Becoming The Good News

Author : Michael J. Sanem
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814668580

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Becoming the Good News by Michael J. Sanem Pdf

Contemporary Topics in Parish Leadership is a series from Liturgical Press that addresses timely realities in parish leadership. Written primarily for parish staff, leadership teams, and parish councils, each topic affirms the pastoral realities facing today’s church leaders in a way that is engaging, relevant, and most important, accessible. Short chapters grounded in real-world experiences invite readers to consider the depth of pastoral realities from a scriptural, theological, and ministerial perspective. “Questions for Reflection” and “Continuing the Conversation” at the end of each chapter encourage personal reflection, group discussion, and suggestions for practical implementation in today’s diverse parishes. Perhaps you have seen the signs of the times. Religious faith, on the whole, is declining, and the number of those claiming no religious affiliation is rising. In the face of this, evangelization initiatives permeate the mission and vision statements of Catholic dioceses and parishes across the country, but many of these initiatives are hampered by a strict sense of the tradition. They tend to be an all-or-nothing approach to evangelization, and include some questionable understandings of God, the church, and the world. In Becoming the Good News, Michael Sanem shares an authentically Catholic approach to parish evangelization, grounded in the rich and diverse tradition to which we belong. We the church, as the people of God, are all called, in the common priesthood of all the baptized, to consecrate this world to God in the way we encounter, accompany, and invite people into deeper relationship with Christ. We are called not only to proclaim the good news but to become the good news in a world that desperately needs it.

Author : Tom Wright
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281073047

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Simply Good News by Tom Wright Pdf

The Gospel means good news, but what makes it news? If the message has been around for 2,000 years, what could possibly be newsworthy about it? And what makes it good? Surely not the stories we hear of damnation, violence, and an angry God. Tom Wright believes many Christians have lost sight of what the ‘good news’ of the gospel really is. In Simply Good News, he shows how a first-century audience would have received the gospel message, what the ‘good news’ means for us today and how it can transform our lives.

Author : Geri Weis-Corbley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1940468833

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... and Now, the Good News by Geri Weis-Corbley Pdf

In a world that may seem dark, Good News Network shines a spotlight on the extraordinary and everyday heroes, the solutions and innovations that can give us hope. This collection celebrates GNN's 20th anniversary of publishing positive news from around the world at GNN.org. Founded in 1997 by former TV news editor Geri Weis-Corbley, these are among her favorite stories from two decades.

Author : Lance Ford
Publisher : Tyndale House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496400345

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Revangelical by Lance Ford Pdf

When you hear the word evangelical, do you think “good news”? That’s what the word means, and it’s what we are meant to be. Yet the surrounding culture often views us as exactly the opposite. Calling yourself an evangelical too often means you are seen through a negative stereotype; people are apprehensive when they hear that an evangelical family has moved into the neighborhood. But is this the way it has to be? What would it look like if evangelical Christians were joyfully living out the gospel in such a way that the culture had no choice but to recognize us as Good News people? Revangelical is a call to realign your heart with the things that most concerned Jesus—a bold message to get the Good News of the gospel of Jesus back into our heads, hearts, mouths, and feet. Full of stories of evangelicals who are living out the Good News and changing the world, Revangelical will inspire and equip us to relearn the heart of the gospel and to become the people God has called us to be.

Author : Scot McKnight
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781932792294

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Jesus and His Death by Scot McKnight Pdf

Recent scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning sacrifice, and that his death as an atoning sacrifice stood at the heart of Jesus' own mission to protect his own followers from the judgment of God.

Author : William EDWARDS (Farmer, near Lancaster.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025214678

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Good news for England: being a strange and remarkable account how a stranger in bright raiment appeared to one Farmer Edwards, etc by William EDWARDS (Farmer, near Lancaster.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025214716

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A World of Wonders! Good News to the Sinful and Guilty ... Being the Sinner's Espousals to Jesus Christ. An American Poem by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dana Perino
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455584895

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And the Good News Is... by Dana Perino Pdf

