A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Lewis sets out to disentangle this knotty issue, but adds that, in the end, no intellectual solution can avoid the need for faith. A study session for individual or small-group use appears at the end of each chapter is included in this book except for bonus chapter 11. Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to Wormwood, the inexperienced tempter. Join him as he unveils stunning, life-impacting truths you saw in the Bible but never dared to believe.

The Reason for God challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to" be" the Beauty of the story. 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. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? It's the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else — for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world.

These brief scripture-based readings--by turns comforting and challenging--will draw you into God's presence and form you as a disciple of the Risen Lord. An instant bestseller, The Language of God provides the best argument for the integration of faith and logic since C.This guide leads readers into a greater understanding of God while providing advice to gaining a closer relationship with him as a result.

Wormwood and Screwtape live in a peculiarly morally reversed world, where individual benefit and greed are seen as the greatest good, and neither demon is capable of comprehending or acknowledging true human virtue when he sees it. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong.

Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts—it's falling in love with God. Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. Relevant and prescient, American Gods has been lauded for its brilliant synthesis of “mystery, satire, sex, horror, and poetic prose” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World) and as a modern phantasmagoria that “distills the essence of America” ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer). there are other qualities that only God possesses, such as unlimited power, knowledge, and authority.