Religion

Belonging has never come easy to me. But the way Jesus tells it, if we give up on belonging in order to follow him, we'll find ourselves belonging anyway-we'll belong like aliens. Maybe you're caught in the same tension as me, wanting to fit somewhere even as you're permanently out of place. Maybe you feel like an alien. If so, let's be aliens together.

When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left struggling to live the Christian life on her own. In this memoir, she tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found unexpected community with an order of Catholic nuns, discovering that she was not "spiritually single" after all-and that no one really is.

Jesus, meek and mild? Think again: Jesus was a controversialist. Are you prepared to be challenged?

The Bible looks at the coming of our Saviour from many different angles. We see the birth of the Messiah from the perspectives of his parents, his aunt and uncle, shepherds doing a day's work, far-off Magi and nearby despots - even the way prophets from centuries before saw things.

"More than any other book of the Bible, Ephesians displays the great purpose and plan of God for the church," Walter Liefeld writes. "It provides a perspective that is unique: God's--and the believer's--view from the 'heavenly realms.'"
For those who long to delve into the mind and purposes of God, few ...

In their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister hear from Christian parents who worry about raising their children in the faith amid a seductive culture. Reflecting on their own very different experiences of coming to Christian faith, they share how our homes can be places of honest conversation, open-handed exploration, and lasting faith.

Christians throughout history have been strengthened by their confidence that God knows everything about the future. However, open theism claims to offer a more biblical and a more practical alternative to traditional views of God s sovereignty and involvement in our lives. Bruce Ware carefully summarises ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2021, Living His Story, is a devotional book that explores evangelism as a way of sharing God's love with people.

How can church planters and their congregations flourish for the long haul? Written by a diverse team of scholar-practitioners and filled with real-world insights, stories, and questions for reflection and discussion, this guide gives church planters and their teams the tools to be theologically reflective, spiritually grounded, and missionally agile.

Understanding what the Bible teaches about itself is an issue of central importance. However, correct theologies of the Bible can be expressed in non-biblical categories; and it would be foolish to believe of the Bible what it does not claim for itself, whether implicitly or explicitly.
Peter Adam's ...

Rediscover the Bible's model of radical servant ministry from a much-loved Christian leader

In this booklet, best-selling author Mark Dever offers pastoral insight for congregations in search of new leadership, or churches preparing for the future.

The Psalms show us how to relate to God in prayer

Remember is a warm and uplifting look at the Scriptural importance of remembering answered prayers, showing how such reflection paints a picture of who God is and helps us to greater maturity in prayer.

Sometimes our worship loses its passion, our prayer life becomes stagnant, we forget why we are serving God. And the world's ways subtly become our ways.

A collection of stories about real people, this book takes a look at doubt, suffering, hypocrisy, the problem of happy pagans, Sunday highs and weekday reality, emotions and more. The last three chapters offer help in rebuilding our faith from its foundations.

This work examines the main causes of the moral dilemmas in which Christians find themselves. The author provides an introduction to moral philosophy and examines the sources of Christian principles. He concludes that Christian values still offer an authoritative alternative.

In today's polarized context, Christians often have committed, biblical rationales for very different positions. How can Christians navigate disagreements with both truth and love? Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer provide lessons from conflict theory and church history on how to negotiate differing biblical convictions in order to move toward Christian unity.

The truth is we all need to be forgiven. The Bible makes it painfully clear that every one of us has built up an enormous debt of sin to God. Christians rejoice in the forgiveness we receive from God, but when we hurt the people we love, how do we go about restoring the relationship?

A biblical perspective on work and money.