Exposing Christianity: the Journey of Life

Exposing Christianity: the Journey of Life
Author: Edward Twum-Barimah
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2013-08-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1483680460

THE BIBLE COMMANDS US IN 2 TIMOTHY 2:15 TO study to show yourself approved unto God, good workmen who need not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of God/Truth. WHEN INFORMATION IS PASSED FROM ONE PERSON OR FORM TO ANOTHER, SOME VITAL PARTS MAY BE LOST OR MISREPRESENTED, SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT OR THE ORIGINATOR OF THAT INFORMATION TO GET THE INTENDED MESSAGE/ INFORMATION. Exposing Christianity reveals Gods salvation plan and how you can be certain you are in the kingdom of God. My prayer for you is as you read through the pages of this book, you will meet Christ, the one who died and rose to become the author and fi nisher of our faith. This book is intended to challenge you, make you seek and appreciate the reason for Christ. Over time and over the years, the gospel has been watered down, supposedly to make it sinner friendly instead of keeping it Christcentered. COLOSSIANS 1: 15HE IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OVER ALL CREATION. 16FOR BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THAT ARE IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THRONES OR DOMINIONS OR PRINCIPALITIES OR POWERS. ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM. 17AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND IN HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST. 18AND HE IS THE HEAD OF THE BODY, THE CHURCH, WHO IS THE BEGINNING, THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD, THAT IN ALL THINGS HE MAY HAVE THE PREEMINENCE. 19FOR IT PLEASED THE FATHER THAT IN HIM ALL THE FULLNESS SHOULD DWELL, 20AND BY HIM TO RECONCILE ALL THINGS TO HIMSELF, BY HIM, WHETHER THINGS ON EARTH OR THINGS IN HEAVEN, HAVING MADE PEACE THROUGH THE BLOOD OF HIS CROSS. Exposing Christianity will take you on a journey, a journey of a lifetime into Gods amazing kingdom. It is a journey of great discovery and recovery. Are you ready? Lets go.

The Rapture Exposed

The Rapture Exposed
Author: Barbara R. Rossing
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0465004962

The idea of "The Rapture" -- the return of Christ to rescue and deliver Christians off the earth -- is an extremely popular interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and a jumping-off point for the best-selling "Left Behind" series of books. This interpretation, based on a psychology of fear and destruction, guides the daily acts of thousands if not millions of people worldwide. In The Rapture Exposed, Barbara Rossing argues that this script for the world's future is nothing more than a disingenuous distortion of the Bible. The truth, Rossing argues, is that Revelation offers a vision of God's healing love for the world. The Rapture Exposed reclaims Christianity from fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back into God's beloved community.

A Friend of the King

A Friend of the King
Author: Dwayne Bell
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2013-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1449793819

Rise up, O men of God! Have done with lesser things. Give heart and mind and soul and strength to serve the King of Kings. With our culture and families seemingly in a meltdown, do you often feel helpless, wondering if there is anything a man should or could be doing? This book will prove encouraging, insightful, and instructive for you! Its deep enough but short, simple, and to-the-point, the way men like it. The gist of it is this: be a man, be a friend, be a leader, understand your times and what you should be doing. Well look to the Bible and Davids Mighty Men for insight, instruction, and motivation. Let your journey to insight and action begin!

The End of the Christian Life

The End of the Christian Life
Author: J. Todd Billings
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493427547

We're all going to die. Yet in our medically advanced, technological age, many of us see death as a distant reality--something that happens only at the end of a long life or to other people. In The End of the Christian Life, Todd Billings urges Christians to resist that view. Instead, he calls us to embrace our mortality in our daily life and faith. This is the journey of genuine discipleship, Billings says: following the crucified and resurrected Lord in a world of distraction and false hopes. Drawing on his experience as a professor and father living with incurable cancer, Billings offers a personal yet deeply theological account of the gospel's expansive hope for small, mortal creatures. Artfully weaving rich theology with powerful narrative, Billings writes for church leaders and laypeople alike. Whether we are young or old, reeling from loss or clinging to our own prosperity, this book challenges us to walk a strange but wondrous path: in the midst of joy and lament, to receive mortal limits as a gift, an opportunity to give ourselves over to the Lord of life.

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
Author: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781884527821

"Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.

A Trip Into the Supernatural

A Trip Into the Supernatural
Author: Roger J. Morneau
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780828001380

The Case for Heaven

The Case for Heaven
Author: Lee Strobel
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310358434

Bestselling and award-winning author Lee Strobel interviews experts about the evidence for the afterlife and offers credible answers to the most provocative questions about what happens when we die, near-death experiences, heaven, and hell. We all want to know what awaits us on the other side of death, but is there any reliable evidence that there is life after death? Investigative author Lee Strobel offers a lively and compelling study into one of the most provocative topics of our day. Through fascinating conversations with respected scholars and experts--a neuroscientist from Cambridge University, a researcher who analyzed a thousand accounts of near-death experiences, and an atheist-turned-Christian-philosopher--Strobel offers compelling reasons for why death is not the end of our existence but a transition to an exciting world to come. Looking at biblical accounts, Strobel unfolds what awaits us after we take our last breath and answers questions like: Is there an afterlife? What is heaven like? How will we spend our time there? And what does it mean to see God face to face? With a balanced approach, Strobel examines the alternative of Hell and the logic of damnation, and gives a careful look at reincarnation, universalism, the exclusivity claims of Christ, and other issues related to the topic of life after death. With vulnerability, Strobel shares the experience of how he nearly died years ago and how the reality of death can shape our lives and faith. Follow Strobel on this journey of discovery of the entirely credible, believable, and exhilarating life to come.

God's Healing Strategy

God's Healing Strategy
Author: Ted Grimsrud
Publisher: Pandora Press U.S.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780966502190

In lively and accessible style, Ted Grimsrud portrays God's persevering love as the heart of the Bible's message and challenges Christians to let that love shape their lives today.

The Critical Journey

The Critical Journey
Author: Janet O. Hagberg
Publisher: Sheffield Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1879215667

The Critical Journey, at its core, is a description of the spiritual journey: our response to our faith in God with the resulting changes that follow. In this book, authors Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich address the following issues: the struggle to find meaning and wholeness the crisis of values and identity at mid-life the quest for self-actualization the healing of early religious experiences questions about the spiritual journey Their goal is to help us understand where we are on our individual faith journeys and also appreciate where others are in theirs. The Critical Journey does not reveal exactly how or when we need to move along in our personal pilgrimages, nor does it offer formulas for spiritual growth. Rather, it describes six phases of the spiritual journey and illustrates how people act and think while in these stages. This is an excellent guide for those who are wrestling with their faith and wondering how others have resolved their "dark nights of the soul." Here is an answer for those who have wondered why everyone doesn't respond in the same manner to the message of the Gospel.

Out of a Far Country

Out of a Far Country
Author: Christopher Yuan
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307729362

Over 100,000 copies sold! Coming Out, Then Coming Home Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead, she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control—and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her. Years of heartbreak, confusion, and prayer followed before the Yuans found a place of complete surrender, which is God’s desire for all families. Their amazing story, told from the perspectives of both mother and son, offers hope for anyone affected by homosexuality. God calls all who are lost to come home to him. Casting a compelling vision for holy sexuality, Out of a Far Country speaks to prodigals, parents of prodigals, and those wanting to minister to the gay community. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.” - Luke 15:20 Includes a discussion guide for personal reflection and group use.