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As she goes about her work with the villagers, slum dwellers and the common men and women of India, Sudha Murty—writer, social worker and teacher—listens to them and records what they have to say. Their accounts of the struggles and hardships which they have at times overcome, and at other times been overwhelmed by, are put together in this book. There are stories about people’s generosity—and selfishness—in times of natural disasters like the tsunami; women struggling to speak out in a world that refuses to listen to them; and tales of young professionals trying to find their feet as they climb up the corporate ladder. Told simply and directly from the heart, The Old Man and His God is a collection of snapshots of the varied facets of human nature and a mirror to the souls of the people of India.
God for an Old Man blends elements of careful academic thought about God with elements of personal autobiography and memoir. The author is deeply influenced by modern process thought about God, stemming from the thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, but he also describes his own life as a child, adult, and now a person entering his eighties. The central premise is that a person cannot write about a meaningful God without taking seriously the meaning, conflict, loss, and joy in one's own life. Thomas M. Dicken is immersed in both literature and visual art. He explores the ways in which art and literature can evoke a sense of ultimacy, even though we can never attain certain knowledge of the ultimate. Just as the psychiatrist Erik Erikson wrote about major stages in human lives, Dicken writes with a sense of fulfillment about the insights and values of old age. Old age is the age of wisdom, a time for offering younger people the insight that all the stages of life have been very much worth living. This is not a book of easy or dogmatic answers; it is a book of honest exploration. ""This book is the fruit of a lifetime of serious reflection on a God who is present but so profoundly vulnerable and hidden that he may or may not even be there. If you are wondering, read this book, and then wonder more deeply."" --Rem B. Edwards, Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, The University of Tennessee ""As he moves through layers of personal history, scholarly references, and contemplation, Thomas Dicken lures the reader toward deeper insight and questions larger than the reader had thought to ask."" --Janet Parsons Mackey, Author of Things Get Rearranged ""In this thoughtful and engaging book, Dicken takes us on a journey of his life. He reflects on his experiences of growing up in poverty in Kentucky during the 1940's, love, art, literature, facing death, and God. The underlying theme that permeates and unites these diverse topics is his search for meaning in life."" --Brooke Alan Trisel, author of articles on meaning in life ""Dicken draws on the homeless cosmic Jesus, process thought, existential themes, literature, and art to find startling, paradoxical, and 'slant' moments of meaning as, approaching eighty, he reviews his life. In intentionally fragmentary writing that he designates theological graffiti, Dicken deftly and with exquisite irony explores that which lingers, lures, surrounds, and grounds us 'in our deepest most inward being.' The author lures us into finishing his profound fragments."" --Mel Endy, author of William Penn and Early Quakerism Following PhD work at Yale, Thomas M. Dicken taught religious studies at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. After a career with a focus on college age students, he was minister of congregations in Montana, Wisconsin, and Indiana, ministering to the whole spectrum of human life. He now lives an active life of retirement with his wife, Nancy Dicken, in Versailles, Kentucky.
God for an Old Man blends elements of careful academic thought about God with elements of personal autobiography and memoir. The author is deeply influenced by modern process thought about God, stemming from the thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, but he also describes his own life as a child, adult, and now a person entering his eighties. The central premise is that a person cannot write about a meaningful God without taking seriously the meaning, conflict, loss, and joy in one's own life. Thomas M. Dicken is immersed in both literature and visual art. He explores the ways in which art and literature can evoke a sense of ultimacy, even though we can never attain certain knowledge of the ultimate. Just as the psychiatrist Erik Erikson wrote about major stages in human lives, Dicken writes with a sense of fulfillment about the insights and values of old age. Old age is the age of wisdom, a time for offering younger people the insight that all the stages of life have been very much worth living. This is not a book of easy or dogmatic answers; it is a book of honest exploration.
Killing My Old Man; Being the Person God Sees in Me by Rodney Peavy Pdf
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).
The Way God Blessed Old Man Hammer by Jazmin Conolly Pdf
Jazmin Ashley Conolly was born in Miami, Florida. Her grandmother (Daphne Cheddesingh) took care of her while she was a baby and taught her to be positive. "You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you", she would tell her. When she was 9 years old, her grandmother encouraged her to write a story for kids. She came up with the title, "The Way GOD Blessed Old Man Hammer". Her grandmother helped her write down the ideas for the book but she got busy with school work and did not have time to finish the story. Early in 2009, her grandmother encouraged her to finish the story. With much encouragement, she finally finished the story. Jazmin attended Perrine Baptist Academy, a Christian school, where she was taught to fear GOD and love her fellowman. Her parents decided to leave Miami and migrated to Davenport, in Polk County, Florida. Jazmin attended Davenport School of the Arts where she pursued her passion for dancing. She now attends Northridge Christian Academy where she is an excellent student. She also attends Ridge Assembly of God church with her parents. In her spare time she enjoys listening to music, dancing, cheerleading and playing with her cats, Jordan and O.J. (Orange Juice).
