Gossiping Jesus

Author : John W. Daniels
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610974806

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Gossiping Jesus by John W. Daniels Pdf

Readers of the Gospels are typically attuned to the words of Jesus while paying comparatively little attention to what other characters in the narratives say about him. This innovative study of John's Gospel looks at the text through the lens of a routinely misunderstood mode of speech, namely, gossip. Focusing on talk about Jesus in John, the author unpacks the intricate relationship between gossip and various social dynamics of Jesus' world, demonstrating how they collude to construct Jesus' identity. Ultimately, it is suggested that John presents a Jesus whose identity is elusive to both outsiders like the Pharisees and insiders like his disciples, and thus models the importance, if not the sheer necessity, of the ongoing public discourse around the question "Who is Jesus?"

Author : Mia F. Stubbs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781462843138

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Stop The Gossiping by Mia F. Stubbs Pdf

Author : Nancy Ebersole
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781664280106

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The Christian Gossip Show by Nancy Ebersole Pdf

The Christian Gossip Show: Season 1 contains the Gospel according to a slightly bizarre woman named Nancy (non-sense) Ebersole. Certainly don’t blame its content on Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. These stories are similar but not exactly the same. Instead, this is a humorous collection of skits that offer lessons on various biblical principles. There are a variety of ways for readers to engage with the text. Each segment can be read as a short story. Another option would be to perform the skits with one or multiple actors, with the help of prop lists and instructions. These skits also serve as a launching pad for Bible study and discussion. Adults and youth alike will appreciate the entertaining and humorous ways these biblical topics are addressed. No matter where you stand with the Lord, Nancy prays God will use her silly stories, songs, and the scriptures in a way that blesses you and makes you laugh. Among all the “nonsense,” there are pearls of truth from God’s own heart that He wants to share with you.

Author : Matthew C. Mitchell
Publisher : CLC Publications
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619580770

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Resisting Gossip by Matthew C. Mitchell Pdf

With gossip being so prevalent in our culture, it can be hard to resist listening to and sharing stories about other people's business. But what does God say about gossip? In Resisting Gossip, Pastor Matt Mitchell not only outlines the scriptural warnings against gossip, but also demonstrates how the truth of the gospel can deliver believers from this temptation.

Author : Donald Capps
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498290371

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Humor Us by Donald Capps Pdf

This book addresses the fact that Americans tend to live under a considerable amount of stress, tension, and anxiety, and suggests that humor can be helpful in alleviating their distress. It posits that humor is a useful placebo in this regard; cites studies that show that humor moderates life stress; considers the relationship of religion and humor, especially as means to alleviate anxiety; proposes that Jesus had a sense of humor; suggests that his parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard has humorous implications for the relief of occupational stress; explores the relationship of gossip and humor; and suggests that Jesus and his disciples were a joking community. It concludes that Jesus viewed the kingdom of God as a worry-free existence.

Author : Zona Hayes Morrow
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606835630

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Gossip by Zona Hayes Morrow Pdf

You Can Walk in Freedom, Blessing and Victory When You Learn to Possess the Heart, Mind and Mouth of Christ! There is a kingdom on the inside of each of us. Either Jesus sits on the throne, or the devil sits on the throne. In this book, Dr. Zona Hayes-Morrow shows how our words affect our lives. The smallest word of judgement can open the door for the devil to attack. When you talk about another person, you give place to the devil. As Christians, we need to look at the person's heart and not their appearance. The Lord wants our lives to be so filled with His love that when someone else attacks us, we can be ready to forgive immediately, never affecting the love we should have for them. This is not a game we are playing. One quick word can cause a long time of sorrow. This is why it is imperative that we guard our mind, our mouth and our heart. We must pray daily to have the mind, the mouth and the heart of Christ.

Author : Pope Francis
Publisher : The Word Among Us Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781593254797

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The Infinite Tenderness of God by Pope Francis Pdf

Sit at the feet of Pope Francis as he preaches to you! This collection includes highlights of the Holy Father's homilies and addresses on Gospels texts, beginning with the birth of Jesus and ending with the resurrection appearances. Short, digestible reflections provide plenty of food for thought and prayer. Pope Francis continually urges his flock to read the Gospels in order to get to know Jesus. This book will help you do so. As always, you can count on the pope's words to both challenge and comfort you as you seek to live out your faith in concrete ways.

