Author: Stanley A. Ellisen
Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional
ISBN: 9780825425271
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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(Foreword by Mark L. Bailey) The author delves into many of the parables and offers a view of Jesus that we can use as a model for how to face and overcome conflict.
Author: Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830866779
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Craig Blomberg surveys the contemporary critical approaches to the parables--including those that have emerged in the twenty years since the first edition. This widely used text has taken a minority perspective and made it mainstream, with Blomberg ably defending a limited allegorical approach and offering brief interpretations of all the major parables.
Author: Dan Lioy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498275885
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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In this study of John 1-12, the author develops the thesis that Jesus is the divine, incarnate Torah, and that Jesus as Torah is the conceptual center of the Fourth Gospel. An overarching goal of the treatise is to explore the Evangelist's portrait of Jesus as the fulfillment of the Mosaic law. Connected with this aim is the central thesis that the Messiah appears in the Gospel of John as the realization of all the law's redemptive-historical types, prophecies, and expectations. A corresponding major claim is that those who trust in Jesus for eternal life and heed his teaching satisfy fully the requirements of the moral law recorded in Scripture. An examination of John 1-12 substantiates the truth that Jesus is the perfection of the gift of the Tanakh. He existed in the beginning with the Father and Spirit as God. The eternal Torah is light and life, fulfillment and joy, in fellowship with the triune God for all eternity. The divine Tanakh, by becoming incarnate, revealed the glory of the Father and made the fullness of God's grace and truth available to humankind. The living Word not only provides salvation but in so doing unveils the loving and redeeming heart of the Father for all to see. The Son of God is the one to whom all the Old Testament luminaries--such as Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and Isaiah--pointed, and in whom their eschatological hopes were realized. The Anointed One is greater than and supreme over all the religious institutions once associated with the Jerusalem tabernacle and temple. Even such Jewish festivals as the Feast of Tabernacles, Pentecost, Dedication, and Passover find their fulfillment in the Messiah. This volume is appropriate for personal study and is also suitable as a college and seminary text.
Author: Rev Dr koningthung Ngoru Moyon
Publisher: Shashwat Publication
ISBN: 9360873608
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Public Speaking is one of the most important task and challenging to the human beings. It is imperative for all the committed Christians to lean, learn and live with the Biblical truths. As such, the knowledge and application of Scripture is an utmost necessity to be grounded upon the word of God. The necessity of Scripture means that the Bible is necessary for knowing the gospel, for maintaining spiritual and moral life, and for knowing God’s will, but is not necessary for knowing that God exists or for knowing something about God’s character and moral law. Basis of Preaching Biblical Message: Preach the Word is for the glory of God, the building up of the church and society, and the spreading of the Gospel to the ends of the earth; that is, to all the creation. Biblical preaching is centered around and takes its content from the inerrant Word of God. True Biblical preaching aims at life change. Biblical preaching also comes through the personality of the preacher. Some communicators or preachers are encouragers, some are confrontational. Some are humour, while others use sound logic and well-reasoned content. It is not good to fall into the trap of trying to mimic your favourite preacher. Instead, learn from them, and develop your own style as a good communicator. Rev Dr Koningthung Ngoru Moyon presents Biblical Preaching in his book ‘Basis of Preaching Biblical Message: Preach the Word’ is both an art and a science. It is a science in the sense that there are rules and principles of communication that we are to follow. It is an art in that each person brings his own unique personality and style to the preaching experience. ‘Preaching is truth through personality’. Both are necessary. However, the very important and foremost focus in the book is that Biblical Preaching is empowered by the work of the Holy Spirit is focus in the book.
Author: Mrs. Alfred Gatty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Thomas G. Long
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN: 1646983742
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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In Proclaiming the Parables, noted preacher and scholar Thomas G. Long moves away from past treatment of the parables primarily as literary devices and moves toward an emphasis on their theological impact as pointers to the kingdom of God. While the parables are indeed significant poetic literary creations that have enchanted readers over the centuries, their main power, he claims, lies in their disclosure of the kingdom of God, which is not merely an idea, nor even just a complex symbol with generative and centrifugal force, but an event: the inbreaking of the life of God into human history and experience. Long sees parables not merely as creative figures of speech but as GPS devices taking hearers to those places where the event of God is happening all around us. This book provides two chapters for each synoptic Gospel. The first focuses on the Gospel as a whole and the parables’ place in it, and the second provides preachers and teachers with detailed exegetical and homiletical commentary for each major parable in that Gospel. Two introductory chapters additionally situate this book in the history and theology of the parables’ interpretation and address questions that preachers have about preaching the parables. Preachers who consult this volume will be informed about each major parable, guided through the controversies regarding interpretation, and stimulated to preach on the parable in fresh, faithful, and creative ways.
Author: Tim Ellsworth
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805449515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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When a powerful EF-4 tornado with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour slammed the Union University campus on February 5, 2008, destroying eighteen dormitory buildings and causing $40 million in damage, the immediate assumption was that dozens if not hundreds of lives would have been lost. Miraculously, nobody died, and the next morning major media outlets flocked to Jackson, Tennessee, where Union students and faculty credited God for their survival and got to share their faith with millions worldwide. God in the Whirlwind recounts the entire experience through twenty eye-of-the-storm accounts from those who saw the walls and ceilings crashing down upon them and felt their ears pop as the pressure dropped, from anxious parents who waited for their child’s call, and from Union leaders who marvel at the university’s unbroken spirit in the face of such devastation. This inspiring book also includes eighty photographs that visualize God’s mighty hand upon nature and his gentle hand of grace.
Author: David J. Chalcraft
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000835146
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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This book provides analysis of a variety of biblical narratives and texts which are the vehicle for the expression, articulation and performance of diverse identities in the Indian context and is the first attempt to do so for a global audience of scholars and students. From pan-Indian social problems attributed to caste, class and gender inequality, to specific North Eastern tribal settings, Dalit struggles in rural Andhra Pradesh and the experience of Christian autorickshaw drivers in urban Chennai, the book explores the diverse geographical, cultural, social, economic and linguistic settings in which the Bible is encountered. The holistic and multidisciplinary approach to Biblical studies adopted broadens the field beyond textual exegesis. Encounters with the Bible are revealed in diverse chapters impacted by contexts of caste realities, the history of Indian Christianity, colonial and post-colonial frameworks and educational institutions. Full use is made of 'vernacular' texts and traditions including oral and written cultural, folk tale, literary and auto/biographical narratives in Tribal, Dalit and British colonial settings. Diversity of method is championed through including sociological analysis of Indian social realities, qualitative fieldwork techniques and a kaleidoscope of visual and sensory environments with over 30 photographs. The book celebrates and promotes diversity in Indian biblical studies, creativity and sometimes conflicting perspectives. Encountering Diversity in Indian Biblical Studies will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers working on post-colonial biblical studies and diversity in Christianity, particularly in the Indian context.
Author: Amyn Dahya
Publisher: Empowered Living Publications
ISBN: 9780968268322
Category : Inspiration
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Edward Norris KIRK
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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