleasant style. Watson is remembered chiefly for his posthumously published Body of Practical Divinity (reprinted by the Trust in three volumes). But his extant sermons also include this…
Soulcraft: the art of discerning, applying and enjoying the wisdom of God in every aspect of life. There are many books on relationships, how to improve communication, resolve conflict, have more fun, get more serious. This book is not one of them. Rather, this is a special book that reveals how God makes us and molds us inot the people he wants us to be as we work and play and cry and laugh wi…
FREEDOM. THE REWARD OF DISCIPLINE. It's not uncommon for an accomplished musician to be able to sit down in front of a new piece of music and play it through without a hitch. He makes it seem easy, as if it required no effort. Yet, the "freedom" to play with such skill comes only after years of disciplined practice. In the same way, the freedom to grow in godliness to express Christ's character…
This one-volume history of Christian ethics is the only comprehensive resource currently available to survey major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. Topics discussed are: the legacies of Christian ethics, the ethics of early Christianity, the Reformation and Enlightenment, eighteenth and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelism, Christian ethics in the t…
Writing The Eyes Are Sunlight not only allowed Shirley Koers to work through the grief of a deep, personal loss, it provided a “faith experience in which I confronted the demands of God in the depths of my soul." The experience resulted in a superbly written and soothing reflection on the death of her husband and her own grieving process. “However,” she explains, “the story is incidenta…
A Kempis lived as intentionally as he wrote. We must turn away from the things of this world., we must live sacrificially, we must be inundated with Christ's passionate teaching, and we must pray to be removed from distration. A classic in every sense of the word, "The Imitation of Christ" places the fruit of one man's single minded devotion to God's calling on his life within the reach of ever…
Renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller writes the book his readers have been asking for: A year-long daily devotional, beautifully designed with gilt edges and a gold ribbon marker. The Book of Psalms is known as the Bible's songbook--Jesus knew all 150 psalms intimately, and relied on them to face every situation, including his death. Two decades ago, Tim Keller b…
Mustahil untuk benar-benar memahami dahsyatnya penghiburan dari kedaulatan Allah sebelum kita terlebih dahulu memikirkan kedaulatan tersebut di dalam terang sengsara, penderitaan, kejahatan dan dosa. John Piper memberikan hadiah yang berharga bagi gereja dengan menunjukkan bagaimana keterjatuhan dunia ini telah dirancang bagi kebaikan ultimat kita dan kemuliaan ultimat Allah. Buku ini adalah se…