Is morality real? Is there a universal morality that exists beyond opinion and circumstance?

If evolution is correct, then the answer to these questions is an obvious and unequivocal "NO." If Darwin was right, then what we call morality is simply the physical result of billions of random accidents, and that is that.

This simple truth is at the root of the decay and despair that surrounds us. Grasping this fact allows those of us who believe in a supernatural source of morality to better love and minister to those lost in the moral wasteland that Darwinism inevitably leaves behind. For those who do not believe in the supernatural, this book will show how irrational it is to cling to the impossible notion of morality as truth, and, perhaps, give them a better understanding of the overwhelming cacophony of moral views that we find in our modern world.

In Roots of Despair, you will...

Investigate the most obvious flaws in the theory of evolution. What if Darwin was wrong?
Examine a theory of God that more closely explains what many (if not most) people believe.
Learn about "The tragedy of what is", and how it affects every aspect of our modern life. What if Darwin was right?
Come to understand that the biblical Christian response to those caught up in the hopelessness of today's moral relativism is not politics or name calling, but the simple, sincere response of Christ Himself: Unwarranted, unconditional, unlimited love - WDJD?

If you find yourself wondering how things got so bad, and what you can do about it, then this book belongs in your library.

Was it God or man that put an end to divine healing in today's Church? This is the question that led author, Reverend Jim Lynn, on a three year long study. What he learned and shares in his book will have a profound influence on the Church and deepen your faith.
The Miracle of Healing in Your Church Today sets forth that all healing is at once divine and timeless, not something relegated to a chapter in the book of life. The book makes a compelling case for the Christian Church to become the healing Center God created Her to be.
"This book is a long-needed explanation of the mission and role of healing in the Christian community, "says Lynn. "Churches today are failing because they believe God no longer heals. The book does not question the legitimacy of the modern medicine, but questions why the Church today has severed divine healing from its divine calling. The book serves to put god back into healing, and healing back into the Church.
Critical at times, the book condemns secular medicine that harms or even kills in the name of healing. "Medicine that harms is of evil. Medicine that heals is of God and never harms," says Lynn. "In God's medicine chest there is no such thing as 'acceptable risk', only healing. Our good health is not a matter of chance but a birthrght."
We hear discussion today about integrated medicine. God's concept of integrated medicine is the physician, patient and Church all working together as partners (spiritual warriors). This form of medicine never harms, never kills. The human body, spirit and soul are considered as one, with each part affecting the whole. Above all, God in Jesus Christ is acknowledged as Yehovah-rapha, the God of healing.
Filled with illustrations people can relate to, the book is an easy read and difficult to put down. Readers will learn why people suffer, why so few are healed when prayed for, read of healings modern medicine cannot explain, and learn why the Church mission is unfulfilled without a healing ministry.

    Unexpected Harvest begins with memories of our family, The Winter of My Childhood. The burden of my father's loss of jobs through alcoholism and grief from my mother and only sister's deaths when I was eighteen are lightened by a growing faith and awareness of goodness and beauty. In Springtime - An Early Marriage happiness is clouded by the deaths of our premature twin sons and husband.
    A new marriage in Summer - A Family of My Own at last brings three children, but also the trials of raising a family in the fifties and sixties. I belatedly go to college, become involved with the racial turmoil in Rochester, N. Y. before coping with grief from my second husband's death in 1976. At no time could I have imagined the blessings that were to follow, as I sought a new life. Autumn - The World As Home unfolds after I risk taking early retirement as a librarian and begin volunteer work in a variety of capacities. Church-sponsored travel-seminars between 1982 and 1991 to the Marshall Islands, Korea, South Asia, the Philippines, China, and Japan provide both inspiration and disillusionment.
    Horrified by conditions displaced Marshall Islanders are living under because of U.S. nuclear bomb testing and destruction of their native culture, I begin itinerating around the U.S. encouraging people to protest these and other injustices. Later encounters with individuals, who endure prison and torture and continue to risk their lives for others in exposing oppressive governments, continue my call to become an advocate for oppressed people in distant lands.
    I become more involved as opportunities arise and move to Phoenix to volunteer for the Valley Religious Task Force on Central America. This leads to acts of Civil Disobedience while participating with Pastors for Peace efforts to bring humanitarian aid to Cuba. Beginning in 1995, I serve as an international observer in eight delegations to Chiapas, Mexico relating to the indigenous Mayan struggle. On one delegation, our leader is seized by Mexican government officials and expelled.
    In Unexpected Harvest, faith and politics are interwoven with intervals of family life, enduring friendships, keen appreciation of nature, and new insight into my father's affect on my life. Loneliness, uncertainty, discouragement, and exasperation are assuaged as I learn to trust in God's care and the people I encounter in a world intended for all to share.

This generation of parents are better educated and most probably the richest in history but most parents have grown to embrace the fact that the material gain from their labour outweighs everything to the point of setting aside their godly responsibility to their family. The sphere of materialism is so strong that they become disillusioned about the importance of moral and spiritual values. The original intention of building a strong Christian family foundation becomes secondary. Do not ignore the signs of the times: the Christian family is in extreme danger of losing its identity. We need help! The Christian family needs help!

