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Reformed Forum Podcasts with P&R Authors

Both Aimee Byrd (Housewife Theologian) and Barbara Duguid (Extravagant Grace) have been interviewed on Reformed Forum with panel Camden Bucey, Nancy Guthrie, and Melissa Kruger.

Recap of August and September Released Titles

Here at P&R Publishing we release an average of 3 to 4 new titles per month. I thought it would be beneficial to recap the new titles that were released in August and September, since there were 15 new titles released in those 2 months. To learn more about a specific title, click on the title to be directed to our website. Also, make sure to check out sample chapters, table of contents, and even videos that some of the books have available.

1. Extravagant Grace: God’s Glory Displayed in Our Weakness
Author: Barbara R. Duguid
*THIS BOOK IS ALREADY ON ITS SECOND PRINTING!
Released: 8/16/13
Price: $12.99
Pages: 240
Sample Chapter
Table of Contents
Summary: Barbara Duguid uses the writings of John Newton to help us understand why even mature Christians can’t seem to shake off sin—and to make us joyous once again at God’s extravagant grace.
2. Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary
Author: Aimee Byrd
Released: 8/16/13
Price: $12.99
Pages: 240
Sample Chapter
Table of Contents
Video
Summary: Women who want God to be more than superficially in their lives can rise above the world’s expectations by becoming housewife theologians—finding true meaning and true worship every day. Great for journaling and for group discussion.

3. Christian Interpretations of Genesis 1
Author: Vern S. Poythress
Released: 8/16/13
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: Several interpretations of Genesis and scientific evidence endeavor to demonstrate harmony: among them young-earth creationism, mature creation, the day-age theory, the analogical-day theory, and the framework hypothesis. Vern Poythress explores which is best.
4. Christianity and the Role of Philosophy
Author: K. Scott Oliphint
Released: 8/16/2013
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 40
Summary: “The role of philosophy must be subservient to theology,” says Scott Oliphint, who demonstrates that it is only when we begin with God and his Word that we engage in true philosophy.
5. Should You Believe in God?
Author: K. Scott Oliphint
Released: 8/16/2013
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: People increasingly demonstrate a disbelief in God. In a conversational style, apologist Scott Oliphint discusses why belief is still a preferable and more coherent position than unbelief and answers common objections to Christian belief.

6. Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
Authors: Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W. Richards
Released: 8/16/13
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: What are creationism, evolution, and intelligent design really about? Has materialism displaced God as the best explanation for our existence? Jay Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez serve up a guide for the perplexed.
7. Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin?
Author: Brandon D. Crowe
Released: 8/16/2013
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Summary: Do you know why the virgin birth of Christ is a significant doctrine? Brandon Crowe considers seven objections to the virgin birth and investigates the relevant biblical texts.
8. The Morality of God in the Old Testament
Author: G. K. Beale
Released: 8/16/13
Series: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
Price: $4.99
Pages: 48
Summary: Can God be morally good if he commanded the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites? Beale tackles troubling passages in the Old Testament to show that Scripture can be true and God still good.

9. The Unfolding Mystery (2d. ed.): Discovering Christ in the Old Testament
Author: Edmund P. Clowney
Released: 8/16/2013
Price: $12.99
Pages: 224
Sample Chapter
Table of Contents
Summary: Beginning with Adam and Eve and closing with the last of the prophets, Dr. Clowney takes a fascinating walk through the Old Testament, revealing Christ in places where he is usually overlooked.
10. Scripture Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine (Paperback Edition)
Author: R. C. Sproul
Released: 9/3/13
Price: $14.99
Pages: 216
Sample Chapter
Table of Contents
Summary: R. C. Sproul was a leader in the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (1977–1987) and wrote extensively on the subject. Not all this material is in print, and no volume before Scripture Alone has ever collected his best writings on this doctrine.

