Download or read book Gut Level Godliness written by John S. Oldfield and published by Harmon Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're just starting out on a shepherding trajectory, Gut-Level Godliness can bring realistic clarity to the demands of your calling. If you're still in training, it can bring into vital focus the diverse elements of your education. If you're already in the trenches, it can offer you a vocational check-up and keep you from losing sight of the Chief Shepherd's priorities for you and the sheep He's entrusted to your care. Whatever the stage of your shepherding career, it will impress you with the tremendous responsibility you have to exude the aroma of authenticity. It will take you into the heart and life of a shepherd whose goal for himself and his flock was to speak the truth in love...and who longs for you to do the same.
Download or read book Prizing His Passion written by John S. Oldfield and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for Lent, but useful at any season and on any reading schedule, Prizing His Passion will help both the curious and the committed to grasp the immense significance of the sufferings of Jesus of Nazareth on behalf of sin-plagued humans. Approaching the relevant biblical truths from multiple angles, it will provide you with a deeper understanding of what He experienced and said during the hours that culminated in His death on a first-century Roman cross. It will reveal the reality and relevance of it all for you as you struggle to find your spiritual footing here in the twenty-first century. Godspeed as you travel the road to Golgotha, to Calvary!
Download or read book Idiot Sojourning Soul written by Justin Rosolino and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is “Christianity”? What’s it supposed to be? In a world where Trump, Obama, Putin, and Lady Gaga all claim Christianity as their spiritual home, it’s not an easy question to answer. Part memoir, part historical-theological analysis, Idiot, Sojourning Soul tells the story of one former skeptic’s exploration of Christian spirituality. Justin Rosolino was raised in a post-Christian context where all gods were up for grabs and all truth-claims equally dubious. While studying political theory in college, Justin found himself drawn to the writings of Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Martin Luther King Jr. Much to his surprise, he resonated with their profoundly Christian accounts of human nature, desire, lack, and love. With wit and scholarly precision, Idiot examines Christianity’s historical development, from its ancient beginnings to its current and confounding condition. The result is a must read for anyone who’s ever wondered what Jesus was really up to, and why contemporary Christianity bears so little semblance to its namesake.
Download or read book How to Empty a Church The Manual written by John S. Oldfield and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have pontificated about church growth, telling church planters and pastors how to increase the number of attendees and members. Most have spoken authentically from inspiring experiences, and what they've recommended has worked . . . at least for some. But what about advice on how to reduce those numbers, how to empty those pews? This "manual" provides just that, and its suggestions don't emanate from an ivory tower; they, too, are based on real-life experiences. The insights and guidelines of How to Empty a Church may be expressed tongue-in-cheek, but they're not fictional; they reflect the history of an actual congregation. Fasten your seatbelt; it's going to be a bumpy--but worthwhile--ride!
Download or read book The Christian Atheist written by Craig Groeschel and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Atheist, by recovering Christian Atheist Craig Groeschel, is an honest, hard-hitting and eye-opening look into the ways people believe in God but live as if he doesn't exist. From his own lapses in faith as a young man to the painful self-admission he had to make as an established pastor, Groeschel's own journey will immerse you an...
Download or read book The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Volume V written by Mark P. Hutchinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The-five volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and Royal Supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond Britain and Ireland—and also analyses newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier British and Irish dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent of ecclesiastical organizations. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V follows the spatial, cultural, and intellectual changes in dissenting identity and practice in the twentieth century, as these once European traditions globalized. While in Europe dissent was often against the religious state, dissent in a globalizing world could redefine itself against colonialism or other secular and religious monopolies. The contributors trace the encounters of dissenting Protestant traditions with modernity and globalization; changing imperial politics; challenges to biblical, denominational, and pastoral authority; local cultures and languages; and some of the century's major themes, such as race and gender, new technologies, and organizational change. In so doing, they identify a vast array of local and globalizing illustrations which will enliven conversations about the role of religion, and in particular Christianity.
