Foldout pamphlet, colorful and informative, 5.5" x 8.5" when closed. Fits inside most Bible covers.

Correlating wall chart and PowerPoint also available.

Shows the most important events in Christian history from the time of Jesus to today. Highlights key people who shaped Christian theology, practices, and missionary work. Includes topics such as the creeds, history of the Bible, the Crusades, Reformation, Great Awakening, fundamentalism vs. modernism, and trends and movements today. Includes reproducible classroom handouts and worksheets.

Correlating wall chart and foldout pamphlet also available.

A deeper understanding of the grand history of mission leads to a faithful expression of God's mission today.

From the beginning, God's mission has been carried out by people sent around the world. From Abraham to Jesus, the thread that weaves its way throughout Scripture is a God who sends his people across the world, proclaiming his kingdom. As the world has evolved, Christian mission continues to be a foundational tradition in the church.

In this one-volume textbook, Edward Smither weaves together a comprehensive history of Christian mission, from the apostles to the modern church. In each era, he focuses on the people sent by God to the ends of the earth, while also describing the cultural context they encountered. Smither highlights the continuity and development across thousands of years of global mission.

Fall '25
Required FLBC textbook for History of Mission course, taught by Pr. Andrew Kneeland.

Fall '24
Required FLBC textbook for History of Mission course, taught by Pr. Andrew Kneeland.

Presents a sound Bible base for stewardship and practical methods to encourage stewardship in a congregation. Shows how Christians should be confronted with the Word and then committed to a life of doing God’s will.

This final volume of the People's Bible Teachings series explores Christian worship practices and the biblical principles that guide them. Pastor Johnold J. Strey uses the wisdom of God's Word to explain the guidelines for worship, the significance of each part of the church service, the church year, symbolism, and even more. Once you read this book, you'll never look at your weekly worship service the same way again!

Written by experienced pastors and professors, the People's Bible Teachings series covers the main, essential teachings of the Bible and offers practical applications for the Christian life. These topical books are written especially for Christians looking to further their study of God's Word, clarify their understanding of the faith, or discover what God says about controversial topics.

Fall '25
Recommended FLBC textbook for Theology of Worship course, taught by Dr. Steve Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Fall '24
Recommended FLBC textbook for Theology of Worship course, taught by Dr. Steve Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

In our increasingly global culture, it is important for Christians to know something about major world religions around us so we can speak confidently about our faith. Summarizing these diverse religions in a brief but insightful manner, this book adds wise suggestions for interacting with their adherents. Includes helpful appendixes with optional assigned projects and questions for personal or group study.

The fastest growing religion in the world, Islam has more than 13,000 mosques in North America alone. What do Muslims think about Jesus? How do we talk to our Muslim neighbors about Christ? Four 25-minute programs with accompanying 32-page study guide help answer these questions and set forth key differences between Christianity and Islam.

This handy, full-color companion to Bible study provides you with the tools and information you need to understand your own beliefs better by comparing key beliefs of religious groups, cults, and occult belief systems. This handbook will help you learn how to discern the differences and witness effectively to people of other faiths.

19" x 26" laminated chart. It includes four reproducible student worksheets on the back side. Many charts have coordinating pamphlets also.

Correlating Powerpoint and foldout pamphlet also available.

Foldout pamphlet, colorful and informative, 5.5" x 8.5" when closed. Fits inside most Bible covers.

Correlating wall chart and Powerpoint also available.

Understand the most common world religions and cults and how they compare to Christianity. Learn what to say to a friend, neighbor, or co-worker with different beliefs.

A brief and comforting explanation of how Christians can serve as soldiers in war with a clear conscience and thus with confidence. Discussion questions included at the end of each chapter.

The doctrine of theosis has enjoyed a recent resurgence among varied theological traditions across the realms of historical, dogmatic, and exegetical theology. In Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis, Jordan Cooper evaluates this teaching from a Lutheran perspective. He examines the teachings of the church fathers, the New Testament, and the Lutheran Confessional tradition in conversation with recent scholarship on theosis. Cooper proposes that the participationist soteriology of the early fathers expressed in terms of theosis is compatible with Luther's doctrine of forensic justification. The historic Lutheran tradition, Scripture, and the patristic sources do not limit soteriological discussions to legal terminology, but instead offer a multifaceted doctrine of salvation that encapsulates both participatory and forensic motifs. This is compared and contrasted with the development of the doctrine of deification in the Eastern tradition arising from the thought of Pseudo-Dionysius. Cooper argues that the doctrine of the earliest fathers--such as Irenaeus, Athanasius, and Justin--is primarily a Christological and economic reality defined as "Christification." This model of theosis is placed in contradistinction to later Neoplatonic forms of deification.

Fall '25
Required FLS textbook for Christian Ethics course taught by Dr. Nathan Olson, professor of New Testament and Systematic Theology.

Fall '23
Required FLS textbook for Christian Ethics course taught by Dr. Nathan Olson, Professor of New Testament and Systematic Theology.

A collection of key excerpts from the writings of Martin Luther on Christian missions, drawing from the reformer's lectures, sermons, treatises, hymns, and devotional writings, with commentary by Stolle on Luther's understanding of mission in the world.

A fun way for kids to learn an entire alphabet of interesting men and women in Christian history—across the centuries, from all over the globe—boldly telling their stories in language children can understand.

