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…
Jacques Maritain, one of the most eminent Catholic philosophers of our time, explores in this book the American system of education. Dissenting from the view that has been widely held in various disguised forms that education is in some way like animal training. Maritain believes that it must be based on the Christian idea of man as being "more a whole than a part, and more independent than se…
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" The life and Testament of Jim Elliot So wrote Jim Elliot at age 22, sweating over Greek roots and patristics at Wheaton College. Seven years later, writes his widow, "he and four other young men sat together on a strip of white sand on the Curaray River, deep in Ecuador s rain forest, waiting for the arrival of a group…
"If your eye causes you to sin," said Jesus, Pluck it out and throw it away." He also said : " If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,... he cannot be my disciple
Good news!It was good news not only of Jesus' birth but of what he offered to men, women and children throughout his ministry. To the sick he offered healing. To the hurting, comfort. To the outcast, acceptance. In this study guide Ada Lum leads you to discover that this message of hope and joy is for you as well!This LifeGuide Bible Study in IVP's revised format features questions for starting…
Argues that we often try to substitute materialism for spiritual fulfillment, shows how reigion, psychotherapy, and meditation can help one discover one's spiritual self
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…