Download or read book Trying Man Trying God written by Meira Z. Kensky and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2009.
Download or read book Take the Lid Off written by Smokie Norful and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor and Grammy-winning musician Smokie Norful inspires readers to go to God and experience more fulfillment, delight, power, and success than they ever dreamed. According to Smokie Norful, sometimes our lives feel like a pot of rice in his grandmother’s kitchen: hissing, boiling over, about to explode and create panic. The only way to avoid an explosion is to take the lid off—that is, to stop being trapped inside ourselves and instead look to God and his grace to make us all he intends us to be. Taking the lid off, Norful argues, entails four actions: look inward, experiencing the cleansing of forgiveness and the power of the Holy Spirit; look outward, seeking for others to experience the joy of living for God and have the best God has to offer; look upward and marvel at God’s love and strength to accomplish his purposes; and move onward, devising a strategy to accomplish all God has put in our hearts to do. When we take these four steps, the pressure goes down, we gain peace and perception, and things work out much better in the end. When we finally take the lid off, we can become the people God has created us to be and do what we were intended to do. We get in touch with the unlimited power of his Spirit, we’re directed by the challenge of his purposes, and we experience the joy of seeing him use us to change lives. All of us need help in taking the lid off in order to trust God, take action, and reach our full potential.
Download or read book Trying Man Trying God written by Meira Kensky and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meira Z. Kensky examines scenes of the divine courtroom in Jewish and Christian literature from antiquity. Her central argument is that these courtroom scenes, though fanciful in nature and often remarkably entertaining, are part of a serious inquiry taking place throughout the Mediterranean as to the nature of divine justice. These scenes can contain explicit criticism about the adequacy and equity of God's justice, or can be used to attempt to vindicate God from charges of injustice and inequity. What is important is that this amounts to a rotation of the courtroom scene: the courtroom, rather than simply functioning on the narrative level with the reader as an additional spectator, is rotated so that the reader is in the judicial position, and it is the judge and the process itself which are being adjudicated. When man is tried, it is truly God who is on trial.
Download or read book Man Seeks God written by Eric Weiner and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author of Geography of Bliss returns with this funny, illuminating chronicle of a globe-spanning spiritual quest to find a faith that fits. When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse. "Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him, and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung journey to do just that. Weiner, a longtime "spiritual voyeur" and inveterate traveler, realizes that while he has been privy to a wide range of religious practices, he's never seriously considered these concepts in his own life. Face to face with his own mortality, and spurred on by the question of what spiritual principles to impart to his young daughter, he decides to correct this omission, undertaking a worldwide exploration of religions and hoping to come, if he can, to a personal understanding of the divine. The journey that results is rich in insight, humor, and heart. Willing to do anything to better understand faith, and to find the god or gods that speak to him, he travels to Nepal, where he meditates with Tibetan lamas and a guy named Wayne. He sojourns to Turkey, where he whirls (not so well, as it turns out) with Sufi dervishes. He heads to China, where he attempts to unblock his chi; to Israel, where he studies Kabbalah, sans Madonna; and to Las Vegas, where he has a close encounter with Raelians (followers of the world's largest UFO-based religion). At each stop along the way, Weiner tackles our most pressing spiritual questions: Where do we come from? What happens when we die? How should we live our lives? Where do all the missing socks go? With his trademark wit and warmth, he leaves no stone unturned. At a time when more Americans than ever are choosing a new faith, and when spiritual questions loom large in the modern age, Man Seeks God presents a perspective on religion that is sure to delight, inspire, and entertain.
Download or read book Killing My Old Man Being the Person God Sees in Me written by Rodney Peavy and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Christian, do you ever wonder why you still struggle with sin? Are you tired of repeating the same old mistakes? Have you found yourself caught in a seemingly never-ending cycle of habitual sin and shame? Are you tired of the feelings of defeat and long for the freedom, peace, and victory promised in being a new creation? Then it's time to face him. He is called the old man, the old self, or our old nature. We all have one. Are you ready to look him in the eye? Are you ready to fight him? Are you ready to live free? Let it begin today. It's time to kill your old man and be the person God sees in you. "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him" (Rom. 6:6-8).
