The Paradox Of Holiness Faith In Search Of Obedience

Author : Donald G. Bloesch
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683070412

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The Paradox of Holiness; Faith in Search of Obedience by Donald G. Bloesch Pdf

Within these pages are the last two previously unpublished works from notable American evangelical theologian, Donald. G. Bloesch. In his spiritual autobiography, Faith in Search of Obedience, Bloesch describes the foundation upon which own theology is based, namely, "a faith in search of obedience." This honest and challenging work reveals and reminds how we are justified by faith alone, but that faith drives us to obey and delight in God's law as we strive to perfect love through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Paradox of Holiness presents the theology of spiritual life as it is shaped and defined by the Word of God. Through this theological exposition, Bloesch presents and explores the paradox that exists in the pursuit of holiness for those who believe. For the theologian, pastor or lay person who is seeking to combine Word and Spirit, doctrine and life, into an active theology, this two-in-one volume by Donald Bloesch provides an honest and sober account of the challenges that may arise throughout the Christian pilgrimage, while pointing toward the hope, encouragement and new life that comes through the triumph of Christ on the cross.

Author : Roger Helland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532636646

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The Devout Life by Roger Helland Pdf

The church in the Western world is largely faltering in its spiritual and missional vitality. There’s a crisis of piety—or the devout life—heartfelt devotion to Christ and his cause. The Pietist movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries grew into a revolutionary torrent of spiritual renewal that influenced the Moravians, the Methodists, the great awakenings, and global evangelicalism as we know it today. The Devout Life explores and expands on ten key features of Pietism to plunge the depths of spiritual renewal for today.

Author : John Johnson
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310120889

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Rooted Leadership by John Johnson Pdf

Behind many of the challenges facing us today is a failure of leadership. This is not a new problem. Yearning for wise guidance and effective authority is a perennial human longing. We need leaders who are credible, competent and committed. But many leaders seem to be caught up, even consumed, with their own power and agendas. Some see the leadership crisis as an intellectual problem, believing we lack a clear theory of leadership. Others view the breakdown of leadership as a result of increasing deficiency in moral character. Most leadership books today revolve around the concepts of motivation, inspiration, empowerment, and teamwork. Helpful as these themes might be, they miss something more fundamental. Leadership needs a theological foundation, that will be useful for shaping the undergirding principles, and evaluating current leadership theories and practices. We need to view leadership from the vantage point of God. In Rooted Leadership, John E. Johnson explores how Christian theology provides an overarching leadership framework and applies that theory to leadership practices. Spiritual reflection, guided by scripture, points us to the very center of leadership--God--and the purpose of leadership--that we might display his glory. All the best forms of leading take their cues from who God is, his purposes, and his ways of working with people that he has progressively revealed. Building on three decades of research, study, and experience as a global leader, Johnson surveys the landscape of contemporary leadership theory, unpacks the assumptions and beliefs that underly current trends, and responds by offering a robust approach to leadership, founded on the character, work, and words of God.

Author : Dougan Clark
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734017728

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The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark

Author : Dougan Clark
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368355784

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The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark Pdf

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Author : Jerry Wragg,Paul Shirley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578447266

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Free to Be Holy by Jerry Wragg,Paul Shirley Pdf

Reformed theology has made a welcome return to the church. With its resurgent emphasis on justification, unfortunately, has come confusion over the biblical pattern of sanctification. Rather than turning to the plain biblical language of faith, humility, and obedience, many are turning inward and measuring genuine love and obedience by their emotional experiences. Affection for God-submissive love rooted in humble faith-is being defined almost exclusively as emotional sensations of joy. In a culture driven by feelings, obeying out of duty is derided as legalism, and striving to be holy is considered a work of the Law. Many in the church are wondering, "Am I really obeying if I don't feel like it?" None of us desire to become the hypocrites Jesus warned of in Matthew 15:8, "This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me." Influential leaders in the church today aren't helping when they challenge believers to cease all striving and simply reflect on the fact of their justification. In this book, Jerry Wragg and Paul Shirley call us back to Scripture's manifest blueprint for becoming conformed to the image of Christ. With balance and warm-hearted clarity, they demonstrate that God's grace empowers us for every good deed. They show us that our justification doesn't liberate us from being diligent in our efforts to trust and obey, but rather it gives us power to withstand temptation and walk with the Lord in victory. Because of grace, we are under obligation to the Word of God and now have resurrection power flowing through our spiritual veins, strengthening every discipline of grace and growing fruit that remains forever. Through faith-filled submission of our will to the Word of God, we "work out [our] salvation," knowing "it is God who is at work in [us], both to will and to work for His good pleasure" (Phil 2:13).

