Radical Restoration

Radical Restoration
Author: F. LaGard Smith
Publisher: 21st Century Christian, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780966006032

What if we radically restored first-century faith and practice in our own time and culture? Smith pleads for a more complete restoration by exploring the areas of youth ministry, elders, the Lord's Supper, gathered worhsip, and the Christian lifestyle.

Radical Restoration in the Church

Radical Restoration in the Church
Author: Jay R. Leach
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2015-01-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1490753508

ONE GENERATION FROM EXTINCTION! There is a drastic shift in the national culture and churches today; which if not countered can make Christ extinct in one generation! In the midst of this shift many Christians have become confused and are blurring their kingdom mission, biblical worldview and life of godliness. Meanwhile, recent research reflects some 2 billion people in the world who have never heard the saving gospel of Jesus Christ; and billions more caught up in false religions. In the shift many Christians individually and corporately are failing in their responsibility to pass on the faith, wisdom, and godly example to the next generation. Failure to do so in one generation will remove Christ and Christianity from the next generation (s). To meet this challenge we must radically restore the faith (see Jude 3) for the final hour: Restore [agape] love for God and others in the Church Restore and teach a true biblical worldview in the Church Restore biblical salvation and a daily walk with Christ in the Church Restore total dependence upon the Holy Spirit in the Church The secular worldview secures more Christian casualties daily. But by His divine power, God has given us all things that pertain to a life of godliness ..... (see 2 Peter 1:3).

Radical Restoration

Radical Restoration
Author: Dawn Knighton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2016-01-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781522967491

From Solitary Confinement to the World through Radical Obedience A face to face, real encounter with God transformed this forty-six time felon, drug addicted prostitute into a powerful, speaker, teacher, counselor, author and Founder and Director of Radical Restoration Ministries which touches lives around the world. It all started in a prison cell with one surrendered life. As you read Radical Restoration, The Dawn Knighton Story, you will cry and laugh with joy as you follow her amazing journey. Your heart will cry out, "Me too!" Whether it's inmates or wardens, pastors or sinners everyone who has the opportunity to hear Dawn speak or to read her book wants more of God in their lives. Her question is always, "What can one face to face encounter with God do in your life?"

The Great Restoration

The Great Restoration
Author: Meic Pearse
Publisher: Paternoster Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

During the 16th and 17th centuries various radical groups emerged which sought to break the medieval ties of church and state and restore the vision of the early church. This book provides a witty an lucid examination of the origins and development of these movements and considers their continuing legacy today. Pearse charts the rise and progress of continental Anabaptism—both evangelical and heretical—through the 16th century. He then follows the story of those English people who become impatient with Puritanism and separated—first from the Church of England and then from one another—to form the antecedents of later Congregationalists, Baptists and Quakers.

The Cultural Church

The Cultural Church
Author: F. Lagard Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2015-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780890981313

In what direction are we being blown by the winds of change now waiting through the church? - Is the church influencing culture, or is culture influencing the church? - What lies behind current calls for a "new hermeneutic"? - Is there a better way to understand Scripture? With calls for sweeping changes in the way we understand Scripture, this just may be the most important book of the decade. It is must reading for every church leader and Christian concerned with the future of the church at the brink of a new century! F. LaGard Smith is the author of some thirty books, ranging from devotionals to doctrinal discussions to commentaries on current legal and social issues. He is best known as the compiler and narrator of The Daily Bible, the NIV in chronological order. Smith has taught in both graduate and undergraduate university programs for over thirty years.

Radical

Radical
Author: David Platt
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-05-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601422210

New York Times bestseller What is Jesus worth to you? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily... But who do you know who lives like that? Do you? In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a "successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment -- a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring.

Spaceland

Spaceland
Author: Rudy Rucker
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2003-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429980079

Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake. Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Radical Faith

Radical Faith
Author: John Driver
Publisher: Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Christian sects
ISBN: 9780968346280

John Driver has written a history that is an alternative both to traditional accounts and to sectarian interpretations. Radical Faith outlines the story of Christian people whose radical faith and commitment relegated them to the margins of a powerful church. Recovering the story of God's people in this unique way provides readers with a valuable new perspective on Christian history. Eighteen different groups and movements are represented, from the first century up to the 20th. Teachers and students of church history will appreciate the combination of clear organization, lucid prose, and numerous sidebar citations from primary sources.

Healing the Gospel

Healing the Gospel
Author: Derek Flood
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621894215

Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us from God? How could someone ever truly love or trust a God like that? How can that ever be called "Good News"? It's questions like these that make so many people want to have nothing to do with Christianity. Healing the Gospel challenges the assumption that the Christian understanding of justice is rooted in a demand for violent punishment, and instead offers a radically different understanding of the gospel based on God's restorative justice. Connecting our own experiences of faith with the New Testament narrative, author Derek Flood shows us an understanding of the cross that not only reveals God's heart of grace, but also models our own way of Christ-like love. It's a vision of the gospel that exposes violence, rather than supporting it--a gospel rooted in love of enemies, rather than retribution. The result is a nonviolent understanding of the atonement that is not only thoroughly biblical, but will help people struggling with their faith to encounter grace.

Finding Organic Church

Finding Organic Church
Author: Frank Viola
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0781403529

From the bestselling author of Reimagining Church comes an essential guide that provides practical, effective tools for finding vibrant Christian communities. Driven by a passion for the body of Christ, Frank Viola has written some of today's most authoritative and celebrated works on the growing home, organic, and missional church movements. Now Viola shares practical keys to a healthy and successful church plant. Viola contends that many congregations today are struggling to survive, not because of bad planning, but poor planting. He presents an essential guide for starting and nourishing organic churches in any culture. Drawing from both Scripture and a wealth of experience, Viola offers real-world tools, insights, and practical suggestions so churches won't just grow, but thrive.