Download or read book Christ the Cross and the Concrete Jungle written by John Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many communities are ravaged by problems associated with poverty, crime and drug and alcohol abuse. Substantial answers to the urban crisis are all but non- existent. 'Christ, the Cross and the Concrete Jungle' is the story of a young man's deliverance from a lifestyle of desperation and delinquency to a new life of freedom and hope. This books reveals the remarkable journey of transformation and redemption that is made possible through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Download or read book The Nature of God S Divine Redemption written by John R. Matthew and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book was born out of a desire to lift your spirit. As we look around us today, we see a lot of pain and sorrow and misery. The concept of The Nature of Gods Divine Redemption is a deliberate intention to encourage you and to lift your hope, to put your mind on something better and a superior way. The book tells you, If the son of man set you free, you are free indeed (John 8: 36, King James Bible). That is what is The Nature of Gods Redemption is about. We are told that whatsoever a man thinks in his heart so is he. The idea behind the book is to help you to think good thoughts and to lift your minds from horizontal things to vertical things. Gods love is the most amazing thing. The book tells that faith is also amazing. It takes far more faith to believe in the intellectually chic and fashionable evolutionary myth than it does to believe in the existence of God. Moreover, it says, Evolution is based entirely on faith because no facts or proof have ever been found to support it! Faith does play a primary role in the life of a Christian. For the person who truly wants to seek God and learn to please Him, Hebrews 11:6 tells us that: But without faith it is impossible to please God: for him that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarded of them that diligently seek Him Faith is vital to a Christian. In fact, without it, no one can please God. Notice this verse says that those seeking God must believe that He is. Also the book articulates that a deep belief in God, who rewards all who diligently seek Him, requires proof of His existence. It says it is After proof has been established, thenand only then can one have faithabsolute confidence that what man does is being recorded in Gods mind, to be remembered when he receives his reward. If you are uncertain that God exists because proof of that existence has not been firmly established, then, under fire, your faith will wane or disappear. But when you truly believe in what Jesus Christ did on the Cross of Calvary, Gods Divine love will redeem you and set you free from the heavy load of sin.
Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of Our King written by Bruce Riley Ashford and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible overview shows how the Bible--with its 66 books, dozens of authors, and multiple genres--comes together to provide an overarching story about God the King and explains how the Christian gospel and mission address the totality of human life. Written by a biblical scholar and a theologian, The Gospel of Our King shows how any account of gospel and mission can only be understood in light of the whole biblical testimony. The authors help us understand the Bible's overarching narrative as the story that encompasses everything. This story, revealed by God and centered on Jesus the King, enables us to know and love God and to fulfill his purpose for our lives. It is the framework within which we come to understand the Christian worldview, the Christian gospel, and the Christian mission. When we understand how the whole Bible fits together to shape the totality of a Christian's life, we will be prepared to show the goodness of Christ and the gospel to others in our personal, social, cultural, and global contexts.
Download or read book The Queen of Harlem written by Brian Keith Jackson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African American Breakfast at Tiffany’s–a hip, refreshingly candid tale of identity and self—discovery from the critically acclaimed author of The View from Here and Walking Through Mirrors. Mason Randolph, a black preppie of impeccable Southern pedigree, is bound for Stanford Law School after graduating from college. Before embarking on the path to his golden future, however, he takes a detour through Harlem, where he intends to live "authentically" with "real black people." Mason takes the name "Malik" and moves into the orbit of the ever—fabulous Carmen, uptown diva and doyenne of Harlem. Carmen, always ready to have a handsome young man at her fabulous soirees and to add to her devoted entourage, happily takes him under her wing. Fueled by his parents' money and dodging the people who remember him as Mason Randolph, "Malik" masquerades as a "ghettonian," exploring the wonders and pleasures of a Harlem in the midst of a second Renaissance. But his odyssey takes a different turn when he meets Kyra, whose world mirrors the one he has abandoned. As he contemplates the choices Kyra has made, and begins to reexamine his own presumptions about identity and authenticity, Mason realizes that everyone has something to hide and that to get what we want, we have to be willing to let go of our secrets. People compared Brian Keith Jackson's remarkable first novel, The View from Here, to the works of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, and Publishers Weekly called it "an extraordinary debut...[by] a formidable craftsman and exceptionally gifted storyteller." A novel rich in humor and insight, The Queen of Harlem will earn Jackson a much—deserved place in the center of today’s literary landscape.
