Download or read book The Briarpatch Gospel written by Shayne Wheeler and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hasn’t Jesus called us into the thorns and thistles with Him to love what we find there? What if we had the courage to follow him into the briarpatch and discover life as we were always meant to live it? In The Briarpatch Gospel, dynamic young pastor Shayne Wheeler presents a radical message of grace, one that won’t allow you to remain comfortable merely sitting in a church pew. He shares his own heartbreaking personal journey through the briarpatch, and his church’s remarkable experience of creating a community in which people walk through life’s issues—even the darkest, most painful problems and questions—together. Unafraid. Like Jesus did. Think about it: What is your (or your church’s) briarpatch—the area where you’re afraid to go, or feel unequipped to address? Is it sharing what you really think on controversial issues? Becoming friends with someone who’s different from you? Confronting and overcoming your own pain, doubts, or fears? Bold and challenging, The Briarpatch Gospel provides a new vernacular for Christians to have open, honest conversations about what loving each other in Christ’s name might look like in the briarpatches of their own communities.
Download or read book The Cotton Patch Gospel Luke and Acts written by Clarence Jordan and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prototype written by Jonathan Martin and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus is God and we are not. Most of us get that. But what we don’t always understand is that God loves us just as much as He does His son. Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His “beloved.” But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity. And unlike every other person in history . . . He never forgot. In Prototype, Jonathan Martin creates a vivid understanding of what it means to be beloved by God. To completely trust, as Jesus did, that God loves you. To live life without fear, confident in your identity and purpose. To handle life’s wounds as Jesus did, and to wake every day with a deep awareness of God’s presence. Martin reveals a startling truth at the heart of the gospel: Jesus is our prototype. And as we discover how the knowledge of being God’s beloved changed everything for Jesus—how it set Him free to live out his purpose and love God, others, and the world—it will begin to do the same for us.
Download or read book The Church and the Relentless Darkness written by Robert Thornton Henderson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a period of tumultuous transition for the church as it moves out of the Christendom era and into the unknowns of the post-Christian era, it is strange that so little has been written about the church's calling out of the dominion of darkness (Satan) and into the kingdom of Light (or, God's dear Son). The very word ecclesia speaks of a people "called out." In the New Testament the theme of spiritual warfare is ubiquitous, and yet is relegated to the margins in our present cultural whitewater. In The Church and the Relentless Darkness, Robert Henderson approaches the topic of spiritual warfare directly, and focuses on its manifestation in local Christian communities. Using the Letter to the Ephesian Christians as his base, Henderson portrays the relentless darkness that comes with all satanic subtlety on unsuspecting communities, but he brings with this a message of hope and encouraging disciplines.
Download or read book The Recovery Minded Church written by Jonathan Benz and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You want to have vibrant relationships with those who struggle with addiction in your church and community. This practical resource for church leaders and congregations answers your pressing questions about addiction and recovery, through real-life stories, the latest insights from medical science and a biblical framework for how to love the addicts in your midst.
Download or read book Wisdom from the Briar Patch written by and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Briar Patch written by Gavin McKinley and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are used to acquiring certain titles to signal our success, and we all want to be successful. We Christians are no different. We figure the titles of “pastor” or “singer” or “evangelist” or even a title like “president” or “head” of some sort imply we’re headed the right way. But the Christian life is different. We should be led by the obedient, not the successful. This book talks about that.
