Download or read book Faith Vs Faithfulness written by Justin Perdue and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christians evaluate their lives and ask the same questions: Am I doing enough? Have I shown enough discipline, enough dedication, or enough effort? Would praying and reading my Bible more help meovercome . . . remove . . . have . . .? You may feel that you put so much effort into improving your Christian life with no apparent fruit. Sins you thought would have been easier to overcome are still plaguing your daily life.You are not alone, and you are not crazy! Many Christians today live on this sort of performance-based treadmill, running fast and getting nowhere. Trying harder and doing more haven't produced assurance or victory over sin. You're exhausted. You feel empty and fake inside. You feel guilty for merely wanting to just coast, to give in, to stop trying. The foundation of Christianity is faith. And the foundation of the Christian faith, we will argue in this primer, is rest. In this book, Jon Moffitt, Jimmy Buehler, and Justin Perdue explain how weary pilgrims can find rest in Jesus Christ. To learn more about Theocast, please visit Theocast.org

Download or read book The Hardest Peace written by Kara Tippetts and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss The Long Goodbye: The Kara Tippetts Story on Netflix now, featuring Ann Voskamp, Ellie Holcomb, and Joanna Gaines! Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow ... and the devestating reality of stage-four cancer. In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn't offer answers for when living is hard, but she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace and grace. Most of all, she draws us back to the God who is with us, in the mundane and the suffering, and who shapes even our pain into beauty. Winner of the 2015 Christian Book Award® in the Inspiration category.

Download or read book Just Show Up written by Kara Tippetts and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kara Tippetts’s story was not a story of disease, although she lost her battle with terminal cancer. It was not a story of saying goodbye, although she was intentional in her time with her husband and four children. Kara’s story was one of seeing God in the hard and in the good. It was one of finding grace in the everyday. And it was one of knowing “God with us” through fierce and beautiful friendship. In Just Show Up, Kara and her close friend, Jill Lynn Buteyn, write about what friendship looks like in the midst of changing life seasons, loads of laundry, and even cancer. Whether you are eager to be present to someone going through a difficult time or simply want inspiration for pursuing friends in a new way, this eloquent and practical book explores the gift of silence, the art of receiving, and what it means to just show up.

Download or read book Faithfulness written by Jacalyn Eyre and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all need faithful friends--people who accept us as we are, who seek our best interests, and who stick with us in a crisis. Yet being a faithful friend is more important than finding one. This Fruit of the Spirit Bible study looks at six essential qualities we need to become faithful friends. These qualities help us lay a foundation for lasting relationships.The eight-volume Fruit of the Spirit Bible Studies series not only helps you discover what the Bible says about the vital traits that the Holy Spirit produces in believers, but also moves you beyond reflection and discussion to application. Designed for use in small groups or personal devotions, the interactive format will help you grow in your ability to reflect the character of Jesus.Revised to include:Expanded leader’s notesBetween-studies applicationsSuggestions for prayer

Download or read book Faithfulness written by Dr. Ricky Edwards and published by Aion Multimedia. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Ricky Edwards was born on August 16th in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He was four of five children, born to Johnny and Ruthie Edwards. Ricky was raised on a farm Northeast of Pawnee. Here he became a cowboy to the core; working the farm, riding bulls, and breaking horses. He grew up in a Christian home where his father was the song leader and a deacon at the First Assembly of God Church in Skedee, Oklahoma. Since 1986, he and his wife Sally have endeavored to reach and teach people of all ages bringing forth God’s message of salvation, healing, hope and deliverance. Their vision has remained the same and that is to bring restoration to the Body, and teach people who they are in Christ. Their desire is to see that the Harvest is brought in.Today, Pastors Ricky and Sally, pastor Family Worship Center and travel across the country teaching and preaching the Word of God with signs following. They are proclaiming that we are "In the Glory!" They have raised nine children and have seventeen grandchildren.

