A theological and experiential journey in dealing with evil so people can be set free to live as Jesus promised.Most Christians would agree that we are the only ones on earth equipped to help our family, friends, and neighbors when it comes to supernatural darkness, or at least we say we believe it. We say "yes" intellectually but when it comes to actually dealing with evil, many of us are afraid and feel out of our depth.What does the Bible really say abou...

Read by the author.Many Christians and ministry leaders think that much of what Jesus did on earth was because he was God. When we think this, we neglect Scripture where it tells us that Jesus, though always God, deliberately chose to limit his divine attributes and power.Looking at Jesus's life and ministry Thompson asks, "If Jesus chose to limit his divine attributes and power, how did he do all of this?" Here Thompson finds the convergence of three things that should ult...

Every generation of Christian leaders for the past 2000 years has had to face landmines that are potential killers, even on the best of days. Some are universal and some cultural, but all are dangerous. We shouldn’t be shocked; after all, when we read through Scripture, we see that only 30% of leaders actually finish well.So the question is, how does one really make it?Written for those who are considering entering ministry, those who have been in the trenches for any perio...

Electronics is a world seldom visited by most magicians or mentalists, and yet top-flight performers regularly use electronics in their acts to create miracles that fool not just audiences but also others in the business. In this first volume of "Electronics for Magicians" I introduce a cast of electronic components and show that they're simple to understand. I then show you how to combine them into useful modules, and finally I present several full projects. Fascinating but above all prac...

Read by the author.Effective evangelism requires we learn to open all the doors of witness.In this very unique moment where the church is experiencing retreat and revival at the same time how do we keep reaching out well? The answer might not what we think.Whether it's a Muslim having a dream about Jesus, a university student listening to a Christian Oxford professor discussing the historical validity of the resurrection, a sick per...

Effective evangelism requires we learn to open all the doors of witness.In this very unique moment where the church is experiencing retreat and revival at the same time how do we keep reaching out well? The answer might not what we think.Whether it's a Muslim having a dream about Jesus, a university student listening to a Christian Oxford professor discussing the historical validity of the resurrection, a sick person being loved, cared for, and prayed over ...

A theological and experiential journey in dealing with evil so people can be set free to live as Jesus promised.Most Christians would agree that we are the only ones on earth equipped to help our family, friends, and neighbors when it comes to supernatural darkness, or at least we say we believe it. We say "yes" intellectually but when it comes to actually dealing with evil, many of us are afraid and feel out of our depth.What does the Bible really say abou...

“An extraordinary story of resilience. In his moving memoir, Stephen Thompson opens up about how he broke cycles of abuse, poverty, and neglect to build a better life. It’s filled with lessons for anyone who’s ever questioned their resolve.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think AgainLeft with a gift, in a motel room in RenoThe Rubik’s cube was left behind, and so were they...

One of the most vital and controversial works in twentieth-century world moral philosophy, After Virtue (1981) examines how we think about, talk about, and act out our moral views in the modern world. ¶Finding that modern moral reasoning has no common standard of judgment, MacIntyre challenges many contemporary moral theories and their emphasis on the individual. He asks what it means to live a moral life and looks for answers in unusual places, re-examining Aristotle’s ancient views on et...

Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis. Instead, he suggested, if one wanted to build a rational theory for morality and moral actions, one would have to go all the way back to Aristotle. To build his arguments – which are widely acknowledged to be as important as they are comp...

This book provides a new account of the emergence of the philosophy of personal identity in the early modern period. Reflection on personal identity is often thought to have begun in earnest with John Locke’s famous consciousness-based account, published in the 2nd Edition of the Essay in 1694. The present work argues that we ought to understand modern notions of personal identity, including Locke’s own, as emerging from within debates about the metaphysics of resurrection across ...

Make Learning Stick Through Deeper AnalysisAchieving lasting learning starts with understanding our psychology—how we process, retain, and apply learning in our everyday work. It also starts with understanding how our brains work and how they receive, process, encode, and recall information—the essence of learning. Without factoring in these realities, behavior change at scale will remain unnecessarily difficult.Learning That CLICS: Using Behavioral Science for Effective Desi...