Religion

Ever wondered what a mitre is, why ministers wear dog collars or how we came to eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday? If so, dip into God, Church, etc. You'll find lots of short, pithy entries (with highlighted cross references), giving instant information on everything from church furniture to theological ideas to social networking.

These eight studies cover: Abel, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Rahab, and their faith in particular circumstances. Heroes of Faith will introduce you not just to a series of Bible characters but also to a fascinating collection of role models who will help you forge your own heroic faith.

For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentaries present the very best work on individual Bible books, carefully adapted for maximum understanding ...

Sure-footed, focused teaching on prayer from Keswick Convention's top preachers, broken into days and helpfully applied for today's busy reader

The book of Numbers, Raymond Brown reveals, offers a portraiture of a better life. Its message is eminently suited to our contemporary world, a world without firm spiritual and moral foundations. The country ahead is the pilgrim's goal and anchor. In contrast to contemporary thinking, Numbers pictures ...

The message of Song of Songs. The Song's affirmation of love, loyalty and commitment, beauty and sexuality, is relevant for our day, pointing to the love and character of God behind human love.

An exploration and re-examination of the significance of martyrdom for Christians today

Making a difference at the ballot box and beyond

This small, well-reasoned book tackles the four major issues that pluralists find most troublesome within Christianity, ultimately proving that Jesus is indeed the only way.

A transformational resource that ignites believers' understanding and practice of the Holy Spirit's life-altering power so that they think differently, behave distinctly, and victoriously display Christ to the watching world.

Anthony Thiselton's scholarly volume The Holy Spirit -- In Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries, and Today was published to wide acclaim in 2013 and won a 2014 Christianity Today Book Award. Through his Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit readers will be able to access Thiselton's vast biblical-theological ...

The whole-life aspect of the Bible is seen not only in the big story it tells, but also in the different kinds of writings it contains - stories and songs, laws and letters, proverbs and parables, poetry and prophecy. It's the specific lens of genre which has provided insight into the Word of God for the whole of life through LICC's Bible Days.

Freedom is found in knowing who God is and what he has saved us for.

A once-in-a-decade performance of The Passion Play comes to life in this richly illustrated book.

Andrew Hartropp looks at how Christ's followers are to do justice in our economic relationships: as individuals, as households, in the workplace and as church communities; and how Jesus's disciples can do justice in and through secular institutions, then government institutions, and then in the international/global context.

Frederick Buechner is one of the most gifted writers of his generation, with an important legacy as a memoirist, novelist, theologian, and preacher. In this book, Buechner expert Jeff Munroe presents a collection of the true "essentials" from across Buechner's diverse catalog, as well as an overview of Buechner's life and a discussion of the state of his literary legacy today.

In recent years, the publication of best-selling books by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens has given rise to the New Atheism. For the New Atheists, belief in God is a delusion because it is based on faith rather than evidence, and because science has removed the need ...

Borderlands is a biblical meditation on spiritual growth and the process of personal change.

A brilliant exploration of the relation of Christian theology and the natural sciences by one of the world's foremost authorities.