Building a vibrant, God-honoring women's ministry is an enormous challenge. There are so many issues to consider and points of view to incorporate. Moody Press offers Leading Women to the Heart of God, a comprehensive compilation of articles by leading Christian women addressing key areas of women's ministry. The topics range from 'Your Own Intimate Life with God,' to 'Building Your Confidence to Lead and Teach,' to 'Developing Leaders within Your Ministry.' Anyone involved in women's mini...

"Oh, Lord, crush the stinging serpent who poisons all our joys."In this collection of songs and essays, lament and love, sorrow and hope ring out even at the graveside, as God’s people ask how long until God’s dream for this world finally comes true? Until death, the last enemy, is entirely removed, and our long pilgrimage of faith finally brings us to the joy set before us—the face of Jesus? For God’s dream has not, in fact, died, and there truly is a lov...

In this essay, Barth discusses the relationship between Christ and Adam as understood by Paul. Moving beyond traditional exegetical and theological scholarship done on Romans 5, Barth offers an entirely new interpretation of the conception of humanity presented in Paul's view of the Christ-Adam relationship. A valid contribution to the interpretation of Romans 5, 'Christ and Adam' is also an example of Barth's exegetical method and provides insight into his broader theological project.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1In the world freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. It's the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. In the Church freedom is the spiritual liberation from the penalty and power of sin, granted through faith in Jesus, enabling believers to live in joyful obedience to God. It is not a license for selfish livin...

At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ—the miracle of God coming to earth as a baby. Scripture tells us we must become “as little children” to enter into the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 18:3). If the Son of God himself became a child, and if our own salvation also depends on becoming like a child, then what do babies and children reveal about God’s nature—and our own?From beloved author Adam Miller, The Christ Child is a Christmas meditation that examines the ...

The Passion Of Christ is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Thomas Adams (1583–1652 was an English clergyman and reputed preacher. He was called "The Shakespeare of the Puritans" by Robert Southey; while he was a Calvinist in theology, he is not, however, accurately described as a Puritan. He was for a time at Willington, Bedfordshire, and his works may later have been read by John Bunyan. Much of the information about Adams comes from title-pages and dedications in ...

How should we relate to 'others' - those within a particular tradition, those of different traditions, and those who are oppressed? In the light of these anxieties, and building on the work of Andrew Shanks, this book offers a vision of Christ as 'the Shaken One', rooted in community with others. Shaped through dialogue with the theologies of John Hick and Lesslie Newbigin, Adams urges Christian communities to attend more deeply to the demands of ecumenical, dialogical and political theolo...

The Passion Of Christ is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Thomas Adams (1583–1652 was an English clergyman and reputed preacher. He was called "The Shakespeare of the Puritans" by Robert Southey; while he was a Calvinist in theology, he is not, however, accurately described as a Puritan. He was for a time at Willington, Bedfordshire, and his works may later have been read by John Bunyan.Much of the information about Adams comes from title-pages and dedicati...

The apostle Paul deals extensively with gender, embodiment, and desire in his authentic letters, yet many of the contemporary philosophers interested in his work downplay these aspects of his thought. Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role of gender and sexuality in the turn to the apostle Paul in recent Continental philosophy. It builds a constructive proposal for embodied Christian theological anthropology in conversation with—and in contrast to—the "Paulinism...

Songs have a unique capacity to communicate the innermost desires of our hearts, and many people have experienced poignant manifestations of the Spirit when singing or contemplating verse. This power of songs, as recorded in scripture, is abundantly apparent in the Old Testament, which contains many more poems than any other work of scripture. It is full of poems that believers have been singing for millennia, the same songs our own hearts often ache to sing—songs of faith and hope, songs ...

Learning how to hear God’s voice should be vitally important to all of us, especially as our prophet has urged us to seek Christ more intentionally. President Russell M. Nelson recently asked, “What will happen as you more intentionally hear, hearken, and heed what the Savior has said and what He is saying now through His prophets?” (“Hear Him,” Liahona, May 2020).As a people, we commonly strain our ears to “hear him” (Joseph Smith—History 1:17). We seek God’s voice in scr...

The Light of Christ provides an accessible presentation of Catholicism that is grounded in traditional theology, but engaged with a host of contemporary questions or objections. Inspired by the theologies of Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas, and John Henry Newman, and rooted in a post-Vatican II context, Fr. Thomas Joseph White presents major doctrines of the Christian religion in a way that is comprehensible for non-specialists: knowledge of God, the mystery of the Trinity, the Incarnati...