Download or read book Christian Realities in Mutual Aid written by William Klassen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Mutual Aid written by Joseph Winfield Fretz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet has been written to foster the development of a program of mutual aid among Mennonites. It assumes that the Mennonites in their various groups constitute Christian brotherhoods based upon a personal experience of faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and a loving fellowship in His body, the Church. On this foundation it advocates that the members of the Christian community, locally and as a whole, bear one another's economic burdens and so not only fulfill the law of Christ but strengthen the Brotherhood for its greater tasks of witnessing and building for Christ in the world of today. It is a conscious effort to challenge the secular trend of the times which threatens to denature the Christian community and make its members increasingly dependent upon the state and the commercial world with consequent transfer of loyalty from the church to other agencies.
Download or read book The Reality of Christian Learning written by Harold Heie and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on foundational studies on the relationship of faith and learning, this book presents concrete examples of ways in which a Christian perspective can be brought to bear on scholarship in various academic disciplines. The editors present a typology of various strategies for faith-discipline integration, which are then exemplified by two essays in each of seven disciplines - political science, sociology, psychology, biology, mathematics, the arts, and philosophy. In each discipline a principal essayist addresses a significant issue from a Christian perspective; a respondent then analyzes that essay, suggesting at least one alternative approach.
Download or read book Companions of Faith written by Pastor Lupe Rodríguez and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagínate ser parte de una comunidad donde cada persona se siente vista, escuchada y amada. Un lugar donde las cargas se comparten, las alegrías se multiplican y la fe se fortalece a través del acompañamiento y el apoyo mutuo. Este no es un sueño imposible, sino una realidad alcanzable cuando vivimos conforme al llamado de Cristo de amarnos unos a otros. "Compañeros de Fe: Descubriendo el Poder del Acompañamiento y el Apoyo Mutuo" es más que un libro; es una invitación a transformar tu vida y tu comunidad. A través de sus páginas, explorarás principios bíblicos profundos y aprenderás prácticas concretas que pueden cambiar la manera en que te relacionas con los demás. Este libro te guiará en un viaje de crecimiento espiritual y relacional, ofreciendo herramientas prácticas y ejemplos inspiradores de cómo vivir estos principios en tu día a día. ¿Por qué deberías leer este libro? Fortalecimiento de la Fe y las Relaciones: Descubrirás cómo el acompañamiento y el apoyo mutuo pueden profundizar tu fe y fortalecer tus relaciones. Aprenderás a caminar junto a otros en su viaje espiritual, brindando y recibiendo apoyo de una manera que glorifica a Dios. Principios Bíblicos Claros: Cada capítulo está arraigado en las Escrituras, ofreciendo una sólida base bíblica para el acompañamiento y el apoyo mutuo. Te inspirarás con ejemplos de Jesús y los primeros cristianos, y verás cómo puedes aplicar estos principios hoy. Herramientas Prácticas y Ejemplos Reales: Más allá de la teoría, este libro ofrece consejos prácticos y estudios de caso reales que te ayudarán a poner en práctica lo que aprendes. Ya sea que estés enfrentando conflictos, buscando fortalecer la comunicación o deseando promover una cultura de cuidado mutuo, encontrarás estrategias efectivas y probadas. Transformación Comunitaria: Al adoptar y practicar estos principios, no solo transformarás tu vida personal, sino también tu comunidad de fe. Crearás un ambiente donde cada miembro se siente valorado, apoyado y amado, reflejando el amor de Cristo de manera tangible. Invitación a la Acción: Este libro no es solo para leer, sino para vivir. Al final de cada capítulo, encontrarás desafíos y ejercicios prácticos que te motivarán a poner en acción lo aprendido. Únete a este Movimiento Transformador El acompañamiento y el apoyo mutuo son esenciales para la vida cristiana. Nos permiten ser la iglesia que Jesús nos llamó a ser: una comunidad de amor, apoyo y crecimiento mutuo. No dejes pasar la oportunidad de ser parte de esta transformación. Te invito a embarcarte en este viaje con "Compañeros de Fe". Descubre cómo puedes marcar una diferencia significativa en tu vida y en la vida de los demás. Sé el cambio que quieres ver en tu comunidad. Vive el llamado de Cristo de amarnos unos a otros, y experimenta la profunda bendición de caminar juntos en la fe. Que el Señor te bendiga y te guíe en esta maravillosa aventura. ¡Te espero en las páginas de este libro, donde juntos descubriremos el poder del acompañamiento y el apoyo mutuo!
Download or read book Uncomfortable written by Brett McCracken and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your church make you uncomfortable? It’s easy to dream about the “perfect” church—a church that sings just the right songs set to just the right music before the pastor preaches just the right sermon to a room filled with just the right mix of people who happen to agree with you on just about everything. Chances are your church doesn’t quite look like that. But what if instead of searching for a church that makes us comfortable, we learned to love our church, even when it’s challenging? What if some of the discomfort that we often experience is actually good for us? This book is a call to embrace the uncomfortable aspects of Christian community, whether that means believing difficult truths, pursuing difficult holiness, or loving difficult people—all for the sake of the gospel, God’s glory, and our joy.
Download or read book The Development of Dutch Anabaptist Thought and Practice from 1539 1564 written by William Echard Keeney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Menno Simons and Dirk Philips have been used as the basic materials for this study, the major aim of which is to discern the more or less normative position of the Mennonites or later Doopsgezinden during the first generation, with Menno Simons and Dirk Philips as their major spokesmen.
