Download or read book Choosing Joy written by Dan Lord and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is joy? Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers. Yet if you asked: a man who grew up fatherless and destitute in the slums of Atlanta a young widow who decided to bring a neglected garden back to life in spite of agonizing physical pain and a deeply wounded spirit or author Dan Lord himself, ex-frontman for a popular indie rock band each would point to the one source of their joy: Jesus. They made the choice for joy, against all odds, and so can you, though the obstacles might seem insurmountable. Worry and anxiety, pain and suffering, the daily grind -- all these and more can block your path. When faced with such challenges, is it possible to get past the barriers, let go, and experience God's joy? When you look around, you might wonder -- although joy is a fruit of the Spirit, it doesn't seem to be hanging visibly from many Christian boughs. Choosing Joy aims to change that -- and change your life in the process -- as it helps you discover the key to this most attractive but seemingly elusive gift. Choosing Joy will help you overcome the obstacles and focus your heart, mind and strength on God so that you can receive the happiness and peace that the world cannot give.
Download or read book Adventures in Faith Family written by Susan Lukey and published by The United Church of Canada. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in Faith & Family offers practical, intelligent, loving, spirit-filled wisdom for those looking for a friend who will guide them with faith as they pursue their own adventure of being a family. Delving into the multiple scenarios of a child’s life, Susan Lukey has drawn on years of research and her own experiences as teacher, minister, youth leader, and parent to reveal how families can sensitively and faithfully support and nurture a child’s growth “to become all that God has created them to be.”
Download or read book Choosing Plan A in a Plan B World written by Jerry E. White and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is immune from the temptation to live for self rather than for the Lord. Daily we face the competition between God's plan and the world's plan. So we must choose. In the vernacular, do we choose Plan A -- God's plan -- or that which is second best -- Plan B? - Preface.
Download or read book Gospel Principles written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide and a Teacher’s Manual Gospel Principles was written both as a personal study guide and as a teacher’s manual. As you study it, seeking the Spirit of the Lord, you can grow in your understanding and testimony of God the Father, Jesus Christand His Atonement, and the Restoration of the gospel. You can find answers to life’s questions, gain an assurance of your purpose and self-worth, and face personal and family challenges with faith.
Download or read book Choosing Christ written by Evelyn Collins and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you study and believe the promises of Jesus, God changes into endless peace and gratitude the plunging emotions that overwhelm and crush your spirit. Are your daily trials of loss, isolation, and frightening thoughts destroying or rendering you powerless? What you choose to believe about fleeting ideas in your head controls whether you feel defeat instead of walking in victory. What is and how do you obtain love, peace, and joy that is constant regardless of circumstances? Solitude with and focus on Christ, places within your spirit the confidence to relax in his care. Your old soul is free of all the pent-up anxiety and worries of this world. A new sense of calm and wholeness enters and guides you. This devotional contains real-life accounts of how the author overcame defeat and accepted the grace of God to stand against obstacles. When you seek God, he begins to transform you into his image. Even though you live in a lost and confusing world void of peace, there is the peace that he places within you. God promises to ignite hope and fill each person with his love that accepts Jesus.
Download or read book Tony Evans Book of Illustrations written by Tony Evans and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture this: it’s Saturday afternoon, and you’re putting the finishing touches on tomorrow’s sermon. You’ve been thinking, researching, and praying about this message all week, and thankfully, feel prepared. That is, except for one small detail—you aren’t sure how to begin. For more than 30 years, Tony Evans has been connecting with audiences around the world. Now his tools are available for you. Don’t leave your listeners to connect the dots. Let Tony Evans’ Book of Illustrations help you illustrate your point in a way they can’t forget.
