Download or read book The Transforming Power of Grace written by Thomas C. Oden and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does an infinite God relate to finite human beings? How does the death of Jesus Christ bring about human salvation? How are Christians able to actively address the world's ills while maintaining their citizenship in the kingdom of God? These are questions the church grapples with today, as it always has. Yet, according to Thomas C. Oden, contemporary theology has neglected the church's traditional answer to these questions: the doctrine of grace. All too often modern theologians either ignore the doctrine of grace or relate it to the achievement of a particular political agenda. Oden asserts that only by reclaiming the centrality of grace--defined as God's self-giving through Jesus Christ in personal encounter with the individual human will--can Christian theology be true to the gospel. In order to reclaim the doctrine of grace, the author reaches back, beyond the fragmentation of theology that took place during and after the Enlightenment. He draws upon the ecumenical consensus held by early Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant theologians, councils, and creeds regarding this cardinal Christian doctrine. By adducing this ancient unity, Oden challenges modern assumptions concerning the sources and methods of the theological enterprise and calls contemporary Christians to discern what their forebears in the faith knew to be essential to the gospel: that to be a Christian is to be formed, nurtured, and upheld solely by divine grace.

Download or read book The Transforming Power of the Gospel written by Jerry Bridges and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apostle Paul writes that we are to be transformed, but for many Christians, figuring out how to approach spiritual transformation can be elusive. Best-selling author Jerry Bridges helps us understand that we have available to us the ultimate power source for true spiritual growth: the gospel. In The Transforming Power of the Gospel, Bridges guides you through a thorough examination of: What the biblical meaning of grace is and how it applies to your life How Jesus' work in His life and death applies to the believer in justification and adoption Why basic spiritual disciplines are necessary for spiritual growth What role the Holy Spirit plays in both definitive and progressive sanctification

Download or read book From Grace to Grace written by Mark Quanstrom and published by Beacon Hill Press. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Grace to Grace is a forceful declaration of our call to holiness. Based on Romans, Quanstrom leads you on a quest to understand holiness. Will you respond to the call?

Download or read book CHRIST IN ME written by Paul Nordman and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop kicking yourself for your wrongs. Stop letting your failures define you. Stop trying to be "good enough for God" in your own strength. God's plan for you is higher, kinder, and fuller than anything you can imagine.Through 48 daily reflections, Christ in Me celebrates God's deep desire and His amazing plan for all who believe in His Son-transformation from the inside out. Jesus lives in us, and it is He who proclaims who we are. When we entrust ourselves to His care, we experience fullness of life in Him, even as we grow in His character. And, in faith, we rejoice in the presence of God, for we are as welcome there as the sinless Savior who made us His own. Paul Nordman held several executive leadership positions in the property-casualty insurance industry before retiring from a thirty-five-year career. He serves on the advisory board of The Salvation Army Columbus Area Services and is an active volunteer in Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. Paul and his wife, Peggy, live in Columbus, Ohio, as do their son, Matthew, daughter-in-law, Gwen, and granddaughter, Abigail.Visit Paul Nordman's website at: http: //paulnordman.comRead Paul Nordman's weekly blog at: http: //paulnordman.com/blog/"

Download or read book Overcoming the Evil Within written by Fr. Wade Menezes and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all recognize that we are sinners. We constantly strive to do God's will, and when we fall short, we go to the confessional to experience God's healing mercy in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Yet for all too many of us, when our sins are washed away, the shame of sin may linger on our hearts and plague us even as we resolve anew to follow Christ. This shame is one of Satan's most insidious means of separating us from God's love and forgiveness. With gentleness and wisdom, Fr. Wade Menezes of the Fathers of Mercy shows you how to overcome your shame of sin and surrender to God's mercy. Far from ignoring the reality of sin, Fr. Menezes illustrates the consequences of evil and vice, while reminding you that however great your sin may be, God's goodness is greater. At every moment, He is calling you to Himself. He seeks your love and desires you, with all your sins and all your shame.

Download or read book Transforming Grace written by Jerry Bridges and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love Grace is amazing because it is God's provision for when we fall short of His standards. Unfortunately, too many of us embrace grace for our salvation but then leave it behind in our everyday lives. We base our relationship with God on our performance rather than on His love for us, even when we intuitively know that our performance cannot earn us the love we so desperately crave. Isn't it time to stop trying to measure up and begin accepting the transforming power of God's grace? The product of more than ten years of Bible study, Navigator author Jerry Bridges's Transforming Grace is a fountainhead of inspiration and renewal that will show you just how inexhaustible and generous God's grace really is. This edition includes the full study guide, which was formerly available as a separate product (ISBN 9781600063046).

