01-01-1972 The major purpose of the study is to establish in literature the involvement of the Christian church in agricultural education and development in Cameroun,West Africa, and in Uganda, East Africa.The descriptions of the projects deal with such factors as the reasons for their initiation, their...
01-01-1986 Living in the 21st century is like swimming in a sea of sensuality. With no possibility of insulating themselves from sexual temptation, countless numbers of Christian men are drowning in this bottomless ocean of lust. Many men have tried everything they can to find the freedom they are longing...
19-01-1995 Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year Too often, Thomas Schmidt writes, the charged battle over homosexuality generates slogans and accusations--obscuring the struggling persons at the center of the argument. In this book Schmidt brings the discussion back into empathetic...
20-01-2005 Faithful Finances 101: From the Poverty of Fear and Greed to the Riches of Spiritual Investing. Faithful Finances 101is a first-person narrative by outspoken advocate of faith-based investing. A senior vice president of investments at Paine Webber before founding his own investment firm as...
01-01-1979 Roots of Hope, written by a wide variety of Southern Baptist pastors, leaders, academics and laypeople is designed to help Christians learn to listen to our hunger world.The book is intended to be used as the focus of a weekly miss-a-meal discipline in which time saved is used to pray and...
01-01-1999 A Return to Modestyis a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery,...
01-01-1986 When it first appeared in 1986, James McClendon'sEthicslaid claim to two compelling theological ideas. First, that a highly distinctive theological perspective characterizes the inheritors of the sixteenth century's radical reformation. At the heart of this perspective is what McClendon calls the...
01-01-2009 The issue of idolatry has been with the human race for thousands of years; the subtle temptation is always to take what is good and turn it into the ultimate good, elevating it above all other things in the search for security and meaning. In this timely and challenging book, New York pastor...
01-01-2011 Speaker and historian John Dickson shows how the virtue of humility was an important character trait for the 'greats' of history and figures prominently in the findings of psychology and sociology. Developing humility can transform your personal relationships and professional dealings.
01-01-2008 In his challenging exposition of Revelation 2:2-6, Alexander Strauch examines this alarming rebuke of Jesus Christ to his church. Part I of the book reminds us that an individual or a church can teach sound doctrine, be faithful to the gospel, be morally upright and hard-working, and yet be...