Download or read book Gospel Centered Discipleship Foreword by Matt Chandler written by Jonathan K. Dodson and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gospel-Rich, Reproducible Model for Making Disciples as Jesus Intended Biblical discipleship emphasizes encouragement, repentance, and spiritual growth—essential parts of the Christian life. However, well-meaning believers often struggle to follow Jesus, unaware their views are too legalistic, licentious, or individualistic. How can churches and Christians develop a healthy, successful path to disciple-making? In this second edition of Gospel-Centered Discipleship, Jonathan Dodson presents an effective, Spirit-led model for sanctification. Reminding readers that real discipleship is imperfect yet transformational, Dodson encourages Christians to engage more authentically with others as they grow in faith. Drawing from his own failures and successes while following Jesus, Dodson defines discipleship, describes the heart of a disciple, and gives practical guidance for mentor and peer-based discipleship as Jesus intended. Revised and Expanded: Includes three new chapters and new illustrations Applicable: Shows how discipleship can be practical and gospel-centered Theological: Addresses the Holy Spirit's involvement in discipleship Foreword by Matt Chandler: Author of The Explicit Gospel

Download or read book Future Grace Revised Edition written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore this stunning quality of God’s grace: It never ends! In this revision of a foundational work, John Piper reveals how grace is not only God’s undeserved gift to us in the past, but also God’s power to make good happen for us today, tomorrow, and forever. True life for the follower of Jesus really is a moment-by-moment trust that God is dependable and fulfills his promises. This is living by faith in future grace, which provides God's mercy, provision, and wisdom—everything we need—to accomplish his good plans for us. In Future Grace, chapter by chapter—one for each day of the month—Piper reveals how cherishing the promises of God helps break the power of persistent sin issues like anxiety, despondency, greed, lust, bitterness, impatience, pride, misplaced shame, and more. Ultimate joy, peace, and hope in life and death are found in a confident, continual awareness of the reality of future grace.

Download or read book Why I Love the Apostle Paul written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Besides Jesus, no one has kept me from despair, or taken me deeper into the mysteries of the gospel, than the apostle Paul." —John Piper No one has had a greater impact on the world for eternal good than the apostle Paul—except Jesus himself. For John Piper, this impact is very personal. He does not just admire and trust Paul. He loves him. Piper gives us thirty glimpses into why his heart and mind respond this way. Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man's description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? If we know this man—if we see what Piper sees—we too will love him. Paul's testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.

Download or read book Holy Bible NIV written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Download or read book The Faith of Jesus Christ written by Richard B. Hays and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important study Hays argues against the mainstream that any attempt to account for the nature and method of Paul's theological language must first reckon with the centrality of narrative elements in his thought. Through an in-depth investigation of Galatians 3:1-4:11, Hays shows that the framework of Paul's thought is neither a system of doctrines nor his personal religious experience but the "sacred story" of Jesus Christ.

Download or read book Whiter Than Snow written by Paul David Tripp and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you've really blown it? Is sin really as dangerous and is grace really as powerful as the Bible says they are? Is there such a thing as a new beginning? Sin and grace-these are the two themes of our lives. We all blow it and we all need to start over again. In Psalm 51, David tells his story of moral failure, personal awareness, grief, confession, repentance, commitment, and hope. And because David's story is every believer's story, Psalm 51 is every believer's psalm. It tells how we, as broken sinners, can be brutally honest with God and yet stand before him without fear. Whiter Than Snow unpacks this powerful little psalm in fifty-two meditations, reminding readers that by God's grace there is mercy for every wrong and grace for every new beginning. Designed for busy believers, these brief and engaging meditations are made practical by the reflection questions that conclude each chapter.

Download or read book Cold Case Christianity written by J. Warner Wallace and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.

Download or read book If you Love the Lord written by Dag Heward-Mills and published by Parchment House. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love the Lord? That is an important question! Our Lord, Jesus Christ, asked Peter, “Peter do you love me? Why is your love for God something that we need to discuss? Jesus says the greatest commandment is that you should “love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.” Sometimes, there are circumstances thrown together and presented to you by the Lord that are simply tests, tests to prove your love for the Lord. If you love the Lord, prove it by passing the tests of love! Another amazing book by renowned author, Dag Heward-Mills, which will set you thinking and asking yourself the all-important question “Do I really love the Lord?”

Download or read book The Beauty of the Lord written by Jonathan King and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is God's beauty often absent from our theology? Rarely do theologians take up the theme of God's beauty—even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of the Lord. In The Beauty of the Lord, Jonathan King restores aesthetics as not merely a valid lens for theological reflection, but an essential one. Jesus, our incarnate Redeemer, displays the Triune God's beauty in his actions and person, from creation to final consummation. How can and should theology better reflect this unveiled beauty? The Beauty of the Lord is a renewal of a truly aesthetic theology and a properly theological aesthetics.

