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Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon

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The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the “non-Pauline epistles” or “concluding letters,” maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet these letters, Darian Lockett argues, are treasures hidden in plain sight, and it’s time to give them the attention they deserve. In Letters for the Church, Lockett reveals how the Catholic Epistles provide a unique window into early Christian theology and practice. Based on evidence from the early church, he contends that the seven letters of James, 1–2 Peter, 1–3 John, and Jude were accepted into the canon as a collection and should be read together. Here Lockett introduces the context and content of the Catholic Epistles while emphasizing how all seven letters are connected. Each chapter outlines the author, audience, and genre of one of the epistles, traces its flow of thought, and explores shared themes with the other Catholic Epistles.

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Letters from the Pillar Apostles: The Formation of the Catholic Epistles as a Canonical Collection

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Rather than reading the Catholic Epistles in isolation from each other–understanding their individual historical situations as the single, determinative context for their interpretation–this study argues that a proper understanding of these seven letters must equally attend to their collection and placement within the New Testament canon. Resisting the judgment of much of historical-critical analysis of the New Testament, namely, that the concept of canon actually obscures the meaning of these texts, it is the canonical process by which the texts were composed, redacted, collected, arranged, and fixed in a final canonical form that constitutes a necessary interpretive context for these seven letters. This study argues that through reception history and paratextual and compositional evidence one can discern a collection consciousness within the Catholic Epistles such that they should be read and interpreted as an intentional, discrete canonical sub-collection set within the New Testament. Furthermore, the work argues that such collection consciousness, though not necessarily in the preview of the original authors (being perhaps unforeseen, yet not unintended), is neither anachronistic to the meaning of the letters nor antagonistic to their composition.

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Letters of the Divine Word: The Perfections of God in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics

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The Christian doctrine of God has traditionally been presented in two parts: an account of the existence and attributes of God on the one hand, and an account of God’s triunity on the other. The present study is an analysis of Karl Barth’s doctrine of the divine attributes (or ‘perfections’), as it appears in his “Church Dogmatics II/1”. Barth’s doctrine of the divine perfections has received comparatively little attention, and what attention it has received is typically very selective. Authors unaware of larger, structural themes in Barth’s account often misconstrue significant details of Barth’s text. Others wrongly discount the implications of Barth’s doctrine of the perfections for his theology as a whole. The aim of this study is primarily to clarify what Barth says about the perfections and secondarily to relate this to broader themes in Barth’s theology.

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Living Witness: Explorations in Missional Ethics

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Because God calls his people to be a living witness to him, morality is mission. Conversely, immorality is “anti-mission” a failure to give true testimony or witness. This, in essence, is the theme of this stimulating and challenging volume. The whole life of the people of God, not just verbal proclamation, testifies to the church’s faith-or lack of faith-in her Lord. The contributors explain that mission and ethics are intricately and necessarily interwoven, and explore why this is so by unpacking the biblical and theological roots of “missional ethics” probing its limits and exploring its possibilities through examination of some foundational themes and a selection of specific issues.

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Look Back, Leap Forward: Building Your Church on the Values of the Past

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The rapid changes all around us in the new millennium may cause one of two errors: wishing to return to an idealized past or refusing to look back at all. Both patterns of thinking lead to ineffective churches and communities. Look Back, Leap Forward challenges Christian leaders to balance the two extremes: look back to find the core values that give meaning to ministry and then use them to build the future and take hold of new opportunities. This book’s unique focus presents a holistic picture of how lay leadership, not just clergy, can turn a church around.

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Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them

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In a poll result highlighted by CNN Headline News and USA Today, nearly half of nonchurchgoers between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine agreed with the statement, “Christians get on my nerves.” Now, researchers behind the larger study present Lost and Found, a blend of dynamic hard data and modern day parable that tells the real story of an unchurched generation that is actually quite spiritual and yet circumspect, open to Jesus but not the church. As such, Lost and Found is written to the church, using often-surprising results from the copious research here to strike another nerve and break some long established assumptions about how to effectively engage the lost. Leading missiologist Ed Stetzer and his associates first offer a detailed investigation of the four younger unchurched types. With a better understanding of their unique experiences, they next clarify the importance each type places on community, depth of content, social responsibility, and making cross-generational connections in relation to spiritual matters.

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Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them – Audiobook

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In a poll result highlighted by CNN Headline News and USA Today, nearly half of nonchurchgoers between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine agreed with the statement, “Christians get on my nerves.” Now, researchers behind the larger study present Lost and Found, a blend of dynamic hard data and modern day parable that tells the real story of an unchurched generation that is actually quite spiritual and yet circumspect, open to Jesus but not the church. As such, Lost and Found is written to the church, using often-surprising results from the copious research here to strike another nerve and break some long established assumptions about how to effectively engage the lost. Leading missiologist Ed Stetzer and his associates first offer a detailed investigation of the four younger unchurched types. With a better understanding of their unique experiences, they next clarify the importance each type places on community, depth of content, social responsibility, and making cross-generational connections in relation to spiritual matters.

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Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue

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Dr. Barry Corey, president of Biola University, believes we tend to devalue the importance of kindness, opting instead for caustic expressions of certainty that push people away. We forget that the essence of what God requires of us is to “love kindness.” In this book, filled with stories from his travels around the globe, Barry shows us the forgotten way of kindness. It is a life that calls us to put ourselves at risk. A life that calls us to hope. A life of a firm center and soft edges. It is the life Christ invites us to follow, no matter what the cost.

