“This book will make no attempt to defend God.… If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it.” Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math problem. Or maybe we expect that since God is good, everything will just work out all right somehow. But wh...

Whenever we read, think, hear or say anything about God, we are doing theology. Yet theology isn't just a matter of what we think. It affects who we are. In the tradition of Helmut Thielicke's A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, Kelly Kapic offers a concise introduction to the study of theology for newcomers to the field. He highlights the value and importance of theological study and explains its unique nature as a serious discipline. Not only concerned with content and method, Kapic explores the skills, attitudes and spiritual practices needed by those who take up the discipline. This brief, clear and lively primer draws out the relevance of theology for Christian life, worship, mission, witness and more. "Theology is about life," writes Kapic. "It is not a conversation our souls can afford to avoid."

The Logos Factbook provides instant information on biblical people, places, things, events, and cultural concepts. This tool functions like an encyclopedia, pulling together all of your datasets and resources, then presenting powerful overviews of each topic. But it is only as powerful as your digital library. The Factbook Collection amplifies the capability of the Logos Factbook with a wide collection of reference works to make it work for you even better. Understand biblical people, places, events, and concepts in less time: Factbook is your go-to place for biblical information. In seconds, search tens of thousands of Factbook pages that offer textual and visual resources on famous theologians, books of the Bible, ancient places, and more.

The Logos Factbook provides instant information on biblical people, places, things, events, and cultural concepts. This tool functions like an encyclopedia, pulling together all of your datasets and resources, then presenting powerful overviews of each topic. But it is only as powerful as your digital library. The Factbook Feature Expansion, L amplifies the capability of the Logos Factbook with a wide selection of reference works to make it work for you even better. Understand biblical people, places, events, and concepts in less time: Factbook is your go-to place for biblical information. In seconds, search tens of thousands of Factbook pages that offer textual and visual resources on famous theologians, books of the Bible, ancient places, and more. This collection includes everything in the Factbook Feature Expansion, M as well more than fifteen additional resources to help expand your studies.

Does it make a difference that the God Christians claim to worship has revealed himself as triune-the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Does this fundamental truth of biblical authority have an effect on a believer's personal fellowship with God? Puritan theologian John Owen recognized the great need for every believer to understand the triune God. Communion with the Triune God revisits the truth presented by John Owen and challenges all believers to truly recognize and appreciate the ministry that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have in their lives. This work of John Owen encourages Christians to enjoy true communion with each person of the triune God.

The list of demands on our time seems to be never ending. It can leave you feeling a little guilty—like you should always be doing one more thing. Rather than sharing better time-management tips to squeeze more hours out of the day, Kelly Kapic takes a different approach in You’re Only Human. He offers a better way to make peace with the fact that God didn't create us to do it all. Kapic explores the theology behind seeing our human limitations as a gift rather than a deficiency. He lays out a path to holistic living with healthy self-understanding, life-giving relationships, and meaningful contributions to the world. He frees us from confusing our limitations with sin and instead invites us to rest in the joy and relief of knowing that God can use our limitations to foster freedom, joy, growth, and community.

The doctrine of God is one of the most important in all of Christian theology. This collection explores current and historical scholarship to give readers a thorough understanding of issues relating to doctrines of God, the Trinity, sovereignty and how they relate to Christian living. It includes contributions from contemporary Reformed evangelical scholars such as Bruce A. Ware and Philip Graham Ryken as well as classic works from John Calvin and John Owen. In these volumes, readers will gain understanding on the background to current issues such as open theism, how God relates to time and the importance of the Trinity for both our understanding of God and our relationship with him.

The Reformed Bronze Library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Reformed Bronze Library builds on everything included in the Reformed Starter Library, adding even more Bible study tools and additional reference works like Layman’s Bible Commentary Set (12 vols.) and practical resources like Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains | DBL: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek (3 vols.).

Often treated like the younger sibling in theology, the doctrine of sanctification has spent the last few decades waiting not-so-patiently behind those doctrines viewed as more senior. With so much recent interest in ideas like election and justification, the question of holiness can often seem to be of secondary importance, and widespread misunderstanding of sanctification as moralism or undue human effort further impedes thoughtful engagement. But what if we have missed the boat on what sanctification really means for today’s believer? The essays in this volume, which come out of a recent Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference, address this dilemma through biblical, historical, dogmatic and pastoral explorations. The contributors sink their teeth into positions like the “works” mentality or “justification by faith alone” and posit stronger biblical views of grace and holiness, considering key topics such as the image of God, perfection, union with Christ, Christian ethics and suffering...

Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math problem. Or maybe we expect that since God is good, everything will just work out all right somehow. But where then is honest lament? Aren’t we shortchanging believers of the riches of the Christian teaching about suffering?

John Owen’s writings, though challenging, are full of rich spiritual insights. In this unabridged volume, editors Justin Taylor and Kelly Kapic have made updates to the author’s language, translated the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and footnoted difficult or unknown phrases, all without sacrificing any of Owen’s original message. These three treatises on temptation, sin, and repentance are theologically robust and insightful while also being accessible to modern readers. Overcoming Sin and Temptation will help a new generation benefit from the writings of this remarkable Puritan.

This text offers a fresh approach to modern theology by approaching the field thematically, covering classic topics in Christian theology over the last 200 years. The editors, leading authorities on the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century theology, have assembled a respected team of international scholars to offer substantive treatment of important doctrines and key debates in modern theology.

With the IVP Library Expansion Bundle, you have everything you need for serious Bible study right at your fingertips. This bundle includes volumes from the Essentials Series, the Spectrum Series, the Pocket Reference Series, and the Reformation Commentary. This informative, clear, and easy-to-read collection of books will become your constant companion as you delve into the riches of theology and doctrine, and shed new light on beliefs often taken for granted. There’s something for everyone here, from preachers and ministry leaders to mature Christians and new believers. Expand your library today!

The Reformed Silver Library makes Bible study simple and fast by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. It comes with over 200 books, with advanced reference works for understanding the biblical context of God’s Word for You | GWFY (33 vols.).

InterVarsity Press has always had a unique position among evangelical publishers because of its groundbreaking reference works. The IVP Black Dictionaries established themselves in the 1990s as the preeminent tool for providing information on specialized topics that might otherwise not have a place in a traditional Bible dictionary. Articles covered traditional and contemporary biblical topics, including cross-sectional themes, methods of interpretation, significant historical or cultural background, and each Old and New Testament book as a whole. Their Pocket Dictionaries series on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of scope, size, and coverage quickly became mainstays in college and seminary textbooks. Concise, accessible, and up-to-date, they provided quick definitions for hundreds of terms across a variety of subdisciplines within biblical studies. The IVP Reference Bundle brings these two important sets of books together, along with their respected...

Beginning to study Reformed theology is like stepping into a family conversation that has been going on for 500 years. How do you find your bearings and figure out how to take part in this conversation without embarrassing yourself? The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition takes on this rich, boisterous, and varied tradition in its broad contours, filling you in on its common affirmations as well as its family tensions. Here you will find succinct and reliable entries on Latin terms, con...

The Baptist Gold Library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Baptist Gold Library provides a comprehensive Bible study library. Contained are hundreds of resources including New Covenant Commentary Series | NCCS (17 vols.), Opening Up Commentary Series (47 vols.), Greater Than Gold Bible Study Series (88 vols.), alongside other resources ideal for sermon prep or more advanced Bible study.

The Reformed Gold Library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Reformed Gold Library provides a comprehensive Bible study library. Contained are hundreds of resources including ESV Expository Commentary Series Collection | ESVEC (11 vols.), Opening Up Commentary Series (47 vols.), Reformed Expository Bible Studies | REBS (15 vols.), alongside other resources ideal for sermon prep or more advanced Bible study.

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The IVP Pocket Reference Series was designed for students, pastors, and other busy people who want an aid to formal or informal study. Informative, clear, brief, and affordable, the books included in this series will become your constant companion as you tackle the study of biblical languages, church history, apologetics, contemporary religions, ethics, theology, and more.

Reading Christian Theology in the Protestant Tradition offers a distinctive approach to the value of classic works through the lens of Protestantism. While it is anachronistic to speak of Christian theology prior to the Reformation as “Protestant,” it is wholly appropriate to recognize how certain common Protestant concerns can be discerned in the earliest traditions of Christianity. The resonances between the ages became both informative and inspiring for Protestants who looked back to pre-reformation sources for confirmation, challenge, and insight. Thus this book begins with the first Christian theologians, covering nearly 2000 years of theological writing from the Didache, Justin Martyr, and Origen to James Cone, José Míguez Bonino, and Sallie McFague. Five major periods of church history are represented in 12 key works, each carefully explained and interpreted by an expert in the field.

