Power of a Man: Using Your Influence as a Man of Character by Rick Johnson

By Rick Johnson

In a tradition the place males are frequently careworn approximately their identities, Rick Johnson, renowned writer and founding father of greater Dads, desires to make clear the confusion. His newest e-book equips males to be the robust and influential males God created them to be, as husbands, fathers, and world-changers.

The strength of a guy contains sincere and insightful suggestion on:

• being a guy of personality
• loving your spouse and kids as a greater husband and father
• sacrificing and residing lifestyles for the good thing about others
• residing a lifetime of nice importance and deeper that means
• overcoming the traps that prevent masculinity
• constructing the seven features of precise masculinity

It is a decision to respond to God's particular layout for males to affect the realm round them. It's excellent for males of every age and for girls to provide to the boys of their lives.

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From jeremiad to jihad : religion, violence, and America by John D. Carlson, Jonathan H. Ebel

By John D. Carlson, Jonathan H. Ebel

Violence has been a critical function of America’s historical past, tradition, and position on the earth. It has taken many types: from state-sponsored makes use of of strength corresponding to struggle or legislation enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and different activities with vital political and cultural implications. faith additionally holds a vital position within the American adventure of violence, quite should you have discovered order and that means of their worlds via non secular texts, symbols, rituals, and ideas. but too usually the spiritual dimensions of violence, in particular within the American context, are neglected or overstated—in both case, poorly understood. From Jeremiad to Jihad: faith, Violence, and America corrects those misunderstandings. Charting and analyzing the tendrils of faith and violence, this e-book unearths how formative moments in their intersection in American heritage have prompted the information, associations, and identities linked to the USA. faith and violence supply the most important but underutilized lenses for seeing the US anew—including its outlook on, and relation to, the world.

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Life of Saint Augustine by John Capgrave

By John Capgrave

"Shortly after I had accomplished this version of Cap grave's lifetime of Augustine , I
was trained that my more and more terrible imaginative and prescient was once the results of advanced
low imaginative and prescient glaucoma. It grew to become almost most unlikely for me to do any further
work, and that i used to be pressured to place the undertaking on carry for numerous years.
Happily, of my colleagues at York college provided their aid in
preparing the variation for ebook and securing a writer. For them,
this has concerned paintings over a couple of years: updating the introduction
and bibliography in mild of contemporary Capgrave scholarship, re-reading the
Middle English and the Latin texts opposed to the manuscripts, increasing the
notes and re-ordering the thesaurus based on the advice of
outside readers."

Cyril Lawrence Smetana

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Forgery in Christianity by Joseph Wheless

By Joseph Wheless

Incendiary in its ardour and irrefutable in its proof, this vintage of atheistic literature condemns Christianity as superstition and wishful considering rooted in early paganism, "sourced" by way of nameless fables, and promoted via self-serving males looking "worldly riches and power." Raging opposed to the blatant manipulations of the early Church and the antiscience schedule of the trendy Church, American author JOSEPH WHELESS (1868-1950) takes on every thing from faked "relics" and the "holy mummery" of stigmatics and different dramatic mystics to the "priestly terrorism" of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Church's old intolerance. this is often an absolute must-read for a person trying to find ammunition to counter the argument that the sturdiness of Christianity is facts of its legitimacy. additionally on hand FROM COSIMO: Wheless's Is It God's be aware?

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Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology (Current by Marilyn McCord Adams

By Marilyn McCord Adams

Who may the Saviour need to be, what could the Saviour need to do to rescue humans from the meaning-destroying reports in their lives? This booklet deals a scientific Christology that's right away biblical and philosophical. beginning with human radical vulnerability to horrors similar to everlasting ache, sadistic abuse or genocide, it develops what needs to be precise approximately Christ if he's the horror-defeater who eventually resolves the entire difficulties affecting the human and Divine-human kinfolk. detailed components of Marilyn McCord Adams' examine are her defence of the two-natures conception, of Christ as internal instructor and a useful associate in human flourishing, and her arguments in favour of literal physically resurrection (Christ's and ours) and of a powerful doctrine of corporeal Eucharistic presence. The booklet concludes that Christ is the single in Whom, not just Christian doctrine, yet cosmos, church, and the human psyche carry jointly.

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Coffee House Chronicles Set (The Coffee House Chronicles) by Josh McDowell, Dave Sterrett

By Josh McDowell, Dave Sterrett

This set contains all 3 books of the The espresso condo Chronicles: Is the Bible True...Really?: A discussion on Skepticism, proof, and fact; who's Jesus...Really?:A discussion on God, guy, and beauty; and Did the Resurrection Happen...Really?: A discussion on lifestyles, dying, and Hope.

With over forty million books offered, bestselling writer Josh McDowell is not any stranger to creatively offering biblical fact. Now, partnering with fellow apologist Dave Sterrett, Josh introduces a brand new sequence particular on the intersection of tale and truth.The espresso condo Chronicles are brief, simply gobbled novellas aimed toward answering established non secular questions. each one booklet within the sequence tackles a long-contested query of the religion, after which solution those questions with fact via relationships and discussion in every one story.

