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What Your Counselor Never Told You: Seven Secrets Revealed-Conquer the Power of Sin in Your Lif

Sin and How it Manifests in Your Health Author: Dr. William Backus Throughout November’s C.S. Lewis year two fellowship, we set our sights on the seven deadly sins. It’s not a popular topic. If we speak of sin anymore, it’s either in a historical context (look what they believed when this book was written, when this person lived, etc.) or in a decadent fashion (Devil’s Food Cake, anyone). When we look at health and wellness, sin never even enters the picture at all. William Backus’ work proposes that a lot of our psychological and emotional problems are less the result of illness (mental or otherwise) and more the consequence [...]

Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

The Nature of Sin Author: Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. In modern society, our tendency is to concentrate on the positive and brush the negative under the rug. We’ve been taught that to “see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil” is the way to banish such evil, but is this rose-tinted view realistic? Cornelius Plantinga argues that our self-deception is a path towards destruction, and that to understand and receive grace, we must first acknowledge sin and the devastation it brings. Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be is a surprisingly refreshing book in that it acknowledges what we all [...]