3 Books by Stephen Smallman P&R is kicking off our 5 Days of Book Giveaways with 3 titles by Stephen Smallman. About the Books With his years of experience in pastoral ministry, Steven Smallman ensures that you don’t need prior knowledge to begin your journey with Christ. Whether you’re a brand-new Christian or a …
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Freaked Out by Ordinary Sin
by Barbara Duguid Should our sin surprise us? In counseling earnest college students who love the Lord, I have seen many Christians who agonize over their daily struggle with very ordinary sins. Jane knows the gospel well, attends church faithfully, and reads her Bible every day, yet feels hatred toward her roommate. She idolizes her professors …
The Story of Philosophy [infographic]
By John M. Frame The history of philosophy (and of theology, which closely parallels it) is pretty exciting when you look at it through the lens of God’s Word. It challenges Christians today to resist the fashionable trends of secular thought, to resist temptations to compromise the truth for the sake of academic respectability. Living …
Why Do You Need a Fighting Faith?
By: Aimee Byrd Bruce Lee isn’t exactly someone we would think of as a Christian role model. He was an atheist. But he said something about the martial arts that reminds me so much of the exhortation to persevere in Hebrews 10:23. Behold Bruce Lee’s wisdom: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks …
The Biggest Road Block to Compassion
If you are going to feel correctly about others, you have to think correctly about yourself. Unfortunately, it is often very difficult to think correctly about yourself when you are trying to help someone else. When someone has a problem you may be tempted to use what’s happening to her as an excuse for feeling …