Digital Logos Edition
El ministerio de Tim Chester está dedicado a la Iglesia y sus necesidades. Pastor, plantador de iglesias y maestro, sus escritos proporcionan una base sólida en teología y ministerio de la iglesia. Con un fuerte énfasis en el poder del evangelio que cambia vidas, los libros de Chester deberían ser una parte valiosa de la biblioteca de todo creyente.
Esta colección bilingüe reune cinco de sus populares obras en español y siete en inglés. En cada libro Tim Chester comparte su sabiduría y experiencias de temas relevantes de la fe y vida cristiana.
¿Dices fácilmente “Sí”, cuando en realidad querrías decir “No”? ¿Te sientes atrapado y sin salida en una rutina de 24 horas diarias 7 días a la semana?
Tim Chester propone maneras muy prácticas y directas de hacer frente a ese problema: Dar con la raíz y ¡cortar por lo sano!
Si la raíz del problema es: “Necesito demostrar lo que valgo”, “Si yo no me ocupo, todo se descontrola”, “Me gusta trabajar bajo presión”, “Me atrae el éxito económico”… ¡Replantéate tu situación!
La ‘esclavitud’ moderna suele tener su origen en una confusión de valores. Si de verdad queremos ser libres, será imperativo replantearnos nuestros objetivos a la luz de la Palabra de Dios. Gestionar bien el tiempo es una indudable prioridad. Y el ocuparnos debidamente de nuestro corazón es todavía más importante. Dios ha prometido descanso a todos los cansados y atribulados (Mateo 11:28). El aceptar ese ofrecimiento es cosa nuestra.
Permite que este libro, de Tim Chester y Steve Timmis, con su enfoque en la primera carta de Pedro, cambie tus expectativas y tu forma de pensar.
La mayoría de la gente en Occidente no tiene intención de asistir nunca a la iglesia. Otros muchos solo usan el nombre de Dios para decir una vulgaridad. Y, aunque algunas iglesias destacables están creciendo, gran parte de esto se debe más a un traspaso de membresía que a un verdadero crecimiento.
Sin embargo, muchos de nuestros enfoques evangelísticos siguen asumiendo que en la sociedad hay una mentalidad cristiana. Por eso nuestra expectativa es que la gente venga cuando preparamos un buen programa en la iglesia.
Necesitamos encontrarnos con los no cristianos allí donde están, en el contexto de la vida cotidiana, y no centrarnos en preparar eventos atractivos, sino en crear comunidades atractivas.
Son muchos los libros escritos por expertos. En este caso, no ha sido así. El autor se decidió a escribirlo motivado por su propia lucha por cambiar. Su larga batalla con problemas concretos le llevó finalmente a indagar en las Escrituras y en escritos de tiempos pasados. En este libro comparte las maravillosas verdades que ha ido descubriendo y que han aportado consuelo y esperanza a su vida.
Este es un libro dedicado por entero a la esperanza que hay en Jesús, esperanza de perdón y también esperanza de cambio.
Tim Chester anima a que se trabajen los aspectos de la vida que son un problema. Y para ello propone un verdadero ‘proyecto de cambio’. Incluye temas para reflexión y citas que pueden servir para meditación personal o para debate en grupo.
¿Cómo debemos vivir? ¿Qué implicaciones tiene ser cristiano en la vida cotidiana?
Curiosamente, los escritores del Nuevo Testamento no volvieron a la vida de Jesús para responder a estas preguntas, sino que una y otra vez, se centraron en su muerte y su resurrección.
La cruz y la resurrección proveen el modelo para el discipulado, llamando a los cristianos a una nueva manera de vivir, con valores y esperanzas diferentes. Este libro de Tim Chester, lúcido, apasionante y práctico, va directo al corazón de lo que significa ser un discípulo hoy.
El héroe común nos invita a:
En tan solo unos años, Facebook ha pasado de ser algo pequeño a ser un rasgo característico de la vida moderna. Tiene más de 1230 millones de usuarios, y la mitad lo usan todos los días del año.
Tiene muchas cosas buenas. Las redes sociales ofrecen muchos beneficios. Pero… ¿qué pasa con los peligros? Imagen, identidad, idolatría y autopromoción. ¿Cómo ve Dios todo esto? Tim Chester nos lanza preguntas muy acertadas y nos ayuda a reflexionar sobre los retos que nos plantean las redes sociales.
‘I believe in God, the Father Almighty …’ The Apostles’ Creed is recited by Christians throughout the world each Sunday. For many it is a dull routine, and for others, it is spoken with confusion or doubt, rather than with confidence and joy.
Do we really need creeds? Increasingly, people do not like the idea of pinning truth down. Others want to stick to the Bible alone, and think that creeds have no place in our worship.