11. What Is the Bible?
Author: Guy Prentiss Waters
Released: 9/4/13
Series: Basics of the Faith
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Sample Chapter
Summary: Waters defines important terms—“revelation,” “inspiration,” and “inerrancy”—clearing away misconceptions, equipping us to understand and answer leading objections to the doctrine of the Bible, and explaining its importance for Christian living.
12. What Is the Incarnation?
Author: William B. Evans
Released: 9/4/13
Series: Basics of the Faith
Price: $4.99
Pages: 32
Sample Chapter
Video
Summary: It’s something we celebrate every Christmas, but the truths of the incarnation should impact our lives every day. Evans explores Christ becoming man from many perspectives, reviews objections, and provides satisfying biblical answers and explanations.
13. Reclaiming Monergism: The Case for Sovereign Grace in Effectual Calling and Regeneration (A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy)
Author: Matthew Barrett
EBOOK Only
Released: 9/13/2013
Summary: This e-book is the original dissertation on which Matthew Barrett’s book Salvation by Grace: The Case for Effectual Calling and Regeneration is based. It includes chapters on the history of the monergism-synergism debate; more extensive chapters representing and critiquing synergism; appendixes on the love of God, the will of God, and the relationship between effectual calling and regeneration in the Reformed tradition; as well as an extensive bibliography.

14. Prodigal Press: Confronting the Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media (Revised and Updated)
Authors: Marvin Olasky and Warren Cole Smith
Released: 9/18/13
Price: $17.99
Pages: 368
Sample Chapter
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Summary: Despite claiming to be neutral, print and TV journalists increasingly report news from an anti-Christian standpoint. Remarkably, however, leading nineteenth-century newspapers reported news from a Christian perspective. This book reveals how the American news media shifted from a Christian worldview to secular humanism, radically altering what the media covers and how it is reported.
15. Letters to Pastors’ Wives: When Seminary Ends and Ministry Begins
Editor: Catherine J. Stewart
Released: 9/19/13
Price: $14.99
Pages: 288
Sample Chapter
Table of Contents
Summary: Although their calling is joyous, pastors’ wives encounter special challenges because of the nature of their husbands’ work. These letters from the wives of experienced and well-known pastors provide empathy, wise counsel, and encouragement.

 

Living Story series by Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage

Scripture calls us to learn and rehearse God’s story of grace, because doing so calls us to live a life of faith, hope, and love – the essence of worship.

These Living Story Bible studies aim to bring the transforming power of the gospel to bear on your life. As you interact with this material, we hope you will experience the freedom to live in God’s story of grace with deeper faith, greater hope, and more passionate love. The format is designed to take you into the grand narrative of Scripture, your story, and others’ stories by giving you opportunities to pray and live what you are studying. The following sections are found in each chapter to help you go deeper:

Engaging Scripture: Here you will focus on a passage or story from Scripture and answer questions for insight, reflection, and discussion. This draws us to worship God and follow Christ.

Theological Theme: This section discusses a theme that God consistently reveals through Scripture.

Entering Your Story: This section takes the passage and shifts the focus to what God is writing in your story. Here you will be given opportunities to wrte and tell your story.

Living Story: This section invites you to reflect on how you will live out the gospel in the topic being explored.

Praying Story: The final section offers an opportunity to write or say prayers regarding the story.

 

1. Learning God’s Story of Grace

ISBN: 978-1-59638-243-5

Released: 5/27/2011

Page Count: 128

Price: $12.99

Spiral

SAMPLE CHAPTER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

An introduction to the grand story of Scripture. Learn how shalom, the ultimate peace was wrecked, restored, and will finally reign supreme—and how your own life story fits and finds meaning in it all.

 

2. Living God’s Story of Grace

ISBN: 978-1-59638-439-2

Released: 6/25/2012

Page Count: 144

Price: $12.99

Spiral

SAMPLE CHAPTER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VIDEO

An encouraging, vital study of the redemption stories in Scripture. If you have already learned God’s story of grace, find out what it means to live in his story in faith and hope.