Download or read book Gospel Telling written by Richard J. Coleman and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you took a moment to consider the purpose and effectiveness of your children's sermons? After all, nothing is more important than sowing the seeds of faith early in life. In this comprehensive look at all aspects of preaching the gospel to young people, Richard Coleman challenges you to examine your approach with a critical eye and gives you plenty of practical guidance for developing simple, direct messages that help children form a relationship with Jesus Christ. In the first section of Gospel-Telling, Coleman discusses what constitutes meaningful children's sermons, offering a thoughtful rationale for the idea that we must proclaim the gospel so youngsters experience God's love. You'll learn how you can mine your own experience for inspiration and proclaim gospel stories that flow from your specific circumstances. Then in the second portion of the book you'll see this process at work, with over thirty examples illustrating several different types of children's sermons. Whether you're a pastor, Christian educator, or engaged in the teaching ministry, you're sure to profit from the practical advice and in-depth reflection in these pages. With Gospel-Telling, you'll be equipped to share with young people the good news -- with creativity and theological integrity. Gospel-Telling is an enriching book that treats children with the spiritual respect they deserve. Richard Coleman understands the transformative language of children -- play and metaphor -- and shows how our weekly children's sermons can reach the heart of the child and not simply the mind of the adult. This is a must-have resource for educators and pastors alike. Mickie O'Donnell Executive Director, Children's Ministries of America Richard Coleman understands the core of the biblical message as well as the learning processes of children and puts them together in theory and practice. This is a valuable treatment of a too long neglected topic. Rev. Ray Kostulias Pastor, First Congregational Church Park Ridge, New Jersey Author of Character Witness and I Witness Richard J. Coleman has served as the teaching minister of a university church, the pastor of a small-town congregation, and the director of an interdenominational inner-city Christian center. He has published children's sermons, leadership training articles, and seasonal devotionals, as well as books on the dialogue between science and theology and the dialogue between Evangelicals and Liberals. Coleman is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Princeton Theological Seminary.
Download or read book American Theological Inquiry Volume One Issue One written by Gannon Murphy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Theological Inquiry (ATI) was formed in 2007 by Drs. S. Gannon Murphy (PhD, St. David's College, Univ. Wales, Theology; Presbyterian/Reformed) and Stephen Patrick (PhD, Univ. Illinois, Philosophy; Eastern Orthodox) to open up space for diverse Christian academicians, who affirm the Ecumenical Creeds, to share research throughout the broader Christian scholarly community in America. ATI reaches thousands of Christian scholars throughout the United States, particularly specialists in theology. Though ATI is a new journal, scholars who publish with ATI benefit from exposure to a vast, non-insular network of one of the broadest Christian academic communities possible.
Download or read book The Blessed Life written by Kelly Minter and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine how your life might change if you followed Jesus up that Galilean hillside, hearing His most famous Sermon for yourself as you sat in the tall grass. Imagine how the world might change if you followed Him down the mountain, reaching your arms out as He did to a harvest field desperate for His touch. With accessible, warm, and down-to-earth writing, you don’t have to imagine these things, for beloved author and Bible teacher Kelly Minter brings to life the teachings and healings of Jesus in vivid color. Sharing her own heart along the way, Kelly offers historical elements of Jesus’s day and references the original language when illuminating. The Blessed Life is for anyone willing to take a thoughtful 90-day journey through the mind, heart, and work of Jesus, so they might know Him more deeply and reflect Him more fully. Go up the mountain to learn. Go down the mountain and walk accordingly. You’ll never be the same.
Download or read book The Wilderness within You written by Penelope Wilcock and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus said that his burden was light, but it doesn't always feel that way. For example, what does it mean to 'take up your cross'? How figurative is the language Jesus is using? Or, 'Those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples,' What does Jesus mean? Or, 'I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.' Does this mean unless I follow Jesus, I am cut adrift in this world, lost and without hope? But I cannot follow Jesus without being crucified ... Following Jesus does not seem as simple as preachers sometimes suggest. So Pen sets out into the wilderness to look for him. 'I have one big question that almost hurts in my heart,' she says, 'because I care about the answer so much. I want to ask him, "Jesus, what do you think of me?"'
Download or read book Luminescence Volume 2 written by C. K. Barrett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is found in this series, unveils an entirely different side of C.K. Barrett, a side one might never have known about if one had knowledge only of his famous commentaries and monographs. Herein lies a goodly selection of Kingsley's sermons preached largely in small- and medium-sized Methodist churches in the Northeast of England, though often elsewhere in England and around the world. Fred Barrett was not the scholar his son was, but on close inspection, one can most definitely see the impact of the father on the son when it came to preaching. It seems right to include as many sermons from both of these men as we can in this series. One thing sorely lacking in much preaching these days is in-depth engagement with both the biblical text and one's tradition and theology. The sermons in these volumes demonstrate what such preaching can look like. While the first volume presented sermons on the Gospels and Acts, this second volume covers the rest of the New Testament and extensive portions of the Old Testament.
