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JOE's Books

The Essential Chronological Guide to the Last Days - January 2027!

Every Major Prophetic Event Explained from Today to Eternity by Trusted Pastors, Scholars, and Apologists!

Book cover on the last days with dramatic imagery.

Joseph M. Holden General Editor

Pre-order Now at Harvest House Publishers or on Am!! The Chronological Guide is written by trusted pastors, scholars, and apologists who walk you step-by-step through God’s plan, from the present age to the new heavens and new earth. Chapter contributors such as Joseph Holden, Jack Hibbs, David Guzik, Skip Heitzig, J. Randall Price, Gary Hamrick, Tommy Ice, Andy Woods, Robert Dean Jr, Arnold Fruchtenbaum, Tim Sigler, Forrest Weiland, and H. Wayne House, clarify Bible Prophecy for the last days.



NOW AVAILABLE! NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON BIBLICAL APOLOGETICS!

Equip yourself to make a difference wherever you are!

Book cover: A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics.

Joseph Holden & Sarah Enterline

Now Available! A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics is an easy-to-use, one-of-a-kind resource for all ages. Apologetics made easy, illustrated, and usable. You can pre-order now at Amazon or Harvest House Publishers! 


Learning Resources!

Equip yourself to make a difference wherever you are!

Joseph M. Holden & Norman Geisler survey the archaeological evidence that supports the Bible.

Joseph Holden/ Norman Geisler

This illustrated resource surveys the archaeological support for the historical reliability of the Bible. Written in easy-to-understand language and is perfect for any Bible student or pastor seeking to fill in the historical background of the biblical text. The books contains dozens of pictures, charts, and detailed explanations. 

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Joseph Holden

Equip yourself with this fresh look at various apologetic topics in this resource that features dozens of world-class contributors who answer 75 crucial questions about the Christian Faith. Contributors include: 


    John Warwick Montgomery

    Walter C. Kaiser Jr./Josh McDowell

    Norman Geisler/Edwin Yamauchi

    Stephen C. Meyer/William Dembski

    Guillermo Gonzales/Gary Habermas

    H. Wayne House/Natasha Crain

    Patty Tunnicliffe/Ron Rhodes

    Randy Alcorn

    

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Joseph Holden/ H. Wayne House

This chart book covers all aspects of apologetics, from the reasons for apologetics, to the various apologetic methods and their presuppositions, to apologetic approaches to specific topics such as the Resurrection. Wayne House deals very honestly with this topic and introduces the limits of rational argument and the limitations of reasoned proof in general which are often overlooked.


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Equip yourself to make a difference wherever you are!

Christian Standard Bible Apologetics Study Bible for Students.

Apologetics Study Bible for Students

Dr.  Holden served as an associate editor on this apologetics Bible, writing each of the "Bones & Dirt" archaeological sections. Now updated (2017) with even more material, the CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students anchors young Christians in the truths of Scripture by equipping them with thoughtful and practical responses when the core issues of their faith and life are challenged. explores over 130 of the top questions students are asking today. Sean McDowell is general editor.

Joseph M. Holden

Whether you’re reading God’s Word for the first time or the fortieth, you’re bound to ask questions along the way: Why can I be confident the Bible is reliable? Who decided which books made the final cut? What else do I need to know to get the most out of what I’m reading?

For new and seasoned believers alike, The  Infographic Guide to the Bible delivers invaluable historical, cultural, and contextual insights so you can better understand Scripture. 

David Farnell/ N. Geisler/ J. Holden

The inerrancy of God's Word has been challenged throughout church history. Today's assaults are unique since current neo-evangelical Christian scholars in reputable Christian institutions are attempting attempt to redefine biblical inerrancy by claiming that the writers of scripture intentionally included legend, invented speeches, and embellishments in the Bible. This book answers this claim with an emphatic challenge.  Drs. Bill Roach and Phil Fernandes also  served as Associate Editors. 


