This fascinating and intelligent non-dogmatic study analyses the credibility of the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis, from a combined perspective of philosophy, theology and science. The stories of how the world began and the creation of humankind are scrutinised by the author in an attempt to convey an advanced and objective understanding for its readers. The author has no intention to convert or de-convert to or from the Christian faith, instead, he chooses to share his findings with readers who can them make up their own mind. To support his plausible findings, he has evidenced and referenced a wealth of resources, and extensively researched this highly debated and constantly evolving topic. The finely detailed content reflects his meticulous undertaking, and the results are thought-provoking, to say the least. Everything has been included in this absorbing piece of work, from insights into extra-terrestrial beings, the bible's contradictory take on incest, eternal hell, moral standards, reproduction and symbolism, to the notion of the Babel tower myth, the reality of the animals on Noah's ark, the inconsistency of the flood stories, and the 'real' image of God; and the content throughout is highly compelling.

What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become. In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become. We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways. God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way. John Mark Comer takes you line by line through Exodus 34:6-8--Yahweh's self-revelation on Mount Sinai, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, Comer addresses some of the most profound questions he came across as he studied these noted lines in Exodus, including: Why do we feel this gap between us and God? Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him? What if our "God" is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires? What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine? No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.

What Can You Do When You Feel You're Just Not Good Enough? Do the voices in your head say you're not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough...or just not enough, period? It's time to stop listening to lies that sabotage your confidence and embrace the truth of who God says you are. Popular author and speaker Sharon Jaynes exposes the lies that keep you bogged down in shame, insecurity, and feelings of inadequacy. By recognizing the lies and replacing them with truth, you'll be able to silence the voice inside that whispers you're just not good enough accept God's grace and move past failures that have defined and confined you preload your heart with truth to fight your deepest insecurities Your confidence and faith will grow when you trade self-defeating thoughts for God's truth. Today is the day to embrace your incredible worth as a woman who is uniquely fashioned and spiritually empowered.

This book is Marci's seventh published work. Mirror, Mirror tells of the grave troubles she's personally experienced in many churches as a truly born again believer. The problems began the moment her spiritual birth became real. Many of today's churches are filled and operated by "wolves in sheep's clothing," as Jesus called them. Is there "another Jesus?" as Scripture claims? Is there "another spirit" claiming to the be real thing? Are those under the influence of these "other" spirits teaching "another gospel" (2 Corinthians 11:4)? Yes! The actual Christ is found in Scripture. When the false Christ speaks, he speaks contrary to the Word of God. Those who follow this false Christ, will not enter the Kingdom of God, per the Bible. They consider themselves "the closest to Christ," but are not. In Mirror, Mirror, Marci explains what Scripture says regarding the deception Christ said would abound just before He returned. There is a false Mirror many see themselves through. It is a lying reflection based in flattery and spiritual wickedness most aren't even aware exists. Mirror, Mirror tells both of the problems in today's churches and how to discover God if you've walked away rejected by the church. There is a real God and a real Christ Jesus. Discovering who's who and who isn't is simply a matter of praying to God the Father as Jesus taught us to in the Bible, in Jesus' name. Verses of Scripture are given if you'd like to study these biblical concepts further. Blessings as you seek, and find, God the Father and His Son, the real Christ Jesus!

God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6 This book is a cry from the heart of John Piper. He is pleading that God himself, as revealed in Christ's death and resurrection, is the ultimate and greatest gift of the gospel. None of Christ's gospel deeds and none of our gospel blessings are good news except as means of seeing and savoring the glory of Christ. Forgiveness is good news because it opens the way to the enjoyment of God himself. Justification is good news because it wins access to the presence and pleasures of God himself. Eternal life is good news because it becomes the everlasting enjoyment of Christ. All God's gifts are loving only to the degree that they lead us to God himself. That is what God's love is: his commitment to do everything necessary (most painfully the death of his only Son) to enthrall us with what is most deeply and durably satisfying-namely, himself. Saturated with Scripture, centered on the cross, and seriously joyful, this book leads us to satisfaction for the deep hungers of the soul. It touches us at the root of life where practical transformation gets its daily power. It awakens our longing for Christ and opens our eyes to his beauty. Piper writes for the soul-thirsty who have turned away empty and in desperation from the mirage of methodology. He invites us to slow down and drink from a deeper spring. "This is eternal life," Jesus said, "that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." This is what makes the gospel-and this book-good news.

Imagine if Clive Cussler and Spider Robinson sat down with a cup of coffee and decided to write adventure thrillers together, featuring an unlikely pair of heroes thrown in among stone-cold killers, a shadowy organization whose real motives are unclear and device that could literally start Doomsday. That's TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR, the first novel in the TRIANGLE series from novelist D. G. Speirs. Steve Tate and Amy Rogers are Talents - people gifted with extraordinary abilities forged from personal tragedy. Each thinks they are alone and unique, until the day their paths cross in the Bahamas and Steve discovers the tragic link between Amy's fate and a devastating loss from his past. That link turns out to be part of a much larger conflict - a fight led by Triangle, an organization working on the margins and in the shadows of society to keep humanity safe. The stakes are raised when the person responsible for Steve and Amy's tragedies sets their sights on False Mirror, one of Triangle's most dangerous projects, a device capable of causing chaos and destruction on a global scale. Now Steve and Amy must quickly learn to work together as their pursuit takes them across the globe, from the deserts of New Mexico to the waters San Francisco Bay, from the beaches of the Caribbean to the streets of Tokyo, and from deep underground to the very edge of space itself. But even as they draw closer to their quarry, they find that this person might hold the key to an even greater mystery - who they truly are. TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR is a fun, high-speed thriller that jumps straight out of today's headlines, races around the globe at a breakneck pace, yet also questions how much we take for granted about the way things work, and how vulnerable that makes us all. "You've written a real page-turner " - Mark Palmer, screenwriter (Kim Possible, Penguins of Madagascar) Be sure to read the other stories in the TRIANGLE series by D.G. Speirs - TRIANGLE: RESCUE and TRIANGLE: WILDCARD, now available on Amazon.com.

This is Marci's fourth published non-fiction. Mirror, Mirror tells of the grave troubles she's personally experienced in many churches as a truly born again believer. The problems began the moment her spiritual birth became real. Many of today's churches are filled and operated by "wolves in sheep's clothing," as Jesus called them. Is there "another Jesus?" as Scripture claims? Is there "another spirit" claiming to the be real thing? Are those under the influence of these "other" spirits teaching "another gospel" (2 Corinthians 11:4)? Yes! The actual Christ is found in Scripture. When the false Christ speaks, he speaks contrary to the Word of God. Those who follow this false Christ, will not enter the Kingdom of God, per the Bible. They consider themselves "the closest to Christ," but are not. In Mirror, Mirror, Marci explains what Scripture says regarding the deception Christ said would abound just before He returned. There is a false Mirror many see themselves through. It is a lying reflection based in flattery and spiritual wickedness most aren't even aware exists.

This remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY

Dramatic true story of a beautiful Asian girl, Nita Edwards, and her miraculous healing from total paralysis.