Download or read book Mere Christianity written by C. S. Lewis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.
Download or read book The Gospel According to St Mark written by Alfred Plummer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Hear from God written by Joyce Meyer and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hustle and bustle of today's busy world, sometimes it's hard enough to hear yourself think, much less take a minute to stop and listen for the voice of God. But learning to recognize God's voice and the many ways in which He speaks is vital for following His plan. In How to Hear from God, Joyce Meyer shows readers that God reaches out to people every day, seeking a partnership with them to offer guidance and love. She reveals the ways in which God delivers His word and the benefits of asking God for the sensitivity to hear His voice. Joyce asks the question, "Are you listening?" and shares how to do just that.
Download or read book A plea for the ways of God to man being an attempt to vindicate the moral government of the world written by William FLEMING (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God s Plan for Man written by Rudolph M Louw and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two discourses the first Of man s enmity to God The second Of the salvation of sinners Publ by E Veel written by Stephen Charnock and published by . This book was released on 1699 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Simple Guide to Finding God and Happiness for the Working Man of America written by Ben Conner and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I know you. Because I have met hundreds of guys just like you. You have lost hope. You think your life is worthless. Or worse yet, you blame God for all your problems. You are not alone in your struggle. This book can help you. Please give it a chance. This is a short book, maybe an hour or two long, but it can change your earthly life, and more importantly, it can change your eternal destiny. This book is not an end. This book is about a new beginning. Take these morsels of wisdom and hope and do something profound for you and those around you. CHANGE. You can be happy, but you cannot keep going down the road you are on. Following God is a lifelong journey. Sometimes we fall down. Sometimes we swerve off the path we are traveling with God. But never stop trying. Never give up. Remember, He is always waiting there for you and He always wants you back, no matter what you have done. What have you got to lose? What are you scared of? You have eternity in heaven to gain. You have the rest of your life on earth to make count for something. You don't know me, but if you did, I believe you would trust me. I know you, and I want to help you. For now, trust me. Later you will learn to trust God. God wants you with Him. He gave me the words in this book for you to read. You will learn to hear God's voice through the Holy Spirit. He will give you the Holy Spirit to guide and comfort you. But don't worry about that now. Just trust me and read the book. Open your heart and mind and God will do the rest.
Download or read book God s Pursuit of Man written by A. W. Tozer and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side […] a conquest of the Most High God. – A. W. Tozer With words like these, Tozer shakes the soul. He crumbles the lies we believe and calls us to the more sure way. In these pages, Tozer says what it means to truly be saved. It is not merely to assent to Jesus and go on our same old way, but to be conquered by the Almighty God and invaded by His Spirit. A saved person is a transformed person. Let Tozer upend you in this moving prequel to The Pursuit of God. And being upended, may you be found standing upright in an upside-down world.
Download or read book Twelve sermons written by James Battersby and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming a Young Man of God written by Ken Rawson and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time they’re born, boys are given a “code” to live by: don’t cry, don’t play with dolls, don’t be a wimp...you get the picture. For a middle school guy, it’s tough enough to figure out what it means to just be yourself—let alone how to become a man. Breaking the Code is an eight-week study that will help them discover what it really means to be a man. With fun, interactive activities and age-appropriate discussion questions, you’ll find that this study will help small groups of middle school guys learn how they can become the men God created them to be. In this study, you’ll help guys:• critically examine what they’ve been taught about what it means to be a man• explore the rich heritage of men in the Bible• discover their identity in God• find new ways to feel confident Help the guys in your group begin the journey to manhood with a clear perspective on what it means to be a man. Help break the code.**After you’ve helped guys break the code, you can help them study the ultimate man—Jesus, in Breaking the Code (book 2). Focusing on the life of Christ, they will learn to deal with the issues most guys face.
