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15 May 2020

Learning from the past

In this second edited extract from his forthcoming book, Calum MacKellar explains why those working in the field of genetic selection often avoid the term ...

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27 Jun 2019

Introducing John Stott on The Gospel

Tim Chester introduces us to The Gospel: A Life-Changing Message, one of five short books that make up the re-issue of John Stott's The Contemporary ...

Laura Barry
6 Sept 2022

British Book and Production Awards 2022

We're thrilled to announce that IVP's John Stott On Creation Care has been shortlisted for best jacket/cover design by the British Book and Production Awards. ...

Laura Barry
31 Oct 2022

Guest Blog Post: Why the Church Needs Reformation and Revival

Andrew Fellows, author of Smuggling Jesus Back Into The Church, explores why the church needs reformation and ...

30 Oct 2019

Reading the Bible as a foreigner

David Firth, prolific IVP/Apollos author and Tutor in Old Testament at Trinity College, Bristol, discusses how his personal experience has shaped the way he has read scripture. This blog post is an edited extract from his new book, Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former ...

Tom Creedy
15 Sept 2020

Key Themes in Nahum

Ahead of the publication of Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah, we are sharing some handy outlines of these minor prophets. Drawn from the BST NIV Bible, here's an introduction to the key themes of ...

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15 Apr 2019

How do you handle stress?

Will Van Der Hart, co-author of The Worry Book and The Guilt Book, writes on mental health and dealing with the negative cycle of guilt for April's Stress Awareness Month. ...

18 Oct 2018

How do your values shape your professional identity?

IVP Editor and Publicist Elizabeth Neep is on our blog for World Values Day. Her strong faith and unshakable integrity guide everything she does, personally and ...

24 Feb 2020

Put On New Clothes

In this short blog post Paul Mallard, author of 'An Identity to Die For', invites us to consider how we can deliberately live for Jesus every ...

Tom Creedy
6 Nov 2020

Key Themes in Hebrews

Ahead of the publication of the new Tyndale New Testament Commentary on Hebrews by David Peterson, here are some of the key themes of this epistle. ...

Rochelle Owusu-Antwi
17 Sept 2025

Unmuted – Speaking to Be Heard: Book Launch & Celebration Event

Join us in Milton Keynes for the launch of Unmuted: Speaking to Be Heard, and be equipped to build churches where every voice ...

Rochelle Owusu-Antwi
5 Feb 2026

February New Releases

February’s new releases invite the church to rediscover Christ-centred leadership and the life-changing power of the Holy Spirit in a changing ...

Rochelle Owusu-Antwi
24 Oct 2025

A God of Amazing Restoration: Hope for Those Who Think They’ve Gone Too Far

Guest post by Marcus A. Mininger. Many feel they’ve wandered too far for God to forgive them, yet throughout Scripture we see His grace restoring the fallen again and ...

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3 Jun 2019

F is for Food

Enjoy this extract all about food and it's impact on us and our plant from Ruth Valerio's revised and updated L is for Lifestyle. Order your copy now! And check out more writing by Ruth on her ...

9 Jun 2020

Trinity: The Root of Unity

Jonathan Lamb unpacks how seeing God as God really is, Trinity, is the root of ...

20 Mar 2020

Unimaginable Peace

In this Guest Post, Ollie Lansdown, who lives with an underlying health condition, shares about the peace he has in these uncertain ...

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12 Jul 2019

Introducing Food for the Journey - 365 Day Devotional

We're celebrating the release of Food for the Journey with inspiring quotes, Scripture passages and extracts. Keep an eye on our blog and social media accounts throughout July and August to ensure you don't miss ...

14 Jul 2020

A Tribute to Peter Maiden

"We do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope" (1Thess. 4:13b.) IVP Editor Eleanor Trotter offers her tribute to Peter Maiden, 'A Radical ...

27 Oct 2020

Can the Bible be Contradicted?

In this brief extract from his chapter on the truthfulness and trustworthiness of Scripture, Wayne Grudem explains why he believes that no new fact can ever contradict the ...

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25 Jul 2019

Food for the Journey - an extract from Revelation

We're celebrating the release of Food for the Journey with inspiring quotes, Scripture passages and extracts. In this blog post you will find an extract from ...

