This book raises the critical question of what is required to be a follower of Christ. It presents Christians with a challanging biblical test of discipleship and salvation. The book is unique in that it delivers powerful theological messages direct from the scriptures and summarizes them into the top ten characteristics of Christians. It climaxes in turning the theological insights into actions for Christians. The book is designed and intended to be a life-changing instrument for the readers, one that is presented in an easy to use format. Serious readers will further deepen and expand their...

This book is a study of how Jesus practiced religious tolerance principally as recorded by the writers of the Gospels. It shows how Jesus' beliefs were grounded in the Hebrew Scriptures and it incorporates a consistent message from Genesis through Revelation as understood and enacted by Jesus. The book documents how he dealt with persons on the fringe of the first century Jewish society. It shows how Jesus interacted with the despised Samaritans, the hated tax collectors and the fertility worshipping Canaanites. The thrust of the book is to demonstrate for Christians the behavior Jesus...

The notion of beauty as a point of transit between the sensuous and the ideal is well-established in the history of Western philosophy. Describing this transition and seeking to rethink the ways in which humans understand the things they find beautiful in life, Harry Underwood s The Experience of Beauty approaches the notion of beauty through the insights of major but distinctively individual philosophers and artists. In seven essays and a dialogue, Underwood considers the principal instances of beauty as it reveals itself in everyday experience, as a concept in the mind of the philosopher,...