Download or read book Faith Simplified written by Carol Peterson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians know we are saved by our faith in Jesus, but we can't always answer other people's questions about how that works. Faith Simplified is written for Christians seeking a deeper and clearer understanding of their faith. It explains Christianity to the non-theologian by taking the reader through Scripture to see where the theology of salvation originated, why it makes sense, and how salvation through Jesus was God's plan from the beginning. Although Faith Simplified explains complex theology from a scholarly perspective, the conversational tone, narrative illustrations, and bullet summaries provide "light bulb" moments of understanding. God wants it to be simple to believe in him. He also gave us minds so we could understand our faith. Faith Simplified explains Christian theology so that not only is it simple and easily understood, it also makes sense, making our faith stronger and easier to share.
Download or read book Finding God in My Life written by Edmund Flood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a prayerbook for everyday people. Integrating experience, reflection, and response, Flood helps us recover the light of prayer in everything we do, in all the event of our lives. Fr. Flood shows us how to turn our reflect5ion on everyday experience--home, family, good times and bad, anger and death--into prayerful, grace-filled moments. Here are prayer-starters for holidays, mealtimes, work and relaxation. Good friends, weekends, neighbors, money, our church--all of these ordinary but very real places, are, indeed, God's chosen places for the most effective appearance of grace in our lives.
Download or read book Luke Study Guide with DVD written by Lisa Harper and published by Beautiful Word Bible Studies. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible teacher Lisa Harper exposes the utter humanity and compassion of Jesus shared by Luke. Dive deep into the well of perhaps the most common-man exposition of what a gift Jesus is in this new Beautiful Word Series study.
Download or read book Godly Ambition written by Alister Chapman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Christian leader John Stott was one of the most influential figures of the evangelical movement during the second half of the twentieth century. Called the pope of evangelicalism by many, he helped to shape a global religious movement that grew rapidly during his career. He preached to thousands on six continents. Millions bought his books and listened to his sermons. In 2005, Time included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Alister Chapman chronicles Stott's rise to global Christian stardom. The story begins in England with an exploration of Stott's conversion and education, then his ministry to students, his work at All Souls Langham Place, London, and his attempts to increase evangelical influence in the Church of England. By the mid-1970s, Stott had an international presence, leading the evangelical Lausanne movement that attracted evangelicals from almost every country in the world. Chapman recounts how Stott challenged evangelicals' habitual conservatism and anti-intellectualism, showing his role in a movement that was as dysfunctional as it was dynamic. Godly Ambition is the first scholarly biography of Stott. Based on extensive examination of his personal papers, it is a critical yet sympathetic account of a gifted and determined man who did all he could to further God's kingdom and who became a Christian luminary in the process.
Download or read book Disciplines of a Godly Woman written by Barbara Hughes and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discipline. For many of us, the word alone evokes dread. It's not that we don't want to be disciplined physically, mentally, and spiritually. The challenge seems too hard, and the motivation more about duty than desire. When it comes to our Christian walk, we don't want to be legalistic and just follow some set of rules. That's not what it's all about, right? Barbara Hughes answers with this encouraging reality: The true heart of spiritual discipline is a relationship with God. As you grow in that relationship, embracing your heavenly Father and his ways, you discover that discipline is your lifeline to him. It is how he gives meaningful shape to all the days of your life. The "dread" of a disciplined life will be replaced with desire and anticipation as you find that there is no greater purpose than loving Him in every moment, every activity, and every thought. Using poignant stories and faithful reminders, Barbara opens her own heart to help you find the joy of full surrender. Her honest and encouraging look at the Word of God reveals the keys to living a truly godly life. And to strengthen your walk day to day, she offers hymns and praise psalms for your devotional times, a long list of recommended books that will lift your spirits, and Bible study helps to remind you that you're not alone.
Download or read book Sifted Like Wheat written by Dan Robinson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cock crows as eyes lock and Peter remembers. Empty words, so many well intended promises and fixed convictions vaporize as one fisherman's noble vow sours in bitter tears. "Lord, I'm willing to go to prison and even to death with You." Jesus nods. He sees, He knows. His impact on this simple Galilean was as real as it was secure, but the work was by no means finished. How could this now crippled son of Jonah have possibly wrapped his brain around participation in Jesus's passion, that he had to be sifted like wheat? How about us? Our identification as believers with One who loved and gave Himself is more than a nod with grateful approval, a "thank you Jesus for what You've done." We too participate. Literally. Actually. Necessarily. Sifting takes a believer's personal know how and determination to the threshing floor where they are crushed and dismantled, crucified with Christ. See it as the place where even your best efforts and my highest aspirations are exposed for what they are, filthy rags! At the cross and nowhere else can we find genuine rest and consummate relief by way of brokenness that leads to surrender-life and that more abundantly.