Download or read book CRUCIFIXION SHOCKWAVE written by Joseph Edward Bonnette and published by Camp of the saints ebooks & Lord's supper llc. This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY EBOOK IS ALSO CALLED JEHOVAH'S CRUCIFIXION HURRICANE: THE MIGHTY RUSHING WIND OF THE LATTER RAIN. JEHOVAH IS THE ONE DEPICTED IN REVELATION-4:2-3 “& IMMEDIATELY I WAS IN THE SPIRIT: &, BEHOLD, A THRONE WAS SET IN HEAVEN, & ONE SAT ON THE THRONE.— & HE THAT SAT WAS TO LOOK UPON LIKE A JASPER & A SARDINE STONE: & THERE WAS A RAINBOW ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE, IN SIGHT LIKE UNTO AN EMERALD. === GOD’S IMAGE IS OVER THE CROWN OF THORNS ON THE BURIAL CLOTH, WHICH SHOWS THE PROFILE OF HIS HEAD LOOKING TO HIS LEFT & HIS WHOLE FRONT-VIEW BODY, (ONLY THE SIZE OF HIS HEAD’S PROFILE) WHICH IS CALLED "THE GOSPEL OF HIS ANOINTING" STANDING IN FRONT OF HIS FACE.GOD HAS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION HE CHOOSES NOT TO SHARE THOUGH NO ONE CARES ABOUT IT ANYWAYS. HIS NOSE OF HIS PROFILE SEEMS TO BE HIDING HIS RIGHT HAND, & THERE ARE MANY THINGS GOD HIDES FROM US AS SINNERS ON EARTH... ==== HIS IMAGE IS FULLY THE QUINTESSENTIAL HUMAN;= BUT IS THE ENCAPSULATION OF ALL FORMS OF HUMANS THAT CAN EVER EXIST, WHICH MAKES HIM LOOK EXTREMELY "ALIEN" IN APPEARANCE. GOD’S IMAGE EXTERNAL APPEARANCE IS THE COLOUR OF "JASPER SARDIUS" WHICH IS REDDISH BROWN, BUT WITH MANY OTHER COLOURS IN IT. HE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL HUMANITY'S IMAGE: GEN1:26.
Download or read book The Blues Route written by Hugh Merrill and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Hugh Merrill takes us on a sweeping road trip in search of the distinctly American music known as the blues. Tracing blues culture from its beginning in rural Mississippi up through the Delta to Chicago and beyond, Merrill visits with legendary musicians such as Son Thomas, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Valerie Wellington and Magic Slim. In fascinating interviews, Merrill uncovers wonderful stories about Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey. The trip dips into New Orleans as Merrill explores how the blues exploded in clubs and cribs, influencing dixieland, jazz and zydeco. A trip out west presents a lovely tour of the cocktail lounges of Oakland and Los Angeles and the guardians of the blues who live there. The Blues Route is an engrossing narrative, a book that celebrates not only the music but the continuing search for sympathy, understanding and affinity that the blues embodies.
Download or read book To Be of Use written by Dave Smith and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a pioneer in the sustainable business movement, Smith & Hawken co-founder Dave Smith is on a mission to inspire people everywhere to reconcile compassionate values with capitalism. To Be of Use shows that business can be a force for radical change and paints a picture of how those driven by simple core values can make the world a better place. The book is a fascinating combination of Smith’s own transformation and rise in sustainable business with an inspirational manifesto of what meaningful work is and how we can find it.
Download or read book Giving Blood written by Leonard Sweet and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Groundbreaking Resource for Preaching If the church wishes to converse effectively with a culture, it must learn the culture’s language. Today, shifts in technology mean that language is increasingly one of symbols and metaphors, stories and images—not words. So what does this mean for the sermon, that long-standing, word-based tradition of Christianity? In this ground-breaking resource, bestselling author Leonard Sweet offers an alternative to traditional models of preaching, one that is fitting to a new culture and a new mode of thinking. The first book of its kind to move preaching beyond its pulpit-centric fixation and toward more interactive, participatory modes of communication, Sweet presents both a challenge and a path forward for a church struggling to maintain its relevance in a post-modern, media-saturated culture.
Download or read book The Gospel of Peace in a Violent World written by Shawn Graves and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news of peace. Gathering contributions from theologians, pastors, and practitioners, Shawn Graves and Marlena Graves cast a vision of Christian nonviolence in today's world, not only responding to the realities of war but also offering a deeper understanding of peace—a holistic shalom.