Author : Charles Finney,Classic Domain Publishing
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1500590010

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Holiness Essential to Salvation by Charles Finney,Classic Domain Publishing Pdf

In this day and age we are clearly in the "age of apostasy". Many believe that salvation is assured even in a life full of unholiness, in a life full of sin, in a life full of evil and wrongdoing. But many of the great preachers of the past, including Charles Finney, did NOT believe this way. Most importantly the bible does NOT support this false belief. On the contrary the bible warns us several times that "without holiness no man will see the Lord." (Heb 12:14). Meaning if you are not holy you will not be with God when you die. Instead you will be with the devil in Hell. To focus on some great teachings about holiness we selected the following sermons by Finney: Holiness Essential To Salvation, Holiness And The Holy Spirit, Conditions Of Attaining To Holiness, Way To Be Holy Furthermore to show that Finney's theology was sound we also included his teachings about Justification and Sanctification. If you are living in unholiness you are in grave danger and are in great need of repentance and revelation. Sincerely ask God to reveal the truth to you about holiness and about its necessity. Remember when you die and are before God your teachers and pastors are NOT going to be there with you. Are you sure you want to entrust your soul to fallible men? Search the scriptures for yourself with the help of the Holy Spirit to show you what they really mean. Eternity in Hell is much too serious to do otherwise.

Author : John Piper
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433678820

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Brothers, We are Not Professionals by John Piper Pdf

John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry.

Author : Joseph Harp Britton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567218483

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Abraham Heschel and the Phenomenon of Piety by Joseph Harp Britton Pdf

Piety is often regarded with a pejorative bias: a "pious" person is thought to be overly religious, supercilious even. Yet historically the concept of piety has played an important role in Christian theology and practice. For Abraham Heschel, piety describes the contours of a life compatible with God's presence. While much has been made of Heschel's concept of pathos, relatively little attention has been given to the pivotal role of piety in his thought, with the result that the larger methodological implications of his work for both Jewish and Christian theology have been overlooked. Grounding Heschel's work in Husserl, Dilthey, Schiller and Heidegger, the book explores his phenomenological method of "penetrating the consciousness of the pious person in order to perceive the divine reality behind it." The book goes on to consider the significance of Heschel's methodology in view of the theocentric ethics of Gustafson and Hauerwas and the post-modern context reflected in the works of Levinas, Vattimo, Marion and the Radical Orthodoxy movement.

Author : William R. Arnold
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781480952287

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God's Grand Design by William R. Arnold Pdf

God's Grand Design By: William R. Arnold, Edited by Ms. Aurora Payad-Arnold God’s Grand Design is to restore mankind to its original state of sacred perfection after Adam and Eve fell and created the original sin of disobedience, hiding, and lying to the Lord. When God cursed the serpent for tempting Adam and Eve to be like God, he promised to send his only begotten Son to save humanity. He did via the incarnate word in the womb of the immaculately conceived Virgin Mary. God wants to be man and receive a new body to defeat death through Jesus Christ. Man wants to become God to receive eternal life. Man’s journey to become God starts from being an ignorant baby gaining knowledge, to a cowardly teenager obtaining courage, to an adult converting greed to generosity, to a wise man changing selfishness to unselfishness, and at last, to a free man able to think for himself in eternal service to God in his kingdom. The journey requires him to know right from wrong, good from evil, and God’s will from man’s will and thus defeat evil, worldly temptations, and demonic possession. Through Christ, God and man are destined to become one through three advents, making the God/Man Christ into the new human spirit (blessings). Then, the Man/God Jesus becomes the new human flesh to make all things perfect in the sight of God. Jesus Christ came as a priest on a donkey to decode the Torah, bring knowledge, and remove blindness to defeat sin. By his death and resurrection, he granted free redemption to man’s flesh to give him a new body. The second coming of Jesus Christ as thief in the night will bring awakening to remove deafness by teaching God’s truths to defeat evil. As a just judge on a cloud on his third advent, the Lord will remove mankind’s dumbness to defeat death. And then man can become worthy of receiving God’s rewards of paradise in heaven or heaven on earth.

