Evidence for God: Key Arguments for a Reasonable Faith | William Lane Craig

How To Speak So That People Will Listen: Julian Treasure

The New Pilgrims - By Joseph Castleberry

In an age of xenophobia where people assume that immigrants are causing the problems by not assimilating into American culture, Dr Joseph Castleberry author of The New Pilgrims: How Immigrants Are Renewing America’s Faith and Values brings a fresh new perspective. Dr Castleberry is the President of Northwest University and has been a missionary for 20 years in Latin America and has spent three years as university professor and pastor in El Salvador, Central America. Castleberry argues that the Christians immigrants in America can bring renewal and hope to America where religion is in decline as secularism and pluralism has taken the spotlight. He states that immigrants bring to our churches their unique experiences as minorities (both ethnically and religiously) and testimonies of faith from all over the world and they are the “new pilgrims” who are settling in the States and helping America rebuild its moral and spiritual foundations. This can be an exciting time in American history where these Christian immigrants can bring spiritual renewal, revival, and reformation and establish this nation once again as the “city on the hill.”

Church History in 5 minutes - By Stephen Nichols

This is written by Stephen Nichols from 5 Minutes in Church History:

John, the last of the Apostles, taught Polycarp, who went on to be the bishop of Smyrna. The early church, up through the 400s, is a story of martyrs and bishops and apologists. The Roman Empire was the challenger outside; heresy was the challenge within. To speak to the challenge outside, there were the apologists and the martyrs. Even in their death, the martyrs were providing a faithful witness to Christianity. Polycarp who was one of these early martyrs. To respond to the challenge from within, the early church engaged in the recognition of the New Testament canon. The church also formulated statements of belief, summaries of orthodox teaching—the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Definition of Chalcedon. We also see the development of an episcopacy, or rule by bishops.

In the 400s, we have Augustine, who was a bridge between the early church and the medieval church. As he lay dying, the Vandals were laying siege to his city, Hippo Regius, in northern Africa. This was the end of the Roman world and the breaking in of the medieval era. The medieval world was a world of popes, theologians, emperors, councils, and Crusades. It was a world of monks and nuns, mystics and scholastics. And there was one figure who embodied many of these features, and that’s Anselm of Canterbury. He was a monk; he later went on to be bishop at Canterbury; and he was involved in theological developments with his work on the argument for the existence of God and on the atonement. He wrote the wonderful book Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man). He was even involved in the First Crusade. Because of power plays between the king of England and the pope, he was exiled from his home in Canterbury.
Then we move on to the Reformation, which stretched from the 1500s through the 1600s. We can get at the theology of the Reformation through the five Solas: sola Scriptura, sola fide, sola gratia, solus Christus, and soli Deo gloria. There are also the various branches of the Reformation, beginning in Germany with Martin Luther and Lutheranism; in Zürich, we have Ulrich Zwingli; in Geneva, we have John Calvin and the Reformed church; in England, we have the Anglicans; and in Scotland, we have Presbyterianism and then Puritanism.

As we move into the 1700s, we see that it was the worst of times. This is the rise of modernism and the rise of deism. This would eventually give rise to the secularism of our age. But it was also the best of times. The 1700s saw the First Great Awakening and great revivals under men such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.

In the 1800s, we see the beginnings of higher criticism and the Second Great Awakening. This was a little different from the First Great Awakening. Charles Finney, the preeminent evangelist of the Second Great Awakening, was known for his innovative revival techniques (including “the anxious bench”) and emotionalistic preaching; as a result, he looked and sounded a little different than Edwards and Whitefield.
As we move into the 1900s, we’ve got the controversy between theological liberals and so-called Fundamentalists, which involved figures such J. Gresham Machen, founder of Westminster Theological Seminary. The 1900s saw the rise of evangelicalism and the evangelistic crusades of Billy Graham. By the time we reach the twenty-first century, we have entered an age of missions as well as an age of ecumenism. It is also an age of theological confusion and an age of martyrdom. Thus, we have come full circle, back to the beginning and the martyrdom of Polycarp.

The Columbus Code by Mike Evans

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, so goes the memorable line designed to help us remember that important date. The Columbus Code is a novel by Mike Evans who is an award winning journalist and Middle East analyst who has served as advisor and confidant to many world leaders and dignitaries. He is a New York Times bestselling author with more than 25 million copies in print. The Columbus Code is a historical puzzle that only few have been able to decipher until today. Evans pens a story that is pulsating with intrigue, enigma, and adventure. The story is of John Winters, who is an American Secret Service agent who deciphers ancient truths about Columbus and unravels the drama and intrigue that lay hidden behind the famous voyages to the Americas. Read to find out.

Redeeming Pleasure - by Jeremy Jernigan

Our lives are often transfixed between two extremes: drudgery and pleasure. The search for pleasure is often the sole purpose of many lives. It is reflected in our hobbies, relationships, and vocations. Our vacations, weekends, and even our evenings are examined, measured, and calculated by how much we enjoyed it. Pleasure is the driving force behind most of our decisions that we claim to have control over. Virtually everyone hears, thinks, and knows about pleasure but why do so few of us ever seem to really enjoy it? This is one of the questions that Jeremy Jernigan asks in his new book, Redeeming Pleasure: How The Pursuit of Pleasure Mirrors our Hunger for God. Is pleasure something that we can truly experience that can satisfy our deepest cravings and provide lasting satisfaction? The author takes his readers all the way back to the very beginning to God’s intention as One who created all things and pronounced His benediction by calling it good. Jernigan provides personal stories, anecdotes, brilliant insights and wisdom from authors from yesteryear and thinkers from ages past to help us understand the purpose of pleasure.

How Could I Ask For More - Cindy Morgan

John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest man who ever lived, was once asked, “How much money is enough?” He glibly replied, “Just a little bit more.” The question of contentment and satisfaction is one of humanity’s ever-present problems. In How Could I Ask For More, Cindy Morgan takes her readers on a expedition in search for the perennial question, “why is enough never enough?” For those who aren’t familiar with the author, Cindy Morgan is one of Christian music’s most influential singer-songwriters. She has won 12 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. She continues to perform around the world. Her husband, Sigmund Brouwer is a well-known and bestselling author. In her book, Cindy explores the many facets of the question, “How much more is more than enough?” She writes of experiences, places, and people that challenge you to see the blessings in your life as well as those things that draw your attention away from the good things in your life. She shares her stories with simplicity and authenticity and offers her readers a genuine opportunity to reflect.