Download or read book Are You As Close To God As You Are To My Bumper A Collection of Memoirs On Faith written by Patricia Edwards and published by Patricia Edwards. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates once said, "An unexamined life is not worth living." Well, doesn't that hold true to faith? Just as there are no two persons or thumbprints alike, there are a wide variety of reasons a person chooses to acknowledge God, transform their attitudes, and approach life situations and choices within the parameter of God's will and I ventured deep into the lives of the faith-filled to find out just what those reasons were. Filled with much of the same narratives as in the Bible, 'Are You As Close to God As You Are To My Bumper?' is a collection of personal memoirs on faith where you will encounter real life struggle, doubt, failure, hard-heartedness, and the all too familiar moments of wavering faith along with the lessons that ignite belief, trust, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and our God almighty's forgiveness, mercy, and grace to those who repent and believe. This book has been designed to bring clarity and hope to your wandering days. It's meant to be your companion.
Download or read book Faith and Other Flat Tires written by Andrea Palpant Dilley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of Quaker missionaries recounts how her religious doubts and questions led her to leave Christianity for a way of life that pushed the limits of her former beliefs, but her continued questioning led her back to faith.
Download or read book God Has a Name written by John Mark Comer and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become. In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become. We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways. God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way. John Mark Comer takes you line by line through Exodus 34:6-8--Yahweh's self-revelation on Mount Sinai, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, Comer addresses some of the most profound questions he came across as he studied these noted lines in Exodus, including: Why do we feel this gap between us and God? Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him? What if our "God" is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires? What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine? No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.
Download or read book When We Were on Fire written by Addie Zierman and published by Convergent. This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person's faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets she wore and whether he had kissed dating goodbye. Zierman led two Bible studies and listened exclusively to Christian music. She was on fire for God and unaware that the flame was dwindling-- until it burned out. She chronicles her journey through church culture and first love, looking for what lasts when nothing else seems worth keeping.
Download or read book Nevada Rain written by Grant Montgomery Wolfe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate re-tells the story of two young adults, Rebecca White and Johnny Black as they are guided to a station in their hearts they knew no existed by means of a destiny sealed long before they were born. On an ordinary night, that is by far unordinary, the mystical wheels of their providence are set into motion. While a 22 year old Janis Keeper pleads for her life somewhere in the Nevada desert, a guileless Rebecca and an altruist Johnny are dispatched into a world fraught with the unknown. Two remarkable journeys. One heart. One mind. One soul. Nevada Rain is a provocative narrative of faith, courage, erroneous decisions, heartache, spiritual enlightenment, immense darkness, and finally, a love everlasting. Turn the page, open your mind and accept their journeys into your heart. Enjoy the true to life influences of Nevada Rain.
Download or read book The Soul of God written by Ray S. Anderson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this theological memoir, Ray Anderson takes us on his own journey from the prairie to the pulpit, and from the soul of a believer into the soul of a theologian. As a sequel to his earlier book, 'The Soul of Ministry', he shares with us the process by which his own spiritual hunger moved from uneasiness and unrest into a deeper sense of the soul of theology as exploration into the very soul of God (Part One). In Part Two, each chapter traces out the contours of a theology which "sings as well as stings." After more than 40 years of ministry as pastor, teacher and theologian, Anderson presents a theological hermeneutic by which Scripture and human experience can be read on the same page. If reading this book produces astonishment and wonder at the depth and daring to which God's grace encounters and embraces us through Jesus Christ, then that itself will lead us, with awe and reverence, to behold the soul of God.
Download or read book Little Faith Big God written by Debbie W Wilson and published by ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God isn't looking for heroes of faith. A thriving relationship with God is not built on our perfect performance but on our trust in a gracious Savior. Hebrews 11 reveals one superhero"š€š"Jesus. Our God delights in flawed followers who trust him in the daily aspects of their lives. He designed spiritual growth to be an ongoing journey of faith and delights in who you are becoming. By exploring the lives of the people mentioned in Hebrews 11, Little Faith, Big God will inspire you to persevere in your faith through the examples of biblical men and women who failed, got up again, finished well, and were commended by God. With biblical principles to separate false hope from real faith, present-day stories to encourage you, and guiding questions to invite personal reflection, application, and discussion, Little Faith, Big God will equip you to trade your self-made superhero cape for a dynamic, grace-filled relationship with our big God.
Download or read book Straight to the Heart of 1 Thessalonians to Titus written by Phil Moore and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God turns scrap metal into gold. He changed the Apostle Paul and he changed the many thousands who sat in on Paul’s teaching. By God's grace, the lessons in Paul’s discipleship training school became part of the New Testament. These five letters show us how God takes ordinary people from the scrapheap and turns the base metal of their lives into purest gold. God inspired the Bible for a reason. He wants you read it and let it change your life. If you are willing to take this challenge seriously, then you will love Phil Moore’s devotional commentaries. Their bite-sized chapters are punchy and relevant, yet crammed with fascinating scholarship. Welcome to a new way of reading the Bible. Welcome to the Straight to the Heart series.
