#Truth by Josh McDowell is a 365-day devotional for teens. This daily devotional is packed with spiritual truths that will inspire, challenge, and fuel your teen’s soul every day of the year from January 1 to December 31. Practical and relevant, each month of devotional readings share a common theme that will lead teens to understand the truths of God and how living them out is beneficial in everyday life.
In this 9-session study, McDowell takes teens through God’s Word to answer some of their toughest questions about love, gender, and relationships. The Chasing Love Study Book contains introductory page, conversation starter, and questions with notes to go along with the video teaching and Bible passages. Designed to be used with Chasing Love video teaching. For groups and individuals.
From music to movies to social media, sex is everywhere. Many people think it’s the route to happiness. But Jesus tells us true contentment comes from loving God and others. In this nine 10–15 minutes-per-session study, McDowell takes teens through God’s Word to answer some of their toughest questions about love, gender, and relationships. Kit includes one DVD, a leader’s guide, and a study guide.
Romantic love: our culture is perennially obsessed with it . . . but also increasingly confused. Is love about self-fulfillment—or self-sacrifice? McDowell explores the Bible’s “radical upside-down” approach, addressing how Jesus speaks to singleness, LGBTQ issues, and sexual sin, and tackling the question “What if I’m not happy in my marriage?”
Essay Collection Offers Colleges and Students a Practical Introduction to Evangelism. Inclusivism, universalism, and other secular cultural trends are dominating higher education and the world at large. Are Christian universities making the most of their unique position to advance the gospel in the 21st century? Compiling essays from various Christian scholars, Confident Witness helps educators and students understand the importance of evangelism in every generation. Edited by David S. Dockery, president of the International Alliance for Christian Education, the chapters cover a variety of topics, including the theological foundation of evangelism; discipleship and apologetics; evangelism in church history; and evangelism in a post-Christian context. Uniting influential voices in Christian higher education, Confident Witness challenges students to take an active part in God’s salvation work through direct, urgent communication of the gospel.
In this apologetics classic, McDowell and Hostetler expose myths about God, the Bible, religion, and life to show how Christianity stands up to facts and reason. As your teens learn what and why they believe, they’ll be better equipped to stick with their faith—and make a lifetime commitment to Christ and the church.
A practical and easy to understand guide to learning both Hebrew and Greek. Ideal for Biblical language scholars. This book provides the first practical beginner’s guide to the main components of biblical Hebrew and Greek. It will bring the reader through various organizational structures in Hebrew and Greek using insights gained from years of linguistic and biblical experience. The authors intend this book to be used as a tool to supplement traditional courses in Hebrew and Greek, and to show that these languages are organized in much the same way as other languages. The last chapter includes tips to help each reader learn in his own way. Written by two extremely well-qualified linguists. Uses helpful learning methods by moving from known (English) to unknown (biblical languages). Ideal companion to first-year grammars. Provides a key for getting the most out of both Hebrew and Greek
In How to Read Theology for All Its Worth, professor, author, and devoted reader Karin Stetina introduces students to the basic skills of intelligent reading, applied especially to theological works. Anyone who’d like to read theology well, whether a formal student or interested layperson, will benefit from the simple steps Stetina outlines. How to Read Theology for All Its Worth will equip readers not only to understand theology but also to insightfully engage authors’ ideas. With the basic tools in hand, everyone can read with confidence and enjoy “conversations” with theological works.
In How to Read Theology for All Its Worth, professor, author, and devoted reader Karin Stetina introduces students to the basic skills of intelligent reading, applied especially to theological works. Anyone who’d like to read theology well, whether a formal student or interested layperson, will benefit from the simple steps Stetina outlines. How to Read Theology for All Its Worth will equip readers not only to understand theology but also to insightfully engage authors’ ideas. With the basic tools in hand, everyone can read with confidence and enjoy “conversations” with theological works.