The Logos Factbook provides instant information on biblical people, places, things, events, and cultural concepts. This tool functions like an encyclopedia, pulling together all of your datasets and resources, then presenting powerful overviews of each topic. But it is only as powerful as your digital library. The Factbook Feature Expansion, S amplifies the capability of the Logos Factbook with a wide selection of reference works to make it work for you even better. Understand biblical people, places, events, and concepts in less time: Factbook is your go-to place for biblical information. In seconds, search tens of thousands of Factbook pages that offer textual and visual resources on famous theologians, books of the Bible, ancient places, and more.

The Reformed Platinum Library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Reformed Platinum Library is a great entry point for academic study or more advanced exegesis and sermon prep. With over 1100 resources, the Reformed Platinum Library includes fantastic resources such as SIL Exegetical Summary Series | SILES (34 vols.), Reformed Expository Commentary Series | REC (38 vols.), Hendriksen & Kistemaker New Testament Commentary | HK (18 vols.), and many more.

The Baker Academic Theological Studies Collection contains 18 volumes of contemporary scholarship from today’s top thinkers, including Craig L. Blomberg, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Bruce L. McCormack, John G. Stackhouse Jr., and others. This collection covers wide-ranging topics, among them premillennial eschatology, Christology, pneumatology, ecclesiology, theological anthropology, modern theology, atonement theology, evangelical theology, and Trinitarianism.

The study and research tools in Logos Bible Software are sometimes only as good as the library that comes with them. The larger your library, the more effective you can be in your study of the Bible. Whether you are working with the Factbook, Passage Guide or the Exegetical Guide, the resources in your library, commentaries, grammars, dictionaries, and reference works, are the fuel that drive all the best features in Logos Bible Software. With over fifteen hundred reference works, Master Feature Collection gives you everything you need to make the most of your sermon writing, bible study, exegesis, and research.

“This book will make no attempt to defend God.… If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn’t it.” Too often the Christian attitude toward suffering is characterized by a detached academic appeal to God’s sovereignty, as if suffering were a game or a math problem. Or maybe we expect that since God is good, everything will just work out all right somehow. But wh...

The Baptist Platinum Library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Baptist Platinum Library is a great entry point for academic study or more advanced exegesis and sermon prep. With over 1000 resources, the Baptist Platinum Library includes fantastic resources such as The IVP Bible Dictionaries (8 vols.), The Preacher’s Outline and Sermon Bible | POSB (45 vols.), Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC (36 vols.), and many more.

The Logos Factbook provides instant information on biblical people, places, things, events, and cultural concepts. This tool functions like an encyclopedia, pulling together all of your datasets and resources, then presenting powerful overviews of each topic. But it is only as powerful as your digital library. The Factbook Feature Expansion, M amplifies the capability of the Logos Factbook with a wide selection of reference works to make it work for you even better. Understand biblical people, places, events, and concepts in less time: Factbook is your go-to place for biblical information. In seconds, search tens of thousands of Factbook pages that offer textual and visual resources on famous theologians, books of the Bible, ancient places, and more. This collection includes everything in the Factbook Feature Expansion, S as well more than fifteen additional resources to help expand your studies.

The Reformed Portfolio library makes your study of the Bible easier by connecting your entire library of books to a robust set of study tools. The Reformed Portfolio Library takes everything in the Reformed Diamond Library and adds even more to your library. The Reformed Portfolio LIbrary contains key sets including Tyndale Commentaries | TOTC/TNTC (47 vols.), Barth’s Church Dogmatics (31 vols.), The Works of Jonathan Edwards (41 vols.), Pillar New Testament Commentary | PNTC (17 vols.), and many more. The Reformed Portfolio Library is excellent for academic research or advanced exegesis.

The recent resurgence of interest in the Puritan John Owen has resulted in increasing requests for Kelly Kapic’s Communion with God, which was one of the books that helped foster renewed attention on this classic theologian. This book is now back in print with a new preface by the author.