Divine Frustrations

Divine Frustrations
Author: Jason L. Moore
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Bible encourages believers to love God with all their hearts. Interestingly enough, there is no command to “like” God. Is the admonition to “like” God conspicuously absent due to its inherent difficulty? If we are honest, we can safely affirm that there are unlikable realities about our world that critics allege reflect poorly on the perceived nature of God. However, there is a lack of awareness regarding alternative ways to understand such realities. Divine Frustrations is an attempt to bridge that gap by providing a balanced, engaging approach to revisiting the unpleasant aspects of God’s dealings with humanity. Drawing on decades of interactions with students, atheists, critics, inmates, and church members, as well as people from all walks of life, Moore offers reflections on both sides of the most common complaints leveled against God. Whether you are a believer or a skeptic, your approach to various topics will be challenged. If you are open to considering alternatives to what you believe, as well as new insights into your own views, read on.

Disappointment with God

Disappointment with God
Author: Philip Yancey
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1988
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310517818

"Is God listening? "Can he be trusted?" In this book, Yancey tackles the questions caused by a God who doesn't always do what we think he's supposed to do.

Devine Intervention

Devine Intervention
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545530024

There is a great legend of the guardian angel who traveled across time and space for the human girl he loved, slaying those who would threaten her with a gleaming sword made of heavenly light. This is not that story.Jerome Hancock is Heidi Devine's guardian angel. Sort of. He's more of an angel trainee, in heaven's soul-rehabilitation program for wayward teens. And he's just about to get kicked out for having too many absences and for violating too many of the Ten Commandments for the Dead.Heidi, meanwhile, is a high school junior who dreams of being an artist, but has been drafted onto her basketball team because she's taller than many a grown man. For as long as she can remember, she's heard a voice in her head - one that sings Lynyrd Skynyrd, offers up bad advice, and yet is company during those hours she feels most alone.When the unthinkable happens, these two lost souls must figure out where they went wrong and whether they can make things right before Heidi's time is up and her soul is lost forever.Martha Brockenbrough's debut novel is hilarious, heartbreaking, and hopeful, with a sense of humor that's wicked as hell, and writing that's just heavenly.

Frustrating God

Frustrating God
Author: Luis Scottt
Publisher: WestBowPress
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149080885X

Have you ever asked how Gods knowledge of the future impacts your life today? Frustrating God offers a challenge to the assumptions of open theism and provides answers that are both refreshing and new. Theologians and laypeople alike have struggled with the extent Gods knowledge, the limitations of human free will, and the practical implications these ideas have for everyday life. Why doesnt God do something about all the evil in the world? Have you ever tried to answer the question about Gods goodness in light of the fact that people He created will be lost for all eternity? How can God answer prayers if He does not know and may not be able to anticipate the future consequences of those answers? How do we resolve the apparent conflict between human freedom and Gods overwhelming power? You can find the answer to these and many more questions in Frustrating God. In this challenge to the theological view of open theism, Pastor Luis Scott offers a radically new alternative to the seemingly tense relationship between Gods foreknowledge and human free will. This deepened understanding of Gods nature can enhance your perception of a God so magnificent that the only word to describe our struggle to know Him is frustrating. In Frustrating God you will begin a journey to a deeper knowledge of the mysterious God of the Biblethe God who baffles us, but loves us enough to lay the penalty of sin upon His beloved Son.

Once Caught, No Escape

Once Caught, No Escape
Author: Norman Grubb
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780966295757

In Once Caught, No Escape, Norman Grubb's autobiography, we come to know a remarkable soldier of Christ, one who has made a unique contribution to Christian thinking in the 20th century. This riveting account of his life includes a fascinating description of missionary life in the early 1900's in the heart of Africa, his memories of World War I army days, and his little-known role in the development of the Christian Literature Crusade and Intervarsity Fellowship. Norman shares the three spiritual crises that shaped his life-his salvation, his identity in Christ, and his seeming loss of faith. How he forever settled his Galatians 2:20 identity by faith is critical to an understanding of his life and serve as a roadmap for all facing the same heart cry, and his interpretation of his final crisis is a superb and concise summary of what he came to call the total truth, expanded and developed in his later works and was to become the keystone of his theology for the rest of his life. In the foreword to Once Caught, No Escape, Norman says that he has written "straight out of my heart and mind," and that he has surely done. He writes with unreserved honesty, self-deprecating humor, and profound insight. He was a man drenched in the scriptures, and totally dedicated to sharing the great truth of Jesus Christ-our savior, indweller, and life. He laid down his life that many others might come to know who they are in Christ, and paid the intercessor's price to do so. The book is aptly titled, for once God "captured" him, Norman was driven to share the truth he knew, no matter the cost.

Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works

Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works
Author: Matthew Fox
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 469
Release: 1987-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1591438187

Hildegard of Bingen, a Rhineland mystic of the twelfth century, has been called an ideal model of the liberated woman. She was a poet and scientist, painter and musician, healer and abbess, playwright, prophet, preacher and social critic. The Book of Divine Works was written between 1170 and 1173, and this is its first appearance in English. The third volume of a trilogy which includes Scivias, published by Bear & Company in 1985, this visionary work is a signal resounding throughout the planet that a time of healing and balance is at hand. The Book of Divine Works is a cosmology which reunites religion, science, and art, and readers will discover an astonishing symbiosis with contemporary physics in these 800-year-old visions. The present volume also contains 51 letters written by Hildegard to significant political and religious figures of her day and translations of twelve of her songs.

Finding God Again and Again

Finding God Again and Again
Author: John J. Spitzer M.D.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1665704446

With two young children and a loving wife, the stakes were high when John J. Spitzer found out his testicular cancer had returned after thirteen years. The relapse forced him to confront his mortality—and a second relapse drove the point home. The setbacks also gave him a great opportunity to become one with God. In this book, Spitzer looks back at how it took over twenty years of life experiences to realize that he had to feel God in his heart again—and not just think of God. He had to feel Jesus and His teachings if he wanted to be like Him. While he started this book wanting to pass something on to his children if he died, he continued it after realizing he’d live. In it, he describes his spiritual development, what it was like to confront death, and how his relationship with God has grown deeper over time. Join the author on a journey of self-discovery that highlights God’s unconditional love and peace—and how to find God again and again.

The Definitive Answer to the Meaning of Life

The Definitive Answer to the Meaning of Life
Author: Jack Abaza
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This haunting question, in all of its variations and interpretations, has echoed through the annals of time. Since the dawn of philosophy, the world’s intellectual titans have grappled valiantly with this enigma, and many of them dedicated entire lifetimes to unearthing answers in religion, aesthetics, love, personal convictions, and myriad other realms, but to no avail. How has this ineluctable conundrum come to signify everything and nothing? To term it “the Holy Grail of philosophy” is almost to insultingly undersell its gravitas; the meaning of life remains maddeningly elusive, mocking our most desperate curiosities. Despite over 2,500 years of introspection, debate, and countless theories, its mysterious prize remains unclaimed. However, this tome is no mere philosophical expedition, for it is a revolution in the making: it manifests a rebellion against the two-thousand-year-old foundations of speculation and dares to shatter the orthodoxy. By venturing into the forbidden realm of a science philosophers long denied as relevant and converging the scientific method with peerless reasoning—the sort that would stupefy the most weathered thinkers—this most eminent opus heralds philosophy’s renaissance, no longer as a quaint, forgotten relic of bygone eras but as a vanguard discipline poised for reawakening.

The American Healing Guide

The American Healing Guide
Author: George Charles Anter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2018-06-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 198453663X

Hello there. When I was thirty-eight years old, I discovered that I am the original Jesus Christ, and when that happened, I knew for sure that this was the greatest discovery that was a culmination of every great discovery and accomplishment that came before. At that point, as the scientist that I am, I knew that my duty to the world was to write down every one of my thoughtforms to share with humanity because my thoughtforms allow all to live their Christ-selves effortlessly because they actually make up the divine superstructure of the universe. So in reading these thoughtforms, they are being activated in your true awareness so that you are able to consciously understand what makes up the original Christ mind and what bridges the gap into your real Christ-self. This book is part 1 of the construction of the fifth dimension because as Christ, I was able to defeat Satan in the Battle of Armageddon. I will describe in depth how that happened, and that started the fifth dimension, of which these thoughtforms are the divine bolts that were invented by me to allow us effortless divinity.