Erwin W. Lutzer

Explains what the Bible teaches about death, and what heaven will be like, the justice of eternal punishment, the death of a child, trusting in God's providence, and preparing for your own final moment.

"Someone has said that when you have nothing left but God, you realized that God is enough. God had stood beside me when no one else wanted me. He was not going to abandon me now. God would have to heal the emotional pain that throbbed through my body." As a child, Dorie was rejected by her mother, sent to live in an orphanage where she was regularly beaten by the orphanage director, was beaten time and again by cruel foster parents, and was daily told that she was ugly and unloveable. Dorie never knew love until a group of college students visited the orphanage and told her that God loved her. As she accepted that love, her life began to change. Dorie is the thrilling, true account of what God's love can do in a life. Doris Van Stone takes readers through the hard years of her childhood into her fascinating years as a missionary with her husband to the Dani tribe in New Guinea. With the rise of illegitimate births, the increase in divorce statistics, and the frightening escalation of child abuse, this story stands as a reminder that God's love, forgiveness, and grace are greater than human hurt and sorrow. - Back cover.

This book has an important message: The pain in your past can be overcome. Whether you've sinned or been sinned against, the guilt of yesterday can be turned into the victory of tomorrow. In Putting your Past Behind You, Pastor Lutzer offers "good news for those who think their sordid past must control their future." Through illustrations from the Bible and his own counseling experience, Pastor Lutzer brings encouragement and explains God's role in the process of overcoming a painful past scarred by addictions, abuse, or descructive choices. If you've been suffering under the weight of guilt or tragedy, this book may be your lifeline to a triumphant future.

Opportunities to be ensnared by sin abound today. We live in a world filled with enticements that wait to trip us up and even reach out to us from the Internet, movies, television, and the world at large in an effort to pull us into their grasp. Many good people, even Christians, are caught by these snares - and one wrong decision can start a progression that results in destroyed lives.