Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we "dress up" for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, choirs, and seminaries? This volume reveals the startling truth: most of what Christians do in presen... (more)

In today's world it seems image and status has become everything. People devote a large part of their time and energy promoting it preserving it and perpetuating it. This can be draining leading only to poor relationships and emptiness. Trough telling lively pragmatic stories, Thorson shows us a ... (more)

An intelligent, rigorous examination of the paradoxes that lie at the heart of the Christian faith.

GOD’S CODE OF CONDUCT IS AS RELEVANT AND INSISTENT TODAY AS IT’S ALWAYS BEEN. The landscape of contemporary society reveals signs that we neither know nor care much about the Law of God. There is: · An absence of a true and realistic understanding of the seriousness of sin. · ... (more)