Author : Mogens Müller,Jesper Tang Nielsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567665836

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Luke's Literary Creativity by Mogens Müller,Jesper Tang Nielsen Pdf

A combination of two classic discussions in New Testament scholarship, the contributions in this volume shed light on the still unsolved synoptic problem by using the well-coined concept of rewriting to describe the relationship between the synoptic gospels. The contributions work with the hypothesis that the synoptic tradition can be conceived of as a process of rewriting: Matthew rewrote Mark and Luke rewrote Mark and Matthew. This approach to the synoptic problem dismantles the grounds for the otherwise widely accepted two-source theory. If it can be shown that Luke knew Matthew's Gospel the Q-hypothesis is superfluous. One group of articles focuses on the general question of Luke's literary relation to the other gospels. In these essays, the concept of rewriting describes Luke's use of his sources. The second part of the collection examines a number of texts in order to shown how Luke rewrites specific passages. In the final section the contributions concern Luke's relation to Roman authorities. It is shown that Luke's literary creativity is not limited to his predecessors in the gospel tradition. Rewriting is his literary strategy.

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736352987

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The Indwelling Christ in the Canon of the New Testament by Witness Lee Pdf

This book focuses on the relation of God and man as "the central revelation of the whole Bible." It covers the indwelling Christ, the Christ who indwells the believers, through the New Testament, particularly the epistle's of the apostle Paul.

Author : Michael Root,James J. Buckley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630874193

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Who Do You Say That I Am? by Michael Root,James J. Buckley Pdf

No question is more central to Christian living, preaching, and theology than Jesus' question to his disciples: Who do you say that I am? Some would have it that pastors and theologians, biblical exegetes and historians, dogmatic and moral theologians, Catholic and Evangelical have more differences than similarities in the way Christians with such diverse vocations respond to Jesus' question. And there is little doubt that there sometimes seem to be unbridgeable gulfs between the way historians and believers, Internet gossipers and preachers, classical christological debates and present-day praying and pastoral care implicitly or explicitly address the Lord's question. But the authors here address these and other issues in ways that are remarkably convergent, as if a "Catholic and Evangelical theology" for proclaiming and following Jesus today has emerged, or is indeed emerging.

Author : Zeba A. Crook
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467458283

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The Ancient Mediterranean Social World by Zeba A. Crook Pdf

What was the ancient world like? Ancient sources tell us a great deal about the cultural patterns and values that prevailed in the Mediterranean of the biblical periods: how they constructed identity how they exercised control over groups, space, gender, and dress how they thought of friendship how they participated in social and economic exchange how ritual functioned and how kinship was constructed what healing practices, evil eye, and altered states of consciousness tell us about their sciences how they talked about each other behind their backs, and why The Ancient Mediterranean Social World makes the rich social context of the ancient Mediterranean available to readers through succinct introduction of key ideas, thoughtful selection of translated primary sources, and extensive cataloging of relevant primary sources. Zeba Crook brings together leading scholars to write on twenty different topics, from patronage to gender to loyalty to evil eye. Each chapter opens with an introduction to the topic, offers a short list of secondary sources, and an extensive list of primary sources. The passages in each chapter reflect the vast array of sources roughly from Homer to Augustine, including epigraphical, papyrological, literary, historical, philosophical, biblical, and dramatic texts. This authoritative volume serves as a ready reference for the novice and experienced scholar alike. Contributors: Alicia J. Batten, Giovanni B. Bazzana, Agnes Choi, Zeba A. Crook, John W. Daniels Jr., Dennis C. Duling, John H. Elliott, Amy Marie Fisher, Mischa Hooker, Emil A. Kramer, Jason T. Lamoreaux, Dietmar Neufeld, Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ, Douglas E. Oakman, Ronald D. Roberts, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Colleen Shantz, Gary Stansell, Eric C. Stewart, Erin K. Vearncombe, and Ritva H. Williams.

Author : Pieter F Craffert
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227903254

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The Life of a Galilean Shaman by Pieter F Craffert Pdf

The aim of historical Jesus research is to identify the authentic material from which the historical figure as a social type underneath the overlay is constructed. Pieter Craffert's anthropological historiography offers an alternative framework for dealing with Jesus of Nazareth as a social personage fully embedded in a first-century Mediterranean worldview and the Gospels as cultural artefacts related to this figure. This cross-cultural model represents a religious pattern that refers to a family of features for describing those religious entrepreneurs who, based on regular Altered State of Consciousness experiences, perform a specific set of social functions in their communities.

