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How Does Anyone Know God Exists
$14.99Add to cartReasonable answers to the tough questions about faith_for seeker small groups This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith. This honest, informative series is the result of authors Garry Poole and Judson Poling’s extensive work with seekers at Willow Creek Community Church. Each of the 7 guides deals frankly with common objections to Christianity: * How Does Anyone Know God Exists? * What Difference Does Jesus Make? * How Reliable Is the Bible? * How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? * Don’t All Religions Lead to God? * Do Science and the Bible Conflict? * Why Become a Christian? In 6 sessions, each guide is designed to get small groups thinking, discussing, and eventually discovering that the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny. Quotes from non-Christian skeptics in various disciplines, together with responses from credible Christian apologists, fuel the discussions. The Tough Questions Leader’s Guide provides detailed lesson plans for facilitating the discussion and, in the process, giving an overview of the key elements of Christianity. This series is appropriate for small groups, churches, and Sunday school classes. It offers seekers and believers alike the kind of reasonable, factual answers that inspire faith, conviction, and trust in the reality and claims of Christ.
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How Reliable Is The Bible
$14.99Add to cartReasonable answers to the tough questions about faith_for seeker small groups This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith. This honest, informative series is the result of authors Garry Poole and Judson Poling’s extensive work with seekers at Willow Creek Community Church. Each of the 7 guides deals frankly with common objections to Christianity: * How Does Anyone Know God Exists? * What Difference Does Jesus Make? * How Reliable Is the Bible? * How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? * Don’t All Religions Lead to God? * Do Science and the Bible Conflict? * Why Become a Christian? In 6 sessions, each guide is designed to get small groups thinking, discussing, and eventually discovering that the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny. Quotes from non-Christian skeptics in various disciplines, together with responses from credible Christian apologists, fuel the discussions. The Tough Questions Leader’s Guide provides detailed lesson plans for facilitating the discussion and, in the process, giving an overview of the key elements of Christianity. This series is appropriate for small groups, churches, and Sunday school classes. It offers seekers and believers alike the kind of reasonable, factual answers that inspire faith, conviction, and trust in the reality and claims of Christ.
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Doctrine Twisting : How Core Biblical Truths Are Distorted
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In essentials unity. In nonessentials liberty. In all things charity. Almost daily Christians are bombarded by strange new teachings about Jesus. The worldwide proliferation of new religious movements has created confusion in the church.
Are there core beliefs at the heart of the Christian faith?
If so, what are they?
And how should Christians relate to those who do not embrace these beliefs?
In down-to-earth language, Doctrine Twisting addresses and answers these questions. With the firm conviction that God has sufficiently and finally revealed himself in Christ and through the Bible, H. Wayne House and Gordon Carle explore in detail the doctrines of the Trinity, revelation, sin, Christ’s divinity, the atonement, faith and works, the second coming and the afterlife. In each chapter they outline the biblical basis for the historic orthodox position and then analyze and refute deviations from these truths. Doctrine Twisting will help Christians more fully serve God and minister to others through a better understanding of the essential doctrines of the Bible and the doctrinal errors of new religious movements. -
Mapping Postmodernism : A Survey Of Christian Options
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By now we’ve all heard the word postmodernism.
*But what is it?
*Can it be defined?
*Does it really represent a monumental shift away from how we use to think about right and wrong, truth, the world, and even the whole cosmos?
* Most important, how should Christians respond?Robert C. Greer helps us grasp the nature of the shifts in thinking and believing that are taking place in our world. More important, he helps us navigate the complex debate among Christians as to how best to respond to these new challenges. Astutely he maps four different ways Christian thinkers have recommended we respond. These alternatives are represented by four theologians: Francis Schaeffer, Karl Barth, John Hick and George Lindbeck. Greer warns that being merely for or against postmodernism is inadequate. He guides us across the terrain of alternatives along a path that leads neither back to the land of modernism nor to the wild frontiers of postmodernist relativism. Acknowledging the relative strengths and weaknesses of these options, Greer turns us to a thoroughly Christian theology that points beyond them to the true Subject who makes knowledge possible through the language of revelation and relationship with God. This book is an illuminating map for all those who feel lost in the maze of conflicting analyses of postmodernism and are looking for a faithful way forward .
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Pocket Handbook Of Christian Apologetics
$14.99Add to cartHere is a concise, informative guide for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith and reason. Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli have condensed their popular Handbook of Christian Apologetics, summarizing the foremost arguments for major Christian teachings and offering compelling responses to the most common arguments put forward against Christianity. In this book you’ll find answers to questions about
faith and reason
the existence of God
creation and evolution
predestination and free will
miracles
the problem of evil
Christ and the resurrection
the reliability of the Bible
life after death
heaven and hell
salvation and other religions
objective truth
The Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics is the place to begin for people with questions about Christianity. -
Time Of Departing (Reprinted)
$14.95Add to cartAncient mystical practices are being introduced into countless churches under the umbrella of the spiritual formation movement. Also known as contemplative spirituality, this belief system has roots in mysticism and the occult. A Time of Departing exposes the truth about the new spirituality that is entering the Christian church. Since the first edition of A Time of Departing was released in 2002, contemplative spirituality, also known as the spiritual formation movement, has vastly infiltrated Christendom. This expanded 2nd edition gives clear and concise evidence that this ?new? spirituality has roots in mysticism, the occult, and the New Age. New chapters on the Purpose Driven paradigm and the emerging church movement show their connections to the contemplative.
