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Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it. Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the gnostic current of Late Antiquity within...

‘Jesus was a pest to the Romans and a threat to the religious leadership, so they threw him on to the rubbish dump. Little did they realize that it was like trying to put out a fire with petrol. The whole world exploded.’ With characteristic style, John Pritchard takes us on pilgrimage...

Too often people are drawn to the church altar to repeat a salvation prayer and then go home wondering, "Now what?" Joan Hunter asked Christians in a survey, "What information would you have liked to have known immediately after you were saved?" Life! Essentials for Christian Living provides foundational...

These studies cover a variety of topics: Beliefs and expectations of first-century Jews The earliest gospel Stephen The beginning of the gospel Christ died for our sins The Jerusalem Council Speaking in tongues Comparing the gospels

Confrontational Christianity addresses many of those issues facing Christians in today’s world. The book looks at the various types of Christians, from those who are passive to those who strap on their “whole armor of God,” and come out swinging their two edged swords, the Bible. The fact that...

Calling upon teachers G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, Sam Portaro wades into the abyss of confronting a life of faithfulness in a world where the Church has created a dictionary unintelligible to anyone not part of itself. Acknowledging it a risky adventure to attempt to put into printed words his faith, Portaro steps boldly onto the pages of Sheer Christianity: Conjectures on a Catechism.

With its remarkable ability to adapt to many different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world’s fastest growing religious movement. More than five hundred million adherents worldwide have reshaped Christianity itself. Yet some fundamental questions in the study of global Pentecostalism, and...

What is the good news? If the gospel that Jesus taught is so good, why are Christians so bad? How can Christians relate to people of other faiths or of no faith at all? Bible teacher Henry Neufeld wrestles with these issues in this book. This is not a book of theology. It is his personal testimony...

During recent years two movements have been noticeable in the thought of men outside the Christian Church. First, there has been the development of materialism. The teachings of Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, and Spencer have tended to the denial of the spiritual in man. Thousands of people who have never...

#1.Seeking God and Truth -- The author has taken the pen name TLS {The Lord's Scribe}. The author had a deep faith crisis in which I questioned everything ... was Christianity even correct, what about Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism .... ? In retrospect I never stopped believing that there was...

What happens when we create a pseudo-God? We get pseudo-Christianity. What are the repercussions of such a belief? A mediocre group of self-promoting do-gooders who are, in the name of all that is religious, enemies of God. Pseudo-God Pseudo-Christianity Pseudo-religious Sacrilegious Watch...

Radical Christianity is Jonathan's heart-cry to the Western Church to rise up boldly to preach the Gospel with signs following and make no apology for the uniqueness of Christ, the absolute truth of God's Word, and its call upon humanity to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as...

Many believers are frustrated, confused and defeated because they have learned erroneous things about God, themselves and the Christian life. This Is The Life! seeks to replace some of those faulty foundations with the truths of authentic, life transforming Christianity. There are ten chapters...

A Basic Christian Theology is a book that teaches the basic understandings of Christianity. Dr. Jeffrey P. Pedersen has taken the profound truths of Christianity and has explained them in an understandable way. There are many stories, illustrations, and examples that will engage readers and stimulate...