Author: Adam Dommeyer
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973625881
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Book Description
One family vacation to Utah back in 2002 changed Adams entire summer. One Mormon girl in his 9th grade English class altered his path over the following year. One book changed his outlook on faith. One true church had him hooked. Suddenly, one unexpected dream from God transformed the course of his entire life. Join Adam on his quest from Mormonism to the one true FaithChristianityand youll soon realize your own story is about to unfold before your very eyes. Youre about to meet and encounter the One True God!
Author: Kenda Creasy Dean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199758661
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity and at the same time so apathetic about genuine religious practice. In Soul Searching, Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that American teenagers have embraced a "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism"--a hodgepodge of banal, self-serving, feel-good beliefs that bears little resemblance to traditional Christianity. But far from faulting teens, Dean places the blame for this theological watering down squarely on the churches themselves. Instead of proclaiming a God who calls believers to lives of love, service and sacrifice, churches offer instead a bargain religion, easy to use, easy to forget, offering little and demanding less. But what is to be done? In order to produce ardent young Christians, Dean argues, churches must rediscover their sense of mission and model an understanding of being Christian as not something you do for yourself, but something that calls you to share God's love, in word and deed, with others. Dean found that the most committed young Christians shared four important traits: they could tell a personal and powerful story about God; they belonged to a significant faith community; they exhibited a sense of vocation; and they possessed a profound sense of hope. Based on these findings, Dean proposes an approach to Christian education that places the idea of mission at its core and offers a wealth of concrete suggestions for inspiring teens to live more authentically engaged Christian lives. Persuasively and accessibly written, Almost Christian is a wake up call no one concerned about the future of Christianity in America can afford to ignore.
Author: Joe Cannon
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
ISBN: 9781609087395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Essays by prominent members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explaining why they are members of the church.
Author: Kimberly Jensen Bowman
Publisher: Cedar Fort
ISBN: 9781555175078
Category : Book of Mormon stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An illustrated retelling of the stories from the Book of Mormon. Includes discussion questions.
Author: Gilbert J. Hunt
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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This is a famous educational text by Gilbert J. Hunt presenting an account of the War of 1812 in the style of the King James Bible. It starts with President James Madison and the congressional declaration of war and then describes the Burning of Washington, the Battle of New Orleans, and the Treaty of Ghent.
Author: Shawn Vestal
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544027760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Nine stories illuminate what it means to be Mormon and how faith serves to humanize, in a work that includes a seriocomic portrait of a young Joseph Smith.
Author: Gaye Strathearn
Publisher: Brigham Young University Press
ISBN: 9781590387993
Category : Book of Mormon
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Wayne L. Cowdrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758605276
Category : Book of Mormon
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Authors determine that The Book of Mormon is an adaptation of an obscure historical novel. Read about their findings.
Author: John L. Sorenson
Publisher: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Deseret Book
ISBN: 9781609073992
Category : Book of Mormon
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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The author demonstrates that the Book of Mormon is a native Mesoamerican book (or codex) that exhibits what one would expect of a historical document produced in the context of ancient Mesoamerican civilization. He also shows that scholars' discoveries about Mesoamerica and the contents of the Nephite record are clearly related, listing more than 400 points where the Book of Mormon text corresponds to characteristic Mesoamerican situations, statements, allusions, and history.
Author: Marvin W. Cowan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780736902311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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This user-friendly, 32-booklet presents the essential differences between Mormonism and Christianity with special focus on the areas of authority and salvation. Includes a clear presentation of the gospel and a call for response.
