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The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

by Karen Swallow Prior

Christianity Today 2024 Book Award Finalist (Culture and the Arts)Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press.In The Evangelical Imagination, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior analyzes the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded evangelicalism and unpacks some of the movement's mos… Read more…

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

by Andrew Wilson

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today's Post-Christian West With dizzying social transformations in everything from gender to social justice, it may seem like there's never been a more tumultuous period in history. But a sing… Read more…

An Infinite Fountain of Light: Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century

An Infinite Fountain of Light: Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century

by George M. Marsden

Christians need to pause once in a while to get their bearings. For perspective on our own times and how we got here, it helps to listen to wise guides from other eras. In An Infinite Fountain of Light, the renowned American historian George Marsden illuminates the landscape with wisdom from one such mentor: Jonathan Edwards.Drawing on his deep expertise on … Read more…

Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

by Matthew Barrett

A holistic, eye-opening history of one of the most significant turning points in Christianity, The Reformation as Renewal demonstrates that the Reformation was at its core a renewal of evangelical catholicity.In the sixteenth century Rome charged the Reformers with novelty, as if they were heretics departing from the catholic (universal) church. Bu… Read more…

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Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church

Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church

by Matthew Burden

Radical Pursuit of a Christlike Life among the NationsBeginning as an obscure sect in a backwater province of the Roman Empire, the Christian faith radiated out in all directions. What drove this expansion? Where some might think the motivations would be the Great Commission or expressions of concern for non-Christians, which are common today, the early chur… Read more…

Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song
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Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song

by Craig Borlase and Bruce Hindmarsh

Narrated by Craig Borlase, Alan Irving and Bruce Hindmarsh

Amazing Grace is the surprising true story of John Newton, author of the song that has touched millions. A biography that reads like a novel, it reveals Newton’s dramatic story of sin and salvation as a slave trader before his ultimate transformation to speaking out against the horror of slavery. His story speaks to the brokenness within us all and our… Read more…

Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song

Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song

by Craig Borlase and Bruce Hindmarsh

Amazing Grace is the surprising true story of John Newton, author of the song that has touched millions. A biography that reads like a novel, it reveals Newton’s dramatic story of sin and salvation as a slave trader before his ultimate transformation to speaking out against the horror of slavery. His story speaks to the brokenness within us all and our… Read more…

Evangelical Pharisees: The Gospel as Cure for the Church's Hypocrisy

Evangelical Pharisees: The Gospel as Cure for the Church's Hypocrisy

by Michael Reeves

In This Follow-Up to  Gospel People, Michael Reeves Calls Evangelicals Away from Pharisaism to True Reformation Scripture warns believers of hypocrisy—called the "leaven of the Pharisees"—and its potential to spread quic… Read more…

Selected Sermons (Foreword by Jared C. Wilson)

Selected Sermons (Foreword by Jared C. Wilson)

by Lemuel Haynes

The Crossway Short Classics Series Presents Rare Sermons from Black Puritan Minister Lemuel Haynes Born in 1753, Lemuel Haynes was an indentured servant who grew to become a dynamic Reformed preacher. Nicknamed "The Black Puritan," he is credited as being t… Read more…

Hitler's Cross: How the Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda
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Hitler's Cross: How the Cross Was Used to Promote the Nazi Agenda

by Erwin W. Lutzer

Narrated by Francis Doyle

The story of Nazi Germany is one of conflict between two saviors and two crosses. “Deine Reich komme,” Hitler prayed publicly—“Thy Kingdom come.” But to whose kingdom was he referring?When Germany truly needed a savior, Adolf Hitler falsely assumed the role. He directed his countrymen to a cross, but he bent and hammered the … Read more…

Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith: Reading God's Word for God's People

Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith: Reading God's Word for God's People

by Todd R Hains

Martin Luther considered the reading of God's word to be his primary task as a theologian, a pastor, and a Christian. Though he is often portrayed as reading the Bible with a bare approach of sola Scriptura—without any concern for previous generations’ interpretation—the truth is more complicated. In this New Explorations in Theology (NET) volume, … Read more…

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Daughters of the Church: Women and ministry from New Testament times to the present
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Daughters of the Church: Women and ministry from New Testament times to the present

by Walter L. Liefeld and Ruth A. Tucker

Narrated by Norma Butikofer

Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history.The very fact that listeners may find themselves surprised now and again by the prominent role of women in certain events and movements proves an inequality that historical narrative has often been guilty of. Thi… Read more…


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