Jesus Lovin

Author : Mark Allan Powell
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413718

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Loving Jesus by Mark Allan Powell Pdf

The essence of spirituality is loving God, says Powell. The Bible, the Talmud, and the Qu'ran all direct their followers not merely to believe in God, to trust God, to obey God, and to serve God but to love God. But how does one do that? Can we learn to love God? In this biblical spirituality for today, Powell's earnest plea is for Christians to revisit their faith not by blazing in religious enthusiasm but by harboring a steadier flame and deeper commitment. Living at the poetic heart of faith, he argues, entails seeing the coordinates of religious life love, understanding, truth, hope and especially devotion in a new way. Powell espouses the old-fashioned idea of piety. Drawing on his wide knowledge of the Bible and Christian tradition, as well as insights from his own journey, he shows how simple religious practices move us beyond the old certitudes of a naove and youthful faith into the less certain but more bracing terrain of a second naovete, a closer walk with Jesus.

Author : Lester Ruth,Lim Swee Hong
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426795145

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Lovin' on Jesus by Lester Ruth,Lim Swee Hong Pdf

Swee Hong Lim and Lester Ruth have filled an important gap in the study of worship. Lovin’ on Jesus: A Concise History of Contemporary Worship is the first scholarly work of its kind on this topic. Lim and Ruth trace the origins and development of what we commonly call contemporary Christian worship, exploring it thoroughly and methodically. Their research includes early recordings and interviews with many who were directly involved in the early stages. The authors were students of James White, and their book is, in a sense, a much-needed addition to White’s classic Introduction to Christian Worship. The thematic structure of Lovin’ on Jesus mirrors that of White’s Introduction, making this book exceedingly useful for students and practitioners in the study of Christian worship as a whole. This is an essential resource for all students, scholars, worship leaders, and pastors who are serious about understanding the worship they lead. “Meticulously researched, accessibly written, generous in its praise, and balanced in its critiques—this is the book for which many of us have long been waiting.” —Melanie C. Ross, Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT “Particularly useful for teaching is the way Lim and Ruth organize their account by practices of time, space, music, prayer, technology, and scripture. This will immediately become a required textbook for the courses I teach on Christian worship.” —Ed Phillips, Associate Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology and Coordinator of the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA “Readers will find Lim and Ruth’s one-of-a-kind history convincing and rigorous. The authors show how a modern genre of Christian worship claimed its place, what it all means, and where it is heading.” —Gerald Liu, Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ “Lovin’ on Jesus is an important book for every pastor, worship leader, and worshipper. This wonderfully prepared study will help you keep your worship experience biblically centered, dynamic, and growing.” —Rick Muchow, Founding Worship Pastor, Saddleback Church, worship leader and coach

Author : Caleb Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737781409

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Simply Love Jesus by Caleb Davis Pdf

Everything is complicated. Or at least it feels that way, doesn't it? But Caleb Davis believes that Jesus is the one thing that shouldn't be. In fact, Caleb believes that the answer to one question can change everything: "What does it mean to Simply Love Jesus?"Open the pages of this book and go on a journey with Caleb to discover how this question not only helps us overcome the struggles in our world and in our life, but through it, we can discover how Jesus intended for His followers to live and how to be Good News to the world around us.

Author : Kurt Bennett
Publisher : Enoch Media
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780984189557

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Love Like Jesus: How Jesus Loved People (and how you can love like Jesus) by Kurt Bennett Pdf

Based on Kurt Bennett's popular-ish blog God Running, Love Like Jesus begins with the story of how after a life of regular church attendance and Bible study, Bennett was challenged by a pastor to study Jesus. That led to an obsessive seven-year deep dive. After pouring over Jesus' every interaction with another human being, he realized he was doing a much better job of studying Jesus' words than he was following Jesus' words and example. The honest and fearless revelations of Bennett's own moral failures affirm he wrote this book for himself as much as for others. Love Like Jesus examines a variety of stories, examples, and research, including: -Specific examples of how Jesus communicated God's love to others. -How Jesus demonstrated all five of Gary Chapman's love languages (and how you can too). -The story of how Billy Graham extended Christ's extraordinary love and grace toward a man who misrepresented Jesus to millions. -How to respond to critics the way Jesus did. -How to love unlovable people the way Jesus did. -How to survive a life of loving like Jesus (or how not to become a Christian doormat). -How Jesus didn't love everyone the same (and why you shouldn't either). -How Jesus guarded his heart by taking care of himself--he even napped--and why you should do the same.-How Jesus loved his betrayer Judas, even to the very end. With genuine unfiltered honesty, Love Like Jesus, shows you how to live a life according to God's definition of success: A life of loving God well, and loving the people around you well too. A life of loving like Jesus.

