Download or read book The Scandal of Stumbling Blocks written by James Durham and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever considered the seriousness of causing someone else to stumble? That is, to hinder someone’s spiritual wellbeing. Does it surprise you that the apostle Paul describes it as evil (Rom. 14:20)? In The Scandal of Stumbling Blocks , James Durham helps us to consider the matter deeply by defining the nature of stumbling as well as showing its serious consequences. He looks in considerable detail at different kinds of stumbling and identifies the ways that people can stumble and be stumbled. Durham provides practical advice for avoiding and preventing offense. Now edited in modern English, Durham’s classic treatment on considerate Christianity can be used to edify a new generation. Table of Contents: 1. Why Is Stumbling Important? 2. What Is Stumbling? 3. What Are the Different Kinds of Stumbling? 4. What Ways Do We Stumble Others? 5. To What Extent Should We Avoid Stumbling Others? 6. How Can Believers Prevent Stumbling? 7. How Can Ministers Prevent Stumbling? 8. What Are the Key Truths about Stumbling?
Download or read book The Scandal of Undisciplined Disciples written by James Durham and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mention church discipline and people often react in discomfort. But did you know that Jesus made discipline a test of whether a church meets His approval (Revelation 2–3)? In The Scandal of Undisciplined Disciples, James Durham helps us to understand the matter by defining the nature of discipline and explaining when it is necessary. He identifies practical issues related to administering church discipline and shows how we can know when a case has been satisfactorily resolved. He also explains why simply leaving a church fails to address the issue and even provides practical advice for unfortunate instances when discipline is defective. Now presented in modern English, Durham’s classic treatment on the importance of church discipline can be used to edify a new generation. Table of Contents: 1. Why Does Church Discipline Matter? 2. When Is Church Discipline Necessary? 3. How Should Church Courts Handle Disciplinary Cases? 4. When Has a Discipline Case Been Satisfactorily Resolved? 5. What Practical Issues Arise in Administering Church Discipline? 6. Why Does Separation from a Church Fail to Address the Issue? 7. What Should Church Members Do when Discipline Is Defective?
Download or read book Bread of Life written by Father Louis J. Cameli, PhD and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bread of Life: Exploring the Presence of Eucharist in Our Lives, by Fr. Louis Cameli, focuses on the role that the Eucharist takes in Catholic life. Fr. Cameli gives a personal account of the role of the Eucharist in his own life, explores what Jesus wanted to give us when he gave us the Eucharist by considering chapter six of John’s account of the Gospel, and considers central human questions through the lens of the Eucharist. Reflection questions are included so that readers may reflect on the book on their own or in discussion with others.
Download or read book The Scandal of the Gospels written by David McCracken and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the gospels are in an important sense "occasions for offense." The Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (skandalon, in the original Greek) and he is never more scandalous than when he is speaking in parables. Interpreters of the gospels over the centuries have consistently labored to domesticate the offense or to eliminate it entirely. David McCracken, focusing on parables, Matthew's narrative contexts, and the gospel of John, seeks to recover the gospels' sense of Jesus as skandalon. To this end, he enlists the help of Kierkegaard, the philosopher of offense, and to a lesser extent that of Bakhtin, both of whom prove to be surprisingly apt conversation partners for the evangelists.
Download or read book Commentary on Romans written by St. Thomas Aquinas and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letter to the Romans has fascinated and perplexed readers ever since antiquity, when the Church Fathers commented extensively on it. St. Thomas’s Commentary on Romans, the first in his series of majestic commentaries on Paul’s letters, stands out among commentaries on Paul’s letters, both ancient and modern, as uniquely ample and refined. Expansive in its broad theological concerns, incisive in its attention to the nuances of Paul’s elaborate and complex argument, the Commentary on Romans shows the Angelic Doctor to be a singularly perceptive and insightful reader of the Apostle to the Gentiles. Inheritor of the great centuries of Patristic exegesis, tranquilly free from assumptions of later doctrinal disputes, and bringing to bear a mind saturated with Scripture, St. Thomas was able to lecture on Romans with an accuracy and thoroughness of interpretation that has never been equaled.
Download or read book Second Corinthians written by David E. Garland and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in an ongoing series of esteemed and popular Bible commentary volumes based on the New International Version text.
Download or read book The Evil and Remedy of Scandal A Practical Discourse on Psalm CXIX CLXV Edited by J Billingsley written by John BARRET (M.A., of Nottingham.) and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practical Works of Richard Baxter written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baxter s Practical Works Volume 1 written by and published by Lettermen Associates. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The editor's preface (1707), p. xiii stated that the works of Richard Baxter are 'perhaps the best body of practical divinity that is extent in our own or any other tongue.' Richard Baxter lived from 1615-1691. The DIRECTORY was completed in 1665. Its scope was intended to cover all of practical theology, a summa of casuistry . . ." Timothy Keller calls it "the greatest manual on Biblical counseling ever produced."
Download or read book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind written by Mark A. Noll and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.
Download or read book The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of President Edwards Edited by E Williams and E Parsons With memoirs of his life by S Hopkins written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of President Edwards written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus Transcendence and Generosity written by Tim Boniface and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary scholars aiming to articulate a ‘middle way’ between fundamentalism and liberalism regularly draw upon HansFrei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet they are rarely brought together on this question, if at all. Here, Tim Boniface highlights the promise of reading them together, proposing especially that a discussion of Jesus’ transcendence derived from their responses to modernity is an effective locus for considering their combined contribution to a ‘middle way’ discussion. Having outlined a rationale for a theology of Christological transcendence, this work describes in detail how both Frei and Bonhoeffer point towards a nuanced approach to the transcendence of Jesus—especially in terms of the importance of articulating that transcendence at the level of the ‘unsubstitutable historical particularity’ of Christ in the cultural-linguistic setting of the Christian community (Frei) and the impact of a theologia crucis and a participatory cosmic Christology on such thinking (Bonhoeffer). Offering a unique summary of the key ways in which the two theologians’ works mutually critique and strengthen one another, Boniface then articulates a pneumatological emphasis lacking in both Frei and Bonhoeffer, stressing the supreme generosity of God at the heart of what it means to say that Jesus transcends.
Download or read book Joy in the Journey Through the Year written by Michael Card and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-year guide through the writings of award-winning singer-songwriter Michael Card, this collection includes lyrics that encourage the faith and stretch the imagination of contemporary Christians. Each day features a Scripture passage and a brief quote that reflects on the joy of Christ.
Download or read book Karol Wojtyla s Philosophical Legacy written by Nancy Mardas and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