But most churches have found it helpful to have a summary of Christian beliefs. Creeds summarize who we are, they teach us what is important and they help us avoid error. In modern business language, they are our ‘identity documents’.
This Good Book Guide aims to fill out the content of the short statements of this creed which are so familiar to us. In ten studies, it shows how they are derived from the Bible—the teaching of the apostles—and what the significance of this momentous formula is for our daily lives. Saying the creed need never be dull, confused or joyless again …
It’s only when you sit down and talk with someone that you start to discover what they are really like.
What would it be like to have an intimate conversation with Jesus? What would you ask Him? What might He say to you?
In his Gospel, John records for us a series of conversations that Jesus had with different people. They include a confused minister and a desperate woman; a lifelong loser and an anxious politician.
From each conversation there emerges something new about Jesus—who He is, what He came to do and what His priorities and concerns are. And each time we also hear Jesus speaking directly to us. He addresses our doubts and our desires, our fears and our failings, our sorrows and setbacks, and challenges us to think differently about God, life and eternity.
Use these studies to deepen your understanding of Jesus Christ, or perhaps even to be introduced to Him for the first time.
Exploring love, temptation, fear and guilt from the Psalms
How often do you get the tune of a mindless song stuck in your head? Its one way that Christians can end up thinking and wanting things just like the world around us. So God has given us a collection of songs that can help us re-tune our hearts to what He thinks and wants instead.
You may feel as if your soul is downcast or sick troubled by worry, sin, suffering, fear or guilt. David, the Israelite king who wrote many of these songs, tells us that the Word of God revives the soul its powerful stuff! And how to revive your soul is the theme of this selection. Mostly written by people rolling in trouble, they take us from the problems we face, and turn us back to God, the rock.
In these psalms you will find medicine for your soul. Learn to fear God instead of others, to trust Him in difficult times and to sing a new song to the God who saves.
Have you had an experience of God? Its a question that provokes mixed reactions.
The word experience may set alarm bells ringing for some Christians, as they imagine the word means supernatural encounters, strange visions, voices or other revelations.
But the Bible, Gods final, complete revelation, reveals a different, yet no less marvellous experience of God. The wonderful truths of the Gospel, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit give Christians a unique experience of God, seen and felt in many ways. A love for Christ and for others. Peace in place of anxiety and joy in all circumstances. And a passion for doing good, and a deep sense of fulfilment and freedom.
These studies stem from the conviction that a deeper understanding of Gods gospel leads us to a genuine, life-transforming experience of the living God in Christ, which leaves us hungry to know Him more, and serve Him more faithfully. Work through them yourself, with a friend, your partner or in a Bible-study group to discover the riches that are yours in Christ.
Christians struggle. We struggle with ridicule and being ignored in a day of small things; with opposition to the message that Jesus is the only way to God; with our own failures and the devils accusations that make us question whether God accepts us. False teachers, false religion, and false priorities plague and distract us.
In Zechariahs day, Israel had returned from exile, but home was certainly not all they had hoped for. Zechariahs task was to bring comforting words to the struggling people of God.
These six Bible-studies open up Zechariahs reassuring and revitaliszing message for Gods discouraged people, including Gods great international building project; His solution to sin; His promised Shepherd-King; His great Day of judgement and salvation. Constantly focusing on what these things mean practically for Christians today, this course aims to help Christians live a life shaped, not by these days, but by that day when Gods big plan comes to glorious fruition.
Many books on the practice of prayer seem to be informed more by the experiences of their authors than by Scripture. However, the Bible not only teaches us about prayer, it also gives us many examples of prayer. It is God’s Word to us, and it teaches us how to respond to that Word. Tim Chester’s insightful exposition of this central aspect of Christian living is driven by the conviction that we need to reform not only our thinking and behavior in the light of God’s Word, but also our praying. Drawing on a wide range of biblical texts, he explores the foundations and the practice of prayer, and shows that how we understand prayer is necessarily bound up with how we understand the gospel, and God himself.
In the message of Hosea, we see the passion of God. We see the jealousy of God, the commitment of God, the heartbreak of God, the enthusiasm of God, the love of God. People often talk about what they feel about God. Hosea tells us what God feels about us. It is the author’s prayer that as we explore the message of Hosea the Spirit of God would reveal God’s passion so that He stirs our passion: our jealousy for God, our commitment to God, our heartbreak at sin, our enthusiasm to serve, our love for the lost.
El Dr. Tim Chester es pastor de Grace Church, Boroughbridge, Reino Unido; miembro del cuerpo docente de Crosslands Training; y es autor de más de 30 libros. Tiene un doctorado en teología y anteriormente fue director de investigación y políticas de Tearfund, Reino Unido. Ha sido profesor adjunto de misionología y espiritualidad reformada. Tim está casado con Helen y tiene dos hijas.