"A Book Called In Latin Enchiridion Militis Christiani, And In English The Manual Of The Christian Knight"" is a book written by the famous Dutch philosopher and theologian, Desiderius Erasmus, in 1503. The book is a guide for Christian knights on how to live a virtuous life and how to defend their faith. It is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of Christian life: f…
Who among us is not interested in success? Yet ambition, the chief means to success, is in bad repute these days, especially in America, and above all among educated Americans. Such is the reluctance even to approach the subject with candor, Joseph Epstein suggest, that many people live "with confusion and contradictions running up the center of their lives, in a state of perturbation, distract…
The author advocates a closer identification between the local congregation and the universal church. He works through the realities of church life and denominational organizations before challenging church leaders to redefine ecclesiology.
In a tradition that goes back hundreds, even thousands, of years, godly parents in the churches of the Protestant Reformation establish and maintain Christian schools for the instruction of their children. This involves struggle and sacrifice. These parents willingly pay the price in the conviction that, as one of the Reformed confessions expresses it, good Christian schools are a "demand of th…
Muncul sebagai pemimpin di tengah kekacauan sosial yang ekstrem dan kekerasan massal yang melanda Indonesia pada 1966, Suharto telah menjadi ikon penting Indonesia modern. la membangun sebuah rezim kuat yang terkenal sebagai Orde Baru, dan terus memimpin negara terpadat keempat dunia ini hingga jatuh secara tragis pada 1998. Buku ini memberikan wawasan memukau tentang seorang pria yang naik …
"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…
Bumi tempat tinggal kita ini terasa aman dan tenang. Padahal, sebenarnya kita tinggal di atas nemda yang terus berputar-putar. Di mana-mana gunung api meletus dan muncul gempa bumi yang keras. Sekalipun demikian, Bumi merupakan satu-satunya tempat tinggal yang indah dan berharga.
Dari ujung rambut sampai ujung kaki, adalah bagian tubuh kita yang penting. Jantung memompa darah ke seluruh tubuh, paru-paru membantu kita bernapas, tulang melindungi organ tubuh bagian dalam, mata melihat, telinga mendengar ... Rambut hidung diperlukan untuk menyarin debu yang masuk ke hidung. Setiap organ tubuh kita melaksanakan perannya masing-masing dengan sempurna. Tubuh kira sungguh men…