Product Description: The purpose of this little book is to answer certain questions that many people have about the nature of death. Most people feel that there is something wrong about death. We all want to live a happy life and we do not want to die...read more

Product Description: The wrenching account of one man's journey from executioner to pastor. When young Tim Carter started working at a prison to make money for college, he didn't realize that he was signing away his life, his heart, and his very self to a career of brutal violence and routine executions...read more

Product Description: When the time comes for us to die, how do we say good-bye to our friends, our families, and the lives we have lived? How do we remain faithful -- to God, to ourselves, and to loved ones -- as we face our final journey? As Marilyn McEntyre acknowledges, these questions are especially challenging because we now live longer than previous generations did, and many of us die more slowly...read more

Product Description: In A Parent’s Death, renowned biblical studies teacher Margaret Nutting Ralph reflects on the passing of each of her parents and the biblical and spiritual lessons she learned through these difficult times. The book grows out of her personal experiences, but goes beyond them to explore the meaning of death in the Christian tradition, emphasize the belief that life does not end with life on earth, and offer hope and comfort to those who are suffering...read more

Product Description: Talking with those who are dying can be difficult even in the best of circumstances. There is a need for guiding family members of the terminally ill, as well as friends, caregivers, and even those more experienced in talking with the dying—clergy, pastoral ministers, hospice workers, and medical personnel—in understanding the best ways this can be done...read more

Product Description: Filled with hope and practical wisdom, this book will prepare you to lovingly share Christ with family and friends during their last days on earth.

Product Description: Is there life after death? Do heaven and hell really exist? What happens to me when I die? Will I see my loved ones?   New York Times best-selling author Bill Wiese answers these all-important questions and explains some of the fascinating stories that people have shared with him as he has traveled to speak about his own supernatural experience...read more

Product Description: “What I propose here is a new approach to preaching funerals,” pastor, scholar, and author Peter Wherry explains, an approach that is pastoral, holistic, and healing.” In this new book, pastors and preachers will discover more than conventional homiletics theory about mechanics and methodology...read more

Product Description: This hopeful and biblically grounded book explores what it means to live forever, helping readers overcome their fear of death and showing them how a scriptural view of heaven makes a difference now.

Product Description: This book offers a theological foundation for engaging with the realities of suffering and dying. Designed particularly for practical theology students and trainee caregivers, it introduces the spiritual and theological issues raised by suffering and dying...read more

Principles of Bacterial Pathogenesis presents a molecular perspective on a select group of bacterial pathogens by having the leaders of the field present their perspective in a clear and authoritative manner. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review devoted to a single pathogen. Several chapters include work from authors outside the pathogenesis field, providing general perspectives on the evolution, regulation, and secretion of virulence and determinants.Explains the basic principles of bacterial pathogenesisCovers diverse aspects integrating regulation, cellular microbiology and evolution of microbial disease of humansDiscusses current strategies for the identification of virulence determinants and the methods used by microbes to deliver virulence factorsPresents authoritative treatises of the major disease microorganisms

Product Description: Lays out a practical theology of dying, reminding the church of its own considerable resources for assisting those who are terminally ill.

Product Description: Awareness and acceptance of our mortality as experienced in aging, illness, and the death of others can bring a clarity and richness to the limited, precious moments of life, and helps us foster a special care for relationships and priorities in the time we are given.

Product Description: A key tenet of Christian faith is that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is a unique death by which the powers of death in the world have been conquered, so that Christian life in the Spirit is marked by the promise and hope of 'new life' already anticipated in the community of baptized believers...read more

Product Description: Might people one day live for ever? Would they want to? What sense can be made of ideas commonly referred to in terms of an ‘afterlife’? What about notions of Heaven and Hell, of Purgatory and reincarnation? And in what sort of state are human beings expected to be during this ‘afterlife’ - immortal souls or resurrected bodies (and does either notion make sense)? What about the fact that any ‘afterlife’ concerns not just the fate of individuals but of society (‘communion of saints’) and even the physical universe itself? This book tries to survey some of the existing arguments about life ‘after’ death, with chapters on material from Christian tradition (particularly the New Testament and the Early Church) and from the philosophy of religion...read more

Product Description: All of us face the prospect of death, if not this day, then one day. But most of us would rather defer that thought indefinitely. Earlier generations of Christians studied classic ars moriendi manuals on the art of dying to help them face and embrace morality...read more