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Great Books for Christian Counseling and Marriage

Dr. Clinton’s top Christian Counseling resources

Take a look at these three counseling books recommended by the president of the American Association of Christian Counselors:

Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide

This proven guide in pastoral counseling has been extensively expanded and revised by the author to include recent developments and research, new resources, and attention to newly urgent needs such as AIDS, eating disorders, homosexuality, and violence. Written with clarity and sensitivity, this volume builds on biblical foundations and the best resources of professional psychology. It reflects the insights the author has gained from many years of Christian counseling. Dr. Bob Kellemen says, “the text now stands as a classic and one historical researchers will cull for years to come.”

Get Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide.

The Quick-Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling

Hurting people need help. But sometimes those who are faced with helping the hurting could use a little more information about the problems people bring to them. The Quick-Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling provides the answers.

This A–Z guide gives pastors, counselors, and everyday believers the information they need to help congregants, clients, and friends in a wide array of situations.

Get The Quick-Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling.

Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires, the Respect He Desperately Needs

Based upon Ephesians 5:33 and extensive biblical and psychological research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the power of unconditional love and unconditional respect and how husbands and wives can reap the benefits of marriage that God intended.

Get Love and Respect.

Learn more about atonement

In Introducing Bible Doctrine III: Humanity, Sin, and Salvation, Dr. Carl Sanders and Dr. Ronn Johnson discuss the theological importance of humanity’s creation in the image of God, separation from a relationship with God because of sin, biblical concepts of atonement and justification, and the ultimate destiny of believers. The course also considers theological approaches to related issues such as corporate human relationships, gender, race, and the value of work.

Together, these two professors want you to:

  • Be familiar with how theology informs our understanding of humanity and human relationships
  • Grasp the impact of sin on the relationship between God and humankind
  • Be able to think theologically about humanity’s estranged relationship to God
  • Understand God’s plan for human salvation
  • Understand the consistency between the OT and NT concepts of salvation
  • Be familiar with various views of the atonement
  • Understand God’s goal in glorification of those humans who embrace his salvation

Get Introducing Bible Doctrine III: Humanity, Sin, and Salvation.

Check out the Tyndale Commentaries

The Tyndale Commentary Series has long been a trusted resource for Bible study. Written by some of the world’s most distinguished evangelical scholars, each book offers clear, reliable, and relevant expositions.

Craig Blomberg says, “The Tyndale volumes have long been the premier shorter-length commentary series on both Testaments throughout the English-speaking world.” The series is designed to help the reader understand what the Bible says and what it means. The introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting and purpose. Following a structural analysis, the commentary takes the book section-by-section, drawing out its main themes. Each volume also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. The aim throughout is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.

Get Tyndale Commentaries today!

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Digital Ministry Step 4: Social Media

Rediscover The Original Jesus

From hit songs to bumper stickers to football eye-black, Jesus is trending high wherever you look. But at the end of the day, many “try Jesus” and come away disappointed in the experience. That’s because the Jesus of popular culture looks much more like us than the God-man who appeared in the flesh two thousand years ago. We’ve developed plenty of imposter Jesuses that feed into our selfish desires—Guru Jesus, Braveheart Jesus, Dr. Phil Jesus, Free-Range Jesus. The problem is, they don’t have the power to save us or transform us into new creations.

The Original Jesus calls us back to the Jesus who demands our worship—the potter who molds us, the clay. Seekers, skeptics, and sojourners in the way of faith will see Jesus for who he really is: God in the flesh, calling us to surrender our very lives that we may truly live.

Preorder The Original Jesus today!

Establish your church’s social media presence

Did you know that you can see reviews of a church on Google Maps or Yelp? Have you considered what new people might find your church through a friend’s social media? How often have you talked about “reaching people where they are” and realized that much of the time, they are on the internet?

The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication is for Christians who are advocates of social media and who want to learn about how to use these technologies to further the Kingdom of God. Justin Wise speaks about social media as this generation’s printing press—a revolutionary technology that can spread the gospel further and faster than we can imagine.

Get The Social Church today! You can also connect with @JustinWise on Twitter.

Get the Baker Commentary on Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms

The Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms is tailored to the distinctness of poetry and Wisdom literature. It provides students and pastors with a careful reading of the text and its theological implications. These volumes include:

  • Emphasis on the message of the biblical book
  • Special attention to poetic structure and literary devices
  • Incisive comments based on the author’s translation of the Hebrew text
  • Exegetical rigor, incorporating linguistic, historical, and canonical insights
  • Closing reflections on each section that explore the text’s theological dimensions
  • Textual notes that provide resources for advanced readers

The commentaries in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series are both scholarly and readable, presenting a theological, historical, and applicable survey of the riches of Wisdom literature. In the Logos edition, each Scripture passage links to your favorite translation and is easy to study side-by-side with your other commentaries. You can search by topic or Scripture with split-second results!