9 Nov 2019

Did God Command Genocide?

In this edited extract from his new book Including the Stranger, David Firth unpacks the problem posed by some contemporary readings of the New Testament. The answer, in his view, is more complex than we might think. Scroll down for some related ...

20 Jul 2020

Speaking of Relationships...

Many single women and men in our churches can sometimes feel that they are ‘other’. Single people are vital to the church, and, for many, their local church is a true family, just as Jesus taught (Matt 12:46-50). They find the friendship, support, intimacy and warmth of genuine fellowship to be a significant aspect of their ...

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20 Jun 2019

Introducing Scattered and Gathered: Equipping disciples for the frontline

Rev Dr Neil Hudson introduces us to Scattered and Gathered, a new book for church ...

30 Sept 2020

Black, British, Christian

With Black History Month taking a special significance this year in the light of the murder of George Floyd and the Black lives matter protests, we've dug into our backlist, and want to spotlight a few resources help Christians think through how to talk about race ...

13 Oct 2020

How Should Christians Study Systematic Theology?

In this extended extract from the new edition of Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology, he shares his heart for the how of studying biblical ...

20 Dec 2018

5 ways to keep Christ the centre of Christmas

Ruth Clemence is back on our blog with useful ways we can keep Christ at the centre of our Christmas ...

20 Apr 2020

Guest Post: Panxiety

In this guest blog post, Will Van Der Hart, pastoral chaplain at HTB and author (with Dr Rob Waller) of a number of books, considers how the current pandemic interacts with ...

Tom Creedy
12 Apr 2021

Key Themes in Obadiah

With the publication in April 2021 of the new Tyndale Old Testament Commentary on Obadiah, Jonah and Micah, we're sharing the key themes from each book, as a sneak peek into the new commentary by Daniel Timmer. ...

Tom Creedy
22 May 2025

A Brief Tribute to Gordon J. Wenham - by L. Michael Morales

Author, and doctoral student of Wenham, L. Michael Morales, offers a brief tribute to Gordon J. Wenham, who passed into glory recently. _______________________________________________________ While sleeping peacefully on the morning of May 13, 2025, Gordon Wenham entered the glorious, heavenly presence of his Savior. He was a ...

Tom Creedy
18 Jan 2021

Wrestling With My Thoughts: A Year on from Publication

In this Guest Post, Sharon Hastings reflects on a strange year - which just happened to be the year in which her first book was ...

Tom Creedy
29 Mar 2021

Key Themes in Jonah

1 Sept 2020

What have our Idols ever done for Us?

In this edited extract from his forthcoming 'Here Are Your Gods!', Chris Wright challenges us to consider why we put so much hope in fallible people, fallen ideas, and sinful ...

24 Apr 2020

Guest Post: Adrenaline Hangover

In this guest blog post, Will Van Der Hart, pastoral chaplain at HTB and author (with Dr Rob Waller) of a number of books, considers how the current pandemic could be seen as something of an Adrenalin ...

11 May 2020

Guest Post: Don't Forget to Repent

In this Guest Post, Tom Woolford ponders the message of a Church of England Prayer that is particularly ...

24 Sept 2019

To All Who Are Stranded

Peter Grier, author of Travel: In Tandem with God's Heart offers some biblical perspective and intentional prayers for all those caught up in the news about Thomas ...

19 May 2020

Kindness and Psychosis

Sharon Hastings, author of Wrestling With My Thoughts, suggests some brave steps to break down barriers, in this guest post for Mental Health Awareness ...

25 Sept 2020

Picking and Choosing?

In this edited extract from the new edition of Why Trust the Bible?, Amy Orr-Ewing responds to the common charge that we are all just picking and choosing bits of the Bible we like - by challenging us about how we understand ...

Tom Creedy
18 May 2022

Guest Post: On Faith and Addiction

Ally Gordon, author of 'Why Art Matters', offers up a searing and personal blog post about 'The Wolf at the ...

28 Feb 2019

What is unconditional love?

What is unconditional love? Why don't we see much of it around? Is unconditional love fair? Liz Carter, author of Catching Contentment, asks what we can do to understand a kind of world-changing love, even in difficult ...

