When God Doesn't Make Sense

When God Doesn't Make Sense

Author: James C. Dobson

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2012-10-17

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1414385609

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With more than one million copies sold, When God Doesn’t Make Sense is an immensely practical book for those who are struggling with trials and heartaches they can’t understand. Why does disease, natural disaster, divorce, rejection, death, or some other sorrow seep into our lives when we are trying to serve the Lord? It just doesn’t seem fair! This book deals unflinchingly with life’s most troubling question—“Why?” Drawing on his long experience as a Christian psychologist and family counselor, Dr. Dobson brings hope to those who have almost given up. When God Doesn’t Make Sense also helps believers avoid the “betrayal barrier”—the sense that God is abandoning them amid the storms of life. Now with a new foreword by R. T. Kendall.


Strange Gods

Strange Gods

Author: Elizabeth Scalia

Publisher: Ave Maria Press

Published: 2013-05-06

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 159471357X

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Renowned in the blogosphere as The Anchoress and as Catholic Portal editor of the popular Patheos.com, Elizabeth Scalia offers a powerful critique of the “gods” we worship today, reminding readers that life’s deepest desires can be satisfied only in Christ. Strange Gods, Scalia's debut book, is packed full of the iconoclastic vim and vigor that has won her a large, faithful Internet following. She presents readers with a surprising look at the ways in which modern people still commit the sin of idolatry in their everyday lives. While literal golden calves no longer dot the landscape, Scalia describes how legitimate loves become obsessively twisted into idols. She unmasks idolatry in a number of everyday experiences—friendships that become needy or possessive, commitments political and religious that grow so intense they lead to hatred of others, to name a few—and points to the incarnation of Christ and authentic worship of him as a way out of idolatry and into peace, happiness, and love.


The Strange Ways of God

The Strange Ways of God

Author: Charles Reynolds Brown

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-17

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781356893201

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The Strange Ways of God; A Study in the Book of Job

The Strange Ways of God; A Study in the Book of Job

Author: Charles Reynolds Brown

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-09

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781356186761

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The Strange Ways of God

The Strange Ways of God

Author: Charles Reynolds Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781331861935

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Excerpt from The Strange Ways of God: A Study in the Book of Job This little book is not in any sense a commentary upon or a critical exposition of the book of Job. The larger part of the material was originally used in a series of lectures intended for a popular audience and designed to increase the interest in, and to aid in a better understanding of this ancient poem. The literary quality of the book of Job is such as to give it a high place among the worlds masterpieces, but the many faulty translations in the Authorized Version, the ill-considered arrangement of the parts of the poem as to their literary form in an ordinary copy of the Scriptures, and a widespread misconception as to the main purpose of the argument, have tended to obscure its beauty. In the main I have used the translation given in the Revised Version and the literary arrangement found in Moulton's Modern Reader's Bible, Here and there, however, I have used my own paraphrase where it seemed to me the essential meaning could be more clearly rendered. I have occasionally quoted together lines which stand apart in the text, without the insertion at the customary marks, but in this I am sure no violence has been done at any point to the authors meaning, nor has the essential course of his argument been in any wise disturbed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Strange Gods

Strange Gods

Author: Peter J Daly

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1632990490

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The Archbishop of New York fell down dead. Michael Manning was the sixth cardinal among the international Catholic clergy to die under violent and suspicious circumstances. Somebody is killing cardinals. But what is going on and why? With the latest death, the Vatican is forced to act. The Church pulls Nate Condon, a young New York attorney, into the investigation. As the history of the crimes unfolds, we are drawn inside the magnificent city of Rome, her ancient secrets, and the most privileged inner sanctums of the Catholic hierarchy. In the midst of Nate’s investigation, more tragedy befalls the Church: The pope dies, a Vatican cardinal commits suicide, and the Mafia murders Nate’s primary contact, a self-loathing gay monsignor who is knee-deep in scandal. Soon after, an American cardinal, determined to change the corruption deep within the Church, is elected as the new pope. Will he be able to narrow the divide that is destroying everything he holds dear, or will the schism that separates the Church win out? Strange Gods was written by two priests with firsthand knowledge of the degree to which the Church will go to cover up financial corruption, abuse of power, sexual scandal, and evil. With an eye on the holiness and grace of ordinary people who keep the Church alive and want to change her future, Strange Gods promises is an exciting, engaging and thought-provoking read.


A World Full of Gods

A World Full of Gods

Author: Keith Hopkins

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-07-01

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0452282616

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“Evokes the sights and sounds of the ancient world with daring and imagination… An intellectual tour-de-force that challenges us to see the history of Christianity through the eyes of those who actually lived it.”—Los Angeles Times In this provocative, irresistibly entertaining book, Keith Hopkins takes readers back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in ancient Rome. Combining exacting scholarship with dazzling invention, Hopkins challenges our perceptions about religion, the historical Jesus, and the way history is written. He puts us in touch with what he calls "empathetic wonder"—imagining what Romans, pagans, Jews, and Christians thought, felt, experienced, and believed-by employing a series of engaging literary devices. These include a TV drama about the Dead Sea Scrolls; the first-person testimony of a pair of time-travelers to Pompeii; a meditation on Jesus' apocryphal twin brother; and an unusual letter on God, demons, and angels.


God Behind the Scenes

God Behind the Scenes

Author: Wayne K. Barkhuizen

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1577997123

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Although the book of Esther contains no direct references to God, his fingerprints can be found all over it. In God Behind the Scenes, Wayne K. Barkhuizen helps us trace the unseen hand of God throughout the Esther narrative, while pointing out how the book is still relevant today. As we walk through the book, we’ll see how God was indeed active in preserving the people through whom the Messiah, Jesus Christ, would one day come.


The Strange Ways of God - Scholar's Choice Edition

The Strange Ways of God - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Charles Reynolds Brown

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-18

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781298181527

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