Product Description: Who leads a church? Why is this important to God? God cares about his glory, and he means to display his glory through the church. For this very end, God has established elders and deacons, members, and congregational authority. This primer on church structure connects the different offices of the church to one another and to the glory of God...read more

Product Description: God means to fulfill the Great Commission through local churches.  How did the apostles and the churches of the New Testament obey the Great Commission? By gathering Christians together in churches. The church is God’s plan for evangelism, discipleship, and the Great Commission...read more

Product Description: Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.   What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity...read more

Product Description: What does it mean to be a healthy church? Church Essentials provides a framework and description of the characteristics to be incorporated into the life of a church, bringing it new life and health for God s glory. Church members will gain a higher love and appreciation for the church and will be motivated to become more involved in the life of the church...read more

Product Description: What does it mean to be a healthy church? Church Essentials provides a framework anddescription of the characteristics to be incorporated into the life of a church, bringing it newlife and health for God s glory. Church members will gain a higher love and appreciation forthe church and will be motivated to become more involved in the life of the church...read more

Product Description: The idea of Christ's substitutionary atonement for sinners is central in both the Old and New Testaments—from the Passover to the prophets to the words of Jesus and the apostles. In It Is Well, pastors Mark Dever and Michael Lawrence demonstrate how the atonement is clearly taught throughout Scripture...read more

Product Description: When the world speaks of "love," it often means unconditional acceptance. Many churches have adopted this mind-set in their practice of membership and discipline-if they have not done away with such structures entirely. "Yet God's love and God's gospel are different than what the world expects," writes Jonathan Leeman...read more

Product Description: Some of the leading voices in evangelical Christianity reaffirm the importance of preaching biblical theology for the health of our churches. Loving, teaching, and rightly dividing the Word of God is every pastor's privilege and responsibility...read more

Product Description: If God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all? J. I. Packer shows in this new edition to the popular IVP Classics how both of these attitudes are false...read more