Download or read book The Divine Persuasion written by Charles M. Armentrout and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you facing adversity or obstacles that feel insurmountable... or are you trying but never overcoming? Do you feel a lack of faith? Have you reached the bottom and are you ready for a change? If you keep doing what you've always done, will you find God's purpose for your life? Is this positive for you? Do you feel God has a purpose for you but aren't sure how to find out what it is? The Divine Persuasion is a powerful autobiography of a preacher who despite adversity discovers God's plan for his life. This is a book of action and doesn't just tell you how Charles M. Armentrout found God's will, but also the unstoppable power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill that purpose. The Divine Persuasion is full of real-life examples of how faith can play out if you will only listen to God's voice. His discoveries documented in this book show you how people from different backgrounds struggling with racism, alcoholism, purposelessness, and pride are helped by transformational principles You can take the wise practical teachings of Charles M. Armentrout and apply them to your own life for immediate action. Do you think you were born with impossible challenges? * Learn how Charles dealt with a speech impediment * Discover how the Spirit led Charles when everyone told him to give up * See how Charles navigated through self-doubt * Be amazed at how not even fires or insults could stop the purpose of God How will you learn God's will for your life? * Follow Charles's exciting story on actually hearing the voice of God * Learn how you also can overcome obstacles that block you from living out God's plan for you * Find out how the biblical methods Charles lays out clearly can be applied to your life today * See the role of humility and patience that only the Spirit can give Are you open to being persuaded by God? * Never wonder "what if" you could find out what God has to tell you * Wake up every day knowing what God intends for your life * Be Inspired by Charles's life and learn how you too can live your life for something bigger * Feel comfortable with your identity in Christ. Find out how to let go of your fears and take flight towards God's will for your life, period. Does God have a Divine Persuasion for you too? Try The Divine Persuasion today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top right of this page! P.S. You won't regret reading this book and the change it can bring to your life today.
Download or read book God s Divine Persuasion written by Silva Riley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing the face of how we see faith through the revelations concerning faith in Christ. How do you see your faith? Where is your faith? And tools that can be used to help understand faith better.
Download or read book From Force to Persuasion written by Andrew M. Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of process-relational theology in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) is the rejection of coercive omnipotence and the embrace of divine persuasion as the patient and uncontrolling means by which God works with a truly self-creative world. According to Whitehead, Plato's conviction that God is a persuasive agency and not a coercive agency constitutes "one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion." According to Hartshorne, omnipotence is a "theological mistake." What is behind these claims? Why do process-relational philosophers and theologians reject divine omnipotence? How have they justified a commitment to divine persuasion, and what kind of theoretical and practical implications are involved? Featuring contributions from key process-relational thinkers, this book situates a shift "from force to persuasion" across multiple thresholds of discourse, from philosophy and theology to spirituality and politics to pluralism, axiology, and apocalypse. It aims to reawaken attention to the operations of divine persuasion as ever-loving and inherently noncoercive, but always at risk in an open and relational universe.
Download or read book Process Philosophy and Christian Thought written by Delwin Brown and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Possession and Persuasion written by Robert Hach and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-11-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possession and Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Christian Faith is a rhetorical analysis of Christian history and theology initially prompted by my experience in a fundamentalist Christian sect. The story of this experience is briefly told in the prologue, "The Rhetoric of Surrender," which describes the "surrender" of my life to God through a commitment to an authoritarian Christian sect in Gainesville, Florida, in 1972, when I was a freshman at the University of Florida. I spent the following fifteen years, first, as a student recruit, trainee, and then leader in the founding church in Gainesville, and then, as a recruiter and trainer in other parts of the U.S. until I finally left the movement (now called the International Churches of Christ) in 1987. I subsequently combined graduate study in rhetoric with a continuing interest in biblical and historical scholarship in an effort to understand how my religious experience fit into the broader context of Christian history and theology. I concluded that the New Testament language of faith, originally formulated to persuade hearers of the Christian message by means of understanding, had been radically redefined and its effects rhetorically reengineered by the ecclesiastical Christianity which had gradually emerged after the first century; this process of rhetorical reinvention produced a language of faith that possessed its hearers by means of a mystical form of indoctrination, in the interest of building a religious empire. The degree to which ecclesiastical Christianity, throughout its history, has taken its faith-language seriously--my experience having been produced by a movement that took this language to its logical conclusion --is the degree to which its adherents experience a religious bondage that amounts to the antithesis of the spiritual freedom and social equality of the original experience of Christian faith. Part I, "Faith as Possession," addresses critical changes made by post-apostolic theologians in the apostolic discourse of the New Testament about the message of Jesus, specifically