This guide draws from the rich heritage left us by the early church fathers, the Puritan writers, and Jesus Himself to lead group members or individuals through a carefully selected array of disciplines, including Scripture reading, meditation and application, prayer, worship, evangelism, stewardship, fasting, silence and solitude, and journaling. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

"The shift from adolescence to adulthood, a recently identified stage of life called 'emerging adulthood, ' covers an increasing span of years in today's culture (roughly ages 18-30) due to later marriages and extended education. During this prolonged stage of exploration and self-definition, many young adults drift away from the church. Here two authors--both veteran teachers who are experienced in young adult and campus ministry--address this new and urgent field of study, offering a Christian perspective on what it means to be spiritually formed into adulthood. They provide a 'practical theology' for emerging adult ministry and offer insight into the key developmental issues of this stage of life, including identity, intimacy and sexuality, morality, church involvement, spiritual formation, vocation, and mentoring. The book bridges the gap between academic and popular literature on emerging adulthood and offers concrete ways to facilitate spiritual formation among emerging adults"--Publisher description.

Often spirituality today is isolated from church teaching and doctrine, as in Joseph Campbell{u2019}s treatment of myth and the many forms of New Age theologies, but doctrine apart from the life of prayer is abstract and sterile. In Spiritual Theology Allen turns to the great teachers of the past{u2014}the church fathers, Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert{u2014}to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.

Allen covers the great questions of the spiritual life: what is the Christian goal? what leads us toward that goal, and what hinders us? what is conversion? how can we discern our progress in the spiritual life? what are the fruits of the Spirit?

A second purpose of the book is to introduce readers to the disciplines and texts of the threefold way, found in the eastern church from the fourth century on. Allen writes simply and clearly of the active life and the development of virtue, and the contemplative life, which includes coming to know God through the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture as well as directly, face to face, which is the domain of mystical theology.

This book is a basic and accessible introduction to the classic writings and doctrines of the spiritual life.

Sebuah bangsa dan juga negara yang mengikutinya, dapat bertahan dan berkembang secara natural, sebagaimana sekumpulan makhluk lainnya di atas bumi. Namum ketika bangsa tersebut harus merespons dan mengantisipasi alam dan zaman yang berubah, harus menentukan kemana dan bagaimana ia menuju masa depannya, sebuah strategi harus ditetapakan. Strategi yang paling fundamental untuk itu adalah strategi kebudayaan. Tak ada bangsa atau negara yang menganggap dirinya maju tak memiliki semacam strategi tersebut. Dalam perbincangan yang mendesak itulah, buku HM. Nasrudin Anshory turut bicara, dan layak dibaca.

Stronger Than the Strong is the story of the work of Overseas Missionary Fellowship missionaries Jim and Louise Morris among the Pwo Karen people, a previously unreached tribal group from northern Thailand

Dr, Lloyd-Jones offers this detailed and comprehensive exposition of this well known, but frequently misunderstood passages of Scripture--the Sermon on the Mount.

'Between Horror and Hope' is a study of Paul's metaphorical language of death in Romans 6:1-11. The scholarly debate focuses on two main issues; the origin of the 'commentatio mortis' tradition and its development. Dr. Sabou argues that the origin of this terminology is original to Paul; that it was the apostle's own insight into the meaning of Christ's death (a "death to sin") and his understanding of the identity of Christ in his death (as the anointed davidic king) which guided him to create this metaphor of "dying to sin" as a way of describing the relationship of the believer with sin. On the development of this language of death, the author argues that this language conveys two aspects — horror and hope. The first is discussed in the context of crucifixion in which Paul explains the believer's "death to sin" by presenting Christ's death as the death of the anointed davidic king who won the victory over sin and death by rising from the dead. Paul affirms that believers are "coalesced" with what was "proclaimed" about Christ's death and resurrection, thereby allowing him to assert that the releasing of the body from the power of sin is a result of "crucifixion." This "crucifixion" is the "condemnation" inflicted on our past lives in the age inaugurated by Adam's sin and this is such a horrible event that believers have to stay away from sin since sin leads to such punishment. In contrast, hope is presented in the context of "burial." The believers' "burial with" Christ points to the fact that they are part of Christ's family and this is accomplished by the overwhelming action of God by which he pushes us toward the event of Christ's death, an act pictured in baptism. It is this "burial with" Christ that allows believers to share with Christ in newness of life.

Surat Filipi adalah surat yang paling istimewa dari surat-surat Rasul Paulus. Meskipun dalam kondisi menderita dan berstatus sebagai tahanan, Rasul Paulus tetap mengajak jemaat di Filipi untuk bersukacita senantiasa. Bagaimana cara kita tetap bersukacita ketika berada dalam kondisi terpuruk? Jawabannya sangat sederhana: karena Kristus menyertai kita. Buku ini praktis dan lengkap dengan berbagai kesaksian penerapan firman Allah. Pengajaran Rasul Paulus dalam hal doktrin, baik itu tentang keselamatan (Soteriologi) maupun tentang Yesus Kristus (Kristologi) dipaparkan dengan dukungan analisis secara eksegesis. Hal ini supaya masalah pengajaran (doktrin) iman Kristen semakin kuat, jelas, dan tegas. Dengan demikian, buku ini dapat menjadi pegangan bagi para mahasiswa teologia, para dosen, dan para pengkhotbah sehingga jemaat Tuhan bisa mendapat berkat. Akhirnya, melalui buku ini kita akan mengerti rahasia Rasul Paulus tetap mampu bersukacita dalam penderitaan, yakni karena Paulus teguh dan berakar di dalam Kristus, sehingga ia mampu berkata, “Segala perkara dalam kutanggung di dalam Dia yang memberi kekuatan kepadaku” (Flp. 4:13).

Kota Kolose (nama sebenarnya: Kolossai) berdekatan dengan Laodekia Hireapolis, yang terletak di pedalaman Asia. Kolose adalah satu kota di provinsi Romawi wilayah Asia. di bagian barat dari yang sekarang disebut Turki bagian Asia. Rekan sekerjanya, Epafras, yang melayani jemaat ini, mengunjungi sang rasul dan melaporkan perkembangan orang-orang percaya di sana dan munculnya sebuah ajaran sesat yang sedang merongrong mereka. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa walaupun bukan Rasul Paulus sang pendirinya, tetapi tetap di bawah tanggung jawabnya. Ada tiga tokoh atau pemimpin yang disebutkan di kota Kolose ini, yaitu: Epafras, pendiri yang bijaksana (1:7; 4:12), Arkhipus, sahabat yang baik (4:17), dan Filemon, seorang Kristen yang terkemuka (Flm. 5-7). Kemungkinan Epafras adalah dari hasil penginjilan Rasul Paulus di Efesus yang menjadi rekan sepelayanan Paulus. Epafras inilah yang membawa kabar kepada Paulus tentang keberadaan jemaat di Kolose.

This is an adaptation from English version into Indonesian by Indonesian Bible Society and Yayasan Karunia Bakti Budaya Indonesia

Buku ini berisi survei historis dan analitis yang menyajikan pesan Perjanjian Baru dengan dilatarbelakangi keadaan dunia abad pertama. Survei diawali dengan pembahasan tentang latar belakang agama, ekonomi, politik, dan sosial yang menyeluruh dari Perjanjian Baru. Survei kemudian diakhiri dengan studi singkat mengenai kanon dan naskah Perjanjian Baru.