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| Author | : Richard Beck |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2017-10-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1506438415 |
Accessible, challenging, funny, and one of the best reads on how to love others in any situation. Love and hospitality can change the way you see the world and others. That's exactly what modern-day theologian, Richard Beck, experienced when he first led a Bible study at a local maximum security prison. Beck believed the promise of Matthew 25 that states when we visit the prisoner, we encounter Jesus. Sure enough, God met Beck in prison. With his signature combination of biblical reflection, theological reasoning, and psychological insight, Beck shows how God always meets us when we entertain the marginalized, the oppressed, and the refugee. Stories from Beck's own life illustrate this truth -- God comes to him in the poor, the crippled, the smelly. Psychological experiments show how we are predisposed to appreciate those who are similar to us and avoid those who are unlike us. The call of the gospel, however, is to override those impulses with compassion, to "widen the circle of our affection." In the end, Beck turns to the Little Way of St. Thérèse of Lisieux for guidance in doing even the smallest acts with kindness, and he lays out a path that any of us can follow.
| Author | : John Koessler |
| Publisher | : Zondervan |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2009-08-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0310864216 |
Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith
| Author | : Mary Jo Leddy |
| Publisher | : Orbis Books |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Church work with refugees |
| ISBN | : 1608331059 |
| Author | : Krish Kandiah |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2017-12-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830887067 |
Have we missed the Bible’s consistent teaching that God is other, higher, stranger? Krish Kandiah offers us a fresh look at some of the difficult, awkward, and even troubling Bible passages, challenging us to replace our sanitized concept of God with a more awe-inspiring, true-to-the-Bible God. Allow yourself to be surprised by God as you find him in unexpected places doing the unexpected.
| Author | : Joy Ladin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9781512600667 |
Evocative readings of the Torah through the lens of transgender experience, exploring the ways trans perspectives can enrich our understanding of religious texts, traditions, and God
| Author | : David L. Rowe |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2008-08-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0802803806 |
William Miller was the founder of the modern American millennial tradition. Using various dates found in scripture, he sought to calculate the chronology of Christ's return to earth. Although his prediction that Christ would visibly return in 1843 failed spectacularly, followers reinterpreted his message and laid the basis for the modern Seventh-day Adventist Church. In this book, David L. Rowe utilizes the vast collection of Miller primary materials to reconstruct Miller's life. He relies on information found in correspondence. Rowe gives special attention to the Miller family connections and to Miller's personal identity struggles, documenting a deep tension between proclivities for both obedience and rebellion.
| Author | : Michael S. Heiser |
| Publisher | : Lexham Press |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2019-10-31 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1683593235 |
What could the supernatural world of Stranger Things have in common with the Bible? The paranormal television series Stranger Things taps into the mysterious elements that have fueled spiritual questions for millennia. The otherworldly manifestations in Hawkins, Indiana offer compelling portrayals of important spiritual truths--and many of these truths are echoed in the supernatural worldview of the Bible. For Michael Heiser, Stranger Things is the perfect marriage of his interest in popular culture and the paranormal. In The Unseen Realm, he opened the eyes of thousands, helping readers understand the supernatural worldview of the Bible. Now he turns his attention to the worldwide television phenomenon, exploring how Stranger Things relates to Christian theology and the Christian life. In The World Turned Upside Down, Heiser draws on this supernatural worldview to help us think about the story of Jesus and discover glimpses of the gospel in the Upside Down. He argues that this celebrated series helps us understand the gospel in unique and overlooked ways. The spiritual questions and crises raised by Stranger Things are addressed the same way they are in the gospel, with mystery and transcendent power.
| Author | : Benjamin Myers |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2012-02-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567511545 |
Rowan Williams is a complex, creative and versatile thinker. Not only a theologian and church leader, he is also a poet, a translator, a literary critic, a social theorist and historian. His imaginative vision brings together the streams of modern literature, patristic theology, Russian orthodoxy, German philosophy and Welsh piety. In this lucid and elegant guide, Benjamin Myers explores Williams' thought from the 1960s to the present. He shows that Williams has developed an immensely resourceful - and distinctively Christian - response to some of the major social, moral and intellectual challenges of our time.
| Author | : Matthew Soerens |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2018-07-03 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830885552 |
World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
| Author | : Marilyn Lacey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781594711978 |
"What began as a response to a random bulletin board posting would ultimately challenge Sister Marilyn Lacey's life - and the life of countless refugees. Nhia Bee, along with his wife and five children, had been placed for a few weeks at [her] convent upon arriving in California from a refugee camp in Thailand. When the family was moved to permanent housing, Sr. Lacey realized, to her own surprise, just how much the family had lodged itself in her heart. Not long after, she had a dream that changed the course of her life. ..."--Back cover.
