Download or read book Personal Jesus Engaging Culture written by Clive Marsh and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop music is now an ever-present force shaping citizens in the West. Even at funerals, pop music is often requested over hymns. But how does popular music work? And what roles does it play for listeners who engage it? This new addition to the critically acclaimed Engaging Culture series explores the theological significance of the ways pop music is listened to and used today. The authors show that popular music is used by religious and nonreligious people alike to make meaning, enabling listeners to explore human concerns about embodiment, create communities, and tap into transcendence. They assess what is happening to Christian faith and theology as a result. The book incorporates case studies featuring noted music artists of our day--including David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Sigur Rós, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and Lady Gaga--and includes practical implications for the church, the academy, and daily musical listening. It also includes a foreword by Tom Beaudoin, author of Virtual Faith.
Download or read book Personal Jesus written by Clive Marsh and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop music is now an ever-present force shaping citizens in the West. Even at funerals, pop music is often requested over hymns. But how does popular music work? And what roles does it play for listeners who engage it? This new addition to the critically acclaimed Engaging Culture series explores the theological significance of the ways pop music is listened to and used today. The authors show that popular music is used by religious and nonreligious people alike to make meaning, enabling listeners to explore human concerns about embodiment, create communities, and tap into transcendence. They assess what is happening to Christian faith and theology as a result. The book incorporates case studies featuring noted music artists of our day--including David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Sigur Rós, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and Lady Gaga--and includes practical implications for the church, the academy, and daily musical listening. It also includes a foreword by Tom Beaudoin, author of Virtual Faith.
Download or read book You Don t Get Your Own Personal Jesus written by J.D. Greear and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus cannot be dismissed as one in a long line of religious gurus peddling peace, fulfillment, and a better version of yourself. You Don’t Get Your Own Personal Jesus, excerpted from J.D. Greear’s book Not God Enough, captures the liberating truth that God is exactly who he says he is. You may prefer a God who is small, safe, and domesticated, a God who thinks like you think and likes what you like. You may prefer a God you can manage, predict, and control. But what if this small version of God is holding you back from genuine, confident, world-transforming faith? God is not just a slightly better, slightly smarter version of you. He is infinite and glorious, and an encounter with him won’t just change the way you think about your faith. It will change your entire life.
Download or read book Your Own Jesus written by Mark L. Hall and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many Christians living such empty, fruitless lives? Why is their faith so weak, their character so shallow? Perhaps it's because they have merely inherited someone else's Jesus. They've relied on what their family, friends, or pastors have told them about Jesus rather than discovering the living Lord themselves. A true storyteller and a teacher with a heart for ministry, Mark Hall traces the downward spiral caused by spiritual compromise with the World, and then charts the upward road to wholeness and health that comes when we claim our very own Jesus. When that happens, believers experience authentic fellowship with the one living God. Through fascinating personal stories, scriptural insights, and practical interactive studies, Your Own Jesus will set readers free to live without compromise with the Jesus they come to know intimately and love fully.
Download or read book The Color of Christ written by Edward J. Blum and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dynamic nature of Christ worship in the U.S., addressing how his image has been visually remade to champion the causes of white supremacists and civil rights leaders alike, and why the idea of a white Christ has endured.
Download or read book Discover Christ written by Bert Ghezzi and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of life? Why do I need a savior? Why is the Resurrection important? What does it mean to believe and belong? Why does Jesus matter? Many people have lost their sense of purpose in life, or perhaps never took the time to develop one in the first place. Through personal stories, Scripture, and testimonies, the authors invite readers to find their purpose in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Discover Christ proposes that we find our identity and purpose in a God who is personal to the core. The book presents a God who didn't just send the broken world a set of rules, or a plan of social action, but who sent a person whose name is Jesus Christ. Whether you are skeptical of religious faith or a life-long believer, Discover Christ will challenge you to take a fresh look at what Jesus said and did and what that means for you.
Download or read book Jesus in America written by Richard W. Fox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where else but America do people ask: What Would Jesus Do? What Would Jesus Drive? What Would Jesus Eat? "This book is for believers and non-believers alike. It is not a book about whether one should believe in Jesus, but about how Americans have believed in and portrayed him."—from the Introduction Jesus in America is a comprehensive exploration of the vital role that the figure of Jesus has played throughout American history. Written by one of our most distinguished historians, Richard Wightman Fox, this book provides a brilliant cultural history of Jesus in America from its origins to today, demonstrating how Jesus is the most influential symbolic figure in our history. Benjamin Franklin understood Jesus as a wise man worthy of imitation. Thomas Jefferson regarded him as a moral teacher. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which occurred on Good Friday, was popularly interpreted as paralleling the crucifixion of Jesus . . . as one preacher put it, "Jesus Christ died for the world, Abraham Lincoln died for his country." Elizabeth Cady Stanton appropriated Jesus' message to champion women's rights. George W. Bush named Jesus as his favorite political philosopher—and several other GOP candidates followed suit—during the last presidential race. As we have seen in recent presidential elections, the name of Jesus is often thrust into the center of political debates, and many Americans regularly enlist Jesus, their ultimate arbiter of value, as the standard-bearer for their views and causes. Fox shows how Jesus influenced such major turning points in American history as: Columbus's voyage of discovery The arrival of the English puritans and Spanish missionaries The American Revolution The abolition of slavery and the Civil War Labor movements Social and cultural revolutions of the sixties and beyond The swelling tide of Christian voices in the politics and entertainment of today Fox gives an expert, lively account of all the ways that Jesus is portrayed and understood in American culture. Extensively illustrated with images representing the multitude of American views of Jesus, Jesus in America reveals how fully and deeply Jesus is ingrained in the American experience.