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An evaluation of the 'Open" view of God's nature in light of the ancient and medieval church fathers writings. Each chapter addresses an incommunicable attribute of God as contrasted to the Openness viewpoint (Open Theism). Also addressed is the charge that the classical concept of God was influenced and corrupted by Greco-hellenistic philosophy, as well as God and time, foreknowledge and freewill, and the classical attributes of God. (494 pages)

Norman Geisler/ Joseph Holden (Third Edition, 2024) $14.99

Updated Version! An introduction to apologetics for students of all ages, youth groups to adult readers. Each chapter, written in an easy-to-understand format, methodically works through a 10-point argument for Christianity. Quiz questions at the end of each chapter.  Originally published by Broadman & Holman publishers, this updated edition will equip junior high schoolers to adult learners. Numerous charts, Trinity and incarnation of Christ illustrations (244 pages)

Joseph Holden/ Steven Collins $35

SILVER MEDALLION AWARD! The Harvest Handbook of Bible Lands seeks to bring the reader into the epochs of the biblical world through well-written, narrative-style text, maps, photographs, illustrations, timeline, and breakout articles. It brings to life the ancient Near East in a lay-friendly manner in the most clear and concise terms possible.  Though it incorporates current ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology, this Handbook takes advantage of the most recent information.

Now Available! The Comprehensive Guide to Science & Faith

The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith:

Exploring  Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos (2022)


 General Editors

 William A. Dembski, Casey Luskin, Joseph M. Holden 

 Harvest House Publishers                                                     


Now Available!


The Comprehensive Guide to Science & Faith (CGSF) will be a popular language handbook exploring the ultimate questions about life and the cosmos. and the most basic questions centering on the relationship between science and faith, especially those topics that greatly impact the crucial doctrines of the Christianity. 


This work is best described by its readability and use-ability. It will be a scientifically accurate collection of essays written by well-known scientists, scholars, and apologists who are experts in the fields of science and scientific apologetics. It will take advantage of the most up-to-date information from four primary areas: 1) Understanding the relationship between science and faith, 2) Intelligent Design, 3) Evolution, and 4) Hard Questions on Science and Faith. The chapter titles contained in each section will be framed as a series of questions that directly tackle key issues related to science and faith.


The purpose of CGSF is to bring the reader, who has little to no understanding of science, into contact with the important scientific issues relating to faith. HHSF contains well-written chapters in question and answer format that a lay-reader would find appealing, leading the reader with ease in discovering the answers to their scientific questions.


The general editors will be drawing on a wide range of expert scholars, as well as their own areas of expertise, in assembling what will be a unique and remarkable popular easy-to-read addition to the subject of science and faith.

Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos

Learning Resources

*First read Norman Geisler, Beware of Philosophy: A Warning to Biblical Scholars (Colossians 2:8)


BIBLE

Holy Bible

H. Wayne House, The House Visual Study Bible (HVSB)

Sean McDowell gen. ed. & Joseph M. Holden, assoc. ed., et. al., The Apologetics Study Bible for Students

The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, translation and commentary by Martin Abegg Jr, Peter Flint, & Eugene Ulrich

Thomas A. Howe, A Critique of William Lane Craig's 'In Quest of the Historical Adam'

Thomas A. Howe, Reversing Heiser: A Critical Analysis of Michael S. Heiser's Reversing Hermon

Thomas A. Howe, Who Were the Sons of God in Genesis 6? The Many Errors of Gonzo Shimura

Thomas A. Howe, The Unseemly Realm: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of Michael S. Heiser

Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe, The Big Book of Bible Difficulties

Norman Geisler & William Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible

Norman Geisler & William Nix, From God to Us: How We Got Our Scriptures

Norman Geisler & William Roach, Defending Inerrancy

Norman Geisler, The Philosophical Roots of Errancy

Norman Geisler, Chosen But Free

RC Sproul & Norman Geisler, Explaining Inerrancy

Gleason Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction

KA Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament

FF Bruce, The Canon of Scripture

FF Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?

Walter Baur, Greek-English Lexicon of the NT

Colin J. Hemer, The Book of Acts in  the Setting of Hellenistic History

Walter C. Kaiser Jr, The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?

John D. Woodbridge,  Biblical Authority: A Critique of the Rogers/McKim Proposal 

John D. Hannah, Inerrancy and the Church

Joseph M. Holden, The Ultimate Infographic Guide to the Bible

Edwin M. Yamauchi, Persia and the Bible

James Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: It's Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (fourth edition)

Bruce Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible

Bruce Metzger, The Canon of The New Testament: It's Origin, Development, and Significance

Bruce Metzger, The Bible in Translation: Ancient and English Versions

John D. Woodbridge, Biblical Authority: A Critique of the Rogers/McKim Proposal

Carl FH Henry, God, Revelation and Authority (set)

RC Sproul and Norman Geisler, Explaining Biblical Inerrancy (The International Council on Biblical Inerrancy)

AN Sherwin-White, Roman Law and Roman Society in the New Testament

Eta Linnemann, Is There a Synoptic Problem?

