Sparking a Movement to Recover a Better Christian Story
by Meghan Larissa Good
$18.99 / CAD $25.26
ISBN: 9781513813127
Pub Date: 11/07/2023
A movement manifesto for a more hopeful and Jesus-centered Christianity
Over five hundred years ago, the Western church underwent a period of massive recalibration that exposed abuses and theological blind spots and revived the historical foundations of Christianity. Today, signs suggest that we have entered another such religious reformation as new technologies, ecclesial scandals, and a crisis of biblical authority leave many Christians adrift or deconstructing the faith they once took for granted. The Christian story the church has been telling has become too small, and we are at a dead end. There is hope. Author and pastor Meghan Larissa Good invites readers into a movement that is finding ways to tell a better Christian story—a movement that is already emerging spontaneously as a work of the Spirit in many different wings of the church. Along the way, readers will encounter core rediscoveries of this authentic, Jesus-centered Christianity:...
Will we choose life for our children and the future of our planet?Everywhere we look, we see signs that all is not right with our earth—extreme temperatures and weather patterns wreak havoc, pollutants...
Understanding the Old Testament in the Story of Scripture
by Timothy J. Geddert
$18.99 / CAD $25.26
ISBN: 9781513813066
Pub Date: 10/03/2023
Rediscover the essential beginning of the most important story ever told.Although the Bible contains 66 books that compose over a thousand printed pages, most Christians turn first—and sometimes only—to...
Listen for the voice of God. If you approach this Advent season waiting for something—in your life, in your family or community, or in a fractured world—you are not alone. This season reminds...
There is hope yet that we may embrace the call to live differently on this fragile planet. As temperatures rise and natural disasters wreak devastation and precious species die off one by one, we know...
by Chrissie Muecke, Jasmine Pittman Morell and Teresa Kim Pecinovsky
$32.99 / CAD $43.88
ISBN: 9781513812267
Pub Date: 07/01/2023
Come to God’s peace table, where there’s room for everyone. From beginning to end, the Bible reminds us that we are made in God’s image and that God’s table has room for us all. The Peace Table...
Luke is a gospel of joy, amazement, and warmth. From the jubilant birth narrative and Magnificat at the beginning to the wonder of the ascension at the end, Luke offers a matchless portrait of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and those who followed him.
In the 36th volume in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series, New Testament scholar Mary H. Schertz helps readers inhabit the pages of the third gospel, replete with parables and paradoxes and ministries of mercy. In vibrant writing and with careful exegesis, Schertz invites readers to investigate for themselves the surprise, light, and awe of the kingdom of God, in which people find healing, the marginalized find welcome, and the poor find flourishing. Schertz traces the motifs of holy warrior and suffering servant that confronted every first-century Jew, including Jesus, and that still shape the church today. Through it all, Luke demonstrates both the cost of the...
Practicing the Restful Way of Jesus in a Fragmented World
by Tamara Hill Murphy
Foreword by W. David O. Taylor
$18.99 / CAD $25.26
ISBN: 9781513811918
Pub Date: 06/20/2023
A simple invitation into a life ordered around listening and love
As we live through cycles of change and disruption, our familiar pathways crumble and we find ourselves in fragmented relationships with God, others, and our own souls. We are not the first to experience this disorientation: When Jesus offered the stunning invitation to come to him to learn how to work from a place of rest, he was talking to people weighed down by ill-fitting political, economic, and religious systems. And his life and ministry offer a glimpse of a better way.
For centuries a practice called the Rule of Life—built around rhythms of prayer, work, study, hospitality, and rest—has provided a loving pathway for anyone who desires to live out the whole gospel. More than a historic primer on an ancient practice, an aspirational overview of spiritual life, or a personal inventory focused on habits, The...
What It Really Means for the Bible to Be Divinely Inspired
by Zack Hunt
Foreword by Matthew Paul Turner
$18.99 / CAD $25.26
ISBN: 9781513811833
Pub Date: 05/09/2023
Could there be good news in biblical imperfections?
What if the imperfections and contradictions in Scripture aren’t an accident? What if they were allowed to be there by the Holy Spirit in order to draw us beyond the literal words on the page and deeper into the spiritual truth God is trying to teach us? As provocative or unorthodox as that might sound, it is in fact a very ancient way of understanding what it means for the Bible to be divinely inspired. In this thorough and disarming book, author Zack Hunt explains how we got here and offers a practical and easily accessible approach for reading and understanding the Bible that doesn’t require a PhD in biblical languages. As the disillusioned leave the Church in droves and the deconstructing search for better answers to eternal questions, this book repositions Scripture in the life of the Church to...
A gentle guidebook for Christians caught in the messy middle
In the wake of scandal, culture wars, and abuse, many Christians are wondering whether the North American church is redeemable—and if not, whether they should even stay. While many are answering no to those questions, this book is for those who long to disentangle their faith from all the cultural baggage and recapture the joy of following Jesus.
Through personal anecdotes, encounters with the global church, deep dives into Scripture, and helpful historical context about Christianity, An Untidy Faith takes readers on two journeys. The first journey lays out the grand vision of Christianity and the legacy passed on to us by the early believers in hopes of renewing readers’ belief in the church writ large. The second journey helps believers understand why they feel distant from their church settings and provides a reorientation drawn from Scripture of...
