Christianity
165 Articles & Excerpts
Megachurch Attendees Tend To Be Young And Rich by eNotAlone.com The National Survey of Megachurch Attendees, a newly released U.S. survey by Leadership Network and Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research, has revealed that compared to attendees of a typical Protestant church
Rebuilding the Temple
The New Temple and the Second Coming: The Prophecy That Points to Christ's Return in Your Generation by Grant R. Jeffrey, Ph.D. Jewish authorities are making preparations to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. They have recovered lost artifacts from the ancient Temple and have recreated sacred vessels used in worship. The new Sanhedrin, reconvened in Israel, is training Levite priest
In the Beginning There Was the Holy War. Why?
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World by Karen Armstrong In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend.
Why All This Waiting?
When God Waits: Making Sense of Divine Delays by Jerome Daley Is God keeping you waiting? Does it feel like God has pushed the pause button on your life? If you're frustrated by God's apparent slowness, don't assume that having to wait is a waste of time. God does some of his most important work in your life
We Never Pray Alone
Learning to Pray: How We Find Heaven on Earth by Wayne Muller Many who seek comfort and healing from prayer are unsure about how to pray. They feel awkward or uncomfortable, not knowing the 'right' way to pray. What should prayer feel like, and what is it supposed to accomplish?
Brother
Spiritual Genius: 10 Masters and the Quest for Meaning by Winifred Gallagher Whether they are called saints, gurus, tzaddiks, or shamans, there have always been people who possess exceptional insight, altruism, and charisma. In this disarmingly inspirational book, Gallagher investigates what ordinary people trying to live decent
When God Plays Hard to Get
Out of Your Comfort Zone: Is Your God Too Nice? by R. T. Kendall What is so wrong with being nice? Nothing. But the God of the Bible is not nice. This book will bring us back to the God of the Bible. Not the God we like or the way we wish he were. But the very God of the Bible-unembellished, unvarnished-as he really is
Letter 1
The Christian and the Pharisee: Two Outspoken Religious Leaders Debate the Road to Heaven by R. T. Kendall, Rabbi David Rosen Through a unique and rare exchange of letters, an evangelical preacher, R. T. Kendall, and a senior Jewish rabbi, David Rosen, openly discuss and debate their views on heaven and how we get there.
Tattered Hearts, Topsy-Turvy World
Mending Your Heart in a Broken World: Finding Comfort in the Scriptures by Patsy Clairmont Early in our marriage I didn't mind the hopping around. In fact, it felt like an adventure. But after the first fifteen moves, I grew weary of cardboard boxes and broken stuff. Honestly, I've never had a move, no matter how close by, that we didn't lose
Ambushed and Assaulted: Coping with the Unexpected
Turn Your Life Around: Break Free from Your Past to a New and Better You by Dr. Tim Clinton What happens when you can't get over the hurt? Those soul-deep wounds can ignite spiritual and emotional devastation, Dr. Clinton warns, unless you stop the downward spiral into despair.
A Spiritual Awakening
Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend For too long the subject of religion has been politicized by the right and largely ignored by the left, as American churches have become increasingly more concerned with what people do with their bodies than with their souls.
I Will Embrace My Uniqueness
Accept No Mediocre Life: Living Beyond Labels, Libels, and Limitations by David Foster The perfect conditions, perfect timing, perfect skills for achieving excellence will never come. We have to seize today and vow to begin a life-changing, life-affirming journey to reach the awesome possibilities ahead.
Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins Chronologically the point of departure for such a study as this is the decade from 1880 to 1890. This is only an approximation but it will do. It was a particularly decorous decade. There was no fighting save on the outposts of colonial empires
American Woman's Home by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe The spirit of Christian missions to heathen lands and the organizations to carry them forward commenced, in most Protestant lands, within the last century. The writer can remember the time when an annual collection for domestic missions was all the call
Evening Round-Up by William Crosbie Hunter Two hundred years ago they burned witches. Thirty years ago the preacher who took exception to the universal belief of a hell of fire and brimstone was thrown out of the church. Today no preacher believes in such a hell.
Freedom Talks No. II by Julia Seton, M.D. Ever since the birth of the human race there have been health and disease. Everywhere we find those who live at levels of comprehension that cannot express in flesh the perfect power of the word and these must by natural law take on the form
I Wish I Could Believe: God, Show Me That You Exist
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To: Divine Answers to Life's Most Difficult Problems by Anthony DeStefano There have been thousands of books written about prayer and millions of sermons preached about it, yet people continue to wonder: Why doesn't God answer me when I cry out to him?
True Words for Brave Men by Rev. Charles Kingsley We find in Holy Scripture, that of the seven heathens who were first drawn to our Lord Jesus Christ and His gospel, three were soldiers. The first was the Centurion, of whom our Lord speaks in such high terms of commendation.
Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald I have been requested to write some papers on our Lord's miracles. I venture the attempt in the belief that, seeing they are one of the modes in which his unseen life found expression, we are bound through them to arrive at some knowledge of that life.
Mystic Christianity by Yogi Ramacharaka Strange rumors reached the ears of the people of Jerusalem and the surrounding country. It was reported that a new prophet had appeared in the valley of the lower Jordan, and in the wilderness of Northern Judea, preaching startling doctrines.
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