Download or read book Church of Cowards written by Matt Walsh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Would You Surrender for God? Christians in the Middle East, in much of Asia, and in Africa are still being martyred for the faith, but how many American Christians are willing to lay down their smartphones, let alone their lives, for the faith? Being a Christian in America doesn’t require much these days. Suburban megachurches are more like entertainment venues than places to worship God. The lives that American “Christians” lead aren’t much different from those of their atheist neighbors, and their knowledge of theology isn’t much better either. Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire exposes the pitiful state of Christianity in America today, lays out the stakes for us, our families, and our eternal salvation, and invites us to a faith that’s a lot less easy and comfortable—but that’s more real and actually worth something. The spiritual junk food we’re stuffing ourselves with is never going to satisfy. As St. Augustine said over a millennium ago, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. Only God Himself can make our lives anything but ultimately meaningless and empty. And we will never get anywhere near Him if we refuse to take up our cross and follow Jesus. This rousing call to the real adventure of a living faith is a wake-up call to complacent Christians and a rallying cry for anyone dissatisfied with a lukewarm faith.

Download or read book Church Wake up Call written by William Benke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's church market is comprised of four age groups—Youth, Baby Busters (Generation X), Baby Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Each has unique characteristics in terms of attitudes, spiritual orientation, values, emotional needs, moral perspective, and lifestyle. This implies significant changes for the church—new approaches to ministry and different methods of communication and interface. Church Wake-Up Call's unique “Ministries Matrix” approach provides effective management techniques to help you define and evaluate duties, priorities, and remedial actions for the future of your ministry in today's multigenerational context. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.

Download or read book Christian Wake Up Call written by Jim Stortenbecker and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Stortenbecker is a graduate of North Penn High School in Lansdale, Pa. where he currently resides with his wife of 42 years. He has three children and nine grandchildren. He is also a graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in business and management. Jim Stortenbecker retired from the US Army in 1985 after 21 years of honorable service. He is extremely active in his church as an usher, a member of the church worship team and operator of the book and tape store. He is a singer and musician and dedicated to bringing about a change in the Christian faith through Christian unity and through his ministry, Turning The Tides and his web page, truetides.com, both of which are currently in the development stage. Jim has had several Christian related articles published in the local newspaper. His book, Christian Wake Up Call, is a call he received from God for Christians to put aside their denominational differences and unite to solidify the Christian faith and our relationship with the Trinity. We are facing the end times and God is sending the Christian community a wake up call. Jim has addressed this in his book with an urgent plea for unification.

Download or read book A Call to Resurgence written by Mark A. Driscoll and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s tempting to believe that the Christian faith is alive and well in our country today. Our politicians talk about God. Our mega-churches are filled. Christian schools dot our landscape. Brace yourself. It’s an illusion. Believe it or not, only 8 percent of Americans profess and practice true evangelical Christian faith. There are more left-handed people than evangelical Christians in America. In this book, Mark Driscoll delivers a wake-up call for every believer: We are living in a post-Christian culture—a culture fundamentally at odds with faith in Jesus. This is good and bad news. The good news is that God is still working, redeeming people from this spiritual wasteland and inspiring a resurgence of faithful believers. The bad news is that many believers just don’t get it. They continue to gather exclusively into insular tribes, lobbing e-bombs at each other in cyberspace. Mark’s book is a clarion call for Christians. It’s time to get to work. We can only do this if we unite around Jesus and the essentials found in his Word, while at the same time, appreciating the distinctives within each Christian tribe. Mark shows us how to do just that. This isn’t the time to wait or debate. Join the resurgence.

Download or read book The Wake up Call written by Kenneth Copeland and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God doesn’t do anything in the earth without first revealing it to His prophets (Amos 3:7). It’s because of His mercy He always gives a wake-up call to prepare His people. In this moving and compelling series, Kenneth Copeland and Richard Roberts join Oral Roberts as he shares the vision--The Wake-Up Call-God--God has given him concerning the future of the United States, the Jews, the Christians and the world. Brother Roberts heard the voice of the Lord say, I’m making a sign. This is one of the signs of the end time because the world is not ready for the Second Coming of My Son. My Church is not ready for the Second Coming of My Son. Things will always happen exactly in the time God has chosen, and He’s given mankind many years to repent. God is not out of mercy, but he is out of time. His giving of visions and signs is proof God is still interested in us. Our part is to simply turn around and be obedient. God has given Kenneth Copeland a prophetic word concerning Brother Robert’s vision. And in part two of this series, Brother Copeland is joined by Gloria Copeland and Billye Brim to offer insightful and informative commentary and interpretation of Brother Robert’s sobering vision and God’s exciting plan for every man and woman who will respond to it. The Wake-Up Call is your call to walk fear-free and love-filled in the overflow of God’s glory instead of the overflow of sin’s darkness in these last days. It’s your call to be prepared to help when unprecedented events send a frightened, questioning world running to God for answers. Listen with your heart and respond in repentance, faith and love to The Wake-Up Call.

Download or read book Wake up Calls written by Will Davis Jr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don't know about you, but I need all the help I can get when it comes to spiritually jump-starting my day. Some days I get up and it is all I can do to concentrate on a few verses of Scripture. Other days I feel tempted to blow off my twenty minutes of reading because I'm anxious that I have too much to do. On such days I have found it helpful to have a source to direct my thoughts toward God. I need a tool to help me rouse my weary spirit and prepare to take on yet another day of kingdom building. In short, I need a wake-up call. Do you? So writes Will Davis Jr., in Wake-Up Calls. Wake-Up Calls helps bleary-eyed Christians to better see God's kingdom. It deals practically with such topics as temptation, sin, prayer, relationships, suffering, conflict, death and obedience with honesty and in-your-face clarity. If you need a blast of kingdom reality that cuts through the morning's spiritual fog, then Wake-Up Calls is for you.

Download or read book I Saw the Lord written by Anne Graham Lotz and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we call ourselves Christians, we expect that our love for Jesus, our hunger for His presence, our urgent longing to see Him again will be a constant, motivating force in our lives, writes Anne Graham Lotz. Yet sometimes . . . in the busyness of our days or the duties of our jobs or the familiar habits of our worship or the everyday routine of our homes, the longing becomes complacency, and we sleep through opportunities to be with Him. Anne knows from personal experience that it's then, as we're drifting in comfortable complacency, that we most need a wake-up call--a jolt that pushes us to seek out a revival of our passion for Jesus that began as a blazing fire but somehow has died down to an ineffective glow. The revival we need now is not a tent meeting or a series of church services designed to save the lost. It's something completely different: authentic, personal revival. In I Saw the Lord, Anne shares the revival lessons she has carried to audiences throughout the world, showing you how you can experience an authentic, deeper, richer relationship with God in a life-changing, fire-blazing revival. It begins here. Now. Open this book and hear the wake-up call. Then get ready for the fire of revival to fall . . . on you!

Download or read book Youth Ministry in a Post Christian World written by Brock Morgan and published by Youth Cartel. This book was released on 2013 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Chap Clark"Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian World is, above all, a story of honesty and hope. If you're looking for another program manual of youth ministry how-tos and free advice, keep looking. But if you need a friend in the trenches, whose journey will make you feel a little less alone, then this is your next read."-Kenda Creasy Dean"This book is an invitation to reaching teenagers and calling them into an amazing life with Jesus."-Tic LongThe world is changing and it s changing us in some ways for the better. It requires us to reconsider the ways we think about and interact with the people around us. The good news is that thoughtful, humble, and curious youth workers are making headway in today s world.Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian World is the collection of humble, story-driven, pragmatic and Jesus-focused reflections of a fellow youth worker forced to reconsider everything he knew about youth ministry: everything except the gospel, that is.

