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Enter the Water, Come to the Table: Baptism and Lord’s Supper in the Bible’s Story of New Creation
A rich resource for renewing the practice of the sacraments in a way that encourages faithful discipleship in a hostile cultural environment.As evangelicals and other Christians continue the renewal and deepening of their practice of the sacraments, Enter the Water, Come to the Table provides an acc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Come to the Table: Revisioning the Lord's Supper
Christian practice of the Lord's Supper is radically dissimilar from the the silent, solemn, individualistic eating of bread crumbs and drinking sips of wine that many churches practice today.Instead, says Hicks, our practice of the supper should be a joyous communal meal as it was in earliest Chris... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Meeting God at the Shack: A Journey into Spiritual Recovery
How can wounded people come to believe that God deeply loves them?Many have enjoyed William Young's The Shack, even if they puzzled over the book's actual meaning and theology. While some were quick to dismiss it as fiction, The Shack isn't really fiction at all. It's a modern day parable.Meeting Go... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Resisting Babel: Allegiance to God and the Problem of Government
If the kingdom of God demands exclusive allegiance, how do followers of Jesus engage with a world shaped by political power?After the trauma of the Civil War, David Lipscomb, a Nashville farmer and church leader, advocated for allegiance solely in the kingdom of God rather than in human governments.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Around the Bible in 80 Days: The Story of God from Creation to New Creation
Scripture shares a basic story, from God’s first creative act in the beginning to its final scene—the renewal of all creation as a new heaven and earth. Around the Bible in 80 Days offers you an accessible guide to the Bible’s high points that can enrich your faith and help you better understand God... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Down in the River to Pray, Revised Ed.: Revisioning Baptism as God's Transforming Work
Combining careful Bible study with enlightening historical survey and practical suggestions, this book provides a rich resource for deepening and renewing a central practice of the Christian faith.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
A Gathered People: Revisioning the Assembly as Transforming Encounter
As a companion volume to Come to the Table and Down in the River to Pray, this book completes a trilogy on the three "ordinances" of the Stone-Campbell Movement. A Gathered People is an in-depth biblical, historical, and theological study of the Christian assembly or Lord's Day. It examines Hebrew a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Surrendering to Hope: Guidance for the Broken
Broken trust is not the end. Have you ever felt like Job, watching God cure, calm, and care for others, while you remain crumpled on the floor looking for God in the darkness? In Surrendering to Hope, you’ll find fifteen stories of heartbreak and tragedy told with unflinching honesty—brutal deaths o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Cruciform Church, Annivesary Edition: Becoming a Cross-Shaped People in a Secular World
by Mike Cope • Raymond Carr • Randy Harris • Richard Beck • Jonathan Storment • John Mark Hicks • Scot McKnight • C. Leonard Allen • Sara Barton • Lee CampWhat is left of the Gospel if you take away the cross?This central question, asked by C. L. Loos but tucked away in a nineteenth-century journal, launched The Cruciform Church twenty-five years ago. Read by a generation of ministers and church leaders, The Cruciform Church began a reimagination of t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016