with reference to the rhetorics of "authority" (Chapter One), "knowledge" (Chapter Two), and "justice" (Chapter Three). This rhetorical reengineering of apostolic language facilitated the rise of the institutional Church, which rapidly replaced the apostolic message as the authorized mediator between God and humanity in general and between God and the community of faith in particular. That is, the dynamic of persuasion by an eschatological message was rapidly replaced by the dynamic of possession by an ecclesiastical system. The redefinition and reconceptualization of these apostolic terms amounted to the rhetorical invention of Christianity, a form of Greco-Roman mythology which has little in common with the faith of Jesus as it is revealed in the New Testament. The faith of Christianity became, and continues to be to varying degrees, a form of possession insofar as it consists of, in both a mystical and an institutional sense, belonging to "the Church," which relieves its members of their responsibility for their own identity and destiny. Part II, "Faith as Persuasion," explores the rhetoric of three apostolic ideals, which have generally received little more than lip service by post-apostolic Christianity: "understanding" (Chapter Four), "anticipation" (Chapter Five), and "freedom" (Chapter Six). These concepts are integral to persuasion as the modus operandi of the apostolic Christian faith. Understanding is a prerequisite to authentic persuasion in that persuasion, or belief, without understanding is the essence of possession. In that the meaning and power of the Christian message are a matter of the hope of resurrection to life in the coming kingdom of God, anticipation is the logical response to being understandingly persuaded of the truth of the message. And insofar as internal bondage characterizes life without hope
Download or read book Spiritual Growth written by Charles M. Armentrout and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you lack purpose or meaning in life... do you want to grow spiritually but don't know how? Do you wonder where the Spirit is? Does God seem far away and do you want to change this? Can you afford to wait any longer to find the grace God has for you? Is this positive for you? Do you wish you could not only know, but feel and see the work of the Spirit in your life? New Life In The Spirit is a powerful bible-soaked exploration of a preacher who wouldn't settle until seeing the work of the Spirit for himself. This is a book of action and doesn't just tell you how Charles M. Armentrout found new life in the Spirit, but also reveals the secret to helping you also unleash the Spirit's invisible work of Grace in your life. The Divine Persuasion is a powerful autobiography of a preacher who despite adversity discovers God's plan for his life. This is a book of action and doesn't just tell you how Charles M. Armentrout found God's will, but also the unstoppable power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill that purpose. You can take the wise practical teachings of Charles M. Armentrout and apply them to your own life for immediate action. Do you think you were born without a calling? * Learn how Charles dealt with a speech impediment * Discover how the Spirit led Charles when everyone told him to give up * See how Charles navigated through self-doubt * Be amazed at how not even fires or insults could stop the purpose of God How will you learn to stand tall by the Power of the Spirit? * See how Charles, led by the Spirit, confronted the winds of disdain. * Learn how you also can overcome obstacles that block you from living out God's plan for you * Find out how the biblical methods Charles lays out clearly can be applied to your life today * See the role of forgiveness will unlock your heart to blessings beyond imagination Do you find it difficult to trust God and other people? * Never wonder "what if" you could learn to trust God * Wake up every day motivated by what God has done and is doing in your life * Be Inspired by Charles's life and learn how you too can live your life for something bigger * Discover the secret behind acceptance, compassion and hope Find out how to let go of your self-doubt and finally find the missing puzzle piece in your life which is the fullness of grace. Are you also ready to find New Life in the Spirit too? Try Spiritual Growth today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top right of this page! P.S. You won't regret reading this book and the spiritual growth waiting to start in your life today.
Download or read book All That Is in God written by James E. Dolezal and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unknown to many, increasing numbers of conservative evangelicals are denying basic tenets of classical Christian teaching about God, with departures occurring even among those of the Calvinistic persuasion. James E. Dolezal’s All That Is in God provides an exposition of the historic Christian position while engaging with these contemporary deviations. His convincing critique of the newer position he styles “theistic mutualism” is philosophically robust, systematically nuanced, and biblically based. It demonstrates the need to maintain the traditional viewpoint, particularly on divine simplicity, and spotlights the unfortunate implications for other important Christian doctrines—such as divine eternality and the Trinity—if it were to be abandoned. Arguing carefully and cogently that “all that is in God is God Himself,” the work is sure to stimulate debate on the issue in years to come.
Download or read book The Psychology of Persuasion written by Kevin Hogan and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using techniques from hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, the Bible, and the greatest salespeople in history, Hogan empowers you to improve all areas of your life.
Download or read book Powerful Persuasion written by Tex Sample and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the electronic generations receive and process the information communicated by new media, and how the ways in which our consumerist culture makes use of those media are not good models for how the church can employ them to spread the message of Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Fool s Talk written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is changing dramatically, yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness presents the art and power of creative persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness.