Download or read book Unfailing written by Rob Renfroe and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all experienced the pain of broken promises. When those we love fail to keep their commitment to us, we feel betrayed and hurt, less likely to trust again. People fail us. Plans fail. But there is one who is unfailing, who always keeps his word. In Unfailing, pastor and teacher Rob Renfroe reminds us that because God is faithful to his Word we can base our lives on what he has said. And though hard times may follow where we experience confusion, loss, and pain--feeling overwhelmed--if we stand on the promises of God we, too, will not fail. Jesus promised that everyone who hears his words and puts them into practice is like a wise man who builds his house on a rock. Though the storms blow and the streams rise, the house does not fail because it is built on the rock. Renfroe unpacks seven key ways in which God will not fail you, looking at God's promises, grace, peace, presence, guidance, power, strength, and love. Each of these is an important and essential aspect of God's trustworthy and unfailing character, reflecting his faithfulness to you. Each chapter includes a sample prayer as well as personal reflection questions that help you to further apply these truths to your life.

Download or read book Divine Disruption written by Dr. Tony Evans and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestseller Learn how to work your way through life’s unexpected challenges with grace and find a deeper faith while on your journey. In this biblical and conversational book by Dr. Tony Evans and his four adult children—Chrystal Evans Hurst, Priscilla Shirer, Anthony Evans, and Jonathan Evans—you will hear five insightful perspectives on what it means to hold on to faith when life breaks your heart. We have all been through difficult seasons and times in life when it seems like the hits keep coming and you can barely catch your breath. The Evans family knows what this is like, as they’ve experienced the deep grief of losing eight loved ones in less than two years’ time, including the devastating passing of Lois Evans, the matriarch of the family. In Divine Disruption, Dr. Tony Evans and his children pull back the curtain on their faith-shaking experiences, in order to provide biblical wisdom and practical encouragement for how to deal with the hard, unexpected things we all inevitably face. You’ll walk away with insights on: Why bad things happen despite a good and powerful God Persevering in difficult times and experiencing God’s peace What causes distress in your life—and how to move past it How to keep your faith from being damaged during tough times Join the Evans Family in this unique Kingdom Legacy partnership as they candidly share honest questions they’ve asked, raw emotions they’ve felt, and solutions they’ve learned. Your life may have been interrupted, but you can use that to grow closer to God—and find peace.

Download or read book Christianity in Crisis written by Milt Partee and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is awake-up callfor the twenty-first century church. Milt compares today's church with the first century church model. He believes the church has been weighed in the balance and found wanting, especillay in the areas of personal evangelism and discipleship.He draws on his forty-eight years of bible study, his ministerial experience, and his keen analytical skills to assess what's wrong with the churchand gives suggestions on what can be done to fix it. When Milt speaks of the church he is referring, not to an organization, but to an organism,the body of Christ, made up of all true followers of Christ, irregardless of their denominational affiliation.Bible texts are from either the KJV or the NKJV bibles. Much scripture is quoted in this book. This is iinten- tional."Thus sayeth the Lord " is what gives any Christian work its sanction and authority.If God said it. I believe it. And that settles it.

Download or read book The Freedom Transmissions written by Carissa Schumacher and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Channeled Transmissions from Yeshua offering evolved, authentic, and original wisdom for the deepest realization of truth, love, and peace through balance, liberation, and transcendence from the burdens that anchor us to suffering and fear. As a child, Carissa Schumacher was told by an angelic presence that she would be a channel for Yeshua of Nazareth. She did not know what that meant at the time nor the impact it would eventually have on her life and countless others. After devoting much of her life to service as an intuitive guide and spirit medium, in late 2019, Yeshua's Divine Presence suddenly came through her channel for the first time. Over the next months, Yeshua shared his timely, universal, and revelatory messages. The Freedom Transmissions is the result. This singular book offers a pathway to peace by following the Four Elements of Balance: Simplicity, Stability, Surrender, and Stillness. When we embody these four energies, we create and attract the most abundance, nourishment, joy, and flow to our lives. The Freedom Transmissions unburdens us from unnecessary suffering, strengthens our faith and sense of wholeness, and restores balance and peace, reminding us that we are One with the Divine. The joy of these Transmissions is that they are for all people and not just some people on the basis of beliefs or dogma. Yeshua welcomes in all people who come in humility and a genuine desire to find and know self as One with God. This essential text encourages us to choose Faith over Fear, Forgiveness over Blame, Freedom over Suppression, and ushers us from the era of division and polarity to an era of co-creation, transparency, compassion, and equality.

