Friday, September 27, 2013
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 [...]
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, [...]
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, September 23, 2013
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 [...]
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. [...]
Friday, September 13, 2013
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 [...]
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. [...]
Friday, September 6, 2013
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 [...]
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 [...]