Download or read book Choosing Christ in the World written by Joseph A. Tetlow and published by Edicoes Loyola. This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choosing Christ in the World and Lightworks written by Joseph A. Tetlow and published by . This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chosen by God by Choosing Jesus Revisited written by DR PETER. CHANG and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why the world seems to be moving further away from the Gospel every year? It is not because the Word of God has failed. It is not because it was meant to be. It is not because God arranged it as such. It is because we the messengers have failed. We the church is the one who is standing in the way of completing Gods joy of the massive, worldwide revival, where all the inhabitants of the world joyfully confess that Jesus is the Lord and the Savior of all people. We the church must get back to the core message of the Gospel that has been slowly lost since the first hundred years of the explosive growth since the Day of the Pentecost. The Gospel message of and for everyone must be regained and energized among all churches. The core truth of the Gospel that God loves all his children, both the lost and the found, and is calling everyone to receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, must be restored to regain the lost momentum since the inception of the church two thousand years ago. Every form of humanistic determinism and segregating theology must be stripped away from the Gospel of our Redeemer. We will explore various passages of the Bible that enlightened wise men of the past and the present have veiled the absolute loving power and hopeful faith of our Heavenly Father. We will discover that every passage of the Holy Scriptures points clearly to the hope of his calling for all and to the golden chain of blessing to all, simply because God is love and God is mighty. We will explore Pauls masterful delineation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Epistle to Galatians. Paul will teach us that faith is knowing the grace of Jesus Christ, for faith is simply knowing that we are loved by our Savior. And finally, we will take an intimate stroll with our Creator, our Sustainer, and our Savior, Jesus, as we meditate the Gospel according to Apostle Matthew. I pray that the respected readers and I can together come to know our savior in a deeply personal way. I invite every potential believer to get ready to fall in love with Christ for the very first time, for his first love is the last love you will ever need. I also invite every believer to brace him- or herself to fall in love with Christ all over again. I invite everyone to meet the man I myself just cannot help but fall in love with over and over again. I pray that all the churches of the world may come together and collectively live the life predestined by our Heavenly Father. I pray that we may live the blessed and joyful life of living our identity to the fullest and complete the joy of our Heavenly Father.
Download or read book Jesus Is Risen written by David Limbaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally confined to a small circle of believers centered in Jerusalem, Christianity's stunning transformation into the world's most popular faith is one of history's greatest, most miraculous stories. In Jesus Is Risen, #1 national bestselling author David Limbaugh provides a riveting account of the birth of Christianity. Using the Book of Acts and six New Testament epistles as his guide, Limbaugh takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the sorrow and suffering, as well as the joys and triumphs, of the apostles and other key figures as Christianity bursts through the borders of Judea following the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh particularly focuses on the crucial role that the Apostle Paul played in these historic events. Facing incredible adversities, from arrests to shipwrecks to violent mobs and murder plots, Paul overcomes countless obstacles as he travels far and wide to spread the Gospel. In Jesus Is Risen you will discover: • How the apostles themselves disproved modern arguments that early Christians did not believe in Jesus’ divinity. • The true story behind the first conversion to Christianity by a Gentile. • The many underhanded ways Christianity’s opponents tried in vain to stifle the Church in its infancy. • Paul’s most effective techniques and arguments for bringing converts to Christ. Throughout these pages, Limbaugh’s passion for the Bible is unmistakable and infectious. Replete with deep insights into the actions, arguments, and challenges of the world’s first Christian communities, Jesus Is Risen is a faith-affirming book for Christians at all stages of their faith walk.
Download or read book Chosen by God by Choosing Jesus written by Peter Chang and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a newlywed, or is your child asking you for a baby brother or sister? If you believe in Calvinism, you have to think really hard before making a decision to have a baby. It is Russian roulette with eternal consequence. It teaches that God creates humans for two distinct purposes. When each baby comes out of the mother's womb, the "chosen" baby receives a one-way ticket to heaven while the "damned" baby receives a one-way ticket to hell. This fate was decided an infinity ago by God, and he will never change his mind. If such teaching is correct, the parents-to-be had better make sure they know the future of their baby's sealed destination before they get romantic. Calvinism has been the most dominant doctrine of conservative Christianity for the past five hundred years. It teaches that Jesus Christ died and shed blood for only a "chosen" few. Is this really what the Scripture teaches us? Has eternal life or death already been predetermined for you and me by the perfect and pleasurable will of the absolute ruler of the universe and beyond? Does our free will to choose matter after all in the Calvinistic world of deterministic fatalism? And ultimately, is such a God good? We will tackle the mystery of where and how God's sovereign determinism and human freedom to choose intertwine in lieu of the literal and plain teachings of the Holy Scriptures. We will finally be able to understand, after five hundred years, the most misunderstood word in the whole Scripture: chosen.