Author : Jeff Chu
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062359308

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Does Jesus Really Love Me? by Jeff Chu Pdf

“Fascinating, thoughtful, and important. [Jeff Chu] captures the fractures and conflict at a moment when the issue of what to do with L.G.B.T. people is tearing Christian denominations apart. Does Jesus Really Love Me? deserves to be widely read.” —Dan Savage, New York Times Book Review In this timely work—part memoir, part investigative analysis—a prize-winning writer explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America. When Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his devout Christian mother cried. And cried. Every time she looked at him. For months. As a journalist and a believer, Chu knew that he had to get to the heart of a question that had been haunting him for years: Does Jesus really love me? The quest to find an answer propels Chu on a remarkable cross-country journey to discover the God “forbidden to him” because of his sexuality. Surveying the breadth of the political and theological spectrum, from the most conservative viewpoints to the most liberal, he tries to distill what the diverse followers of Christ believe about homosexuality and to understand how these people who purportedly follow the same God and the same Scriptures have come to hold such a wide range of opinions. Why does Pastor A believe that God hates me, especially because of my gayness? Why does Person B believe that God loves me, gayness and all? From Brooklyn to Nashville to California, from Westboro Baptist Church and their god hates fags protest signs to the pioneering Episcopal bishop Mary Glasspool, who proclaims a message of liberation and divine love, Chu captures spiritual snapshots of Christian America at a remarkable moment, when tensions between both sides in the culture wars have rarely been higher. Both funny and heartbreaking, perplexing and wise, Does Jesus Really Love Me? is an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual pilgrimage that reveals a portrait of a faith and a nation at odds.

Author : Hal Hadden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692802983

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Love Jesus by Hal Hadden Pdf

Jesus came to earth so that we can have a personal relationship with God. Unfortunately, most so-called "Christians" are either bored with their relationship with God or they are going through the motions via hollow religious activity. Many have accepted or even rejected the wrong Jesus. "Love Jesus" lays out how Jesus came to be "with us" and even "in us" in a oneness love-relationship. In that relationship, God truly becomes our Father.

Author : Philip Ryken
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781844749508

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Loving the Way Jesus Loves by Philip Ryken Pdf

Most people are familiar with the ‘love chapter’ of the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, yet Phil Ryken still has something new to say. He draws on the earthly life and ministry of Jesus to illustrate Paul’s several statements about what love is and isn’t. These aspects of love are then illuminated chronologically through the story of Christ’s advent, teaching, miracle working, sufferings, crucifixion, death, resurrection and ascension. Jesus never does anything without love. His love is everything the love chapter says that love should be. It is patient with sinners and kind to strangers. It does not envy or boast, but offers itself in humble service. It does not insist on its own way, but submits to the Father. It is able to forgive, trust, hope and persevere. This approach highlights the crucial truth that we are able to love only because Christ first loved us in this particularly profound, very real, and transformative manner.

Author : Stefano M. Manelli
Publisher : Academy of the Immaculate
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781601140296

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Jesus Our Eucharistic Love by Stefano M. Manelli Pdf

A treasure of Eucharistic devotional writings and examples from the Saints showing their stirring Eucharistic love and devotion. Originally written in Italian, this latest edition is the most complete and accurate English translation. It is the most popular of the Academy of the Immaculate books. A valuable aid for reading meditatively before the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus Our Eucharistic Love was written in Italian by a prominent author, and has been translated to several languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Indonesian. In the English language, thousands of copies had been printed. This book is a great demand for communities with Eucharistic adoration and any groups who wish to deepen and revive their faith towards the Holy Eucharist.

Author : Heather Mead
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781105940378

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Jesus Lovin' by Heather Mead Pdf

People who have decided to believe in and follow God were never promised that it would be easy. Actually, we were told it would be really, really hard. We would be made fun of, argued with, and physically abused. Even worse goes on in countries outside of the Unites States. Some people live life on the run, have to attend underground church services, or are killed. But for people who believe, it's all worth it. In these pages, Heather Mead shares her walk as a Christian, including her prayers and thoughts about miracles, fellow Believers, faith, living with sin, having faith, and lessons she's been learning. The book also includes the testimonies of other people, starting with a 9-year-old girl and ending with a 69-year-old man.