Author : O.C. Isom II
Publisher : Author House
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781491868140

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WOUNDS CAUSED BY GOSSIP Attitudes And Conflicts Within The Church by O.C. Isom II Pdf

Wounds Caused by Gossip Ministry has been empowered by kingdom of God to equips, train, inform, educate, that we may bring the body of Christ together as one in the spirit. It is time for the church of the living God to help restore our workplace, churches, families, and communities back to God. We live in a society that is flooded with gossip and conflicts. And we just ignore it, because we as people in general love to gossip and keep up conflicts in our world today. But what happen when gossip and conflict infiltrate the workplace and the church. We must realize the core of our problems that we are faced with today is gossip and conflicts that has effect many and cause them to be wounded. Many people can endure all kinds of physical affliction, but when our spirit is wounded and a wounded-spirited person is someone who has been hurt and bruised and/or damaged in their spirit - it can be very painful and hurtful. A wounded spirit comes as a result of a re-action to negative words, events, actions, or a violation of your person or rights - a re-action that crushes you, knocks you down and from which you cannot seem to rise. It crushes an area of your life - your spirit - which is quite devastating in how it affects us. It seems we cannot heal ourselves of a wounded spirit. We see our churches, workplace and even our political government has failed. When we as believers who believe in the power of God's Word we can put a stop to gossip and conflicts in our world today and bring about kingdom changes. We as a people must bring God back in our lives, workplace and our churches and align ourselves under the might hands of God. That why this ministry called "Wound Caused by Gossip ministry" has been orchestrate by God to impact and to transform attitudes that don't line up with the Word of God. It is time for us as a people to achieve our spiritual and natural goals by changing our environment in our workplace and our churches so we can see His will done in our lives as it is in heaven. Many people individual love this ministry. Many of them have gave their testimony how your books on gossip and conflict has cause me to change and be deliver from emotional wounds. In order for us to change we as leaders in workplace and those in the church must understand what is the problem that is hurting and eating away in the workplace and the church? When we understand that gossip and conflict is the basis problems we them must embrace these evil attitudes and find biblical answers to help us overcome these attitudes. Leaders must begin using strategy such as Leaders must begin using strategy such as seminars, workshops, and resources that will address issues of gossip and conflicts. "We must shine the light of God's Word and expose gossip and conflicts"

Author : Gerald Arbuckle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781040029893

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Conspiracy Theorizing by Gerald Arbuckle Pdf

Conspiracy Theorizing explore how should individuals with the Christian faith should react to conspiracy theories, their untruths, and their dangers. This book outlines the way that conspiracy theories are the fundamental basis for this stigmatization and scapegoating. It goes further to explain that scapegoating is fostering extreme divisions within in societies and between nations with each side often demonizing the other. This book states how conspiracy theories satisfy people’s needs for certainty, security, and a positive self-image in a world they feel is disintegrating. Uncovering deeper, when the comforting securities of cultures crumble, paranoia makes sense. This book demonstrates that an inability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity draws people to conspiracy theories when they validate their apprehensions. The commentary in this book also validates that since conspiracy theories can never be verified by objective research and truths they are one of the most problematic subjects to expose. This book aims to answer these questions: What are conspiracy theories? Why do they arise, especially in times of cultural upheavals? Are they harmful? What do the Christian Scriptures say about them? Readers that are interested in religion, Christianity and conspiracy theories would enjoy this book.

Author : Joe Lantz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425963163

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My Yacad by Joe Lantz Pdf

Why did I write this? Because I believe that every person that desires, or claims to be a "CHRISTIAN " should take the time to conduct a comprehensive study of the Scriptures. Acts 17:11 "These were the more noble than Thessalonica, in that they received The Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.", and 2 Tim.3:16 tells us, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, fro reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." This I have done.The result will be that the man of God, might become thoroughly equipped, for every good works." This study should then be documented in writing, which would then become their direction(s) on how they can improve their own personal lives. Having done this, they will be competent to help a brother or sister in their time of need. Further, every person has their own subjects, and/or (circumstances) they must determine themselves. Additionally, I believe every Christian should study the births, history, and future of the CHURCH OF THEIR CHOICE. I then conclude this document with 'A Synopsis' which might be described as my personal offering. The title I have chosen for these studies, and documentation comes from the Hebrew word root, "YACAD" ( ya-saud), which means among others, foundation, cornerstone, or to establish. I believe that we all must build our own foundation, cornerstone, and then establish a viable program in the study of the scriptures. May God Bless all that chose to read, study, and inject these words that I have written. Written for my benefit, and with the Grace of God, that read them.