 

3. Loving in God’s Story of Grace

To be released: Spring 2014

 

 

 

Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage is the founder of Living Story LLC and Redeemed Hearts Ministry and shares her deep passion for God’s story of grace through conferences, curriculum-writing, and coaching.

Check out Elizabeth’s Living Story website:

http://www.livingstorygrace.com/our-story/elizabeth-turnage/

 

 

 

 

Upcoming Titles to be Released in November and December

Stay tuned for these new titles to come out in November and December. To learn more about a specific book, click on the title to be directed to our website.

What Is Regeneration?

Author: Matthew Barrett

Series: Basics of the Faith

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 32

Price: $4.99

Booklet

The Bible is clear that we cannot initiate our salvation; we are spiritually dead. Barrett explores the doctrine of regeneration to show us what truly happens when we are saved.

 

What Is Evangelism?

Author: George W. Robertson

Series: Basics of the Faith

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 32

Price: $4.99

Booklet

Is there one “right way” to evangelize? No! Robertson describes five authoritative approaches to evangelism, giving us flexibility as we winsomely present the good news that can answer any need.

 

By Faith, Not by Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation

Author: Richard B. Gaffin Jr.

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 160

Price: $14.99

Paperback

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Summary: How does an individual receive salvation? Does Paul distinguish between salvation accomplished (historia salutis) and salvation applied (ordo salutis)? Gaffin argues that under both exists a deeper, more fundamental issue—our union with Christ.

 

Thy Word Is Still Truth: Essential Writings on the Doctrine of Scripture from the Reformation to Today

Editors: Peter A. Lillback and Richard B. Gaffin Jr.

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 1,440

Price: $59.99

Hardcover

Sample Chapter

Table of Contents

Summary: This is a new collection of Reformed thinkers’ writings, from the Reformation to today, on the inerrancy of Scripture. To these texts contemporary scholars add commentary reflecting the stance of Westminster Theological Seminary.

 

Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief

Author: John M. Frame

Foreword by J. I. Packer

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 1,280

Price: $49.99

Hardcover

Summary: A biblical, clear, cogent, accessible, comprehensive, and practical summary of Christian belief by one of the most important and original American theologians of the last hundred years.

 

Jesus and His Enemies

Author: Paul Yeulett

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 304

Price: $12.99

Paperback

Summary: Paul Yeulett examines the opposition Jesus encountered—demonic, political, religious, emotional, physical, and spiritual—and helps us understand why it faced him and continues to face us today.

 

Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest?

Author: Mark Jones

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 176

Price: $17.99

Paperback

Summary: Antinomianism has a long and complicated history, but help is here! This book is the first to examine antinomian theology from a historical, exegetical, and systematic perspective—with a key emphasis on Christology.

 

The Doctrines of Grace: Student Edition

Author: Shane Lems

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 128

Price: $10.99

Paperback

Summary: A guide for young teens explaining in twelve lessons the biblical and historical basis of TULIP (Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, Perseverance of the saints). Includes application, discussion questions, and class resources.

 

Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes

Author: Zack Eswine

Series: Gospel According to the Old Testament

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 224

Price: $14.99

Paperback

Summary: Ecclesiastes shows a frank, unafraid familiarity with transparency, beauty, and ugliness. Eswine’s study helps us address these topics boldly ourselves and grounds them in the person and work of Jesus.

 

From Bondage to Liberty: The Gospel According to Moses

Author: Anthony T. Selvaggio

Series: Gospel According to the Old Testament

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 208

Price: $14.99

Paperback

Summary: In Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Moses is not just God’s chosen leader of the Jews but also a precursor of the future Messiah, Jesus. Anthony Selvaggio focuses upon the redemptive-historical aspects of Moses’ life.

