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In 1943 England, when all hope was threatened by the inhumanity of war, C.S. Lewis was invited to give a series of radio lectures addressing the central issues of Christianity. More than half a century after the original lectures, they continue to retain their poignancy. First heard as informal radio broadcasts, the lectures were then published as three books and subsequently combined as Mere Christianity. C.S. Lewis proves that "at the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice," rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations. This twentieth-century masterpiece provides an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith.

Few Christians have had a greater impact during the last half of the twentieth century than Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer. A man with a remarkable breadth of cultural interest, with penetrating insight into modern life, and with a clear sense of spiritual reality, Schaeffer was also a man who cared deeply about people and their search for truth and reality in their lives.
With the publication of this Trilogy, Dr. Schaeffer's three foundational books are available for the first time in one volume. Schaeffer himself considered these three books to be essential to everything he wrote (twenty-three books in all), and it is here especially that we see his ability to understand the deep need of modern man for truth, beauty, and meaning in life.
In the first book, The God Who Is There, Schaeffer shows how modern thought has abandoned the idea of truth with tragic consequences in every area of culture--from philosophy, to art, to music, to theology, and within culture as a whole.
Escape from Reason, the second book, explains especially how the disintegration of modern life and culture grows from corrupted roots that reach far into the past.
In the last book, He Is There and He Is Not Silent, Schaeffer contrasts the silence and despair of modern life with the Christian answer that God can indeed be known because He is there and He is not silent. In addition to the convenience of having Schaeffer's three foundational books in one volume, the Trilogy is especially valuable in that it uses the text revised and updated by Schaeffer shortly before his death.
Why was Schaeffer able to understand and communicate so effectively to a generation? The best way to know is to find out firsthand, by reading his essential works as found in this Trilogy. Few who begin this journey will come to the end without having their life profoundly changed.

If you were asked to give reasons why you are a Christian, what would you say? Two noted scholars, Ken Boa and Robert Bowman, take a multidisciplinary approach to answer this question. One of the real gems of this resource is that Boa and Bowman summarize many of the scientific arguments for the God of the Bible advanced by Reasons To Believe. In doing so, they provide a good intermediate step between Bruce and Stan’s Guide to How it All Began, and more advanced discussions like Dr. Ross’s The Creator and the Cosmos.
Chapters include:
• Evidences for the beginning of the universe
• Evidence that the universe is fine-tuned for life on Earth
• Evidence for Intelligent Design
• Evidence for the reliability of the Bible
• Evidence for the life and resurrection of Jesus

For years naturalistic theories have monopolized academia as the only possible scientific explanation for the origin of life. But there's something many people don't know--the facts just don’t support such theories.
In Origins of Life, biochemist Fazale Rana and astronomer Hugh Ross reveal a model that shows how perspectives on first life’s beginnings can be tested--as a creation event--with astounding results. Rana and Ross explode the myth that scientific evidence supports naturalistic theories and show how research corroborates a transcendent Creator who formed and nurtured the initial life forms and more.

Is the Truth Out There: A Journey Through Critical Thinking That Spans Man's History, Origin and Place in the Universe
by Darrick Dean
The word truth presupposes that there are unchanging facts and laws. Are there such things or are there valid, differing truths for each person or belief system?
Take a look at your newspaper, the television programs you watch or the books you read. How do you know what they say is true? What is real and what is fraudulent? Are those conclusions by authorities as concrete as they sound? Which arguments are hiding illogical or irrational ideas?
The public education system rarely teaches people how to think logically or reason through a problem. How many people do you know believe something to be true, yet cannot explain why they accept it as truth?
We all have a worldview which is our belief system that governs all aspects of our lives or is the “glasses” that we perceive the world through. How do these worldviews affect our perception on what is true? Which worldviews are rooted in fact?
Explore how to find truth by first establishing the tools of critical thought. Then subjects that range from history to science to religion will be put to the test.
Reason is only the beginning, not the end.

• Your son wonders, How can I know God exists?
• Your friend speculates, God can’t be both good and all-powerful.
• If he is, why did my baby die?
• Your neighbor asks, Don’t all religions lead to the same God?
Without a Doubt provides clear, solid answers to tough questions encountered every day. Topics range from the deity of Christ to religious pluralism. From evolution to moral relativism. And the powerful responses can reach even the most stubborn skeptic. Lists help readers remember key points. Additional resources provide places to turn for more in-depth information. And discussion questions can enliven Sunday school classes, family devotions, or neighborhood get-togethers.

The length of time represented by the six creation days in Genesis one sparks a storm of controversy. Lightning strikes and thunder roars with questions at the core of the debate:
• Do any of the other biblical creation accounts address the length of the creation days?
• Does belief in an old Earth equate to belief in evolution?
• Is God’s plan a restored paradise or a whole new creation?
• Was there any kind of death before the Fall?
• Does the Bible speak of a “big bang?”
• Is radiometric dating reliable?
• Is there any scientific evidence for a young universe?
In A Matter of Days, respected astronomer, minister and author Hugh Ross, Ph.D., addresses these questions and explores how the creation-day controversy developed.
A Matter of Days presents a new proposal for peaceably resolving the creation-day controversy through testing the competing creation models by integrating Genesis one with the other 19 major biblical creation accounts and through predictions based on the models of what scientists should discover in the near future.

