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The Heart of Christmas:

A Devotional for the Season

 

 

The Complete Bible Answer Book

Collector’s Edition
Revised and Expanded (2024)

 

 The First Christmas 

 

 

 

 The Very First Christmas (Great for Ages 6 and up)

 

 

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The Privileged Planet:

How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
Fully Revised and Updated 20th Anniversary Edition

 

The Farm at the Center of the Universe

The Privileged Planet:

The Search for Purpose in the Universe (DVD)

 

Unnatural Death:

Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing

 

Climate and Energy:

The Case for Realism

 

The Palestinian Delusion:

The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process

 

Resource Descriptions:

The Heart of Christmas: A Devotional for the Season

by Hank Hanegraaff

Hank Hanegraaff’s Christmas classic The Heart of Christmas: A Devotional for the Season is back just in time for the holidays. Share them with your coworkers, your neighbors, or your grown children and grandchildren. Prepare for the season with this C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S devotional!

Addressing topics such as Christ, History, Resurrection, Incarnation, Santa Claus, Traditions, Miracles, Advent, and Salvation, Hank also offers Scripture, carols, and reflection questions to guide your journey through the 25 days leading up to the celebration of Christ’s birth.

 

The Complete Bible Answer Book — Collector’s Edition

Revised and Expanded (2024)

by Hank Hanegraaff

We all have questions about the Bible — whether we have read it or not. Join the more than half a million people who have looked to The Complete Bible Answer Book for answers
about the Bible, Christian beliefs, life problems, and what God’s Word says about current issues.

  • What distinguishes Christianity from other religions?
  • What is the meaning of 666?
  • Are there contradictory creation accounts in the Bible?
  • Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?

 

This comprehensive guide covers more than 210 of the top questions people have asked Bible teacher and theologian Hank Hanegraaff, aka the Bible Answer Man, over the last 40
years. Revised and expanded topics include:

  • creation and our existence
  • basic apologetics
  • ethics
  • spiritual gifts
  • the secret to effective prayers
  • religions and cults
  • the resurrection and afterlife
  • and many more issues vital to a better understanding of God and living a spiritually nourishing life.

Each question is answered in Hank’s scholarly yet approachable style.

The First Christmas: The True and Unfamiliar Story

by Paul L. Maier

The events surrounding the birth of Jesus are told with remarkable simplicity in the Bible, but they have too often been obscured by myths, mistletoe, and consumerism.

Now in paperback, The First Christmas separates fact from fiction, stripping away Yuletide folklore and questionable traditions to tell how it really was in the world of the Nativity. Delving into Jewish, Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources, Paul L. Maier uncovers fresh and fascinating insights into the true, yet unfamiliar, story of the first Christmas. A captivating combination of sacred and secular history, this informative and entertaining book answers many compelling questions, such as: Why did the Roman emperor Augustus order his famous census? What marriage customs applied to Mary and Joseph? When and where was Jesus born? Who were the Wise Men? What was the Star of Bethlehem?

This beautifully illustrated gift book by a best-selling author and church history expert offers a glimpse at the real, historical drama of Christmas.

The Very First Christmas (Ages 6 and up)

by Paul L. Maier, illustrated by Francisco Ordaz

Many children’s Christmas books are long on fancy and short on fact. Most of them ignore the themes of the first Christmas and opt instead for fairy tale settings or winter tableaus.

This beautifully illustrated book, a Gold Medallion Book Award winner, fills the gap by presenting fresh insights into the Christmas story from both the scriptural and secular context.

The book tells the story of a young boy Christopher, who no longer wants to hear fairytales; he only wants real bedtime stories. So his mother tells the amazing and miraculous story of Jesus’ birth. Along the way, Christopher learns the answers to some challenging questions about the Christmas story. And all the answers are right from the Bible.

This book makes a wonderful gift for children, families, and friends.

