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Acedia

Acedia

Religion & Spirituality

Enzo Bianchi dedica questo volume della serie "Se questa vita ha un senso" all’acedia. Questa tentazione, che l’essere umano ha sempre conosciuto, forse oggi si fa più frequente e intensa, soprattutto nel mondo occidentale: là dove non si è più assillati dalla fame e dalla lotta quotidiana per la sopravvivenza, ecco aprirsi lo spazio per desideri e bisogni che vanno al di là di quelli primari e che, proprio per questo, hanno in sé una vena di insaziabilità. Quando oggi si cerca di capire l’aumento di suicidi in tutte le fasce di età, la rivendicazione sempre più insistente ed esplicita di essere aiutati a morire senza sofferenza, la rimozione della morte per l’insostenibile pesantezza della sua realtà, allora bisognerebbe avere il coraggio di fare una diagnosi nella società e nella cultura e riconoscere che siamo in una società depressa, viziata dall’acedia, da questo «male oscuro» che impedisce il dinamismo dell’amare e dell’essere amati.

Brother Lawrence

Brother Lawrence

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Brother Lawrence’s famous work, The Practice of the Presence of God, is broken into bite-size pieces and paired with the writings of some of the greatest Zen teachers, from the Buddha to the Dalai Lama. The result sheds new light on this great Christian classic, offering profoundly practical insights for the spiritual life. “You could read this book in an hour, but take the rest of your life to absorb its wisdom. It will help you ‘become a master of your own bliss, a chemist of your own joy.’ In a time when religious misunderstanding abounds, this book is a bridge between traditions. I wish every Christian would read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the teaching of Brother Lawrence, Christian Zen Master, here illuminated by the richness of Buddhist texts.” --the Rev. Mark Giroux, Rector, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Chenango Bridge, New York; Member of the Children of Abraham (a continuing interfaith conversation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims); Member of the Broome County Interfaith Clergy Collective

Weight of Glory

Weight of Glory

Religion & Spirituality

The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, contains nine sermons delivered by Lewis during World War Two. The nine addresses in Weight of Glory offer guidance, inspiration, and a compassionate apologetic for the Christian faith during a time of great doubt.

The Method of Grace

The Method of Grace

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<b>Enriching</b>! Flavel’s <b>thorough investigation</b> in<i> The Method of Grace </i>outlines the work of God’s Spirit in <b>applying the redemptive work</b> of Christ to the believer. A <b>heart-searching experience</b> which will <b>enhance</b> your faith and <b>evangelistic fervor</b>. This clearly defined theology is delivered with urgency by an author deeply concerned about the <b>eternal destiny</b> of the human soul! Will <b>fire your zeal</b> and <b>renew your spirit</b> to attempt great things for God!

El Dios Trino

El Dios Trino

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Presentamos este número de Portavoz de la Gracia: El Dios Trino. Tocar este tema es pisar suelo santo, uno que no podemos tomar con ligereza. Esta doctrina constituye la verdad fundamental de nuestra fe y por lo tanto requiere lectura y estudio paciente y cuidadoso. Podemos declarar el corazón de la doctrina usando la sencilla frase de Calvino —“en la esencia única de Dios hay una trinidad de personas”— pero comprender las profundidades de nuestro Creador y Soberano infinito y santo escapa a nuestra capacidad humana. Por eso hemos tratado de ofrecer artículos comprensibles, agregando abundante información técnica en las notas de pie de página para los que quieran profundizar en el tema. Loraine Boettner nos presenta este tema majestuoso contemplando la inconmensurable altura, profundidad, extensión y alcance del misterio del Trino Dios, destacando que es la marca distintiva del cristianismo. William S. Plumer luego nos da una provechosa perspectiva general de los temas fundamentales relacionados con la Trinidad. Acto seguido, Wilhelmus á Brakel nos adentra significativamente en el misterio, explicando el concepto de tres personas dentro de una esencia. Boettner nos ayuda luego con dos artículos más —una exposición comprensible de la doctrina misma, seguida por el tema controversial del orden y la subordinación dentro de la Trinidad. A. W. Pink nos ayuda a ver que esta doctrina es la base de toda enseñanza del Nuevo Testamento. Y, a pesar de su profundidad y dificultad, á Brakel nos explica por qué es esta doctrina realmente beneficiosa para el pueblo de Dios. Esto lleva a la discusión de John Owen sobre la comunicación de cada miembro de la Santísima Trinidad: Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo. Por último, Charles Spurgeon se aboca a corregir la idea errada de que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador a exclusión de Dios el Padre y Dios el Espíritu Santo. Su intención es que comprendamos que el perdón de nuestros pecados y el don de vida eterna son totalmente trinitarios. Y de todo corazón nos llama a creerlo.

