Books published by Regent College Publishing

In Grace, Gratitude, and Giving, six ambassadors of Regent College attempt to deepen the conversation among Christians about our relationship to money and the idea of giving some of it away—a subject usually considered awkward at best, and perhaps even off-limits in many church circles. It is intended to assist Christian lay people and pastors alike to gain some valuable glimpses into the Bible’s way of thinking about money, possessions, and generosity.Aimed at stimulating our thinking about the foundational beliefs underpinning the practices of Christian philanthropy, Grace, Gratitude, and Giving ultimately hopes that, as an expression of Regent’s core mission, it might be used by God “to cultivate intelligent, vigorous and joyful commitment to Jesus Christ, his church and his world.”Jeffrey P. Greenman is President and Professor of Theology and Ethics at Regent College. He also served as Associate Dean of Biblical and Theological Studies and Professor of Christian Ethics at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and worked for nine years in leadership at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He has also worked in the US government in the areas of education and juvenile justice, as well as working in national politics and in educational consulting.

Every Tuesday, from September through April, the Regent College community gathers to share a simple meal of soup and bread, a continuation of chapel communion. It is a time to remember that the gifts that sustain us come from God's creation and to celebrate the rich abundance that God has provided-the Garden of Eden, the Passover meal, manna raining down from heaven, a wedding feast, the fish and the loaves, the Last Supper, the Resurrection Day fish breakfast, the Eucharist-and will provide in the marriage supper of the Lamb, the feast day of celebration and fellowship that will never cease.

The most basic and natural way we seek to understand who we are, where we are, what is wrong with us (especially why we die), and how we can be restored is by telling stories. Every culture in every era in every part of the world has a story or stories by which people navigate the mystery of being human on earth.In this series of expositions, Darrell Johnson suggests that the first eleven chapters of Genesis (what he and others maintain constitute the "first half" of the Bible) help make sense of all our other stories, for they speak to the fundamental questions we ask in every age. When we inhabit the story (stories) of Genesis 1-11, Johnson further suggests, we come to realize just how good the good news of Jesus Christ is in the "second half" of the Bible.Darrell W. Johnson has been preaching the gospel for fifty years, having served with churches in British Columbia, California, and the Philippines. He has taught preaching and pastoral theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Carey College, and Regent College, where in his semi-retirement he serves as teaching fellow. He is the author of eight other books. He and his wife, Sharon, have raised four children (adopted from four different countries of the world) and now enjoy eleven grandchildren.

For readers who want to follow a daily discipline of devotional reading, Letters of Faith Through the Seasons will provide daily doses of wisdom from the greatest minds in Christian history. Each day's devotion will challenge readers to grow in their faith and knowledge of the Lord. In addition, readers will be encouraged to move from faith in theory to faith in practctice as they experience the stimulating nature of these personal letters on such topics as the challenge of living life as a Christian, personal sufferings, and our witness within our professions. Included are letters from such giants of the faith as C. S. Lewis, John Newton, Blaise Pascal, Eugene Peterson, and more. James M. Houston has incorporated prayers, devotional thoughts, and Scriptures to create a wonderful resource to lead readers toward a more intimate relationship with their Creator.

Letters of Faith through the Seasons Volume I provides daily doses of wisdom from the greatest minds in Christian his- tory. From John of the Cross and Martin Luther to Soren Kierkegaard and Amy Carmichael, the stimulating nature of their personal letters on such topics as faith, love, grace, and forgiveness will encourage you to move from faith-in-theo- ry to faith-in-practctice and into pulsating, living, inner, and intimate expressions and experiences of "walking with God," and "being open before God." James M. Houston has masterfully woven together prayers, devotional thoughts, and Scriptures to create the perfect daily resource to lead you to a more intimate relationship with your Creator.

What is just? What is right? What is wrong? What purposes, and what virtues, are worth pursuing? How can we weigh answers to these questions without lapsing into "That's only your opinion"? In the tradition of C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man, Dennis Danielson re-invokes Lewis's use of the Tao-borrowed from Eastern philosophy-as shorthand for the transcultural fund of ultimate postulates that form the very ground of moral judgment, codes of ethics, and standards of right and wrong. This book is a fresh twenty-first-century call for the virtuous cultivation of "humans with hearts," for a rejection of moral nihilism, and for a life-affirming embrace of moral realism founded in the Tao."Dennis Danielson's message in The Tao of Right and Wrong needs to be urgently heeded. Danielson shows how so-called 'progressive values' have been inculcated in young people, swamping the educational system with moral relativism-the philosophy that nothing is absolutely right or wrong, but rather that all depends on your personal preferences or values or the situation-and so abandoning the teaching of traditional wisdom consisting of long-standing, widely shared, principle-based moral truths that are of the essence of our humanness and humanity. This book should be on every teacher's reading list." -Margaret Somerville, Professor of Bioethics, University of Notre Dame Australia "The Tao of Right and Wrong is a remarkably compressed and equally lucid exposition of the truths that really count, and simultaneously a recall to the verities that inhabit the genuine, real, moral tradition. It concludes with an appendix, partly borrowed from C. S. Lewis, a mini-florilegium of sayings and axioms gleaned from 'across cultures and across history' wherein the range of sources actually underscores the universality of genuine moral wisdom. The debate in which this book engages is, in the full sense of the term, a fundamental one." -Rex Murphy, Commentator for The National Post and formerly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"Dennis Danielson marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of C.S. Lewis's classic work The Abolition of Man by updating it for our present situation and applying it to current concerns in a skilful and thought-provoking way. Timely, deft, impressive. Read it!" -Michael Ward, University of Oxford, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. LewisDennis Danielson, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia, is an intellectual historian who has written about literature, religion, and the history of science. He is a past recipient of his university's Killam Prize for research in the humanities, and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Konrad Adenauer Research Award.

"Loren Wilkinson is best known among most of us for his passionate, life-long care for the earth--the literal earth. The soil-and-flower, river-and-tree earth. But not nearly as many are aware that he wrote poems equally as skilled in revealing his care for language--the sounds and rhythms and metaphors that keep us alert to the 'Word made flesh.'" -Eugene H. Peterson"Loren Wilkinson is one of those native souls to whom the tag 'natural poet' adheres like pollen to a bee's knees. His personal presence and his way of living are models of enthusiasm for the creation and its Creator. He names things in order to bring them to our attention." -Luci Shaw"Loren Wilkinson is a poet who celebrates his faith as well as the simple things of creation in peasant ways, ever mindful that Christ is sacramentally there as Lord of all Creation. Daily events, then, are always Epiphany." -James M. Houston