Do you want to learn how to defend and explain the existence of God, the reliability of the Bible, and scores of other truths - but you don't have a lot of time? Don't worry. Jimmy Akin has done the hard work for you. All you need is five minutes a day. In A Daily Defense, Jimmy compiles 365 challenges that Catholics often hear from skeptics and non-Catholics - about God, Jesus, Scripture, morality, Mary, and a host of doctrines and teaches you how to answer them. Combining deep learning with decades of experience explaining Catholic belief and practice on a popular level, he cuts to the heart of each subject, offering pithy but powerful replies that are both effective and easy to master. Perfect reading before bed or during breakfast, for down time or prayer time, part of a regular routine or picked up on the go-whatever your day is like, spend just a few minutes in these pages to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to defend the Catholic Faith.

A Daily Defense: 365 Days ( plus one) to Becoming a Better Apologist

Jimmy AKin

Religion & Spirituality

Catholic Answers Press

Teaching with Authority is a unique, valuable, and long-overdue resource for all Catholics as well as those inquiring about the Faith. It will help deepen your understanding of what the Church teaches by showing you (maybe for the first time) how and why and where it does. Not another catechism or Catholicism for beginners book, Teaching with Authority isn t about understanding specific teachings of the Faith (even the complicated and misunderstood ones) but rather about understanding Catholic teaching itself. Where does the Church s teaching authority come from? How do we weigh dogmas versus practices, doctrines versus disciplines, conciliar declarations versus papal interviews? How do we sort through the many kinds of ecclesial documents and determine their relative authority and relevance? And, in an age when accusations of heresy fly regularly across social media, with competing sides eager to paint the other as unfaithful to Catholic tradition or to the current pope, Jimmy also tackles the issues of incredulity, apostasy, and schism showing you how to recognize different forms of dissent and respond to them fittingly.

Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says

In The Bible Is a Catholic Book, Jimmy Akin shows how the Bible cannot exist apart from the Church. In its origins and its formulation, in the truths it contains, in its careful preservation over the centuries and in the prayerful study and elucidation of its mysteries, Scripture is inseparable from Catholicism. This is fitting, since both come from God for our salvation. 
 If you re a Catholic who sometimes gets intimidated by the Bible, The Bible Is a Catholic Book will help you better understand and take pride in this gift that God gave the world through the Church. We are the original Bible Christians ! 
 And even non-Catholics will appreciate the clear and charitable way that Jimmy explains how the early Church gave us the Bible and how the Church to this day reveres and obeys it.

The Bible Is a Catholic Book

You've probably seen one or more of Jack T. Chick's comic book-like tracts. They have titles such as Are Roman Catholics Christian?, The Death Cookie, and Why is Mary Crying? And they're full of wild, false, and downright malicious charges against the Roman Catholic Church and its teachings.\nRead them, and you step into a nightmarish world of shadow and intrigue, a world of paranoia and conspiracy theories, a world where the Catholic faith is the devil's greatest plot against mankind.\nChick has sold more than 700 million of these tracts, and has turned millions of Catholics and Protestants against the Church and its teachings in the process.\nJimmy Akin's new book The Nightmare World of Jack T. Chick aims to change that. It reveals everything you need to know about Jack Chick and the many lies he tells about the Catholic Church and its teachings. And it reveals how you can defend the faith against Chick's lies. It's a must-have for anyone who cares about the cause of truth.

The Nightmare World of Jack Chick

Catholic Answers

The Mass is changing-How? Why? And what does it mean for you? Catholics all across America will be asking these questions, seeking the answers from a trusted source. In this highly readable, information-packed volume, award-winning author Jimmy Akin describes the transformation and lays out the facts. Jimmy goes straight to the heart of the issue, quoting the Church's own documents so you can see for yourself what the Church has to say and not be deceived by falsehood and spin. Mass Revision shows you exactly which parts of the liturgy are changing, reviewing the rites and new wording, and provides very practical information on who can and cannot receive Communion, liturgical furnishings and vestments, postures and actions during Mass, as well as the hot-button issue of liturgical abuses. Concise, readable, and straightforward, Mass Revision is an indispensible resource you can't afford to miss.

Mass Revision: How the Liturgy Is Changing and What It Means for You

Ignatius Press

Every year, thousands of young Catholics leave their homes for higher education at our nation's colleges and universities. Very few realize, however, that from orientation day onward, they will be indoctrinated with a vision of reality that is very different from the values their families hold dear. Sadly, many of our young people will fall prey to one or more of the dominant ideologies ingrained in their college education, ideologies that can lead them away from the Church and, ultimately, their faith in God. Students who are not taught how to think critically or who lack the tools needed to sift through the logic of these positions are easily swayed by the smooth sophistry of the intellectual elite. For this reason, twelve of the top Catholic writers in America, who are professors, priests, journalists, philosophers, and theologians, have come together to dissect the trendy ideas that can lead young Catholics away from the Church. Disorientation is intellectual ammunition for every college student and parent, as it breaks down the history, analyzes the appeal, and debunks the empty promises of wildly popular errors such as: <ul>
<li>Hedonism</li> <li>Relativism</li> <li>Progressivism</li> <li>Modernism</li> <li>Scientism</li> <li>Fundamentalism</li> <li>Radical Feminism</li> <li>Multiculturalism</li> </ul>
Edited by John Zmirak (author of The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living and Choosing the Right College), this book is guaranteed to get college students thinking hard about what their professors are telling them, and what they should really believe.

Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind

Elizabeth Scalia

Mark Shea

Peter Kreeft

Eric Metaxas

Donna Steichen

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

John Keck

Robert, Spencer

Ascension Press

The most important question of your life: Where Will You Spend Eternity? Few people understand what Jesus did or how it affects us. Worse yet, there are endless squabbles between Christians of different persuasions, leading to confusion on a massive scale. In this book, best-selling Catholic author Jimmy Akin uses his expertise in Scripture and Church teaching to cut through the confusion and provide clear answers on important issues like: --What we need to do to be saved --Whether salvation is a one-time event or a process --Whether penance is part of God s plan --What indulgences are --How faith and works relate --What the Church teaches about justification --How far apart Protestants and Catholics are on this question --Whether you have to be a Catholic (or a Christian) to be saved. No other book takes on these questions with the clarity and precision that Akin brings to them. You owe it to yourself to find out the facts about the most important question in life, because the answer will affect you and those you love . . . forever.

The Drama of Salvation: How God Rescues You from Your Sins and Delivers You to Eternal Life

Where Will You Spend Eternity? The drama of salvation involves every man, woman, and child on earth. In this life, all of us are suspended between heaven and hell. To rescue us, God sent his son-Jesus Christ-to give his life on the cross. This supreme act of sacrifice made salvation possible for all mankind. Yet now, 2,000 years later, few people understand what Jesus did or how it affects us. Worse yet, there are endless squabbles between Christians of different persuasions, leading to confusion on a massive scale. In The Drama of Salvation, Jimmy Akin uses his expertise in Scripture and Church teaching to cut through the confusion and provide clear answers on important issues like: • What we need to do to be saved • Whether salvation is a one-time event or a process • Whether penance is part of God’s plan • What indulgences are • How faith and works relate • What the Church teaches about justification • How far apart Protestants and Catholics are on this question • Whether you have to be a Catholic (or a Christian) to be saved No other book takes on these questions with the clarity and precision that Akin brings to them. You owe it to yourself to find out the facts about the most important question in life, because the answer will affect you and those you love . . . forever.

The Drama of Salvation (paperback) - How God Rescues You From Your Sins and Brings You to Eternal Life

Christian Books & Bibles

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