Author : Brant Pitre
Publisher : Image
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780770435479

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Jesus the Bridegroom by Brant Pitre Pdf

The bestselling follow-up to Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist. Includes a reader's guide and an excerpt from Pitre's The Case for Jesus. In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: the cross of Christ. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution. Instead, the Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding, when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an everlasting nuptial covenant. To be sure, most Christians are familiar with the apostle Paul’s teaching that Christ is the ‘Bridegroom’ and the Church is the ‘Bride’. But what does this really mean? And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife? If you would have been at the Crucifixion, with Jesus hanging there dying, is that how you would have described it? How could a first-century Jew like Paul, who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were, have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding? And why does he refer to this as the “great mystery” (Ephesians 5:32)? As Pitre shows, the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by going back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing the entire history of salvation, from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary, as a divine love story between Creator and creature, between God and Israel, between Christ and his bride—a story that comes to its climax on the wood of a Roman cross. In the pages of Jesus the Bridegroom, dozens of familiar passages in the Bible—the Exodus, the Song of Songs, the Wedding at Cana, the Woman at the Well, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and even the Second Coming at the End of Time—are suddenly transformed before our eyes. Indeed, when seen in the light of Jewish Scripture and tradition, the life of Christ is nothing less than the greatest love story ever told.

Author : Philip Graham Ryken
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433534119

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Loving Jesus More by Philip Graham Ryken Pdf

Do you love Jesus more than your spouse? Your reputation? Your kids? Your health? Your job? Your money? As Christians, we're called to love Jesus more than anyone or anything else. But do we really do this? Emphasizing that God's love for us is the source of our love for him, Phil Ryken challenges us to take Jesus's words seriously and think carefully about where our affections truly lie.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442426207

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Jesus Loves Me! by Anonim Pdf

Jesus loves you, did you know? Jesus loves me! This I know For the Bible tells me so. The popular Sunday school song is the background text for this warm and richly illustrated book.

Author : John Piper
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521220564

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'Love Your Enemies' by John Piper Pdf

Author : Daniel PROK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798567844847

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The Book of Love by Daniel PROK Pdf

It is a great honor and privilege to share this message of Love with you. I didn't realize that I was on a life journey of Love until a few weeks before I received this Divine writing from Jesus the Christ directly into my mind for me to share with you. The journey of Love I have been on for the last 10 years has taken me from not loving myself, to self-love, to loving myself completely, to feeling loving and loveable to others, to feeling loved and adored by God, and most recently practicing being someone who loves all the time. All these layers and definitions of Love that I have been practicing and experiencing have improved my life tremendously...and then I received this Divine message of Love from Jesus! "But how do we know that it's Jesus?", you may ask. I know from the way the message came into my mind, and then through my heart and soul. The warmth of the Loving energy of Jesus is beyond anything I have felt in my human form. Also, these words are so Divinely stated that it is beyond me to come up with something this good! As for you, you will have a knowing as you read the words. Feel them with your Heart and Soul. Feel them with the depths of your being. You will know. This message takes God's Love, and God's Love within you, to a greater level of understanding, knowing, depth and expansion. Thank you to Jesus for sharing this beautiful message so that everyone, everywhere can experience the Love of God in the way that he has. God Bless you all with God's Love! Daniel Prok

Author : Michael Arceneaux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781501178863

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I Can't Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media. From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I'm Judging You, a timely collection of alternately hysterical and soul‑searching essays about what it is like to grow up as a creative, sensitive black man in a world that constantly tries to deride and diminish your humanity. It hasn’t been easy being Michael Arceneaux. Equality for LGBTQ people has come a long way and all, but voices of persons of color within the community are still often silenced, and being Black in America is…well, have you watched the news? With the characteristic wit and candor that have made him one of today’s boldest writers on social issues, I Can’t Date Jesus is Michael Arceneaux’s impassioned, forthright, and refreshing look at minority life in today’s America. Leaving no bigoted or ignorant stone unturned, he describes his journey in learning to embrace his identity when the world told him to do the opposite. He eloquently writes about coming out to his mother; growing up in Houston, Texas; being approached for the priesthood; his obstacles in embracing intimacy that occasionally led to unfortunate fights with fire ants and maybe fleas; and the persistent challenges of young people who feel marginalized and denied the chance to pursue their dreams. Perfect for fans of David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, and Phoebe Robinson, I Can’t Date Jesus tells us—without apologies—what it’s like to be outspoken and brave in a divisive world.