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In BUILDING BRIDGES, BURNING BRIDGES WITH YOUR JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, you will find the following topics discussed: Part I: Does the Watchtower have a Prophetic Leg to Stand On? Chapter 1: Fake, Fraud, or Foretold in the Scriptures? A History of Divine Inspiration or Disappointing Letdowns? Chapter 2: Practicing Religion without a Revelation from God? 10 Litmus Tests to Show Whether the Watchtower belongs to God. Part II: Is Hell a Flash in the Pan? Chapter 3: Endless Torment or Double Damnation? 12 Bible Reasons Why Hell is Eternal and Your Soul is Immortal. Part III: Was Jesus an Archangel or...

Meditation isn’t the whole of Buddhism. Promoters of the mindfulness movement tend to sidestep the fact that Buddhism is a religion. Like all religions, it’s mired in the myths and superstitions of earlier times. Does it contain any spiritual content of value apart from its meditative practices? The Soka Gakkai branch of Nichiren Buddhism—the subject of this book—is now the largest Buddhist denomination in a range of countries, including Japan, Brazil, Ghana, Italy, and the United States. It has largely moved out of the past, bridging the gap between present-day realities and the ...

For many secular people, the Bible no longer offers anything of value. Dismissed as myth, legend and delusion, the ancient scriptures of the world should be thrown into the dustbin of history, they say. But what if timeless and timely wisdom can be salvaged from the old scrolls? What might both theists and atheists discover when a fresh perspective, energized by curiosity and respectful reason, blows the dust of centuries away? Humanist freethinker and former minister and chaplain, Chris Highland, takes a different road, offering another more constructive and inviting approach to one ...

"The Ordained Demon" by Oladapo R. Osuntokun, MD, is a thrilling and thought-provoking book about a young priest named Michael. The book is a thrilling combination of self-help, Christian fiction, and insights into Satan's tactics and temptations. Anyone can learn how to overcome them and be saved. Michael's life is full of potential, but his pride, flawed character, and lack of reliance on God's Spirit reveal how Satan seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. The author weaves fictional stories from Biblical representations to teach essential lessons from the Bible in each chapter. The book ...

Shalom Israel! This Bible Study Guide is written to Israelites, for Israelites by an Israelite to re-introduce our culture and our heritage back to the so-called Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans that has been taken away from us under all the captivities that we have been subjected because of our disobedience to the Covenant of the GOD of Our Fathers.. We are the product of Deuteronomy 28:15-68, because we did not, and do not want to HEAR the VOICE of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we do not want to OBSERVE the things that He commands us to observe, and we do not want to DO ALL ...

"Hidden Miracles " takes you on a riveting journey from the dramatic battlegrounds of World War II to the complex engagements of contemporary conflicts, spotlighting the role of divine intervention in crucial wartime moments. This book challenges the notion that modern warfare, dominated by technological precision, leaves no room for serendipity or divine influence. With a particular focus on the Jewish experience, "Hidden Miracles" uncovers how these divine “fingerprints” have profoundly influenced the survival and destiny of the Jewish people, enabling their perseverance as a ...

"Keys to the Troubled Soul" is a self-help guidebook by Dr. Oladapo Osuntokun, a pastor and a psychiatrist. The book provides practical and uplifting advice based on Biblical teachings, offering readers sound wisdom to overcome life's challenges and achieve a positive mindset. This book can benefit pastors, missionaries, parents, and the upcoming young generation as they transition into adulthood. It provides numerous tools and insights for unlocking one's destiny in life. The author leads readers to the "real truth" in life, stating, "His name is Jesus." Within this book, he offers keys to...

Leaving home, especially a faith home, can be a challenging journey. In these essays, many drawn from his weekly columns in the Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, former minister and chaplain Chris Highland continues his explorations of the wilderness between faith and humanism. A secular freethinker who is not anti-religious, Highland reveals his respect for "respectable religion" while calling out the good actions of believers as well as the nonsense and dangerous elements of Christian Nationalism and superstition. Married to a minister himself, with many "friends in faith," Highland ...

Freethinking essayist Chris Highland presents a new collection of his latest columns from the Asheville Citizen-Times, plus more essays to energize critical thinking. A non-theist who is not anti-religious, Highland offers perspectives on topics of interest to secular as well as believing people. Concise, controversial and inviting to dialogue, each brief essay opens a constructive path to common ground in a humanistic and sometimes humorous way. Highland draws from his love of nature, his years of interfaith chaplaincy and non-profit management and his emergence from faith, to engage ...

