How Jesus Saves The World From Us

Author : Morgan Guyton
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611646603

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How Jesus Saves the World from Us by Morgan Guyton Pdf

Christianity has always been about being saved. But today what Christians need saving from most is the toxic understanding of salvation we've received through bad theology. The loudest voices in Christianity today sound exactly like the religious authorities who crucified Jesus. This is a book for Christians who are troubled by what we've become and who want Jesus to save us from the toxic behaviors and attitudes we've embraced. Each of the 12 chapters proposes an antidote for the toxicity that has infiltrated Christian culture, such as "Worship not Performance, "Temple not Program," and "Solidarity not Sanctimony." Each chapter includes thought-provoking discussion questions, perfect for individual or group study. There are many reasons to lose hope about the state of our world and our church, but Guyton offers one piece of good news: Jesus is saving the world from us, one Christian at a time.

Author : Darcey Steinke
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802193223

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Jesus Saves by Darcey Steinke Pdf

From one of the most daring and sensuous young writers in America, Jesus Saves, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a suburban gothic that explores the sources of evil, confronts the dynamic shifts within theology, and traces the consequences of suburban alienation. Set in the modern launch pads of adolescent ritual, the strip malls and duplexes on the back side of suburbia, it’s the story of two girls: Ginger, a troubled minister’s daughter; and Sandy Patrick, who has been abducted from summer camp and now smiles from missing-child posters all over town. Layering the dreamscapes of Alice in Wonderland with the subculture of River’s Edge, Darcey Steinke’s Jesus Saves is an unforgettable passage through the depths of the literary imagination.

Author : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465101273

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Gospel Principles by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Pdf

A Study Guide and a Teacher’s Manual Gospel Principles was written both as a personal study guide and as a teacher’s manual. As you study it, seeking the Spirit of the Lord, you can grow in your understanding and testimony of God the Father, Jesus Christand His Atonement, and the Restoration of the gospel. You can find answers to life’s questions, gain an assurance of your purpose and self-worth, and face personal and family challenges with faith.

Author : Bryan Loritts
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310344940

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Saving the Saved by Bryan Loritts Pdf

White-knuckling can never get you where you want to go. But grace can. You already know because you’ve tried: repeated attempts to earn God’s love and approval get you nowhere and leave you exhausted. When performance taints our relationship with him, the Christian life can turn into an unholy hustle. It was never meant to be like this. In Saving the Saved, Pastor Bryan Loritts reveals the astonishing truth that God doesn’t want your spiritual scorekeeping. He simply wants your surrender. The punchline of the gospel of Matthew is just that—a message of grace and performance-free love to do-good, try-harder Jews who thought they had to earn their way into God’s favor. It’s an ancient message, yet it can be a lifeline to us today as we live in a world of performance metrics. Just as Matthew wrote to the Jews in his gospel, we were never meant to flounder under the pressures and anxieties of show Christianity. Make no mistake: we are called to live in obedience, but Jesus wants us to save us from the illusion that our actions can ever earn God’s acceptance of us. In Pastor Bryan’s relevant, uncompromising style, Saving the Saved proclaims the good news that once the pressure is off to perform, we are free to abide. Beyond the man-made rules and the red tape, there is a God who knows you by name. Come and meet him as you’ve never known him before.

Author : Louie Giglio
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780785256113

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At the Table with Jesus by Louie Giglio Pdf

At the Table with Jesus invites readers to sixty-six days of rich engagements with the Good Shepherd, providing deeper truths, power, and connection to walk through life’s troubles. Through practical daily devotions, At the Table with Jesus invites readers to sit at the table with the Good Shepherd, building a habit of living life with him. The journey starts in Psalm 23 but takes the reader throughout all of Scripture to build a stronger relationship with the God of the universe.

Author : Matt Perman
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310494232

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What's Best Next by Matt Perman Pdf

By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do. There are a lot of myths about productivity--what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information overload, it may feel harder than ever to understand the meaning of work or to have a sense of vocation or calling. So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity? Matt Perman has spent his career helping people learn how to do work in a gospel-centered and effective way. What's Best Next explains his approach to unlocking productivity and fulfillment in work by showing how faith relates to work, even in our everyday grind. What's Best Next is packed with biblical and theological insight and practical counsel that you can put into practice today, such as: How to create a mission statement for your life that's actually practicable. How to delegate to people in a way that really empowers them. How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you. How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day. How to have peace of mind without needing to have everything under control. How generosity is actually the key to unlocking productivity. This expanded edition includes: a new chapter on productivity in a fallen world a new appendix on being more productive with work that requires creative thinking. Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done--the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. You can learn how to do work that matters and how to do it well.

Author : David Tremaine
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532646157

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The Beautiful Letdown by David Tremaine Pdf

One of the most widely accepted ways of describing an addiction is as a disease, but do we realize what we are saying when we describe it that way? Our current language and approach to addiction is not only lacking in depth but is keeping us blind to an amazing way that God is working in each and every one of us. What if our addictions are not broken parts of us that we have to get rid of, but invitations from God to new depth and transformation? When we are able to hold this experience gently and look at it anew, it reveals a new depth to how we can understand ourselves, our suffering, and God. For too long we have been trying to treat addiction like a disease, and tear it out by the root, but we are invited to something more in our humanity; something that we will never find if we continue to wish away our suffering. Author David Tremaine explores the possibilities of understanding addiction not as a diseased part of our humanity, but as a blessed part of our spiritual journey, and sheds new light on this deeply engrained experience of God.

