Download or read book The Gospel of Leroy written by Saint Franky and published by B.E. Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quite possibly the most controversial, not to mention humorous book of faith ever written. The Gospel of Leroy scripted by an individual only identified as 'Saint Franky' chronicles the life and times of 'Leroy', the 'brother' of Jesus. Born in Bethlehem, albeit Pennsylvania, a distinction largely unnoticed by Leroy, this modern day gospel attempts to capture the gospel's essence from a uniquely opposite perspective. Although Leroy would be birthed in a manger or garage, it wasn't because there was no room, but rather because Bubba aka Joseph had no money. Of course, this would not prevent Bubba from quipping unto Mary in passing, Yo babe, if anyone asks why the boy was born in a manger, I mean garage, instead of inside the inn, I'm just gonna say because there was no room. 'Cause quite frankly, it ain't none of anybody's business if you know what I mean.
Download or read book The Lost Art of Disciple Making written by LeRoy Eims and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every believer in Jesus Christ deserves the opportunity of personal nurture and development." says LeRoy Eims. But all too often the opportunity isn't there. We neglect the young Christian in our whirl of programs, church services, and fellowship groups. And we neglect to raise up workers and leaders who can disciple young believers into mature and fruitful Christians. In simple, practical, and biblical terms, LeRoy Eims revives the lost art of disciple making. He explains: - How the early church discipled new Christians - How to meet the basic needs of a growing Christian - How to spot and train potential workers - How to develop mature, godly leaders "True growth takes time and tears and love and patience," Eims states. There is no instant maturity. This book examines the growth process in the life of a Christian and considers what nurture and guidance it takes to develop spiritually qualified workers in the church.
Download or read book Why Satan Hates Love written by LeRoy A. Martin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in todays complicated and often uncertain world, God still works in the lives of the faithful. Yet despite the incredible power of Gods love, Satan still makes his presence known through selfishness, greed, and temptation. In Why Satan Hates Love, author LeRoy Martin relies on personal anecdotes, the stories of others, and his own ideas to share his comprehensive study of the Christian faith and Satanism. As he looks at why some marriages work and others do not, Martin explains the differences between couples who allow the devil to control their relationship and those who allow Jesus into their hearts and realize that it is their commitment to the marriage that makes it successful. Martin also delves into the reasons why we can trust and have confidence in Gods judgment, why we need to understand that Satan is a fallen angel, and why it is important to know and understand Gods plan for our lives. God is here for us. The spiritual wisdom provided in Why Satan Hates Love proves that all we have to do is open our hearts and accept His love.
Download or read book The Jesus Lens written by Leroy Spinks and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is a record of and witness to divine-human encounter and relationship--period! If we read the Bible as a technical treatise in which every word stands on equal footing, we distort the meaning of scripture. If, on the other hand, we read every sentence of the Bible through the lens of Jesus Christ, we come to see God in all the glory we earth-bound and time-bound creatures can stand ... Trust Jesus and let him show you how to read the record of God's self-revelation. READ EVERYTHING BEFORE JESUS AND EVERYTHING AFTER HIM THROUGH THE JESUS LENS.
Download or read book The Gospel of Grace written by Margy Hill and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a culture that thrives on performance and reward. If we study hard enough, we should get good grades. If we practice hard enough, we should win awards and trophies. If we work hard enough, we should get a promotion. It is easy to adopt this way of thinking in our spiritual lives. If our lives are good enough, we should get into heaven. If we just do more, God should be pleased. If we follow the rules, we should be better Christians. Nothing could be further from the truth.It is vital that we continually remind ourselves that the gospel is a gospel of grace. Why? Because it is easy to set aside the grace of God and live in a way that depends on us. We begin to rely on what we can do for ourselves, rather than what God can do, and has done for us through Jesus Christ. We continue to struggle with the truth that God's love is unconditional. Often we forget there is nothing we can do or have to do to earn it. We live less than abundant lives, thinking God is disappointed with us; that we don't measure up. As a result, believers end up living mediocre and passionless lives, trapped in the lie that they aren't good enough. Instead of choosing the freedom that is ours in Christ, like the Galatian believers, we choose slavery. Christians can make the serious mistake of believing that the gospel is reserved for salvation. The gospel is so much more than just about saving us. It is the hope that keeps us, while we wait for Jesus to return. It is what transforms us into Christ's image. The gospel is so powerful that we need to remind ourselves of it every day so we never take it for granted. Galatians is probably the harshest of Paul's letters. The dangerous position of the Galatian church and the critical nature of Paul's message drove him to write frankly and sharply to this group of Christians. For Paul, and for you and me, there is nothing more important than guarding the gospel of grace, because it is a serious offense to set aside the grace of God. Because "if righteousness came through the law, than Christ died in vain (Galatians 2:21)."So we do not set aside the grace of God. We cling to it. We stand on it. We hope in it. We grow in it. That's what Paul wanted for the Galatian believers, and that is what God wants for you and me. May this study cause you to live in the abundance of the one true gospel, the Gospel of grace!
