Discover wisdom, truth, and spiritual nourishment from one of history's greatest Christian thinkers.Explore the timeless brilliance of G. K. Chesterton, renowned for his wit, wisdom, and profound reflections on history, faith, and the human experience, that will inspire you just as he did for the generations before.A towering figure of his era, Chesterton's exceptional intellect and deep faith allowed him to explore history, politics, econo...

Dramatized in the major motion picture Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce is the remarkable account of how one man’s vision, courage, and relentless pursuit of justice brought freedom to thousands and changed the course of history. “That the greatest and most successful reformer in all history is almost unknown today is a crying shame. Kevin Belmonte puts this right with his inspiring study of an inspiring life.” —Dr. Os Guinness, author of Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challe...

“For thousands of years, the hope of heaven has called to people through miracles. When we stop to consider their stories, God’s voice calls to us as well.”In our age of constant innovation, technological achievement, and the sad tendency to see ourselves as the captains of our fate, we may be tempted to make little time for miracles, or give little credence to them. But to live our lives without a sense of the miraculous is to live impoverished lives. Our word for miracle comes fr...

In dit boek neemt Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) je in een bijzondere verzameling brieven mee op reis. Eerst door de Engelse bossen. Daarna via Frankrijk, België en Duitsland naar de Alpen, Venetië, Rome en de indrukwekkende Vesuvius. Ga mee - en leer de bekende Engelse prediker van een heel andere kant kennen! Spurgeon schrijft gevat en beeldend, met liefde voor het geschreven woord. In zijn brieven spreekt zijn liefde voor natuur, cultuur en geschiedenis. Maar meer nog: tijdens zijn...

You may be aware that G. K. Chesterton authored influential Christian biographies and apologetics. But you may not know the larger-than-life Gilbert Keith Chesterton himself—not yet. Equally versed in poetry, novels, literary criticism, and journalism, he addressed politics, culture, and religion with a towering intellect and a soaring wit.Chesterton engaged his world through the written word. He carried on lively, public discussions with the social commentators of his day, continu...

G. K. Chesterton was a literary giant of his age. With an exceptional intellect, he wrote about history, politics, economics, philosophy, social and literary criticism, and theology. He published essays, novels, biographies, short stories, and poetry, and the Christian classics Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man, which C. S. Lewis credits as instrumental in his conversion to Christianity.With much of his finest material out of print or hard to f...

"This world of ours has some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a Person. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story, there is a Storyteller."--G. K. ChestertonDuring Chesterton's lifetime, a host of perspectives clamored for his attention, but he saw nothing as vital and alive as Christianity. A Year with G. K. Chesterton, a daily devotional dedicated to the life and legacy of G. K. Chesterton, brin...

Dramatized in the major motion picture Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce is the remarkable account of how one man’s vision, courage, and relentless pursuit of justice brought freedom to thousands and changed the course of history. “That the greatest and most successful reformer in all history is almost unknown today is a crying shame. Kevin Belmonte puts this right with his inspiring study of an inspiring life.” —Dr. Os Guinness, author of Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challe...

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience.The author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books in English literature, had little formal education. Born in 1628, the son of a tinker, John Bu...

A plainspoken follower of Jesus, Dwight L. Moody embodies passionate,unflinching obedience to God. It’s 1860, the eve of America’s Gilded Age. A manin a gray, woolen suit stands in a dilapidated building in Chicago’s “LittleHell,” a slum forgotten by the world. He is surrounded by grimy children,attentive and watchful in this makeshift school Moody established just forthem.They are waiting for Abraham Lincoln to speak. Why America’sgreatest president and one of America’s most celeb...

“For thousands of years, the hope of heaven has called to people through miracles. When we stop to consider their stories, God’s voice calls to us as well.”In our age of constant innovation, technological achievement, and the sad tendency to see ourselves as the captains of our fate, we may be tempted to make little time for miracles, or give little credence to them. But to live our lives without a sense of the miraculous is to live impoverished lives. Our word for miracle comes fr...

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience.The author of The Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books in English literature, had little formal education. Born the son of ...