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Is God Real
$16.49Add to cartSanta Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Boogey Man, the devil, and God are a few of the oldest American childhood stories. The people and environment around the children, as they develop, are the things that will feed and shape their natural curiosity to determine how much they believe or disbelieve these stories. With the exception of God, every child has probably seen some kind of physical representation of all of the characters listed above. We live in a “seeing is believing” society. Therefore, every American parent has probably experienced his or her children wanting to know the who, what, when, where, and why about God. “Is God real?” Come, “let the truth be told” by going on one man’s lifetime journey to answer that very question. Every atheist and believer who takes this trip from start to finish will come away knowing the absolute truth.
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Harry Potter Y La Biblia – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartThe famous stories about Harry Potter and his training as a young wizard continue to amaze audiences. But, where is the positive message for today’s children? Are they illusionist tricks or occult practices? Richard Abanes answers these and many other questions using the Bible as his foundation and exposes the truth behind the popular stories.
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But Dont All Religions Lead To God (Reprinted)
$13.00Add to cartWe’ve all heard the rationale: “It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere.” Or “All religions are pretty much the same.” But are they the same? Does it matter which one you follow? In this insightful and compelling book, Michael Green invites readers into a relationship with Jesus Christ, the divine revelation and only pathway to the one true God. In a conversational style geared toward nonbelievers, Green compares Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and other religions to help spiritual seekers navigate the multi-faith maze. “But Don’t All Religions Lead to God?” is an ideal reference and evangelism tool for churches and individual Christians as well. It offers scriptural references, looks at how divergent religious traditions view salvation and eternity, and answers difficult questions such as “What about people who have never heard of Jesus?” and “How should Christians regard other religions?” In the midst of our pluralistic and tolerant culture, here is an important and convincing argument for faith in Jesus-the only great teacher whose death and resurrection provided grace, forgiveness, and an eternity in the presence of God.
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Wedge Of Truth
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Science is the supreme authority in our culture.
If there is a dispute, science arbitrates it. If a law is to be passed, science must ratify it. If truth is to be taught, science must approve it. And when science is ignored, stroms of protest are heard in the media, in the university–even in local coffee shops.
Yet a society ruled by science (and the naturalistic philosophy that undergirds much of it) faces major problems. Science speaks so authoritatively in our culture that many are tempted to use its clout to back claims that go beyond the available evidence. How can we spot when such ideological slight of hand has taken place?
More important, while we may learn a great deal from science, it does not offer us unlimited knowledge. In fact, most scientists readily acknowledge that science cannot provide answers to questions of ultimate purpose or meaning. So to what authority will we turn for these?
The deficiencies in science and the philosophy (naturalism) that undergirds it call for a cognitive revolution–a fundamental change in our thinking habits. And it all begins with a wedge of truth.
This wedge of truth does not “wedge out” a necessary foundation of rational thought. But it does “wedge in” the much-needed acknowledgment that reason encompasses more than mere scientific investigation. Phillip E. Johnson argues compellingly for an understanding of reason that brings scientific certainty back into relational balance with philosophical inquiry and religious faith.
Applying his wedge of truth, Johnson analyzes the latest debates between science and religion played out in our media, our universities and society-at-large. He looks to thinkers such as Newbigin, Polanyi and Pascal to lay a foundation for our seeing the universe in a totally different way. And from that base he then considers the educational programs and research agendas that should be undertaken–and have already begun in some earnest–during this new century.
In the end, Johnson prophetically concludes that the walls of naturalism will fall and that the Christian gospel must play a vital role in building a new foundation fro thinking–not just about science and religion but about everyhting that gives human life hopeand meaning.
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Graven Ideologies
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What do the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion have in common with Christianity? Surprisingly, they are all concerned about idolatry, about the tendency we have to create God in our own image and about what we can do about it. Can we faithfully speak of God at all without interposing ourselves? If so, how? Bruce Ellis Benson explores this common concern by clearly laying out the thought of each of these postmodern thinkers against the background of modern philosophers such as Descartes, Locke and Hume and in light of the rise of phenomenology as developed by Husserl and Heidegger. All these thinkers he brings into conversation with a full range of biblical teaching. The result is an illuminating survey of some key postmodern thinkers and profound insight into the nature of conceptual idolatry. Benson also exposes some of the limitations inherent in postmodern attempts to provide a purely philosophical solution to the problem of ideological idolatry. Ultimately, he argues, there is a need for something greater than human philosophy, religion or theology–namely, the biblical revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
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Pocket Dictionary Of Apologetics And Philosophy Of Religion
$14.99Add to cartFor philosophers, the pursuit of truth travels on precise definitions. For Christian apologists, the defense of the faith is founded on the defining Word. And for beginning students of either discipline, the difference between success and frustration begins with understanding the terms and ideas and identifying the thinkers and movements.
The Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion is designed to be a companion to your study of these two related disciplines. Among its 300 entries are:
* terms, from a posteriori to worldview
* apologists, from Abelard to Van Til
* philosophers of religion, from Alston to Wolterstorff
* movements, from analytic philosophy to voluntarism
* apologetic arguments, from the cosmological to the wager
* theologies, from Arminianism to ZoroastrianismHere is an affordable and easily accessible “help key” for your readings, lectures, writing assignments and exam preparation. It’s a must-have study aid for any student who expects to cogitate on coherentism or ruminate on Ricouer.
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Gagging Of God
$29.99Add to cartIn The Gagging of God, Professor D. A. Carson helps evangelicals respond with a clear, scholarly voice to the question, “Is Jesus the only way to God?” This book affirms the deep need for the Gospel’s exclusive message in today’s increasingly pluralistic global community. Most of the recent writings on religious pluralism have focused on specific aspects of the subject: shifts in Western thought and interpretation, the growing cultural and racial diversity of Western nations, the fraying of evangelical thought and life, and related topics. In contrast, The Gagging of God offers an in-depth look at the big picture. It shows how the many ramifications of pluralism are all parts of a whole, then offers a systemic Christian experience.
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Resurrection
$19.99Add to cartIn this definitive work, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff offers a detailed defense of the Resurrection, the singularly most important event in history and the foundation upon which Christianity is built. Using the acronym F.E.A.T., the author examines the four distinctive, factual evidences of Christ’s resurrection_Fatal torment, Empty tomb, Appearances, and Transformation_making the case for each in a memorable way that believers can readily use in their own defense of the faith.
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Prophet And The Messiah
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What do Christians believe about the Bible? Muslims about the Qur’an? And what do Christianity and Islam each have to say about Jesus and Muhammad? Moucarry describes and compares the central doctrines of each religion, explaining key beliefs and debunking common misconceptions—providing grist for an informed and respectful dialogue.
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Bible You Can Believe It
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This book is a defense of the accuracy and integrity of the Bible. It examines and refutes many of the most common criticisms that have been raised against the Bible. It shows that the biblical text is reliable and the text can be trusted.
Part One: Important Questions that need to be Addressed
– Can we trust the Bible?
– Should we question the Bible?
– Isn’t God so mysterious that there is not much we can know about Him?
– Wasn’t the Bible passed down verbally from generation to generation before it was written?
– Does God talk to men?
– Didn’t the men God spoke to make mistakes?
– Hasn’t the text been copied so many times it is unreliable?
– Didn’t the original text have contradictions?
– Aren’t some of the books of the Bible lost or missing?
– Don’t the Bible and science oppose each other?
– Does archaeology support the Bible?
– Does history support the Bible?
– Do miracles happen?
– Doesn’t the Bible contain some false and even harmful teachings?
– Doesn’t the hypocrisy in the Christian Church show the Bible is not true?
– Don’t Christians disagree about even the most basic Christian truths?
Part Two: Important Points to Keep in Mind
– God is the Bible’s sole Author
– The Bible accurately foretells the future
– God will prove Himself
– What the Bible is
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Relativism : Feet Firmly Planted In Mid Air (Reprinted)
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Many Christians are concerned about the tide of moral relativism that is rising steadily in our country. And rightly so: Relativism affects our education system, the legal system, and how people think about everyday issues. Yet little has been written on the topic outside academic circles.This void is filled by Frank Beckwith and Greg Koukl, who analyze relativism and present strategies to defend the belief in moral absolutes. Using a commonsense approach, Koukl defines relativism, traces its growth over the past few decades, and critiques the logical inconsistencies to which its supporters are led. He then presents a case for moral objectivism. Beckwith, building on Koukl’s foundation, evaluates the influence of relativism on issues including abortion, homosexuality, political correctness, multiculturalism, and tolerance. In each of these areas, he provides compelling arguments for thinking people.
Following in the tradition of C. S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer, Relativism is an important guide for those who are concerned about intellectual issues that challenge the Christian faith.
