Serving God Globally

Serving God GloballyDominating the daily news cycle today are the grim realities of grinding poverty, sex trafficking, gender discrimination, child soldiering, HIV AIDS, failed states, corruption, and environmental breakdown. In the midst of such pain and brokenness, the followers of Christ cannot stand idly by, for God calls them into the mission of reconciling all things, first by easing suffering and then by building flourishing communities through the process of

Living at the Crossroads lays out a brief summary of the biblical story and the most fundamental beliefs of Scripture

highlighting innovative models of Christian witness in everyday life

When read as a unit

helping Christians embody their faith in the practices of discipleship

Their studies

he examines the historic interpretations and seeks common ground among believers

Brian Matz

Gilbert Meilaender

Sparks provides exhaustive references to the ancient literary counterparts to the Hebrew Bible's major genres

not as a randomly sorted set of individual books but as a definitely shaped and ordered whole

veteran language instructor Gary Long has learned that it's in the first semester that many students get bogged down in grammatical basics

and multiple genres--comes together to provide an overarching story about God the King and explains how the Christian gospel and mission address the totality of human life