Author: John S. Oldfield
Publisher: Harmon Press
ISBN: 1935959328
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
If you're just starting out on a shepherding trajectory, Gut-Level Godliness can bring realistic clarity to the demands of your calling. If you're still in training, it can bring into vital focus the diverse elements of your education. If you're already in the trenches, it can offer you a vocational check-up and keep you from losing sight of the Chief Shepherd's priorities for you and the sheep He's entrusted to your care. Whatever the stage of your shepherding career, it will impress you with the tremendous responsibility you have to exude the aroma of authenticity. It will take you into the heart and life of a shepherd whose goal for himself and his flock was to speak the truth in love...and who longs for you to do the same.
Gut-Level Godliness
Author: John S. Oldfield
Publisher: Harmon Press
ISBN: 1935959328
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
If you're just starting out on a shepherding trajectory, Gut-Level Godliness can bring realistic clarity to the demands of your calling. If you're still in training, it can bring into vital focus the diverse elements of your education. If you're already in the trenches, it can offer you a vocational check-up and keep you from losing sight of the Chief Shepherd's priorities for you and the sheep He's entrusted to your care. Whatever the stage of your shepherding career, it will impress you with the tremendous responsibility you have to exude the aroma of authenticity. It will take you into the heart and life of a shepherd whose goal for himself and his flock was to speak the truth in love...and who longs for you to do the same.
Publisher: Harmon Press
ISBN: 1935959328
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
If you're just starting out on a shepherding trajectory, Gut-Level Godliness can bring realistic clarity to the demands of your calling. If you're still in training, it can bring into vital focus the diverse elements of your education. If you're already in the trenches, it can offer you a vocational check-up and keep you from losing sight of the Chief Shepherd's priorities for you and the sheep He's entrusted to your care. Whatever the stage of your shepherding career, it will impress you with the tremendous responsibility you have to exude the aroma of authenticity. It will take you into the heart and life of a shepherd whose goal for himself and his flock was to speak the truth in love...and who longs for you to do the same.
Prizing His Passion
Author: John S. Oldfield
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532671423
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Ideal for Lent, but useful at any season and on any reading schedule, Prizing His Passion will help both the curious and the committed to grasp the immense significance of the sufferings of Jesus of Nazareth on behalf of sin-plagued humans. Approaching the relevant biblical truths from multiple angles, it will provide you with a deeper understanding of what He experienced and said during the hours that culminated in His death on a first-century Roman cross. It will reveal the reality and relevance of it all for you as you struggle to find your spiritual footing here in the twenty-first century. Godspeed as you travel the road to Golgotha, to Calvary!
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532671423
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Ideal for Lent, but useful at any season and on any reading schedule, Prizing His Passion will help both the curious and the committed to grasp the immense significance of the sufferings of Jesus of Nazareth on behalf of sin-plagued humans. Approaching the relevant biblical truths from multiple angles, it will provide you with a deeper understanding of what He experienced and said during the hours that culminated in His death on a first-century Roman cross. It will reveal the reality and relevance of it all for you as you struggle to find your spiritual footing here in the twenty-first century. Godspeed as you travel the road to Golgotha, to Calvary!
Idiot, Sojourning Soul
Author: Justin Rosolino
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532674821
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
What is “Christianity”? What’s it supposed to be? In a world where Trump, Obama, Putin, and Lady Gaga all claim Christianity as their spiritual home, it’s not an easy question to answer. Part memoir, part historical-theological analysis, Idiot, Sojourning Soul tells the story of one former skeptic’s exploration of Christian spirituality. Justin Rosolino was raised in a post-Christian context where all gods were up for grabs and all truth-claims equally dubious. While studying political theory in college, Justin found himself drawn to the writings of Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Martin Luther King Jr. Much to his surprise, he resonated with their profoundly Christian accounts of human nature, desire, lack, and love. With wit and scholarly precision, Idiot examines Christianity’s historical development, from its ancient beginnings to its current and confounding condition. The result is a must read for anyone who’s ever wondered what Jesus was really up to, and why contemporary Christianity bears so little semblance to its namesake.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532674821
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
What is “Christianity”? What’s it supposed to be? In a world where Trump, Obama, Putin, and Lady Gaga all claim Christianity as their spiritual home, it’s not an easy question to answer. Part memoir, part historical-theological analysis, Idiot, Sojourning Soul tells the story of one former skeptic’s exploration of Christian spirituality. Justin Rosolino was raised in a post-Christian context where all gods were up for grabs and all truth-claims equally dubious. While studying political theory in college, Justin found himself drawn to the writings of Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Martin Luther King Jr. Much to his surprise, he resonated with their profoundly Christian accounts of human nature, desire, lack, and love. With wit and scholarly precision, Idiot examines Christianity’s historical development, from its ancient beginnings to its current and confounding condition. The result is a must read for anyone who’s ever wondered what Jesus was really up to, and why contemporary Christianity bears so little semblance to its namesake.