Download or read book Understanding the Heart of Faithfulness written by Andrew Loyd and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Is Thy Faithfulness written by Robert J. Morgan and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of waiting, grieving, or uncertainty, we sometimes wonder if God will fulfill His promises. In Great Is Thy Faithfulness, trusted pastor Rob Morgan reminds us through 52 scriptures and devotions that our loving God always follows through on what He says He will do. No matter your circumstances or feelings, one thing never changes: God is with you. Pastor Rob Morgan discovered this through the years he cared for his wife with multiple sclerosis. Now in Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Rob draws on that hard-won faith to show us that God is present even in times of transition, loss, or doubt. As you sink into the amazing attributes of God week after week, you will: Grow in your confidence of who God is Desire to know God more fully Transform your prayer life in light of God's character Great Is Thy Faithfulness includes thoughtful additional features, such as: A ribbon marker to help you find your place Modern-day and historical stories of God's faithfulness Scripture to enrich your devotional time With undated entries covering a year of weekly devotions, this beautiful book makes a timely gift for: A friend going through a difficult time or starting a new season of life New believers eager to strengthen their faith Anyone looking for inspiration to start regular devotional readings Find rest for your soul as you are assured of God's love and faithfulness. As the psalmist tells us in Psalm 145:13, "The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does."

Download or read book Daring to Hope written by Katie Davis Majors and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller How do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for? When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people she desired to serve. But joy often gave way to sorrow as she invested her heart fully in walking alongside people in the grip of poverty, addiction, desperation, and disease. After unexpected tragedy shook her family, for the first time Katie began to wonder, Is God really good? Does He really love us? When she turned to Him with her questions, God spoke truth to her heart and drew her even deeper into relationship with Him. Daring to Hope is an invitation to cling to the God of the impossible—the God who whispers His love to us in the quiet, in the mundane, when our prayers are not answered the way we want or the miracle doesn’t come. It’s about a mother discovering the extraordinary strength it takes to be ordinary. It’s about choosing faith no matter the circumstance and about encountering God’s goodness in the least expected places. Though your heartaches and dreams may take a different shape, you will find your own questions echoed in these pages. You’ll be reminded of the gifts of joy in the midst of sorrow. And you’ll hear God’s whisper: Hold on to hope. I will meet you here.

Download or read book Faithfulness the Surprising Key to a Life of Joy and Meaning written by David Bruce Linn and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving story of young love, heartache, friendship, and war is entwined with 33 insightful Bible studies on walking with Christ through the battles of life.

Download or read book Washed and Waiting written by Wesley Hill and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet many who sit next to us in the pew at church fit that description, says author Wesley Hill. As a celibate gay Christian, Hill gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to wrestle firsthand with God's ''No'' to same-sex relationships. What does it mean for gay Christians to live faithful to God while struggling with the challenge of their homosexuality? What is God's will for believers who experience same-sex desires? Those who choose celibacy are often left to deal with loneliness and the hunger for relationships. How can gay Christians experience God's favor and blessing in the midst of a struggle that for many brings a crippling sense of shame and guilt? Weaving together reflections from his own life and the lives of other Christians, such as Henri Nouwen and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hill offers a fresh perspective on these questions. He advocates neither unqualified ''healing'' for those who struggle, nor their accommodation to temptation, but rather faithfulness in the midst of brokenness. ''I hope this book may encourage other homosexual Christians to take the risky step of opening up their lives to others in the body of Christ,'' Hill writes. ''In so doing, they may find, as I have, by grace, that being known is spiritually healthier than remaining behind closed doors, that the light is better than the darkness.

