Resources

Jonathan Gibson’s 2 Peter Bible study helps participants learn how keeping heaven in view guides their daily goals and choices while strengthening their hope.  According to 2 Peter, one day the earth will be renewed by fire, and we will live together in a new world where all wrongs are righted and all sorrows swept […]

A 31-Day Devotional in a Liturgical Style, Featuring Daily Scripture Readings, Historical Prayers, Catechisms, and Creeds Every Christian knows the importance of a daily quiet time with the Lord. But anyone who’s been a believer long enough has likely experienced seasons that feel more mundane or routine, leading to aimlessly skimming a couple of Bible […]

Who is right about what it means to be human? For the writers of Scripture, to be human is to be in the image of God.

This volume grows out of a conference at The John Owen Centre for Theological Study in London to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformer’s birth. Topics covered include Calvin’s life and reforming work, his Institutes of the Christian Religion, aspects of his theology, and his commitment to revolutionary living and powerful preaching. The contributors […]

The core of Malachi’s covenantal imagination is shaped by his reflection on an authoritative collection of source texts in the Hebrew Bible. The mention of people, nations and places, Deuteronomic terminology, and rare words and unique word/root combinations exclusive to Malachi and only a few other texts encourages the book to be read in the […]

This (long-expected title) from David Gibson aims to prepare the reader to find joy and satisfaction in God’s good gifts by putting all life in the perspective of our deaths. It takes us through the book of Ecclesiastes in a way that helps us internalise the deep lessons of wisdom and common sense it contains […]

In this book, Arthur Keefer offers a timely assessment of Ecclesiastes and what it has to do with the meaning of life. Drawing on recent psychological research, he argues that this Hebrew Bible text associates the meaning of life with various types of suffering in life. Keefer here situates Ecclesiastes within its ancient intellectual world. […]

What constitutes a meaningful life? We seek fulfilment in success, prosperity, recognition, relationships and even self-sufficiency, but we always seem to come up short. If you feel you are coming up empty in your life and need a bigger vision and greater purpose, this accessible study by David Gibson will show you that all of […]

Many pastors today see themselves primarily as counselors, leaders, and motivators.

Karl Barth was the most dominant theologian of the twentieth century, at once brilliant and baffling, majestic and frustrating.

‘Isaiah’ and ‘Ezekiel’ study notes by Jonathan Gibson Featuring Notes on the Bible Text from Important Figures in Church History, Including Augustine, Martin Luther, Jonathan Edwards, and C. S. Lewis  The ESV Church History Study Bible is designed to help believers in all seasons of life understand the Bible with notes from over 300 of church history’s most prominent […]

Designed to strengthen the global church with a widely accessible, theologically sound, and pastorally wise resource for understanding and applying the overarching storyline of the Bible, the ESV Expository Commentary features the full text of the ESV Bible passage by passage, with crisp and theologically rich exposition and application. Editors Iain M. Duguid, James M. […]

Joy and fruitfulness in faith do not depend on flashes of genius but on getting the basics right most of the time. Following Jesus focuses attention on the basics of Christian discipleship, and covers the following vitally important themes: faith, the Bible, the church, prayer, the Holy Spirit, holiness, growth in grace, guidance, loving others, […]

From Heaven He Came and Sought Her stands as the first comprehensive resource on definite atonement.

Does theology belong within the academy or the church? How do Christian teachings – on God, revelation, and humanity – contribute to the activity of knowing? This volume offers a fresh reading of Bavinck’s theological epistemology and argues that his Trinitarian and organic worldview utilizes an eclectic range of sources. Sutanto unfolds Bavinck’s understanding of […]

To live well in this world, we need more than to just try harder. If we want lives that are marked by love, joy and peace, if we want to see goodness planted in the soil of our marriages and families, we need something we can’t actually drum up from inside ourselves, however hard we […]

The repeated refrain of Psalm 136 is that God’s love endures forever. In the words of Samuel Francis’s hymn, the ‘deep, deep love of Jesus’ is ‘vast, unmeasured, boundless, free … rolling as a mighty ocean … full of blessing’. Indeed, ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8, 16). This is one of the most wonderful […]

Few pastors leave as indelible a legacy as Thomas Witherow did in the north of Ireland during the second half of the nineteenth century. A faithful minister, husband, father, author, and professor, Witherow’s defense of Presbyterianism remains one of the most influential of its kind. Collecting Witherow’s most important works on the topic—The Apostolic Church, […]

As five addresses given at the Keswick Portstewart Convention in the summer of 2019, In God’s Hands is an attempt to discover some of the messages the Holy Spirit has given the church through those latter chapters of Genesis. In particular, we hope this little volume might help you see Christ in the Joseph narrative.

The International Presbyterian Church, founded by Francis Schaeffer, is a Reformed Church with Presbyteries in the UK (English and Korean language), Europe and South Korea.

