Athanasius Press

11/12/2024

On what biblical basis should baptized children be admitted to the Lord's Supper?

Jeffrey J. Meyers' new book proposes a number of questions like this one while providing answers that show the continuity between children's participation in Old Covenant feasts and the New Covenant meal. He also warns against misunderstanding Paul's admonition in 1 Corinthians 11 to divisive church members.

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06/12/2024

NEW BOOK: 'Why Worship is Liturgical' by Jeffrey J. Meyers.

How important is our way of worship?

Should our worship services on the Lord's Day be ordered a certain way? Should our worship services have a "contemporary" or "traditional" form?

In this book, Pastor Jeffrey J. Meyers provides a simple guide in understanding the biblical order and practical benefits of a liturgical Christian worship service. The book is intended for church leaders and church members alike, to provide a biblical rationale for corporate worship on the Lord's Day and why such worship will look, sound, and feel more "traditional" than "contemporary" while avoiding pretentious or dead and musty liturgical traditions.

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How important is our way of worship? Should our worship services on the Lord's Day be ordered a certain way? Should our worship services have a "contemporary" or "traditional" form? In this book, Pastor Jeffrey J. Meyers provides a simple guide in understanding the biblical order and practical benef...

05/18/2024

Read by the author, Mark Horne.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. If you don't learn to govern yourself, you will be governed by others, and your own impulses will be the reins they use to lead you. That's Solomon's warning to young men in the Book of Proverbs. Solomon asked God for wisdom so that he could rule righteo.....

05/09/2024

What is Biblical Hospitality?

In this book, Mark Brians II and Drew A. Knowles Jr. call for a corporate return to the regular practice of biblical hospitality and festivity within the church. In an age of loneliness and isolation and food-porn, an age in which feasting and hospitality are largely absent from the human experience, we must be real-life, bread-breaking people.

Americans have plenty of food and drink but have forgotten how to feast. Our poor love of God and neighbor is reflected in our aversion to the real-world cost, tedium, labor and inconveniences of being hospitable. But, as the first host, God makes room for us, welcoming us, and inviting us into His....

03/20/2024

Written by members of the Civitas Group, a research colloquium sponsored by the Theopolis Institute, the essays in Hell Shall Not Prevail: Essays on Ecclesiocentric Postliberalism focus on the crucial and distinctive role of the Body of Christ—the church—for renewing our political, social, and economic life together.

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Written by members of the Civitas Group, a research colloquium sponsored by the Theopolis Institute, the essays in Hell Shall Not Prevail: Essays on Ecclesiocentric Postliberalism focus on the crucial and distinctive role of the Body of Christ—the church—for renewing our political, social, and e...

02/27/2024

Available for Pre-Order: Jonathan E. Sedlak's "Reading Matthew, Trusting Jesus: Christian Tradition and First-Century Fulfillment within Matthew 24-25"

After pronouncing judgment on the temple in Jerusalem, Jesus answers three questions from his disciples on the Mount of Olives: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

Contemporary scholars have characterized Jesus’ answers to these three questions in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew’s Gospel as a mix between first-century fulfillment and future, “end-of-the-world” fulfillment.

In Reading Matthew, Trusting Jesus, Jonathan E. Sedlak provides a detailed survey of how influential figures across church history—from the earliest patristic sources until now—have interpreted Matthew 24, discovering that many affirmed first-century fulfillment, and some ruled out any delay in fulfillment beyond the first century.

After pronouncing judgment on the temple in Jerusalem, Jesus answers three questions from his disciples on the Mount of Olives: “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?” Contemporary scholars have characterized Jesus’ answers to ...

11/24/2023

BLACK FRIDAY: Forty percent off all orders of $15 or more at https://athanasiuspress.org/

Until Tuesday!

Athanasius Press is a publishing ministry of Church of the Redeemer in West Monroe, Louisiana that publishes books to help Christians learn how to read the Bible, how to worship as well as the meaning of the Old and New Testament books, the sacraments, liturgy, and mission.

10/26/2023

What to expect at a Bible-centered church?

Read Rich Lusk's new book, MEASURES OF THE MISSION, to show how the gospel of the kingdom is not just about how the story of your individual life can have a happy ending, it’s about how God is bringing in a new heavens and a new earth, filled with His glory, so that the story of the whole cosmos has a happy ending.

The Whole Gospel for the Whole of Life Written as a guide for Christians seeking to understand the distinctives of a Bible-centered church, Measures of the Mission shows how the coming of the king affects our understanding of the kingdom story (the Bible), kingdom central (the church), and kingdom l...

10/09/2023

"Dr. Peter J. Leithart's I Respond Though I Shall Be Changed: Essays on the Thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy is an invaluable collection of meditations upon a thinker who, if remembered at all, is mainly known for being Franz Rosenzweig’s teacher and interlocutor. Leithart’s book is a powerful reminder of why Rosenstock-Huessy is one of the most important thinkers for making sense of our time."

Wayne Cristaudo, author of Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Theologians ignore the work of German philosopher and sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), despite his major contributions to Christian thought. In this volume, Peter J. Leithart shows why that neglect is a mistake, considering Rosenstock-Huessy's thoughts on the soul, time, the cross, a...