Author : Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II),Pope John Paul II
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 157455302X

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Encyclical Letter, Fides Et Ratio, of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II by Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II),Pope John Paul II Pdf

Author : Gerald Bray
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433522727

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God Is Love by Gerald Bray Pdf

While there is no substitute for personal, faithful, and careful Bible reading and prayer, the Bible’s vast size and diversity can make distilling its truth a daunting task. Thus most Christians benefit from supplemental resources to help learn and apply what Scripture teaches. Renowned theologian, Gerald Bray has produced just such a resource in his new systematic theology. Though packed with robust content, he writes about this volume: “the aim . . . is to reach those who would not normally find systematic theology appealing or even comprehensible.” This volume is unique from others in that Bray traces the common theme of God’s love through the Bible categorically—from God’s love for himself and his creation to the cross as the ultimate expression of God’s love, among other categories. The centrality of God’s love in Bray’s theology reflects a deep conviction that the Bible shows us God for who he really is. This volume will be of interest to Christians seeking to grow in their faith.

Author : John Piper,Justin Taylor
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433519024

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Suffering and the Sovereignty of God by John Piper,Justin Taylor Pdf

In the last few years, 9/11, a tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and many other tragedies have shown us that the vision of God in today's churches in relation to evil and suffering is often frivolous. Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, many Christians are choosing to become more shallow, more entertainment-oriented, and therefore irrelevant in the face of massive suffering. In Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, contributors John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Saint, Carl Ellis, David Powlison, Dustin Shramek, and Mark Talbot explore the many categories of God's sovereignty as evidenced in his Word. They urge readers to look to Christ, even in suffering, to find the greatest confidence, deepest comfort, and sweetest fellowship they have ever known.

Author : A.W. Tozer
Publisher : Gideon House Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640079533

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The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer Pdf

In this hour of all-but-universal darkness, one cheering gleam appears: within the fold of conservative Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for spiritual realities and will not be put off with words, nor will they be content with correct “interpretations” of truth. They are athirst for God and they will not be satisfied till they have drunk deep at the Fountain of Living Water… This book is a modest attempt to aid God’s hungry children so to find Him. Nothing here is new except in the sense that it is a discovery which my own heart has made of spiritual realities most delightful and wonderful to me. Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame. –A.W. Tozer

Author : Matthew L. Lamb,Matthew Levering
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190625801

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The Reception of Vatican II by Matthew L. Lamb,Matthew Levering Pdf

From 1962 to 1965, in perhaps the most important religious event of the twentieth century, the Second Vatican Council met to plot a course for the future of the Roman Catholic Church. After thousands of speeches, resolutions, and votes, the Council issued sixteen official documents on topics ranging from divine revelation to relations with non-Christians. But the meaning of the Second Vatican Council has been fiercely contested since before it was even over, and the years since its completion have seen a battle for the soul of the Church waged through the interpretation of Council documents. The Reception of Vatican II looks at the sixteen conciliar documents through the lens of those battles. Paying close attention to reforms and new developments, the essays in this volume show how the Council has been received and interpreted over the course of the more than fifty years since it concluded. The contributors to this volume represent various schools of thought but are united by a commitment to restoring the view that Vatican II should be interpreted and implemented in line with Church Tradition. The central problem facing Catholic theology today, these essays argue, is a misreading of the Council that posits a sharp break with previous Church teaching. In order to combat this reductive way of interpreting the Council, these essays provide a thorough, instructive overview of the debates it inspired.