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Over 330,000 copies sold. This is the story of the church for today's listeners. Bruce Shelley's classic history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. Like a skilled screenwriter, Shelley begins each chapter with three elements: characters, setting...

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples...

Perhaps no figure in biblical scholarship has been the subject of more controversy and debate than Mary Magdalene.

An uneasy spiritual sense has gripped many Christians; a profound sense that something is incomplete and disconnected within the body of church teaching; something elemental to our raison d’etre.

The most complete Books of Enoch audiobook collection available, presenting rare ancient texts found nowhere else. Carefully curated, translated and adapted for the modern listener. Together, these texts reveal the ancient cosmological framework the Bible presupposes but never fully explains.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God...

Smith Wigglesworth reveals that the key to manifesting God's power is understanding this one essential key - how to let God's anointing rest upon you....

In a culture that constantly challenges their beliefs, surface-level Sunday school stories aren't enough. Systematic Theology For Teens bridges the gap between childhood faith and a robust, adult relationship with God.

At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. In The Forge of Christendom, Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age....

A major new work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest sacred documents of Judaism, which reveals their surprising connections to early Christianity. “A luminous treatment of a fascinating subject! Highly recommended!”—Scott Hahn, author of The Fourth Cup From award-winning scholar John...

Beyond a mere introduction to great art, Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart is about loving to learn what art has to teach us about the wonder and struggle of being alive. Did you know that: Vincent van Gogh's attempt to start an artist's colony with Paul Gauguin lasted only nine weeks, ending in his...

Your ticket from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A listenable, two-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, written by distinguished scholar and author N. T. Wright. An ideal guide for students...

Start Your 30-Day Journey to Master the Bible. For many people—regardless of their level of experience—the Bible can seem intimidating. Maybe you've tried to read or learn about the Bible in the past and found it hard to understand. Maybe you've been reading it for years, but you still lack...

How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists? Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the...

Theology matters! At last it can be understood easily, thanks to this “layman's language” approach. Authored by J. I. Packer, one of the premier theologians of Christianity, this summary of Christian teaching covers nearly 100 major Christian beliefs from a Reformed perspective....

In The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus....

Your ticket from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A listenable, two-volume introduction placing the entire New Testament and early Christianity in its original context, written by distinguished scholar and author N. T. Wright. An ideal guide for students...

The four books of Saint Augustine are a compilation of exegetical theology to guide the reader and listener in the understanding and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures....

Originally published in the 16th century, this is the classic history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the early Christian martyrs. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness,...

With Meister Eckhart's Living Wisdom, James Finley, one of today's best-known teachers of the Christian contemplative tradition, invites us into Eckhart's insights....

Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator....

Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe....

Saint Augustine's contributions to Christian theology are second to no other post-apostolic author in the whole sweep of church history. Yet along side his doctrinal treatises, Augustine tells a story of his life devoted to Christ as his only satisfaction.

In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’ mission and message, and offers a compelling portrait of...

For many Christians, our understanding of the history of the church universal jumps straight from what we read in the New Testament to a basic understanding of the Reformation. We're missing more than a millennium! And it was a busy, fascinating, tumultuous thousand-or-so years during which Christianity spread across three continents. In places as distant and different from each other as China, Sudan, and Britain, the gospel was spreading, the church was growing, and believers were expressing their faith in myriad ways.

The Lost Gospels of Jesus What the Bible left silent, preserved in the stories early Christians told. Modern English. No academic jargon. Translated & explained for real readers. The Journey Through Four Parts The Childhood of Jesus What was God like as a toddler? The canonical gospels say very little about Jesus’ early years, these ancient texts tried to fill the silence. The Protoevangelium of James The Infancy Gospel of Thomas The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew The History of Joseph the Carpenter The Trial and Death of Jesus The governor’s reports to Rome. Alternative trial records, ...

En un mundo saturado de especulaciones sensacionalistas y fechas fallidas, el Pastor Dr. Gilberto Miguel Rufat nos invita a regresar a las fuentes. A través de un análisis riguroso basado en la Analogía de la Fe, esta obra traza el hilo conductor de la escatología bíblica, desde sus cimientos en la ley de Moisés hasta su consumación en la revelación de Juan en Apocalipsis. En este libro, usted descubrirá: El Cántico de Moisés: El guion profético que prefiguró el juicio pactual sobre Israel. Las 70 Semanas de Daniel: El cronómetro divino que señaló con precisión matemática ...

If you’ve ever heard a too-neat story about how immersion “obviously” arrived among English Baptists, this booklet is a welcome corrective. It treats the “Polish Brethren” label with the caution it deserves, traces the plausible relay through the Dutch world (including the Rijnsburg Collegiants), and handles the Kiffin/Jessey–Richard Blunt “Holland mission” tradition without turning it into a fairy tale. Best of all, it puts Hanserd Knollys where the timeline actually places him: significant downstream, not magically upstream. Clear, skeptical, and genuinely useful for ...

