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Mission Vision in Action: Perspectives on Global Missiology: A Festschrift Honoring the Life, Work, and Global Ministry of Bruce L. Bauer
Wagner Kuhn and Boubakar Sanou
Festschrift is a German word for a celebratory publication recognizing the lifetime contributions of a professor. In it are essays from colleagues, former students, and friends relating to the honoree’s work or interests. This Festschrift highlights in many ways how Bruce has successfully stimulated the personal, spiritual, and professional growth of countless people around the globe.The papers in this Festschrift on global missiology are written by a wide range of colleagues, friends, and former students.
From differing perspectives, each chapter recounts an aspect of Bruce Bauer’s story as a dedicated and selfless mentor, educator, and missionary. Also, much can be learned from each author’s tribute expressing either their meaningful interaction with Bruce or life-changing encounters with him. As a whole, the volume acknowledges and pays tribute to his inspiration, hard work, great intellectual contribution, and foresight in global mission thinking and strategy. -
El Fin Está Cerca: Una Mirada a las Profecías Bíblicas
Jiří Moskala, S. Yeury Ferreira, and Joel Iparraguirre
Los eventos finales de la historia de este mundo estan captando la atención de millones de seres humanos. Sin embargo, son muchas las interpretaciones sensacionalistas existentes. Este libro presenta una exposición biblica-teologica de los eventos que ocurrían antes del segundo advenimiento de Cristo en gloria y majestad.
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Essays on American Religious History
Trevor O'Reggio
I have brought together six published and unpublished articles that covers a variety of issues relative to American religious history. These essays are my personal reflections on theological and historical issues over the last few years of my teaching on the course: History of Religion in America at the SDA Seminary of Andrews University.
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Andrews Bible Commentary: New Testament
Ángel Manuel Rodríguez, Daniel Kwame Bediako, Carl P. Cosaert, and Gerald A. Klingbeil
The Andrews Bible Commentary is written by 60 leading biblical scholars from around the world. It is designed for new believers, experienced Bible students, pastors, and teachers. Its purpose is to trace the blessed hope (Titus 2:13) in the pages of Scripture and to read all of the Bible in the light of that hope. What does the Bible say to believers who, with both longing and joy, anticipate the return of Jesus? Answering that question is at the heart of the Andrews Bible Commentary, which seeks to instruct and inspire all into a stronger personal relationship with God that focuses our worship on Jesus as Savior and Lord.
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The Genesis Creation Account and Its Reverberations in the New Testament
Thomas R. Shepherd
When the first two chapters of Genesis say that God created our world and the human race in a particular way, did the Bible really mean that? If not, can it really mean what it says about everything else, particularly the grand themes of redemption and eschatology? In this companion volume to one published about creation in the Old Testament, fifteen scholars carry the question into the New Testament. This work provides a detailed cultural, historical, and theological background to the topic and section-by-section exegetical studies of how the creation theme is illuminated by the various New Testament writers. So is creation and the creation account of Genesis 1 and 2 a major theme in the New Testament? This volume answers that question with a resounding “yes.”
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Adventist Mission in China in Historical Perspective
David J. B. Trim
Adventist Mission in China in Historical Perspective presents a concise history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in China. While the book primarily details the major developments taking place at the administrative and institutional levels of the mission work in the Far East alongside accompanying statistics, it also highlights the contributions of its most prominent leaders within their secular historical contexts. As such, it offers a fresh synthetic account of the work in China not detailed elsewhere. It is the hope of the author that the history presented may both serve to inspire today's and tomorrow's leaders that God has surely been at the helm of the work in a challenging field, while also pointing out how certain developmental trends that have taken place may have hindered or not advanced our mission as rapidly as we all might desire.
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Jesus and the Nations: Discipleship and Mission in the Gospel of Matthew
Cedric E. W. Vine
Jesus’s command to disciple all the nations in Matt 28:19 has provided a powerful catalyst for cross-cultural mission for the past two thousand years. But what does this command mean in the context of Matthew’s narrative? Cedric E. W. Vine proposes an understanding of Matthean discipleship and mission that builds on Richard Bauckham’s open-audience thesis in The Gospels for All Christians (1998) and his own The Audience of Matthew (2014).
Vine argues from a biblical theology perspective that Matthew’s pervasive and consistent application of the nation-directed identities of prophet, righteous person, student-teacher, wise man, and scribe to the followers of Jesus reveals a concern less with defining community boundaries or promoting “church growth” and more with casting a powerful vision of nations transformed through the acceptance of the sovereignty of the risen king.
Matthew’s missiological horizon stretches well beyond defending, as suggested by some commentators, an inferred first-century Matthean community in an acrimonious intramural dispute with other Jewish groups. Rather, Matthew prepares his readers, first century and later, through a multifaceted and nuanced theology of discipleship, for participation in a missiological movement that is national in its focus, breathtaking in its scope, eschatological in its significance, and open in its appeal. -
Mending Ministers on their Wellness Journey: Insights from Research on Pastor Health
Ivan Williams, Petr Činčala, and René Drumm
No preacher is going to raise their hand to say, "I need help."
Seventh-day Adventist pastors face challenges with health and wellness, even with a beautiful whole-life health message ingrained in our faith tradition. We also live with the challenges of resilience, depression, selfcare, wholeness, mental health, imbalance, stress, burnout, and emotional intelligence. Awareness and understanding of these personal and interpersonal issues are critically related to ministry impact and missional outcomes.
