What On Earth Is God Doing

Walk from creation to eternity in a way guaranteed to change your view of the world. You'll finally understand the war Satan is waging against God and how that conflict has affected history, including the persecution of Jewish people and Christians.

Do you ever question what life is supposed to look like? Are you tired of large institutions trying to make you into their best version of you? The pages of this book are filled with the discovery of what God is doing for you. He’s working, so you can live an optimal life. But how? No institution directs this, because God does the work Himself. Through looking at historic and modern examples, author Rob Good navigates the clear and repeatable cycle on which God is taking us. The goal of this book is to help you connect your experience with God’s faithful rhythms. You will track your own spiritual journey and develop new expectations to participate with God’s action. He has been doing this in people’s lives for centuries and is doing the same thing in you! Finally, if you’ve never attended church or don’t believe in God, this book will introduce a God who is at work, even if unacknowledged. Our perception does not impede His action. It is time to discover what on earth God is doing!

Interviews with the Infinite What does God think about what's going on down here these days? Why did He make the planet in the first place? How does He feel about romance, love and sex? What does He think of the environment, the death penalty, euthanasia and other important social issues? What's Heaven like, and-perhaps of more concern to some of us-is there a Hell and how bad is it? And what does God do for fun? God answers these and a host of other questions you've always wanted to ask Him in this absorbing collection of casual and candid interviews. What He has to say might surprise you!

When He came to earth, Jesus Christ was rejected in every quarter in which He stepped. The Creator was rejected by His own creation. “He came to His own and His own received Him not,” said John. For this reason, Jesus Christ had “no where to lay His head.” There was one exception, however. A little village just outside of Jerusalem named Bethany. Bethany was the only place on earth where Jesus was completely received. God’s Favorite Place on Earth is a retelling of Jesus’ many visits to Bethany and a relaying of the message it holds for us today. Frank Viola presents a beautifully crafted narrative from the viewpoint of Lazarus, one of the people who lived in Bethany with his two sisters. This incomparable story not only brings the Gospel narratives to life, but it addresses the struggle against doubt, discouragement, fear, guilt, rejection, and spiritual apathy that challenges countless Christians today. In profoundly moving prose, God’s Favorite Place on Earth will captivate your heart with its beauty, charm, and depth. In this book you will discover how to live as a “Bethany” in our world today, being set free to love and follow Jesus like never before.

In How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Larry Hurtado investigates the intense devotion to Jesus that emerged with surprising speed after his death. Reverence for Jesus among early Christians, notes Hurtado, included both grand claims about Jesus' significance and a pattern of devotional practices that effectively treated him as divine. This book argues that whatever one makes of such devotion to Jesus, the subject deserves serious historical consideration. Mapping out the lively current debate about Jesus, Hurtado explains the evidence, issues, and positions at stake. He goes on to treat the opposition to -- and severe costs of -- worshiping Jesus, the history of incorporating such devotion into Jewish monotheism, and the role of religious experience in Christianity's development out of Judaism. The follow-up to Hurtado's award-winningLord Jesus Christ (2003), this book provides compelling answers to queries about the development of the church's belief in the divinity of Jesus.

We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.

"What are we here for and what is everything all about?" Small questions that require a big response thought Sam Baird, as his son John asks him these questions. Given what the eightyear-old had recently experienced, his mother's death from cancer, Sam knew that questions about life and death would come about. Yet this was just the start of a life-changing adventure into God, Jesus and biblical scripture for both Sam and John in the Christian novel, The Answer to Life's Questions, by Dewey Gardner. As the two begin to find answers in the Bible pertaining to God's plan for redemption and becoming new creations in Jesus Christ, Dewey uses their indepth conversations to unveil valuable lessons about God's purposes for life. As the father teaches his son about God, Dewey instructs readers on the truths for why God allows suffering and getting abundant life, free from sin, through Jesus.

God’s world is full of good things. Ice-cold lemonade. The laughter of children. College football. Scrambled eggs and crispy bacon. A late night with old friends around a blazing campfire. God certainly knows how to give good gifts to his children. But where is the line when it comes to enjoying all the pleasurable things our world affords? In The Things of Earth, professor Joe Rigney offers perplexed Christians a breath of fresh air by lifting the burden of false standards and impossible expectations related to the Christian life—freeing readers to gratefully embrace every good thing we receive from the hand of God. Helping us avoid our tendency to forget the Giver on the one hand and neglect his gifts on the other, this much-needed book reminds us that God’s blessings should drive us to worship and that a passion for God’s glory can be as wide as the world itself.