Product Description: Are we ready for the opportunities and challenges facing the aging church? Now is the time for the church to offer ministry to its increasing numbers of seniors and to benefit from ministry they can offer. In this book James M. Houston and Michael Parker issue an urgent call to reconceive the place and part of the elderly and seniors in the local church congregation...read more

In our contemporary society, it is widely accepted in the search for self to seek the advice of a mentor. From upper-management consultants to the well-meaning friend, mentors are readily available. But as Houston writes, "We can choose the pursuit of self-knowledge for enhancing one's professional ambitions, or we can go beyond ourselves in ever-living faith as disciples of the Word." This book is not a guide to mentoring. Rather, Houston thoroughly dismantles and exposes cracks in the philosophies used throughout the history of mentoring. Individualism, stoicism, and even psychotherapy all fall short of God's ultimate plan. The Mentored Life reveals that it isn't about making the individual better. Instead, through Christian discipleship, individuals must humbly seek Christ, who alone can lead us to whole personhood.

Product Description: Life demands so much of us. From the moment we open our eyes till the moment we go to sleep, we're pulled in multiple directions and besieged with the white noise of a busy, busy world. We find ourselves worried and upset about many things...read more

Product Description: This commentary uniquely combines a verse-by-verse exposition of the Hebrew text of selected Psalms with a history of their interpretation in the Church from the time of the apostles to the present. / Bruce K. Waltke begins the collaboration by first skillfully establishing the meaning of the chosen psalms through careful exegesis in which each text is interpreted in light of its historical backgrounds, its literary form, and the poet’s rhetoric...read more

Product Description: "Be uncommon Christians . . . that is, eminently holy, self-denying, cross-bearing, Bible, everyday Christians." So James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) encouraged others to be, and so he strived to be himself. Of Intense Brightness reveals aspects of Taylor's uncommon Christianity by allowing the Princeton and Yale-educated evangelist to speak for himself...read more

Product Description: Mentoring is a major topic in today’s self-help industry. Unfortunately, the world has gotten the mentoring relationship exactly wrong. In fact, secular ways of treating one another—including individualism, stoicism, and even psychotherapy—can be soul-destroying rather than soul-fulfilling...read more

Product Description: “I believe in the Creator, for by His Word all things were made, all things hold together and all things have meaning and purpose.” Those words of the creed are truer than we may realize. Human existence makes no sense without the Creator God, and all of our perceptions and philosophies hinge on our understanding of and relationship to the Creator...read more

One of the greatest Christian thinkers and writers on spiritual formation today, Dr. James Houston thoughtfully examines what is at the core of every human soul: a longing for intimacy with God, and in each book of this five-volume series, he examines an aspect of what it means to truly experience the most profound of all relationships.

Product Description: Letters of the Faith through the Seasons provides daily doses of wisdom from the greatest minds in Christian history. Each day's devotion will challenge you to grow in their faith and knowledge of the Lord. In addition, you will be encouraged to move from faith in theory to faith in practice as they experience the stimulating nature of these personal letters on such topics as faith, love, grace, and forgiveness...read more

A pastor and scholar shares the knowledge, wisdom, and insight he has garnered from teaching, counseling, and mentoring Christians, highlighting pivotal concerns for leading a rewarding Christian life in today's society and culture.

Product Description: Her writings are more than 400 years old, yet Teresa of Avila continues to impact Christians with her fervent, passionate faith in God. the teachings of this sixteenth-century Spanish saint and mystic are practical enough for modern society because they are based on sheer devotion and holiness to God through prayer and common sense...read more

Product Description: Almost unknown by evangelical Christians today, Juan de Valdes and Don Benedetto were Reformers who penned what are probably the two most significant works of the Italian Reformation: "One Hundred and Ten Considerations" and "On the Benefit of Jesus Christ, Crucified...read more

Product Description: William Wilberforce (1759-1833) came from a prosperous merchant family. A politician by age 21, his early years were relatively unremarkable, but his conversion to Christianity in 1785 soon changed that. Wilberforce committed himself to two ambitious callings: rousing professing Christians to understand the nature of true faith, and bringing about the end of slavery in England's colonies...read more

Product Description: Abridged by James Houston from the writings of the Puritan theologian John Owen (1616-1683), Triumph Over Temptation helps us recover the concepts of sin and individual responsibility our world has all but destroyed. Owen deals with the problem of our sinfulness, showing that there is far more to indwelling sin than many of us realize...read more

Product Description: In the wake of recent revival moments, Christians need Jonathan Edwards' classic Faith Beyond Feeling more than ever. Edwards, the central figure in New England's first Great Awakening, offers a detailed description of the signs—false and true—of revival, while highlighting the role balanced emotions play within the Christian life...read more

Product Description: Richard Baxter lived in an age when many of his fellow pastors had grown too comfortable with performing their religious duties by rote and spending much of their time in gluttony and drunkenness. It was under these conditions that Baxter wrote The Reformed Pastor—a reprimand to indolent clergy and an appeal to ministers of the gospel to take heed of their own spiritual condition before attempting to shepherd others...read more

Product Description: In one of the church's darkest hours, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582 allowed neither illness nor threat of death to stop her from calling men and women to walk in the peace and light of Christ. Known for her devotion to unceasing prayer, her fervor for God, and her desire to be like Christ, Teresa wrote that the Christian life is both meaningless and powerless apart from prayer...read more

Product Description: Almost unknown by evangelical Christians today, Juan de Vald?s and Don Benedetto were Italian Reformers who penned what are probably the two most significant works of the Italian Reformation: One Hundred and Ten Considerations and On the Benefit of Jesus Christ, Crucified...read more

Product Description: Blaise Pascal, the remarkable seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker, rigorously refutes the belief that to become a Christian you must first commit intellectual suicide. He wrote to communicate the Christian faith to the skeptical, to the indifferent, to the hostile...read more