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‘We aim at nothing less than the whole world’: The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Missionary Enterprise and the General Conference Secretariat, 1863–2019
Ashlee L. Chism, David Trim, and Michael F. Younker
The subject of this book is how the Seventh-day Adventist Church organized for missionary purposes, in order to carry the gospel to the world, and the structures the denomination put in place to be able to send help to foreign fields. The zeal of pioneer Adventist missionaries and those who came after them is part of the story related in this short book. Yet, it tells not the personal stories of outstanding missionaries, but rather the story of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s formal efforts to organize global missions; the story told here, then, is the collective, shared, Adventist story.
Accordingly, the present goal is more modest than a comprehensive history of the global mission enterprise. It is a study of how the Adventist Church, corporately and collectively, organized itself to manage a global missionary enterprise—and did so with considerable success—before, in the last half century, the very organizational structures set up for that purpose gradually came to focus on other matters. Alongside that shift, not coincidentally the number of missionaries deployed internationally and cross-culturally went into a decades-long decline; recent signs suggest that trend has been arrested, but has it been reversed, or will the 2010s prove to be merely a blip? The future of the Seventh-day Adventist global mission enterprise awaits the decisions of today's and tomorrow's Adventist leaders and members. -
Dios proveerá: El diezmo, la ofrenda y nuestra vida espiritual
Felix Cortez
Dios proveerá recopila, organiza y presenta en forma sencilla, clara y honesta, os principios bíblicos sobre los cuales se fundamentan la naturaleza, práctica y uso del diezmo y las ofrendas en la iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día. También contiene estudios sobre asuntos relacionados con la posición de Elena de White, el reglamento adventista sobre el uso del diezmo y una reflexión sobre la promesa de Dios en Malaquías 3:8–12. Esta obra es una guía práctica y breve de lo que la Biblia dice respecto a los diezmos y las ofrendas, y cómo estos impactan la calidad de nuestra vida espiritual.
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In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews
Felix Cortez
Like many believers today, the original recipients of the letter known as Hebrews were spiritually exhausted; fatigue and malaise had taken hold and they had started to drift away from God. Perhaps we, too, need a fresh view of the Son of God, the powerful Ruler and Intercessor who sits at the right hand of God? Like a precious gem, the New Testament book of Hebrews is rare, enigmatic, and exceptional. If you’re ready to see a clearer and deeper vision of Jesus, turn off the bad news and dive into a study of this epic letter for the last days.
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Eschatology from an Adventist Perspective: Proceedings of the Fourth International Bible Conference, Rome, June 11-20, 2018
Elias Brasil de Souza, A. Rahel Wells, László Gallusz, and Denis Kaiser
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Fuga De Babilonia: Uma História de Salvação nas Ruas de Bagdá
S. Joseph Kidder
odos falavam comigo ao mesmo tempo.
- Como você pode fazer isso? - meu pai gritou.
- Sim, você é louco! - um dos meus tios gritou.
- Você está envergonhando nossa família - esbravejou minha mãe.
Havia pessoas gritando comigo de todas as direções enquanto meus pais e parentes tentavam me convencer a abandonar minha nova fé.
- Como você pode querer ser adventista do sétimo dia? Essa religião é uma seita.
- É uma religião judia!
- Onde você está com a cabeça?
Eu fiquei parado, confuso e sob toda aquela grande tensão. Finalmente, quando meu pai pensou que não estava chegando a lugar nenhum comigo e que eu não mudaria de ideia, ele tirou os sapatos, jogou-os em mim e cuspiu em mim. Vendo isso, meu primo Basher - de quem eu era muito próximo - sentiu que era seu dever me colocar no eixo. Então, ele e um dos meus irmãos me agarraram pelos braços, me levantaram e começaram a me bater. Enquanto eles me batiam, me empurravam em todas as direções.
Assim começou sua longa jornada da Babilônia de sua vida secular no Iraque para o incrível amor de Deus. Quando ele aceitou os planos divinos para sua vida, não sabia das muitas lutas e sacrifícios que o aguardavam, mas a oração, a fé nas Escrituras e o apoio de sua nova família da igreja o levariam a uma vida de mistério e serviço que continua até hoje. -
Rest in Christ: Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide: Teacher's Edition
Gerald Klingbeil and Chantal J. Klingbeil
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Rest in Christ: Companion Volume to Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide
Gerald Klingbeil and Chantal J. Klingbeil
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Deuteronomy: The Book of Love
Jiří Moskala
The book of Deuteronomy belongs with the most significant literature in the Hebrew Scriptures because it systematically shapes and articulates the faith of God’s people in a living God. It is a literary masterpiece, a jewel, and the Magna Carta of Israel’s teaching. This well-organized manual of faith is the religious constitution for God’s people, climaxing the Pentateuch and crowning the Torah with a comprehensive overview of the divine law of God.
In Deuteronomy: The Book of Love by Dr. Jirí Moskala, you will- learn to recognize streams of thinking through history,
- see the Lord as humanity’s personal God,
- examine the literary form of a covenant,
- explore the relationship between fear and love, and
- delve into the bond between the Sabbath and social justice and so much more.
Through this beautiful book of love, discover God’s passion for His people, and learn how to love, admire, obey, worship, serve, fear, and follow the Lord out of gratitude for who He is, what He has done, is doing, and will do.
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Qualitative Research for Practical Theology
David K. Penno, Safary Wa-Mbaleka, Pavel Zubkov, and Petr Činčala
