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Please Share the Door, I'm Freezing is a marriage workbook designed
to help couples create the oneness in their marriage that God
desires and describes. Authors Donna and David Lane, who are both
Christian counselors and professors of counseling, bring the
additional perspective of having been successful in marriage for
over 35 years. Topics include God's basic elements for a happy
marriage, identifying and removing beliefs that create division and
destroy relationships, praying together effectively, submitting to
each other in love, avoiding pitfalls, living in peace, becoming
allies instead of adversaries, partnering with God, and bearing
good fruit in marriage. The Lanes believe that being fully who God
created us to be is the only way to live fully as one in our
marriage. As a result, the workbook also offers suggestions for
strengthening our relationship with God and for personal growth,
while providing steps for deepening marriage relationships. Each
chapter builds on the previous section, allowing couples to learn
new concepts while reinforcing earlier ideas and strategies. Each
section ends with discussion questions for couples to complete
together, and easy-to-understand homework to practice what the
couple is learning. The Lanes review common problems in marriages
and reveal basic tactics used by the enemy of God to destroy
marriages. They present clear, step-by-step strategies to overcome
those common problems, and to stand against, and with the help of
God to defeat, those tactics that create division. The workbook is
designed in such a way that it can be used by couples on their own,
in small groups, and in church programs, retreats, and seminars. It
is also an effective tool for premarital work, where young couples
can establish healthy patterns of relating for the entirety of
their marriage.
Restored Christianity, co-authored by a Christian counselor and an
historian of early Christianity, integrates historical analysis
with an in-depth examination of the current state of Christian
belief toward restoring the earliest known, foundational beliefs of
Christianity and applying those restored beliefs to contemporary
life in order to bring healing to the aspects of today's church
that can be detrimental to its members or may keep non-believers
away. The authors don't shy away from controversy, challenging both
the Church, and individual Christians and non-Christians, to
evaluate currently held beliefs and embrace an intimate
relationship with God. The authors confront current beliefs about
such topics as the nature of God, the mysteries of God, the
intention and use of the Bible, the meaning of faith, the
sovereignty of God, our purpose, suffering, and the efficacy of
prayer. The authors use Paul's letters for their evaluations, based
on these documents standing as the earliest known Christian
writings. According to the authors, "It became apparent to us that
historical knowledge is vital for understanding Christianity, both
at the time of its conception as well as today. At the same time,
we have witnessed how some of the present-day beliefs espoused by
the Church have wounded its members, and given those individuals
outside of the Church a negative impression of Christ's character.
We wrote this book with the hope of planting a seed that could grow
and blossom into a renewed understanding and experiencing of a
deep, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ." The 2nd Edition
adds 200 pages of information, including a new chapter devoted to
prayer. It is like getting two books in one. According to William
Houser, Ph.D., author of Who Is This Jesus Christ?, "Restored
Christianity may be likened to a purifying process, where the
authors, like patient jewelers, heat and purify their material
until all the dross has been removed and the simple precious metal
remains. Of course, their project and scope is giant in size:
finding the elemental core of the Holy Scriptures after separating
out centuries of wrongful, if well-intentioned, interpretations
which have reduced the pure and simple content of God's Word and
Will. The authors work in tandem, one dealing with the linguistic
and historic roots of the original Bible writings, and the other
setting them in a context of Christian living for today. The effort
works, and is gratifyingly successful in helping the earnest reader
understand God's intentions, His plans and hopes, and greatest of
all, His unconditional love for humankind represented forever by
the incarnation and sacrifice of His own Son, Jesus Christ. This is
not a Reformed work, or a Protestant work, or a Catholic work, this
is a Christian work and is refreshingly focused on the Gospel
basics that ignited the world when the Good News was first preached
in its truest and most earnest forms to a desperate world." Dr.
Colin Harris, Professor Emeritus of Religion, states, "The serious
reader...will be led on a theological and historical journey that
will both inform and sharpen the perspective for participating in
what I'm sure will be one of the major conversations of the
twenty-first century. It is an excellent and systematic treatment
of central areas of theological concern - a unique blending of
rigorous historical/critical scholarship, careful and penetrating
analysis of...theological themes and concepts, and creative
application to contemporary human experience through a wholesome
partnership of theology, philosophy, and psychology. A careful and
attentive reader will be rewarded with a new window, or "lens,"
through which to see and think about concepts that have been a part
of religious life for a long time. A reader who has not been around
church much will find a challengingly and refreshingly sensible
presentation of Christian faith with an appeal not unlike C. S.
Lewis' Mere Christ
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