Download or read book RADICAL CHURCH written by John Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gospel for Workers written by Seo Deok-Seok and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells three overlapping stories: first, the life story of Rev. Cho Chi Song, a pioneer of urban and industrial missions, which served Korean society's working population; second, the Urban Industrial Mission (UIM) in Korea, which Cho Chi Song pioneered; and third, the story of how UIM provided the roots for Korean Minjung Theology. Owing to Cho Chi Song, UIM became the birthplace of missions for the working population and an enduring haven of a worker's right to life and dignity. Cho shared both tears and laughter with workers. At times moved by righteous anger, he worked to bring "healing to a sick society." Cho stands out in the history of industrial missions in that he trained and empowered a handful of ordained clergy as well as some dispossessed people to be agents of transformation. He helped working women take ownership of the Urban Industrial Mission and act as the very agents whose struggles for justice brought conviction to greedy business owners. They became potent catalysts for change in the unjust working conditions that were previously marked by very low wages and long working hours. A disciplined leader, Cho Chi Song was a constant friend to workers. Those who knew him personally could sense, in his life, a genuine depth of spirituality and godliness. UIM was one of the roots for Minjung Theology, but it is not well known outside of the UIM circle. The author, Seo Deok-Seok, was trained by Cho Chi Song.
Download or read book The One Year Alive Devotions for Students written by Rick Christian and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The One Year Alive Devotions for Students helps students focus on God's Word with powerful, true-to-life illustrations from daily life in both high school and college settings. In our media-saturated culture, in which students are bombarded with all types of distractions, The One Year Alive Devotions for Students will change how they think about God and their world.
Download or read book The Blood of My Pen written by Cold August and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic journal about the life of A rising B-more poet Named Poet of Pain.
Download or read book Missiology written by John Mark Terry and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated and revised—with half of the chapters new to the second edition—Missiology equips the reader with a vast resource on contemporary missions. This graduate-level introduction is divided into five sections (Introduction to the Study of Missiology, Biblical Basis of Missions, Theology of Missions, and Applied Missiology) and offers essays on modern missions issues and methods such as contextualization, spiritual warfare, and orality, as well as chapters on major world religions and cults in North America. A retired missionary and long-time professor of missions, editor John Mark Terry enlists a wide range of evangelical authors, most with significant experience in international or North American missions. Pastors will find helpful information on church planting in North America and on developing a missions-minded church. Students will benefit from the chapters on understanding the call to missions and the current status of world evangelization. All readers will profit from a valuable one-volume reference work on missions.
Download or read book Christian Victory written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living the Life Novattione written by K.M. Ashyleigh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that you want the most, money, power, respect, and love? Do you want to achieve novattione? Life is like a Mosaic you can christen it beautiful or whatsoever you deeply desire. In this Mosaic is everything and when you look at it you see what you want only. This is the reason you are you and I am me and they are them. Move far away from your nightmares and start building your dreams. Do not dwell on the negatives. Fear and hatred will only cripple you and blind your judgement. Be positive and grab the world and shine bright like the SUN.
Download or read book Lions at the Gate written by Jeff Langer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970's the cocaine was pure and the lust for sex, drugs, and money corrupted the body and soul. The casino boom was flourishing in Atlantic City; and the Natalie Crime Family was making millions. However, the son of a Brooklyn crime boss became slipshod and haughty, disregarding the code of silence and the old-world philosophy of Sicily. This leads to a series of catastrophic events all caught on F.B.I. surveillance tapes. This is a gripping look at the mafia mentality, narrated by a convict rotting away in a federal prison, who reflects back upon his life explaining what went wrong and how the events of the spring of 1977 destroyed one of the most powerful crime families in the world. What makes Lions at the Gate special is the naked depiction of the mafia, the kangaroo courts, and the corrupt incarceration system.
Download or read book Alive written by Scott Rickly Christian and published by Grand Rapids, Mich. : Campus Life Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily readings for the high schooler, using Scripture as a springboard to reflect on God and Christianity in school life, dating, sex, parental relations, fears, peer pressure, etc.
Download or read book Sanctuary written by Ardis Dick Stenbakken and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pages of this book women have bared their souls. They have revealed how they try every day to follow the pattern that God has given for their lives. They share how God has shown His presence in their homes, their families, and their lives. Things have not always gone perfectly for these women, but each has found sanctuary in the arms and love of her mighty God, the God who is also her Savior.
Download or read book Preaching to a Divided Nation written by Matthew D. Kim and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in angry times. No matter where we go, what we watch, or how we communicate, our culture is rife with division and polarization. Unfortunately, Christians appear to be caught up in the same animosity as the culture at large. While our faith calls us to Christian unity, the hard fact remains: our churches are tragically divided across class, ethnic, gender, and political lines. As these social chasms grow--both inside and outside the church--the role of the preacher becomes paramount. This book issues a prophetic call to pastors to use the influence of their pulpits to promote reconciliation and unity in their churches and communities. Two scholar-practitioners who are experts in homiletics and reconciliation present a practical, 7-step model that empowers faithful leaders to bring healing and peace to their fractured churches and world. The book includes questions for reflection, salient illustrations, and an accountability covenant. It also includes useful appendixes on preaching themes, preaching texts, and sample sermons from three leading preachers: Ralph Douglas West, Rich Villodas, and Sandra Maria Van Opstal.
