This book see's a Christian man Richard, who loses his wife to a mysterious Demon and is left to raise his children alone. He is tasked with helping a family, who are new to the American sores. And inadvertently falls in love with Lisa, one of the daughters of the powerful witch and patriarch of the family Anna. Anna does everything she possibly can to prevent Richard from being happy again with her daughter. This is just one of the hurdles Richard has to overcome. Another being Lisa's racist brothers, who hate the fact that Richard is white more than they hate the man himself. The worst happens when Anna makes a pact with a demon, which enhances her power. Every single day in Richard's life, gets more and more bizarre until he finds the strength to fight and overcome these obstacles. Will the God Richard has faith in help him in overcoming this evil in his life. Or will he just be another fool who thought his beliefs alone were powerful enough to face the evil that the devil himself throws man's way?

When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.

This book see's a Christian man Richard, who loses his wife to a mysterious Demon and is left to raise his children alone. He is tasked with helping a family, who are new to the American sores. And inadvertently falls in love with Lisa, one of the daughters of the powerful witch and patriarch of the family Anna.Anna does everything she possibly can to prevent Richard from being happy again with her daughter. This is just one of the hurdles Richard has to overcome. Another being Lisa's racist brothers, who hate the fact that Richard is white more than they hate the man himself.The worst happens when Anna makes a pact with a demon, which enhances her power.Every single day in Richard's life, gets more and more bizarre until he finds the strength to fight and overcome these obstacles.Will the God Richard has faith in help him in overcoming this evil in his life. Or will he just be another fool who thought his beliefs alone were powerful enough to face the evil that the devil himself throws man's way?

Pastor Brian Zahnd began "to question the theology of a wrathful God who delights in punishing sinners, and has started to explore the real nature of Jesus and His Father. The book isn’t only an interesting look at the context of some modern theological ideas; it’s also offers some profound insight into God’s love and eternal plan." —Relevant Magazine (Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2017) God is wrath? Or God is Love? In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father’s love—revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ—for all prodigal sons and daughters. In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.

This book see's a Christian man Richard, who loses his wife to a mysterious Demon and is left to raise his children alone. He is tasked with helping a family, who are new to the American sores. And inadvertently falls in love with Lisa, one of the daughters of the powerful witch and patriarch of the family Anna. Anna does everything she possibly can to prevent Richard from being happy again with her daughter. This is just one of the hurdles Richard has to overcome. Another being Lisa's racist brothers, who hate the fact that Richard is white more than they hate the man himself. The worst happens when Anna makes a pact with a demon, which enhances her power. Every single day in Richard's life, gets more and more bizarre until he finds the strength to fight and overcome these obstacles. Will the God Richard has faith in help him in overcoming this evil in his life. Or will he just be another fool who thought his beliefs alone were powerful enough to face the evil that the devil himself throws man's way?

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans: a must-read for anyone on the journey of doubt, deconstruction, and ultimately faith reborn. Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith. In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed with apologetics, struggling as her own faith unraveled one unexpected question at a time. In order for her faith to survive, Rachel realizes, it must adapt to change and evolve. Using as an illustration her own spiritual journey from certainty to doubt to faith, Evans challenges you to disentangle your faith from false fundamentals and to trust in a God who is big enough to handle your tough questions. In a changing cultural environment where new ideas seem to threaten the safety and security of the faith, Faith Unraveled is a profoundly moving, fearlessly honest, and relentlessly hopeful story of survival. This book was previously titled Evolving in Monkey Town.

How many souls have you won to Christ? How many are still walking with the Lord? All, some, a few? The facts are: Evangelical success is at an all-time low. We’re producing more backsliders than true converts. The fall-away rate—from large crusades to local churches—is between 80 to 90 percent. Why are so many unbelievers turning away from the message of the gospel? Doesn’t the Bible tell us how to bring sinners to true repentance? If so, where have we missed it? The answer may surprise you. One hundred years ago, Satan buried the crucial key needed to unlock the unbeliever’s heart. Now Ray Comfort boldly breaks away from modern tradition and calls for a return to biblical evangelism. If you’re experiencing evangelical frustration over lost souls, unrepentant sinners, and backslidden “believers,” then look no further. This radical approach could be the missing dimension needed to win our generation to Christ.