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TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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English
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"The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and...
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This book is a non-fiction account of a family caught in a cult for + 25 years.
The book describes the deception and manipulation that changes the person's life forever. As a young couple we, entered into what we thought was a Christian church only to find out there, were rules and stipulations that spiraled down into cultish practices.
Our three children have bee, held captive for ten years. One child and her family, husband and three children have...
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En la actualidad, la afirmación de la fe cristiana que dice poseer una única fuente de revelación de Dios ha tenido que enfrentar muchos desafíos. Uno de los temas centrales ha sido el papel de la Biblia. Mientras algunos han continuado defendiendo la perspectiva de que la Biblia está inspirada por Dios, que es la auto-revelación directa de Dios, otros han argumentado que la revelación de Dios se encuentra primariamente en la acción directa...
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Al mirar atrás, me parece increíble cuánto tiempo tardé en aprender que los sermones no son algo así como intuiciones espontáneas, sino una materia que debe trabajarse, y tardé incluso más tiempo en descubrir cómo hacerlo.
Creo que mis descubrimientos en esta línea no son muy impactantes, ni espero que sean novedosos en ningún sentido. Me da la sensación de que, si el sábado por la tarde hay personas que observan angustiadísimas sus...
5) Find It Quick Handbook on Cults and New Religions: Where Did They Come From? What Do They Believe?
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Were most cults and new religions simply passing fads of the late-twentieth century, or are some of them still growing today? What new sects have emerged, and what dangers do they present? How should Christians respond?
Bible teacher and apologetics expert Ron Rhodes has cataloged 40 groups in this concise and easy-to-use handbook. Readers will appreciate Ron's thorough research and his reader-friendly style. His brief examination of each group includes
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En este libro descubriremos cómo defender la verdad en un mundo de noticias falsas, de qué forma el ejemplo de Jesús nos enseña a trazar estrategias de comunicación y a relacionarnos con nuestros interlocutores, de qué manera comunicar temas difíciles ante una sociedad que nos observa con lupa o cómo, en esta Europa poscristiana, los evangélicos estamos participando en la conversación.
En "Evangélicos en la nueva era de la comunicación",...
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Have the Mormons ever left you unsure of what to say? Their arguments are convincing, their teachings seem indisputable, and their stand on what they believe is firm. How can you effectively communicate to the Mormons that their gospel does not match up with the Bible? One of the best ways is to ask penetrating questions.
Cult experts Ron Rhodes and Marian Bodine will help you understand the main points of Mormonism and discover where it falls short...
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Psychics, mediums, and ghosts have become a sensation in our culture today. As a result, there are many confusing and deceptive beliefs presented. Ron Rhodes, respected and popular biblical scholar, tackles the truth about ghosts and those who say they communicate with them and answers the questions:
• Do ghosts in any shape or form exist?
• Why is there a rise in psychic phenomena today?
• What do psychics believe about God, Jesus, and salvation?
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An unfamiliar car parks near your house, and two pleasant-looking folks approach your front door. The doorbell rings, and after exchanging pleasantries, your unexpected guests offer you some literature from the Watchtower Society.
What will you say? What should you say? Should you engage your visitors in conversation at all? And if so, how?
Trusted Bible teacher Ron Rhodes guides you through several realistic dialogues with Jehovah's Witnesses,...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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In the far reaches of the Pacific Northwest, three best friends spend a day at the lake...but only two come home. Ten years later, Delia Albio is tormented by the mystery of what happened to fifteen-year-old Zee on the lake that day. When she receives an email from Cara, the remaining friend in the trio, she can't resist the pull of the "life-changing" news in the message. Delia, hopeful for answers, travels home to see her old friend. But Cara is...
11) Machima
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All her life, Marian Corte lived by the guidance of her god Machima. She was introduced to Machima at birth by her parents who happen to hold high positions in the government all thanks to the sacrifices they have presented to Machima, their god.Marian's father is the president and her mother is the first lady of Nkopi. All her life Marian was made to believe that Machima is the perfect god, she had no idea that she had been worshipping a demon her...
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In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple...
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Why are there so many religions? Do they basically teach the same thing? Bruce and Stan address these questions and more as they take a close look at some of the world's major religions and belief systems. From Islam to Jehovah's Witnesses and from New Age Spirituality to Atheism, Darwinism, and Naturalism, World Religions and Cults 101 features-
• key teachings of each religion
• quick-glance belief charts
• brief biographies of leaders
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When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear. Most accounts of this mass suicide describe the members as brainwashed dupes and overlook the Christian and socialist ideals that originally inspired Peoples Temple members. Hearing the Voices of Jonestown restores the individual voices that have been erased so that we can better understand what was created-and destroyed-at...
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Español
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¿Son religiosos los venezolanos?, ¿rezan, van a misa y esperan favores de los santos?, ¿creen en la brujería?, ¿consultan adivinos y astrólogos?, ¿se hacen baños para la suerte y usan amuletos? "De que vuelan, vuelan" es un ensayo sobre los imaginarios religiosos de los venezolanos que intenta llenar un vacío en el estudio sobre las mentalidades de la cultura en nuestro país.
Partiendo de una revisión exhaustiva de los estudios realizados...
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With decisions come consequences: some dark and some worthwhile.
Pastor Nolan lights up like a kid on Christmas morning when someone compliments his preaching. Nothing quite touches his soul more than a kindly old woman shaking his hand after church to say, "God really spoke through you today."
Nolan and his high-school-sweetheart wife Faye dedicate their lives to the church-Nolan as a preacher and pastor and Faye fulfilling any duty asked...
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Discover the Power of Symbols, Ritual and Mystical Gestures
This Powerful Guide Explains the Involvement of the Subconscious Mind in Bringing About Inner Revelation. Freemasons, Rosicrucians, members of other brotherhoods as well as any person who is interested in metaphysics and sacred wisdom will enjoy this publication, which explores the role of the mind in bringing about powerful inner experiences and development resulting from symbols, ritual...
18) The Core
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Thousands of people have gone missing around the globe. All people find are letters saying goodbye and a white card with a black circle in the middle.
THE CORE is an organization that goes back millennia. What some call a cult used to be how the world was organized, but through time, and violence, memories have been erased. Now, however, THE CORE is on the rise, and behind it all is a man named Alex.
Every day Alex shares stories of a forgotten...
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"Months after a brutal tragedy, young Jake and his mother travel to St. Louis to visit their estranged family during the holidays. Soon, Jake, his cousin Baby Al, and their friend Sara must fight for their very lives when they discover the horrific truth about the city's devastating secret past"--Back cover.
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