Download or read book Hollow Faith written by Stephen Ingram and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book for youth leaders, pastors, and parents looks deep into the mirror of pop and church culture and asks the difficult, and often maddening, question, “Are those things we produce and consume defining us?” Author Stephen Ingram explores these themes of moralism, deism, meism, consumerism, pluralism, and therapeutic religion of pop culture, as well as current sociological and psychological data. Hollow Faith separates the values of the gospel from the cultural norms that have domesticated them including: How we believe we should act (The Andy Griffith Show) How we want to be known (Facebook) What we aspire to become (the American Dream) Ingram says that once we recognize these serious shifts in our faith, we can begin to have discussions, develop plans, and form actions to reclaim the vibrant, life-giving faith of the Bible. Includes a Parents Guide in the back.
Download or read book Hollow written by Jena Morrow and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine years, 7 months, 14 days, and the battle still rages. Jena Morrow has an eating disorder. It can kill her. Jena Morrow has a Savior. He came to give her abundant life. This is not a polished tale of victory but an honest, true story of fragility. Hollow recounts Jena’s daily struggle with anorexia and the God who is able and willing to reach down into the dirt. A central theme of Hollow is the surrender of control to Jesus Christ. His Word is interwoven throughout the story as rebuttals to the lies that besiege those engaged in any addiction. In addition to her point of view, Jena includes those of her friends, family, and former therapists providing an undercurrent of hope. Written in an easy conversational voice, Hollow will resonate with those in the midst of a struggle and those who stand beside them.
Download or read book My Hollow Faith written by Daniel Porter and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time I can remember, I grew up identifying as a Christian. At a very young age, I just knew that God was real. More importantly, growing up in the South, that was just the right thing to do. Everyone went to church, and pretty much everyone said they were a Christian. These values of mine held up for a while, until I became mature enough to engage in deductive reasoning.I got tired of being the "good christian" and not really knowing why, other than that's what I believed. As I read the Bible, I saw that everything about it was supernatural. There was only one problem: absolutely nothing about my life was! I wanted to know if the Bible I read was just a good book to be revered, or if the God I read about was still manifesting the same way he was years ago!In college, I wiped the slate clean. I no longer wanted to say I was a Christian because of what my parents, friends, or even preachers said. I wanted to see the power of God in my life. I challenged God to show himself to me if he was still the same God I read about, and boy did he show up. God catapulted me into the realm of the supernatural, and gave me answers as to why his children don't see more in life. If you want to know what I found out, look inside!
Download or read book Hollow written by Owen Egerton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year, Hollow is the story of a professor whose life is unended after an unspeakable tragedy. When Oliver Bonds, a revered religious studies professor at the University of Texas, loses his toddler son and undergoes intense legal scrutiny over his involvement, grief engulfs him completely. His life as he knows it is over; Oliver loses his wife, home, and faith. Three years after his son's death, Oliver lives in a shack without electricity and frequents the soup kitchen where he used to volunteer. It's only when befriended by Lyle, a con artist with a passion for theories of Hollow Earth, that Oliver begins to reengage with the world. Oliver too becomes convinced that the inside of the planet might contain a different realm. Desperate to find a place where he can escape his past, Oliver chases after the most unlikely of miracles. With unforgettable characters, wild imagery, and dark humor, Hollow explores the depths of doubt and hope, stretching past grief and into the space where we truly begin to heal. "With the kind of grace not usually seen in accessible modern fiction, Egerton also invokes many other things with this central metaphor . . . Ollie's voice is one of the most believable I've encountered this year, sustained by honesty, realism, and compassion. In his exile, Ollie has taken stock. His reckoning with the past creates the story's exquisite tension and makes the final scene bloom with tenderness . . . The core of Hollow is anything but." --NPR
Download or read book Hollow Faith written by Stephen Ingram and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have Andy Griffith, Facebook, and the American Dream neutered the Gospel? Do you sense a church with Hollow Faith? Are you prepared to look in the mirror and examine your ministry? Inside you will find Youth Worker Training on how to face the following underlying conditions that are plaguing the North American Christian Church. Moralism Therapeutic Religion Modern Deism Self-Absorption (meism) Consumerism Pluralism Inside you will also find Curriculum to address these issues in your youth ministry and a Parents Guide. The following lessons seek to provide teachers with engaging and solid theological lessons to address the conditions above: What's Wrong with Being Nice? Getting (un)Comfortable with God The Inescapable God Jesus Loves Me This I Know... But What About Everyone Else? Three Little Birds and The Gospel of Enough Being Courageously Christian in a Pluralistic World After reading Hollow Faith, you will want to pass it along to your ministry volunteers and pastor. "Hollow Faith will add fuel to the passionate desire that a growing tribe of youth workers have toward embracing a more theologically robust and biblical focused ministry with young people in the North American Christian Church." Mike King, President of Youthfront Stephen Ingram is the "Steve Jobs of the Youth Ministry world." I'm hard pressed to recall anyone with the inventiveness and informed creativity of this young man. His laboratory has been his own ministry, where the principles of this book were formed, week-in and week-out in the rough-and-tumble reality of dancing with the alligators of church work, where simple answers never work." Mark DeVries, President of Youth Ministry Architects
Download or read book Prophetic Lament written by Soong-Chan Rah and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future.
