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 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 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 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 Ekphrasis Vision and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation written by Robyn J. Whitaker and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robyn. J. Whitaker interprets the Book of Revelation within the context of ancient rhetoric and religion. She argues that the author of Revelation uses a popular rhetorical tool, ekphrasis, to paint word-pictures of God that compete with material images to both critique image-making and simultaneously make an absent God present.

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 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 Persuasion in Self improvement Books written by Jeremy Koay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their readers, and construct a credible persona. The author adopts a corpus-driven approach that encompasses an examination of genre analysis and linguistic features such as narrative, pronoun, grammar and structure. The book further draws on insights from original interviews with writers and readers of self-improvement books, as well as people who do not read the genre. It begins by providing a helpful overview of the concepts of ideology and genre. A brief history of self-improvement books and their values and assumptions provide the context for the analysis. Where relevant, linguistic features in self-improvement books are compared with other genres (e.g. academic text, conversation, news). This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of linguistics, culture and media studies.

Download or read book A Prophet in Debate written by Karl Möller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the literary structure and rhetorical challenge that prompted the book's production. Moller argues that the book of Amos captures and presents the debate between Amos and his eighth-century audience. When read in the light of Israel's fall, the presentation of Amos struggling (and failing) to convince his contemporaries of the imminent divine punishment functions as a powerful warning to subsequent Judaean readers.

Download or read book Apostle of Persuasion written by James W. Thompson and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of a career of researching and teaching Paul's letters. Highly respected senior New Testament scholar James Thompson offers a unique approach to Pauline theology, focusing on Paul's attempts to persuade his audience toward moral formation. Thompson recognizes Paul as a pastor who brought together theology and rhetoric to encourage spiritual formation in his communities. Attempts to find total consistency in Paul's writings fail, says Thompson, because Paul's persuasive tactics changed depending on the situation he was addressing.

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 Human Resistance and Divine Persuasion in Euripides Ion written by Anne Pippin Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Act of Persuasion written by Stephanie Doyle and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the wrong reasons? Anna Summers has always been more than Ben Tyler's assistant. She's even been more than his best friend. Too bad Ben didn't realize it until after she quit. Now that he's more like his old self after facing off against a life-threatening illness, he's ready to win Anna back. Of course, it's not simple. One night Ben broke his own rule about getting involved with an employee. And now Anna is pregnant. She refuses to let him use the baby as a reason for them to reconcile. It will take an act of persuasion to convince her they belong together…and not only because of the baby.

Download or read book Persecution Persuasion and Power written by James A. Kelhoffer and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2010 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James A. Kelhoffer examines an often overlooked aspect of New Testament constructions of legitimacy, namely the value of Christians' withstanding persecution as a means of corroborating their religious identity as Christ's followers. The introductory chapter defines the problem in interaction with sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. Chapters 2-10 examine the depictions of persecuted Christians in the Pauline letters, First Peter, Hebrews, Revelation, the NT Gospels, and Acts. These exegetical analyses support the conclusion that assertions of standing, authority, and power claimed on the basis of persecution play a significant and heretofore under-appreciated role in much of the NT. It is also argued that depictions of persecution can have both positive implications for the persecuted and negative implications for the depicted persecutors in constructions of legitimation.An epilogue considers later examples of early Christian martyrs and confessors, as well as John Foxe's Book of Martyrs . The epilogue also addresses the ethical and hermeneutical problem of asserting the withstanding of persecution as a basis of legitimacy in ancient and modern contexts. This problem stems from the observation that, although the NT authors present their construals of withstanding persecution as a basis of legitimation as if they were self-evident, such assertions are actually the culmination of numerous presuppositions and are therefore open to dissenting viewpoints. Yet the NT authors do not acknowledge the possibility of competing interpretations, or that oppressed Christians could someday become oppressors. Accordingly, this exegetical study calls attention to an ethical and hermeneutical problem that the NT bequeaths to the modern interpreter, a problem inviting input from ethicists and other theologians.