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Pitchstone Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Throughout history, religion has been used as a tool of female subjugation. Women have been deemed less worthy than men, have been prevented from owning property, and worse -- all in the name of a higher power. In recent decades, women have made progress in terms of equal rights with men, at least in Western democracies, but still, why has the United States never had a female president? Why aren't more women heads of Fortune 500 companies? Why do...
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Pitchstone Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Religions are a natural outgrowth of the intuitive ways of knowing that evolved with human culture. Though many people continue to find value in religious identity and community, intuitive knowledge has been eclipsed by a more effective way of knowingthe scientific way. A better way of relating religion to politics called secularism is gradually replacing theocracy. Once you understand and accept the scientific way of knowing and this preferred relationship...
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Joseph M. Scheidler has fought for the unborn since the Supreme Court allowed abortion on demand with its 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton rulings. He was the target of a lawsuit brought by the National Organization for Women under federal racketeering laws. Found guilty in 1998, Scheidler triumphed twice in appeals before the Supreme Court in 2003 and again in 2006. Racketeer for Life explains how a former Benedictine monk and journalism professor...
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English
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Miracles are real! Popular Catholic author and speaker Elizabeth Ficocelli reveals signs of God's loving hand in history's most magnificent miracles. In brisk, easy to read accounts, Ficocelli relates these amazing (and true!) stories. Bleeding Hands, Weeping Stone explains why God performs miracles and what our disposition should be toward them. Some miracles are quiet and simple, some are dramatic, bordering on outrageous, but all of them astound...
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Is spiritual experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that we can experience but not easily measure? Does your consciousness depend entirely on your brain, or does it extend beyond? In Fingerprints of God, award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty delves into the discoveries science is making about how faith and spirituality affect us physically and emotionally as it attempts to understand whether the ineffable place beyond this world...
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"There are two important days in your life; the day you wereborn and the day you find out why! (Mark Twain) Why are youhere on planet earth? Once you know why you were born you willhave a new appreciation for your true self, have a known purposein life and know why you matter. Then, and only then, can youchoose a life path, a course of action and eventually a fulfilledlife... no disappointments, no pressure to conform to the ideas andexpectations...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Seasoned advice for pastors facing the weekly challenge of preparing sermons.
For pastors, a new sermon comes every week. Conventional wisdom says that pastors need to sequester themselves to prepare their weekly sermon without distraction. But veteran preacher Frank Honeycutt suggests just the opposite: prepare your sermons as part of a daily, lived experience in the community.
Using the days of the week as a framework, Honeycutt describes practical...
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Zondervan Academic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current state of the conversation" about origins among evangelicals representing four key positions: Young Earth Creationism - Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis) Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism - Hugh Ross (Reasons to Believe) Evolutionary Creation - Deborah B. Haarsma (BioLogos) Intelligent Design - Stephen C. Meyer (The Discovery Institute) The contributors offer their best defense...
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ORD)
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Unbelievable explodes seven of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion. Michael Newton Keas, a historian of science, lays out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom departs from reality. He also shows how these myths have proliferated over the past four centuries and exert so much influence today, infiltrating science textbooks and popular culture. The seven myths, Keas shows, amount to little more than religion...
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Yale University Press (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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An ambitious scholar's lucid analysis of religion's shifting place in the modern world. Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while religion has somehow evolved from its tribal beginnings up through modernity and into the current global age, there is no consensus...
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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Informed theological guide to the Jewish foundations of the Christian faith In this very readable sequel to his popular book Our Father Abraham - which has sold more than 70,000 copies - Marvin Wilson illuminates theological, spiritual, and ethical themes of the Hebrew scriptures that directly affect Christian understanding and experience. Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage draws from both Christian and Jewish commentary in discussing such topics as...
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Charisma House
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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"Join the Happy Hunters in some healthy amusement! Humor strengthens the immune system, enabling the body to fight sickness and disease. Drawing from two lifetimes of joyful ministry, Charles and Frances Hunter have compiled some fabulous jokes, anecdotes, musings and mind twisters to make your heart merry and speed healing to your body and soul. Get ready to laugh! "Positive emotions invoked by humor have healing effects. If you read this book and...
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Lexham Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Is the Bible one story, or many? The Bible is more than a collection of isolated stories; it is a transformative, unfolding Word that shapes and changes its readers. Too often the Bible can be misunderstood or hard to comprehend. How does the Bible, with its various authors, genres, and styles, all separated by hundreds of years, tell a single story? In The Unfolding Word , Zach Keele helps readers understand the narrative shape of the Bible and...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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In this penetrating, sometimes irreverent and often humorous book, the writings of the apostles are explored in a search for the true "Word of God".
Here the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as the letters from other apostles, who witnessed the life of Jesus Christ are evaluated using an unconventional but simple approach.
This simple method allows any reader to separate the obviously true from the fictitious to arrive at a correct...
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No Greater Joy Ministries
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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"Eight Kingdoms... and then there was ONE. There are eight types of kingdoms spoken of in the Bible. Two of those kingdoms -- the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven -- constitute the central message of the New Testament. If all the text that speaks directly of these two kingdoms were removed from the New Testament, there wouldn't be enough left to fill up a single page in a newspaper. Yet, the kingdom message is completely unknown by a large...
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Zondervan Academic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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ZondervanCharts are ready references for those who need essential information in a hurry. Accessible and highly useful, the books in this library offer clear organization and thorough summaries of issues, subjects, and topics that are key to Christian students. Titles in this growing series include Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History ; Charts of Reformation and Enlightenment Church History ; Charts of Modern and Postmodern Church History...
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Hauraki Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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This Historical text from the direct teaching of the Zen master, Huang Po, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deepening and often startling insights into the rich treasures of Eastern thought. Huang Po, also known as Hsi Yun, is believed to have died as late as 850 A.D. He is regarded in a sense as the founder of the great Lin Chi sect. He lived...
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Zondervan Academic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Learn to think deeply about the relationship between church and state in a way that goes beyond mere policy debates and current campaigns. Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics--and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among them --Five...
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