Clear & insightful guidelines helping you to:

Bond with others & form truly intimate relationships.

Separate from others & develope a sense of self.

Understand the good & the bad in yourself & others.

Grow emotionally & spiritually towards adulthood.

Filled with fascinating case studies, this book offers sound advice that can help you get the most out of life, heal the wounds of your past, & build lasting, loving relationships.

Christians often focus so much on being loving & giving that they forget their own creaturely limitations.Have you ever found yourself wondering:

Can I set limits & still be a loving person?

How do I answer someone who wants my time, love energy or money?

Why do I feel guilty when I consider setting boundaries?

In this best-selling award-winning book Cloud & Townsend give you biblically based answers to these & other tough questions, & show you how to set healthy boundaries with your parents, spouse, children , friends,co-workers, & even yourself.

Physical boundaries help you determine who may touch you & under what circumstances.

Mental boundaries five you the freedom to have your own thoughts & opinions.

Emotional boundaries help you deal with your own emotions & disengage from the harmful manipulative emotions of others.

Spiritual boundaries help you distinguish God's will from your own, & five you renewed awe for your Creator.

Richard Russell's comment: 'We have found this book, & others by these authors, profoundly liberating - more so than anything else in the field of Christian counselling. Even though there seems to be no direct influence Cloud & Townsend have developed a theory of human development & interpersonal relations that parallels Dooyeweerd's theory of societal sphere sovereignty where again the notion of boundaries is crucial.Highly recommended! Check out their other resources on '

Drs.Cloud & Townsend are clinical psychologists with practices in California.

This type of perspectival thinking is often regarded by critics as setting out down the slippery slope to relativism, in which the choices between worldview perspectives is an arbitary subjective choice. So can we KNOW God is really real? Or is belief in God only blind faith or wishful thinking? This book examines the conditions under which experience justifies belief, and finds that belief in God is based on the type of experience that supplies the best sort of justification any belief can have! It is therefore knowledge, not mere belief.

The famous scientist & philosopher Blaise Pascal memorably said that 'the heart has its reason the mind will never know'. But too often it's forgotten that Pascal, in referring to the heart's 'reasons'was not talking about hunches or cosy feelings. Instead he had in mind our intuitive knowledge of 'the first principles of number, time, space, and motion'. And he believed that God could be known in the same way,so that belief in God has the same justification as sscientific & mathematical principles.

Was he right? Roy Clouser develops a broad compelling case for Pascal's position.

The major sections are ; 1)Worldview: Why it matters. 2)Creation:Where did we come from & who are we? 3)The Fall:What has gone wrong with the world? 4) Redemption:What can we do to fix it? 5) Restoration': How now shall we live?

In response a movement has emerged among scholars exploring intelligent design as an explanatory theory in scientific descriptions of the universe. As Michael Behe has proposed in his landmark 'Darwin's Black Box' at the cellular level there appears to be a high level of irreducible complexity that suggests design.

In this book Behe is joined by 18 other expert academics trained in mathematics, engineering, philosophy, anthropology, physics, astrophysics, biology, ecology & evolutionary biology to investigate the prospects for this emerging school of thought. Challenging the reigning ideology of materialistic naturalism on both scientific & philosphical grounds, these scholars press the case for a radical rethinking of established evolutionary assumptions.

It asks: does all the work we put in to cultual development - at homemaking, at work, in politics,at school & college, in the arts, crafts, sports, hobbies & leisure activities, etc - have any eternal significance? Or are these secular things merely of passing significant - unlike the sacred (church, worship, prayer, evangelism,theology, etc) which is assumes to have eternal significance?

Crucial here is a right understanding of the destiny of creation, including human history ,within God's eschatogical purposes.

This thesis aims to show how the biblical story, beginning with creation & the cultural task given to humankind , and leading to the resurrection of creation, affirms both the physical world (militating against dualism) and , most crucially, the eternal significance ofhumanity's role within this world. It concludes that a meaningful approach to culture - a theology of culture - is impossible without the backbone of such a full-blown eschatological hope.