John Driver offers studies of 12 biblical images for understanding the church. They steer the reader toward a church more in harmony with God's missionary purpose for His people, and toward a mission solidly based in the biblical vision of peoplehood. Driver explores the images of pilgrimage, of God's new order, and of transformation.
John Driver offers studies of 12 biblical images for understanding the church. They steer the reader toward a church more in harmony with God's missio...
How should Christians regard the use of military force? Should they become involved in fighting for their country? Can they not find a better way to settle differences? The author, a biblical scholar, writer, and missionary in Uruguay and Spain, turns to the history of the early church for answers. He notes that the early Christians opposed warfare and military service because of the life and teachings of Jesus.
How should Christians regard the use of military force? Should they become involved in fighting for their country? Can they not find a better way to s...
Driver's book is an invitation to look at the cross, not merely as the source of individual salvation, but as the place wherein begins the renewal of the creation--the new heavens and the new earth that God promised and that the messianic community anticipates. May many readers heed its message! -C. Rene Padilla
Driver's book is an invitation to look at the cross, not merely as the source of individual salvation, but as the place wherein begins the renewal of ...
Comedy / 7m, 4f / 1 Set Confined in is villa at Yalta by illness in April of 1900, Chekhov receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre. They have embarked on a provincial tour with the express purpose of persuading Chekhov to give them his latest play. Noteworthy characters include Stanislavski, Valdmir Nemirovich Danchenko, Gorky, Ivan Bunin and actress Olga Knipper who Chekhov, a confirmed bachelor, contemplates marrying even as he acknowledges his advancing consumption. The play is criss crossed with amorous triangles, battles of ego, high spirits and melancholic languor...
Comedy / 7m, 4f / 1 Set Confined in is villa at Yalta by illness in April of 1900, Chekhov receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre. They...
I don't have to see your home to know your shame . . . I have my own.
But someone loved me just the way I am, and someone loves you just the way you are.
Meet Reggie Dabbs.
Born as the result of a heart-wrenching decision made by his then sixteen-year-old mom, Reggie offers hope and inspiration to those who are stuck in the despair of their broken beginnings and are crying out for help. It is this first chapter in his life that sets Reggie on the journey of a lifetime--one filled with fear, regret, sorrow, and, ultimately redemption. Taking a chronological look at his...
I don't have to see your home to know your shame . . . I have my own.
But someone loved me just the way I am, and someone loves you just the ...
In this fresh approach to Christian spirituality, John Driver shows that the spirituality of the disciples and the early Christian church included every dimension of life. Grounded in the example of Jesus himself, this holistic approach to spirituality finds expression in the visible witness of the Christian community, and in the daily lives of faithful Christians who seek to embody Christ's presence in the world in service to others. This approach to Christian spirituality was recovered in a remarkable way by the radical reformers of the sixteenth century - the Anabaptists - and it...
In this fresh approach to Christian spirituality, John Driver shows that the spirituality of the disciples and the early Christian church incl...
Few American epics of tragedy, intrigue, friendship, and faith will entertain and challenge the soul like the narrative inspired by the events in the real life of David Ring--a boy literally born dead who survives with sobering consequences. Living with the harsh realities of cerebral palsy, Ring faces impossible odds yet stumbles into an improbable life of inspiration and influence in the small, unassuming town of Liberty, Missouri, in the 1960s. As a teenage boy, Ring finds himself tragically orphaned and being shuffled...
Where We See Tragedy, God Sees Possibility . . .
Few American epics of tragedy, intrigue, friendship, and faith will entertain and chall...
