The book chronicles key biblical figures in an attempt to show that God is not distant and faraway, but actively connected to His creation.

?Close Encounters of the God Kind? gives you Miracles by the dozens. You?ll feel yourself drawn closer to your Heavenly Father. You?ll see evil and even witchcraft eliminated by the grace of God. Witness a nightclub owner having a dying experience that changes his life for good. Hear him say, ?I wasn?t happy. But I was too busy feeding my sensual appetites to give it much thought. The chilling experience of being cut off at death, from every aspect of good, of all love, light, peace, joy? this was enough to wake me up.? Read of a man with an extreme speech impediment, a stutterer, who hasn?t spoken an un-stuttered word in his entire life. He stands before a large audience for the first time and delivers a flawless, inspiring speech. His pastor is stunned, ?I guess you are called by God to speak for Him.?

In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the earthhas been scoured clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter. In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artefacts could be the keys to mankind¿s salvation.

Showcases the explanations that Jesus used to reveal God's redemptive plan for humanity as it was fulfilled by His Kingdom and identifies the ways God actualizes his divine plans and purposes through the lives of the citizens of His Kingdom.

Using analogies from popular science-fiction movies, Close Encounters of the Divine Kind shows you a world that will satisfy these longings. A world that is more real than this physical world. A world with a real extraterrestrial who is waiting to be contacted. Close Encounters of the Divine Kind is not about religion. It is about having a real encounter that will transform your life. So if you are searching for truth and meaning, if you want purpose in your life, read on, and may you too have an encounter with God, the ultimate extraterrestrial. Welcome to the real world. Book jacket.

Why would a perfectly good and loving God consign anyone to eternal suffering in hell? In Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God, R. Zachary Manis examines in detail the various facets of the problem of hell, considers the reasons why the usual responses to the problem are unsatisfying, and suggests how an adequate solution to the problem can be constructed. Historically, there are four standard explanations of the nature and purpose of hell: traditionalism, annihilationism, the choice model, and universalism. In Manis's assessment, all are deficient in some crucial respect. The alternative view that he develops and defends, the divine presence model, stands within the tradition that understands hell to be a state of eternal conscious suffering, but, Manis contends, avoids the worst problems of its competitors. The key idea is that the suffering of hell is not the result of a divine act that aims to inflict it, but rather is the way in which a sinful creature necessarily experiences the unmitigated presence of a holy God. Heaven and hell are not two "places" to which the saved and damned are consigned, respectively, but rather are two radically different ways in which different persons will experience the same reality of God's omnipresence once the barrier of divine hiddenness is finally removed.