Eta Linnemann, Historical Criticism of the Bible: Methodology or Ideology

Randy Alcorn, Heaven: A Comprehensive Guide to Everything the Bible Says About Our Eternal Home

Milton Spenser Terry, Biblical Hermeneutics: A Treatise on the Interpretation of the Old and New Testament

John Warwick Montgomery, God's Inerrant Word


APOLOGETICS/ETHICS

Stuart Hackett, The Resurrection of Theism

CS Lewis, Mere Christianity; Abolition of Man; Miracles; The Great Divorce; The Problem of Pain

Gleason Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties

Walter Kaiser, Jr, Peter Davids, & FF Bruce, Hard Sayings of the Bible

Norman Geisler, The Big Book of Apologetics: An A to Z Guide

Norman Geisler, Christian Apologetics

Norman Geisler, Christian Ethics: Options and Issues

Norman Geisler, If God, Why Evil?
Norman Geisler & Peter Bocchino, Unshakeable Foundations

Norman Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be An Atheist

Norman Geisler & Frank Turek, Legislating Morality

Norman Geisler & Joseph M. Holden, Living Loud: An Introduction to Apologetics for Students (Third Edition)

Norman Geisler & Winfried Corduan, Philosophy of Religion

Norman Geisler & Pat Zuckeran, The Apologetics of Jesus

Norman Geisler & Thomas A. Howe, The Big Book of Bible Difficulties
Norman Geisler & William Watkins, Worlds Apart: A Handbook on Worldviews
Norman Geisler & William Watkins, Twelve Points That Show Christianity is True:  A Handbook on Defending 

        the Christian Faith (2026)
John Warwick Montgomery, Faith Founded on Fact
John Warwick Montgomery, Defending the Gospel in Legal Style

Thomas Sherlock, The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Josh McDowell & Sean McDowell, gen. eds., Evidence That Demands A Verdict

Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God 

Mark Hanna, Biblical Christianity: Truth or Delusion?

Mark A. Yarhouse, Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture

Zachary A. Elliott, Binary: Debunking the Sex Spectrum Myth

Zachary A. Elliott, The Sex Development Handbook: A Guide to Human Sex Differentiation and Disorders of 

        Sex Development

Frank Turek, Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism (Expanded)

William Lane Craig, The Kalam Cosmological Argument

Gary Habermas, On the Resurrection (Volumes 1-4)

Gary Habermas, The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ

Greg Koukl, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions

Greg Koukl and Francis Beckwith, Relativism: Feet firmly Planted in Mid-Air

Joseph M. Holden, A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics

Joseph M. Holden,  gen. ed., The Comprehensive Guide to Apologetics

James Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

J. Warner Wallace, Cold Case Christianity (Updated & Expanded)

Bruce A. Little, Why Truth Matters


HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

Phillip Schaff, History of the Christian Church (set)

Phillip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (set)

Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers (set)

Jeraslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition (set)

Jeroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the 

       Christian Tradition

Kenneth Scott Latourette, History of Christianity (set)

JND Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines

Henry Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church

Andrew Louth, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition

Henry Chadwick, Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition

Norman Geisler & Ralph McKenzie, Roman Catholics and Evangelicals
Alvin Schmidt, How Christianity Changed the World


PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY OF GOD

Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God

Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, God: His Existence and Nature  (set)

Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, Predestination

Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, The One God

David Burrell, Aquinas: God and Action

Rudi TeVelde, Aquinas On God

Paul Gavrilyuk, The Suffering of the Impassible God

Thomas Weinandy, Does God Suffer?

Thomas Weinandy, Does God Change?

CT Haun, The Geislerian Argument for God

John Lennox, Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

John Lennox, Can Science Explain Every Thing?

John Lennox, Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists Are Missing the Target

Royce Gruenler, The Inexhaustible God

Frank Turek, Stealing From God

Norman Geisler, Systematic Theology in One Volume

Norman Geisler, Thomas Aquinas: An Evangelical Appraisal

Norman Geisler, What Augustine Says

Etienne, Gilson, God and Philosophy

Augustine, Complete Works

Anselm, Complete Works

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Book I: God)

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles (set)

Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence (translated by Armand Maurer)

Thomas Aquinas, On the Power of God

Edwin M. Yamauchi, Pre-Christian Gnosticism: A Survey of the Proposed Evidences


PHILOSOPHY

James Collins, A History of Modern European Philosophy

Armand A. Maurer (edited by E. Gilson), A History of Philosophy (2011)