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Caso De La Fe – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartIn The Case for Faith, Strobel turns his tenacious investigative skills to the most persistent emotional objections to belief – the eight “heart” barriers to faith. The Case for Faith is for those who may be feeling attracted to Jesus but who are faced with formidable intellectual barriers standing squarely in their path. For Christians, it will deepen their convictions and give them fresh confidence in discussing Christianity with even their most skeptical friends. In The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel probes the most thorny of questions, what he calls “The Big Eight”, including: If there is a loving God, why does this world groan under so much suffering and evil? If God really created the universe, why does science compel so many to conclude that evolution account for life? If God is the ultimate overseer of the church, why has it been rife with hypocrisy and brutality through the ages? If God truly cares about the people he created, how could he consign so many of them to an eternity of torture in hell just because they didn’t believe the right things about him? As a seasoned journalist with Yale Law background, Strobel methodically tracks sown his leads and asks the gritty, gut-wrenching questions you would want to ask questions that can make or break the Christian faith. He refuses to patronize or offer cliched, glib answers. Instead, he pieces together heard facts trough interviews with nine of the country’s top scholars and experts. The result? Solid, persuasive, engrossing, and smart answers to your deepest questions. The Case for Faith will set you on the path to belief, renewed, restored – or discovered for the very first time.
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Encountering Religious Pluralism
$35.99Add to cartThere’s nothing new about religious diversity. What has changed is the way we think about world religions. Netland examines the emerging pluralistic worldview now challenging traditional Christian faith and missions. His incisive analysis of the nature of religious truth gives you criteria for evaluating rival claims—and provides a framework for an evangelical theology of religions.
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Counterfeit Revival Expanded And Updated (Expanded)
$19.99Add to cartThe book that goes behind the scenes to uncover the contradictions, false experiences, spiritual deception, and seductive allure of esoteric experiences masquerading under the banner of truth.
Hank Hanegraaff documents the danger of looking for God in all the wrong places and goes behind the scenes into the wildly popular and bizarre world of contemporary revivalism. Hanegraaff masterfully exposes the stark contrast between these deeds of the flesh and a genuine work of the Spirit by contrasting modern “revivals” with the scriptural examples of God’s movement among His people.
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Hope Has Its Reasons (Revised)
$26.99Add to cartOur deepest human longings are for love and happiness. Yet so often we are blocked from satisfying that quest. What are the barriers? Why are they so troublesome? How does our spirituality play a role? Rebecca Manley Pippert examines these persistently human questions in a thoughtful and personal book. She invites us to join her on a journey exploring the region between faith and unbelief where our hopes and our doubts mingle. She cites freely her own experiences and sets out the questions we all face at some point in our lives – questions about our significance, meaning, love, life, and truth, our search for encouragement and security.
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Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution
$18.99Add to cartLooking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a “fairy tale for grown-ups.” The author uses his own Memory Dynamics to make it easy for Christians to speak intelligently about evolution and speak persuasively about the Creator.
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6 Modern Myths About Christianity And Western Civilization
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Here are postmodern stories that everybody believes are true but aren’t! Offering an enlightening look at the complexities of truth, Sampson explores—and dispels—anti-Christian myths that even Christians accept as historical. He’ll help you sort out fact from fiction in the “legends” surrounding Galileo, Darwin, the ecological crisis, the persecution of witches, and more.
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Unapologetic Apologetics : Meeting The Challenges Of Theological Studies
$35.99Add to cartInterVarsity Press Publication
Throughout these presentations the authors, all one-time students at Princeton Theological Seminary, expose the permeating influence of naturalism in theological studies as well as other philosophical tenents that are neither critqued nor defended but merely assumed in much mainline theology. As a result, they expertly administer their prescription for false ideas – not quarantine but inoculation.
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Problem Of Pain
$17.99Add to cartFor centuries Christians have been tormented by one question above all — If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain? C. S. Lewis sets out to disentangle this knotty issue but wisely adds that in the end no intellectual solution can dispense with the necessity for patience and courage.
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Mere Christianity
$17.99Add to cartArguably the 20th century’s most influential Christian writer, C.S. Lewis sought to explain and defend the beliefs that nearly all Christians at all times hold in common. His simple yet deeply profound classic, originally delivered as a series of radio broadcasts, is a book to be thoroughly digested by believers and generously shared with skeptics. Paperback with French f laps and deckled page edges.
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Caso De Cristo – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartThe project: determine if there’s credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God. The Reporter: Lee Strobel, educated al Yale Law School and award-winning former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune_with a background of atheism. How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence exist for Jesus outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual historical event? This colorful, hard-hitting book is no novel. It’s a riveting quest for the truth about history’s most compelling figure. The reader will determine ultimately what is the verdict in The Case for Christ.
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Jesus Resurrection Fact Or Figment
$28.99Add to cartThe resurrection was the most significant event in history—or was it? Was the tomb really empty, or was it simply a collective guilt-induced vision? Join in the lively, provocative debate between a Christian philosopher/apologist and a New Testament scholar/atheist. Includes transcripts of the original Boston College debate, plus responses from four additional scholars.
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Help Me Believe
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It’s natural for people to have questions about Christianity. What does Jesus really have to offer in a world that is so complicated, where there’s so much pain? What difference could he make in my life? For years Cliffe Knechtle has been fielding objections to Christianity from thousands of people. They want to know what Jesus has to do with real life. In this book he provides his responses to some of the toughest questions people have asked.
