Christian Challenge

The Challenge of Islam to Christians is David Pawson's most important - and most controversial - prophetic message to date. Moral decline and erosion of a sense of ultimate truth has created a spiritual vacuum in the United Kingdom. David Pawson believes Islam is far better equipped than the Church to move into that gap and it will not be long before it becomes the country's dominant religion. Based on the audio and video recordings on which he first announced his message, this book unpacks and explains the background behind Pawson's claims, and - crucially - sets out a positive blueprint for the Church's response. Christians must rediscover and demonstrate to society the three qualities that make Christianity unique: Reality, Relationship and Righteousness.

This is the third volume of poetry by author Bill Granse. Granse is a poet who in earlier years, struggled with issues of alcohol and mental illness. He is now doing well in recovery. This volume of Christian Challenge deals with the authors strong faith. The works are spiritual and uplifting. Readers interested in Granses insights reflecting his earlier times of turmoil will enjoy his first two volumes of collected poems. Bill Granse was a very successful college English instructor and has a rich background of literary knowledge. His midlife was marked by the turmoil mentioned above, and now his life has come full circle.

This book contains a number of references from the Holy Bible. As well as being informative for the individual, this book may be found to be useful for bible study groups. The writer hopes and prays many will be blessed as this study of commitments and covenants are read. Is there anything more wonderful than to know the love found in unity of spirit and life when these two subjects are honoured? Mankind is blessed when we bond into that oneness where both parties commit to covenant giving and receiving. For this our efforts are at least an adventure and at best, an eternal peace at journeys end.

What follows is not to be taken as judgement of any person or organisation, but rather an indictment of how we may have been deceived by our enemy. Let us look at it this way revealing errors could be regarded as conviction but not condemnation. Thus erroneous teaching and leading to get people off track will be revealed for what it is. Hopefully each can then get back on track and be spared the consequences of following a wrong path leading away from salvation and towards destruction or, at the very least, wasting time.

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Does your church make you uncomfortable? It’s easy to dream about the “perfect” church—a church that sings just the right songs set to just the right music before the pastor preaches just the right sermon to a room filled with just the right mix of people who happen to agree with you on just about everything. Chances are your church doesn’t quite look like that. But what if instead of searching for a church that makes us comfortable, we learned to love our church, even when it’s challenging? What if some of the discomfort that we often experience is actually good for us? This book is a call to embrace the uncomfortable aspects of Christian community, whether that means believing difficult truths, pursuing difficult holiness, or loving difficult people—all for the sake of the gospel, God’s glory, and our joy.

With the vote to bless same-sex marriages, the Episcopal Church becomes the largest U.S. denomination to officially sanction same-sex relationships. Homosexuality has become a flashpoint at the intersection of religion, family, and politics. A Thorn in the Flesh: How Gay Sexuality is Changing the Episcopal Church tells the story of how homosexuality has been used to further conservative political agendas, both here and abroad. It describes how African and Asian churches have been drawn into a conflict that began in the United States in the Episcopal Church, and raises vital questions of whether people with different understandings of authority and truth can live in harmony. This provocative book is not a history of the movement for gay inclusion, nor a history of the movement for a new, conservative Anglican church in the Americas. Instead, it is a comparison of the conservative and the liberal parts of the church. There are those, such as the Church of England, who have conservative theological orientation and are most likely to oppose fully including gays and lesbians in the church. Hall, also, explores the rapid changes that have happened in Western society in the past fifty years that have led to the acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexuality. This change has not come easily and even after nearly four decades, gay marriage remains a politically divisive issue in the United States and England.