Download or read book Christ Shaped Character written by Helen Cepero and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the pathways that lead us to God? In this book Helen Cepero leads you through the journey beginning with three ways of love, then three ways of continuing in faith, and then lastly, three ways of living in hope. These nine pathways will lead you into deeper life with Christ.
Download or read book My Journey for Christ written by Duane Seuferer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a Catholic husband and a Protestant wife selecting one church for the family. There are four important spiritual areas we used in finding a church and raising our children in a Christ-centered life. These four areas are believing the Bible is the absolute Word of God, comparing Catholic and Protestant teachings to scripture, how to live a Christ-centered life, and a guideline for choosing a Bible-teaching church. I think this could be a good book for anyone having a problem in any of these areas.
Download or read book Choosing Life S Paths written by Sherri Self and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Sherri Self has a desire to see everyone become followers of Jesus Christ and for them to know who they are in Christ. She encourages Christians to grow in their walk with Jesus and for them to become successful in choosing their lifes paths with Gods help. In Choosing Lifes Paths, she offers advice on that journey. She shares how to lean on the Lord for his direction by first discovering who Jesus is and understanding what it is to be a Christian. Sherri explores the choices and the results and how the Holy Spirit guides Christians down the paths that lead to victory. Filled with extensive scripture, this guide helps those who desire to: Be forgiven and forgive Believe and not doubt Be encouraged Know there is always hope Conquer fear Find peace and joy Receive Gods help Choosing Lifes Paths is for those who desire a more balanced, and fulfilled life and reveals ways to achieve these outcomes. It addresses needs and inspires all to seek the Lords will and timing in life and to align themselves with Gods plans.
Download or read book Chosen by God written by R. C. Sproul and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 200,000 copies sold! Chosen by God by Dr. R. C. Sproul is a contemporary classic on predestination, a doctrine that isn’t just for Calvinists. It is a doctrine for all biblical Christians. In this updated and expanded edition of Chosen by God, Sproul shows that the doctrine of predestination doesn’t create a whimsical or spiteful picture of God, but rather paints a portrait of a loving God who provides redemption for radically corrupt humans. We choose God because he has opened our eyes to see his beauty; we love him because he first loved us. There is mystery in God’s ways, but not contradiction.
Download or read book Choosing to Love written by Darol Hail and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True North written by Gary Heim and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day we face some kind of frustration: flat tires, flooded basements, wounding words, a broken body, a troubled marriagetrouble comes in all shapes and sizes and can happen when we least expect it. While everyone struggles, few people have learned to struggle well. But its not impossible! Frustrations arise when we look to people and things of this world to fill our desires, rather than to the only One who can really satisfy us. True North offers a unique, biblical paradigm that gives understanding and help to turn to God in the frustrations of life. Frustration often causes us to go south and react in the flesh. We grumble and grasp. God calls us to go north and respond to hardship with wisdom and redemptive love. Combining biblical insight with personal stories, practical help, and compelling examples, authors Gary and Lisa Heim encourage readers to turn from self-centered grumbling and grasping to Christ-centered gratitude and giving. As they read stories of hardships and trials, successes and profits, readers will see how frustrations can actually help them grow in their personal lives, in their marriages, in their parenting, and in their ministries. Believing that learning to live for God through all of lifes frustration is an intentional activity for every day, the Heims also provide discussion questions at the end of each chapter to help readers apply biblical truths to situations where frustrations loom. Perfect for use in ministry settings or as a handbook for personal growth, Truth North shows readers how to embark on the life-giving adventure of walking with God.