One of Ernest Holmes’s cornerstone works, This Thing Called You is an intimate guide through which listeners learn the important lesson of how they are an immutable part of the flow of life, and how they may fulfill the longing, within all of us, to live more fully. The book details methods of meditation used for healing, improving mind and body, and reaching one’s divine self.

Thoroughly researched with beautifully linked arguments, biographies, context and discussions, Needham provides a riveting text: balancing fact and understanding in the wisdom of experience. The book offers a wealth of knowledge for pastors, missionaries, students and professors as they pursue their own education into the response of Christians during the 18th century towards these shifts in the tides of the affairs of men.

The gloves come off in this electric exchange, originally hosted by Christianity Today, as leading atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of God Is Not Great) and Christian apologist Douglas Wilson (author of Letter from a Christian Citizen) go head-to-head on this divisive question. The result is entertaining and provocative—a glimpse into the ongoing debate.

Papa Don't Pope: Why I'm Not a Roman Catholic (And Why the Future is Protestant) evaluates some of the most important issues between Roman Catholics and Protestants, including personal interpretation, apostolic succession, sola Scriptura, and so on. So this little book should be a huge help for anyone (Catholic or Protestant) with honest questions, as well as for anyone looking to interact with the original Protestant vision. But what's the point in stirring up differences between Geneva and Rome?

Shalom Israel! This Bible Study Guide is written to Israelites, for Israelites by an Israelite to re-introduce our culture and our heritage back to the so-called Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans that has been taken away from us under all the captivities that we have been subjected because of our disobedience to the Covenant of the GOD of Our Fathers.. We are the product of Deuteronomy 28:15-68, because we did not, and do not want to HEAR the VOICE of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we do not want to OBSERVE the things that He commands us to observe, and we do not want to DO ALL ...

Mystics and sages have long maintained that everything in the universe is connected and have identified consciousness as the unifying ground substance of creation. Recent discoveries in quantum physics are consistent with this worldview leading several of the “founding fathers” of quantum mechanics to embrace the concept of oneness—the Unity Principle. Modern scientific observations from the behavioral studies indicate that mind cannot be equated with brain. Hence, a new model of reality is needed that integrates modern scientific observations with the metaphysics of unity. This new ...

Fundamentalism reeks. If fundamentalism reeked for one or two reasons, we may not need to address it. But fundamentalism reeks for a multitude of reasons. Fundamentalism reeks for at least 95 reasons.

Howard Goss was not only the founding general superintendent of the United Pentecostal Church, but was also a leading pioneer of the North American Pentecostal movement. His life story provides an important window on the development of the modern Pentecostal movement in general and the Oneness movement in particular. Goss’s passion for the restoration of the church to its apostolic roots illustrates the hunger in early Pentecostals to return to Pentecost. This book tells the story of what it means to live a Pentecostal life.

The Apocalypse of Abraham (התגלות אברהם, Hitgalut Avraham) is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic text believed to have been written between 70 and 150 CE. While the surviving manuscripts are in Old Slavonic, it is widely accepted that the original composition was in a Semitic language, evident from the presence of Hebraisms throughout the work. This newly translated version of the Apocalypse of Abraham (Kindle format) is released to gather some preliminary feedback from my readers. If you prefer a printed text, it is included in "Unheard Voices of Hebrew Kings and Prophets" - a ...

Martin Luther, full of compassion, grief, disappointment, and frustration, turns away from his entreaties to and debates with church leaders and writes instead to the German political leaders. With extreme clarity, Luther explains in this letter the unbalanced nature and habits of the religious institution - certain at this point that the German people could only be set free from this continual and escalating religious destruction through the intervention of their government.

Looking for a clear, concise, chronological explanation of the coming of Jesus and the rapture? “The Saints Go Up and the Wrath Comes Down: A Pre-Wrath Perspective on the End Times” attempts to do just that. It uses Jesus' teachings on his coming in conjunction with Daniel 9:24-27 to create a base timeline that allows for other major end-time passages to be explained and chronologically charted. This book uses 50+ colorful charts and tables in order to visually depict important points explored in the book. The book is broken up into five main parts, which examine Daniel's seventieth '...