CFI Book List

Boundaries for Your Soul

Do your emotions control you, or do you control your emotions? The Bible talks a lot about rejoicing and serving. Most Christians want to serve God and others, but it’s hard to help others when you’re hurting inside.

If anger, guilt, or self-criticism sometimes dominate your life and negatively affect your relationships, I encourage you to read Boundaries for Your Soul, a groundbreaking approach for bringing peace to overwhelming emotions and harmony to your inner world. Through this book, Christian counselor and co-author Kimberly Miller, MTh, LMFT, presents a proven, practical, five-step method to calm the chaos within.

The book includes relatable anecdotes, helpful exercises, an engaging quiz, and opportunities for personal reflection. Gathering the wisdom from her years of advanced education, biblical studies, and clinical practice, Kimberly’s book will set you on a journey to become the loving, authentic, joyful person you were created to be.

Plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson has been asked hundreds of questions about faith and science:

• What is faith and what is science? Are they compatible?
• Are there realities science cannot explain?
• Is God's existence a scientific question?
• Is the Bible consistent with the modern scientific understanding of the universe?
• Are there scientific reasons to believe in God?

In this comprehensive volume, Hutchinson answers a full range of inquiries with sound scientific insights and measured Christian perspective. Without minimizing challenging questions, he explores how science and Christianity are mutually supportive and intellectually consistent.

Both God and science truthfully address our curiosity and destiny. Find answers to your deepest questions.

God Has Not Left Himself Without Witness

The past two centuries have seen a slow but definite turning away from enlightenment dismissal of the spiritual realm, and a new openness to spiritual realities, including the work of God the Holy Spirit, has emerged.

Theologian Ivan Satyavrata believes that while there is much to celebrate in this focus on the Spirit and his workings after several centuries of relative neglect, there is a pressing need to relate our present experience of the Spirit to the teaching of God's Word. In a context of growing cultural and religious plurality, how can we recognize where and how the Holy Spirit is present and at work today? This is a task to which this book is devoted.

As a theologian and leader of the Church in India, Ivan Satyavrata brings a unique perspective to our understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit throughout the world. His voice makes a strong contribution to the Christian Doctrine in Global Perspective series. For this volume, Dr. Ivan Satyavrata was identified by the series editor, the late theologian John Stott, as a leading international evangelical thinker, and subsequently asked to write this volume as an intercultural exposition of this neglected member of the Trinity and this key tenet of Christian belief.

Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind

Already an acclaimed Christocentric theology for contemporary evangelical intellectual life, Mark Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (2011) significantly updates Noll’s critical assessment of evangelical Christian scholarship in his landmark Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994). In this newer book -- now in paperback -- Noll charts a positive way forward for evangelical thinking and learning.

Noll’s Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind shows how the orthodox Christology confessed in the ancient Christian creeds, far from hindering or discouraging serious scholarship, can supply the motives, guidance, and framework for learning. Christian faith, Noll argues, can richly enhance intellectual engagement in the various academic disciplines -- and he demonstrates how by applying his insights to the fields of history (his own area of expertise), science, and biblical studies in particular.

In a substantial postscript Noll candidly addresses the question How fares the “evangelical mind” today? as he highlights “hopeful signs” of intellectual life in a host of evangelical institutions, individuals, and movements.