10/02/2023

NEW BOOK

For you to face any situation, you need someone to show you the way.

We need God to explain to us who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. We need his wisdom. In Jesus the world finds its true and intended order. When we look at the life of Christ, we see how God governs his world and how he expects man to govern in his world.

In this book, Bill Smith shows how the book of Proverbs molds you in the image of God's wisdom to understand how all things fit together for his good purposes, including our lives as spouses, parents, children, friends, and more.

For you to face any situation, you need someone to show you the way. We need God to explain to us who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. We need his wisdom. In Jesus the world finds its true and intended order. When we look at the life of Christ, we see how God governs his world and ho...

09/12/2023

Available for pre-order: "Sunday: Keeping Christian Time" by Jack Franicevich.

Sunday, the first day of the week, is a new liturgical institution that draws on the Old Testament liturgical traditions of the Sabbath, Passover, and the Feast of Firstfruits.

What does Sunday mean? That's the question which Jack Franicevich answers in this new addition to the Theopolis Explorations series. In Sunday: Keeping Christian Time, Franicevich studies the meaning of history and holidays and timekeeping in Scripture to stress the gift of rest embodied in the Lord's Day, considering not only the Old Testament feasts but the way in which Luke frame the story of the new covenant.

Sunday, the first day of the week, is a new liturgical institution that draws on the Old Testament liturgical traditions of the Sabbath, Passover, and the Feast of Firstfruits. What does Sunday mean? That's the question which Jack Franicevich answers in this new addition to the Theopolis Exploration...

08/10/2023

Now available: Peter J. Leithart's "The Kingdom and the Power": https://athanasiuspress.org/products/the-kingdom-and-the-power-rediscovering-the-centrality-of-the-church

Activist Christians tend to assume that, if the church is to be politically influential, her first task is to become more political. National political issues have, as a result, displaced theological and ecclesiastical concerns in the “agenda” and priorities of many churches. As a result, churches, especially those dominated by an activist model of the kingdom, fail to address the world in a distinctively Christian manner—that is, as the church.

In his book, "The Kingdom and the Power," Peter J. Leithart shows from Scripture that Christians must neither retreat from the world or idolize power and mammon to influence the world but engage the world—as the church. For wherever Christ is present, there is the kingdom. That means the kingdom of God is in the church, the body of Christ.

11/25/2022

All books from Athanasius Press on sale now for Black Friday.

Athanasius Press is a publishing ministry of Church of the Redeemer in West Monroe, Louisiana that publishes books to help Christians learn how to read the Bible, how to worship as well as the meaning of the Old and New Testament books, the sacraments, liturgy, and mission.

11/05/2022

NOW ON AUDIBLE: Listen to Peter J. Leithart's book, "The Theopolitan Vision," on Audible, read by Brian Moats.

As the modern world crumbles, Christians scramble for answers. The solution is right in front of us—the Christian church, an outpost of the heavenly city among the cities of men. The Theopolitan Vision explains what the church is, and how the Spirit empowers the church's world-transforming mission through Word and worship, Scripture and liturgy. It shows how the church can be a city of light in a dark age.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. As the modern world crumbles, Christians scramble for answers. The solution is right in front of us—the Christian church, an outpost of the heavenly city among the cities of men. The Theopolitan Vision explains what the church is, and how the Spiri...

08/22/2022

At 20% OFF until the end of the month: Through New Eyes Bible Commentaries: https://athanasiuspress.org/collections/through-new-eyes-bible-commentaries

Perfect as Bible study resources and good fodder for discussion in Sunday Schools and Bible study groups.

08/22/2022

At a discount, pick up one of our commentaries, especially those recent ones on the Letter of James and the Book of Jonah!

08/19/2022

NOW FOR PRE-ORDER: Tim Gallant's new book, 'Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homos*xuality in Romans 1'

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In Romans 1, Paul discusses homos*xuality as part of his larger argument announcing judgment on idolatry. Idolatry and homos*xuality are birds of a feather— gods that are not gods and s*x that is not s*x, glory exchanged for futility and living reality for a lifeless parody.

The God of Israel is our glory. Our opposition to homos*xuality is not. Our opposition to homos*xuality, like our opposition to every other sin, is a facet of our faithfulness to a holy and loving God who has created us and redeems us for true life and liberty.

In Exchanging the Glory: Idolatry and Homos*xuality in Romans 1, Tim Gallant homes in on Paul’s consideration of God’s glory. Idolatry not only gives rise to homos*xual practice but exchanges the glory of the one God who has created us as s*xual beings and who calls us into holiness through the life of His own Son and the power of His own Spirit.

In addenda, Tim Gallant also answers the question, “Was Jesus silent about the subject of homos*xuality?” and critically responds to the views of Matthew Vines and the Reformation Project.

In Romans 1, Paul discusses homos*xuality as part of his larger argument announcing judgment on idolatry. Idolatry and homos*xuality are birds of a feather— gods that are not gods and s*x that is not s*x, glory exchanged for futility and living reality for a lifeless parody. The God of Israel is o...

08/18/2022

BOOK SALE: Get 20% OFF any of our Through New Eyes Bible commentaries, written for thoughtful Christians, not as academic texts. The Bible is a story, not a lexicon of systematic theological definitions.

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