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Persuasions : A Dream Of Reason Meeting Unbelief
$12.00Add to cartThis collection of conversations follows Evangelist, one of the Master’s servants, who walks the road of life and talks to those he meets. Along the way he reasons with fellow travelers about a variety of questions including atheism, marriage, and hypocrisy in the church. Though this book is a quick read, the thought-provoking arguments it describes are not easily forgotten.
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Historical Jesus Ancient Evidence For The Life Of Christ
$23.50Add to cart1. The Modern Quest For The Historical Jesus
2. Did Jesus Ever Live?
3. Limitations On Historical Jesus
4. Reinterpretations Of The Historical Jesus
5. The New Gnosticism
6. The Jesus Seminar And The Historical Jesus
7. Primary Sources: Creeds And Facts
8. Archeological Sources
9. Ancient Non-Christian Sources
10. Ancient Christian Sources (Non-New Testament)
11. Summary And AssessmentAdditional Info
This book is chiefly an effort to examine the life, death and resurrection of Jesus from a different perspective. It is largely concerned with pre- and non-biblical evidence for these events. The main body is devoted to a study of sources that date from before, during, and just after the New Testament, including creedal traditions recorded for the first time in the pages of Scripture. These fascinating subjects seem to be too frequently left unexplored. -
Truth Decay : Defending Christianity Against The Challenges Of Postmodernis
$35.99Add to cartInterVarsity Press Publication
The concept of absolute truth has eroded over time. Groothuis demonstrates that the basic tenets of postmodernism are intellectually flawed and hostile to Christian views. In this biblical and logical presentation, he unveils how truth has come under attack and how it can be defended in the areas of theology, apologetics, ethics, and the arts.
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God Of Miracles
$21.99Add to cartPart of the debate over God’s existence centers on questions about the possibility and “provability” of miracles. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. C. John Collins provides a thorough exegetical foundation for discussing God’s action in the world within the framework of biblical Christian theology. He begins by presenting and contrasting the options within traditional Christian theism. He then explores the biblical passages that support a classically theistic foundation and relates these results to the philosophical theological, scientific, and apologetic questions that this rises. In so doing, he effectively takes on the God-of-the-gaps position and answers with a persuasive “yes” the crucial question of whether it is intellectually responsible to embrace the biblical view of God’s action in the world.
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Asking God Your Hardest Questions
$13.99Add to cartWith warmth and clarity, the now-retired chaplain for the United States Senate offers thoughtful, biblical insights to modern questions. He encourages reader to honestly ask God anything, because there’s no question too big for him and no need too deep for him to meet.
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5 Views On Apologetics
$24.99Add to cartThe goal of apologetics is to persuasively answer honest objections that keep people from faith in Jesus Christ. But of several apologetic approaches, which is most effective? Five Views on Apologetics examines the “how-to” of apologetics, putting five prominent views under the microscope: Classical, Evidential, Presuppositional, Reformed, Epistemology, and Cumulative Case. Offering a forum for presentation, critique, and defense, this book allows the contributors for the different viewpoints to interact. Like no other book, Five Views on Apologetics lets you compare and contrast different ways of “doing” apologetics. Your own informed conclusions can then guide you as you meet the questions of a needy world with the claims of the Gospel.
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Jesus Papyrus : Most Sensational Evidence On Origin Of Gospels Since Discov
$15.00Add to cartIn 1901, the Reverend Charles B. Huleatt acquired three pieces of a New Testament manuscript on the murky antiquities market of Luxor, Egypt. He donated these papyrus fragments to his alma mater, Magdalen College in Oxford, England, where they sat in a display case and drew very little attention. Nearly a century later, the fragments–part of the Gospel of Matthew and thought to date from a.d. 180-200–were reevaluated by scholar Carsten Peter Thiede. His research showed the bits of papyrus to be significantly older, written about a.d. 60.
But what is all the fuss about? How can three ancient papyrus fragments be so significant? How did Thiede arrive at this radical early dating? And what does it mean to the average Christian? Now readers have authoritative answers to these pivotal questions, in a book written by Thiede himself and by Times of London journalist Matthew d’Ancona, who originally broke the story to the public. Indeed, the Magdalen Papyrus corroborates three traditions: Saint Matthew actually wrote the Gospel bearing his name; he wrote it within a generation of Jesus’ death; and the Gospel stories about Jesus are true. Some will vehemently deny Thiede’s claims, others will embrace them, but nobody can ignore THE JESUS PAPYRUS. -
Is God A Delusion
$11.99Add to cartHas science disproved God?
Does religion do more harm than good?
Is faith irrational?
In this book Nicky Gumbel draws on his experience as a barrister and addresses the biggest issue of the age: does God exist? He sifts through the arguments adopted by some prominent atheists and assesses the evidence.A response to Richard Dawkins bestselling book The God Delusion. Based on talks given by Nicky Gumbel. These closely examine the complex claims made by Dawkins. A useful Christian perspective on this popular book.