Download or read book Christian China written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scheme of Universal Brotherhood Or The Christian System of Mutual Assistance written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Postmodern Marxist and Christian Historical Novels written by Lynne W. Hinojosa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history—meaning both the burdens of the past, present, and future and the burden of living in time—and develop a more robust conception of and concrete practice of hope. Since the 1960s, historical novels have been a dominant literary genre, but they have been influenced primarily not by Christian but by postmodern and marxist thinkers and writers. This book provides a theological and literary analysis of all three types of historical novels—postmodern, marxist, and Christian—and outlines what each school of thought can learn from each other regarding historical understanding and hope. Using Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of hope and Frank Kermode’s literary criticism as a theoretical basis, the book offers readings of novels by Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ian McEwan, and Ursula LeGuin, among others, and ends with an extended analysis of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series.
Download or read book Covenant of Peace written by Willard M. Swartley and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One would think that peace, a term that occurs as many as one hundred times in the New Testament, would enjoy a prominent place in theology and ethics textbooks. Yet it is surprisingly absent. Willard Swartley's Covenant of Peace remedies this deficiency, restoring to New Testament theology and ethics the peace that many works have missed. In this comprehensive yet accessible book Swartley explicates virtually all of the New Testament, relating peace -- and the associated emphases of love for enemies and reconciliation -- to core theological themes such as salvation, christology, and the reign of God. No other work in English makes such a contribution. Swartley concludes by considering specific practices that lead to peacemaking and their place in our contemporary world. Retrieving a historically neglected element in the Christian message, Covenant of Peace confronts readers anew with the compelling New Testament witness to peace.
Download or read book Being Human written by Dwight N. Hopkins and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a fresh take on theological anthropology. Rather than defined "the human" as one eternal or inviolable essence, however, Hopkins looks to the multiple and conflicting notions of the human in contemporary thought, and particularly three key variables: culture, self, and race. Hopkins' critical reframing of these concepts firmly locates human endeavor, development, transcendence, and liberation in the particular messiness of struggle and strife.
Download or read book Orthodoxy and Ecumenism written by Archim. SERAPHIM Aleksiev and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Compassion written by Monty L. Lynn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although not always unswervingly, from antiquity until today, Christians have engaged in charity. As settings changed, compassion evolved, laying in place an ongoing mosaic of Christian ideas and institutions surrounding care. From the antique and medieval to the modern and contemporary, each age offers unique actors and insights into how compassion is viewed and achieved. We consider repeating motifs and novel appearances in the arc of Christian compassion which enlighten and inspire. Encountered on the journey are the formation and sacrifice of ancient Christians; an emphasis on virtues taught through sparing and sharing; the nascent social welfare of the Byzantine church; the sacralization and mobilization of a medieval church; innovative ideas from reformers who advance the role of the state; and modern movements in justice, peace, humanitarianism, mutual aid, and community development.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 2342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Charity written by Robert D. Lupton and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public service is a way of life for Americans; giving is a part of our national character. But compassionate instincts and generous spirits aren’t enough, says veteran urban activist Robert D. Lupton. In this groundbreaking guide, he reveals the disturbing truth about charity: all too much of it has become toxic, devastating to the very people it’s meant to help. In his four decades of urban ministry, Lupton has experienced firsthand how our good intentions can have unintended, dire consequences. Our free food and clothing distribution encourages ever-growing handout lines, diminishing the dignity of the poor while increasing their dependency. We converge on inner-city neighborhoods to plant flowers and pick up trash, battering the pride of residents who have the capacity (and responsibility) to beautify their own environment. We fly off on mission trips to poverty-stricken villages, hearts full of pity and suitcases bulging with giveaways—trips that one Nicaraguan leader describes as effective only in “turning my people into beggars.” In Toxic Charity, Lupton urges individuals, churches, and organizations to step away from these spontaneous, often destructive acts of compassion toward thoughtful paths to community development. He delivers proven strategies for moving from toxic charity to transformative charity. Proposing a powerful “Oath for Compassionate Service” and spotlighting real-life examples of people serving not just with their hearts but with proven strategies and tested tactics, Lupton offers all the tools and inspiration we need to develop healthy, community-driven programs that produce deep, measurable, and lasting change. Everyone who volunteers or donates to charity needs to wrestle with this book.
Download or read book The Glorious Church written by Watchman Nee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God views the church, the redeemed believers, from a heavenly perspective. Far from seeing her as defeated by the power of sin and sins, God views the church as the triumphant and glorious counterpart of Christ, who fully expresses the One who fills all in all. In The Glorious Church Watchman Nee discusses four significant representations of the church in the Bible: Eve in Genesis 2, the wife in Ephesians 5, the woman in Revelation 12, and the bride in Revelation 21 and 22. In each instance, he presents the church’s high calling to fulfill God’s eternal purpose. Recently discovered handwritten notes supplement this new and fresh translation of The Glorious Church, making it the most complete record of the messages given by Watchman Nee in the Fall of 1939 and the fall of 1942. The Appendix, "The Overcomers and God's Dispensational Moves," is a significant, never-before published portion of these notes.
Download or read book Salt of the Earth written by Joseph Ratzinger and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, well- known Vatican prelate and head of the Congregation on the Doctrine of the Faith, gives a full-length interview to secular journalist Peter Seewald, on a host of controversial and difficult issues facing Catholicism and Christianity at the end of the millennium. Similar to his best-selling book interview in 1985, The Ratzinger Report, he responds with candor and insight, giving answers that are often surprising and always thought-provoking on a series of wide-ranging topics regarding the present and future state of Christianity. Ratzinger begins by discussing his own life, including his family life, being a theology professor and writer, becoming a Bishop, Cardinal and the Pope's top authority on doctrine. He then discusses the problems of the Catholic Church today and talks about the challenges and hopes of the future of Church and the world at the beginning of the Third Millennium.