 

The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

Fully Revised and Updated 20th Anniversary Edition

by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards

Drs. Gonzalez and Richards cite and explain a plethora of remarkable examples that our Earth is a singularly privileged planet designed for discovery. Earth is situated between two arms of a flattened spiral galaxy — the Milky Way — not too close to the core to be exposed to lethal radiation, comet collisions, or light pollution that would obscure observation of the distant universe; and not so far that a privileged planet could never form or where we would not observe different kinds of nearby stars. Fully revised and updated with even more convincing evidence of an Intelligent Designer!

The Farm at the Center of the Universe

by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt

This Young Adult novel features a compelling case for an Intelligent Designer as it takes readers on a journey to a small family farm, using it as a microcosm to explore broader themes about the universe and our role within it. The narrative delves into the relationship between humanity and the natural world, suggesting that the intricacies of farm life reflect the larger, interconnected systems of our planet and cosmos, pointing to ultimate purpose in the world. Aimed particularly at teens, the story will also engage adults. Gonzalez intends the novel to move readers to “be open to evidences of design that may be right under their noses that they haven’t really noticed before.”

The Privileged Planet: The Search for Purpose in the Universe (DVD)

Illustra Media, 2004

Based on the first edition of the similarly titled book (2004), the documentary film features interviews with leading scientists and spectacular images of the Earth and cosmos. It presents convincing scientific proof that life on Earth could have happened only by design, for only a rare and finely tuned array of factors makes Earth suitable for complex life and scientific discovery. The powerful film makes complex issues easy to understand, and as the moving narration by John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings) will keep you riveted to your seat, the unforgettable musical score will touch you to the depths of your soul.

Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing

by Richard Weikart

In this wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide, historian Richard Weikart takes us from the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans to the contemporary scene—where the urge to help people kill themselves has intensified, even to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death. How did we reach this place? Unnatural Death answers this question by tracing a complex and fascinating history of ideas, attitudes, and legal wranglings stretching from Socrates to Peter Singer and beyond. Along the way Weikart shows diverse thinkers wrestling with the tension between the unalienable preciousness of human life and the longing to escape suffering and despair. As the author shows, the Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. In the book’s final pages, Weikart considers where these currents are pulling us, and what can be done to reverse course.

Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism

edited by E. Calvin Beisner and David R. Legates

The attempted cures for climate change are generally worse than the disease—especially for the poor. In this groundbreaking volume, experts in all the fields related to climate change explain for laymen what we know about climate change and evaluate from a Christian perspective the proposed responses.

Demands to transform the global energy infrastructure to depend heavily on wind, solar, and other renewables are harmful to people in America and the world–especially to the poor. Meanwhile, continued large-scale use of traditional energy sources like nuclear, hydro, and fossil fuels would reduce poverty while doing less harm to the environment.

Climate and Energy Policy combines outstanding climate science, physics, economics, environmental science, political science, ethics, and theology to present a well-reasoned understanding of human-induced climate change and how to respond to it.

 

The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process

by Robert Spencer

Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failures were inevitable, and what must be done instead.

Every new American President has a plan to bring about peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and every one fails.

Every “peace process” has failed in its primary objective: to establish a stable and lasting accord between the two parties, such that they can live together side-by-side in friendship rather than enmity.

But why? And what can be done instead?

While this failure is a consistent pattern stretching back decades, there is virtually no public discussion or even basic understanding of the primary reason for this failure.

The Palestinian Delusion is unique in situating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict within the context of the global jihad that has found renewed impetus in the latter portion of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Briskly recounting the tumultuous history of the “peace process,” Robert Spencer demonstrates that the determination of diplomats, policymakers, and negotiators to ignore this aspect of the conflict has led the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the world down numerous blind alleys. This has often only exacerbated, rather than healed, this conflict.

The Palestinian Delusion offers a general overview of the Zionist settlement of Palestine, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Arab Muslim reaction to these events. It explores the dramatic and little-known history of the various peace efforts—showing how and why they invariably broke down or failed to be implemented fully. The Palestinian Delusion also provides shocking evidence from the Palestinian media, as well as statements from the Palestinian leadership, showing that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians will never work.

But there is still cause for hope. Spencer delineates a realistic, viable alternative to the endless and futile “peace process,” that shows how the Jewish State and the Palestinian Arabs can truly coexist in peace—without illusions or unrealistic expectations.