Get the Baker Commentary on Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms.

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How to Explore the Dead Sea Scrolls with Logos

Start your own Pauline studies

“On the Spirit and the Letter”
Dr. Stephen Chester says one of the tracts that has affected his own studies the most is Augustine’s On the Spirit and the Letter. You can find this tract within the Early Church Fathers Protestant Edition. For decades, the historic American edition of the writings of the Early Church Fathers translated into English has made a major contribution to students of Christian history, philosophy, and theology. The Logos edition of the ECF provides the interactive links between text, footnotes, Bible references and hundreds of Bibles and Bible reference books available in digital format.

Add Early Church Fathers Protestant Edition to your library.

The Freedom of a Christian: Lutheran Study Edition
Perhaps no work of Martin Luther’s so captures the revolutionary zeal and theological boldness of his vision as The Freedom of a Christian. Yet, it is not easily accessible today. Mark Tranvik’s new translation of Luther’s treatise brings alive the social, historical, and ecclesial context of Luther’s treatise. This is the first of a set of student guides to key Reformation treatises by Martin Luther, concentrating on those most widely used in college settings.

Get The Freedom of a Christian: Luther Study Edition today.

The Saving Righteousness of God
The Apostle Paul is the most notable Christian missionary and perhaps the most influential New Testament author. The greatest theologians in the church’s history—Augustine, Calvin, Luther, Karl Barth, and others—have repeatedly turned to Paul, and the central doctrines of the church hinge on the theology found in Paul’s writings. Yet in recent decades, disputes over the historicity of Paul’s letters and the emergence of the New Perspective have led scholars to reevaluate central Pauline texts, leading to controversy, dispute, and a fractured understanding of Paul’s intent.

Get The Saving Righteousness of God today.

Dig into the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of about 1000 documents averaging about 2000 years old, mostly found in caves near Khirbet Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea, between 1946 and 1956. The Dead Sea Scrolls are primarily religious documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and some Greek. They represent some of the most significant sources for understanding Judaism in the Second Temple Period, the era that also produced the New Testament. The Scrolls are cited in many, if not most, modern Bible commentaries.

Get Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts today.

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Recommended Books from Justin Wise

Establish your church’s social media presence

Did you know that you can see reviews of a church on Google Maps or Yelp? Have you considered what new people might find your church through a friend’s social media? How often have you talked about “reaching people where they are” and realized that much of the time, they are on the internet?

The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication is for Christians who are advocates of social media and who want to learn about how to use these technologies to further the Kingdom of God. Justin Wise speaks about social media as this generation’s printing press—a revolutionary technology that can spread the gospel further and faster than we can imagine.

Get The Social Church today! You can also connect with @JustinWise on Twitter or at JustinWise.net.

Related video: Digital Ministry Step 1: The Big Idea.

Get Dr. Heiser’s new book, The Unseen Realm!

The psalmist declared that God presides over an assembly of divine beings (Psa. 82:1). Who are they? What does it mean when those beings participate in God’s decisions (1 Kings 22:19–23)? Why wasn’t Eve surprised when the serpent spoke to her? Why are Yahweh and his Angel fused together in Jacob’s prayer (Gen. 48:15–16)? How did descendants of the Nephilim (Gen. 6:4) survive the flood (Num. 13:33)? What are we to make of Peter and Jude’s belief in imprisoned spirits (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6)? Why does Paul describe evil spirits in terms of geographical rulership (thrones, principalities, rulers, authorities)? Who are the “glorious ones” that even angels dare not rebuke (2 Pet. 2:10–11)?

The Unseen Realm presents the fruit of Dr. Heiser’s fifteen years of research into what the Bible really says about the unseen world of the supernatural. His goal is to help readers view the biblical text unfiltered by tradition or by theological presuppositions. “People shouldn’t be protected from the Bible,” Dr. Heiser says. But theological systems often do just that, by “explaining away” difficult or troublesome passages of Scripture because their literal meaning doesn’t fit into our tidy systems.

Get The Unseen Realm right now, or learn more about the book here.

Check out Logos Lutheran

Take your study to the next level with a world-class library of Lutheran resources and powerful Logos 8 tools, like Factbook, Cultural Concepts, and Inline Search.

Browse Lutheran base packages today.