The book tells the Münster story as a collision of theology, city politics, social instability, and apocalyptic certainty. It frames the “Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster” (1534–1535) as a radical, violent outlier that seized control of the city, declared Münster the “New Jerusalem,” enforced rebaptism and communal discipline, and then collapsed under siege—ending with the public execution of the leading figures and the infamous cages at St. Lambert’s as a permanent civic warning sign. It highlights how Münster was “primed to blow” before the Anabaptist takeover: the city...

The document argues that “advancing the kingdom of God” is a slippery modern phrase: it can be used in a biblically faithful way (meaning the kingdom becomes more visible and confessed through gospel proclamation, church gathering/edification, and Spirit-wrought fruit), or it can become a slogan that quietly makes the kingdom feel like a human-managed project pushed forward by technique, money, and institutional “machinery.” It insists the biblical “grammar” should stay straight: God advances His reign; we witness to it, announce it, and live as its citizens, rather than ...

This book frames Ezekiel as an exile-born book that refuses to let eschatology become a toy. The foreword sets the tone: Ezekiel is about the moral weight of history, the non-negotiable holiness of God, and the danger of treating prophecy as a “news decoder ring.” It argues that modern debates—especially about 1948—should be handled with reverent skepticism, because Ezekiel’s restoration promises are a whole package (return, cleansing, new heart, Spirit within, and the final reality summarized as “YHWH is there”), not a single headline. The main overview divides Ezekiel into a...

Visión de los hebreos, de Ethan Smith, propone una teoría audaz y cautivadora: que los pueblos indígenas de América podrían ser descendientes de las tribus perdidas de Israel. A través de la comparación entre las costumbres, lenguas y tradiciones religiosas de los nativos americanos y las del antiguo Israel, Smith ofrece un análisis profundo y detallado que sugiere una conexión ancestral entre ambos. Esta es la primera edición en español de esta obra, publicada originalmente en 1823, que sigue siendo un análisis intrigante de la búsqueda de respuestas sobre los misterios de las...

The book“UNIDENTIFIED DEMONIC PHENOMENA (UDPs)” sets out a Christian, Christ-centered framework for thinking about UAP reports without collapsing into either gullibility or reflexive scoffing. It opens by insisting on clear presuppositions and then treats “UAP” as a broad catch-all category that naturally produces multiple interpretive “schools,” many of which can overlap because the dataset itself is mixed—ranging from ordinary objects and misperceptions to unresolved incidents that remain unresolved largely because the data are thin. It then lays out the main interpretive ...

Did the early Church expect to escape the final persecution—or to endure it? For more than a century, modern pre-tribulation rapture theology has promised believers a “Great Escape” from the rise of the Antichrist and the final tribulation. Yet this teaching did not originate with Jesus, the apostles, or the early Church. In The Great Escape Delusion, Bible teacher Glenn Langohr examines this doctrine in light of Scripture and the unified witness of early Christian writers.

This book is a thesis-driven evaluation of John T. Christian’s A History of the Baptists (especially his baptism material), written to help you use Christian profitably without being hypnotized by his conclusions. It opens by framing Christian’s project as history-as-argument: he wants to show Baptists (defined by a cluster of “Baptist principles”) have existed from Christ onward, even when names change and records are hostile or missing. The evaluation treats that as the book’s animating engine—and warns that the engine can run on “family resemblance = family tree” if the ...

This bookt is essentially a compact “case file” arguing that the phrase “common grace” is a later theological label that often blurs biblical categories, and that Old School Baptists should reject the label while still affirming God’s real providence in the world. It starts by defining “common grace” the way Reformed writers typically do: God’s non-saving kindness and restraint broadly experienced by humanity (sun/rain, civic order, gifts, restraint of evil), sharply distinguished from saving grace in Christ. Then it notes the Old School Baptist objection: call those ...

This short booklet, “BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD?”, is a tightly focused study built around one stubborn text—1 Corinthians 15:29—and it argues that Paul’s line about people being “baptized for the dead” is best handled as a rhetorical weapon in his resurrection defense, not as a permission slip for post-mortem rites. The foreword sets the tone: the church is repeatedly tempted to take an obscure phrase, detach it from the whole counsel of God, and construct a “machine” out of it—something impressive and even emotionally appealing, but ultimately replacing Christ and truth with...

In this powerful volume, noted New Testament scholar Robert M. Price engages in serious scrutiny of the beliefs and thinking of genuine Christian theologians and explains why he no longer finds that cardinal Christian claims make enough sense to believe. As he concludes, the gospel proclamation is not a timeless revelation from heaven, but merely Christianity.

THE CONSENSUS How Belief Was Standardized for Empire Power rarely announces itself. It forms through agreement. Through repetition. Through language that feels settled long before it is questioned. The Consensus traces how belief moved from personal conviction to standardized system—how doctrine, ritual, and language were refined, enforced, and scaled to serve empire. Not through spectacle. Through administration. This book does not argue theology. It documents infrastructure. Moving from councils and creeds to enforcement, hierarchy, and distribution, The Consensus follows the quiet ...