Download or read book Knowing That He Will written by Janine Hall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find ourselves, we must think for ourselves. To know ourselves, we must look within. If we have problems from the past, we must confront them. But power for living comes only when we know who we are in Christ. The joy of the Lord is our strength, and it is Him working through us that finally gets us off the ground.

Download or read book The Power of Grace written by Dr. Larry Ollison and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods Grace Empowers You To Do The Impossible!You have probably heard grace defined as Gods unmerited favor and that is absolutely true, but it is so much more. Grace is the power that God willingly gives us to help us do what we could never do on our own. When God said to Paul, My grace is sufficient for you, He was giving Paul His power to be set free from the thorn that was buffeting him. However, Paul had to understand how to use Gods grace in order to be set free.In this fresh new outlook on grace, Dr. Larry Ollison shares how to approach the throne of grace with confidence and boldness and find the power to overcome things you could never overcome in your own strength-even works of the flesh. Grace is not a license to sin, but rather it empowers us to be able to say no to sin and temptation.In this book you will come away with a deeper understanding of this wonderful gift that God has given to the Church. His free gift of grace is sufficient and more than enough to meet any situation you face.

Download or read book Grace Based Recovery written by Jonathan Daugherty and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for addiction support and recovery groups, Grace-Based Recovery leads participants to embrace grace and humility. This nine-session study provides an easy-to-use resource to help people suffering from addiction and those close to them understand God's grace and why it is the only path to true freedom.

Download or read book Grace the DNA of God written by Cooke Tony and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace is truly one of the most amazing and life-transforming topics in the Bible. Tony Cooke takes the reader on a journey of not only understanding but also experiencing the grace of God. The grace of God is multi-faceted, having application in every area of the believer's life.He explores:Saving GraceSanctifying...

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 Grace Food and Everything in Between written by Aubrey Golbek and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you burnt out on striving for perfection with eating, exercising and managing your body? Have you tried diet after diet only to feel more anxious, ashamed and disgusted with yourself? You're not alone. We live in a wellness obsessed culture that ties our worth to the size of our bodies and places our value in our ability to eat "clean" and exercise religiously. It's not working for us. We're more fearful of food, obsessed with our weight, anxious and unhealthy than ever before. We're in desperate need of a new thought when it comes to food, exercise and everything in between, one rooted in grace and truth. Registered dietitian, and recovering perfectionist Aubrey Golbek explores how the radical truth of grace transforms everything from the way we view ourselves, to how we eat, and move our bodies. The truths and practical tips in this book have the potential to set you free by helping you discover a new way of eating and caring for your body. Step into the abundant life your were made for, a life free from food guilt and body shame, a life fueled by grace.

Download or read book Just Grace written by Grace Jordan Hamrick and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Grace: The Transforming Power of Gods Amazing Grace in the Life of an Ordinary Woman is Grace Hamricks story. A foolish decision made as a teenager had a devastating effect on her and an all-consuming guilt was destroying her, eventually putting her on a self-destructive path. This memoir is a story of graceGods incredible, redeeming grace that rescued her. She describes how she came to realize her deep need for Gods grace through some of the heart-wrenching circumstances of her life. We live in a world where there is much pain and suffering, and it is easy to feel like there is no hope, no future, no way of ever changing. But there is hope; and God can and does change people. There is no sin so great He cannot forgive; there is no life so messed up He cannot restore. There is no person so broken that He cannot mend. No one is ever beyond the reach of Gods mercy and grace. Grace Hamrick is living proof it is never too late.

