Believing In False Gods

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848948532

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Counterfeit Gods by Timothy Keller Pdf

The issue of idolatry has been with the human race for thousands of years; the subtle temptation is always to take what is good and turn it into the ultimate good, elevating it above all other things in the search for security and meaning. In this timely and challenging book, New York pastor Timothy Keller looks at the issue of idolatry throughout the Bible -- from the worship of actual idols in the Old Testament, to the idolatry of money by the rich young ruler when he was challenged by Jesus to give up all his wealth. Using classic stories from the Bible Keller cuts through our dependence on the glittering false idols of money, sex and power to uncover the path towards trust in the real ultimate -- God. Today's idols may look different from those of the Old Testament, but Keller argues that they are no less damaging. Culturally transforming as well as biblically based, COUNTERFEIT GODS is a powerful look at the temptation to worship what can only disappoint, and is a vital message in today's current climate of financial and social difficulty.

Author : V. C. Kitchen,Carl Palmieri
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484892194

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Believing in False Gods by V. C. Kitchen,Carl Palmieri Pdf

Who better to describe this book than Wally P Author, A.A. Archivist, and Historian. Original title for Believing in False Gods was. " I Was A Pagan It is our sincere desire that this book help you in your recovery process God Bless & Good health Tuchy P founder of Healing-habits.com Author, Publisher, and motivational speaker In I Was a Pagan, we learn how Victor Kitchen, a New York City advertising executive, overcame his addiction to alcohol by taking the Oxford Group Four Spiritual Activities of Surrender, Sharing, Restitution and Guidance; and practicing two-way prayer based on the Four Standards of Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness and Love. This timeless study of recovery and redemption was published in 1934, five years before the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous. Here was a man who experienced the miracle of recovery by taking the same "steps" taken by Bill W., Dr. Bob and many other A.A. pioneers before the Twelve Steps were written. This book is a "must read" for anyone interested in the history and evolution of the Twelve-step movement. Bill W. incorporated many of the principles described in this book into the "Big Book," which has been the mainstay of the recovery community for the past 74 years. Wally P. is an A.A. archivist / historian and the author of Back to Basics and How to Listen to God.

Author : Norman L. Geisler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0890814945

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False Gods of Our Time by Norman L. Geisler Pdf

Author : Percy Dearmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UCAL:$B686209

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False Gods by Percy Dearmer Pdf

Author : Bruce Leiter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798619064421

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Overcome Modern Idols by Bruce Leiter Pdf

Do you struggle because of situations or people that weigh you down? How can you get help? This book can help you gain victory over the stressful circumstances in your life. God wants to make you into his victor instead of being a victim. Using easy-to-read language with a generous dose of humor, the author explains and applies the Bible to everyone's daily life. As a result, God can enable you overcome the many false gods that creep into your life from your culture. The study has discussion questions for groups and practical steps you can follow to help you run on your journey with Jesus toward every believer's goal, final perfection after death.Notice the following review by Rev. Jack Stulp, retired pastor and home-missions administrator: "Having read 'Overcome Modern Idols, ' I appreciate that it's not merely a collection of the author's opinions. It is full of Scripture that is quoted and is expounded. Author Leiter is impressed with our Lord's wisdom and seeks to share it."This book does not take the common approach of naming things that people accept as idols, like money. Reflecting much thinking and meditation, this book gets us to think of ways that people come up with distorted and wrong ideas of what God is like and then worship these distorted concepts, which are false gods. I found it helpful and am pleased to recommend this book to others."The following review is from Judy Dunnagan, a Moody Publishers editor: "We can tell that this message is very near and dear to your heart. Your study is very compelling and is needed for such a time as this." The Bible study's chapter outline follows: Part One: An important pattern 1.The desperate need to overcome the false gods and the evil forces 2.Christians' general unawareness of many modern idols 3.The ways that idols creep into believers' lives 4.The Old Testament's teachings against idols 5.Who is more powerful, God or the idols/demons? 6.God's command about the false gods 7.Recognizing and rejecting false idols 8.How to overcome the evil forces' attacks and influences Part Two: Who is the true God compared to the false gods? Part Three: The highest modern idol, the "I-god" -The Old Testament's teaching and depiction of the "I-god" or self-ism -The New Testament's solution to the "I-god" or self-ism -Our connection to Jesus, the Source of our strength -God says that confession is good for the soul Part Four: Six personal false gods often learned in our childhood The bodyguard god The on-demand god The boy(girl)friend god The guilt-god The anti-science god The god-of-the-gaps Part Five: False group-gods learned from the world's cultures Six "Human-gods" - The "Me-god" - The "We-god" - The "Good-us-god" - The "False-theory-god" - The "I-think-god" - The "My-experience-god" Three "Escape-gods" - The "Separate-god" - The "It-god" - The "Fun-god" Four "Whatever-gods" - The "No-god" - The "?-god" - The "Shifty-god" - The "I'm-okay-you're-okay-god" Four "I'm better-gods" - The "My-race-god" - The "My-sex-god" - The "High-head-god" - The "Rage-god" Five undefined gods - The "Form-god" - The "Gone-god" - The "All-god" - The "Always-been-done-that-way god" - The "Law-god" Part Six: The "One-person-gods" Part Seven: Prayer to the true God-the key to experiencing Jesus' victoryEvery Christian is the target of these modern idols, which are Satan's arrows. We can overcome them with the use of the Bible and prayer. How? This Bible study will help you defeat their influence in your life and in that of your loved ones. Awareness is the first step, and then using God's tools to stop their attacks in their tracks is the next step. You will find guidance to stop their influences.

