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Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, he illuminates his explanations with examples from cosmology, physics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural anthropology, mythology, theology, and more. There is this false notion that, if we love God, somehow we’ll be healthy and wealthy and things will be better and easier. This special updated edition includes an additional introduction and updated content throughout the book. In 1985, on the grand occasion of the centennial of the lectureship, Carl Sagan was invited to give them.

It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science, contrary to conventional wisdom, affirms the validity of the religious quest. In this paradigm-shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn’t truly exist: Delight is our duty. Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, is a prequel to The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival.

The Reason for God challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity. An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award and twice nominated for the Christian Book of the Year Award, Strobel's tough, point-blank questions read like a captivating, fast-paced novel.

inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original.I could at least see their efforts as an attempt at showing me love and kindness, even if it wasn't. Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery--and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He paints an awe-inspiring vision of God that encourages Christian to become holy just as God is holy.

For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced “doubts” skeptics bring to his Manhattan church. In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry.S. Lewis que se transmitieron durante tiempos de guerra, charlas en las cuales él se proponía ""explicar y defender las creencias que han sido común a casi todos los cristianos de todos los tiempos. And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, What's So Amazing About Grace? the land beyond the wardrobe door, a secret place frozen in eternal winter, a magical country waiting to be set free. In his sensational international bestseller, the preeminent scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins delivers a hard-hitting, impassioned, but humorous, rebuttal of religious belief.

In this provocative book, Eldredge gives women a look inside the true heart of a man and gives men permission to be what God designed them to be-dangerous, passionate, alive, and free! He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. Release the desire to fall apart or control the actions of others by embracing God-honoring ways to process their hurt. Timothy Keller, with insights from Kathy, his wife of thirty-seven years, shows marriage to be a glorious relationship that is also misunderstood and mysterious. And this previously unrecognized evolutionary logic points not toward continued religious extremism, but future harmony.Modern culture would have you believe that everyone has a soul mate; that romance is the most important part of a successful marriage; that your spouse is there to. Rachel Kushner This book taught me something I knew on a much deeper level but did not have the language or the reasoning to state: that innocence is something very durable and interior, and also evanescent. They’re also both epics about redefining a community in the wake of a devastating war, and about whether there will ever be an end to war. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed--a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back.