How to Empty a Church: The Manual
Author: John S. Oldfield
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666702641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Many have pontificated about church growth, telling church planters and pastors how to increase the number of attendees and members. Most have spoken authentically from inspiring experiences, and what they've recommended has worked . . . at least for some. But what about advice on how to reduce those numbers, how to empty those pews? This "manual" provides just that, and its suggestions don't emanate from an ivory tower; they, too, are based on real-life experiences. The insights and guidelines of How to Empty a Church may be expressed tongue-in-cheek, but they're not fictional; they reflect the history of an actual congregation. Fasten your seatbelt; it's going to be a bumpy--but worthwhile--ride!
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666702641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Many have pontificated about church growth, telling church planters and pastors how to increase the number of attendees and members. Most have spoken authentically from inspiring experiences, and what they've recommended has worked . . . at least for some. But what about advice on how to reduce those numbers, how to empty those pews? This "manual" provides just that, and its suggestions don't emanate from an ivory tower; they, too, are based on real-life experiences. The insights and guidelines of How to Empty a Church may be expressed tongue-in-cheek, but they're not fictional; they reflect the history of an actual congregation. Fasten your seatbelt; it's going to be a bumpy--but worthwhile--ride!
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V
Author: Mark P. Hutchinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191006696
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The five-volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and Royal Supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond Britain and Ireland—and also analyses newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier British and Irish dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent of ecclesiastical organizations. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V follows the spatial, cultural, and intellectual changes in dissenting identity and practice in the twentieth century, as these once European traditions globalized. While in Europe dissent was often against the religious state, dissent in a globalizing world could redefine itself against colonialism or other secular and religious monopolies. The contributors trace the encounters of dissenting Protestant traditions with modernity and globalization; changing imperial politics; challenges to biblical, denominational, and pastoral authority; local cultures and languages; and some of the century's major themes, such as race and gender, new technologies, and organizational change. In so doing, they identify a vast array of local and globalizing illustrations which will enliven conversations about the role of religion, and in particular Christianity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191006696
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The five-volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and Royal Supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond Britain and Ireland—and also analyses newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier British and Irish dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent of ecclesiastical organizations. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V follows the spatial, cultural, and intellectual changes in dissenting identity and practice in the twentieth century, as these once European traditions globalized. While in Europe dissent was often against the religious state, dissent in a globalizing world could redefine itself against colonialism or other secular and religious monopolies. The contributors trace the encounters of dissenting Protestant traditions with modernity and globalization; changing imperial politics; challenges to biblical, denominational, and pastoral authority; local cultures and languages; and some of the century's major themes, such as race and gender, new technologies, and organizational change. In so doing, they identify a vast array of local and globalizing illustrations which will enliven conversations about the role of religion, and in particular Christianity.
Finding God in My Life
Author: Edmund Flood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781556124181
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Here is a prayerbook for everyday people. Integrating experience, reflection, and response, Flood helps us recover the light of prayer in everything we do, in all the event of our lives. Fr. Flood shows us how to turn our reflect5ion on everyday experience--home, family, good times and bad, anger and death--into prayerful, grace-filled moments. Here are prayer-starters for holidays, mealtimes, work and relaxation. Good friends, weekends, neighbors, money, our church--all of these ordinary but very real places, are, indeed, God's chosen places for the most effective appearance of grace in our lives.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781556124181
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Here is a prayerbook for everyday people. Integrating experience, reflection, and response, Flood helps us recover the light of prayer in everything we do, in all the event of our lives. Fr. Flood shows us how to turn our reflect5ion on everyday experience--home, family, good times and bad, anger and death--into prayerful, grace-filled moments. Here are prayer-starters for holidays, mealtimes, work and relaxation. Good friends, weekends, neighbors, money, our church--all of these ordinary but very real places, are, indeed, God's chosen places for the most effective appearance of grace in our lives.
Faith Simplified
Author: Carol Peterson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666744670
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Christians know we are saved by our faith in Jesus, but we can't always answer other people's questions about how that works. Faith Simplified is written for Christians seeking a deeper and clearer understanding of their faith. It explains Christianity to the non-theologian by taking the reader through Scripture to see where the theology of salvation originated, why it makes sense, and how salvation through Jesus was God's plan from the beginning. Although Faith Simplified explains complex theology from a scholarly perspective, the conversational tone, narrative illustrations, and bullet summaries provide "light bulb" moments of understanding. God wants it to be simple to believe in him. He also gave us minds so we could understand our faith. Faith Simplified explains Christian theology so that not only is it simple and easily understood, it also makes sense, making our faith stronger and easier to share.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666744670
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Christians know we are saved by our faith in Jesus, but we can't always answer other people's questions about how that works. Faith Simplified is written for Christians seeking a deeper and clearer understanding of their faith. It explains Christianity to the non-theologian by taking the reader through Scripture to see where the theology of salvation originated, why it makes sense, and how salvation through Jesus was God's plan from the beginning. Although Faith Simplified explains complex theology from a scholarly perspective, the conversational tone, narrative illustrations, and bullet summaries provide "light bulb" moments of understanding. God wants it to be simple to believe in him. He also gave us minds so we could understand our faith. Faith Simplified explains Christian theology so that not only is it simple and easily understood, it also makes sense, making our faith stronger and easier to share.