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Christian Apologetics In The Postmodern World
$32.99Add to cartInterVarsity Press Publication
In these pages, some of evangelicalism’s most stimulating thinkers consider three possible apologetic responses to postmodernity. William Lane Craig argues that traditional evidentialist apologetics remains viable and preferable. An essential feature is trenchant chapters by Douglas Webster, Ron Potter, and Dennis Hollinger considering issues facing the local church in the light of postmodernity. The editors have added important introductory essays that orient the reader to postmodernity and various apologetic strategies.
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Myth Of Certainty
$24.99Add to cartDo you resent the smugness of close-minded skepticism on the one hand but feel equally uncomfortable with the smugness of close-minded Christianity of the other? If so, then The Myth of Certainty is for you. Daniel Taylor suggests a path to commited faith that is both consistent with the tradition of Christian orthodoxy and sensitive to the pluralism, complexity and relativism of our age.
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Dios Es Relevante – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartMany individuals today want to go it alone, without God. Either they feel no need for God, or they don’t want God in their lives_perhaps because of a bad experience with organized religion. Others may have doubts because God seems to be outdated or contrary to current thought. In this book, readers will tackle the difficult but timely question: is God relevant? If not, what are our options? If God is relevant, how? Luis Palau shows how God is a relevant, powerful, personal force that can transform our troubled times and guide us into the coming millennium.
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Scaling The Secular City A Defense Of Christianity (Reprinted)
$30.00Add to cart1. The Cosmological Argument
2. The Design Argument
3. God And The Argument From Mind
4. God And The Meaning Of Life
5. The Historicity Of The New Testament
6. The Resurrection Of Jesus
7. Science And Christianity
8. Four Final Issues288 Pages
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C. S. Lewis once wrote: “To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons, and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”SCALING THE SECULAR CITY is not just another apologetics book. This is a fresh, up-to-date defense of the Christian faith by a bright mind. J. P. Moreland musters new arguments, tackles new problems, and reveals penetrating insight as he gives reasons for the historic Christian faith. His rich background in philosophy, science, and theology is manifest in the helpful way he operates on the borders of these disciplines. His insights into the contemporary philosophical issues make him one of the ablest young apologists in America. This book not only will help the average Christian, but also will challenge the best scholars. It is another good example of the renaissance of classical apologetics in a day that refuses to either capitulate to the philosophical skeptics or give a reason for our hope.
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Reason For The Hope Within
$43.99Add to cartAs a new believer, Murray found that explaining his faith was a lot trickier when talking to unsympathetic philosophy professors. Refined by years of graduate work at Notre Dame, he now presents a condensation of recent work in Christian philosophy for those with deep intellectual curiosity and a desire to defend orthodox Christianity.
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C S Lewis And Francis Schaeffer
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IVP Print on Demand TitleFor the first time, Scott Burson and Jerry Walls compare and contrasts the thought of Lewis and Schaeffer. With the great respect for the legacy of each man, but with critical insight as well, they suggest strengths and weaknesses of their apologetics. All the while they consider what Lewis and Schaeffer still have to offer in light of postmodernism and other cultural currents that, since their deaths, have changed the apologetic landscape.
This incisive book stands as both an excellent introduction to the work of these two important figures and a fresh for apologetics at the dawn of a new century.
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What Christians Really Believe And Why
$21.00Add to cartIn this book, Stanley Grenz presents the central tenets of Christian faith clearly and concisely, answering the most commonly asked questions: Why believe at all? Which God? Who is Jesus and what did he do? What am I searching for and how do I find it?
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Why Christian : For Those On The Edge Of Faith
$24.00Add to cartOne of North America’s most respected theologians responds to the questions of those who are on the edge of faith or who are still not sure of their commitment: Why be Christian? Who is Jesus? What does salvation mean? How can it make a difference? Why join a church? Is there a future life?
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Handwriting Of God
$17.99Add to cart1. Can We Trust The Bible As The Inspired Word Of God?
2. The Bible’s Astonishing Influence On The West
3. The Impact Of Jesus On The World
4. The Incredible History Of The Bible
5. The Reason Many Reject The Bible
6. The Mystery Of The Trinity
7. The Incredible Bible Codes
8. New Bible Code Discoveries
9. The Messiah Codes
10. The Heavenly Prince Melchisedec Scroll
11. The Mystery Of The Jews: God’s Hand In Human History
12. The Rocks Cry Out: The Historical Evidence For The Bible
13. New Scientific Discoveries And The Scriptures
14. The Coming Collapse Of Evolution
15. Who Do You Say That I Am
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THE HANDWRITING OF GOD will answer your questions about the phenomenal Bible Codes while revealing awesome New Code Discoveries hidden in the Scriptures. Can we trust the Bible? Is Christianity credible? There is a war on for the souls and minds of humanity and the main battleground is the issue of biblical authority. Grant has again uncovered new research material that will cause you to search the Scriptures for yourself. He provides new evidence that the Bible is truly ‘without error’ and trustworthy despite the attacks on its authority in our generation. -
Holy Spirit : Contours Of Christian Theology
$35.99Add to cartThe Holy Spirit, once forgotten, has been “rediscovered” in the twentieth century – or has he? Sinclair Ferguson believes we should rephrase this common assertion: “While his work has been recognized, the Spirit himself remains to many Christians an anonymous, faceless aspect of the divine being.” In order to redress this balance, Ferguson seeks to recover the who of the Spirit as much as the what and how. Ferguson’s study is rooted and driven by the scriptural story of the Spirit in creation and redemption.
