Jesus In The Margins

Author : Rick Mckinley
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307563590

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Jesus in the Margins by Rick Mckinley Pdf

Good News Unpacked Jesus is our ultimate model for finding identity, acceptance, and legitimacy from the Father. As we pull back the curtain on His life, we discover that Jesus knows what it’s like to be marginalized. He understands how it feels to have society shove you to the side, to not really be accepted, and in the end to be totally rejected. He can identify with life in the margins because when God came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, He landed in the margins. On purpose. And He chose to land there because it’s in the margins that broken lives get mended, prisoners are set free, and the poor hear the Good News. Reimagine Your Life Welcome to the crowded margins of life. It’s a place where normal people don’t feel normal. Where the daily grind drowns out the soft cry within that says, “I do not have it together.” Where just beneath the surface we long for meaning and—dare we hope?—wholeness. Rick McKinley writes from experience: Only God can rescue a person from the margins. Why? Because when He came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, in the margins is where he landed. On purpose. To find you. Don’t wait till you get yourself together. Meet Jesus in the margins just as you are, and reimagine your life through the lens of His transforming love. Story Behind the Book This book was birthed out of Rick’s ministry at Imago Dei Community Church. Rick’s heart is to communicate God’s Word in an understandable way to those who are outside the reach of traditional churches. He often calls this “unpacking the gospel”—a gospel he sees as the predominant theme in all of Scripture. Rick says the kind of people he ministers to “are not afraid of the language of theology, but the theological ideas need to be brought down from the mountain.”

Author : Edwina Gateley,Robert Lentz
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608333868

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Christ in the Margins by Edwina Gateley,Robert Lentz Pdf

Author : Robert Lentz,Edwina Gateley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000087104802

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Christ in the Margins by Robert Lentz,Edwina Gateley Pdf

Those who "live in the world but are not of it" have something important to tell us about transcending the world. These men and women include the poor and the broken, mystics and visionaries, artists, children and fools. They all live in the margins, and each one wears the face of Christ in a unique way. Christ in the Margins features forty Robert Lentz icons and biographies of Christ-figures who confound the status quo. Together with Edwina Gateley's stories of men and women who have led her to experience the Christ who lives in all of us, it is both profoundly spiritual and spiritually profound. Book jacket.

Author : Harold Joseph Recinos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004901521

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Who Comes in the Name of the Lord? by Harold Joseph Recinos Pdf

"Recinos calls mainline Christians to step outside their institutional turf to work among the marginalized where society and barrio Christianity will combine to clarify the cultural role of Christians - to respond to the work of God in human history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Carolyn Custis James
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683590811

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Finding God in the Margins by Carolyn Custis James Pdf

The ancient book of Ruth speaks into today's world with astonishing relevance. In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. In Finding God in the Margins, Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who, in the eyes of the patriarchal culture, are zeros. Against the backdrop of disturbing issues in today's world, this bracing narrative puts on display a radical gospel way of living together as human beings that shouts the Kingdom of God, foreshadows Jesus' gospel, and raises the bar for men and women, then and now.

Author : Thomas Bohache
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334040583

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Christology from the Margins by Thomas Bohache Pdf

Provides a comprehensive queer discussion of Christology, concluding with the view of Christ's person and work from a queer perspective. Suitable for undergraduate study.

Author : Scott Sauls
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496403834

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Jesus Outside the Lines by Scott Sauls Pdf

Whether the issue of the day on Twitter, Facebook, or cable news is our sexuality, political divides, or the perceived conflict between faith and science, today’s media pushes each one of us into a frustrating clash between two opposing sides. Polarizing, us-against-them discussions divide us and distract us from thinking clearly and communicating lovingly with others. Scott Sauls, like many of us, is weary of the bickering and is seeking a way of truth and beauty through the conflicts. Jesus Outside the Lines presents Jesus as this way. Scott shows us how the words and actions of Jesus reveal a response that does not perpetuate the destructive fray. Jesus offers us a way forward—away from harshness, caricatures, and stereotypes. In Jesus Outside the Lines, you will experience a fresh perspective of Jesus, who will not (and should not) fit into the sides.