Did you know that the prophet Isaiah preached the gospel? The central message of Isaiah is a simple message—God saves sinners. Through a study of Isaiah, Jonathan Gibson guides participants in savoring the basics of the gospel that we need to remember daily: we need saving. We need God every day. Isaiah reminds us again and again that our hope is not in ourselves—it’s […]

Christians, rightly called “people of the cross,” look to Jesus’s death and resurrection as the central points of his earthly mission. But in order to understand more fully the person and work of Christ, it’s important for believers to fix their minds on his entire ministry—his life, death, resurrection, and ongoing ministry today—and not solely […]

Discover the rich theology of Neo-Calvinism Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck sparked a theological tradition in the Netherlands that came to be known as Neo-Calvinism. While studies in Neo-Calvinism have focused primarily on its political and philosophical insights, its theology has received less attention. In Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, Cory C. Brock and N. Gray […]

The NIV Proclamation Bible features ten introductory essays on theology, doctrine and the application and interpretation of Scripture…

A 40-Day Devotional Liturgy for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany During Christmas, homes are filled with good food, welcoming family, and lively cheer. Streets are lined with lights and sprinkled with snow. Amid this season of beauty, even Christians can become distracted, keeping Jesus at an unintentional distance. How can Christians effectively prepare their hearts for […]

Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) is widely celebrated as one of the top theologians in the Reformed tradition, and through the ongoing labor of translation teams, editors, and publishers, his vast writings are being offered anew to English-only readers. This book brings the groundbreaking framework of Bavinck‘s “organic motif” to the fore in one of […]

A study of identity politics through a biblical lens, looking at idolatry of the self and the elevations of sexual identity. Our culture is obsessed with identity and it has been the cause of tense interaction with (and within) the Church. Rather than being a new challenge to the Christian faith, however, the identity issue […]

Complete. Undivided. Whole. This is how we are meant to be, but in today’s world, we often find ourselves pulled in two directions: between God and the world, good and bad, between who we really are and what we allow other people to see. In Radically Whole, award-winning author David Gibson explores how we can learn […]

The Bible is a story; the gospel is a message. But how does one lead to the other? ‘Raiding the Lost Ark’ shows how covenants hold the key, and demonstrates how the gospel of salvation by grace alone grows naturally out of the story God tells.

Christians learn to worship from the generations of God’s people who have worshipped before them. We sing Psalms, because thousands of years ago, God’s people sang them. 500 years ago, the leaders of the Reformation transformed Christian worship with the active participation and understanding of the individual worshiper. Christian worship today is built on this […]

Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and wondered if it was worth getting out of bed? Have you wondered why you should bother to attend corporate worship every week? Unfortunately, it can be easy to miss the excitement of corporate worship—but the excitement is there. Because God is all-sufficient, he commands worship […]

What does it mean to belong to God’s family?

In Silent Witnesses, Garry Williams shows us just some of the ways in which Christians in the present need the examples, encouragements, and teachings of Christians of the past. Garry Williams describes both famous and less well-known figures and movements from church history, from the fourth century through to the twentieth: Augustine of Hippo, the […]

“Let’s read the Acrostic of God together  to help you to make him your awesome treasure.  We’ll read it, rap it, or sing it—it’s fun!  Till Jesus comes back and his kingdom has come. . .  He’s the Alpha and Omega, from A to Z;  his beauty and his glory we were made to see.”   Catechism […]

Let’s read the acrostic of Jesus together To help you to love him, so he is your treasure. We’ll read it, rap it, or sing it–it’s fun! Till Jesus comes back and his kingdom has come. He’s the Alpha and Omega, from A to Z; We pray you see from this book, “Jesus came for […]

Kids, even you can learn soteriology! Soteriology studies how God saves us From the wrath of God and our sin that enslaves us. So it’s not just a bunch of big words for our head, But how Christ took the curse we deserve when he bled. The Acrostic of Salvation is a joy to read […]

Contribution by Garry Williams: ‘Penal Substitution: A Response to Recent Criticisms’ Many thought the idea of penal substitution was at the heart of the evangelical understanding of the cross, if not the only legitimate interpretation of the death of Christ. Yet for some time less popular evangelical theologians had been calling this traditional interpretation of […]

Ludwig Lavater compares the short book of Ruth to “precious jewels” of “exceptional worth,” which provides “the greatest usefulness to all parts of life.” Bringing this important study into the modern era, this new translation by Michael Hunter, with a biographical introduction by Jonathan Gibson, makes accessible these biblically rich sermons from a sixteenth-century pastor […]

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code was a hugely successful novel that was translated into over forty different languages and earned Brown many millions of dollars. It is a book that captivates its readers’ attention and leads them on a thrilling story of history, murder, intrigue and religion. Many have found that the way the story […]

Contribution by Garry Williams: “Enlightenment Epistemology and Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Doctrines of Assurance” David Bebbington’s ‘Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s’, published in 1989, offered an intriguing hypothesis regarding the genesis of this movement. He argued that evangelical religion had emerged as a substantially new entity through trans-Atlantic evangelical revival […]

In The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures thirty-seven first-rate evangelical scholars present a thorough study of biblical authority and a full range of issues connected to it.

Expository Study of Psalm 23 Reveals the Beauty and Deep Theological Meaning behind a Familiar Part of Scripture Psalm 23 is one of the most recognizable passages in the whole Bible. Though relatively short, this poetic depiction of God’s love epitomizes Christ’s goodness and provision as he leads his children. Even lifelong Christians will find […]

Even young children want answers to the hard questions about God and suffering. In The Moon Is Always Round, seminary professor and author Jonathan Gibson uses the vivid imagery of the moon to explain to children how God’s goodness is always present, even when it might appear to be obscured by upsetting or difficult circumstances. […]

Many pastors today see themselves primarily as counselors, leaders, and motivators.

When pastors see how God’s whole counsel shapes and impacts their entire ministry, both pastors and churches will thrive. Deeply connecting theology with practice, this book encourages rich biblical-theological reflection for growing and sustaining a vibrant ministry as contributors such as Joel Beeke, Ligon Duncan, Michael Horton, and Robert Letham apply more than twenty key […]

The introduction to this book includes these words: “One of the greatest needs of the church in every age is to contemplate, know, and love the glory of Christ in order to promote the spread of the gospel and the holiness of God’s people. Yet this all-encompassing vision of Jesus Christ in Christian faith and life is not always common […]