Contents: Introduction: Everyday Encounters between Christians and Muslims ---- Part I. Islam -- Faith and Life. 1. The Quran --- 2. Muhammad --- 3. The Five Pillars of Islam. The First Two: Testimony and Prayer --- 4. The Five Pillars of Islam. The Next Three: Fasting, Almsgiving, and Pilgrimage --- 5. Justice and Law --- 6. Woman and Family --- 7. Death and Eternal Life, Dying and Buri…
Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- The reality of the spirit world -- Know the enemy -- Satan attacks the Church -- Satan attacks families -- Satan attacks individual Christians -- The nature of strongholds -- The battle for the mind -- Our armor from God -- Called to deliver -- Focus on Christ -- Conclusion -- Scripture abbreviations -- Notes. Other Notes: Includes bibliographical refer…
The essentials of integrity. Value unsurpassed -- Doctrinal integrity -- In pursuit of godliness -- -- The examples of integrity. Results of an uncompromising life -- Fire and lions -- In defense of integrity -- -- The ethics of integrity. With fear and trembling: the antidote to hypocrisy -- Render unto God -- The responsibilities of personal holiness -- The obligations of practical holiness.
Silence and speech -- God thirst and alcoholic thirst -- Disease and sin -- Sin and disease -- Body and spirit -- Power and powerless -- Grace and brokenness -- God and the self -- Journey and home.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141).
PART 4: ACTS OF CONSCIENCE: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE-4.1; By What Authority? The Bible and Civil Disobedience-4.2: With All Due Respect: A Historical Perspective on Civil Disobedience-4.3: The Cleansing of the Temple: Jesus and Symbolic Action-4.4: Divine Obedience: A Letter to the Minister of Justice-Epilogue: Hope-Contributors.
Contents: Housekeeping : the parable of the leaven -- Rewards : the parable of the hidden treasure -- Excellence : the parable of the pearl merchant -- Retirement : the parable of the rich fool -- Fairness : the parable of workers in the vineyard -- Waste : the parable of the prodigal son -- Fulfillment : the parable of the mustard seed -- Success : the parable of the secretly growing seed -- P…
Why? Why? Why? -- The Message from Stephen and Paul -- A Crack in the Curtain -- The Museum in Heaven: Rectangle A -- The Museum's Other Section: Rectangle B - Cracked Teapots -- "Tribulation Worketh Patience" -- The Refining Process -- School for Comforters -- Affliction and Evangelism-Affliction and Guidance -- Aborting Affliction -- Practicing Contentment or What Comes Next?
Encountering God -- Intimacy, art and meditation -- The climate of meditation -- The spiritual world as the soul's soil -- Cracking the husk : man's need for God -- To whom do we pray? -- The creative power of love -- A word of warning and encouragement -- Time -- Silence : discovering the way inward -- Aids in the pratice of silence -- Silence, mysticism and religious experience -- Exploring t…
Winter journey: the absence -- Texts for the wintry way -- The slanting toward solstice -- Spirit at the solstice -- The enemy in the dead of winter -- January thaw: a hint of presence -- The season of abandonment -- Winterfallow: patience for community and hope.
A Case for Caring -- Developing Your Skills of Evaluation -- Getting Started -- Nurturing the Relationship -- Self-knowledge and Responding to Loss -- Warning Signals and Referral -- Sharing in Everyday Life -- Strength for Caring.
Originally published: Dallas : Word Pub., ©1991. Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-311).
Introduction -- Likings and loves for the sub-human -- Affection -- Friendship -- Eros -- Charity. Abstract Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity. In this candid, wise and warmly personal book, C.S. Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love -- affection, friendship, erotic love, a…
1. The Ground of all Forgiveness -- 2. Christ's Dying Prayer -- 3. If We Confess Our Sins -- 4. Put That on my Account -- 5. Forgiving One Another -- 6. Just as God Has Forgiven You -- 7. If Your Brother Sins -- 8. The Blessings of Forgiveness -- 9. Answering the Hard Questions about Forgiveness -- Appendix One: How Are We to Understand the Atonement? -- Appendix Two: What is the Unforgivable S…