In Is the Bible actual, Really?: A discussion on Skepticism, facts, and fact, we meet Nick, a faculty freshman at a country tuition in Texas. Nick has his non secular international grew to become upside-down with what he hears in an creation to faith type. His questions develop into conversations as he dialogues with professors, buddies, and kinfolk concerning the authenticity and authority of the Bible.

In who's Jesus, Really?: A discussion on God, guy, and style, the crowd of scholars now assembly on the espresso condo at a faculty city in Texas come face-to-face with the consequences of the individual and works of Jesus Christ. Their questions and conversations make them creatively reply to a well known Atheist approximately Jesus' claims and actions.

In Did the Resurrection take place, Really?: A discussion on existence, dying, and desire, the school campus is rocked by means of a taking pictures spree that leaves 9 scholars useless. Their up-close event with mortality allies the espresso apartment dialogue workforce jointly to actually combat with the religious and everlasting ramifications of even if Jesus rose from the useless.

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Theology without Words (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral by Wayne Morris

By Wayne Morris

This e-book is a learn of a Christian theology with out phrases, focussing on theology within the Deaf group. Deaf people's first and most well liked approach to conversation isn't really English or the other spoken language, yet British signal Language - a language that can't be written down. Deaf humans of religion attend church usually, profess religion in God and feature constructed distinctive techniques to doing theology. whereas so much Western theology is word-centred and is both expressed via or depending on written texts, theology within the Deaf group is basically non-written. This e-book provides and examines a few of that theology from the Deaf group and argues that written texts should not important for inventive theological debate, a deep spirituality or for ideas approximately God to enhance.

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With Love from Bliss (Saskatchewan Saga, Book 2) by Ruth Glover

By Ruth Glover

"That man--that Connor Dougal--I'll locate him if it's the very last thing I do, and I'll make him pay!"

From the lush drawing rooms of Victorian Toronto to the never-ending skies and tangled brush of Canada's northland, a tender lady travels on a project of vengeance that may take her--body and soul--where she's by no means been before.

Kerry: as soon as a precocious orphan who surprised her elders by way of spouting imprecise Scripture references, Keren-Happuch Ferne has grown right into a subtle and beautiful younger girl. She hasn't ever forgotten the affection and attractiveness she soaked in at Maxwell Manor and is fiercely dependable to its population, in particular the frail, light Franny. while Franny's dying turns out spurred via an act of informal cruelty, Kerry leaves her cosseted lifestyles to trip to Bliss, Saskatchewan, to hunt revenge.

Gladdy: With a head of uncontrollable pink hair, Gladdy has the spunk and force to check. Plucked from the London slums for a lifetime of servitude, Gladdy resigns herself to dusting and mopping Maxwell Manor eternally. while Kerry invitations her to trip West, the stressed Gladdy jumps on the likelihood for brand spanking new adventures.

Two girls, certain via protocol, who hazard every little thing to move West. males, as varied as might be, who tame the barren region in pursuit in their desires. One beautiful shock that would switch every little thing.

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Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation by D. Z. Phillips

By D. Z. Phillips

D.Z. Phillips argues that intellectuals needn't see their activity as being for or opposed to faith, yet as one in all realizing it. What stands within the approach of this activity is bound methodological assumptions approximately what inquiry into faith needs to be. starting with Bernard Williams on Greek gods, Phillips is going directly to research those assumptions within the paintings of Hume, Feurerbach, Marx, Frazer, Tylor, Marett, Freud, Durkheim, Lévy-Bruhl, Berger and Winch. the end result exposes confusion, but additionally offers logical house to non secular trust and indicates how the educational research of faith may well go back to the contemplative activity of doing conceptual justice to the area. faith and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation extends in vital methods D.Z. Phillips' seminal 1976 booklet faith with out rationalization. it will likely be of curiosity to students and scholars of philosophy, anthropology, sociology and theology.

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Cómo explorar la Biblia (Un Manual Fabuloso) by Stephen M. Miller

By Stephen M. Miller

En una cultura controlada por los medios de comunicación, ¿Cómo presentar los angeles Biblia a aquellos que están acostumbrados a las películas, las revistas y a los periódicos? Muy sencillo, les damos Cómo explorar los angeles Biblia, una mirada dinámica y llena de acción a los personajes principales, los eventos y significados del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento.

• Grandes escenas: los eventos principales en palabras e ilustraciones detalladas.
• Papeles protagónicos: Una mirada a los personajes principales.
• l. a. trama: El relato en una cápsula:
• Alerta: Los consejos cruciales que no se deben pasar por alto.
• Frases célebres: Las frases que conocemos pero que no sabíamos que fueron extraídas de l. a. Biblia.
• Cronologías: Sucesos en el mundo bíblico y otros lugares de l. a. Tierra. Todo eso y mucho más.

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