Download or read book Everyday Faithfulness written by Glenna Marshall and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the Christian life look like when life is unpredictable, hard, or just plain ordinary? We live in an instant-gratification world, where results are quickly measured and words like discipline and perseverance evoke thoughts of legalism or asceticism. But Everyday Faithfulness explores what daily perseverance in Christ looks like during various seasons when spiritual growth seems especially difficult. Working through the unique challenges that come with seasons of waiting, caretaking, suffering, worry, spiritual dryness, and more, this book delves into practical ways to build habits into everyday life that will aid in spiritual growth throughout a lifetime. Each chapter closes with a real-life example of a woman whose life of regular, everyday faithfulness will encourage readers to remain steadfast in theirs. Published in partnership with the Gospel Coalition.

Download or read book Positional Faithfulness written by Jill N. Beckman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis of Turkish she realized that alignment constraints alone could not account for one central aspect of the Shona case: the priority of initial syllable features in determining the outcome of harmony. This volume of research outlines the authirs discoveries.

Download or read book Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews written by Matthew J Marohl and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews' offers fresh answers to several unresolved questions by employing that branch of social psychology known as social identity theory. The author of Hebrews describes the faithfulness of Jesus as prototypical and relates the faithfulness of all other to Jesus' faith. Utilizing a model of present temporal orientation, the study interprets the dynamic relationship between the

Download or read book The Faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah written by Walter D. Zorn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange how one little word, the Greek word pistis, can make a profound difference in understanding the Bible. Pistis is usually translated "faith," but in different contexts of the New Testament the word can have several other meanings such as "faithfulness," "trustworthiness," "solemn promise or oath," "proof or pledge," "conviction," and "doctrine (of the Christian faith)." This book will challenge the reader's understanding of Paul's expression pistis Christou, "faith/faithfulness of Christ," and the use of the pistis word group (verb, noun, and adjective) throughout the New Testament. Given the Old Testament background to this word, one will learn how the apostle Paul utilized an obscure phrase from the prophet Habakkuk to refer to a coming Messiah who in turn lived in faithfulness to the Father's will to die on a cross for the sins of the world. This book will reveal how the gospel is emphasized throughout the New Testament in terms of "the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah." New and fresh interpretations of various texts will challenge the traditional understandings of such texts. When a person comprehends pistis as God's faithfulness and the Messiah's faithfulness, the only human response is pistis itself, meaning faithfulness as described in Hebrews 11. God is faithful and Jesus is faithful. Will he find us faithful?

Download or read book Faith and the Faithfulness of Jesus in Hebrews written by Matthew C. Easter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores faith in the Book of Hebrews and posits that it is manifested in four dimensions: ethical, eschatological, Christological, and ecclesiological.

Download or read book Rediscovering Faithfulness written by Kenneth W. M. Wozniak and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does faithfulness mean for modern Christians who find themselves immersed in a social and moral context two millennia removed from that of Jesus? As a notion endorsed by Christians universally, irrespective of church tradition, geographic location, economic and political milieu, or spiritual experience, faithfulness is essential to mature Christian living. Yet many in the modern church have lost—or perhaps forgotten—the true nature of faithfulness, and thus have wandered from that which God envisages for believers. Rediscovering what faithfulness entails, however, is altogether possible. Theological ethicist Kenneth W. M. Wozniak takes the reader on a journey of encounter, looking to the earliest Christians and their understanding of fidelity to the way of Jesus as a model for believers today, and as the means by which the essence of faithfulness—rooted not in adherence to a performance standard but rather in personal cultivation of the divine character—the Jesus way not only can be discovered, but also embraced and enjoyed by the one who aspires to align with the very being of God.

Download or read book In Search of Faithfulness written by William E. Diehl and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Christian faithfulness virtually invisible in American society today? Where are God's faithful people and what do they look like? In an effort to answer these questions, William E. Diehl records the results of his own search for faithfulness. ÒI decided to look for faithfulness in those very places where it appeared not to be - in the world of business, for instance. And I decided to use exactly the same approach used by Peters and Waterman in their best seller, In Search of Excellence.Ó Using real-life stories to illustrate both the successes and problems of Christian faithfulness in the world community, Diehl concludes that the church must do a better job in nurturing growth in faith.