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: 2016 Christianity Today Book of the Year in Apologetics/Evangelism One of Desiring God's Top 15 Books of 2015 Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Social Criticism and Cultural Engagement In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade—to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who are not interested in it. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. Guinness notes, "Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we." Following the tradition of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger, Guinness demonstrates how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners' assumptions to surprise them with signals of transcendence and the credibility of the gospel. This book is the fruit of forty years of thinking, honed in countless talks and discussions at many of the leading universities and intellectual centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness from one of the leading apologists and thinkers of our era.

Download or read book The Rock the Road and the Rabbi written by Kathie Lee Gifford and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller! Journey with Kathie Lee Gifford and Messianic Rabbi Jason Sobel into Israel and explore the deep roots of the Christian faith. As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford has always desired a deeper understanding of God’s Word and a deeper knowledge of God Himself. But it wasn’t until she began studying the biblical texts in their original Hebrew and Greek—along with actually hiking the ancient paths of Israel—that she found the fulfillment of those desires. Now you can walk with Kathie on a journey through the spiritual foundations of her faith: The Rock (Jesus Christ): Hear directly from Kathie about her life-changing and ever-deepening connection with Jesus, the Lover of her soul. The Road (Israel): Explore dozens of ancient landmarks and historical sites from Israel, the promised land of God’s covenant. The Rabbi (God’s Word): Go beyond a Sunday-school approach to the Bible by digging into the original languages and deeper meanings of the Holy Scriptures. As you journey through The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi, you’ll also find additional content from Messianic Rabbi Jason Sobel throughout the book. Jason’s insight into the Hebrew language, culture, and heritage will open your eyes to the Bible like never before. Begin your journey toward a deeper faith through The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi.

Download or read book Daughters of God written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hem of His Garment written by John D. Garr and published by Golden Key Press. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his lifetime, Jesus was a Torah-observant Jew. He lived as a Jew, he worshipped as a Jew, and he dressed and groomed himself as a Jew. The very garments Jesus wore confirmed his Jewishness to all those who saw him. Failure to comprehend these simple biblical facts has robbed millions of Christians of spiritually enriching insight. They have missed the true picture of the Messiah because they have overlooked the details clearly present in the Apostolic Scriptures. Restoring the Hebraic foundations of the Christian faith is vital in this time when the Holy Spirit is leading believers back to long-neglected truth. Your life will be enriched as you understand the Jewish Jesus in his scriptural, historical, and cultural context. The Hem of His Garment presents these vivid images of the rich Hebraic tradition of the life and ministry of Jesus: A Mark of Remembrance; God Is With You; The Blessing Covering; A Garment of Light; A Prayer Closet; Healing Wings.

Download or read book The Gospel According to Mark written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave

Download or read book When You Love a Prodigal written by Judy Douglass and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving a prodigal is a long and desperate journey, filled with fear, worry, anger, self- recrimination. You wait for the phone call--will it be from jail or the hospital? You plead with your loved one. You search for help. You feel the shame. You cry out to God, "How long, Lord?" Author Judy Douglass knows these lovers of prodigals well. She is one herself and has created a large and growing community with others. When You Love a Prodigal is a collection of 90 essays--90 days of perspective on what God offers to you as you love your prodigal. At the end of each brief essay, response questions will help you process how God intends to use the wilderness journey to mold your spiritual life. You can work through it day by day, or you can read it straight through. Judy has traveled this road with her own prodigal--reading, learning, praying, and seeking God. Over and over he continued to give her wisdom, he sustained her, he covered her with grace, and he filled her with hope. May you, too, be strengthened and filled with hope as together you discover how God will take you through your own valley.

Download or read book Discipleship Training in Luke s Gospel written by Ralph F. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn't it be wonderful to be trained as a disciple by Jesus himself? To be one of that band of Twelve and then Seventy who followed him around Galilee and Judea. As they walked with Jesus, he molded them as disciplesDisciple Lessons in Luke's Gospel is a conscious attempt to put you and me in the place of those first disciples. It's a JesusWalk. Over 120 lessons, you'll look at each of Jesus' healing acts, each word, each confrontation, each parable, and ask the question: What should I as a disciple be learning from this?Written over a period of three years and experienced by over 5,000 students from 123 countries, Disciple Lessons in Luke's Gospel is being used by God to mold many in Christ's image. Now slightly revised and available in audio form and via e-mail, this series can help form you as a disciple.Preachers will be glad for the careful exegesis of each passage, footnoted research, and deep digging that results in present-day applications. Teachers will use the deep, probing questions at the end of each lesson. But the one who will benefit most is you, the earnest disciple, who wants to learn genuine discipleship at the feet of the Master. Third Edition.