The book covers those vital elements in building and maintaining a strong Christian family foundation. You'll discover how to reinforce relationships by clearly illustrating the complementary roles of each member of the family, use your God-given responsibility to build a strong foundation for your home on the rock-solid wisdom, love and understanding, promote the total development and preservation of the family, identify potential family problems and overcome crisis, and learn, act, and teach family values and create strong Christian legacy.

Unless we go back to the very foundation of a loving home ruled with wisdom and understanding, with Jesus Christ and the center, the proliferation of commercialism, peer pressure and the obligations imposed by society will press on.

You need to invest time and do your homework.

Let's say we take away the Bible, the Torah, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Book of Mormon...all the teachings of the many religions in the world. We lock them all up and no one is allowed to read or discuss their contents. What would people do without 'evidence' that their teachings are the only correct ones, delivered by their God to their prophets and holy men? How would they determine what was right or wrong in God's judgement?

Let's say people then had to rely on listening to the 'still, small voice of God' speaking directly into their hearts. Let's say they would need to learn to trust their own God-given instincts in the question of right and wrong, good and bad, true or untrue.

Imagine people with nothing written down to tell them who God is and what he expects of them - no books they can use for reassurance that they are truly God's chosen ones - no words they can refer to that say everyone who believes differently is an infidel or a heathen of a Godless savage. What if people did not feel the need to be superior to other people, or to convince them of the error of their beliefs?

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The hopeful message the author offers lies in his own healing and growth...his journey. It reveals an undeniable truth about society's lack of compassion, understanding and love toward each other. We need spirituality, along with each other's respect for individuality.

The Practical Guide to Real Christianity is a long-needed explanation of the mission and role of a Christian in today's world. Using the Holy Spirit's guidance in looking at our troubled planet, this book is at once refreshing and controversial. Critical at times, always positive, but daring to bring together spiritual Christian viewpoints on such diverse issues as abortion, capital punishment and environmental conservation, the 33 chapters attempt to cover virtually all of the subjects which confront modern Christians.

Touching on philosophy and theology as diverse as the "New Age" movement, eastern mysticism, Christian mysticism and the occult, this book attempts to portray God as all-knowing and as totally loving, a friend to all who seek the truth but a wrathful avenger to those who cling to the lies of unrighteousness. God here is not confined to churches and rituals, but is present and omnipotent in all sectors of our world and our lives, including our sexuality and relationships, as well as our political and ethical decisions. The aim of the book is to help bring truth to those seeking answers to the age-old questions of the meaning of life and to help them dispose of the fear, guilt and shame which have characterized the two millenia since Christ first explained the New Covenant. The key to the book and to Christian thought is embodied in Luke chapter 6 verses 27 through 42. Love your enemies, turn the other cheek. Love is the focus of this book. It makes new lives. The Practical Guide to Real Christianity is above-all a practical book, as it brings the truth of Christ to those seeking spiritual growth through an understanding of the application of Scriptures to our current world problems.

This book is aimed especially at women of the True Church, who for so long have been neglected by orthodox religion. Healing the rift between feminism and Christianity is the major purpose behind The Practical Guide to Real Christianity.

Author Brian Cooper reflects on the events over the past 40 plus years which he feels has resulted in a general spiritual, moral, and civil decay of values in America. His observations and perspectives are drawn from a blend of personal, historical, and scriptural reference points.

Considering the recent tragedy in America on September 11, 2001, his perspective will challenge you to confront the American way of life as we know it today and the America as it existed in more innocent times.

He firmly believes that on September 11, 2001, as often occurred in ancient times, God has embarked on an attempt to redirect his people from their rebellious ways. Many Americans have lost sight of the true benefactor of their wealth and prosperity. Its Christian roots continue to deteriorate, being replaced with the worship of false gods and a growing hunger for the "sensational." Will America recover from its waywardness, or will the Spiritual, moral, and civil decay of America continue?

The Last Chess Game or How To Be A Winner is a fictional game of chess incorporating God's salvation plan. It reveals the way God enables us to be victorious in both life and death. The game is annotated. Also included are two fictional short stories written by students.

God uses divorce to save lives! Many divorced people have felt that they have let God down. Those who need to divorce feel that they are going against God's will. But no more! God Himself has spoken on their behalf. The Lord said to the author, "Son, sit down, I want to teach you about divorce." Divorce: God's Will? is the result of God's command to help people come out from under the condemnation of religion and to experience His love.

This book is full of hope and compassion! It reveals God's true heart to those who are in a bad marriage and those who have gone through a divorce. There is so much love and power that flows from these pages that it literally releases the reader from condemnation and brings their heart to total peace.

Since God's Word, the Bible, is the foundation for marriage and divorce, the author has plainly established and made clear from the Bible that God is for divorce. God cares more for the man and woman who make up the marriage than He cares for the marriage itself.

Divorce: God's Will? covers everything from staying in a bad marriage too long, to that ever-elusive subject, Submission.