Infanticide. Holy war. Divine wrath. Violence in the Old Testament has long been a stumbling block for Christians and skeptics alike. Yet conventional efforts to understand this violence-whether by downplaying it as allegory or a relic of primitive cultures, or by dismissing the authority of Scripture altogether-tend to raise more questions than they answer. God Is a Man of War offers a fresh interpretation of Old Testament accounts of violence by exploring them through the twofold lens of Orthodox tradition and historical context. Father Stephen De Young examines what these difficult passages reveal about the nature of Christ and His creation, bearing witness to a world filled not only with pain and suffering-often of human making-but also with the love of God.
Ken Shigematsu shows that spiritual formation is more than just solitude and contemplative reflections. Spiritual formation happens in the everyday, in each and every moment of life. For those caught up in the busyness of work, family, and church, it often feels like time with God is just another thing on a crowded “to-do’ list. Ken explains how the time-tested spiritual practice of the “rule of life” can help bring busy people into a closer relationship with God. He shows how a personal rule of life can fit almost any vocation or life situation. In God in My Everything, you will discover how to create and practice a life-giving, sustainable rhythm in the midst of your demanding life. If you long for a deeper spirituality but often feel that the busyness of life makes a close relationship with God challenging—and, at times, seemingly impossible—this book is for you.
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
In the book of Ephesians, the church is revealed as the assembly, the household, the Body of Christ, and the new man. The church as the Body of Christ needs Christ as its life, whereas the Church as the new man, the highest aspect of the church, needs Christ as its person. According to Colossians 3:10-11, Christ is all and in all in the new man; thus, in the new man, there is no room for natural persons, culture, status, or ethics. In the new man there is only one person—Christ.
'The Real Scriptures' of God - Old Testament by James Platter Pdf
Inside the covers of this book you will find the Real Scriptures of the Christian churches. Many church leaders know that other Christian churches hold to these books but they are only willing to state what they have been brain-washed to believe, that is about the other inferior books: It isn t in the canon (of scripture) formed of course by the early Catholic Church at various stages and Councils from the fourth century A.D. therefore no one has the right to change what is in the canon of scripture and the Catholic Church changed it in their councils not in agreement of other Christians but to hide their offence at the words of God. They would not even imagine that different churches have different scriptures and assume that the correct canon of scripture must be the one first declared by the Catholic Church and its priests but other priests must be considered demented or apostate, but they are not affected by the changes they made to the canon of Scripture over many centuries. They will not consider the canons of Orthodox Churches or others because they vary in different regions of the world. So is European Christianity based in the Vatican City right about all its holy scriptures while everyone else s church scriptures are false scriptures? Ethiopia it seems got most books of scripture right even with their translation into an ancient language! The Real Scriptures , edited by James Platter above, a layman who formerly studied the scriptures for many years with the Baptist Bible Fellowship in San Dimas, California in the United States, but now rejects the reduced 1627 A.D. Version of the KJV Bible, and formally learned the Greek language of the New Testament at Capernwray Missionary Fellowship, Moss Vale, N. S. W. Australia under the Reverend Alan Catchpoole in 1973.
African Origins of Monotheism by Gwinyai H. Muzorewa Pdf
African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their origins back before the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Monotheism, he maintains, is the ancient view of God, ubiquitous across the continent of Africa; indeed, monotheism comes "out of Africa." The book challenges the way that the idea of God has been manipulated by Eurocentric agendas, by colonizers, enslavers, and empire builders, all of whom were using God-talk to achieve their own personal ends. In African thinking, the God concept is guided by a sense of the presence of the all-pervasive and omnipresent God, which has instilled in the people a sense of respect for life at all costs. Thus, respect is not based on a commandment or on fear but on a propensity for affinity.
This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.
God’s Old Testament Story is just that, the true story of the Old Testament. We begin in Genesis with the creation and continue the story chronologically through Malachi in an easy-to-read form, without repetition. It takes us through the Old Testament and the four hundred years between the Old Testament and the New Testament. From beginning to end, each chapter builds onto the previous chapter. We will see angels and demons, good people and bad people, in an exciting tale of many different relationships. The reader will see God’s love, God’s disappointments, his expectations, and his steadfastness. This journey takes us to the heart of a nation searching and waiting for the deliverer they call Messiah. This is an exciting telling of mankind and God’s love for his creation. 51