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Journey : A Spiritual Roadmap For Modern Pilgrims
$16.99Add to cartImagine a Pilgrim’s Progress with Socrates as your guide through a landscape of philosophical roads and you’ve got a good picture of this spiritual allegory for modern pilgrims. Creative and humorous, it leads inquiring minds to tempting paths represented by famous philosophers and thinkers, then exposes why they are roads best not taken. Super for seekers.
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Prophet Motive : Examining The Reliability Of Biblical Prophets
$22.99Add to cartOutstanding book about Christian evidences from the perspective of Old Testament prophets. The writings of Barfield, president of Mars Hill Bible School, are enlightening. Suitable for use in high school, college, church or personal study.
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Faith And Reason
$19.99Add to cartChristians should not have an inferiority complex regarding the academic or intellectual integrity of their faith and should understand that Christian faith is also a rational faith. Faith and Reason has two major purposes. First, it is designed to introduce readers to the more important questions that link philosophy and religion. It explores philosophical questions. It is also written for pastors, Christian workers, and educated laypeople who want to know how to defend the Christian faith. The book includes discussion questions.
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Handbook Of Christian Apologetics
$35.99Add to cartContents
Part 1: INTRODUCTION
1. The Nature, Power & Limitations Of Apologetics
2. Faith & ReasonPart 2: GOD
3. Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God
4. The Nature Of GodPart 3: GOD & NATURE
5. Four Problems Of Cosmology
6. The Problem Of EvilPart 4: GOD & GRACE
7. The Divinity Of Christ
8. The Resurrection
9. The Bible: Myth Or History?Part 5: GOD & GLORY
10. Life After Death
11. Heaven
12. Hell
13. SalvationPart 6: CONCLUSIONS
14. Christianity & Other Religions
15. Objective Truth
16. The Bottom LineBibliography
Subject Index
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The challenges to Christianity by unbelievers, doubters and would–be believers continue. Only the Handbook of Christian Apologetics categorizes and summarizes all the major arguments for all the major Christian teachings. In addition you will find compelling refutations of the principal arguments against Christianity.
Topics include
*Faith and reason
*The Bible’s historical reliability
*The existence of God
*The divinity of Christ
*God’s nature
*The resurrection
* and many moreReasonable, concise, witty and wise, Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli have written an informative and valuable guidebook for anyone looking for answers to questions of faith and reason. Whether you are asking the questions yourself or want to respond to others who do, here is the resource you have been waiting for.
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Gnosticism And The New Testament
$24.00Add to cartThe gnostic writings found at Nag Hammadi have stimulated much controversy about the relationship between early Christians and the diverse religious movement of the first three centuries. Perkins fills the New Testament student’s need for a guide to recent developments in scholarshwith a helpful survey that addresses the origins of Gnosticits relationship to Judaism, Redeemer myths and New Testament hymns, and other relevant topics.
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Intellectuals Dont Need God And Other Modern Myths
$18.99Add to cartPart 1: CREATING OPENINGS FOR FAITH
1. The Theological Foundations of Effective Apologetics
2. Points of Contact
3. From Assent to Commitment
Part 2: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO FAITH
4. What Keeps People from Becoming Christians
5. Intellectual Barriers to Faith
6. A Clash of Worldviews
Part 3: APOLOGETICS IN ACTION
7. From Textbook to Real Life242 Pages
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Intellectuals Don’t Need God is for people who are not convinced by the arguments of classical, rationalistic apologetics, for people who feel that Christianity must have a broader appeal that to reason alone if it is to be persuasive to non-Christians. Alister McGrath shows convincingly that reason is only one of many possible points of contact between the non-Christian and the gospel. In today’s world, nonrational concerns — such as a sense that life lacks focus, an unconscious fear of death, a deep sense of longing for something unknown we don’t have but know we need — are much more effective points of contact for apologetics. In this book, Dr. McGrath (who is both a theologian and a scientist with a Ph.D. in microbiology) combines the clarity of a brilliant scientific mind with a deep commitment to Christ and to reaching non-Christians. Intellectuals Don’t Need God is for anyone who has questions about the validity of Christianity as well as for students, pastors, and lay leaders. Anyone who works with students and young people especially needs to read this book. As McGrath says, “apologetics is not about winning arguments — it is about bringing people to Christ.” -
Ready Defense : The Best Of Josh McDowell
$29.99Add to cart5 Sections
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1991 GOLD MEDALLION WINNERBe prepared “in season and out” with this handy reference book of faith. Timely and biblically based, Josh McDowell’s work offers defenses in 60 of the most-challenged areas of faith. All in one easy-to-reference volume, this book will strengthen your commitment and help you stand firm against challenges to the truth.