Author : Moreno Dal Bello
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326609528

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God's Good News & False Gospel / True Gospel by Moreno Dal Bello Pdf

SALVATION! What is it? Many have heard the word but have never taken the time to find out what salvation is really all about. 'What is it to be saved, and what is it that one is saved from? And for that matter, how does one get saved and is salvation really necessary? Do I need it?' These questions are often the first to be asked when the issue of salvation is raised but seldom, if ever, do they receive answers that are compatible with what the Word of God says. Many people take the following approach to things 'religious': 'I believe that religion is ok for some people but personally I don't have a need for it. I don't see anything that wrong with my life...The True Christian Faith is not a religion, nor is it primarily a lifestyle...anybody can change their lifestyle, reform and become a 'new person' whether they get involved in religion or not. Christianity is all about a Message, God's Message - God's Gospel.

Author : Glenn Chesnut
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595406807

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Changed by Grace by Glenn Chesnut Pdf

Victor C. Kitchen was a New York City advertising executive who wrote one of the Oxford Group's most important books. He also went to the same Oxford Group meetings as Bill Wilson, who later became the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is a book about A. A.'s roots in the Oxford Group, as seen through the pages of Kitchen's work. It explains how the key ideas, which the two movements shared, arose out of the evolution of the modern evangelical movement. The author begins with John Wesley's Aldersgate experience in 1738 and traces this understanding of the healing power of grace down to Kitchen's and Bill W's time, traversing en route the world of nineteenth century revivalism, the Keswick holiness movement, and the early twentieth century foreign missionary effort. The great theme, around which all of this is centered, is that of God's grace as the power to change human character itself. This book shows what faith and grace are really about. It shows how even faith mixed with doubt can lead us into true spiritual awakening, and it explains the basic nuts and bolts required to obtain a constant conscious contact with a God of our understanding. "Each century produces a small handful of great spiritual books. I believe strongly that Changed by Grace is going to prove one of the greatest of our present century. The best way to describe it is to say that it does for us today what William James' Varieties of Religious Experience did for the world of a hundred years ago."-John Barleycorn in The Waynedale News.

Author : H. M. Vroom
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802840973

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No Other Gods by H. M. Vroom Pdf

Christianity is no longer th dominant belief system in today's pluralistic culture. Eastern religions, esecially, have attracted wide interest. Pressing the theological and dialogical dimensions of religious pluralism, Vroom offers a broad study of the views of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, especially their views on truth.

Author : Alister McGrath,Joanna Collicutt McGrath
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830868735

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The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath,Joanna Collicutt McGrath Pdf

Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath present a reliable assessment of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, famed atheist and scientist, and the many questions this book raises--including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.

Author : Kelly Minter
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0781448972

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No Other Gods by Kelly Minter Pdf

Minter explores what happens when good desires become false gods, robbing people of an intimate relationship with the heavenly Father. (Christian)

Author : Spencer W. Kimball
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0875798829

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The False Gods We Worship by Spencer W. Kimball Pdf

Author : Lee Strobel
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781458759207

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The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel Pdf

The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?"). Together, these interviews compose a case brief defending Jesus' divinity, and urging readers to reach a verdict of their own.

Author : Douglas Hooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987610970

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False Christian Gods by Douglas Hooley Pdf

Jesus warned that when He returns in judgment, "many" will call Him "Lord," and say that they have "prophesied, cast out devils, and done many wonderful things" in His, Jesus', name. To which He will reply that, He "never knew" them (Matthew 7:22-23). Which Jesus is it then, that these "many" false Christians are doing works in the name of, and calling "lord," if not the authentic Jesus of the Bible?When the character and nature of the God of the Bible is changed in any way, a new false god is born. A false god who has a false god son, named Jesus. In this age of Postmodern Progressivism, where truth is relative and under emphasized, and there are 35,000 different denominations, one needs to be careful they are calling the correct Jesus, "lord." The responsibility of getting this right cannot be deferred to anyone: not your pastor, not your priest, and not the pope.Author, Doug Hooley, discusses the history and underlying causes of what is contributing to a startling yet stealthy and seldom recognized problem today; polytheism, the worship of many false gods, within the Church! Doug discusses how to recognize a "not-quite-Jesus," and utilizing biblical principles, guard against such false gods that come in the name of Christ. According to research, people are leaving traditional churches in droves. They are no longer content with traditional religion that has strayed so far from the truth, that even words such as "faith," "hope," and "belief," have lost their original meaning as used in the first century. Many are hungering and searching for the authentic Jesus of the Bible. They are longing to hear His true and complete good news, instead of carrying the weight of traditional religious burdens on their backs. They are looking for the Jesus that came to free them from such burdens and the false gods of religious imaginations who would have them be in bondage. False Christian Gods: Choose Your Jesus Wisely, is a tool to help those who are in search of the authentic Jesus, and His authentic truth.

Author : Bryan Mercier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681923017

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Counterfeit Spirituality by Bryan Mercier Pdf

Author : David Wayne Jones
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433669699

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An Introduction to Biblical Ethics by David Wayne Jones Pdf

An introductory text explaining the nature, relevancy, coherency, and structure of the moral law as revealed throughout the Bible, with discussion of the Ten Commandments as a moral rubric and a subsequent application of each commandment to Christian living.