Category: Christianity

By David Jeremiah

Whilst Pontius Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he proposal he used to be placing an finish to the Jewish rebellion that were threatening the authority of the Roman Empire. What Pilate did not detect, despite the fact that, used to be that genuine revolution used to be simply getting began. in keeping with the epic NBC tv sequence, A.D. The Bible keeps: The Revolution that modified the realm is a sweeping Biblical narrative that brings the political intrigue, non secular persecution, and emotional turmoil of the e-book of Acts to existence in gorgeous, bright aspect. starting with the crucifixion, bestselling writer and Bible instructor Dr. David Jeremiah chronicles the tumultuous struggles of Christ's disciples following the Resurrection. From the brutal stoning of Stephen and Saul's radical conversion, during the unyielding persecution of Peter and the relentless wrath of Pilate, Jeremiah paints a powerful portrait of the political and non secular upheaval that ended in the formation of the early Church. entire with worthwhile history information regarding the characters, tradition, and traditions incorporated within the tv sequence, A.D. The Bible maintains: The Revolution that modified the realm is not just a riveting, action-packed learn, it's also an illuminating exploration of 1 of the main major chapters in international historical past. prepare to monitor background spread. The revolution that modified the area has started!

By Cindy Woodsmall

Two pals from various worlds—one outdated Order Amish, one Englischer—share the truths that deliver them together.
 
Best-selling novelist Cindy Woodsmall might sound to have little in universal with Miriam Flaud, a lady immersed within the tradition of outdated Order Amish. yet with 9 little ones and nearly 60 years of marriage among them, Cindy and Miriam either have came upon the secrets and techniques to dealing with existence with power and style. no matter if enduring financial setbacks, celebrating new infants and instances of prosperity, grieving the crushing losses within the deaths of friends and family, or dealing with disappointments with their respective communities—through all of it they locate information for every day through seeking to God. 
 
With poignant memories, unforeseen insights, and funny stories, the 2 girls welcome you into their special friendship.  You’ll additionally achieve a unprecedented glimpse into the traditions and methods of the Amish as Miriam remembers detailed events and stocks family members recipes through the book.
 
Plain Wisdom is a heartwarming party of God, womanhood, and the quest for good looks that unites us all. So seize your cup and your cover and settle in for a soul-comforting learn with Plain Wisdom.

By Thomas à Kempis

All through background, a few books have replaced the realm. they've got remodeled the best way we see ourselves—and one another. they've got encouraged debate, dissent, warfare and revolution. they've got enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. they've got enriched lives—and destroyed them.

Now, Penguin brings you the works of the good thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose rules shook civilization, and helped make us who we're. Penguin's nice principles sequence beneficial properties twelve groundbreaking works through a few of history's so much prodigious thinkers, and every quantity is superbly packaged with a different type-drive layout that highlights the bookmaker's paintings. delivering nice literature in nice applications at nice costs, this sequence is perfect for these readers who are looking to discover and get pleasure from the nice rules that experience formed the area.

The internal Life is taken from Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ, a vintage Christian devotional that has taught and encouraged generations.

By Nabeel Qureshi

From New York Times bestselling writer and previous Muslim Nabeel Qureshi comes this own, tough, and respectful resolution to the various questions surrounding jihad, the increase of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism.

San Bernardino used to be the main deadly terror assault on American soil considering that September 11, and it got here at the heels of a coordinated attack on Paris. there is not any query that innocents have been slaughtered within the identify of Allah and within the manner of jihad, yet do the terrorists’ activities truly replicate the faith of Islam? the reply to this query is extra urgent than ever, as waves of Muslim refugees arrive within the West looking shield from the violent ideology of ISIS.

Setting apart speculations and competing voices, what rather is jihad? How are we to appreciate jihad on the subject of our Muslim friends and neighbors? Why is there this kind of surge of Islamist terrorism on this planet this day, and the way are we to respond?

In Answering Jihad, bestselling author Nabeel Qureshi (Seeking Allah, discovering Jesus) answers those questions from the point of view of a former Muslim who's deeply involved for either his Muslim kinfolk and his American homeland.

By Eric Metaxas

WHO higher to stand the best EVIL OF the twentieth CENTURY THAN A HUMBLE guy OF FAITH?

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a state, bullied a continent, and tried to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small variety of dissidents and saboteurs labored to dismantle the 3rd Reich from the interior. this sort of used to be Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and writer. during this New York instances best-selling biography, Eric Metaxas takes either strands of Bonhoeffer’s life—the theologian and the spy—and attracts them jointly to inform a searing tale of significant ethical braveness within the face of big evil. Metaxas offers the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer’s heart-wrenching selection to depart the refuge of the United States to come back to Hitler’s Germany, and sheds new mild on Bonhoeffer’s involvement within the recognized Valkyrie plot and in “Operation 7,” the trouble to smuggle Jews into impartial Switzerland. In a deeply relocating narrative, Metaxas makes use of formerly unavailable documents?including own letters, distinctive magazine entries, and firsthand own accounts?to show dimensions of Bonhoeffer's lifestyles and theology by no means sooner than seen.

