Drenched in Grace

Drenched in Grace
Author: Lizette Larson-Miller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621897532

The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order. Rooted in Christian Scripture, baptism is initiation into Jesus Christ and the sacramental beginning of engagement with the church, the body of Christ. In recent decades, the relationship between baptismal theology and ecclesiology has changed. Rather than focusing solely on the implications of baptism for individuals, the center of theological conversation has moved increasingly to the nature of baptism as formative of the church. One of the pioneers in exploring this theological issue in the United States has been the Rev. Dr. Louis Weil, who, from the time he helped author the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, has advocated for an approach called "baptismal ecclesiology." In a number of essays since the 1980s, Dr. Weil has encouraged an increasingly ecumenical conversation around this particular approach to ecclesiology. This ecumenical collection of essays by a distinguished and international group of sixteen scholars continues the conversation on liturgy and ecclesiology begun by Fr. Weil.

Searching for Grace

Searching for Grace
Author: Scotty Smith
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496444051

“Searching for Grace invites you into the kind of relationship that we all long for deep in our hearts. The relationship between Scotty and Russ is scary, vulnerable, painful, but gorgeously loving and drenched in grace.” —Paul David Tripp, author of New Morning Mercies Anxious? Burnt out? Weary? Why is it so hard for our souls to find rest? In Searching for Grace, Russ and his mentor, Scotty Smith, explore the contours of their lives and why embracing God’s grace unreservedly is so difficult for many of us. Their honest conversations offer priceless lessons for parched souls everywhere. Many of us feel anxious and unfulfilled by our everyday existence, yet deeply long for a purposeful, meaningful, and peace-filled life. That tension creates a background buzz of profound discontentment behind everything we do. There is a better way. Searching for Grace reveals the conversations between Russ and Scotty that transformed Russ’s life forever, helping him identify the mindsets that contributed to his restlessness. Straight from his little black journal, Russ shares the seven life-giving principles he learned from Scotty that unleashed him to a refreshingly new life, radically built on God’s grace.

From Good to Grace

From Good to Grace
Author: Christine Hoover
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441222405

Many women feel as if they do not do enough and are not enough. They're always trying hard to be good: a good friend, mom, wife, Christian, employee, or ministry leader, hoping for that "atta-girl" from God. With compelling illustrations from her own life, Christine Hoover leads readers to the understanding that they're living by a lesser gospel, the gospel of goodness, one without Christ's grace. Relying on Scripture, they can start asking, "What does God want for me?" before asking, "What does God want from me?" Women will breathe a sigh of relief at this powerful message of freedom and hope. Rather than serving God out of obligation or duty, they'll be compelled to love and serve God with great joy.

Extravagant Grace

Extravagant Grace
Author: Barbara R. Duguid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781596384491

Why do Christians even mature Christians still sin so often? Why doesn't God set us free? We seem to notice more sin in our lives all the time, and we wonder if our progress is a constant disappointment to God. Where is the joy and peace we read about in the Bible? Speaking from her own struggles, Barbara Duguid turns to the writings of John Newton to teach us a theology with a purpose for our failure and guilt one that adjusts our expectations of ourselves. Her empathetic, honest approach lifts our focus from our own performance back to the God who is bigger than our failures and who uses them. Rediscover how God's extravagant grace makes the gospel once again feel like the good news it truly is

Because He Loves Me

Because He Loves Me
Author: Elyse Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 158134905X

In this book a well-known biblical counselor points you to your true identity as God's beloved child and teaches you how to become who you already are, without legalism or lawlessness. --from publisher description.

Give Them Grace

Give Them Grace
Author: Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781433520099

Helping Christian parents raise their children with grace and the gospel, this book addresses topics such as the law, God's forgiveness and love, and true heart obedience--a great resource for raising grace-filled kids.

Take Back Your Life

Take Back Your Life
Author: Levi Lusko
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 078523277X

Paralyzed by anxiety, fear, and uncertainty? In this 40-day interactive journey, discover a step-by-step process that can break that cycle. Offering an action plan and journaling space for turning your thoughts into real change, learn to take back your life. Every person has a mission and a God-given potential to impact the world, whether they recognize it or not. But life presents challenges and traps us in a helpless, hopeless loop of anxiety and fear. In Take Back Your Life, a blend of his bestselling books Through the Eyes of a Lion and I Declare War, join Levi Lusko onan interactive journey to equip yourself to become the best version of yourself. Offering forty daily challenges to help you come to terms with the reality of your internal battle, learn to take up the weapons God has given you and engage in the fight. With biblical truth and perspective, this step-by-step journaling process will help you: Get out of your own way by learning to think right so you can live right Find purpose by discovering that God will do great things with your imperfect progress Learn that your pain is not an obstacle to being used by God but an opportunity to be used like never before This is more than a book. It’s an intimate self-analysis tool that will help you recognize what’s weighing you down or holding you back. This is a journey to get back the life you know you were born for—to change your thinking so you can change your living and become the difference-maker God sees when he sees you.

Exactly!

Exactly!
Author: Kathy Myrkle
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1098043979

Exactly! is a book of short essays which talk about the variety of ways that God helps us. Some of them are humorous, some fascinating, some difficult, some joyful, and some challenging...but all insightful. God loves each one of us exactly as we are in this exact moment. Through this book you will find moments of despair...of hope...of sadness...of wonder...of joy. You will find moments of challenge where God reached out, in both small and great ways, and simply loved us exactly where we were. His words were given for us to share with others, but in the writing and in the sharing, God touched our souls in incredible ways. He met us exactly as we were each time. May he meet you exactly where you need him today.

Institutional Individualism

Institutional Individualism
Author: Michael W. Kaufmann
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780819563507

Exploring the means by which individuals define themselves in relation to their institutional affiliations.

Orthodoxies in Massachusetts

Orthodoxies in Massachusetts
Author: Janice Knight
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674644878

Reexamining religious culture in seventeenth-century New England, Janice Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within the Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to the migration to America, Knight describes a split between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love. A strong countervoice, expressed by such American divines as John Cotton, John Davenport, and John Norton and the Englishmen Richard Sibbes and John Preston, articulated a theology rooted in Divine Benevolence rather than Almighty Power, substituting free testament for conditional covenant to describe God's relationship to human beings. Knight argues that the terms and content of orthodoxy itself were hotly contested in New England and that the dominance of rationalist preachers like Thomas Hooker and Peter Bulkeley has been overestimated by scholars. Establishing the English origins of the differences, Knight rereads the controversies of New England's first decades as proof of a continuing conflict between the two religious ideologies. The Antinomian Controversy provides the focus for a new understanding of the volatile processes whereby orthodoxies are produced and contested. This book gives voice to this alternative piety within what is usually read as the univocal orthodoxy of New England, and shows the political, social, and literary implications of those differences.