Ravi Zacharias

The rise of these secular gods presents the most serious challenge to the absolute claims of Christ since the founding of Christianity itself. The Christian worldview has not only been devalued and dismissed by modern culture, but its believers openly ridiculed as irrelevant. In JESUS AMONG SECULAR GODS, apologetic scholars Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale challenge the popular "isms" of the day, skillfully pointing out the fallacies in their claims and presenting compelling evidence for revealed absolute truth as found in the Bible. This book is fresh, insightful, and important and will provide readers with valuable help in articulating why they believe that Jesus is who He said He is.

Nykyaikana saat uskoa mitä tahansa, kunhan et vaadi, että sitä tulisi pitää yleisesti totuutena. Suvaitsevaisuuden nimissä postmoderni kulttuurimme syleilee kaikkea itämaisesta mystiikasta New Agen hengellisyyteen. Ravi Zachariaksen mukaan tämä on mieletöntä. Ei yksinkertaisesti ole mahdollista, että kaikki uskonnot olisivat totta. Klassikkokirjassaan Jeesus ja muut jumalat Zacharias tarkastelee kristinuskon näkökulmasta sitä yleistä väitettä, että kaikissa uskonnoissa olisi pohjimmiltaan kyse samasta asiasta. Kirjan kussakin luvussa Zacharias peilaa Jeesuksen opetuksia islamin, hindulaisuuden ja buddhalaisuuden perustajien väitteisiin. Hän nostaa esille kuusi kysymystä, joihin Jeesus vastaa toisin kuin kukaan muu. Zacharias toteaa: Jeesus on tie, totuus ja elämä. Ravi Zacharias (s. 1946) on intialaissyntyinen kanadalais-amerikkalainen kristitty apologisti ja Ravi Zacharias International Ministries -järjestön perustaja. Hän on kirjoittanut lukuisia kristinuskoa käsitteleviä ja puolustavia kirjoja.

The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness. So do not seek to hide from it. Do not accept an easy way. Do not allow yourself to be patted to sleep in a comfortable church, void of power and barren of fruit. Do not paint the cross nor deck it with flowers. Take it for what it is, as it is, and you fill find the rugged way to death and life. Let it slay you utterly. - A. W. Tozer, from "Coddled or Crucified?" in The Radical Cross In this collection of short essays, Tozer considers with piercing conviction the offense and power of the cross. May you venture unguarded into this book, that you might be utterly changed.

Why would a loving and powerful God allow so much pain and suffering? In Why Suffering? Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale carefully walk you through a variety of responses that considered together provide a clear, comprehensive, and convincing answer. Responses like: ·Where there is the possibility of love, there has to be the reality of freedom, and therefore the possibility of pain. ·Wishing God had made a different world is to wish yourself out of existence. ·The cross is the key to a compelling and rational explanation for trusting in God in the face of suffering. ·In comparison with other world religions, the Christian response is highly distinctive. ·The reality of evil only makes sense in light of the reality of divine goodness. ·Relational knowledge about God takes the argument beyond reason to the presence of God amidst suffering. ·God's decision to allow temporal suffering is understandable when viewed from an eternal perspective. ·Divine goodness shows how to conquer not in spite of, but even through suffering. Here is a book written with great respect for the complexity of the issue, recognizing that some who read it will be in the trenches of deep suffering themselves and others questioning the very existence of a loving God. Why Suffering? provides an answer to the problem of pain and suffering with emotional sensitivity and intellectual integrity.

Daily Wisdom and Inspiration for Your Pursuit of GodOne of the 20th century's most inspiring writers has become a powerful voice for 21st-century Christians. Thanks to a treasure trove of never-before-published teachings from A. W. Tozer, author of the spiritual classic The Pursuit of God, you can spend an entire year strengthening your daily walk with God. Each devotion includes a passage of Scripture, a short reading from Tozer, a hymn verse, and a prayer. For 365 days, let this great man of faith challenge your heart and mind to truer worship, greater faith, deeper prayer, and more passion for Christ. My Daily Pursuit is an invitation to spend a few minutes every day in the presence of Jesus, guided by one of His most trustworthy servants. Let A. W. Tozer guide you in your pursuit of God.

The author believes that over the past forty years movements like New Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have combined like a "perfect storm" to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ. In Why Jesus?, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this "storm" by discussing the 60s-70s "Age of Aquarius," actor Shirley MacLaine's book and TV series Out On a Limb, author James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), and other books by Eckart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, and Marianne Williamson. Special attention will be given to the influence of Oprah Winfrey's media platform in reshaping society by introducing and promoting certain books and authors. Major new age and human potential tenets will be discussed like: the belief that we are all gods and have to discover our divinity; Jesus was only a good teacher; Christianity is but one among many ways to eternal life; reincarnation is real; Jesus was married; truth is relative; there is no sin; and perfection is possible. The truth of and the arguments for the bodily resurrection of Jesus will be presented as the most important argument for the exclusive claims about Jesus and Christianity.

We live in a culture that doubts everything as a matter of principle. In such an environment, how can even faith be immune to doubt? Can I really trust in the gospel? Does God really love me? Can I really be of any use to God? We are taught to doubt but commanded to believe. Somehow we think that admitting to doubt is tantamount to insulting God. But doubt is not a sign of spiritual weakness--rather it's an indication of spiritual growing pains. Alister McGrath, no stranger to a faith born of doubt, here offers good news to doubters: your faith can grow, and strengthen as it grows. It needs to take root in your experience of God, it needs to take in the nourishment of instruction in the words and ways of God, it needs to be stretched into greater obedience to the commands and calling of God--but it can grow beyond doubt into a thriving relationship.