In this updated edition, Michael Allen covers the main doctrines of Reformed theology and explains how those doctrines have helped to sustain the Reformed church throughout the years. He makes a clear distinction between "Reformed" and "Reformational", emphasizing both revisionary and conservative trends within the tradition.This edition features updated chapters and whole new sections, such as an analysis of the challenges to earthy eschatology of many influential...

40-40: 40 Years of Career Life Advice in 40 Minutes is over 40 years of succinct insights and career advice packed into one small quick-read book. Short but meaningful tips and explanations on:Project dynamics•Persuasion•Consensus•Conflict•Patterns to achieve success•Detecting false reasoning•Mistakes to avoid•Meeting leadership expectations•Overcoming challenges•Words of encouragement•Wisdom for the long haul

The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Winner – Theological StudiesModern theology claimed that it ignited a renaissance in trinitarian theology. Really, it has been a renaissance in social trinitarianism. Classical commitments like divine simplicity have been jettisoned, the three persons have been redefined as three centers of consciousness and will, and modern agendas in politics, gender, and ecclesiology determine the terms of the discussion. Contemp...

It’s time for Jesus to attempt his second coming, but linear time progression doesn’t apply to extra-spatial deities, so he ends up coming “again” long before the first time – the Jurassic period. Once he arrives, expecting to see a bunch of human beings who’ve been waiting for him for two millennial seasons, he is surprised to find himself in a weird civilization full of thunder lizards.Jesus goes into Predator mode, arming himself to the teeth and slaughtering them wholesale, try...

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and Heidegger but also draws on the pertinent thought of other philosophers whose contributions to the debate is crucial—particularly Rousseau, Kant, and Nietzsche.

Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in Heaven Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on earth.Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future while also appreciating ways in which the Reformed tradition provides a unique angle...

A provocative reassessment of Nietzsche's later writings that explores the political and philosophical significance of the concept of eternal recurrence.In the years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed his masterful Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as well as six additional works that developed a new, more systematic teaching rooted in the idea of the eternal recurrence. Cutting against the grain of current Nietzsche scholarship, Michael Allen Gill...

Sheriff Homer Deters returns in the "delightful" sequel to Death in West Wheeling from the award-winning author of the Caleb and Thinnes mysteries ( Publishers Weekly ).When Sheriff Homer Deters' proposal to his sweetheart is interrupted by the report of a body in a ditch, he discovers the corpse is skeletal and half the town has trampled through the scene.Before the inv...

How far would you go to save your life and your world?After a nasty divorce, single mother Joanne Lessing finally has her life together, and she's made a name for herself as a photographer. Then, while on assignment, she witnesses a hit and run. Property damage only. No big deal, she thinks. So she does the right thing—calls the cops. Joanne is dismayed when FBI agents arrive with the local detective. They admit the hit and run driver was a mob killer fleeing the scene of his latest...

A collection of paintings and poems written from a Christian perspective. This is a discovery of God's eloquence as opposed to the author's feeble words. It is also a journey of the author's pre-Christian poems to becoming a Christian later in life.

Hissy Fitz lives with some two-legged creatures who are destined to serve him in every possible way and understand his every whim. Sadly, these creatures are sorely lacking in their skills. For one thing—they touch him when they want to touch him. Don't they know that the two-legged are there for him to touch when he wants to—meaning when he wants food? Petting wakes him up! They speak to him—don't they know the two-legged should be seen (so Hissy knows where to demand food from) and not h...

"Breakneck pace and solid atmosphere are the hallmarks here." —AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION When a local schoolteacher disappears from rural West Wheeling, acting sheriff Homer Deters investigates. Before long he's got three more missing persons, two unidentified bodies, a car theft, a twenty-three-vehicle pile-up in the center of town, a missing tiger, and a squad of agitated ATF agents to deal with. With no help from the Feds, Homer turns to his buddy, Rye Willis, and West Wheeling's ecc...