Download or read book A More Excellent Way written by Henry Wright and published by Pleasant Valley Publications. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material in this book serves as an excellent resource in assisting spiritual leaders, healthcare professionals, and individuals in understanding the spiritual dynamics behind diseases of the spirit, soul, and body. Topics include: why mankind has disease; spiritual roots of disease; blocks to healing; disease prevention; many diseases discussed; spiritual pathways to wholeness and health. - Back cover.

Download or read book Illegal Prayers written by Bob Sorge and published by Bob Sorge. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Jesus taught us to pray when we need an answer from God right now. There’s a bold way to pray that receives today what God was intending to do tomorrow. All you need is a close friendship with God. When you have relational equity with God, you can pray with such audacity that others are like, “You shouldn’t talk to God like that!” But it’s precisely to this kind of illegal praying that Jesus surprisingly invites us. You’re a friend of God—so ditch propriety, forget the rules, throw caution to the wind, and pray illegal prayers.

Download or read book Augustine s Theology of Angels written by Elizabeth Klein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angels and creation -- Angelic community -- Angels in salvation history -- Augustine and spiritual warfare

Download or read book My Life Today written by Ellen Gould Harmon White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Just One Touch written by Cynthia Conner Goyang and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might this woman's life have been like prior to her years of suffering from this ailment? What would she have endured during the years of her infirmity? How would she have felt as she forced her way through the crowd to touch the hem of Jesus' garment? How might her life have been affected afterwards? Meet Sapira, a woman of striking beauty from humble beginnings. She emerges by means of marriage to a life of luxury. After many unfortunate events, Sapira loses everything her family, her place in the community, her wealth, and her health until the day she pushes forward to touch the hem of Jesus' garment.

Download or read book Touching the Hem of His Garment written by Susan Howard and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. Who touched me? Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you. But Jesus said, Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me. Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace (Luke 8:4048 NIV). How wonderful it is to touch the very hem of His garment each time we open His words of truth in the Biblehidden treasures revealed through the presence of His Holy Spirit.

Download or read book WOMAN TOUCHING THE HEM OF HIS written by Susan Perry and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the woman who grabbed a hold of the hem of Jesus as he walked through the town. She was so desperate to get to him because she had been ill 12 years with an issue of blood; she pushed through the throng of people that walked with him. She was unclean due to her disease so she was at risk of being stoned to death because of her appearance on the street. Jesus suddenly turned around and said, "Who touched me?" He felt virtue go out of him as this woman of faith received her healing. This brave, courageous woman of Bible times goes unnamed today; although I am sure she was named but unknown to all of us, she has been talked about now famous for her activities of that day. Our book is women's testimonies of today and how they've been healed by the hem of Jesus in some way or another therefore based on the healing of today that Jesus indeed does live as do his miracles continue on in his stead. Glory be unto God!

Download or read book WOMAN TOUCHING THE HEM OF HIS written by Susan Perry and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the woman who grabbed a hold of the hem of Jesus as he walked through the town. She was so desperate to get to him because she had been ill 12 years with an issue of blood; she pushed through the throng of people that walked with him. She was unclean due to her disease so she was at risk of being stoned to death because of her appearance on the street. Jesus suddenly turned around and said, "Who touched me?" He felt virtue go out of him as this woman of faith received her healing. This brave, courageous woman of Bible times goes unnamed today; although I am sure she was named but unknown to all of us, she has been talked about now famous for her activities of that day. Our book is women's testimonies of today and how they've been healed by the hem of Jesus in some way or another therefore based on the healing of today that Jesus indeed does live as do his miracles continue on in his stead. Glory be unto God!

Download or read book The Backwater Sermons written by Jay Hulme and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In late 2019, his fascination with old church buildings turned into a life-changing encounter with the God he had never believed in, and he was baptised in the Anglican church. In this new poetry collection, Jay details his journey through faith and baptism during an unprecedented world-wide pandemic. As he finds God in the ruined factories and polluted canals of his home city, Jonah is heckled over etymology, angels appear in tube stations, and Jesus sits atop a multi-story car park. Cathedrals are trans, trans people are cathedrals, and amidst it all God reaches out to meet us exactly where we are. Jay’s poetry explores belief in the modern world and offers a perspective on queer faith that will appeal not only to Christians, but young members of the LGBT+ community who are interested in faith but unsure of where to start.

Download or read book Touching the Hem of His Garment written by Pastor Kwesi Oginga and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: