Download or read book Escape From Religiosity written by C. S. Johnson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the Midwest, being born into a large family and having a nomadic father, caused my life to be one of great adventures. My father was a preacher and a jack of all trades. He was an inventor and entrepreneur. He could not look at an empty building without wanting to start a church or a business in it. Life with him was an education, and growing up as the youngest of twelve children set the stage for lots of fun and experiences. Although I did not set out to write a life story, I suppose this is kind of what it is. It seems I have spent most of my adult life trying to get free from the hypocrisy and man-made rules of organized religion and denominations. I consider myself predenominational. I endeavor to base my beliefs and my life on the teachings of Jesus and the early church. It has been a great struggle to Escape from Religiosity.
Download or read book Escape from God written by Dean Turner and published by Hope Publishing House. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical study on the high price of life, love & happiness which probes the significance of pain & suffering. By looking at the complex, demanding & compassionate Christianity that Jesus lived & died for, this text examines why the human experience inevitability encompasses both joy & suffering, disappointment & success, heartbreak & achievement. It details how philosophy, theology & psychology have been twisted & subverted to draw believers away from, instead of closer to, God.
Download or read book How to Escape Religion Guilt Free written by Scott R. Stahlecker and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How to Escape Religion Guilt Free" is an insightful guide that examines the relevancy of religion and, specifically, the Christian faith. Why would a person need this guide? Because the unfortunate reality is that many individuals find themselves involved with religions that they no longer support, yet they are fearful to leave. Do you follow a religion whose teachings you no longer believe in? Are you compelled by fear and insecurity over the prospect of leaving your religion? Do you feel guilty or worthless because you do not measure up to the expectations of your religion? "How to Escape Religion Guilt Free" will help you through the process of leaving your religion and will empower you with the desire and courage to continue your spiritual quest. It takes a frank, hard look at the psychological tools that religions use to keep disciples bound to the faith, and it outlines the steps a person will need to go through to retake control of their life.
Download or read book Escape to God written by Jim Hohnberger and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of authentic Christianity, author Jim Hohnberger and his family found the restorative power of God's love. As a result, the Hohnbergers have helped others remove life's draining distractions, and countless lives have been transformed. In Escape to God, readers will be challenged and inspired to put aside the card-punching religion of "Churchianity" and experience the indescribable peace and empowerment God intends for His people.
Download or read book Worldly written by Jason Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced and provocative story told in a humorous voice. Jason is raised in a deeply religious town in Amish country, Pennsylvania. At a young age he finds he is different than the other children at public school and he is to be no part of their world. Despite being isolated from possible friendships he finds himself in precarious situations as he is sent to preach to those same people's doorsteps. As he struggles to come of age under the veil of a enormously strict cult, curiosity pulls him farther away from blind faith in the Jehovah's Witness religion called "The Truth" which creates a turmoil that sends him running away from home before adulthood. Jason loses his family but gains new friends in the forbidden world, along with experiences that lead him across several United States to experience drugs, sex and punk rock. A lifetime of experience in thirty years, this journey will teach a lesson fit for modern times of how truly damaging religion can be... and theorize what it all means.
Download or read book Onward written by Russell D. Moore and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today "Beautiful Orthodoxy" Book of the Year in 2016. Keep Christianity Strange. As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that we are a Moral Majority. That may be bad news for America, but it can be good news for the church. What's needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place. We seek the kingdom of God, before everything else. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonize opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let's do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down. The signs of the times tell us we are in for days our parents and grandparents never knew. But that's no call for panic or surrender or outrage. Jesus is alive. Let's act like it. Let's follow him, onward to the future.
Download or read book Escape from Reason written by Francis A. Schaeffer and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-12-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth is no longer based on reason. What we feel is now the truest reality. Yet despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness. Tracing trends in twentieth century thought, Francis A. Schaeffer shows that Christianity offers meaning where there is purposelessness and hope where there is despair.
Download or read book Daughter of Gloriavale written by Lilia Tarawa and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned Gloriavale's beliefs and practices. When her parents fled with their children, Lilia was forced to make a desperate choice: to stay or to leave. No matter what she chose, she would lose people she loved. In the outside world, Lilia struggled. Would she be damned to hell for leaving? How would she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And would she ever find out the truth about the criminal convictions against her grandfather? 'A powerful and revealing book...' Kirsty Wynn, New Zealand Herald 'An affecting parable and testament, in the most commendably secular senses.' David Hill, New Zealand Listener
Download or read book Escape from Codependent Christianity written by James B. Richard and published by Treasure House. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christians are painfully codependent, and never get free. A codependent lifestyle is a miserable, fearful life. From never feeling secure, to the need to always be in control, the extremes of codependency fuel the chaos and pain in our lives. In Escape from Codependent Christianity, Dr. James B. Richards examines this common phenomenon in light of the truth of Scripture. Codependency is not complicated. It involves depending upon others for what we have no right to expect from them. Codependents often fall into the trap of living on other people's approval for their own sense of self-worth. They may depend on others for decisions or happiness. No matter what the needs are, the key to codependency involves trying to get from others what people cannot truly give.
