They Were Not Gods

Author : Esther Fleece Allen
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310344773

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No More Faking Fine by Esther Fleece Allen Pdf

Scripture reveals a God who meets us where we are, not where we pretend to be. No More Faking Fine is your invitation to get honest with God through the life-giving language of lament. If you've ever been given empty clichés during challenging times, you know how painful it is to be misunderstood by well-meaning people. When life hurts, we often feel pressure--from others and ourselves--to keep it together, suck it up, or pray it away. But Scripture reveals a God who lovingly invites us to give honest voice to our emotions when life hits hard. For most of her life, Esther Fleece Allen believed she could bypass the painful emotions of her broken past by shutting them down altogether. She was known as an achiever and an overcomer on the fast track to success. But in silencing her pain, she robbed herself of the opportunity to be healed. Maybe you've done the same. Esther's journey into healing began when she discovered that God has given us a real-world way to deal with raw emotions and an alternative to the coping mechanisms that end up causing more pain. It's called lament--the gut-level, honest prayer that God never ignores, never silences, and never wastes. No More Faking Fine is your permission to lament, taking you on a journey down the unexpected pathway to true intimacy with God. Drawing from careful biblical study and hard-won insight, Esther reveals how to use God's own language to come closer to him as he leads us through our pain to the light on the other side, teaching you that: We are robbing ourselves of a divine mystery and a divine intimacy when we pretend to have it all together God does not expect us to be perfect; instead, he meets us where we are There is hope beyond your heartache, disappointment, and grief Like Esther, you'll soon find that when one person stops faking fine, it gives everyone else permission to do the same.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551991764

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God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062252197

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How Jesus Became God by Bart D. Ehrman Pdf

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first. A master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. But how did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight years to research and write, Ehrman sketches Jesus’s transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus’s followers had visions of him after his death—alive again—did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today. Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.

Author : J. Warner Wallace
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781434705464

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Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace Pdf

Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.

Author : Stephen Charnock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : God
ISBN : CHI:090212566

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Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock Pdf

Author : Andrew Wommack
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781680313444

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Don't Limit God by Andrew Wommack Pdf

God has more for us than what we are experiencing. We have all limited God in our lives at some point in one way or another. Fear of success, fear of persecution and imaginations are all ways that we limit God. We often see ourselves in a certain way but we have to change that image if we want to experience the abundant life that God has for...

Author : John OWEN (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025811659

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The Works of John Owen, D.D. Edited by T. Russell. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, by W. Orme. (Funeral Sermon ... by D. Clarkson.). by John OWEN (D.D.) Pdf

Author : Stuart Squires
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565485877

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You'll Be Changed Into Me by Stuart Squires Pdf

In recent decades, Catholic books on the Eucharist have often focused narrowly on the question of the nature or essence of the Eucharist. Although the question of the nature of the Eucharist is undoubtedly important, it unfortunately has overshadowed a question that is just as important, if not more important: what does the Eucharist do? If Jesus’ body, blood, soul, and divinity are truly present in the Eucharist as Catholics believe, then we should not be surprised to learn that when Catholics receive the Eucharist they receive multiple effects, or fruits. You Will Be Changed Into Me introduces six of the most important fruits of the Eucharist. It will explore how the Jesus Event is brought to the present through Eucharistic memory; it will investigate how the Eucharist is the application of Christ’s sacrificial offering on the cross; it will demonstrate how the Eucharist radically conforms the communicant to the heart of Christ; it will review the unity in the human family that is created by the Eucharist through union with Christ; it will show how a Eucharistic life leads to a life of service; it will explain the significance of the Eucharist for the journey beyond this life.

Author : Lancelot Andrewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1675
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021222679

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The Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine at large: or a learned and pious Exposition of the Ten Commandments, etc. A rearrangement of"The Morall Law expounded." by Lancelot Andrewes Pdf

Author : Thomas J. Vaiden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Rationalism
ISBN : UOMDLP:afz1659:0001.001

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Rational Religion and Morals: Presenting Analysis of the Functions of Mind, Under the Operations and Directions of Reason by Thomas J. Vaiden Pdf

Author : David Pratte
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780359315918

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Commentary on the Gospel of John: Bible Study Notes and Comments by David Pratte Pdf

Bible study notes and commentary on the New Testament Gospel of John. Emphasizes understanding the text with practical applications. Intended to be helpful to all Christians, including teachers and preachers, while avoiding an emphasis on technical issues. Written from the conservative viewpoint of faith in the Bible as the absolute, inerrant, verbally inspired word of God. Comments include discussion of these topics: * Evidence for faith in the Deity of Jesus * Testimony of miracles and fulfilled prophecy * Jesus' public ministry and teaching * Work of John the Baptist and of Jesus' apostles * Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection

Author : Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-12
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9783986771485

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The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine Pdf

The City of God, Volume II Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - "The glorious city of God is my theme in this work; which you; my dearest son Marcellinus; suggested; and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city;a city surpassingly glorious; whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time; and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly; or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat; which it now with patience waits for; expecting until "righteousness shall return unto judgment;" and it obtain; by virtue of its excellence; final victory and perfect peace. A great work this; and an arduous; but God is my helper." -an excerpt

Author : Alexander Roberts,Sir James Donaldson,Arthur Cleveland Coxe,Allan Menzies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Fathers of the church
ISBN : UGA:32108002589177

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The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Lactantius, [etc.], Apostolic teaching and constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies by Alexander Roberts,Sir James Donaldson,Arthur Cleveland Coxe,Allan Menzies Pdf

Author : Matthew Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10411073

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A commentary upon the holy Bible by Matthew Henry Pdf

Author : David J. Landegent
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512773309

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Colossians by David J. Landegent Pdf

Some people cant see the forest for the treesthey get so bogged down in details that they lose sight of what its all about. Others cant see the trees for the forestthey miss the wondrous details all around them. So why not look instead at both the forest and the trees? This commentary on Pauls letter to the Colossians guides you in doing just that. Even though we will be exploring ancient biblical cultures and learning plenty about the Greek language, no prior academic training is needed. Technical terms have been set aside. Instead, with everyday language we will discover the big picture and revel in the fine details of this stunning letter, amazed by how God is still speaking these same words today to contemporary personal and social challenges. We will not then be tourists rapidly zipping through Colossians as if on a monotonous interstate highway. Instead we will be hiking our way through this letter, step by step, phrase by phrase, finding joy in Gods truth and growing in our faith. Come and join the journey.