Turkish Title: Yunus - Kurtuluş Rab'den Gelir
Original Title: Jonah - Salvation Comes from the Lord""
Author Kerem Koç "I highly recommend it ... I haven't seen a commentary that is as easy to read and understand as this." - Engin Duran, Pastor.
"It is my prayer that this book would be an example to others in being a crefully researched commentary which speaks to Turkish culture, rather than simply being a translation from a foreign language." - Car Kaisor, Pastor
"Kerem Koç's short commentary is a book that must be read... I recommend it." - Ken Wiest, Theologian
Zacchaeus' Story Continues With Us
Turkish Title: Tanrı'yı Sabırla Beklemek
Original Title: Patience With God
Author: Tomas Halik
For all the debate about belief and nonbelief in today’s world—and how everyone becomes pigeonholed by one or the other— Tomáš Halík teaches that God requires us to persevere with our doubts, carry them in our hearts, and allow them to lead us to maturity.
For Halík, patience is the main difference between faith and atheism. Faith, hope, and love are three aspects of patience in the face of God’s silence, which is interpreted as “the death of God” by atheists and is not taken seriously enough by fundamentalists.
Turkish Title: Kandırıldık
Translation of Title: We Were Duped
Author: Alexandra S. Koryürek
This book will make a lot of people very angry. Many of the things we do every day, either consciouly or unconsciously, put us under the influence of spiritual powers. Our enemy takes control of us sneakly, and often without our knowing it, and that is when the problems we face begin to increase.
Through this book you will learn about the personality of Satan, his tactics and why your soul is so important to him, and how you can wrest control back from him -- all from firm references in the Bible.
Turkish Title: Kurban - Kazanılan Kayıp Yıllar
Translation of Title: Sacrifice - Reclaiming the Lost Years
Author: M. Ali Şimşek
This is the story of a normal middle-class Turkish family, and the events that overtake them at the start of a new academic year, as Kurban Bayramı (the Sacrifice holiday) is drawing near.
Kaya, the father, is a civil servant, with left-wing leanings. Oya, the mother is an elementary school teacher. There are two children in the family: one at university (Bora) and one at high school (Derya). When faced with the injustices of life in modern-day Turkey, good news is rare. When it does come, it surprises them all.
Turkish Title: İbranilerin Mesajı
Original Title: The Message of Hebrews
Author: Raymond Brown
Times were hard for the first readers of the letter to the Hebrews. Many had been exposed to fierce persecution. They had been assaulted, their homes had been plundered, and some had even been cast into prison. To such people this letter came as an encouragement.
The writer of the letter turns their eyes to Christ, shows how he fulfills the hope expressed in the Old Testament sacrifices, and calls his readers to a steadfast faith that will take them through the hard times they now face.
Turkish Title: Amos'un Mesajı
Original Title: The Message of Amos
Author: JA Motyer
An exposition of the prophet Amos, in which his call to relevant faith is championed.
Turkish Title: Kurtuluşun Mesajı
Original Title: The Message of Salvation
Author: Philip G Ryken
This book is about the best news the world has ever heard - the message of salvation. Salvation is a well-worn Christian term. We think we know what it means. But biblically speaking, salvation is one of those big terms that encircles a number of others, each of them reflecting a stunning facet of God's grace in Jesus Christ.
Philip Ryken opens up God's saving message using the Bible's stories, sermons, letters and poems to explain its own theme of salvation.
Turkish Title: Diriliş ve Yaşam Benim
Translation of Title: I am the Resurrection and the Life
Author: Banu Çelik
This book explains the truths of Easter. Death meets people as a shadow that they cannot escape from. Is man's destiny just this - death?
However there is one who can break this vicious circle: Jesus Christ. He came from on high to dwell among us in order to taste death and to destroy death. He descended to the very root of the problem of death, our sin. He died on the cross as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."
Is Spiritual Maturity Possible Without Emotional Maturity?
Turkish Title: Sağlıklı Ruhsallık
Original Title: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Author: Peter Scazzero
Scazzero presents a groundbreaking work on the integration of emotional health and contemplative spirituality that current models of discipleship fail to address.
This is a practical and personal guide to spiritual growth. Though there are lots of books on spiritual growth and Christian living out there, a lot of them fail to address the issue of emotional baggage. That's what makes this book superior in many ways. It deals with what you bring from your upbringing into your faith, and it realistically portrays suffering as something that should not be ignored, but rather compel us to wonder and grow.
Turkish Title: Hezekiel'in Mesajı
Original Title: The Message of Ezekiel
Author: Christopher J.H. Wright
The land was awash with false gods and groaning under all kinds of social evil. The inevitable happened; God's horrific judgment on his people started to unfold. A young Ezekiel, carried off to exile in Babylon, was commissioned by the Lord to warn of a more devastating and unthinkable judgment.
When the most traumatic event in Israel's whole biblical history did happen - the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple - Ezekiel's ministry took a new turn as the bulk of the displaced population joined the existing exiles.