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Award-winning author Mary Kassian provides readers a biblical guide to becoming the strong, resilient, capable women God created them to be. Our culture teaches us that it's important for women to be strong. The Bible agrees. Unfortunately, culture's idea of what makes a woman strong doesn't always align with the Bible's. As a result, Christians often have a skewed view of what constitutes strength. In The Right Kind of Strong, Mary Kassian delves...

If you knew sudden destruction would fall upon the earth in the next twenty-four hours, how would you spend your last moments? In The End of the Age, New York Times bestselling author John Hagee uses Scripture as a guide as he counts down the prophetic minutes through events which must occur before that fateful moment when every individual must face God on Judgment Day. Citing examples from national and international media and using Scripture to confirm...

Armed with only six passages in the Bible-often known as the "Clobber Passages"-the conservative Christian position has been one that stands against the full inclusion of our LGBTQ siblings. UnClobber reexamines each of those frequently quoted passages of Scripture, alternating with author Colby Martin's own story of being fired from an evangelical megachurch when they discovered his stance on sexuality. UnClobber reexamines what the Bible says (and...

How could a loving God send people to hell? Will people have a chance after they die to believe in Jesus and go to heaven? With a humble respect for God's Word, Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle address the deepest questions you have about eternal destiny. They've asked the same questions. Like you, sometimes they just don't want to believe in hell. But as they write, "We cannot afford to be wrong on this issue." This is not a book about who is...

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Darrell Bock teams up with Dr. Daniel Wallace to help you separate fact from fiction among constant attacks on Christianity from popular culture and bogus scholars. There is a quest going on to reduce Jesus to a mythic legend or to nothing more than a mere man. Scholars such as Elaine Pagels and James Tabor are using recent discoveries like the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Thomas to argue that the Christ...

With clear facts and answers to the questions kids six to ten ask most, this adaptation of Lee Strobel's bestselling The Case for Faith uses kid-friendly language, examples, and easy-to-understand information to introduce children to the research, eyewitness accounts, and evidence behind the questions such as whether God allows bad things to happen, if you can have doubts and still be a Christian, and other queries about faith. Whether they've grown...

Mike Mazzalongo covers all 50 chapters of Genesis. From creation to the flood and on to Abraham finishing with Joseph in Egypt. A complete study of the first book in the Bible.

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Matthew sheds new light from new perspectives on themes in the Gospel including community; land, labor, and Empire; children, parents, and families; health and disabilities; and border-crossings. The authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural distances between ourselves, and these...

Encountering TRUTH Meeting Jesus in John's Gospel From the start, John's gospel is different. Like a Beethoven symphony, it soars to an encounter with Jesus as the eternal "Word" before returning us to earth for Jesus's first meeting with his disciples. It invites us into private teaching moments with the Savior and shares symbolically moving miracles untold by Matthew, Mark, and Luke. John's gospel is also more concerned with "truth" than any other...

Vous ne devriez pas permettre au sujet de la foi d'être un mystère pour vous de nouveau. Ce guide utilise des histoires simples et graphiques pour vous montrer de quoi il s'agit la foi Chrétienne. L'auteur a partagé une histoire personnelle intéressante qui aidera à saisir l'information requise. «3 amis(Collins, John and Tom) sont préparés à partir pour un voyage à l'Éthiopie en Afrique des États-Unis d'Amérique. Collins a pris une...