Download or read book Replicate written by Robby Gallaty and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Disciple-Making in Any Church Over the last few decades American churches have produced plenty of converts but not as many mature believers. Studies show the majority of Christians don’t even understand the basics of faith. But how do you tackle such a big problem? Replicate shows church leaders how to make disciples who make disciples and get the rest of your church on board as well. This one-on-one relational ministry is how Jesus laid the foundation for His church that is still growing today, and it’s how we continue the work in our own local congregations. Learn the five marks of a healthy disciple-making church, how to influence culture, uproot misconceptions of the church and the gospel, and change your church and community. No more focusing on mere numbers, it’s time to grow in maturity and through multiplication.
Download or read book Missing in the Hollows written by Patricia Komar and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student goes missing from Hollow Hills Middle School. Students report seeing Callie in the early morning hours sitting in the hallway. And that was the last time anyone saw her. Even the police cannot find any leads. Teachers ask students to report any information. Has she become a runaway? Sounds like a quest for the Hollow Hills Explorers. Go along with the Hollow Hills Explorers--Dalton, Faith, Finn, and Oliver--as they follow the trail and the evidence that Callie left behind. Even though Faith was bullied by Callie in a scheme to make her look bad in front of the whole school and her boyfriend, Dalton, Faith and Dalton will use their tracking dogs, Spirit and Keeper, to help find her. As Callie wrestles with her own conscience and finds herself surrounded by strange, mysterious, paranormal phenomena as she struggles to survive, the Hollow Hills Explorers and Spirit and Keeper follow their noses to discover a mysterious portal at the front door of the school--and they might be the first dogs to travel to other times and dimensions! Join the Hollow Hills Explorers in the second book of the Hollow Hills Explorers series as they tackle exciting new adventures involving survival, mystery, paranormal happenings, time travel, and meteor showers.
Download or read book Sketch of the Reformation in England written by John James Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunshine conducted by W M Whittemore and others written by William Meynell Whittemore and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Epistle of James written by A. T. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hollow Walk written by Larry Davies and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitch Wagner's family life and faith is just an image of modern Christianity. He works at a Christian social media company that services churches and ministries. His family attends the local mega-church, where his wife Megan has just been made the female worship leader. His kids, Hailey and Austin have been put through private Christian school, where Austin is in his senior year. Hailey attends the local Community college. Mitch's Christian walk and relationship with God goes only as far as the image he's projected. For many years, Mitch has been numbing himself while his Christian walk has grown hollow to the point where Mitch can't even tell the difference anymore. But then, several serious devastating events hit Mitch's life unexpectedly, leaving him to ask is there a real God and what was the point of his faith. "And just believe? Really? That's your great answer?! Why should I believe in this God stuff anymore? You know I'm getting a little tired of left holding the bag here while being completely humiliated in the process! So tell me what's the magic formula? Who do I have to watch online or listen to on the radio? What tape series or book do I need to buy? Tell me what the algebra is for God? So I can have my life back!" Mitch shouts back.
Download or read book Holstein Friesian Herd book written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons on Faith written by Alonzo Trevier Jones and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of articles and sermons given in the 1890's by Jones and Waggoner on Righteousness by Faith. A popular best seller for years, this is one of the finest books on victorious Christian living available. It gives the "how-to" of overcoming, and explains many hard-to-understand passages in the Book of Galatians. Find out firsthand what the 1888 message really is!
Download or read book True Faith True Light written by Kelly Mulhollan and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Additional photographs by Flip Putthoff and Russell Cothren."
Download or read book African Christianity written by Joseph D. Galgalo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes African Christianity Christian?, what is the mission of the African church?, What is the theology of the African church? and, What is the future of the Church in Africa or more precisely of African Christianity? Professor Galgalo gives a critical analysis of Christianity in Africa from historical, theological and sociological perspectives.
Download or read book Faith S Lesson written by Anne Radcliff and published by InspiringVoices. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns lyrical and touching, set amid a landscape of beauty, Faiths Lesson - The Chronicles of Barrows Hollow takes the reader on travels with a turn-of-the-century New England heroine. Armed with tenacious self-reliance and wit, bolstered by faith and values, the young girl finds herself in a world of circumstance quite unlike that of her own. Struggling with her stirring feelings for a suitor of means and privilege, Faith is forced to confront her past, her roots, and her truest test of priority in life. Lost family members and seemingly lost hope converge to lead Faith to her most important decision. Faiths Lesson captures the readers imagination as the struggles, hopes, and dreams of a young girl and the feverish progress of her years have become a series of vignettes, as though they were a recollection of a dream. Nothing remains now of those times, save a majestic memory. As this narrative recollects, you are invited to share those memories, which until now have remained safe in the hallowed quiets of Barrows Hollow.