Bruce Shelley's classic history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. Like a skilled screenwriter, Shelley begins each chapter with three elements: characters, setting, plot. Taking readers from the early centuries of the church up through the modern era he tells his readers a story of actual people, in a particular situation, taking action or being acted upon, provides a window into the circumstances and historical context, and from there develops the story of a major period or theme of Christian history. Covering recent events, this book also:

• Details the rapid growth of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity in the southern hemisphere
• Addresses the decline in traditional mainline denominations
• Examines the influence of technology on the spread of the gospel
• Discusses how Christianity intersects with other religions in countries all over the world

For this fifth edition, Marshall Shelley brought together a team of historians, historical theologians, and editors to revise and update this father's classic text. The new edition adds important stories of the development of Christianity in Asia, India, and Africa, both in the early church as well as in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also highlights the stories of women and non-Europeans who significantly influenced the development of Christianity but whose contributions are often overlooked in previous overviews of church history.

Spring '24
Required FLBC textbook for History of Christianity course, taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '23
Required FLBC textbook for History of Christianity course, taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '22
Required FLBC textbook for Church History course, taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '21
Required FLBC textbook for History of Christianity II course, taught by Pr. Robert Lee, Professor of Historical and Practical Theology.

Fall ’20
Required FLBC textbook for History of Christianity I course, taught by Pr. Robert Lee, Professor of Historical and Practical Theology.

Spring '20
Required FLBC textbook for History of Christianity: Reformation to the 21st Century course, taught by Pr. Robert Lee, Professor of Historical and Practical Theology.

With more than 60 years of ministry between them, Harold Senkbeil and Lucas Woodford have come to understand that everything in ministry―even administration, leadership, and planning―revolves around the ancient tradition of the care of souls. Pastors are entrusted with the care of a flock by the Good Shepherd and are called to be faithful to this task. But pastoring seems to be getting more and more difficult. Based on a sound theological framework, Senkbeil and Woodford present a set of practical tools for church leadership and strategy. Calling on their vast experience, they encourage pastors to protect, guide and feed their flock as Jesus would, bridging the eternal wisdom of the word of God with the everyday practicality of hands-on leadership.

An updated edition is available under the title Pastoral Leadership: For the Care of Souls.

Spring '22

Required FLS textbook for Discipleship and Servant Leadership course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley, and Dr. James Molstre.

Summer Institute of Theology 2020

Textbook for Christian Leadership and Strategy for the Care of Souls course taught by Rev. Dr. Lucas Woodford.

Spring '20

Required FLS textbook for Discipleship/Leadership course taught by Pr. Wade Mobley, and Dr. James Molstre.

Explores what other church denominations believe and compares them to the Lutheran church. 8 chapters with discussion questions.

Calls the church to remain steadfast and to be in the world but not of the world by confronting a relativistic and narcissistic mindset rather than accommodating it. Helps readers live for Christ in the 21st century, using the first century church as a model. Study questions included.

Meet nine classic thinkers who helped shape Christianity

There exists a treasure trove of champions of the faith—one that overflows from the pages of the Bible into history itself. Kenneth Richard Samples has made this rich legacy accessible to all in a compact, powerful apologetics resource. A true beginner’s guide, Classic Christian Thinkers offers a concise yet meaningful look at nine of these timeless truth-seekers and how their insights bolster the case for Christian faith today.

Fall '25
Required FLBC textbook for Introduction to Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim and Pr. Adam Osier, Dean of FLBC.

Fall '24
Required FLBC textbook for Introduction to Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Jason Gudim and Pr. Adam Osier, Dean of FLBC.

Hardcover. Produced by a translation team of over 100 members with the attempt to preserve the stylistic variety of biblical authorship and ease of reading (at the eighth-grade level) despite literal translation. Includes center-column cross-references, full-color maps, concordance.

Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity.

Spring '24
Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Spring '23
Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Spring '22
Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Spring '21
Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Fall '20
Required FLS textbook for Basic Principles of Theology/Doctrine of the Word course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Spring '20
Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Short reflections on suffering and the book of Job wrestle with difficult issues we face during times of crisis such as trust in God, the meaning of life, and unfairness in the world. Added questions appropriate for personal devotions and group study encourage deeper meditation in the book of Job.

The cry of the empty soul is: “We would see Jesus.” Paul’s letter to the Colossians emphasizes the preeminence and sufficiency of Christ in all areas of Christian faith and life. Second book in the Ambassador Bible Study Series. 12 lessons.

Woven throughout this collection of 25 daily devotional readings and prayers counting down the days to Christmas is the vital message of God’s plan for our salvation through Jesus Christ and our need to share His message of grace with others.

Advent readings collected from the writings and sermons of 22 classic and contemporary theologians and Bible teachers such as Luther, Spurgeon, Augustine, Francis Schaeffer, R. C. Sproul, and Jonni Eareckson Tada to lead you and your family into the wonder of Jesus' incarnation and birth.

Verse-by-verse exposition by Martin Luther with careful analysis and clear presentation of Paul's letter written for all to understand.

An overview of Luther’s sacramental thinking in general is followed by treatments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The author clarifies the central role played by the Sacraments in the life of the Church, showing how the Lord’s Supper is integral to worship and how Baptism is more than just a right of admission and is a powerful way in which God applies the benefits of Christ individually to effect the new creation. $39.95

This volume explores Luther’s catechetical writings on Confession and Absolution, Household Duties, Marriage, and Baptism, as well as his Household Prayers, within a biblical, historical, and systematic context.

This volume places Martin Luther’s exposition of the Apostles’ Creed in its biblical, historical, and systematic context, and more generally within the Reformer’s trinitarian teaching.