The Case For Christ 1: THE EYEWITNESS EVIDENCE Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted? When I first met shy and soft-spoken Leo Carter, he was a seventeen-year-old veteran of Chicago’s grittiest neighborhood. His testimony had put three killers in prison. And he was still carrying a .38-caliber slug in his skull-a grisly reminder of a horrific saga that began when he witnessed Elijah Baptist gun down a local grocer. Leo and a friend, Leslie Scott, were playing basketball when they saw Elijah, then a sixteen-year-old delinquent with thirty arrests on his rap sheet, slay Sam Blue outside his grocery store. Leo had known the grocer since childhood. “When we didn’t have any food, he’d give us some, Leo explained to me in a quiet voice. “So when I went to the hospital and they said he was dead, I knew I’d have to testify about what I saw.”...
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Living Water A Glorious Walk with the Spirit — While Jesus was upon the earth, He was the Person of the Godhead with whom man most closely related. Jesus was here to represent God to man, which He did wonderfully – to such a degree that He could tell Philip, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father … I and My Father are one” (John 14:9; 10:30). Jesus was God in flesh upon the earth. At first the disciples didn’t recognize this. But over time they came to realize that when they walked with Jesus along the road, in fact they were strolling alongside of God. Eventually they saw that when they laid their hand upon His shoulder, in reality they were laying their hand on the shoulder of God....
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Strategy of Satan This book is about Satan and the strategy he has to wreck your Christian life and (if possible) destroy you. Four persons in the Old Testament had a direct confrontation with Satan. From their experiences we will learn the targets Satan aims at in your life; the weapons he uses to attack you; the purposes that he wants to achieve; and the defenses God has provided for you. Please keep in mind that this book is a manual of arms for the Christian soldier. It is not a devotional reader for the believer who has gone AWOL. It is a deadly serious guidebook for the dedicated Christian who is on the battlefield and wants to know how to win. Please do not speed-read these pages. Read them carefully, especially the many quotations....
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The Pillars of Christian Character In this book one of Christianity’s most respected Bible teachers and pastors examines the foundational attitudes, or “pillars,” of Christian character as outlined in God’s Word. Pillars such as genuine faith, obedience, humility, selfless love, forgiveness, self-discipline, gratitude, and worship....
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