The man Time magazine hailed as one of America's finest preachers presents a collection of forty timeless addresses to guide us through the year. With his characteristic eloquence and compassion, quoting from scripture as well as from T.S. Eliot and Woody Allen, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.

This book addresses the causes and the consequences of culture change in Ethiopia, from Haile Selassie to the present, based on thorough academic research. Although the book is written from an evangelical perspective, it invites Ethiopians from all religious, ideological, and ethnic backgrounds to reflect on their past, analyze their present and to engage in unity with diversity to face the future. It also appeals to the conscience of global and regional...

This volume studies Pentecostalism in Latin America as a broad, diverse, and multifaceted movement. It describes different features and colors that together shape its collective face. This is done from context to context, weaving in various relationships with society and politics. Pentecostalism is situated as a collective actor embedded in a changing reality that blends various streams for theological reflection. The book explains how Pentecostals...

This book explores and analyses funerary rite struggles in a nation where Christianity is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and many families have Christian and Hindu, Buddhist and Traditionalist (kiranti) members, who go through traumatic experiences at the death of their family members. The context of mixed affiliation raises questions of social, psychological and religious identity for Christian converts, which are particularly acute after a death...

This is the book to put into the hands of seekers. With disarming candor (and no "churchspeak"), White explores the basics of the Christian faith.

Christianity is a surprising religion. It has changed the world in remarkable ways throughout history simply through Christians living out their faith. More recently, we've become afraid of a habituated Christianity, thinking that routines will rob our faith of its vitality. The net effect is that we've replaced the habits that surprise the world with habits that mimic the world-and both we and the world suffer for it. Integrating the five habits...

Asking the Question-Facilitator Guide for Evangelism Christians commonly express these concerns regarding evangelism: o "I don't know what to say." o "I do not want to cause offense." o "I can't answer objections to the Gospel." Asking the Question-Facilitator Guide will help you teach Christians to take action in evangelism. Using uncomplicated, ordinary ways to start conversations and practical exercises to prepare, Christians can immediately begin...

El fenómeno del cristianismo sionista nos invita a preguntarnos sobre la secularización de las sociedad, qué problema plantea a la separación de Iglesia y Estado o más aún: la separación entre religión y política. Este libro investiga los efectos de los grupos religiosos en la escena internacional, tanto en Estados Unidos como en un país latinoamericano y periférico como lo es Chile.

An honest, fair, and thorough discussion of the issues raised in Jewish Christian apologetics, covering thirty-five objections on general and historical themes.