Joseph Owens, A History of Philosophy

Joseph Owens, A History of Ancient Western Philosophy

Joseph Owens, An Elementary Christian Metaphysics

Etienne Gilson, Being and Some Philosophers

Etienne Gilson, The Unity of Philosophical Experience

Mortimer Adler, Six Great Ideas

Battista Mondin, The Principle of Analogy in Protestant and Catholic Theology

Norman Geisler & Paul Feinberg, Introduction to Philosophy

Norman Geisler, A History of Western Philosophy: Ancient & Medieval

Norman Geisler, A History of Western Philosophy: Modern and Postmodern, From Descartes to Derrida

Norman Geisler and Winfried Corduan, Philosophy of Religion (second edition)

Stuart Hackett, The Resurrection of Theism

Frederick Coplestone, A History of Philosophy (Set)


RELIGION/CULTS

Winfried Corduan, In the Beginning

Winfried Corduan, Neighboring Faiths

Winfried Corduan, Tapestry of Faith

Ron Rhodes, Reasoning From The Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses

Ron Rhodes, Reasoning From The Scriptures with the Mormons

Ron Rhodes, The Challenge of the Cults

Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults

James Sire, Scripture Twisting

James Sire, The Universe Next Door

Nabeel Qureshi, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

Norman Geisler & Abdul Saleeb, Answering Islam

Daniel Brubaker, Corrections in Early Quran Manuscripts: Twenty Examples


SCIENCE

Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life is Designed

Stephen Meyer, Darwin's Doubt

Stephen Meyer, Signature in the Cell

William Dembski, The Design Inference

William Dembski, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology

William Dembski, Casey Luskin, & Joseph M. Holden, gen. eds., The Comprehensive Guide to Science 

        and Faith

JP Moreland, Stephen Meyer, Casey Luskin, et. al., Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and 

       Theological Critique

Fred Hereen, Show Me God

Hugh Ross, The Fingerprint of God

Casey Luskin, et. al., Science and Human Origins

Norman Geisler, Origin Science

Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Michael Behe, Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
Michael Behe, A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics (2020)

JC Sanford, Genetic Entropy

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay Wesley Richards, The Privileged Planet


BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Nahman Avigad (revised by Benjamin Sass), Corpus of Western Semitic Stamp Seals

Rachel Hachlili, Jewish Funery Customs, Practices, and Rites in the Second Temple Period

William W. Hallo & K. Lawson Younger, Jr, The Context of Scripture (set)

James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

James B. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

Steven Collins & Joseph M. Holden, The Harvest Handbook of Bible Lands:  A Panoramic Survey of the History, Geography, and Culture of the Scriptures

Steven Collins & Joseph M. Holden, The Illustrated Chronological Guide to Bible Times 

Shimon Gibson, The Final Days of Jesus

Shimon Gibson, The Cave of John the Baptist

James K. Hoffmeier, Israel In and Out of Egypt: The Archaeological and Historical Background to the Exodus

James K. Hoffmeier, Israel In Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition

James K. Hoffmeier, The Prophets of Israel

James K. Hoffmeier, The Archaeology of the Bible

Mark Janzen, Scott Stripling, et al, Five Views on the Exodus

Scott Stripling, The Trowel and the Truth: A Guide to Field Archaeology in the Holy Land
Edwin Yamauchi, Persia and the Bible

Edwin Yamauchi, Africa and the Bible

J. Randall Price, Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology

Titus Kennedy, Unearthing the Bible: 101 Archaeological Discoveries That Bring the Bible to Life

John McRay & Alfred Hoerth, Bible Archaeology: An Exploration of the History and Culture of 

         Early Civilizations

Alfred Hoerth, Archaeology and the Old Testament

John D. Currid, Doing Archaeology in the Land of the Bible

David E. Graves, The History of Biblical Archaeology Uncovering the Ancient World of the Bible

David E. Graves, The Archaeology of the Old Testament: 115 Discoveries that Support the Reliability 

         of the Bible

David E. Graves, An Illustrated Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology

Colin J. Hemer & Conrad Gempf, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History

A. N. Sherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament

Joachim Jeremias, Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus

Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

Flavius Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews (Complete Works)

Joseph M. Holden & Scott Stripling, A Visual Guide to Biblical Archaeology (forthcoming)

Joseph M. Holden & Norman L. Geisler, The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible

David Hendin, Guide to Biblical Coins (sixth edition)

Leen Ritmeyer, The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Mark W. Chavalas & K. Lawson Younger, Jr, Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations

Mark W. Chavalas, Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation

Ehud Netzer & Rachel Laureys-Chach, The Architect of Herod, the Great Builder

The Veritas  Ashkenazi Torah (1550-1650), displayed at VIU in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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