A rich resource for renewing the practice of the sacraments in a way that encourages faithful discipleship in a hostile cultural environment.
As evangelicals and other Christians continue the renewal and deepening of their practice of the sacraments, Enter the Water, Come to the Table provides an accessible study. It explores the meaning and practice of baptism and the Lord's supper through the lens of the biblical story's movement from creation to new creation.
Rooting this sacramental journey in the Exodus of Israel, this book shows how Jesus inaugurates a new Exodus from old creation into new creation. Jesus' own baptism and table fellowship with his disciples embody the kingdom of God as new creation realities. And in light of Jesus' death and resurrection, baptism and the Lord's supper not only promise a future but they mediate a transforming experience of new life now.

Enter the Water, Come to the Table: Baptism and Lord's Supper in the Bible's Story of New Creation

Religion & Spirituality

John Mark Hicks

Christian Books & Bibles

Abilene Christian University Press

As a companion volume to COME TO THE TABLE and DOWN IN THE RIVER TO PRAY, this book completes a trilogy on the three ordinances; of the Stone-Campbell Movement. A GATHERED PEOPLE is an in-depth biblical, historical, and theological study of the Christian assembly or Lord's Day. It examines Hebrew assemblies in the Old Testament, Christian assemblies in the NT, the changing nature of assemblies in Christian history, and the assembly in the Stone-Campbell heritage. It concludes with a theological argument about the nature and purpose of the assembly, and reflections on Christian assemblies today. Alexander Campbell taught that there were three ordinances in the Christian faith ... The Lord's Supper, Baptism and the Lord's Day. This series revisions those ordinances and helps us better understand our relationship to our Father God. The other two books of this series are: Come to the Table: Revisioning the Lord's Supper by John Mark Hicks and Down in the River to Pray: Revisioning Baptism as God s Transforming Power by John Mark Hicks and Greg Taylor.

A Gathered People: Revisioning the Assembly as Transforming Encounter

Bobby Valentine

Johnny Melton

Leafwood Publishers

How can wounded people come to believe that God deeply loves them? 
Many have enjoyed William Young's The Shack, even if they puzzled over the book's actual meaning and theology. While some were quick to dismiss it as fiction, The Shack isn't really fiction at all. It's a modern day parable. 
Meeting God at The Shack shows hurting people how to read this story with profit and come to know God more fully.

Meeting God at The Shack: A Journey Into Spiritual Recovery

Baptism is more important than you think. But not for the reasons you suppose.
Combining careful Bible study with enlightening historical survey and practical suggestions, this book provides a rich resource for deepening and renewing a central practice of the Christian faith.

Down in the River to Pray (Revised Edition)

Greg Taylor

Part of living in a fallen world is that each of us will have to cope with suffering. While there are different types of coping skills, there are foundational truths that minister to the broken heart and the hurting soul. John Mark Hicks provides us with a personal glimpse at suffering in his life and how healing can come to sufferers when they are reminded of who God is and what he as done! "Anchors for the Soul" not only addresses the effects of suffering for the individual bu suffering and its effects on the community of believers. "God loves. God listens. God understands. God rules. God wins. This is the ground and substance of faith. It enables us to endure suffering, and it empowers faith. It is the substance of God's story among his people, and God's story gives faith its confidence." "Anchors for the Soul" is a small group study based on Dr. Hicks's popular work, "Yet Will I Trust Him" frm College Press Publishing, 1999.

Anchors for the Soul: Trusting God in the Storms of Life

College Press Publishing Company, Inc.

A biblically rich and engaging invitation to a deeper understanding of and the participation in the Lord's Supper.

Come to the Table: Revisioning the Lord's Supper

Book by John Mark Hicks, Bobby Valentine

Kingdom Come: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of David Lipscomb and James Harding

Anchors for the Soul: How to Trust God in the Storms of Life

ANCHOR YOUR FAITH IN THE STORY OF GOD BEFORE-AND DURING-THE STORMS Drawing on his own experiences with losses and tragedies through the death of his young wife and, more recently, the death of his sixteen-year-old son, John Mark hicks tells the story of God through his own experiences of suffering. He does not explain suffering because, as he describes, that cannot be done; rather, he walks with sufferers through the valley of loss. He grounds them deeply in the story of God's love, listening, empathy, sovereignty, and victory. This path is not only for those who seek to persevere in the midst of their suffering but also for those who want to prepare for the suffering that comes to all. In addition to helping sufferers, John Mark provides guidance for those who want to sit with people who are suffering. He offers advice to help comforters provide comfort. There are no easy answers. Our questions, in fact, are never fully answered. Despite this, however, there is a path of assurance, comfort, and trust that yields perseverance, peace and hope. The "anchors" are found in God, who <ul> <li>loves us</li> <li>listens to us</li> <li>empathizes with us</li> <li>gives meaning to our suffering</li> <li>ultimately triumphs over all suffering</li> </ul> These anchors ground us in God's redemptive story. JOHN MARK HICKS has taught at institu-tions affiliated with Churches of Christ since 1982, including Harding School of Theology from 1991 to 2000 and Lipscomb University from 2000 to the present, where he is currently a professor of Theology. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and contributed articles to several books and peri-odicals, both academic and popular. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Jennifer, and together they share five living children and two deceased. They also have six grandchildren.

Self-Help

Death & Grief

HIM Publications

Broken trust is not the end. 
Have you ever felt like Job, watching God cure, calm, and care for others, while you remain crumpled on the floor looking for God in the darkness? 
In Surrendering to Hope, you'll find fifteen stories of heartbreak and tragedy told with unflinching honesty--brutal deaths of loved ones, chronic illness, mental and sexual abuse, divorce, as well as struggles with same sex attraction, dealing with the trauma of combat loss, and living under racial oppression. But the real story of Surrendering to Hope is that every story is God's story. Despite brokenness and suffering, God is lovingly, powerfully present in every life. He invites each of us to lean on him in trust and begin a journey towards peace.

Surrendering to Hope: Guidance for the Broken

Christine Parker

Biographies & Memoirs

Across the West, Christianity is in numerical decline. Programs and plans that have long been considered successful are faltering. Even worse, Christians are not talking about Jesus. In order to move forward, the church needs a renewed emphasis on intentional discipleship. But discipleship is not a program-it requires healthy theology. Discipleship in Community will show you how reframing central theological ideas, like Trinity, and practices, like baptism and the Lord's Supper, can lead you into a deeper relationship with God and others. Book jacket.

Discipleship in Community: A Theological Vision for the Future

Mark E. Powell

Greg McKinzie

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