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. 'This …
A client raises spiritual questions. Can a Christian therapist working in a government agency talk with a client about faith? A young couple with two children asks a Christian counselor to help them negotiate an end to their marriage. What responsibility does the counselor have to try to repair the relationship? A youth group member confidentially reveals to the pastor that he is taking drugs. …
If only sexual sin could stay outside the church's walls! Instead, God's people are as susceptible as anyone else. Adultery, divorce, homosexuality, pornography, gender confusion, prostitution, incest - author Harry Schaumburg has seen all of these and more in thirty years of counseling Christian couples, pastors, and ministry leaders. Yet he firmly believes there is a path to freedom and purit…
The Internet is everywhere. Chat rooms and instant email messages have taken the place of letters and phone calls. The Internet has changed the way we do business, shop, communicate, and even meet people. In many ways our lives are easier and more convenient. But what price do we pay for this convenience? Habits of the HighTech Heart addresses the major drawbacks to the network computerization …
"Manusia menurut naturnya adalah pemburu," tulis R. C. Sproul dalam Pendahuluan buku ini. Sejarah kehidupan manusia diwarnai dengan perburuan dan pencarian, mulai dari pencarian yang eksotis akan ramuan ajaib, pencarian visioner alam dunia baru, sampai perburuan teroris modern. Namun Sproul memberikan argumentasi yang solid bahwa pencarian yang paling mendasar adalah pencarian kembali akan mart…
Abad ke-20 ditandai oleh ketegangan antara kekuatan-kekuatan pemersatu globalisasi dan konflik pluralitas pandangan hiduo, religius, moral, dan ideologis. Konflik itu tercermin jelas dalam pluralitas posisi dan pendekatan etika abad ke-20 yang sudah kehilangan kesatuan visi dasarnya. Dua belas tokoh dalam buku ini representatif bagi kemajemukan itu: dari etika dasar Emmanuel Levinas sampai ke r…
The Sermon on the Mount is one of the most familiar passages in the New Testament. In this concise and clearly-written introduction to and commentary on the Sermon, Charles Talbert pays particular attention to its role in character formation and ethical decision making. After introductory chapters on reading the Sermon on the Mount, the book offers a section-by-section commentary. Talbert point…
Pendeta Stephen Tong secara khusus membahas Sepuluh Hukum dari sudut pandang Kristen, mengenai iman dan etika orang Kristen, bagaimana orang percaya harus beriman dan berbakti kepada Tuhan yang sejati dan bagaimana harus meng- hidupi moral dan menjalankan kelakuan hidup yang mulia terhadap sesama. Buku ini menjadi satu dari tiga pengertian penting di samping Doa Bapa Kami dan Pengakuan Iman Ras…
How do Christians understand friendship and intimacy? How does worship form Christians into a community of the friends of God? What virtues does God call us to incorporate into our lives? In Becoming Friends, Paul Wadell explores the connections between worship, justice, friendship, and the life we are called to live. This engaging and accessible book offers a fresh viewpoint from which to e…
This one-volume history of Christian ethics is the only comprehensive resource currently available to survey major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. Topics discussed are: the legacies of Christian ethics, the ethics of early Christianity, the Reformation and Enlightenment, eighteenth and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelism, Christian ethics in the t…