Download or read book The Great Escape Manual written by Edward M. Hays and published by Forest of Peace Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents escape plans that will help you break through the walls of anger, fear, impatience, advancing old age, crowded schedules, and work. Each chapter concludes with reflections and a "how to" section of practical techniques for liberation.
Download or read book Jumping through Fires written by David Nasser and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has left an undeniable mark in our world. Some see it as the answer to every problem, while others see it as the problem itself. Simply put, religion is the single greatest force in history. But in a much more intimate sense, what does religion mean to one life? In this honest, suspenseful, and moving memoir, author David Nasser tells of a life filled with heartbreak and healing. Forced to escape from a country gripped in a religious revolution, David and his family run for their lives in an attempt to find refuge. Through the lens of a terrified boy we see the destructive power of religion and the pull of peer pressure as he tries to fit into a new culture. Nasser's raw and transparent account of his transition from hating religion to having a living faith in Christ will impact readers from across the religious spectrum. His unflinchingly honest, yet humorous, assessment of the church from an outsider's point of view will both enlighten readers and spur them to renewed and refined outreach. For anyone who has seen the lie of religion, whether in Iran or Alabama or anywhere in between, Nasser offers the truth of Jesus.
Download or read book Obsolescence and Vanishing Ethos written by Tom Schneider and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age book of a young man and his early commitment to religion and the trials, struggles and complexities of religion. A glimpse into the authors private life from childhood through adulthood and his decision to pull away from organized religion. The author brings insight into religion from personal experiences and research into the relationship of religion to physical, mental and psychological well-being on humans. Obsolescence and Vanishing Ethos explores personal trials and cover such topics as guilt, control, issues of the church and sex, masturbation and homosexuality, as well as topics on the anthropological aspect and religion as a business enterprise.
Download or read book Escaping from Fundamentalism written by James Barr and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pastoral rather than a controversial book. Its main aim is not to show fundamentalists that they are wrong, but rather to help those who have grown up in the world of fundamentalism or have become committed to it but in the end have come to feel that it is a prison from which they must escape.
Download or read book Religion for Atheists written by Alain De Botton and published by Signal. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a deeply moving meditation on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. Alain de Botton was brought up in a committedly atheistic household, and though he was powerfully swayed by his parents' views, he underwent, in his mid-twenties, a crisis of faithlessness. His feelings of doubt about atheism had their origins in listening to Bach's cantatas, were further developed in the presence of certain Bellini Madonnas, and became overwhelming with an introduction to Zen architecture. However, it was not until his father's death -- buried under a Hebrew headstone in a Jewish cemetery because he had intriguingly omitted to make more secular arrangements -- that Alain began to face the full degree of his ambivalence regarding the views of religion that he had dutifully accepted. Why are we presented with the curious choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle and effective rituals and practices for which there is no equivalent in secular society? Why do we bristle at the mention of the word "morality"? Flee from the idea that art should be uplifting, or have an ethical purpose? Why don't we build temples? What mechanisms do we have for expressing gratitude? The challenge that de Botton addresses in his book: how to separate ideas and practices from the religious institutions that have laid claim to them. In Religion for Atheists is an argument to free our soul-related needs from the particular influence of religions, even if it is, paradoxically, the study of religion that will allow us to rediscover and rearticulate those needs.
Download or read book Shackles of Faith written by Mark Hosler and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hosler followed Elroy Godfrey, a man thought to be anointed by the Holy Spirit. Surrounded by supposed Christians and reeling from a budding romance, Mark felt certain he had found his Garden of Eden at last. Pastor Elroy Godfrey, The charismatic leader of a religious cult, captivated Mark, and he readily accepted his new spirituality. But after thirteen years of living sequestered from the real world, Mark could not ignore the 'red flags' warning him that evil was lurking in his pastor's heart. Shackles of Faith is the self-written, true-life account of Mark Hosler, a middle-aged man excommunicated from a religious cult for questioning his pastor's ways. Mark's story exposes the tragedy of an innocent man who lost his wife and son, his home, job, and all the dreams he had for his future. Shackles of Faith is a story offering hope to those who may have been, or may currently be, a victim of a cult. It is a story that must be told.
Download or read book No Man Can Escape Religion written by Seth Rogers Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1955* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escape the Things That Are Destined to Come written by Elaine Williams Barnes and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
