Christianity
176 Articles & Excerpts
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.
Religion, a Dialogue
by Arthur Schopenhauer When the Church says that, in the dogmas of religion, reason is totally incompetent and blind, and its use to be reprehended, it is in reality attesting the fact that these dogmas are allegorical in their nature, and are not to be judged by the standard
The Destiny of Man
by John Fiske Now what is this message of the modern prophet but pure Christianity? - not the mass of theological doctrine ingeniously piled up by Justin Martyr and Tertullian and Clement and Athanasius and Augustine, but the real and essential Christianity which came
The Antichrist
by Friedrich Nietzsche Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, 'Ecce Homo,' 'The Antichrist' is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form.
Lord, Teach Me
The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything by Joyce Meyer Have you ever really considered what prayer is and why you pray? Do you understand just how your prayer impacts your life? Joyce unravels the mystery of talking with God by explaining and exploring the different types of prayer
A Leadership Confession
Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths by Dan B. Allender, Ph.D. Pick up most leadership books and you'll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work
The Eternal
Driven by Eternity: Making Your Life Count Today and Forever by John Bevere Drawing on the principles in 2 Corinthians 5:9-11, bestselling author John Bevere reminds us that all believers will stand before Christ to receive what they have earned in life.
Becoming Actualized Christians
Letters to a Young Evangelical (Art of Mentoring) by Tony Campolo, Ph.D. A best-selling minister and social activist offers an uplifting vision of what it means to be an evangelical and offers loving guidance to all of those who wish to lead a genuinely Christian life in a confusing world.
Get a Grip
Becoming a Millionaire God's Way: Getting Money to You, Not from You by Dr. C. Thomas Anderson Many Christians believe that God wants them to prosper, but they have become content with sitting and waiting for God to drop money into their laps. The Bible teaches that God blesses the work of your hand, but if your hand isn't doing anything
Rumors of Another World
Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey According to Greek mythology, people once knew in advance their exact day of death. Everyone on earth lived with a deep sense of melancholy, for mortality hung like a sword suspended above them.
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