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Worldviews In Conflict
$16.99Add to cart1. What Is A Worldview?
2. The Christian Worldview
3. How To Choose A Worldview
4. A Further Look At The Test Of Reason
5. Christianity And The Test Of Reason
6. A Further Look At The Problem Of Evil
7. Naturalism
8. The New Age Movement
9. The Incarnation And The Resurrection
10. Winning The Battle In The World Of Ideas176 Pages
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This world is a battlefield in the arena of ideas. The prize is the heart and mind of humankind. In this book, Ronald Nash outlines the Christian way of looking at God, self, and the world. He holds that worldview up against the tests of reason, logic, and experience, particularly discussing the problems of evil and the alleged “nonsense” of the historic Christian doctrines and of Jesus’ incarnation and resurrection. He finds the Christian worldview sound and urges Christians to equip themselves intellectually to defend the faith on that battlefield. He particularly hits the attractions to our generation of naturalism and the New Age movement, pointing out their weaknesses and pitfalls as well as those of older worldviews. “Christian theism,” he writes, “is a system that commends itself to the whole person”; but he stresses that a great difference exists between “belief that” and “belief in.” -
Stony The Road We Trod
$25.00Add to cartUsing postmodern hermeneutical theorization and basing its findings upon the social scientific study of the Hebrew Bible, this singular volume marks the emergence of a critical mass of black biblical scholars. Together they are reshaping and redefining the questions, concerns and scholarship that determine how the Bible is appropriated by church, academy, and the larger society today in relation to liberation theology.
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Return To Reason
$22.99Add to cartClark provides a penetrating critique of the Enlightenment assumption of evidentialism–that belief in God requires the support of evidence or arguments to be rational. His assertion is that this demand for evidence is itself both irrelevant and irrational. His work bridges the gap between technical philosopher and educated layperson.
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Apologia A Print On Demand Title
$29.99Add to cartApologia is about contemporary theological education – its current state and its future. While many current trends in seminaries and departments of theology bring important new insights to the study of religion, says Max Stackhouse, they also erode – sometimes unwittingly – the capacity to speak of God, truth, and justice with warranted confidence. Theology is thereby undermined in all arenas – not only in academia, but in the life of the church and society.
This book not only exposes the frailties of several current ideologies, but also draws noted scholars from five continents and a seminary faculty into an interdisciplinary discussion of the most significant recent literature on theological education. The results are fresh proposals for the reconstructing of theological education on foundations that are contextually alert, globally concerned, and mission- oriented.
Apologia is a ground-breaking work, a book that begins and ends in dialogue, and points toward the ways in which Christian theology will have to redefine itself if it is to actively shape, and not merely reflect, the context in which we live.
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Classical Apologetics : Rational Defense Of The Christian Faith And Critiqu
$25.99Add to cartMust a person accept Christianity on faith alone, or is there a reasoned defense for being a Christian? The authors of this book hold that Christianity is eminently reasonable. The primacy of the mind in the Christian faith can be affirmed without denying the importance of the heart. This book embraces reason without rationalism, personal love without personalism, faith without fideism is our capacity to love Him. The book is divided into three parts. Section I is a prolegomenon dealing with the problems and methods of apologetics. Section II develops the theistic proofs and authority of Scripture. Section III is given over to a critique of presuppositionalism in apologetics, particularly with reference to the thought of Cornelius Van Til. Classical Apologetics will help the thoughtful Christian understand his or her faith better, and it will provide more solid grounds for sharing this faith with others.
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Reason To Believe
$14.99Add to cart10 Chapters
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REASON TO BELIEVE
Do Christians have good answers for the really tough questions?Dr. R. C. Sproul believes they do. In this unique book he deals with the most common objections to the truths of the Christian faith:
– Has science disproved the existence of God?
– Does the Bible contradict itself?
– Why does God allow suffering?
– Is there only one way to God?
– Why do people need religion when life is going smoothly?
– Do Christians have a good answer to evil and suffering?
– How does the church explain all its hypocrites?REASON TO BELIEVE is no collection of “pat answers with a few proof texts.” Each of the questions is dealt with in a separate chapter, which includes a special capsule summary that gives the kernel of each argument. It is an excellent resource for those in visitation and calling programs and a “must” book for those who want to do more than scratch the surface of Christian truths.
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Lo Que Nos Dice La Biblia – (Spanish)
$22.99Add to cartThis clear and concise examination of the Scriptures that Henrietta C. Mears makes will reveal to us that the Bible is a book, a history, and a story. This companion of biblical studies will revive the Scriptures for you, and it will help you to better understand God’s will in the lives of all humankind.
