Penulis Tom Bisset berbicara dengan mereka yang pernah meninggalkan imannya. Dengan keterbukaan dan kejujuran, ia menemukan inti masalahnya dengan menanyakan: • Mengapa Anda meninggalkan iman Anda? • Adakah sesuatu yang dapat seseorang lakukan atau katakan yang mungkin mengubah keputusan Anda? Ternyata ini bukanlah sekadar buku tentang "mengapa mereka meninggalkan imannya?" Penulis bu…
Kesalehan John Calvin adalah sebuah kumpulan prosa dan puisi karya John Calvin yang sangat berharga. Karya-karya ini dikumpulkan dengan sangat cermat untuk mendorong pemahaman yang lebih personal atas pribadi Calvin dan devosinya kepada Allah. Bab-bab di dalamnyamenelusuri perjalanan spiritual dan iman Calvin. Pandangan-pandangan terhadap hidup dan doa Kristen, contoh doa-doanya. Mazmur-mazmur …
Karya devosional klasik ini akan membimbing Anda dalam mengaplikasikan prinsip-prinsip Alkitab. Devosi ini awalnya merupakan bagian dari karya besar Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, namun kekayaan isinya telah membuatnya diterbitkan secara terpisah dalam berbagai bahasa, termasuk latin, Prancis, Jerman, Belanda, dan Inggris. Banyak orang percaya telah memetik buah dari buku yan…
Olympia Morata (1526-1555) is a girl far ahead of her time. A quick tongue and a ready pen are her mind s tools to record her vivid thoughts, poetry, songs, and opinions. Appointed tutor to Duchess Renèe s children, her future is bright when suddenly, evil rumors turn her world upside-down. In the midst of it all a young doctor comes courting. Will their love survive the danger waiting on the …
Kasih menjadi fokus dari begitu banyak lagu, cerita, dan bahkan pepatah. Kita mencoba mengemasnya dengan rapi, tetapi ketika kita mencoba untuk membuang sentimentalismenya, topik tentang kasih-kasih yang sejati dan alkitabiah - ternyata menjadi tidak rapi. Refleksi yang cermat akan topik ini dengan segera memunculkan perihal keadilan, pembalasan, perang, dan perdamiaan, pengampunan, kebencian, …
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.
"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere . . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." This book is not an autobiography. It is not a confession. It is, however, certainly one of the most beautiful and insightful accounts of a person coming to faith. Here, C.S. Lewis takes us from his childhood in Belfast through …
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections of that period: "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional …
If Christianity is such 'good news' why are its followers often unhappy? Spiritual Depression is one of the great classics of the modern Church, diagnosing the causes of the unhappiness that many Christians experience and prescribing the practical care to lift your spirits and bring you freedom, power, and joy. A medical doctor by training and one of the great Christian teachers of the tw…
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