Growing numbers of woman today are spending, charging, gambling, and shopping away their health and well-being, and families and friends are often left to bail them out. But at the same time others are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to spend money on themselves - even for basic needs. In this moving and hope-filled book, O'Connor illustrates how difficulty in handling money can be…
Douglas O’Donnell shows, in this redemptive-historical, biblical, practical, and expositional commentary, that Ecclesiastes answers two key questions that worry everybody in the depths of their minds. The first is “What does man gain from all the toil at which he toils under the sun?”―the answer being “nothing.” The second follows: “In light of such vanity―the fact that our work…
How can we know that we possess eternal life? The apostle John answered that question in the three epistles that bear his name. He wrote that we must first believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that Christ came in the flesh. Second, we must obey God’s commandments. Third, we must love others. In this illuminating and engaging commentary on John’s letters, pastor-scholar Douglas Sean O’…
A Canadian clergyman recounts his upbringing in Ireland and how it brought him into touch with the spiritual traditions of Celtic Christianity.
From Lloyd John Ogilvie... For Christians who are tired of dull, "business as usual" living.. For people everywhere who want their lives to count Here are twenty-six chapters that penetrate the secrets of some of the most exciting and significant years of the Church and give you an impelling resource for learning to receive and release the limitless energizing power of the Spirit. T…
The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. Volume 2, The Patristic Age, continues Old's historical survey by focusing on preaching as it was developed and practiced by the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioc…
This collection of essays sets in the foreground the necessity of exegetical and theological foundations for any Reformed, Christian apologetic. A Reformed apologetic is only Reformed to the extent that its tenets, principles, and methodology are formed and re-formed by Scripture. Here, noted theologians show the necessity of the truth of Scripture and the implications of that truth for apologe…
Defending the faith can be daunting, and a well-reasoned and biblically grounded apologetic is essential for the challenge. Following in the footsteps of groundbreaking apologist Cornelius Van Til, Scott Oliphint presents us with an introduction to Reformed apologetics as he sets forth the principles behind a distinctly ?covenantal? approach. This book clearly explains the theological foundatio…
Oliphint sets forth a Christian approach to thinking philosophically. Arguments against Christianity are increasingly taking place on a worldview or philosophical basis. This requires Christians to know how to counter differing ideologies and identify the Christian position as the consistent, cogent, and reasonable one offering genuine solutions.