 

1 & 2 Samuel: Rise of the Lord’s Anointed

Author: Kay Gabrysch

Series: Tapestry

To Be Released: December 2013

Pages: 400

Price: $14.99

Paperback

Summary: 1&2 Samuel, where the word “messiah” first appears, was originally one volume. Through weekly tailored and “big picture” questions, Kay Gabrysch trains us to become confident readers of scriptural narrative.

 

A Theology of Matthew: Jesus Revealed as Deliverer, King, and Incarnate Creator      (cover not yet ready)

Author: Charles L. Quarles

Series: Explorations in Biblical Theology

To Be Released: November 2013

Pages: 240

Price: $17.99

Paperback

Summary: An explanation of the primary theological themes of Matthew’s gospel—and how they connect to the rest of the Bible.

 

 

Chosen Daughters series

The Chosen Daughters series highlights the lives of ordinary women who by God’s grace accomplish extraordinary things.

1. Wings Like a Dove: The Courage of Queen Jeanne d’Albret

Destined for a Crown, Daring for the Truth, Dauntless in Adversity

Author: Christine Farenhorst

Released: 5/1/2006

Pages: 208

Price: $11.99

Jeanne d’Albret, born in 1528, is the only daughter of the King and Queen of Navarre. Standing with her beloved Huguenots, Jeanne steps onto the battlefield of history during the tumultuous years of the Reformation (1517–1559). As deadly political events swirl around her tiny kingdom of Navarre, Jeanne is forced to choose: Will she hide the fleeing Huguenots under the very nose of Catherine de Medicis’s henchmen or save her own life?

 

2. Dr. Oma: The Healing Wisdom of Countess Juliana Von Stolberg

Gifted Herbalist, Mender of Hearts, Champion of Freedom

Author: Ethel Herr

Released: 6/30/2006

Pages: 208

Price: $11.99

Study Guide

Juliana Von Stolberg is an herbalist and the mother of William of Orange. Her granddaughter, Maria, tells the story of this remarkable woman who believes people should not be martyred for their beliefs.

 

3. Against the Tide: The Valor of Margaret Wilson

Bold for the Faith, Brave in Peril, Beautiful in Surrender

Author: Hope Irvin Marston

Released: 7/2/2007

Pages: 220

Price: $11.99

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Seventeenth-century Scotland is a place for cruel intolerance for the Covenanters, a people bound together by their loyal faith. A young, earnest Covenanter, Margaret Wilson finds her pledged loyalty to Christ and his covenant in opposition to King Charles II’s demand or her absolute obedience. Will Margaret choose to defy the authorities? Or will devotion to her family, love for her sweetheart, and hopes for future happiness rule her heart?

 

4. A Cup of Cold Water: The Compassion of Nurse Edith Cavell

Cheerful in Duty, Courageous in Danger, Compassionate in Service

Author: Christine Farenhorst

Released: 9/30/2007

Pages: 224

Price: $11.99

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“The secret password is yorc,” the princess whispered. Edith longed for her girlhood in England, when her secrets had been kept safe by her dog Reddie. But now in God’s timing, Edith is director of a nursing school in Belgium. Caught in the turmoil of World War I, Edith finds herself surrounded by enemy spies. As a nurse protected by the Red Cross, will Edith turn her back on the Allied soldiers who desperately need her help?

 

5. Weight of a Flame: The Passion of Olympia Morata

Psalm – Singer, Passionate Teacher, Pilgrim Adventurer

Author: Simonetta Carr

Released: 11/4/2011

Pages: 224

Price: $11.99

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Olympia Morata (1526-1555) is her father’s finest student and a girl far ahead of her time. A quick tongue and a ready pen are her mind’s tools to record her vivid thoughts, poetry, songs, and opinions. Appointed tutor to Duchess Renee’s children, Olympia looks forward to a bright future – when suddenly, evil rumors threaten to turn her world upside down. In the midst of it all a young doctor comes courting. Will their love survive the danger waiting on the other side of the Alps?