Author : Elder Harvey Marshall
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426989933

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Promises to Confess To by Elder Harvey Marshall Pdf

Author Harvey Marshall gleaned great thoughts, ideas, and inspiration while reading the Bible, and he wanted to share what he found with others. At first, he texted the encouraging words he learned by cell phone. Then, he sent them via e-mail, and finally he created a website with which to share the good news. In Promises to Confess to, Marshall shares these lessons, gleaned from Scripture readings, and discusses the meanings behind the encouraging words and the promises from God that are a part of the Bible's message. He follows each short inspiration with a confession or prayer that relates to the discussion. Promises to Confess to provides a lens through which to look at God and to appreciate the many colors that his glory has allowed to fall upon the earth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544420641

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Jesus Saves the World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546347186

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Christs Agony by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Jonathan Edwards is one of America's greatest philosophers and theologians, and his sermons and texts are treasured pieces of American Puritan literature. He spent much of his life as a missionary to Native Americans, and his dedication to the faith has inspired generations of Christians. Edwards is known for both his high intelligence and reasoning prowess, as well as for the raw and tangible passion he expressed in his sermons. Known as a "fire and brimstone" preacher, Edwards converted many 18th century Americans.

Author : Frank D. Macchia
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830859610

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The Trinity, Practically Speaking by Frank D. Macchia Pdf

Three Gods, or One, or Three-in-One? Since the word Trinity does not appear in the Bible, many people wonder whether the doctrine is anything more than an intellectual puzzle created by theologians. This book takes readers on a guided tour of the logic leading to understanding God as a Trinity. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Bible (and in Christian experience) are all vital to the reality of salvation. All three save. This point may not seem to be very significant until seen in the light of the basic premise of the entire Bible, namely, that only God can save (Hosea 13:4). There are benefits involved in understanding God as a communion of persons, a circle of love. God is no longer viewed as a distant judge removed from the sorrows of earthly existence. Salvation can be seen as more than mere forgiveness of sins. It also involves a life-transforming communion of divine love. A robust understanding of the Trinity fosters a more full and transformed Christian life.

Author : David M. Knight
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781468947373

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Why Jesus? by David M. Knight Pdf

The Gospel reveals that what God wants most of all is not that this world and all the people in it should function as He created them to function. What God wants most of all is relationship. He wants each of us to call Him and know Him by name as He calls each of us by name. And Jesus was God's way of revealing this.

Author : G. K. Karimkhani, ThD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781499083996

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The New Birth by G. K. Karimkhani, ThD Pdf

Dear Friend, As you see God commands all children of Adam to be born again. There is no mention of any type or any kind of religion or doing any work but to believe on the Lord Jesus and to die to yourself and to let the great Jehovah of Israel, the Lord Jesus to give you LIFE and to make you His own Holy Temple. To believe on the Lord Jesus and to trust Him and His works as the propitiation for your sins is called "faith" and that faith is not from the dead corpse but given to you by the LIFE giving Holy Spirit of God Himself, the Comforter. The Lord assures us that when the Comforter comes, He will inform us of the Truth (the Lord Jesus). The fact is that the New Birth that is in the Lord Jesus has nothing to do with religions, and the religions have nothing to do with it either. It is the wonder of wonder that the New Birth in the Lord Jesus has been shuffled in with the religions of this sin infected terminal world. Christianity is all Christ and only Him and no longer the dead corpse of the child of Adam doing religion. However, it is called a "religion" to deceive the children of Adam. The Satan says: "all religions are from God and He gave them to us. We need to respect all religions because they are from God and they all lead to Him. Choose any of the religions you want and they are all as good as the other. God knows our needs and differences and that is why he gave all kinds of religions. Coexist in love and respect with the believers of the other religions for they are all from God." But which God? The god or gods of this mortal hog-pen or the Great Jehovah of Israel, the Lord Jesus.

Author : Craig Hovey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532641282

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Exploring Christian Ethics by Craig Hovey Pdf

A fresh, engaging, and thoroughly biblical account of Christian ethics for the twenty-first century. Studying Christian ethics tends to involve talking about what we should or, more often, shouldn’t do. The aim of this book, however, is to explore Christian ethics within a wider, more positive framework—one that encourages a joyful way of living that flows naturally out of the abundant goodness of God’s life and character, as revealed in Christ.

Author : Ann Christie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317085171

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Ordinary Christology by Ann Christie Pdf

Ordinary Christology is defined as the account of who Jesus was/is and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have received no formal theological education. In this fascinating study Ann Christie analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the main christologies and soteriologies operating in a sample of ordinary churchgoers. Christie highlights the formal characteristics of ordinary Christology and raises questions about how we should respond to the beliefs about Jesus held by ordinary churchgoers. Empirical findings have important pastoral, theological, and missiological implications, and raise important questions about the importance (or otherwise) of 'right' belief for being Christian. This book presents a model for how the study of ordinary theology can be conducted, with the in-depth theological analysis and critique which it both requires and deserves.