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For years, Robert A. Peterson taught about the assurance of salvation in seminary and Sunday school classrooms. He was concerned, however, to find that some people who, for a variety of reasons, were unable to grasp the certainty of their salvation. The Assurance of Salvation identifies these "troublers" of assurance and provides the remedy to diffuse insecurity.
Peterson asserts that difficult backgrounds and experiences, intellectual doubts,...
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What does it mean to affirm that Jesus "descended into hell?" What actually happened to Jesus between Good Friday and Easter? Was this "descent" part of his suffering or part of his triumph? And why does it matter today?With a theologian's research, a pastor's heart and a poet's sensibility, Gerrit Dawson explores the answers given through the centuries to these questions. By using a narrative approach, Dawson achieves a unique synthesis of previously...
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God grabbed hold of a Presbyterian pastor to take him to the religion of Messianic Jews. What follows is a mystery story that reveals answers to the dilemmas in a problematic faith. In traditional rabbinic Judaism it is blasphemy and in church doctrine it is heresy. But, as a third biblical religion with its own soteriology it is neither false nor mistaken.
Untying the knot of contradictions in Messianic Judaism sheds light on the eminence of Judaism...
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No one is free from the struggle with sin. Not only is sin part of being human, but the true nature of sin is widely misunderstood. Into the Wilderness provides a unique interpretation of sin as a basic self-absorption that grips every human being and is the source of unhappiness. Historically the notion of sin has been divided into easily understood categories. The traditional approach used the Seven Deadly Sins--pride, greed, gluttony, anger, envy,...
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"Un llamado a destacarse" es un libro para el siglo XXI, y su meta es ayudar a los adultos jóvenes a que pudan resolver los problemas que enfrentan en la actualidad. Por eso, esta trama de materiales publicados anteriormente fue revisada y adaptada: una paráfrasis moderna y de fácil comprensión. Puedes unirte a los millones de lectores cuyas vidas fueron transformadas al decidir "estar del lado de la verdad aunque el mundo se caiga a pedazos"....
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What is the Christian response to developments in the hard sciences? What do discoveries at the macro and micro levels have to say about Christian theology, about a theology of God, Christology, pneumatology, and creation? How do the developments in systematic theology that do take the advances in cosmology and the New Sciences seriously come to bear on our worship life? These are the questions that are addressed in this text. It is an initial effort...
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The Christian theological scholar presents a collection of essential writings both for and against the controversial doctrine of universal reconciliation.
As an expert on the theological writings of George MacDonald, Michael Phillips is often asked to clarify the Victorian author's views on the afterlife. Since MacDonald himself never presented a doctrinal position on the subject, debate has raged for more than a century about whether he believed...
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"En busca de éxtasis" discute el fenómeno religioso contemporáneo, marcado por una intensa búsqueda de lo espiritual. En las últimas décadas, la religión se volvió el centro de los debates en diversos espacios de la sociedad y de la cultura. Es tema de películas, documentales e investigaciones científicas. En las iglesias cristianas, el movimiento carismático se ha destacado como la característica religiosa más significativa del tercer...
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Brian Johnston explores how the apostle Paul passionately defends the true gospel in his letter to Galatians and urges grace-based obedience, not performance-based legalism!
CHAPTER ONE: THE PURE GOSPEL
CHAPTER TWO: THE HANDSHAKE
CHAPTER THREE: TROUBLE BACK AT BASE
CHAPTER FOUR: IT ALL POINTS TO FAITH ALONE
CHAPTER FIVE: THE FAITHFULNESS OF CHRIST
CHAPTER SIX: THE FORMATION OF CHRIST
CHAPTER SEVEN: JERUSALEM ABOVE AS OUR MOTHER
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE...
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It is no secret that Christianity has been widely rejected in Japan with less than two percent of the population identifying as Christian. The dominant worldview in Japan is deeply animistic, with beliefs such as the Japanese mana-concept, ki (気), the Japanese soul-concept, and the concept of God/god(s), kami (神), being deeply rooted in the culture and fundamentally influencing society. Dr. Martin Heißwolf, with his years of experience in Japan,...
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What do Bible words like justification, atonement, sanctification, redemption and election mean? This overview of the main features of the Christian good news of salvation is, designed to give Christians a better understanding from the Bible of all that God did the moment they became a Christian, what he is doing and will do in the future!
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For close to two thousand years, Christian theology has been captivated by a sacrificial rendering of the Gospel that renders God as retributive, arbitrary, and Janus-faced. In the past fifty years a non-sacrificial way of perceiving the Gospel, God, and the mission and message of Jesus has challenged this sacrificial hegemony. Now what began as a trickle in the 1960s has burst the dam and the Gospel is on a collision course with Christianity. What...
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Is it possible for a true believer in Christ to apostatize? If so, how? Also, how can professing believers know if they are truly born again? What assurance can they have that they will never renounce their faith? These questions have been asked for centuries as Christians have wrestled with what Scripture says about these matters. The search for answers has instilled strong disagreements among Christian traditions. In this book, we navigate the terrain...
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You might know what you believe... but do you know that you believe?
While many Christians know that they are supposed to believe, they don't know if they actually do believe.
Stop wondering if you have false faith, spurious faith, temporary faith, intellectual faith, or head faith instead of heart faith. All such terms are unhelpful and unbiblical and cause many Christians to wonder if they have truly believed.
By reading this book, you will not...
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For Christians, the 'good news' of the Gospel is at the heart of everything. If there's one thing we want to be able to explain to our friends, it has to be the Gospel. And yet, when we try to do that, increasingly it doesn't seem to 'make sense' to them. It isn't sounding like the good news that it's supposed to.
Perhaps it's the way we've been telling it. But surely we don't have the right to change it to suit our audience. Isn't that why it's...
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Most scholars consider Melanchthon to be a Reformation enigma. He, the developer of the Reformation doctrine of forensic justification, is contrarily condemned as a synergist. Known well as the Protestant preceptor of Germany, he was Martin Luther's lifelong friend, colleague, teacher of Greek, and fellow reformer. Upon arriving at Wittenberg, Melanchthon was a theologian neither by trade nor by training. He was a classically trained expert in classical...
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God's right to judge humanity is written on the very fabric of human existence
The doctrine of reprobation-that is, the eternal, unconditional decree of God for the non-elect-is frequently misconstrued in both pastoral and theological literature. In Reprobation and God's Sovereignty, Peter Sammons reintroduces this oft-misunderstood doctrine, revealing its relationship to divine sovereignty. With Romans 9 as a guiding text, Sammons presents a thoroughly...
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Many people think of the Bible as a confused mixture of entries, episodes, characters, and commands. Sixty-six books, written by some thirty authors, scattered over a period of roughly 1,500 years, including virtually every genre known to man. Clearly, the Bible consists of many parts. Yet, it communicates a metanarrative, one great story, the drama of redemption. And when we understand this story, and find our place within it, it brings us unparalleled...
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This book is an examination of a southern white family's relations with people of color in the United States from about 1650 to the present. Part autobiography, part social history, we were slaveowners, Confederate soldiers, Klansmen, and responsible for at least one lynching. During the last two generations we befriended Nisei during World War II, and since then have been increasingly active in Civil Rights in the South and Southwest (e.g., the Sanctuary...
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