Download or read book Rethink God written by Nadiez Bahi and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have science and philosophy proved the inexistence of God?In Rethink God, Nadiez Bahi presents a fascinating, fresh look at one of humanity's most enduring questions. He tackles the question, "Does God Exist" through a dialogue between Christian and his new friend, Sherif. Together they seek answers to eternal questions through a conversation covering the most prominent philosophical and scientific topics related to the God question.Accessible and engaging, Bahi examines the significant fallacies of both agenda-driven atheism and religious enthusiasm. Inviting readers to draw their own conclusions, Rethink God provides an original, unbiased approach for readers to answer the big question about divinity.

Download or read book A Wake up Call written by James Jefferies and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferies addresses an extremely influential Christian theology that he feels corrupts the Gospel, perverts God's grace, dismisses sin, and produces false Christians and is embraced by numerous churches that call themselves Conservative, Evangelical and/or Bible-believing.

Download or read book Wake Up Calls written by Tabitha B. Kohler and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get up! Grab a pen and write this down!" I glanced at the blue numbers on the clock next to me. They read 3:00 a.m. I tend to have difficulty sleeping, either I can't fall asleep, or I wake up numerous times throughout the night for no particular reason. So when I heard God wake me up that morning only to tell me to grab a pen, I did what any crazy person would do, I told Him I'd do it in the morning while rolling over, tucking myself back under the covers. Now I consider myself to be somewhat of a stubborn person. But as I've discovered, God is much more persistent than I could dream of being! My resistance lasted all of two minutes before I had a pen on the notebook paper, asking Him what to do next. He then told me to write about snotty tissues. I crinkled my nose, said that was disgusting, but obeyed anyway. Words poured from my pen all over that blue-striped paper. This pattern of Him waking me up at the wee morning hour of three o'clock continued for months. Now I am not a writer. I didn't fare well in language arts in high school, and I never took English in college. The words in this book may not be proper, but I am beyond proud of them! God gave me these stories. I have no idea why, but I pray that they touch at least one life. I hope someone will get to know Jesus through these words. If only one person realizes how much Jesus loves them because of learning of Him from this book, then every single 3:00 a.m. wake-up call would have been worth it. I pray Jesus blesses you today. He loves you! 2

Download or read book Church Wake Up Call written by William Benke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your church viable in the changing marketplace of today--and tomorrow? Today's church market is comprised of four cultural paradigms--Youth, Baby Busters (Generation X), Baby Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Each has unique characteristics in terms of attitudes, spiritual orientation, values, emotional needs, moral perspective, and lifestyle. This implies significant changes for the church--new approaches to ministry and different methods of communication and interface. Church Wake-Up Call's unique “Ministries Matrix” approach provides effective management techniques to help you define and evaluate duties, priorities, and remedial actions for the future of your ministry in today's multigenerational context. Church Wake-Up Call will inform and enlighten you on these subjects: understanding and using the Ministries Matrix to define purposes and priorities for your church eirecting your ministry toward a particular age group without compromising the church's message increasing your church's visibility structuring your church's management organization creating an effective outreach program . . . and more! Although the book is oriented toward churches and their leadership and has been written largely from an evangelical Christian perspective, the descriptive information regarding each of the generational categories that comprise today's populace is applicable to all Christian organizations, whether they be evangelical or mainline Protestant, Catholic or parachurch. Similarly, the management system, which integrates defined purposes, priorities, and programming options into a well-coordinated plan of action, can be applied by all such organizations.

Download or read book Wake Up America written by Tony Campolo and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1991-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to action for Christians to minister to those who live in poverty, hunger, and fear.