Is Earth merely an insignificant speck in a vast and meaningless universe? On the contrary. The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery shows that this cherished assumption of materialism is dead wrong. Earth is a lot more significant than virtually anyone has realized. Contrary to the scientific orthodoxy, it is not an average planet around an ordinary star in an unremarkable part of the Milky Way.
In this original book, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards present a staggering array of evidence that exposes the hollowness of this modern dogma. They demonstrate that our planet is exquisitely fit not only to support life, but also gives us the best view of the universe, as if Earth-and the universe itself-were designed both for life and for scientific discovery. Readers are taken on a scientific odyssey from a history of tectonic plates, the wonders of water, and solar eclipses, to our location in the Milky Way, the laws that govern the universe, and the beginning of cosmic time.
You will discover:
• How Earth is precisely positioned in the Milky Way-not only for life, but also to allow us to find answers to the greatest mysteries of the universe
• Striking ways in which water doesn't behave like most other liquids-and how each of its quirks makes it perfectly fit for the existence of creatures like us
• The harmony of Earth and the Moon: how they work together to sustain Earthly life as one intricate system-and how that system produces the best solar eclipses just where there are observers to see them
• How Earth's atmosphere helps protect us from harmful radiation, yet has a tiny window open to the radiation crucial for life and scientific knowledge
• How Jupiter and Saturn protect Earth from cataclysmic destruction
• Why the best scientific evidence refutes the misnamed Copernican Principle-the widely held idea that there is nothing special about Earth or its place in the universe
• How the laws and constants that govern the universe must be narrowly fine-tuned for the existence of any complex life
• Copernicus: how the popular idea of his achievement and its significance contains more ideologically skewed myth than historical fact
• Why the sheer number and size of galaxies does not mean that Earth's capacity to sustain life is just the result of blind chance
The Privileged Planet's astounding findings should lead any individual to reevaluate entrenched assumptions about the universe-and even to reconsider our very purpose on what so many have dismissed as nothing more than an accident of cosmic evolution.

Faith Has Its Reasons
An Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity
Authors Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman explain four major approaches to apologetics—reason, fact, revelation, and faith—and show how to integrate them into a cohesive apologetics system. Faith Has Its Reasons delivers a comprehensive overview on apologetics issues, with the goal of enabling Christians to share their faith. This book also includes a unique chapter tracing the history of apologetics from the Apostle Paul through modern thinkers such as J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. This readable volume will appeal to everyone wanting to “be prepared to give an answer,” as well as to Bible students interested in exploring various approaches to defending the faith.

Dinosaurs
Exploring the Scientific Mysteries of God's Creation
Capture your child's imagination about dinosaurs. Science journalist Michael Carroll gives children a Christian perspective on these mysterious ancient creatures. Kids will love the colorful pictures and amazing dinosaur facts. Parents can feel at ease knowing their children are receiving foundational tools for integrating the record of nature with the Bible.

Answering Islam
The Crescent in Light of the Cross, (2nd Edition)
What are the basic beliefs of Islam and how can Christians respond to them? While the Islamic religion has moved to the forefront of American consciousness, many Christians remain confused about what many Muslims actually believe.
Does Islam promote violence, or is it a peaceful religion? Is Bin Laden a typical Muslim? Thoroughly updated since the 9/11 tragedy, Answering Islam summarizes the basic beliefs of orthodox Islam in a factual manner and also offers some advice for Christians who want to give a thoughtful defense of the Christian faith to their Muslim friends. (Geisler and Sayles)

Of Pandas and People
The Central Questions of Biological Evolution
Percival Davis (yes, that's his real name) and Dan Kenyon present a definitive rationale for an alternate to Darwinism - intelligent design. Written on two levels, the book begins with an overview and an easy-to-understand section. The excursion chapters that follow are more technical but offer a glossary of terms, charts, and illustrations to make them accessible to readers

Answering Atheist Objections to Christianity
If God made everything, then who made God? Can't random chance account for what looks like design in the universe? What good is the Watchmaker argument since the universe is not a watch? A team of reasons To Believe scholars tackles 15 objections frequently raised by atheists as reasons for rejecting the Christian faith.

The Genesis Debate
Three Views on the Days of Creation
Are the Genesis creation days 24 hours long, ages of time, or simple a literary framework? It's a question that has concerned Bible readers for years. In a stimulating written debate edited by David Hagopian, three teams of apologists address the meaning of the word "day" as used in Genesis.

What's Darwin Got To Do With It?
A Friendly Conversation about Evolution
Robert C Newman and John Wiester collaborate with others to depict (in cartoon format) a friendly conversation between professors about evolution. readers find out whether Galapagos Islands' finches prove Darwinian evolution, whether the Panda's thumb reflects poor design, and what the Cambrian explosion produced.

Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men
A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials
Astronomer Hugh ross, theologian Ken Samples, and national security expert Mark Clark search for the truth about UFO sightings and extraterrestrial life. In addition to giving us an in-depth look at a controversial subject, they take the mystery out of the small percentage of unexplainable sightings known as residual UFOs.

The John Ankerberg Debate: Young Earth vs. Old Earth
Hugh Ross defends the biblical basis for believing that the earth is a few billion - not a few thousand - years old. Opposing that position and presenting the young-earth hypothesis is educator, author and popular speaker Kent Hovind. Their lively exchange lets viewers evaluate the arguments for and against each viewpoint.

God Said It and Bang It Happened
The Unbelievable Explanation of Creation
Best-selling authors Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz combine bizarre humor (our favorite) with facts in explaining how God created the universe. In an entertaining way they help teens learn about the big bang, dinosaurs, and why humans did not evolve from apes.

Bruce and Stan's Guide to How It All Began
This intro to science apologetics will help you think clearly and critically about the harmony between the record of nature and the words of the Bible. This can be your first step to understanding the Christian faith from a whole new perspective.

Science and Evolution
Developing a Christian Worldview of Science and Evolution
Drawn from their best-selling book, How Now Shall We Live?, this easy-to-read paperback by Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey sparks conversation about science-and-faith issues without getting entangled in the age-of-the-earth-debate.