Raising Jesus

Life is hard . . . then you die. It’s as simple as that. Dead bodies stay dead. So in this modern, scientific age, how can any reasonable person possibly believe that Jesus actually rose from the dead? Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy turned out to be myths. How is Jesus’s Resurrection any different? How can there possibly be any credible evidence for an event that happened two thousand years ago? The resurrection of Jesus is the most important event in the history of the world—if it’s true. If Jesus did rise, then he is God, the ultimate reality itself. In him, you can find the meaning of life, the secret of happiness, and the way to eternal life. Raising Jesus provides the evidence to show that it really is true. In this era of “alternative facts,” Raising Jesus relies on the most balanced and up-to-date scholarship to shed trustworthy new insights into the evidence. It does this in an easy-to-follow, systematic way using engaging illustrations to reveal the logic of complex arguments. Most importantly, it deals head on with the biggest problem most people in our modern, scientific age have with the resurrection: the philosophical objection that dead people simply don’t come back from the dead. Raising Jesus ultimately shows how believing Jesus rose from the dead is, in fact, the most reasonable conclusion you can make.

Hope and practical help for parents whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God. For Christian parents, there is no greater joy than seeing their children learn to walk with the Lord. And there is no greater fear than that their children will walk away from God. After serving together in pastoral ministry and raising their now-grown children, Phil and Diane Comer know those hopes and fears well. Like all new parents, they were intimidated and unsure about how to take on the task of spiritually training their young children. But now, with all four of their children grown and establishing their own households of faith, Phil and Diane have embarked on a quest to help the next generation of parents raise passionate Jesus followers. Drawing on years of pastoral counseling, teaching, leading, and decades of watching families from the perspective of pastors and leaders in ministry, Phil and Diane instruct, guide, encourage, and offer hope and practical help to Christian parents. Raising Passionate Jesus Followers is a manual full of practical, biblically based, and time-tested guidelines that parents will be able to turn to again and again through every stage of their children's development, including . . . Formulating a plan Laying the foundation, ages 0-5 Doing the framing, ages 6-12 Installing the functional systems, ages 13-17 Completing the finish work, ages 18-22 And keeping the front door open for your grown children

Display H. Norman Wright's newest parenting book, Raising Kids to Love Jesus, alongside seven other classic Christian parenting books in your store. Using the biblical theme, "Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go", this end cap is sure to tap into parents' desire to take a proactive role in raising their children.

Jesus tells his followers to feed the hungry, heal the sick, raise the dead, but often we’ve tamed this calling. Sara Miles, a passionate, funny, undomesticated Christian, tells what happened when she decided to follow Jesus into the messy diversity of human life and do exactly what he asked.

Raising Jesus from the grave changed everything for all people for all time. This most profound act of God sealed a divine trilogy of events which would provide entree to the divine life Jesus previously claimed He would make available. Now seated beside God's throne, Jesus is the first man ever to be born from the realm of the dead. He is referred to as "the second Adam" and as such, is the progenitor of a new race of people who have fled the influence of the first Adam. Now in a flesh-and-bone body, Jesus identifies all who embrace him as of the same origin and therefore are made one with him. In this union is revealed the mystery of God and of the Christ. Indeed, we are now seen from heaven's balcony as the righteousness of God, even as, heaven's citizenry. He is no longer ashamed to be called our God, as one with Christ we have become part of the divine family. A trove of Scripture taken from the original languages and nuanced for proper context reveal the great heart of God as the existent One who will provide for man's atonement, the jealous One who will not share his glory with another and the loving Father who faithfully attends the work of his hands. Sometimes angry, sometimes jealous, but always patient until the fullness of time was come when He would send forth his Son, the only son of God ever to be born of a woman. In his book, Maragia challenges all who are dissatisfied with religion's paradigms to look beyond contemporary apologetics that view Biblical Psychology as a panacea. He marks the seating of Christ as the event that triggered the promise of God to indwell a tribe of people, about whom he said, "I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and a Father to them, and they shall be my sons and daughters." From the time the breath of the Almighty filled the lungs of the first man, the great Jehovah has shown his desire be intimate with the work of his hands. Raising Jesus is God's backstory to everything we aspire to be. Raising Jesus from the grave changed everything for all people for all time. This most profound act of God sealed a divine trilogy of events which would provide entree to the divine life Jesus previously claimed He would make available. Now seated beside God's throne, Jesus is the first man ever to be born from the realm of the dead. He is referred to as "the last Adam" and as such, is the progenitor of a new race of people who have fled the influence of the first. Now in a flesh-and-bone body and seated at the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens, the exalted Lord Jesus identifies all who embrace him as, of the same origin as he and therefore, are now one with him. In this union is revealed the mystery of God and Father and of the Christ. Indeed, we are seen from heaven's balcony as the righteous of God, even as heaven's citizenry. He is no longer ashamed to be called our God. We, as one with Christ, have become family. Scores of Scripture taken from the original languages and nuanced for context reveal the great heart of God as the existent One who will provide for man's atonement, the jealous One who will not share his glory with another and, the loving Father who faithfully attends the work of his hands. Sometimes angry, sometimes jealous but always patient until the fullness of time was come when He would send forth his Son, the only son of God ever to be born of a woman. In his book, Maragia challenges all who are dissatisfied with the religious paradigms of this age to look beyond contemporary apologetics that view Biblical Psychology as a panacea. He marks the seating of Christ as the event that triggered the promise of God to indwell a tribe of people about whom he said, "I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and a Father to them, and they shall be my sons and daughters." From the time the breath of the Almighty filled the lungs of the first man, the great Jehovah's desire was to have intimacy with the work of his hands. “Raising Jesus” is God's backstory to everything we aspire to be.

