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How hard it is to see God's goodness in the face of tragedy and suffering! Feeling abandoned, we cry out to him, question him, turn away from him, perhaps even curse him. It may seem like he's cheated us-we've done our part following him, but he's let us down. Paul David Tripp helps hurting people see their circumstances from an eternal perspective. Gently uncovering the wrong motives, faulty reasoning, and...

"God's unconditional love." Sounds nice, but is it enough? Is there more to God's love? Describing unconditional love as detached "blanket acceptance" and "benign affirmation," David Powlison challenges our common assumptions about the nature of God's love. Although wonderfully accepting, divine love is also intrusive, intimate, personal, and active. Instead of simply loving us as we are, God loves us enough to...

The issue of whether written standards are a legitimate part of church life is not new, but the recent emergence of groups in various localities from a practice of having had written standards to having done away with written standards has brought the issue to the fore for many of us. Is their position right? Do written standards stifle spiritual life? Are they additions to the Word of God? Are they, as alleged, the...

A little booklet from Christian Light Publications about the subject of the atonement. Paperback,9 pages.