Download or read book The Pleasures of God written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia

Download or read book Loving God Statement of Faith written by Belinda Shek-lai Yung and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOVING GOD: Statement of faith is the first book of the LOVING GOD series. It is to introduce the one and only one true everlasting God to peoples. The Statement of Faith is to set the foundation of the faith in God through the Lord Christ. And the LOVING GOD series is about the true everlasting God, how to obey His commandments, how to implement His commandments in the midst of their lives, and how to acknowledge His grace and mercy and the eternal life is the reward. The series is to help ones life living in peace and having hope in God through the Lord Christ even though ones life may seem hopelessness. The LOVING GOD series is indeed not just for Christians but also for non-Christians to have hope in times of troubles or difficulties or disappointments.

Download or read book My Lord and My God written by Annie Ngana-Mundeke Ph.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Lord and my God addresses the challenging issue of Christs Deity. The Lord Jesus Christ came to earth to minister among His people and He was called Emmanuel, God with us. The Angel told Joseph to name the child, his wife Mary was about to have, the name of Jesus which means the Savior Who would save His people from sins: She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins [Matthew 1:21]. Elsewhere in the Scriptures, we read that the Lord Jesus is called Emmanuel, which means God with us: All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means God with us). [Matthew 1:22-23]. The Lord Jesus is called Mighty God in the Book of Isaiah: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace [9:6]. These names clearly indicate that the Lord Jesus Christ is God, our Creator. Yet, many people question Christs Deity despite the meaning of His names- Emmanuel, God with us; Jesus, the Savior. Many people still doubt the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ despite the Lords Claim about Himself: I and the Father are one [John10:30] Scriptures teach that there is Only One God. The disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ worshipped Him and they called Him, Lord. For example: Thomas fell at the Lords Feet and stated: My LORD and My God. Simon Peter called Him the Messiah [Matthew 16:15]. During His earthly ministry, the Lord Jesus asked His disciples: But what about you? He asked. Who do you say I am? [Matthew 16:15]. The disciples gave various answers which were not correct with the exception of Simon Peter who answered, the Messiah as we read in Scriptures, the inspired Word of God: Simon Peter answered, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God [Matthew 16:15].

Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Download or read book Speaking God s Words written by Peter Adam and published by Regent College Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many books on preaching, but few, if any, on the theology of preaching. Yet, whether it is recognized or not, theology underlies any preaching that claims to be biblical. In Speaking God's Words Peter Adam builds confidence in preaching by laying a firm theological foundation for it. Preaching rests upon three great pillars: God has spoken, his words are now recorded in Scripture and he commissions people "to explain, preach and teach his written words to their contemporaries." Throughout the book, using well-chosen illustrations, Dr Adam encourages preachers to give themselves to the demanding yet thrilling task of "preaching God's words" today.

Download or read book The Process of Loving God written by Adekunle A. Adeniran and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your love for God really apparent to those around you? Do you really love the Lord as you claim? Or perhaps you do not know how to express genuine love for the One who loves you endlessly? This book is here to help you in your pursuit of loving God.

Download or read book The Way of Loving The Lord written by Zacharias Tanee Fomum and published by ZTF Books Online. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I believe that there are some who yearn in an increasing way for the Lord, and in whose hearts the evidence of His soon coming awakens, with each passing day, greater desires to see Him—the Hope of the Ages—face to face. It is because of the presence of such saints in the church today, though their number be few, that I dare share these feelings of my heart in this way. The Way of Loving the Lord is very different from many of the books in The Christian Way Series. It is not an attempt to present the Bible's position on some aspects of Christian Truth. Rather, it is an expression of the yearning and longing—the spiritual emotions of my heart—after the Lord Jesus. May you read this book and be motivated to seek the Beloved, so that the unique desire of your heart should be to know Him and see Him face to face.

Download or read book Jesus Loves You written by Paul Millar and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus Loves you are the words that every believer needs to have on the tip of their tongues. These three words are so powerful and effective that they can penetrate even the hardest of hearts. God is reaffirming His love to the world that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. There are so many people throughout the world today, who have been wounded and scared emotionally, physically and mentally. They have felt the pain of rejection from society. Jesus loves you are activating words that can bring deliverance, salvation and healing to the lost and broken hearted. Jesus is the name above every name and when His name is mentioned, miracles take place. So always remember and never forget that Jesus loves you. PAUL MILLAR was born in England and raised in Ireland. As a young man life led Paul down many diverse roads and into many countries. Through a series of events, he was led to America. On the streets of Los Angeles he met an angel of the Lord who told him that "Jesus Loves You," and Paul was stopped in his tracks. It was shortly thereafter that he obeyed God's call on his life. Paul is founder of Christian Chaplains Association of America which trains and equips fellow laborers to work in Prisons and hospitals in New York and through out America. God has ordered Paul's footsteps into divine appointments with many in leadership to bring unity to the body of Christ. The Lord is using Paul to encourage and mobilize other believers to step forth into the harvest and work the "greater works" that Jesus spoke of.