Download or read book The Grace Effect written by Larry Alex Taunton and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simply defined, the 'grace effect' is an observable phenomenon-that life is demonstrably better where authentic Christianity flourishes." What does Christianity give us beyond televangelists, potlucks, and bad basketball leagues? Not much, according to the secular Left. The world, they say, would be a better place without it. Historian and Christian apologist Larry Taunton has spent much of his career refuting just this sort of thinking, but when he encounters Sasha, a golden-haired Ukranian orphan girl whose life has been shaped by atheistic theorists, he discovers an unlikely champion for the transforming power of grace. Through the narrative of Sasha's redemption, we see the false promises of socialism; the soul-destroying influence of unbelief; and how a society cultivates its own demise when it rejects the ultimate source of grace. We see, in short, the kind of world the atheists would give us: a world without Christianity-cold, pitiless, and graceless. And yet, as Sasha shows us, it is a world that is not beyond the healing power of "the grace effect." Occasionally infuriating, often amusing, but always inspiring, The Grace Effect will have you cheering for the courageous little girl who shamed the academic elitists of our day. "This highly readable book is a collection of powerful insights into the long-term consequences of spiritual indifference and, above all, a remarkable example of how to conquer it." - Dr. Olivera Petrovich, research psychologist, University of Oxford "What would a world without Christianity look like? We don't have to guess because such a world does exist: it exists in the current and former Communist bloc. Through the inspiring story of a little girl born in Eastern Europe and now living in America, Larry Taunton draws a sharp contrast between the life-giving influence of Christianity and the worn out theories of atheism and radical secularism. The effect--The Grace Effect--is nothing less than powerful and moving." -- Dinesh D'Souza, former White House policy analyst, fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and current president of Kings College

Download or read book Grace written by Andrew Wommack and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Enough for God? Recent surveys indicate that the vast majority of Christians, those claiming to be born-again, believe that their salvation is at least in part dependent upon their behavior and actions. Yes, they believe Jesus died for their sin, but once they accept Him as their savior, they believe they must still meet a certain standard to be "good" enough. If that is true, then what is that standard and how do you know when you have met it? The Church has tried to answer these questions for centuries and it always results in religious and legalistic bondage. So what is the answer? It begins by asking the right question. It is not, "What must we do?" but rather, "What did Jesus do?" By understanding the Apostle Paul's revelation of what Jesus did from the book of Romans, you will never again wonder if you're meeting the standard.

Download or read book The Way of Grace written by Miranda Macpherson and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perhaps you hunger to finally end the struggle of living from a consciousness of fear and separation. Perhaps you yearn for a saner, wiser, more spiritually elegant way to move through our world. Perhaps you are weary of the dizzying pace of a culture that drives us ever further from our true nature. There is another way: a way of Grace. This book is a hand of friendship to help you come to abide in the living presence that you are and always were.”—Miranda Macpherson, The Way of Grace Many of us struggle to truly live what we believe spiritually. What if closing that gap wasn’t about trying harder, but something quite the opposite? The Way of Grace is a guide to spiritual surrender and nondual realization based on the practice of ego relaxation—a holistic, feminine approach to welcoming all of your experience and responding with compassion and wisdom in a world in need of your unique gifts. “Grace has four primary dimensions, or ways that it comes alive,” explains Macpherson. “Ego relaxation gives us access to these dimensions, so we can stop trying to beat ourselves into spiritual shape and yield instead to an unshakable presence within.” In The Way of Grace, she shares reflections, inquiries, and meditation practices for each phase of your journey: • Relaxing into the Ground of Grace—move beyond identification with your personality and return to the felt sense of your connection to Grace as your natural and ever-present foundation • Receiving the Blessings of Grace—move beyond “the spiritual poverty of lack” and rediscover the gift of life in every moment through the portals of trust, humility, patience, and joy • The Transforming Power of Grace—move beyond that which limits your full freedom through forgiveness, compassion, unwinding ego identity, and abiding in your boundless nature • Living the Embodiment of Grace—continue to surrender anything that binds you into self-centered patterns and behaviors and become a “Grace-delivery device,” the presence of love here on Earth “Grace will always deepen, season, and bring out the very best in you,” writes Macpherson. “You are its embodiment, always and forever.” The Way of Grace will be your steady companion to “live as the fountain we were made to be, letting the living waters flow to quench our parched and tired Earth.” Foreword by Russ Hudson.

Download or read book Transforming Presence written by Daniel Henderson and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the Holy Spirit anyway? We sing songs about Him. We’ve seen His name in the Bible. And most of us know He’s a part of the Trinity, but misunderstandings, confusion, and contention abound. And it’s keeping us from the abundant, satisfying life God has for us. The solution? We need a biblical understanding of the Holy Spirit. Transforming Presence walks you through ten vital practices that will help you have a new experience of the Holy Spirit. You’ll learn how our relationship with the Holy Spirit changed from the Old Testament to the New Testament, what common misconceptions of the Holy Spirit are, and how to think, speak, (and sing) rightly about Him. It can be hard to discern what’s right and wrong in a world of gray scales, differing preferences, and emotional highs, but when we start with the Bible, all the secondary things fall into place. Discover the transformational, personal, and joyful relationship that comes from meeting the Holy Spirit on His own terms.