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Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue – Unabridged Edition Audiobook Download

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Dr. Barry Corey, president of Biola University, believes we tend to devalue the importance of kindness, opting instead for caustic expressions of certainty that push people away. We forget that the essence of what God requires of us is to “love kindness.” In this book, filled with stories from his travels around the globe, Barry shows us the forgotten way of kindness. It is a life that calls us to put ourselves at risk. A life that calls us to hope. A life of a firm center and soft edges. It is the life Christ invites us to follow, no matter what the cost.

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Love Your God with All Your Mind – Unabridged Audiobook [Download]

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The mind plays an important role in Christianity. Unfortunately, many of us leave our minds behind when it comes to our faith. In Love Your God with All Your Mind, J. P. Moreland presents a logical case for the role of the mind in spiritual transformation. He challenges us to develop a Christian mind and to use our intellect to further God’s kingdom through evangelism, apologetics, worship, and vocation.

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Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul, Revised and Updated

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J.P. Moreland is concerned for the evangelical community. He feels that it is currently being held captive by a thoroughly modern understanding of Christianity which has diminished our ability to positively affect change in our culture. In other words, we are no longer salty, and cannot (do not) function as the salt of the earth. What does Jesus say about salt that has lost its flavor? It is good for nothing and must be thrown out (actually, Jesus, in his ever mild manner, says to throw it out and trample it underfoot). This revised edition includes expanded appendices and three new chapters that outline how to argue for the reality of God and the historicity of Jesus’ life teachings, death, and resurrection.

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Love, Freedom, and Evil: Does Authentic Love Require Free Will?

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The defining premise of the Relational Free Will Defense is the claim that authentic love requires free will. Many scholars, including Gregory Boyd and Vincent Brümmer, champion this claim. Best-selling books, such as Rob Bell’s Love Wins, echo that love “cannot be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide.” The claim that love requires free will has even found expression in mainstream Hollywood films, including Frailty, Bruce Almighty, and The Adjustment Bureau.

The analysis shows convincingly that the claim that authentic love requires free will, does not meet the criteria of consistency, compatibility with Scriptural sources, and the demands of concrete encounter with problems of moral evil.

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Make the Most of It: A Guide to Loving Your College Years

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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.

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Make the Most of It: A Guide to Loving Your College Years – Unabridged Audiobook on CD

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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.

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Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality

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Starting at a young age, kids are being fed damaging misinformation about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it’s up to you to help your children understand God’s truth about these integral concepts in the face of the candy-coated lies that saturate today’s world. In the footsteps of the bestselling Mama Bear Apologetics comes this invaluable guide to training your kids to know and respect God’s design in a world that has rejected it. This book will equip you to understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful portrait that reveals the nature of God Himself, identify the tactics being used to trick children into adopting an unbiblical view of sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words like love, identity, tolerance, and justice, and teach your kids to treat those who hold different beliefs with gentle, Christlike compassion without compromising biblical values. As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God’s standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sex and gender through a biblical lens.

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Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality and Gender Identity – Updated and Expanded

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In today’s world, children are constantly exposed to confusing and often harmful ideas about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it’s more crucial than ever to guide them with clarity and biblical truth, helping them navigate these challenging topics while honoring God’s design. The Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality and Gender Identity is an invaluable handbook for training your kids to know and respect God’s truth in a world that doesn’t. Expanded and revised with updated research and two brand-new chapters, this book will equip you to understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful reflection of His nature, identify the tactics that distort biblical sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words, such as love, identity, tolerance, and justice, and teach your kids to show Christlike compassion to others while upholding biblical truth. As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God’s standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sexuality and gender identity through a biblical lens.

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Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality Discipleship Workbook

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Talking to your children about gender, sexuality, and marriage can be challenging. But the difference between what the Bible and the world have to say about these topics can be a gateway to teaching them to love and cherish God’s sacred truth. This helpful study guide companion to Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality will prepare you to turn these tricky conversations into amazing opportunities for kingdom discipleship. Inside this workbook, you will find active reading notes highlighting vocabulary, themes, and questions that further your study of each chapter from Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality, highlighted verses from Scripture that illuminate the tender heart behind God’s design for sex and gender, and discipleship activities to help you engage your kids in age-appropriate dialogue about sensitive issues like homosexuality, transgenderism, pornography, and more. Perfect for individual and small group study, this workbook is the resource every Mama Bear needs to advocate for God’s truth with wisdom and confidence while equipping her children to understand His perfect plan for human sexuality.

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Mama Bear Apologetics Study Guide

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When your kids come home from school asking questions about everything from moral relativity to cultural Marxism to whether God even exists, you need to be prepared with biblically sound answers. With this user-friendly companion to the bestselling book Mama Bear Apologetics®, you’ll understand the secular worldviews your children face every day and build the foundation of faith and knowledge you need to equip them to respond to culture’s lies. Perfect for individual or group study, this study guide will help you examine more thoroughly the issues facing your children, and analyze them from a biblical perspective, discover practical ways to empower your kids with God’s wisdom for cultural challenges, and counter nonbiblical viewpoints with truth, love, kindness, and respect. Knowing what is true is the best way to argue against what is false. The Mama Bear Apologetics® Study Guide will ready you to be confident as you seek effective ways to help your kids stand strong.

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