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Author | : Ulrich L. Lehner |
Publisher | : Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1594717494 |
Ulrich L. Lehner reintroduces Christians to the true God—not the polite, easygoing, divine therapist who doesn’t ask much of us, but the Almighty God who is unpredictable, awe-inspiring, and demands our entire lives. Stripping away the niceties with a sling blade, Lehner shows that God is more strange and beautiful than we imagine, and wants to know and transform us in the most intimate way. With his iconoclastic new book God Is Not Nice, Lehner, one of the most promising young Catholic theologians in America, challenges the God of popular culture and many of our churches and reintroduces the God of the Bible and traditional Christianity. As Lehner writes in the book’s introduction, "We all need the vaccine of the true transforming and mysterious character of God: The God who shows up in burning bushes, speaks through donkeys, drives demons into pigs, throws Saul from his horse, and appears to St. Francis. It’s only this God who has the power to challenge us, change us, and make our lives dangerous. He sweeps us into a great adventure that will make us into different people." This book is not safe. It may startle and annoy many people—including those who purport to teach and preach the Gospel, but are missing it, according to Lehner. God Is Not Nice intends to overthrow all of our popular misconceptions about God, inviting us to ask deeper questions about the nature of our lives and our relationship with him. When you're finished with God Is Not Nice, you may find the idols you constructed in God’s name smashed, replaced with a God who will ask you to live an entirely different life full of hope and transformation. God Is Not Nice has been translated into several foreign languages.
Author | : James Bryan Smith |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2009-12-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830878343 |
Turning to the Gospels, James Bryan Smith invites you to compare your ideas about God with what Jesus himself reveals about his Father. In this Good and Beautiful Series book, Smith leads you through a process of spiritual formation that includes activities aimed at making these new narratives real in your body and soul as well as your mind.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781601258250 |
Learn all the secrets of 15 powerful yet mysterious deities in Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Faiths! This extra-large 96-page softcover sourcebook details gods and goddesses that are just as mighty as Golarion's core deities, but not as widely worshiped in the Inner Sea. From Achaekek, god of divine punishment and patron of the deadly Red Mantis assassins, to Milani, vehement enemy of tyranny and slavery, to Naderi, goddess of romantic tragedy and forbidden love, this book details all the histories, dogmas, and rituals needed to enrich campaigns with divine lore. Further, obediences and boons for each deity allow characters of all stripes to become champions of their religion. Harness the power of the divine and bring these hidden religions of Golarion to life with Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Faiths!
Author | : David Nagai |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781533617804 |
Do our children view God as violent or compassionate? How does this understanding impact how they treat people? This book portrays God's radical inclusion and compassion in everyday scenes that kids can easily relate to. Images of God are both female and male as well as racially diverse. The second half transitions to how Jesus reveals God's love more fully for us to see. The reader is left knowing that God's love is endless, and that we can participate in this mystery as we continue to discover God's love all around us. Is God Nice? is meant to initiate conversation, questions and creative action. Consider this resource to be a spark that ignites the potential in our kids as they imagine a more compassionate and inclusive world. (FOR AGES 5-10) For more details and a look at the illustrations, please visit the author's website at www.evokepeace.com/my-book
Author | : David Nicholls |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0415011728 |
This book explores the relations between Christianity and politics, examines the analogy between divine and civil government and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century.'Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000 people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially political, while concepts of might, majesty, dominion, and power are used of both God and the state.This ambitious and original work explores the relations between these images and their political context through the analogy between divine and civil government, and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century. David Nicholls suggests that religious conceptions have often affected political thinking - theological rhetoric, child of political experience, may also be mother of political change.Drawing upon politics, theology, history, sociology, anthropology, and literary criticism, this important new book will be essential reading for all concerned with the relation between Christianity and politics.
Author | : Elizabeth M. Hallam |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Provides information on the gods and goddesses of a wide range of cultures, from the ancient Sumerian to the modern Haitian.
Author | : D. Brent Laytham |
Publisher | : Brazos Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1587431017 |
Takes on culturally formed misconceptions about who God is by boldly stating who God is not.
Author | : Jennifer L. Armentrout |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Andros, Alexandria (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9781937053147 |
History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time. Alexandria isnt sure shes going to make it to her eighteenth birthday--to her Awakening. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, shes a goner... and so is Aiden. If thats not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time "training"--which really is just Seth's code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time--she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule. Awesome. But as her birthday draws near, her entire world shatters with a startling revelation and shes caught between love and Fate. One will do anything to protect her. One has been lying to her since the beginning. Once the gods have revealed themselves, unleashing their wrath, lives will be irrevocably changed and destroyed. Those left standing will discover if love is truly greater than Fate...
Author | : Sharon Hodde Miller |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493409468 |
God never called us to be nice. What happens when we replace courage with compromise? What happens when we replace honesty with likability? What happens when we replace conviction with clichés? What happens when we replace discipleship to Christ with a devotion to nice? We live in a culture that prizes niceness as one of its highest virtues. Niceness keeps the peace, wins friends, gains influence, and serves our reputations well, but it also takes the teeth out of our witness and the power out of our faith. When we choose to be nice instead of faithful, we bear fruits that are bland, bitter, empty, and rotten to the core. In this life-changing book, Sharon Hodde Miller explores the seemingly innocent idol that has crept into our faith and quietly corrupted it, producing the bad fruits of cowardice, inauthenticity, shallowness, and more. Then she challenges readers to cultivate a better tree, providing practical steps to reclaim our credibility as followers of Christ, and bear better, richer, more life-giving fruits.
Author | : Ara Norenzayan |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0691169748 |
Examines how the belief in gods has lead to cooperation and sometimes conflict between groups. The author also looks at how some cooperative societies have developed without belief in gods.