Download or read book Men Who Love Fierce Women written by Leroy Wagner and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Five years into ‘wedded bliss,’ I confessed to Kim that I no longer loved her. We were stuck in a destructive relationship pattern we now refer to as the ‘fierce woman/fearful man’ cycle, and I had lost all hope for a peaceful marriage…” — LeRoy Wagner What if I’m laid-back and my wife is… not? How can I lead when I feel emasculated? I’m not sure I love my wife anymore. What happened? If you find yourself asking questions like these, LeRoy can relate. In Men Who Love Fierce Women, he is gut-honest about his failures and frustrations as a husband, the realizations that saved his marriage,* and the requirements God places on every husband, laid-back or not. With their insights combined, Kim and LeRoy equip men to rise up, handle conflict, love their wife, and lead their marriage, regardless of who has the stronger personality. Includes reflection questions at the end of every chapter, plus an appendix for addressing conflict. *Kim and LeRoy’s interview on Focus on the Family, in which they discuss their marriage and Kim’s book Fierce Women, aired twice and was voted the #1 segment of 2015, prompting the publication of this book.
Download or read book Disruption written by Leroy R Armstrong, Jr and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some seasons of disruption are divinely allowed, while others are self-inflicted. When faced with seasons of disruption, such as we experienced with the global pandemic and chaos of 2020, you have a choice - to try to get through it or grow through it. Author Leroy R. Armstrong, Jr. had his own self-inflicted experience of disruption when he resigned from ministry in 2010 after making some bad decisions. During his disruption, God gave Leroy a significant reset on his life's purpose - the origin of his new book, Disruption: Resetting Your Life's Purpose. Using Bible-based motivation, biblical mandates, and practical applications, you will answer the questions of why and how you should reset your life's purpose to comprehend God's will for your life. Whether it is evaluating your career and business goals or exploring a call to ministry, or whether you should marry, how to improve your marriage, or other matters of life, Leroy shares from his own personal experience how investing the time to seek God for your purpose will change your life for the better. It's time to reset and get in touch with God's purpose for YOU! A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Leroy has devoted over thirty-five years to ministry. Leroy brings to you his passion for preaching and practical biblical teaching as pastor to several congregations in Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas, as well as to people across the United States and abroad. A graduate of the University of Kansas and Dallas Theological Seminary, Leroy is Lead Servant of Proclaiming the Word Ministries. Leroy's writing contributions can be found in Leadership Journal, in the book Leading Your Church Through Conflict and Reconciliation, and in the African American Devotional Bible. Leroy and his wife Genena currently reside in McKinney, Texas. They are a blended family with three adult children.
Download or read book Why I Am a Member of the Church of Christ written by Leroy Brownlow and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five Bible-based reasons for his choice of church affiliation.
Download or read book Everyday Missions written by Leroy Barber and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not every day that you get a visit from God. Burning bushes, ladders to heaven, chariots of fire and all that--we look for those stories in the Bible, and we look for them in our lives. When it comes to something as important as what we do with our lives, we think, maybe God owes us a big event. But, as Leroy Barber has learned through his work in inner cities and with young people, that's not usually how it works. More often God calls out to us from everyday misfortunes and all-too-common injustices, and he invites our response--not just a response in the moment, but a recognition that we have a role to play in seeing God's kingdom come, God's will done, on earth as it is in heaven. Through the surprisingly normal stories of the heroes of faith in the Bible, and through Barber's experiences with Mission Year and other ministries, in this book you'll learn what it means to change the world from your own little space in it.
Download or read book Embrace written by Leroy Barber and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's call to the church is to love not just those who are easy to love, but those we would rather avoid or ignore. Leroy Barber, a leading voice in reconciliation and justice, provides a rousing exhortation to build relationships across barriers, offering practical advice on how to do so. Embrace the challenge to show a divided world the bridge-building power of God's love.
Download or read book Making the Most of Life written by Leroy Brownlow and published by Brownlow Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of 26 different qualities of life important in a good foundation for success.
