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Is Atheism Dead? is an entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 TIME cover that itself provocatively asked "Is God Dead?" In a voice that is by turns witty, muscular, and poetic, Metaxas intentionally echoes C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in cheerfully and logically making his astonishing case, along the way presenting breathtaking-and often withering-new evidence and arguments against the idea...
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On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the renowned scholar Marcus J. Borg shares how he formed his bedrock religious beliefs, contending that Christians in America are at their best when they focus on hope and transformation and so shows how we can return to what really matters most. The result is a manifesto for all progressive Christians who seek the best path for following Jesus today. With each chapter embodying a distinct conviction, Borg...
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A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful, in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God, but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every foundational building block she knew.
Heretic is a memoir...
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In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy warns of the haunting similarities between today's American church and the German church of the 1930s. Echoing Bonhoeffer's prophetic call, Eric Metaxas exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil before it is too late.
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The Conspiracy chronicles the monumental struggles of an innocent priest, Monsignor William McCarthy, falsely accused in 2003 of molesting two young sisters more than 23 years earlier. On the eve of his retirement from a stellar career as a priest and pastor, for the next five tortuous years, he was the victim of an anonymous complaint that was accepted as true by his bishop and friend of 40 years. Share his travails and see how ones faith can overcome...
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Behold the Earth is a music-rich documentary film that explores America's divorce from the outdoors through conversations with legendary scientists E.O. Wilson, Cal DeWitt, and Theo Colborn, as well as a new generation of creation-care activists within America's Christian communities. Katharine Hayhoe, Ben Lowe, and Corina Newsome are close observers of nature bearing witness to creation, asking tough questions about church engagement with environmental...
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Having just lost a daughter to meningitis, Mark Twain wrote this book out of outrage toward the Christian Science movement and its founder Mary Baker Eddy. This movement emphasized the effects of prayer on healing the body and relieving sicknesses and other ailments. Although the founder of Christian Science appears to be altruistic with good intentions, Twain saw fraudulence and greed. Using his humor and wit, Mark Twain picks apart the movement...
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Written in 1746, "Religious Affections" is the widely influential work by Jonathan Edwards, one of America's most important religious leaders and theologians. Edwards was a significant force in the rise of religious devotion in the United States in the 1730s known as the First Great Awakening and became a popular American revivalist preacher. His "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is one of the most famous sermons ever given and remains a widely...
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Each generation of believers faces numerous challenges to the mission of the church. While the church does not have control over the large issues of each generation, its response to them is a matter of Kingdom stewardship. J. D. Payne gets to the heart of the twelve most important problems we face today. In Pressure Points J. D. helps us see how we can prevent these global issues from pushing the church off its biblical moorings, so we can absorb...
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Doug Bixby knows that many of us have had enough of the liberal vs. conservative battles in the church. In “The Honest to God Church”, Bixby demonstrates how these extremes have distracted us from our true calling as conduits for God's grace-both individually and as congregations. Many churches see themselves as "okay," while everyone outside the church is "not okay." These churches embrace an ethic of perfection rather than love. Often, they...
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Heart of a Minstrel is a dynamic book guaranteed to give you a better understanding of what the true definition of a minstrel is in the church. This book will help restore the initial assignment of the music ministry and birth out another dimension of worship. Expect to be enlightened, blessed, and motivated by this anointed man of God's passion and obedience to do what God has called him to do.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I do not understand why God created the world this way. It seems like God is playing games with us. God seems to have hidden holiness and wholeness in a secret place where only the humble will find it.
#2 People who have moved from seeming success to seeming success rarely understand success at all, except a very limited version of it. People who fail to do it right,...
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The author of this little book has never received formal biblical training. He is only a believer who has been a Christian of more than sixty years and is a regular Bible reader. The views stated which are not identified as Bible verses are only his opinions as he understands the Holy Scriptures. They are offered in an effort to spark the interest of readers to encourage them to seek the truth for themselves.
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The purpose of this book is to explain the origin and destiny of mankind. God made man in his own image and likeness. Man was in a holy state as God, but he disobeyed God and fell into sin. Only God could deliver man out of his situation.
This book explains how God delivered man and what God expects of man while he is on this earth. Man has to go through three processes. He has to go through justification, sanctification, and glorification. We will...
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Book that will show the way back to living intensely, without fear, sadness or pain. Life continues and you can't remain still with no response to this precious gift that the Lord bequeathed you. A life is worth more than the whole world, you are too precious to give up on living.
When you can not find any more strength to continue your life, know that there is hope, on reading this book, you can take this gift for yourself, which will put a direction...
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How should the church respond to the changing cultural and societal changes going on around it? Should it reject the historical traditions that served the early Christian church, or should it turn a blind eye to the changes happening in modern society? Neither, as Cassandra D. Carkuff Williams advocates, it should, and it must recover and reclaim our foundations and reinterpret them in light of present-day realities. In “Learning the Way: Reclaiming...
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In the 30 years since Dr Francis Schaeffer's The Great Evangelical Disaster showed how what was supposed to be 'the Bible-believing evangelical church' was largely becoming ineffectual and abandoned by God as a result of becoming increasingly dominated by a new 'super-spirituality'. Peter C Glover's The Great Evangelical Disaster Revisited not only shows how evangelicals failed entirely to heed Schaeffer's warning but identifies those chiefly responsible...
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Whose Idea Were the Denominations in the First Place?
In the perilous times we live in, there has never been a greater need for unity among the followers of Jesus. In this book, Randy Adams explores the scriptural mandate for unity, the breaking up of the oneness found in the Book of Acts church, the origins of denominationalism, and the critical need for the church to come together to be the bride beautifully prepared for the return of the Bridegroom....
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Even as so-called megachurches capture the attention of many church watchers, small congregations continue to dominate America's religious landscape in both rural and urban settings. Although sometimes obscured by their larger siblings, these small churches play a prominent role and hold a unique place in both local and national cultures. How can leaders help to keep these often at-risk churches alive and to meet their potential for ministry? Small-church...
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