Jesus truly is alive today. But compared to his atoning death, Jesus' resurrection sparks relatively little discussion in the church. Inadvertently,we can become so focused on the good news that Christ died for our sins, that we almost forget he was "raised for our justification" (Romans 4:25). In Raised with Christ, author Adrian Warnock exhorts Christians not to neglect the resurrection in their teaching and experience. Warnock takes his cue from Acts, where every recorded sermon focuses on Jesus' resurrection. He stresses that Christians who faithfully proclaim both the death and the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and live out the implications of that message in vibrant,grace-filled churches, will be enabled to reach a world that lives in death's dark shadow. The power of the risen Christ is active in every true Christian, transforming our lives. Raised with Christ will help you discover afresh the massive implications of the empty tomb. Jesus' resurrection really has changed everything.

Who was St. Joseph? Was he just a passive, incidental figure in the drama of salvation? On the contrary, in every way that Jesus needed a father, St. Joseph was that for him. And how overwhelming it must have been for Joseph to be asked to stand in the Father's place! No man has ever been asked to do so in such an unthinkable way. Every priest, and certainly every man who is a father (biologically or otherwise), should take this to heart. Caster's book provides a unique, in-depth presentation of Joseph from the perspective of the evangelical counsels and the theological and cardinal virtues. Each section begins with an explanation of what each counsel or virtue means and then shows how Joseph models it for us. The descriptions of St. Joseph's life and character found in this book, while rooted in the Scripture passages that mention him, are chiefly inspired by Jesus, who spent the majority of his life at home with Joseph and Mary. For years, the three of them lived, prayed, celebrated, studied, and shared, all the while uniting their lives more intimately with God's own. Those years in Nazareth were a real preparation for the foundation upon which Jesus would build his saving ministry. And as much as Joseph and Mary offered Jesus, he offered them an ever-expanding awareness of the God that had changed both their lives. The reciprocity of love that perfectly defines the home in Nazareth is the very pattern for all family life--and therefore of the Church itself. Let Fr. Gary Caster introduce you to the man who risked everything to care for Mary and her Son, safeguarding them from harm and cherishing them with a pure and true love. Joseph was a flesh-and-blood testimony of what it means to live according to the Father's will with one's mind and heart centered on Christ.

What does it mean to affirm that Jesus "descended into hell?" What actually happened to Jesus between Good Friday and Easter? Was this "descent" part of his suffering or part of his triumph? And why does it matter today?With a theologian's research, a pastor's heart and a poet's sensibility, Gerrit Dawson explores the answers given through the centuries to these questions. By using a narrative approach, Dawson achieves a unique synthesis of previously competing views. He shows that the ancient idea of the harrowing of hell, the Reformed view of "hell on the cross" and the 20th century recognition of the darkness of Holy Saturday can all work together. Far from being a discardable doctrine, the descent offers a unique window on the person and work of Christ, one we urgently need to open for the worship and mission of the Church today.