Download or read book Jesus I Trust in You A 30 Day Personal Retreat with the Litany of Trust written by Sr. Faustina Maria Pia, S.V. and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were made for love, and love requires trust. In Jesus I Trust in You: A 30-Day Personal Retreat with the Litany of Trust, Sr. Faustina Maria Pia, S.V., learn what it means to place our trust in Jesus—no matter the circumstances. In this powerful invitation to a loving, trusting relationship with our Lord, you will pray with the Litany of Trust to overcome every obstacle to peace.
Download or read book A Personal Jesus written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of John written by Paul L. Metzger and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Resonate series the stories and insights of each book of the Bible are brought into conversation with contemporary voices of hope and lament. In this volume we journey through the Gospel of John with Paul Louis Metzger who wrestles with the question of what happens when God, who is love, comes to town and takes up residence among us.
Download or read book Lays written by Martin L. Gore and published by Jugurtha Harchaoui. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce volume réunit, pour la première fois sous la forme d'un livre, l'essentiel des textes écrits par Martin Gore pour Depeche Mode. Une sélection de 87 chansons accompagnées de six illustrations originales du légendaire Klaus Voormann. Chaque texte est présenté en anglais, puis fait l'objet d'une traduction fine, permettant de découvrir ces chansons sous un jour inhabituel. Les classiques Walking in My Shoes, Enjoy the Silence, Everything Counts, Strangelove et Fly on Me Windscreen ont connu un succès commercial si massif qu'il est facile d'oublier la délicatesse de langage, l'intemporalité et souvent l'humour pince-sans-rire dont ces textes témoignent. Le présent recueil constitue la célébration d'un des auteurs-compositeurs les plus talentueux et les plus originaux de la musique "pop" de ces 25 dernières années. À l'occasion de la sortie mondiale de l'album Sounds of the universe le 21 avril 2009, il importait de donner la possibilité à ceux déjà conquis par ce répertoire et aux autres, de voir les chansons enfin inscrites noir sur blanc. Ainsi Martin Gore: Lays nous donne pour la première fois l'opportunité de reconsidérer dans son ensemble l'oeuvre écrite de Gore-sans sono, sans lumières-et prendre conscience de sa place importante parmi les grands paroliers de notre temps. Un livre indispensable pour tout passionné de musique. Fan de Depeche Mode ou non, chacun sera sensible à cette rétrospective qui parcourt un fragment singulier et incontournable de l'aventure rock.
Download or read book The Pagan Christ written by Tom Harpur and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging church orthodoxy, a religious scholar argues that the biblical Gospels should not be taken literally and that there is a connection between Egyptian mythology and Christianity, in a radical reinterpretation of scripture, the nature of Christianity, and its connections to other of the world's spiritual traditions. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Download or read book Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions written by T. W. Doane and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions is a study the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles being compared to mythologies of other nations and religions of ancient times, taking in considering their origin and meaning. Comparing biblical myths to those of other nations of antiquity the author shows that many of the Bible tales, mainly about Jesus, and of other legends, are often copied or borrowed from the myths of other religions. The book gives a good history of how long the idea of the mythological nature of the Jesus in the New Testament has been noted.
Download or read book Comparative Study of the Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions written by T. W. Doane and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Study of the Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions is a study the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles being compared to mythologies of other nations and religions of ancient times, taking in considering their origin and meaning. Comparing biblical myths to those of other nations of antiquity the author shows that many of the Bible tales, mainly about Jesus, and of other legends, are often copied or borrowed from the myths of other religions. The book gives a good history of how long the idea of the mythological nature of the Jesus in the New Testament has been noted.
Download or read book Church This Week written by Andrew Miller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 12-year collection of weekly church mails from a pastor to his congregation
Download or read book Sex Travel Vestiges of Metallic Fragments written by Cole Coonce and published by Kerosene Bomb Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex & Travel & Vestiges of Metallic Fragments is an anthology of essays probing and deconstructing modern and historical concerns, from Katrina to Antietam to Hollywood to Irwindale; be it luscious low-rent lap dancers or land speed record losers; reactionary rock stars or genocidal Confederate Generals; Death Valley meth-heads or Japanese drifters; Teutonic milfs in swimsuits or Ashcroft informants; anarchic adrenaline-addled urban bicyclists or Scientologists; from Mark E. Smith and Merle Haggard to Kathie Lee Gifford, Courtney Love and the chick from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Of the zeitgeist and a cosmological constant, this collection of literary journalism for the fast, the inquisitive and the appalled.
Download or read book White Too Long written by Robert P. Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "WHITE TOO LONG draws on history, statistics, and memoir to urge that white Christians reckon with the racism of the past and the amnesia of the present to restore a Christian identity free of the taint of white supremacy"--