The Charles Colson Collection: The Good Life / How Now Shall We Live?

by Charles Colson

Publisher:

Tyndale Momentum

, 2017

Overview

This collection bundles two of popular author Chuck Colson’s classics into one volume for a great value!

The Good Life
What constitutes “the good life?” Chuck Colson explores the ways in which people define and live “the pursuit of happiness.” Colson uses fascinating real-life stories to illustrate the philosophies and worldviews by which individuals seek the good life. Colson speaks directly and revealingly about his Watergate years, and he examines the beliefs and assumptions that make up the fabric of our lives. The Good Life searches for answers to the questions we all ask: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I make my life count?

How Now Shall We Live?
True Christianity goes far beyond John 3:16—beyond private faith and personal salvation. It is nothing less than a framework for understanding all of reality. It is a worldview. In How Now Shall We Live?, the 2000 Gold Medallion winner for best book about Christianity and society, Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey show that the great spiritual battle today is a cosmic struggle between competing worldviews. Through inspiring true stories and compelling teaching, they demonstrate how to

• Expose the false views and values of modern culture
• Live a more fulfilling life the way God created us to live
• Contend for the faith by understanding how nonbelievers think
• Build a society that reflects biblical principles

In short, How Now Shall We Live? will give you the confidence you need to make a difference in the world today and most of all in the lives of people around you.

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Contents

Top Highlights

“Our major task in life is to discover what is true and to live in step with that truth. As we saw earlier, every worldview can be analyzed by the way it answers three basic questions: Where did we come from, and who are we (creation)? What has gone wrong with the world (fall)? And what can we do to fix it (redemption)?” (source)

“Christianity offers the only viable, rationally defensible answers to these questions. Only Christianity offers a way to understand both the physical and the moral order. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in line with the real world.” (source)

“Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.” (source)

“This-world perspective. Naturalists consider only what happens in this world, this age, this life” (source)

“turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy” (source)

Product Details

• Title : The Charles Colson Collection: The Good Life / How Now Shall We Live?
• Author: Colson, Charles
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2017
• ISBN: 9781496425058

About Charles Colson

Charles “Chuck” Wendell Colson (born October 16, 1931) was a Christian leader, cultural commentator, and former Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. He was commonly named as one of the Watergate Seven, and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg.

Colson became an evangelical Christian in 1973. His mid-life religious conversion sparked a radical life change that led to the founding of his non-profit ministry Prison Fellowship and, three years later, Prison Fellowship International, to a focus on Christian worldview teaching and training around the world.