Make the Most of It: A Guide to Loving Your College Years by Barry H. Corey is the perfect guide that gives readers wisdom that rings true but is rarely passed on. It touches on everything from college romances to making friends, from getting sleep to embracing boredom, from your inner life to your social life. Biola president Barry Corey serves up tips for survival, virtues to embrace, ideas to think about, and habits to cultivate for an enjoyable and flourishing journey through college.
Make the Most of It: A Guide to Loving Your College Years by Barry H. Corey is the perfect guide that gives readers wisdom that rings true but is rarely passed on. It touches on everything from college romances to making friends, from getting sleep to embracing boredom, from your inner life to your social life. Biola president Barry Corey serves up tips for survival, virtues to embrace, ideas to think about, and habits to cultivate for an enjoyable and flourishing journey through college.
In Mind Your Faith: A Student’s Guide to Thinking and Living Well David Horner restores sanity to the collegiate experience with this guide to thinking and flourishing as a Christian. Carefully exploring how ideas work, he gives you essential tools for thinking contextually, thinking logically and thinking worldviewishly. Here Horner meets you where faith and reason intersect and explores how to handle doubts, with an eye toward not just thinking clearly but also living faithfully. This is the book every college freshman needs to read. Don’t leave home without it.
Do you wonder if God exists? Do you wonder if life even has any meaning at all? Do you wonder if Christian faith has answers to these and other difficult questions? An intelligent faith begins with hard questions. In On Guard for Students William Lane Craig tackles such questions with reason and precision. He invites you to join him on a quest for ultimate reality.
This accessible introduction to contemporary scholarship on the Epistle of James begins with chapters that consider possible sources and backgrounds used by the author of James, the genre and literary structure of the book, and its major theological themes. Building on this foundation, subsequent chapters examine James through social-scientific readings, perspectives of Latin American immigrants and the marginalized, and major recent developments in textual criticism. The final chapters in the volume address the relationship between the epistle and the historical James, reception of the epistle in the early church, and major Catholic and Protestant interpretations of the book in the Reformation era. The contributions in this volume distill a range of important issues for readers undertaking a serious study of this letter for the first time.
Written by two trusted influencers and experts on Generation Z, Sean McDowell and J. Warner Wallace, So the Next Generation Will Know is an extraordinarily practical guide for anyone concerned with ensuring the next generation understands and embraces a biblical worldview. This participant’s guide to the eight-part video series walks small groups through ways to meaningfully engaged with Generation Z, as well as convey the relevance of a Christian worldview in today’s culture.
Written by two trusted influencers and experts on Generation Z, Sean McDowell and J. Warner Wallace, So the Next Generation Will Know is an extraordinarily practical guide for anyone concerned with ensuring the next generation understands and embraces a biblical worldview. This eight-part video series walks small groups through ways to meaningfully engaged with Generation Z, as well as convey the relevance of a Christian worldview in today’s culture. Facilitator’s Guide included.
Gen Zers are making a mass exodus from the church! Can we do anything to stop this trend? McDowell and Wallace say yes—and provide research-based, proven strategies and practical, experientially grounded tactics to help parents, youth leaders, and Christian teachers assist young people in owning their faith and effectively engaging the world around them.
Do your teens have questions about condoms, living together, raging hormones, STDs? McDowell believes that no topic is off limits—and that knowledge is the key to purity. Using relevant statistics, entertaining anecdotes, and true stories, he provides candid answers about the “facts of life” for young people who want to honor God with their bodies.
Begin each day with a committed heart for God! Check out Josh McDowell’s One Year Book of Youth Devotions and launch yourself on an unforgettable adventure in making right choices. The daily readings and reflection questions may make you laugh or really think, and each will help you discover how to do the right thing during the ups and downs of daily life. Be challenged and inspired to live for God like never before!
Sean McDowell’s six-session Bible study walks students through a Christian ethic for a new generation. Developed for teenage guys to discover how to discern biblical truth, real justice, and God’s love amid the noise of today’s world. Teens learn how to listen and engage in healthy dialogue when it comes to issues like race, poverty, homosexuality, immigration, social media, and politics.