Download or read book Something Good is Trying to Happen to You written by John Cheydleur and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this personal size gift book, you'll found powerful stories to help encourage you when life gets you down. Sometimes, you just feel “busted and disgusted.” Everything seems to be going wrong. Everyone around you seems to be negative. The money meter is approaching zero. The skies always seem grey. What can you do when nothing seems to work? Speak these three words: Jesus, Help Me! Then read this book! You will find the encouragement you need plus learn how to make wise decisions and begin living a victorious life. Something good is trying to happen to you!
Download or read book Luke Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video written by Lisa Harper and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PERFECTION NOT REQUIRED Many of us believe that we aren’t good enough to meet other people’s expectations. Maybe you can’t wrap words around why, but lurking beneath the surface of the carefully curated façade you present in public, it’s there. Being missed and marginalized by others moves us to assume we’re not quite good enough for God either. The great news woven throughout the Gospel according to Luke is that perfection is not a prerequisite for a deep and personal relationship with Jesus. In fact, this riveting account reveals that Jesus is especially fond of ragamuffins in need of a safe place to lean in and linger! Join Lisa Harper in this Bible study of a literary masterpiece that doesn’t celebrate the elite, but embraces the outliers, outcasts, and overlooked! This study guide includes: Individual access to eight streaming video talks from Lisa (232 total minutes of content) Group discussion questions and an opening group activity for each session In-depth personal Bible study between sessions Reading plan through the entire Gospel of Luke Scripture memory cards and coloring pages Sessions and Video Run Times: Outliers, Outcasts, and the Outrageous Mercy of God (26:00) Worship in the Waiting (25:00) Uphill Glory (29:00) Gut-Level Compassion (27:00) The Tender Heart of Obedience (32:00) A Beautiful Unbending (31:00) A Most Radical Restoration (31:00) A Tale of Two Rooms (31:00) This study guide has everything you need for a full Bible study experience, including: The study guide itself—with discussion and reflection questions, video notes, and a leader's guide. Personal study of Scripture and context. Scripture memory cards and coloring pages. An individual access code to stream all eight video sessions online. (You don’t need to buy a DVD!) Streaming video access code included. Access code subject to expiration after 12/31/2028. Code may be redeemed only by the recipient of this package. Code may not be transferred or sold separately from this package. Internet connection required. Void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by law. Additional offer details inside.
Download or read book Nelson s Annual Preacher s Sourcebook 2016 written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sermons for a year. This trusted Nelson favorite has been updated and refreshed to equip today's pastors. Organized for easy planning, Nelson’s Annual Preacher’s Sourcebook features full Sunday sermon options and sermon starters that follow the church calendar. New to this edition is an app that allows pastors to access content in a new and exciting way and lets them preach or teach directly from the device of their choice.
Download or read book God and Soul Care written by Eric L. Johnson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity, at its heart, is a therapeutic faith. In this companion to Foundations for Soul Care, Eric L. Johnson presents a systematic account of Christianity as divine therapy. A groundbreaking achievement in the synthesis of theology and psychology, this is an indispensable resource for students, scholars, pastors, and clinicians.
Download or read book Growing Through The Storms written by Esther Abijah and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Growing through the storms” is a love letter from God to the author and the many others who will engage in this book. It was birthed in 2018, during one of the most challenging times in the author’s life. What seemed like the end was the beginning of another season for her. This book contains stories about the hiccups in her life, ways to overcome them and live the life God has called us to. A book which was brought into existence in the wilderness season of the author’s life, and through the quiet and reflective time, Esther heard the voice of the Holy Spirit telling her to write, so She did, and through that, she was able to gain clarity and freedom through her storms. “Growing through the storms” comes from God’s heart to His children on balancing life and overcoming life’s battles in our hardest times. It also offers God's inspirational word on topics that guide us to live a life of fullness. “Growing through the storms” contains the wisdom of God in the form of advice and encouragement about who we are as children of God and the privileges we have as a royal diadem in the kingdom of God.