Download or read book What Inspirational Literature Do I Read Next written by Pamela Willwerth Aue and published by Gale Research International, Limited. This book was released on 1999-08-31 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religiously-inspired novels, inspirational writings and biographical works on people who are models for spiritual growth are among the recommendations found in this reference.
Download or read book Leap of Honesty written by Stephen Frederick Uhl and published by Humanist Press. This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faithful Catholic priest become atheist psychologist shows how he himself shucked and how the reader can enjoy shucking childhood prejudices and superstitions to thrill to rational friendliness in our pluralistic planetary society. This book could have been titled “The Book of Tolerance.” The psychologist author recognizes that each of us learned a lot of traditions and beliefs when too young to evaluate them. Such prejudices are very deeply ingrained into the subconscious. Therefore they are often most difficult to overcome even in adult years and with further experience and education. (Dr. Uhl was already in his 30s when he finally got free; many people never get free.) Each of us grows up and learns to analyze and think critically at different speeds. Even in the same family one sibling may remain highly opinionated and prejudiced, stuck in the past, while another thoughtfully unlearns childhood myths and becomes a broadminded adult. Therefore, tolerance of such differing rates of learning and unlearning is necessary for civilized peace good friendships in a pluralistic society. Such patient understanding is less difficult when one follows the new Golden Rule: Treat others as you would reasonably want and expect them to treat you if your roles were reversed. The thrilling details of an exciting journey with our planetary neighbors are clearly laid out in the little book, Leap of Honesty – Priest to Atheist. A generous sprinkling of earthy humor richly seasons this revolutionary book for enjoyable spiritual nourishment. Previously published as Out of God’s Closet and Imagine No Superstition.
Download or read book The Poetical Work of Robert Burns Edited with a Critical Memoir by William Michael Rossetti written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gathering Over Jerusalem written by Joel C. Graves and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Artistic Approach to New Testament Literature written by Sharon R Chace and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of contemporary New Testament scholarship, that explains how the Bible is and how it came to be. Coupled with notes of historical criticism, the biblical texts are described according to the formal art elements of form, line, colour and texture. Other artistic terms such as perspective and focal point are used to characterize biblical passages, in order to unlock the complexity of the text. This is an introductory textbook for late high school or college students, and one that will also serve well in study groups. The art projects will be of great value for the teacher, while many thought-provoking questions will help the student to engage and understand the text. This book is a bridge between church and academy.
Download or read book Higher Ground written by Carolyn S. Briggs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's immersion into fundamentalist faith, and her decision twenty years later to leave it all behind.
Download or read book Appleton s Instructive Reading books written by James Johonnot and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Books of Joel Obadiah Jonah and Micah written by Leslie C. Allen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eloquent and uncompromising calls for social righteousness by the Minor Prophets are familiar to many, yet the writings themselves are probably the least-studied and least-known texts of the Old Testament. Those who are familiar with these books are also aware of the historical and literary problems that plague their study. Drawing on theological, historical, and literary insights, Leslie Allen’s commentary on Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah carefully and imaginatively reconstructs the context in which the original Hebrew audience received the prophets’ messages. In turn, Allen shows what relevance they hold for contemporary Christians. For each of the books, Allen includes a substantial introduction, presenting and assessing a broad range of scholarship, a select bibliography, and an extensive commentary on the author’s own translation of the text. Allen pays special attention to Micah, in which he treats at greater length many of the forms and motifs that also appear in Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah. The introductory material for Joel includes discussions of canonicity and textual criticism that apply to the entire volume.
Download or read book The Books of Luke and Acts 2020 edition written by Brian Simmons and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Luke is a glorious gospel and perhaps the most compassionate, love-filled account of the life, humanity, and ministry of Jesus. Also known as the Mercy Gospel, the Gospel of Luke offers rich details of Jesus’ love of children and the forsaken. It further shares Jesus’ teachings on prayer, forgiveness, and our calling as Christians to demonstrate mercy and grace to others. The book of Acts details the ascension of Jesus, the birth of the church, and the early years of the expansion of God’s kingdom on earth. Paul’s three missionary journeys are also explored, illustrating the spread of the gospel, the addition of new believers, miraculous answers to prayer, signs and wonders, and deliverance. Revealed before our eyes in these two books of the Bible is the glorious man, Jesus Christ, and his undying love for us. This inspired account of church history awakens our souls and grants us courage to be witnesses for Christ. “Not one promise from God is empty of power. Nothing is impossible with God!” Luke 1:37