From her years as the presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News' The Five, Dana Perino reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, kept her level-headed, and led to her success, even in the face of adversity. Thoughtful, inspiring, and often surprising, And the Good News is . . . traces Dana Perino's unlikely journey through politics and television. It's a remarkable American story-made up of equal parts determination and clear-eyed optimism. From facing professional challenges and confronting personal fears to stepping up to a podium for a President, Dana has come to expect the unexpected and has an uncanny ability to find the good news in any tough situation. And the Good News is . . . takes us from her Western childhood in Wyoming and Colorado to a chance meeting on an airplane that changes her life entirely. Then, with refreshing honesty and humor, she recounts her frustration with a string of unsatisfying jobs and living circumstances until a key career tip leads her back to Washington, D.C. to work for the Bush Administration. Dana also shares here her best work and life lessons-tips that will help you to get your point across convincingly while allowing your own grace and personality to shine through. As someone who still believes in working together to solve the problems our nation faces, Dana offers clear, practical advice on how to restore civility to our personal and public conversations. The result is a fascinating read that can help anyone become more successful, productive, and joyously content.

Author : Jeff Mack
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452118536

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Good News, Bad News by Jeff Mack Pdf

Good news, Rabbit and Mouse are going on a picnic. Bad news, it is starting to rain. Good news, Rabbit has an umbrella. Bad news, the stormy winds blow the umbrella (and Mouse!) into a tree. So begins this clever story about two friends with very different dispositions. Using just four words, Jeff Mack has created a text with remarkable flair that is both funny and touching, and pairs perfectly with his energetic, and hilarious, illustrations. Good news, this is a book kids will clamor to read again and again!

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691234441

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How God Becomes Real by T.M. Luhrmann Pdf

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.

Author : Michael Horton
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441205241

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The Gospel-Driven Life by Michael Horton Pdf

In his well-received Christless Christianity Michael Horton offered a prophetic wake-up call for a self-centered American church. With The Gospel-Driven Life he turns from the crisis to the solutions, offering his recommendations for a new reformation in the faith, practice, and witness of contemporary Christianity. This insightful book will guide readers in reorienting their faith and the church's purpose toward the good news of the gospel. The first six chapters explore that breaking news from heaven, while the rest of the book focuses on the kind of community that the gospel generates and the surprising ways in which God is at work in the world. Here is fresh news for Christians who are burned out on hype and are looking for hope.

Author : Katherine Stewart
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610390507

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The Good News Club by Katherine Stewart Pdf

In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, bills itself as an after-school program of "Bible study." But Stewart soon discovered that the Club's real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity and encourage them to proselytize to their "unchurched" peers, all the while promoting the natural but false impression among the children that its activities are endorsed by the school. Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this -- and other forms of religious activity in public schools -- legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey to dozens of cities and towns across the nation to document the impact. In this book she demonstrates that there is more religion in America's public schools today than there has been for the past 100 years. The movement driving this agenda is stealthy. It is aggressive. It has our children in its sights. And its ultimate aim is to destroy the system of public education as we know it.

Author : Paul Keenan
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780759522879

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Good News for Bad Days by Paul Keenan Pdf

A practical approach to satisfying spiritual hunger & living a more joyous life.

Author : Abi Smith
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786064462

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Russell Howard by Abi Smith Pdf

Abi Smith heads deep into the West Country to discover how people from as far as Midsomer Norton, Somerset to Minneapolis, USA fell in love with this energetic, mesmerizing, boyishly blond Bristolian. How exactly has Russell, the kid who used to sleep with his underpants on his head in an effort to cure his acne, become the geezer who is now headlining shows at the O2 Arena, Wembley and the Royal Albert Hall? How has the timid boy who wouldn't speak at family gatherings because he was too shy become a TV panel-show heavyweight? How has the teen who wore his jeans back-to-front because he thought he looked like a cool rapper become an award-winning stand-up with a string of worldwide sell-out tours to his name? He might describe himself as the "munter" of all his friends with his wonky teeth and lazy eye, but there is something rather special about this good-natured, good-fun dude whose favorite topics of stand-up quite often include his mother's hilarious antics. One thing's for sure, he might have been bullied at school, had haircuts from hell and missed out on a career as a footballer but he is certainly having the last laugh now - and we are in the front row laughing out-loud with him.

Author : B. William Silcock,Don Heider,Mary T. Rogus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135251048

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Managing Television News by B. William Silcock,Don Heider,Mary T. Rogus Pdf

Managing Television News provides a practical introduction to the television news producer, one of the most significant and influential roles in a newscast. The book provides critical skill sets to help resolve ethical dilemmas, as well