The Works of James Allen

The Works of James Allen

Religion & Spirituality

The classic work of inspirational author James Allen with an active table of contents. Works include: Above Life's Turmoil All These Things Added As A Man Thinketh Eight pillars of prosperity The Way of Peace

The Covenant of Redemption

The Covenant of Redemption

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Samuel Willard (1640-1707) was a reformed preacher of the Gospel in the old South Boston Church in New England, president of Harvard University, and one of the great Calvinistic teachers of his day. The unparalleled and incomprehensible love of God to sinful man, displayed in the wonderful affair of his redemption and salvation, is the great thing celebrated throughout the Scriptures. This work is found in the covenant between the Father and the Son, called in theology, “The Covenant of Redemption.” Willard clearly and biblically explains the Covenant of Redemption dividing the entire treatise into two general heads in order to explain the glorious mystery of this covenant. 1) The provision which God made for our deliverance before time in eternity, and 2) The things which are done in time for its actual accomplishment. This work is not a scan or facsimile, has been carefully transcribed by hand being made easy to read in modern English, and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.

God's Love

God's Love

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In the hope of doing some good to God’s eternally-loved children, we present this issue of the Free Grace Broadcaster: God’s Love. Octavius Winslow, a man whose writings are steeped in the love of God, introduces us to God’s glorious attribute of love. Arthur Pink then reveals the extraordinary nature of God’s infinite love for His people. Puritan Thomas Manton shows us that first God loved His eternal Son in eternity, then, He loved His people in Christ, and now He loves Christ in His people. Do we have a good grasp of how that love comes from eternity into history? Thomas Reade helps us to see this in Christ Jesus. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones shows us that God manifests His love in many ways; but the clearest, highest, and most beautiful way is in the person and work of Jesus Christ our Lord. How does a Christian live in this world of sorrow, heartaches, troubles, and misery? In a second article, Winslow tells us that we should trust God’s love for us in every providence. Samuel Eyles Pierce wants us to ponder deeply the Apostle John’s command to behold the wonderful love God had for us in eternity, has for us now, and will have forever. Few people can preach about God’s love with the authority, tenderness, and clarity of Charles Spurgeon. He sets before us God’s immeasurable love in His eternally loved Son for His eternally loved people. And Winslow has the final word: having given a biblical exposition of God’s mighty love in Christ, in this last article, he soberly tells what happens when God’s love turns to anger. Drink in what the Scriptures truly teach about God and His love in the words of these faithful preachers. Gaze upon the love that is so high, so wide, so deep that it transforms the human soul forever. Contemplate the mighty, eternal, full, and free love of God in Christ, and love Him back by repenting of your sins, by looking in faith to Christ, and by humbly obeying Him. He is worthy because He is love, and He loves His people in Christ.

The Substitutionary Atonement of Jesus Christ

The Substitutionary Atonement of Jesus Christ

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Francis Turretin (1623–1687) was a Swiss-Italian Protestant theologian, and an avid defender of the Reformed Gospel of Jesus Christ. Why did Jesus Christ die on the cross? The right answer to this question is critical to salvation and entering into a right relationship with Jesus Christ. This current volume is a masterful biblical survey and polemic that illuminates the Bible’s doctrine of Christ’s atonement. It is doubted whether any other work of the same compass presents so clearly and forcibly the truth of God as to the Nature, Truth, Perfection, Matter, and Extent of the Satisfaction made by the our Savior. Turretin’s lucid arrangement of topics, compact argumentation, fairness of statement, and constant appeal to the law and the testimony, leave the careful reader little to desire. This second edition is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions. It also includes a work by McMahon on Turretin's covenant concepts.

The Cost of Discipleship

The Cost of Discipleship

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One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.

The Works of Thomas Boston, Volume V

The Works of Thomas Boston, Volume V

Religion & Spirituality

Thomas Boston is truly an amazing gift to Christianity. In this collection of his work, Boston exhorts us to strengthen our faith through obedience to Christ. Volume five contains A Soliloquy on the Art of Man-Fishing, The Distinguishing Characters of True Believers and The State and Character of Believers.

The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses

The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses

Religion & Spirituality

John Ankerberg, John Weldon, and Dillon Burroughs team up to revise and update The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses, part of the popular Facts On Series (more than 1.9 million copies of books from this series sold). Known for their extensive research and Bible knowledge, these authors offer readers the essential facts they need to evaluate and discuss today's issues regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious organization, and the Watchtower Society. The concise, easy-to-follow information helps readers answer such questions as:What is the Watchtower Society and what power does it hold?Is the Watchtower Society's translation of the Bible accurate?Is the Society's teaching on salvation biblical?Whether the reader is merely curious or searching for specific information, The Facts on Jehovah's Witnesses will give them what they are looking for—easy-to-understand, factual, and relevant information about this group.

