Andy McRae

G. Robert Jacks, associate professor of speech communication in ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, has done all preachers a great favor with his manual on preaching so people can hear.

The book is part textbook, part workbook,…

One of the pastor's crucial roles as spiritual guide to the congregation is to help people make sense of their lives. But how often have pastors been frustrated by the inability of good Christian people to meaningfully connect legitimate…

One of the pastor's crucial roles as spiritual guide to the congregation is to help people make sense of their lives. But how often have pastors been frustrated by the inability of good Christian people to meaningfully connect legitimate…

Marva Dawn has constructed her book around four great themes of the Sabbath experience. And experience is exactly what her book is about. Sabbath is not a doctrine to be defended, but a practice to be engaged.

Each section presents…

This book is "written in the spirit of Reform Judaism," and is useful for Sabbath beginners as well as the experienced. "It includes the basic ceremonies necessary for introducing Sabbath into the home plus background material on the origins…

Here is a book that can be called the most important one on Sabbath published in the last 200 years. Rabbi Heschel approaches Sabbath with a spirit of celebration and joy. To Heschel, Sabbath is not just a bulwark against the world, but a…

Karen and David Mains from the Chapel of the Air radiobroadcast have been a creative force in church and family ministry for almost three decades. This book is another example of Christian leaders attempting to bring fresh thinking and practical…

Tilden Edwards, director of the Shalem Institute in Washington, D.C., presents a well argued case for Sabbath renewal. His blend of Bible, church history, and practical implications is intelligent, challenging, and helpful. Especially meaningful…

EVA: How would you say Seventh-day Adventists have viewed the Sabbath? What significance would you say we have seen in it, and what have we appealed to as we articulated our reasons for keeping the seventh day holy…

Henri Nouwen rethinks the familiar story of the prodigal son in Luke's Gospel in conversation with Rembrandt's great painting of the moment of return. The interaction of gospel and canvas brought another voice to the conversation: Nouwen's…

This book is an example of what happens when women take up the great themes of theology. When a woman committed to the Bible as God's revelation begins to express the insights of Scripture, men are gifted with fresh and compelling pictures…

If Jesus really is God's ultimate self-disclosure, if the gospels chronicle a love that risks suffering and loss, that portrays Him increasingly powerless before the world's authority, then everything changes. The angle of vision becomes…

If marriage is entered into with such joy and hope, why so many failures? What goes wrong? And when? Young- Eisendrath suggests that one answer lies in our expectations of each other. These expectations arise outside our awareness and develop…

Interpreting exciting, groundbreaking brain and behavior research, Daniel Goleman argues persuasively that a handful of emotional competencies is a more accurate indicator of success than intelligence by itself. It is not Goleman's purpose…