"Bonhoeffer is the tale of a existence framed via a fondness for fact and a dedication to justice on behalf of these who face implacable evil.  comprises Readers’ consultant  “[A] superbly developed biography.”

—Alan Wolfe, The New Republic

 “Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer’s tale with ardour and theological sophistication. . . .”

—Wall highway Journal

“[A] weighty, riveting research of the lifetime of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. . . .”

—Publishers Weekly

“Metaxas provides Bonhoeffer as a clear-headed, deeply convicted Christian who submitted to nobody and not anything other than God and his Word.”

—Christianity Today

“Metaxas has written a booklet that provides a brand new measurement to international warfare II, a brand new knowing of ways evil can grab the soul of a state and a guy of religion can confront it. . . .”

—Thomas Fleming, writer, The New purchasers’ War

“Metaxas has created a biography of unusual power—intelligent, relocating, good researched,vividly written, and wealthy in implication for our personal lives. Or to place it in a different way: purchase this publication. learn it. Then purchase one other replica and provides it to someone you're keen on. It’s that good.”

—Archbishop Charles Chaput, First Things

"A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty first century."

—Kirkus Reviews

• 2011 ECPA ebook of the Year
• 2011 Canterbury Medal by means of the Becket Fund spotting braveness within the protection of non secular liberty
• 2011 Christopher Award winner highlighting the facility of religion, braveness, and action

"A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the twenty first century."

-Kirkus Reviews

 

By Robert Benedetto

As its identify implies, the Reformed culture grew out of the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed church buildings contemplate themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The flow originated within the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. even if the Reformed stream was once established upon many Protestant leaders, it used to be Calvin's tireless paintings as a author, preacher, instructor, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that supplied a considerable physique of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed culture grew. at the present time, the Reformed church buildings are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. the second one variation of the historic Dictionary of the Reformed church buildings comprises details at the significant personalities, occasions, evidence, pursuits, and ideology of the Reformed church buildings. this is often performed via an inventory of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, occasions, proof, pursuits, and ideology of the Reformed church buildings.

By Francis Chan

By Nabil Matar

This e-book presents translated choices from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). the single writings by way of an Arab-Muslim within the pre-modern interval that current a comparative point of view, his travelogues offer targeted perception with in to Christendom and Islam.
Translating excerpts from his 3 travelogues, this ebook tells the tale of al-Miknasi’s travels from 1779-1788. As an envoy, al-Miknasi used to be aware about court docket existence, executive places of work and spiritual structures, and he presents designated bills of towns, humans, customs, ransom negotiations, historic occasions and political associations. together with descriptions of Europeans, Arabs, Turks, Christians (both eu and Eastern), Muslims, Jews, and (American) Indians within the final region of the eighteenth century, An Arab Ambassador within the Mediterranean global explores how the main travelled Muslim author of the pre-modern interval observed the area: from Spain to Arabia and from Morocco to Turkey, with second-hand information regarding the hot World.
Supplemented with wide notes detailing the historical and political relevance of the translations, this e-book is of curiosity to researchers and students of Mediterranean heritage, Ottoman reports and Muslim-Christian family members.

By Pink Dandelion

This is the ideal introductory consultant to the heritage and concepts of the Quakers, one of many world's so much attention-grabbing and enigmatic non secular teams. rising in England within the 1650s as an intensive sect difficult the established order, the Quakers are actually most sensible recognized for his or her anti-slavery actions, their principled stance opposed to battle, and their pioneering paintings in penal reform. well-known Quakers comprise Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Lucretia Mott, Herbert Hoover, James Dean, Judi Dench, and A.S. Byatt. And whereas the crowd nonetheless keeps a particular worship technique to in attaining a right away stumble upon with God, which has been on the middle of the circulate due to the fact that its starting, Quakers this day are hugely various: a few perform a protestant evangelicalism, others are not any longer Christian. during this generously illustrated publication, red Dandelion, the major specialist on Quaker experiences, attracts at the most modern scholarship to chart the historical past of the sect and its present-day range worldwide, exploring its special approach to worship, trust, theology and language, and ecumenism. It concludes by way of putting the Quakers within the wider non secular photo and predicting its future.

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By Judith Couchman

The paintings of religion outlines sacred paintings from early Christianity during the Baroque, with exciting details, tales, rates, sketches, and examples.