Here is a fresh, sensible, increasingly popular approach to the problems that every human being, including the person in need of psychiatric help, faces every day in his relations with himself and others. Transactional Analysis is a new breakthrough, one that confronts the individual with the fact that he is responsible for what happens in the future, no matter what has happened in the past. It…
'From the minute I got up this morning my kids were fussing and fighting, and finding creative ways to drive me nuts. Sometimes, on a day like this, I just want to give them away -- cheap!' 'I love them to death, but some days I'd like to know them into the middle of next week.' Do these sentiments sound familiar? Feeling guilty about your parental frustrations is not the answer. (Neither is gi…
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and sparked the montgomery, alamaba, bus boycott. A year later when the boycott was over, there was a federal injuction againts segregation on buses; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a national figure; the civil rights movement was a national cause; and Rosa Parks was out of a job. Yet there is much m…
John Newton had an unusual appreciation for the grace of God, for he had wandered a tremendous distance from it. John Newton is his own account of his journey into God's grace. In a series of fourteen letters written to a friend, John Newton discloses the many acts of Providence that eventually led to his salvation. From his early years of hardship and his life as a sailor and slavedealer, he r…
Lord, teach us to pray," Alexander Whyte declared one Sunday in the winter of 1895, quoting the Gospel of Luke 11:1. This began a long series he taught, ranging from the prayers of Jacob to Paul's prayers and thanksgivings. This compilation of powerful sermons on prayer revolves around the central theme of Luke 11:1. Whyte's use and emphasis on imagination brings the message a vividness which g…
The aim of this guide is to help readers grasp Schaeffer's essential ideas through a study of his "trilogy" ; The God Who is There, Escape from Reason and He is Not Silent.
More than sixty years after his death B.B. Warfield;s witness remains a powerful influence in main-stream Christianity simply because no successor has attained to his eminence as a biblical theologian. In his years at Princeton, 1886-1921, he was unquestionably the best-known opponent of the rationalism and anti-supernaturalism which threatened the life of the Church in the 20th Century; for hi…
This book seeks to throw light on the reasons which have given rise to the superficial image of Spurgeon as a genial Victorian pulpiteer, a kind of grandfather of modern evangelicalism. Even before his death in 1892 newspapers and church leaders disputed over the features of his life which entitled him to fame. Not his 'narrow creed' but his 'genuine loving character' was most worthy of remembr…
“The early Christians did not adjust to the situation; they adjusted the situation!” “This world is not our rest; it is a training ground for Christian character. You cannot sharpen an axe on a pound of butter.” “God’s Word is absolute or it is obsolete. It is wired up from heaven and when we make proper contact we get a shock. But if we stay in contact we get a charge!” These quo…