Download or read book Fierce Women written by Kimberly Wagner and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you have a strong personality and still be a godly wife? YES! Do you ever get the idea that being a godly wife means you need to be a mousy doormat? Be as unnoticeable as a doorknob? Or have a personality transplant? Fierce Women: The Power of a Soft Warrior smashes that idea. No matter whether you’re an extrovert or more introverted, Kimberly Wagner believes women are created to be a compelling force. You may not see yourself as beautifully fierce or even slightly strong, but what if God has placed a powerful fierceness within you, within every woman? Kim admits her fierceness became a source of conflict in her marriage, but the relationship dynamic totally changed when she discovered her fierce strengths could be used to encourage and inspire her husband. She invites you to come alongside as she takes an honest look at a destructive relationship dynamic and casts a vision for the transformation God can bring to troubled marriages. A True Woman Book; the goal of the True Woman publishing line is to encourage women to: Discover, embrace, and delight in God's divine design and mission for their lives Reflect the beauty and heart of Jesus Christ to their world Intentionally pass the baton of Truth on to the next generation Pray earnestly for an outpouring of God's Spirit in their families, churches, nation and world
Download or read book Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted written by Frances E. W. Harper and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1892 work was among the first novels published by an African-American woman. Its striking portrait of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction recounts a mixed-race woman's devotion to uplifting the black community.
Download or read book Abba Father written by Leroy Spinks and published by Nurturing Faith. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Abba, Father: Viewing Atonement through the Jesus Lens, I set out to rethink atonement in a departure from what is possibly the most popular theory among conservative Christians. This book reexamines atonement by giving careful attention to the words of Jesus. It abandons entirely the concept of "the atonement" held as the most popular view among conservative evangelicals today. Most of the classic theories of the atonement proposed what the authors intended to be literal, often legal, explanations of what Jesus did for us on the cross. One of the older popular theories dating back to the third and fourth centuries proposed the literal, legal explanation that Jesus paid a ransom to the devil for our souls. Several centuries later Anselm proposed the literal, legal theory that Jesus made satisfaction (paid God compensation or reparations) for our offense to God's honor. Several centuries after that, the Reformer John Calvin proposed that Jesus paid our sin debt for our offense to God's justice. (Chapters 7, 8, and 9 will trace the history of these theories.) Mention of the classical theories of the atonement refers to these three theories (plus another discussed briefly in chapter 7). These theories proposed the idea that the cross of Christ provided "the atonement"-an event that made it possible for God to forgive us and make us his children. The New Testament shows that Jesus did not preach any "theory of the atonement." In fact, Jesus never used any word that could be translated "atonement," nor did he preach any concept that could be so construed. Jesus proclaimed the metaphor of the loving Father. Jesus taught how we are to reconcile (although he never used that word, either) with the Father, not how the Father reconciles himself to us. In addition, the message of all the New Testament authors following Jesus continued this theme while also offering many other metaphors illustrating how Jesus brings us back to God. The view presented here does not claim to be Jesus' theory of the atonement, for the New Testament evidence does not indicate that he had one. Instead, the following chapters will develop what Jesus proclaimed as his Good News of the kingdom of God. Once we understand the gospel Jesus preached, we do not need any theory of the atonement. Jesus' message as communicated through his favorite metaphor stands sufficient on its own.
Download or read book Seventh Day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine written by George R. Knight and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely new typeset of the monumental 1957 classic, containing an extensive historical and theological introduction and detailed in-text notations by George R. Knight. Originally produced by the Ministerial Association of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Questions on Doctrine was widely acclaimed and distributed in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a forthright answer to questions from evangelicals about key elements of Adventist doctrine. Controversy regarding the book's position on the nature of Christ and the atonement soon stopped its circulation. As part of the Adventist Classic Library, Knight's essays provide the background for how the book came about and describes the interaction of the principal players involved in the crisis that shelved this classic work for more than a generation.
Download or read book Christian Perspectives on Human Development written by LeRoy Aden and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologists speculate how midlife change affects an individual. This book seeks a Christian horizon for "life cyle theories". Contributors represent professional and theological diversity, but all pursue a spiritual dimension that counselors can apply to help people.
Download or read book The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things written by J.T. LeRoy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of loosely connected autobiographical stories, they describe the disturbing relationship between a mother and her adolescent son as she moves from lover to lover, dressing him as a girl and forcing him to shoplift. These are shocking stories of abusive love and dysfunctional sexuality, of heartbreak and of innocence lost. Once again, LeRoy's fantastical imagination and lyricism twists his haunted past into something utterly strange and magical.