Author : Felix Wilfred
Publisher : ISPCK
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : 8184580312

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Margins by Felix Wilfred Pdf

Author : Craig Warren Greenfield
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310346241

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Subversive Jesus by Craig Warren Greenfield Pdf

When Jesus left the most exclusive gated community in the universe to come live with the people he loved and gave his life for, he turned everything we know and believe about life on its head. Jesus said that he came to bring good news to the poor, but most Western Christians remain disconnected and isolated from the poor and their contexts of injustice. Even our churches echo society’s pressure to isolate ourselves from the margins (e.g. by moving to a better suburb) and instead teach us how to be “nice people” who worship a “nice Jesus” and don’t disrupt the status quo. Convinced that Jesus places love for the poor and the pursuit of justice central, Craig Greenfield has sought to follow in Christ’s footsteps by living among people at the edges of society for the last fourteen years. His quest to follow this Subversive Jesus has taken Craig and his young family from the slums of Asia to inner city Canada and back again. This is the story of how Jesus led them to the margins: initiating the Pirates of Justice flash mobs, sharing their home with detoxing crackheads, welcoming homeless panhandlers and prostitutes to the dinner table, and ultimately sparking a movement to reach the world’s most vulnerable children. This book is a strong and potentially controversial critique of the status quo too often found in our churches, but it offers an inspirational and hopeful vision of another way. While readers may not relocate to a slum, they will certainly come to view their lives and ministry through a fresh lens—reconsidering how they are uniquely called by Jesus to subversively love the poor and break down systems of injustice in their sphere of influence.

Author : Cheryl J. Sanders
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725226081

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Ministry at the Margins by Cheryl J. Sanders Pdf

For centuries women, youth, and the poor have been seen as objects of Christian ministry, but rarely as those who do ministry themselves. This is so much the case that in some quarters today ministry and mission are bad words, reeking of older and paternalistic models of Christian "service." In this challenging book, Cheryl Sanders demonstrates how mission can be updated. Far from being regressive or irrelevant in a multicultural, nonpatriarchal world, Christian mission can come alive when it is not just ministry to but ministry by marginalized groups seeking justice. Ministry at the Margins is an important Christian ethicist's rousing call to "find grace to articulate a theology of inclusion and to establish inclusive practices and multicultural perspectives that harmonize with the gospel we preach and honor the Christ we proclaim." Essential reading for pastors, church leaders, students, urban missionaries, and campus ministers.

Author : Rob Schellert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0992663709

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Without Borders by Rob Schellert Pdf

Written from within no-man's land which divides the faithful Church and the radical anarchist movement, 'Without Borders' explores the human tendency to reinforce structures that keep people separated from one another. Taking examples and teachings from the life of Jesus, paired with personal stories of journeying with activists, squatters, anarchists and rebels, Rob Schellert demonstrates theologically and practically how individuals and communities can break down barriers that separate 'us' from 'them' and participate in the mission of God.

Author : Richard Beck
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506455594

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Trains, Jesus, and Murder by Richard Beck Pdf

"Saints and sinners, all jumbled up together." That's the genius of Johnny Cash, and that's what the gospel is ultimately all about. Johnny Cash sang about and for people on the margins. He famously played concerts in prisons, where he sang both murder ballads and gospel tunes in the same set. It's this juxtaposition between light and dark, writes Richard Beck, that makes Cash one of the most authentic theologians in memory. In Trains, Jesus, and Murder, Beck explores the theology of Johnny Cash by investigating a dozen of Cash's songs. In reflecting on Cash's lyrics, and the passion with which he sang them, we gain a deeper understanding of the enduring faith of the Man in Black.

Author : Eugene H. Peterson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802867032

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The Jesus Way by Eugene H. Peterson Pdf

Arguing that the way Jesus leads and the way we follow are symbiotic, Peterson begins with a study of how the ways of those who came before Christ revealed and prepared the way of the Lord that became complete in Jesus. He then challenges the ways of the contemporary American church, showing in stark relief how what we have chosen to focus on--consumerism, celebrity, charisma, and so forth--obliterates what is unique in the Jesus way.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Wellspring
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Lord's Supper
ISBN : 1937509176

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Jesus Shock by Peter Kreeft Pdf

Author : Reni K Jacob
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781648056314

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God of the Margins by Reni K Jacob Pdf

The God of the Margins is a unique self-explorative and self-reflective lamentation of a Christian who does not settle with the comfortable reality in which our personal faith is strictly separated from the disturbing reality of everyday life. The author forces himself into the incommodious position of reflection over the line where our personal faith and understanding of Jesus Christ as our savior and redeemer, our noble principles on which we build our lives, collide with the rough reality of the street, the cruelty of social issues like discrimination, crime, ignorance, and poverty, and the seamy side of globalization. Ultimately, the author is intending to move us to become the real ambassadors of Jesus’ love, the love that is expressed in acts of siding with the poor and the oppressed making those in the margins as Heroes. “Reading these poems will be disturbing for most of us, I know, but it can help those who are willing to gain a clear conscience before God and man especially in caring for the marginalized and taking a stand for Justice. The concerns and insights expressed in understandable poetic language enable us to follow the biblical mandate for providing the opportunity to experience life in all its fullness to all by bringing those in the periphery to the centre.” - Dr. George Samuel, Formerly Nuclear Scientist, Former Board Member World Vision International, Currently President, Olive Theological Institute, Thiruvalla.