Sifted Like Wheat
Author: Dan Robinson
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1644688581
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A cock crows as eyes lock and Peter remembers. Empty words, so many well intended promises and fixed convictions vaporize as one fisherman's noble vow sours in bitter tears. "Lord, I'm willing to go to prison and even to death with You." Jesus nods. He sees, He knows. His impact on this simple Galilean was as real as it was secure, but the work was by no means finished. How could this now crippled son of Jonah have possibly wrapped his brain around participation in Jesus's passion, that he had to be sifted like wheat? How about us? Our identification as believers with One who loved and gave Himself is more than a nod with grateful approval, a "thank you Jesus for what You've done." We too participate. Literally. Actually. Necessarily. Sifting takes a believer's personal know how and determination to the threshing floor where they are crushed and dismantled, crucified with Christ. See it as the place where even your best efforts and my highest aspirations are exposed for what they are, filthy rags! At the cross and nowhere else can we find genuine rest and consummate relief by way of brokenness that leads to surrender-life and that more abundantly.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1644688581
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A cock crows as eyes lock and Peter remembers. Empty words, so many well intended promises and fixed convictions vaporize as one fisherman's noble vow sours in bitter tears. "Lord, I'm willing to go to prison and even to death with You." Jesus nods. He sees, He knows. His impact on this simple Galilean was as real as it was secure, but the work was by no means finished. How could this now crippled son of Jonah have possibly wrapped his brain around participation in Jesus's passion, that he had to be sifted like wheat? How about us? Our identification as believers with One who loved and gave Himself is more than a nod with grateful approval, a "thank you Jesus for what You've done." We too participate. Literally. Actually. Necessarily. Sifting takes a believer's personal know how and determination to the threshing floor where they are crushed and dismantled, crucified with Christ. See it as the place where even your best efforts and my highest aspirations are exposed for what they are, filthy rags! At the cross and nowhere else can we find genuine rest and consummate relief by way of brokenness that leads to surrender-life and that more abundantly.
Something Good is Trying to Happen to You
Author: John Cheydleur
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418551597
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In this personal size gift book, you'll found powerful stories to help encourage you when life gets you down. Sometimes, you just feel “busted and disgusted.” Everything seems to be going wrong. Everyone around you seems to be negative. The money meter is approaching zero. The skies always seem grey. What can you do when nothing seems to work? Speak these three words: Jesus, Help Me! Then read this book! You will find the encouragement you need plus learn how to make wise decisions and begin living a victorious life. Something good is trying to happen to you!
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418551597
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In this personal size gift book, you'll found powerful stories to help encourage you when life gets you down. Sometimes, you just feel “busted and disgusted.” Everything seems to be going wrong. Everyone around you seems to be negative. The money meter is approaching zero. The skies always seem grey. What can you do when nothing seems to work? Speak these three words: Jesus, Help Me! Then read this book! You will find the encouragement you need plus learn how to make wise decisions and begin living a victorious life. Something good is trying to happen to you!
Pure Teens
Author: Dr. John Thorington
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973677156
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
We live in a culture that constantly assaults us with lust, sex, and porn. Purity can seem impossible and even ridiculous in this environment—but it’s not. We have a loving and powerful God on our side, and His definition of sex and relationships is so much more satisfying than the world’s. Pure Teens: Free to Love presents a call to live within the beauty and joy of God’s design for sexuality. It serves as a valuable, practical resource for every Christian teen on how to fight the battle for sexual integrity. Dr. John Thorington candidly shares guidance on a wide variety of topics: Sex and the brain God’s plan for spiritual freedom Practical help to overcome masturbation Sex as God’s gift Your true spiritual identity God’s model of grace You can learn to enjoy a love relationship with Abba Father, embrace every person’s worth, practice a life of gratitude, and learn the relational skills necessary for true intimacy. The world tells you that sex comes with no boundaries, but God wants to give you something far greater. He calls you to a life of authentic passion, relationships, and soul-satisfying sexuality. These daily readings offer suggestions and practical help to get you there.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973677156
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
We live in a culture that constantly assaults us with lust, sex, and porn. Purity can seem impossible and even ridiculous in this environment—but it’s not. We have a loving and powerful God on our side, and His definition of sex and relationships is so much more satisfying than the world’s. Pure Teens: Free to Love presents a call to live within the beauty and joy of God’s design for sexuality. It serves as a valuable, practical resource for every Christian teen on how to fight the battle for sexual integrity. Dr. John Thorington candidly shares guidance on a wide variety of topics: Sex and the brain God’s plan for spiritual freedom Practical help to overcome masturbation Sex as God’s gift Your true spiritual identity God’s model of grace You can learn to enjoy a love relationship with Abba Father, embrace every person’s worth, practice a life of gratitude, and learn the relational skills necessary for true intimacy. The world tells you that sex comes with no boundaries, but God wants to give you something far greater. He calls you to a life of authentic passion, relationships, and soul-satisfying sexuality. These daily readings offer suggestions and practical help to get you there.