L'illusione di Dio

L'illusione di Dio

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Da quando è uscito L'illusione di Dio, Richard Dawkins non è più soltanto uno scienziato famoso, un brillante divulgatore e uno degli intellettuali più influenti del nostro tempo: è diventato l'ateo più celebre del mondo. Ma lo scopo di questo libro non è solo dimostrare, con argomentazioni provocatorie e uno stile piacevole ed efficace, l'assoluta improbabilità dell'esistenza di un essere superiore, creatore del cielo e della terra; è soprattutto quello di denunciare come ogni forma di religione possa trasformarsi in fondamentalismo, fomentare guerre, condizionare le menti dei bambini. Una critica radicale, condotta con grande intelligenza e humour, che prende in esame tutte le più importanti argomentazioni a favore dell'esistenza di Dio, dimostrandone l'inefficacia. In queste pagine Dawkins mette a frutto la propria competenza e passione di scienziato per mostrarci come nessuna religione potrà mai dare una comprensione più profonda e uno stupore più commosso per le meraviglie del mondo di quella che ci consente la conoscenza scientifica.

Searching for Heaven on Earth

Searching for Heaven on Earth

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Don't you deserve a little happiness?They are the questions that plague us: Is happiness within my reach? Why is life so frustrating? Is it too late for me? Or to put another way, "Where can I find a little heaven on earth?"History's most successful man, Solomon, wondered just that. As Dr. David Jeremiah shows us, he was a man who tested life's haunting questions head-on. And tasted life's riches full-on. And who found his answers in the last place he thought to look.Listen, then, to his voice. A voice that, if you pay attention, will speak directly to your flesh and bones and heart. A voice that admits: Maybe happiness is an empty hope. Or maybe we've simply been looking in all the wrong places. . .

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the iPad, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

Resurrección

Resurrección

Religion & Spirituality

Ofrecemos este último tomo de Portavoz de la Gracia—Resurrección. El pueblo de Dios necesita que esta bendita y alentadora verdad llegue a sus corazones. Es realmente alimento para el alma hambrienta del creyente. Charles Spurgeon abre el camino enseñándonos la importancia de la resurrección como una verdad del evangelio. Incluso en sus tiempos muchos estaban desviando o distorsionando esa doctrina esencial. J. C. Ryle destaca el gran contraste entre el hecho de la resurrección y la lentitud de los discípulos en creerla. Albert N. Martin luego nos presenta cuatro verdades acerca de la resurrección de Cristo de entre los muertos que magnifica su gloria y esplendor. ¿Cuáles son las evidencias de la resurrección de nuestro Señor? William S. Plumer las examina y nos la detalla, y luego Thomas Manton describe los numerosos beneficios que los creyentes reciben de él: ¡qué impresionante cofre del tesoro! George Whitefield, poderoso predicador del Gran Despertar, explica el poder de la resurrección en el alma del cristiano, y David Martyn Lloyd-Jones demuestra la conexión crucial entre la resurrección de Cristo y la vida diaria del creyente. Para terminar, Charles Spurgeon tiene la última palabra sobre este tema glorioso: ¡nos dice que Cristo fue el primero en resucitar y que por eso, la resurrección del creyente está garantizada! ¡Alabemos el nombre del Señor! Jesucristo murió en la cruz del Calvario y resucitó para salvar a su pueblo de la pena, el placer, el poder y algún día de la presencia del pecado. Amados hijos de Dios, que este número de Portavoz de la Gracia avive el fuego de su amor por la resurrección del Señor de gloria y llene sus corazones de un gozo inefable y pleno de gloria. Que nuestra predicación y nuestro evangelio incluyan siempre la verdad eterna y transformadora que cambió toda la historia humana: “¡Ciertamente el Señor ha resucitado!” Servimos a un Salvador resucitado.

The Four Great Discoveries of Modern Science That Prove God Exists

The Four Great Discoveries of Modern Science That Prove God Exists

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Evolution has been taught as fact for years in science textbooks and classrooms, leaving the need for God out of the discussion. But today's scientific evidence provides compelling evidence for an Intelligent Designer. This series discussion four of the great discoveries that prove God exists. You’ll find your mind—and faith—strengthened in a way that will help you better understand and communicate your beliefs.

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

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New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller—whose books have sold millions of copies to both religious and secular readers—explores one of the most difficult questions we must answer in our lives: Why is there pain and suffering? Walking with God through Pain and Suffering is the definitive Christian book on why bad things happen and how we should respond to them. The question of why there is pain and suffering in the world has confounded every generation; yet there has not been a major book from a Christian perspective exploring why they exist for many years. The two classics in this area are When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, which was published more than thirty years ago, and C. S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain, published more than seventy years ago. The great secular book on the subject, Elisabeth Ku¨bler-Ross’s On Death and Dying, was first published in 1969. It’s time for a new understanding and perspective, and who better to tackle this complex subject than Timothy Keller? As the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, Timothy Keller is known for the unique insights he shares, and his series of books has guided countless readers in their spiritual journeys. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering will bring a much-needed, fresh viewpoint on this important issue.