This little collection of Christological meditations and reflections has two points of origin. The first was the Congress on the Sacred Heart of Jesus that was held at Toulouse in the summer of 1981 in connection with the Eucharistic Congress held earlier at Lourdes. In the quiet of the Dominican cloister in Toulouse I was able to work on my talk for the Congress, which became an impetus for me…
The most penetrating and, indeed, prophetic book by an outsider taking a critical look at the Church.
The church at Corinth was no different from the church at Denver, Cleveland, Edgefield, Toronto, or Boone's Creek. Those early believers were confronted by problems of conduct just as we are today. The Corinthians congregation was surrounded by a polluted and idolatrous environment, and we are faced by similar adegradation in our society. [ 1st paragraph ] The local church, recognizing that…
In a message that rings as true today as it did fifty years ago, Richard Niebuhr speaks of Christ and culture as the two points of reference for faith and ethics and challenges a new generation of Christians to be true to Christ in a materialistic age. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his seminal work includes a new foreword by distinguished historian Martin E.Marty. who regards this book a…
Are you a workaholic? Or is your job just a necessary evil, a means of paying the bills? Do you feel guilty when you relax? Or when you groan 'Roll on Friday!'? God ordained both work and rest. This book will help you see the wisdom of that. It will enable you to think through a healthy, biblical attitude to your work and your leisure, and to move your lifestyle into line with his plan. '…
The story of John Sung is simply the story of Holy Spirit Revival, not of the spurious ecemenical sort currently infecting churches around the world. John Sung unequivocally rebuked the tongue speakers, the liberals, modernists, apostates and ecumenist of this day. Were he alive today, he would not spare these false prophets the reproof of God's Word.
Christian monk and mystic Thomas Hemerken, aka THOMAS À KEMPIS (1380-1471), wrote The Imitation of Christ, the second most important book, after the Bible, in Christian philosophy. But he also penned numerous other works of devotion, including this previously hard-to-find collection of contemplations for sincere, dedicated believers. Discover, in this 1904 translation. . the severe judgment of…
The Apostles' and Nicene creeds are some of the oldest professions of faith in Christianity, spoken by countless followers of Christ in the past two millennia. Beautifully designed with stunning photography, this book offers you the opportunity to engage with Scripture and the creeds whenever you have a spare moment. With reflections and NIV Scripture, this gift book offers affirmations of fait…
A Personal Word : Not long ago I published a special edition of the King James Version of the Bible. We offered this Bible on one of our guarterly television specials, and thousands of our viewers wrote for it. We also gave the Bible freely to more than 500 major prisons throughout the United States and Canada. At the back of this Bible I inserted ten of my own sermons on “THE MIRACLES OF JES…