Author: Mark Steele
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 1434700399
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
It may feel like authentic faith. It may even look like the real deal. Yet it's often easy to settle for the souvenir t-shirt—the appearance of a transformed heart—instead of taking the actual trip through true life-change. We find ourselves settling for a personal faith that's been polluted by culture, and diluted by other people's take on spirituality. Christianish tells the story of one man's journey to move from the in-between to a life that's centered on Christ. To move forward, author Mark Steele goes back to the beginning, to examine Christ's life and words. Through stories and insights that are sometimes profound, often hilarious, and always honest, Mark delivers a compelling look at what our faith is all about.
Christianish
Author: Mark Steele
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 1434700399
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
It may feel like authentic faith. It may even look like the real deal. Yet it's often easy to settle for the souvenir t-shirt—the appearance of a transformed heart—instead of taking the actual trip through true life-change. We find ourselves settling for a personal faith that's been polluted by culture, and diluted by other people's take on spirituality. Christianish tells the story of one man's journey to move from the in-between to a life that's centered on Christ. To move forward, author Mark Steele goes back to the beginning, to examine Christ's life and words. Through stories and insights that are sometimes profound, often hilarious, and always honest, Mark delivers a compelling look at what our faith is all about.
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 1434700399
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
It may feel like authentic faith. It may even look like the real deal. Yet it's often easy to settle for the souvenir t-shirt—the appearance of a transformed heart—instead of taking the actual trip through true life-change. We find ourselves settling for a personal faith that's been polluted by culture, and diluted by other people's take on spirituality. Christianish tells the story of one man's journey to move from the in-between to a life that's centered on Christ. To move forward, author Mark Steele goes back to the beginning, to examine Christ's life and words. Through stories and insights that are sometimes profound, often hilarious, and always honest, Mark delivers a compelling look at what our faith is all about.
Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome
Author: Reba Riley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501125672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Hardcover edition published under the title: Post-traumatic church syndrome: a memoir of humor and healing
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501125672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Hardcover edition published under the title: Post-traumatic church syndrome: a memoir of humor and healing
Almost Christian
Author: Kenda Creasy Dean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199758662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199758662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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.
Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
God Gave Rock and Roll to You
Author: Leah Payne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197555241
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
By combining musical styles young people loved with the wholesomeness their parents wanted, Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) became a multimillion-dollar industry. In this book, author Leah Payne traces the history of contemporary Christian music in America and, in the process, demonstrates how the industry, its artists, and its fans shaped--and continue to shape--conservative, (mostly) white, Protestant evangelicalism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197555241
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
By combining musical styles young people loved with the wholesomeness their parents wanted, Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) became a multimillion-dollar industry. In this book, author Leah Payne traces the history of contemporary Christian music in America and, in the process, demonstrates how the industry, its artists, and its fans shaped--and continue to shape--conservative, (mostly) white, Protestant evangelicalism.
Resolutions, Laws, and Ordinances, Relating to the Pay, Half Pay, Commutation of Half Pay, Bounty Lands, and Other Promises Made by Congress to the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Volumes for 1950-19 contained treaties and international agreements issued by the Secretary of State as United States treaties and other international agreements.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Volumes for 1950-19 contained treaties and international agreements issued by the Secretary of State as United States treaties and other international agreements.
The Public statutes at large of the United States of America
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
“The” Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America ... Ed. by Richard Peters
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3,1845 by Authority of Congress
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description