The book is in one sense a narrative account of events--from the numbing telephone call on a sunny Sunday afternoon that tells of 25-year-old Eric's death in a mountain-climbing accident, to a graveside visit a year later. But the book is far more than narrative. Every event is an occasion for remembering, for meditating, for Job-like anguish in the struggle to accept and understand.. A profoun…
In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this Gold Medallion Award winner, Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the wondrous dynamics of committed love. In highly readable, first-person style, Mason?s writing stimulates readers? thoughts and prayers and propels couples to deeper intimacy. ?A marriage is not a joining of two worlds,? says the author, ?but an abandoning of two worlds in ord…
as attacks on Christianity become more numerous and pronounced, Cornelius Van Til classic treatment on apologetics endures as crucial reading for our time. Designed to stop securalists in their tracks, it is the kind of seminal work that serious defenders of fatih cannot afford to ignore. After laying a foundation in the Christian views of God, man, salvation, the world, and knowledge, Van Til…
F.F. Bruce has long been known as a first-class scholar who communicates the truths of Scripture clearly and covincingly. In this Jesus Library volume he brings his skills and expertise to bear on the whole of Jesus 'life and ministry. Who is Jesus anyway? asks Bruce. A guru? A freedom fighter? A migician? a charlatan? The Savior of the world? and what difference does it make? Is he just dead …
This book recounts the Roman and Jewish context of New Testament times...the lives of John and Jesus, and the history of the first two generations of the Church.
Our Lord knew the value of prayer. The Bible says at times Jesus would rise a great while before dawn and go Into the mountain to pray. In the evenings He would walk down the slope of the backside of Jerusalem across the Kidron Brook and ascend the Mount of Olives. There He communed with the Father, sometimes all night long. So when Christ said in Matthew 6:9, "After this manner, therefore, …
This is a penetrating, yet sympathetic and constructive inquiry into the gut predicaments of being a minister. It is a kind of meditation for those brave enough to step away from their own tactical problems and reflect unguardedly on their style, identity, self-image-that is, on why they are called to be ministers and on how they are fulfilling that call. Few books written for ministers are …
"To doubt is to be in two minds." "Faith is much more than the absence of doubt, but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart & a quiet mind." Doubt is everyone's problem. But it is a special problem for Christians because of the premium placed on God's truthfulness. Some doubts gnaw unconsciously at the root of faith; some so clamor for attention that they keep us awake a…
"~Success for Christian schools often depends on their ability to mount large and varied-and expensive-academic, arts, and athletic programs. Some have done this amazingly well, becoming, in places, the elite schools in their communities. Others, unable to keep up, are closing their doors, chiefly in the urban areas, where the need for their services is arguably greatest. The pressure and compe…
Each age has to rethink for itself how Christianity is to be lived here and now. Christian spirituality, while remaining essentially the same, changes in various ways to meet contemporary needs. Spirituality For Modern Man takes a theme or topic approach. Each theme is self contained; the inner unity being the Mystery of Christ itself.