This book is destined to be the psychologist's, clergy's, and family/marriage counselor's most referenced companion.

You can learn more about Divorce: God's Will? at www.divorcehope.com.

This book was inspired in the search for the truth regarding what happened to the Sabbath Day gift given from God to his people. Throughout the search, the key principal was to stick primarily to all information regarding the subject based solely on what God's word said or did not say regarding his gift.

The book starts from the beginning and works systematically throughout God's word from Old Testament to the New Testament. Much care was taken to analyze logically what God's word had to say regarding the Sabbath gift.

The purpose of the book reveals all from the creation, purpose, and future of one of the greatest gifts that God gave to his people.

Jay Bowers delivers a very positive book about being ready for and waiting to go to Heaven. Each chapter brings to life the visualization of the most positive destination possible: Heaven. As a young boy the author lived a "Tom and Huck" life around the stream that flowed through his grandparent's farm. Going to Heaven: Ready and Wating gives multiple examples of God given guidance during each stage of his life. Filled with humor, sadness, and impossible situations, Going to Heaven: Ready and Wating never loses dignity as it weaves through the possibilities of a better life for the reader as experienced by the author.

The knowledge of good and evil, the compulsion to distinguish between right and wrong, our longing for justice, these are characteristics which distinguish us from the animals. More than that: they are characteristics which make us "like God" in that we have acquired the right to create our own laws and ethical or moral standards. But we have also become God's rival in the department of justice, which, according to the first pages of the Bible, was off limits to us.

The clash between the two systems of justice is most visible in the trial of Jesus, with Pilate being an exceptional representative of the human system, while it is the task of Jesus to set the record straight on the question of good and evil, a task, which lets him become the Redeemer and Savior of the world. Perhaps, in view of the impending globalization, the time has come to see in Jesus not only a personal, but also a global Savior.

The other investigations in the book are also meant to be eye-openers to the fact that there is a wide gap between human and divine perception of justice.

In Faith Families Then and Now, sociologist Jayne Maugans, Ph.D., examines the diversity of family structures, roles, and values of Judeo-Christian families biblically, historically, cross-culturally, denominationally, and among conservative, moderate, and liberal Christians today in North America. She includes some Old Testament, New Testament, Maasai, Tanzanian, Puritan, nineteenth century immigrant, African American, Latino, Native American, missionary, and military families in the United States in this book. She takes into account varying viewpoints among denominations and between orthodox and unorthodox Christians today on family-related issues such as abortion, divorce, euthanasia, homosexuality, and world population growth.

The Holy Bible, the Gnostic Gospels, denominational literature, conventional and alternative Christian writings, and interviews Maugans had with the Maasai, Tanzanians, and missionaries in Africa, along with sociological and historical research, are used by Maugans to explain and substantiate her claims about the complexity of Judeo-Christian families' structures, roles, and values. Maugans provides encouragement to Christians who come from or have less than perfect family lives and to those who are struggling with modern family life or find it challenging, particularly Christian women who are juggling both work and family. She also offers predictions about the future of Judeo-Christian families. Everyone ­ academics, undergraduate and seminary students, pastors, and Christians in general ­ can benefit from Maugans' analysis of Judeo-Christian families' structures, roles, and values. Faith Families Then and Now imparts a greater understanding of what it does and does not necessarily mean to be a Judeo-Christian family.

Mark 5:19 says Jesus instructs a man for whom he has worked a miracle; to go home to friends and tell them what great things the Lord has done for us.

My inspiration behind this book is. The Lord says it is our responsibility as Christians to go out and tell others what God has done. God is blessed by testimonies of his people who tell others of his Love and willingness to answer our prayers

By the grace of God I know what the Lord has done and brought me from. This book is about FAITH. I've been through times of doubt and confusion. I've had my back against the wall but now I know that when the valleys and the storms come, I'll handle them even better than before. The word of God is able to heal our wounds.

This book contains pieces of my life; its ups and downs; its pain and its glory; its endless storms and its countless blessings.

I hope my testimonies will lead people toward God's love and faith.

    We are in the age of turbulence. To have turbulence subsided is a matter of national security. However, the national security policy of the United States is rather problematic. To help Americans cope with turbulence and related problems, this book presents a theory of the interlocking zone of the particle, molecule, and socials, as well as an empirical methodology for bioelectric energization, "refined by God" specially for the kind and caring people, particularly Christians, who are our best hope to manage turbulence and to make this a better world for all.
    The central themes of this book are that (a) we as human beings are an aggregate of partical beings, molecule beings, and social beings and must live accordingly; (b) the lives in the interface of the molcule world and the social world are too often under the influences of forces from the particle worlds; and (c) we must apply what we know about the particle world and the forces that act on us so to enhance effective personal growth and development. The nine chapters of the book presents a detailed discussion on the theory of the interlocking zone and the refined empirical methodology, as well as the strategies and tactics for reforming the American national security policy and for the kind and caring people, particularly Christians, to get energized and to effectively as "national guards" in counter-terrorism.