8 Sept 2020

What does the Bible say about the foundations of our trust in God? Part II

Felicity MacKenzie continues her blog series on trusting God, by digging deeper into what the Bible ...

1 Oct 2020

Key Themes in Joel

Ahead of the publication this month of the new TOTC on Joel and Amos, here are some of the key themes of the book of ...

Tom Creedy
5 Oct 2020

Key Themes in Amos

Ahead of the publication this month of the new TOTC on Joel and Amos, here's an outline of the book and a summary of some of the key themes of Amos' Prophecy. ...

3 Oct 2020

Identity Politics

In this edited extract from Why Trust the Bible? Amy Orr-Ewing opens up the complex subject of identity ...

Tom Creedy
7 Oct 2022

Key Themes in The Pastoral Epistles

After the publication of Osvaldo Padilla's new Tyndale New Testament Commentary on The Pastoral Epistles, we've shared some blog posts looking at Key Themes in the Pastoral Epistles - this blog post acts as a round-up of these, with an additional extract from Osvaldo's ...

Rochelle Owusu-Antwi
30 Oct 2025

How Gratitude Can Heal a Divided World: Girma Bishaw on The Gratitude Way

Girma Bishaw shares how a biblical vision of gratitude can transform hearts, communities, and even ...

19 Sept 2019

Enjoying God's Gifts in Creation

Have you ever stopped and pondered what God meant in giving Adam and Eve (and us!) plants for food to steward in the garden of his ...

16 Jun 2020

What can Head Coverings Teach us about Church Unity?

For many evangelicals, head coverings are a historical oddity. But Jonathan Lamb has recent experience of this being a live issue. In this blog post, he explores how that can help us talk about ...

Laura Barry
3 Mar 2022

What should Christians learn about leadership from Boris Johnson’s ‘partygate’?

With the publication of Powerful Leaders? this month, IVP's Publishing Director, Caleb Woodbridge, ponders what Christians should learn about leadership from Boris Johnson’s ...

Tom Creedy
16 Oct 2020

Guest Post: Coming to grips with a COVID Christmas

In this guest blog post, by a church leader for church leaders, Esther Prior shares some thoughts about the creativity that this strange season could ...

6 Aug 2020

A Better Hope: Christ's Body, Our Bodies

In this edited extract from A Better Hope, Sam Allberry considers the practical meaning of Christ's resurrection body for us both now and in the ...

Tom Creedy
20 Jan 2021

Guest Post: What's Not to Like? Social Media and the Capitol Hill Riots

Jeremy Peckham, an AI expert and author of Masters or Slaves? AI and the future of humanity shares his perspective on the complex relationship between social media and the recent events in the ...

Tom Creedy
3 Sept 2021

What will Eternal Life be like?

In this edited extract from his new evangelistic book, Martin Salter shares what he believes eternal life will be ...

Laura Barry
4 May 2023

Coronation Sale: Enjoy 20% OFF the entire website

Celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty The King Charles III this Saturday, the 6th of May, with 20% OFF our entire website until May ...

23 Jul 2018

In our era of fake news, we need MORE > Truth

We chatted with Kristi Mair, author of MORE > Truth, about writing, philosophy, living as a Christian, and our relationship to information in our current political ...

10 Feb 2020

Jesus' View of the Bible

In this extract from Canon, Covenant and Christology, Matthew Barrett explores how a high Christology and an evangelical view of Scripture go hand in hand, as he introduces his new book. ...

Tom Creedy
11 Aug 2022

An Interview with Paul Overland

To mark the publication of the latest volume in the Apollos Old Testament Commentary, we asked author of the entry on Proverbs, a few ...

5 Sept 2020

How can current university culture affect our trust in God?

What is the culture that shapes the university experience in the UK? How does it affect our faith and trust in God? Felicity MacKenzie explores and suggests a way through the ...

28 Feb 2020

The Boring Place? What The Good Place misses about Heaven

Our Publishing Director, Caleb Woodbridge, ponders the ending of the popular and thought provoking Netflix Series 'The Good Place', in this 'long ...

Tom Creedy
25 Jan 2021

Guest Post: How Penal Substitution is the antithesis of Spiritual Abuse

In this thoughtful guest blog post, All Souls Student Worker Ollie Lansdowne ponders the difference between the power of this world and the power of the ...