Download or read book From Force to Persuasion written by Andrew M. Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of process-relational theology in the tradition of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) is the rejection of coercive omnipotence and the embrace of divine persuasion as the patient and uncontrolling means by which God works with a truly self-creative world. According to Whitehead, Plato's conviction that God is a persuasive agency and not a coercive agency constitutes "one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion." According to Hartshorne, omnipotence is a "theological mistake." What is behind these claims? Why do process-relational philosophers and theologians reject divine omnipotence? How have they justified a commitment to divine persuasion, and what kind of theoretical and practical implications are involved? Featuring contributions from key process-relational thinkers, this book situates a shift "from force to persuasion" across multiple thresholds of discourse, from philosophy and theology to spirituality and politics to pluralism, axiology, and apocalypse. It aims to reawaken attention to the operations of divine persuasion as ever-loving and inherently noncoercive, but always at risk in an open and relational universe.
Download or read book The Faithful Apologist written by K. Scott Oliphint and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the art of Christian persuasion in an age of increasing unreason. For many Christians who've tried their hands at evangelism or have had to defend their faith, it can feel like doing PR work for God—limiting ourselves to a series of strategies and tactics. In The Faithful Apologist, Scott Oliphint provides a cross-centered foundation for Christians to explain their faith in a welcoming and persuasive manner that avoids any burden to "sell" Christianity to non-Christians. Drawing as much from the rich tradition of Western apologetics as from the wisdom of effective communication, this book bridges the gap between sharing the truth of our faith and the art of persuasion by: Laying out the biblical and theological foundations of apologetics. Studying the art of persuasion as it’s demonstrated in Scripture. Linking the discipline of apologetics to the classical art of persuasion. As devoted to people as he is to the intellect, Reformed theologian Dr. Scott Oliphint has written this faithful book to explain the importance of both devotions in apologetics and in Christian correspondence with the world. He shows that, when our faith is grounded in the Triune God and his sovereignty, our attempts to defend it will grow more confident and convincing. Accessible and thoroughly rooted in Scripture, The Faithful Apologist takes the anxiety out of apologetics by revealing that success is not measured in the number of minds we change, but in our faithfulness to God, the Divine Persuader.
Download or read book Reformation Study Bible ESV written by Robert Charles Sproul and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 1994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty scholars, under R. C. Sproul, collaborated to produce this study Bible to help readers understand the great doctrines of the Christian faith. Published by Ligonier Ministries, trade distribution by P&R Publishing.
Download or read book A Peculiar Glory written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God has provided a way for all people, not just scholars, to know that the Bible is the Word of God. John Piper has devoted his life to showing us that the glory of God is object of the soul’s happiness. Now, his burden in this book is to demonstrate that this same glory is the ground of the mind’s certainty. God’s peculiar glory shines through his Word. The Spirit of God enlightens the eyes of our hearts. And in one self-authenticating sight, our minds are sure and our hearts are satisfied. Justified certainty and solid joy meet in the peculiar glory of God.
Download or read book God and the New Cosmology written by Michael Anthony Corey and published by Rowman and Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Given the excellent historical context in which Corey frames his case and the rational manner in which he closes off the loopholes, the stage is set for paradigm shift in the secular area. I highly recommend this book.'-Hugh Ross, Astronomer
Download or read book The Rules of Persuasion written by Carlos A. Alvarenga and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rules of Persuasion not only explains exactly how persuasion works in all forms of human communication, but it also presents a clear and effective model you can use to put the elements and chemistry of persuasion to work for you in your personal and professional lives. Using insights and examples from art to history to literature to hip-hop, author Carlos Alvarenga updates and expands ideas first presented in Aristotle’s Rhetoric, adding original observations regarding the role of the audience in persuasion, persuasion in social media, as well as what happens when the rules of persuasion are used to deceive and corrupt audiences—even entire nations. “From Aristotle to Instagram, Carlos Alvarenga weaves together examples from ancient Greek and Roman texts to modern-day art, film, hip-hop, and social media to provide a useful overview of the tools and levers of persuasion in a variety of contexts. Informative and thought-provoking, this book illuminates the exact ways in which words and ideas, persuasively communicated, have shaped people's actions and beliefs from antiquity to the present.” —Jason Steinhauer, bestselling author, History, Disrupted: How Social Media & the Worldwide Web Have Changed the Past “Many of us in the arts struggle to communicate to different audiences in ways that inspire. The insights of Carlos Alvarenga draw on decades of experience helping leaders craft and convey their message. By laying out a clear approach with examples ranging from real-life coaching experiences to ad campaigns to artworks, he transforms the ‘art’ of persuasion into a practical framework that enables readers to sharpen their abilities to influence and motivate others.” —Amy Landau, Ph.D., Director of Education and Interpretation, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Download or read book The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original collection of essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of persuasion across ancient genres (mainly oratory, historiography, poetry) and a wide diversity of interdisciplinary topics (performance, language, style, emotions, gender, argumentation and narrative, politics).
