Charles G. Finney - Lectures To Professing Christians

Finney’s Lectures to Professing Christians contains twenty-five lectures delivered in New York City during 1836 and 1837. This volume includes lectures on a variety of theological and social issues, including justification and sanctification—the perennial themes in all of Finney’s works—as well as Finney’s famous lectures on Christian perfectionism and true repentance.

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Charles G. Finney - Power From On High

Among dedicated believers there is little doubt that contemporary Christians are desperate for the baptism of the Spirit, the fullness of the Spirit and Power From on High.

In this essential volume Charles Finney boldly uncovers the awful truth that today's Christians and a number of church leaders are sadly lacking in this critical gift of power. However, he does not languish in despair but offers a good deal of hope by proclaiming that spiritual power is available for every Christian and encouraging Christians to seek such power in faith. Finney emphasizes that the Holy Spirit urgently desires to take full control of your life, and he lists certain conditions that must be met before you can be filled with the Spirit and receive Power From on High.

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Charles G. Finney - Revival Lectures

The twenty-two chapters of this book owe so much of their appeal to the fact that they were first preached to a visible audience. Taken down by Joshua Leavitt, they were carefully edited and annotated by the author. Consequently, they bear evidence of warm words flowing from a flaming heart.

No other book on the subject of revival has been so mightily used of God. It has been translated into many languages and circulated around the globe. Despite the length of time since the lectures were first delivered and published, so powerful are they in present-day application that they are still used as texts in many Bible schools and seminaries.

In Revival Lectures Finney explains what a revival of religion is and treats at length such related subjects as the place of faith and prayer in relation to revival; the need of the Holy Spirit; methods to be used in the quest for souls; hindrances to revivals; instructions to converts; and helpful rules for growth in grace. The principles and methods God used so mightily in Finney's day are equally effective in our own.

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Charles G. Finney - Reminiscences

Reminiscences of Charles G. Finney: Speeches and Sketches at the Gathering of His Friends and Pupils in Oberlin, July 28T h, 1876, With President Fairchild s Memorial Sermon was written by Oberlin College in 1876. This is a 106 page book, containing 32883 words and 2pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title.

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D. James Kennedy & Jerry Newcombe - What’s Wrong With Same Sex Marriage

In recent court decisions, the homosexual activist movement has made huge strides toward legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States. With the help of a handful of judges, a tiny fraction of our population is on the verge of redefining the institution of marriage for all of us.

This goes beyond politics - it is a moral issue. And in this book, D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe offer a Christian response. The Bible is clear: Homosexuality is a sin, and marriage is for one man and one woman.

Kennedy and Newcombe use Scripture to show what God says about homosexuality and marriage. They also examine statistics and case studies that dispel many of the myths about homosexuality. They appeal to us to make an organized response to same-sex marriage--while maintaining a loving attitude toward homosexuals as human beings.

These days it's not "politically correct" to say that homosexuality is wrong. But it's not culture's responsibility to determine right and wrong. There is only one Authority who can do that, and it is up to us to stand behind His Word.

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Craig A. Evans & Peter W. Flint - Eschatology, Messianism, And The Dead Sea Scrolls

Scholarly interest in intertextuality remains as keen as ever. Armed with new questions, interpreters seek to understand better the function of older scripture in later scripture. The essays assembled in the present collection address these questions. These essays treat pre-Christian texts, as well as Christian texts, that make use of older sacred tradition. They analyze the respective uses of scripture in diverse Jewish and Christian traditions. Some of these studies are concerned with discreet bodies of writings, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, while others are concerned with versions of scriptures, such as the Hebrew or Old Greek, and text critical issues. Other studies are concerned with how scripture is interpreted as part of apocalyptic and eschatology.

Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality includes essays that explore the use of Old Testament scripture in the Gospels and Acts. Other studies examine the apostle Paul's interpretation of scripture in his letters, while other studies look at non-Pauline writings and their utilization of scripture. Some of the studies in this collection show how older scripture clarifies important points of teaching or resolves social conflict.

Law, conversion, anthropology, paradise, and Messianism are among the themes treated in these studies, themes rooted in important ways in older sacred tradition.

The collection concludes with studies on two important Christian interpreters, Syriac-speaking Aphrahat in the east and Latin-speaking Augustine in the west.

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Craig A. Evans & N. T. Wright - Jesus,The Final Days

What do history and archaeology have to say about Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection? In this superb book, two of the world's most celebrated writers on the historical Jesus share their greatest findings. Together, Craig A. Evans and N. T. Wright concisely and compellingly convey the drama and the world-shattering significance of Jesus' final days on earth.

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Craig A. Evans & Danny Zacharias - Early Christian Literature And Intertextuality-Vol 1-Thematic Studies

Scholarly interest in intertextuality remains as keen as ever. Armed with new questions, interpreters seek to understand better the function of older scripture in later scripture. The essays assembled in the present collection address these questions. These essays treat pre-Christian texts, as well as Christian texts, that make use of older sacred tradition. They analyze the respective uses of scripture in diverse Jewish and Christian traditions. Some of these studies are concerned with discreet bodies of writings, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, while others are concerned with versions of scriptures, such as the Hebrew or Old Greek, and text critical issues. Other studies are concerned with how scripture is interpreted as part of apocalyptic and eschatology.

Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality includes essays that explore the use of Old Testament scripture in the Gospels and Acts. Other studies examine the apostle Paul's interpretation of scripture in his letters, while other studies look at non-Pauline writings and their utilization of scripture. Some of the studies in this collection show how older scripture clarifies important points of teaching or resolves social conflict.

Law, conversion, anthropology, paradise, and Messianism are among the themes treated in these studies, themes rooted in important ways in older sacred tradition.

The collection concludes with studies on two important Christian interpreters, Syriac-speaking Aphrahat in the east and Latin-speaking Augustine in the west.

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Craig A. Evans - Jesus And The Ossuaries

In this book, Craig A. Evans helps all readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this recent find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical reconstruction of early Christianity. Evans does this by providing an overview of the most important archaeological discoveries, before examining nine other inscriptions (six on ossuaries, three on stone slabs) that pertain in one way or another to thehistorical Jesus. He then surveys the arguments for and against the authenticity and identification of the recently discovered James Ossuary. Evans concludes his volume with a measured consideration of the historical value of the archaeological data afforded by the several inscriptions.

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Charles Spurgeon - Pictures From Pilgrim's Progress

Charles Spurgeon's favorite work was Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Spurgeon claimed he had read it over 100 times, and his wife would frequently read it to him for relaxation. He often quoted Bunyan in his sermons declaring, "Though his writings are charmingly full of poetry, yet he cannot give us his Pilgrim's Progress — that sweetest of all prose poems — without continually making us feel and say, 'Why, John Bunyan is a living Bible!' Prick him anywhere — his blood is Bible, the very essence of the Bible flows from him. He cannot speak without quoting a text, for his very soul is FULL of the Word of God."

Spurgeon first became enthralled with this classic as a small child, reading it in the attic of his grandfather's parsonage. The old wood-cut illustrations were especially interesting to the young lad, and later his sermons were saturated with references to the characters and events in the story. Thomas Spurgeon, one of his twin sons, wrote the preface to these articles which were first published in The Sword and the Trowel Magazine after Charles Haddon Spurgeon's death.

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