Stumbling Toward Obedience

Stumbling Toward Obedience
Author: David R. Hawkins
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144979906X

Jesus demonstrated complete submission to the Fathers will to the point of His confident assertion, I always do those things that please My Father (John 8:29). He gave Himself in humility at Calvary to satisfy Gods wrath against all sin, as well as all sinners, and declared from the cross, It is finished. He then experienced death but rose in victory over death, thus proving His claims to divinity and giving to all His spiritual descendants resurrection power for daily living. So what is to be our response to all Christ Jesus is and all that He has suffered and accomplished on our behalf? What should be our lifes focus, our objective, our agenda, and our passion? Obedience to the things our Lord and Savior has commanded. Obedience is our duty, to be sure, but it is more than that. It is the way we express our thanksgiving for what Christ has done for us. It is gratefulness lived out on a daily basis. This kind of living involves a consistent orientation toward laying aside personal or selfish desires and agendas that bring us temporal gratification. Instead, we embrace what Jesus Christ tells us to do: to proclaim the gospel of hope to those who know it not. This is the highest expression of gratefulness from a life made new by the living Lord. Your culture, your communities, your friends, your co-workers, and your family members need to hear a word from God. You and I are the delivery persons for Gods message. We are the spokespersons for the gospel of Jesus Christ! We are the ones to whom God has said, Arise, go to Nineveh. Our Nineveh, dear people of God, is the lost people around us.

The Scandal of Stumbling Blocks

The Scandal of Stumbling Blocks
Author: James Durham
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601788029

Have you ever considered the seriousness of causing someone else to stumble? That is, to hinder someone’s spiritual wellbeing. Does it surprise you that the apostle Paul describes it as evil (Rom. 14:20)? In The Scandal of Stumbling Blocks , James Durham helps us to consider the matter deeply by defining the nature of stumbling as well as showing its serious consequences. He looks in considerable detail at different kinds of stumbling and identifies the ways that people can stumble and be stumbled. Durham provides practical advice for avoiding and preventing offense. Now edited in modern English, Durham’s classic treatment on considerate Christianity can be used to edify a new generation. Table of Contents: 1. Why Is Stumbling Important? 2. What Is Stumbling? 3. What Are the Different Kinds of Stumbling? 4. What Ways Do We Stumble Others? 5. To What Extent Should We Avoid Stumbling Others? 6. How Can Believers Prevent Stumbling? 7. How Can Ministers Prevent Stumbling? 8. What Are the Key Truths about Stumbling?

Paul, The Apostle of Obedience

Paul, The Apostle of Obedience
Author: Jason A. Myers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2022-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567705862

Jason A. Myers reconsiders the meaning and context of the phrase “the obedience of faith” in Rom 1:5 and how it contributes to the theme of obedience in Romans. In contrast to previous studies that have nearly exclusively focused on the obedience language in light of the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple literature, Myers instead investigates how this language functioned within the Greco-Roman world, particularly in the discourse of the Roman Empire. By studying both the Greco-Roman contexts and the use of obedience language during the Empire, Myers sheds fresh light on the meaning of “the obedience of faith,” and concludes that such examination helps contemporary readers understand how Gentiles in Paul's audience would have heard and received the terms and images relating to obedience. In addition, he argues that Paul's use of obedience language, both at the beginning and end of Romans (1:5; 15:18), serves as rhetorical bookends, and signals a theme that is central to Paul's purpose in Romans and integral to his calling as an apostle to the Gentiles.

The Cost of Discipleship

The Cost of Discipleship
Author: Bonhoeffer Dietrich
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334053420

Perhaps Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s most radical book, this reading of the Sermon on the Mount has influenced many Christians throughout the world over the last 50 years.

The Five Simple Servants

The Five Simple Servants
Author: Dee O. Rowe
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1365232476

The Lord urges us to work while it is the day for when night comes no man can work (see John 9:4). When darkness falls, the return of the Messiah will dawn upon us, and the wrath of God will descend upon this earth. The Body of Christ must not be careless, lacking a sense of urgency and remain in a fog of delusion, concerning the nearness of the hour. Pacified by the "good" things in this life, we dare not linger in a hypnotic state and miss the most important event of all. Journey with the author, Dee O. Rowe, as we uncover a riveting biblical study of the apocalyptic prophecies, which must unfold upon this earth before the return of the Messiah. The author will shed light through compelling Scriptural evidence, explaining how we can better prepare ourselves and help us understand that TIME will soon be no more. The Lord's return is no longer near, but it is about to take place. THE KING IS COMING!

ESV Expository Commentary (Volume 12)

ESV Expository Commentary (Volume 12)
Author: Crossway
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 1168
Release: 2020-10-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433546752

Designed to strengthen the global church with a widely accessible, theologically sound, and pastorally wise resource for understanding and applying the overarching storyline of the Bible, this commentary series features the full text of the ESV Bible passage by passage, with crisp and theologically rich exposition and application. Editors Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton, and Jay A. Sklar have gathered a team of experienced pastor-theologians to provide a new generation of pastors and other teachers of the Bible around the world with a globally minded commentary series rich in biblical theology and broadly Reformed doctrine, making the message of redemption found in all of Scripture clear and available to all. Six experienced Bible teachers walk through some of the richest but more challenging books of the New Testament, helping Bible readers understand what they say about Christians' hope for the future. Contributors include: Dennis E. Johnson Robert L. Plummer C. Samuel Storms Ray Van Neste Matthew S. Harmon Thomas R. Schreiner

Brothers, We are Not Professionals

Brothers, We are Not Professionals
Author: John Piper
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1433678829

John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry.

The Quotable Lewis

The Quotable Lewis
Author: Jerry Root
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1414356749

This book presents more than 1,500 quotes from C. S. Lewis's writings, providing ready access to his thoughts on a variety of topics. An exhaustive index references key words and concepts, allowing readers to easily find quotes on any subject of interest.

Day by Day with Saint Benedict

Day by Day with Saint Benedict
Author: Terrence Kardong
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814630426

"Daily reflections for religious and lay persons on the Rule of St. Benedict and the Benedictine life"--Provided by publisher.

A Pure Theory of Democracy

A Pure Theory of Democracy
Author: Antonio García-Trevijano
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0761848576

'This is not a democracy,' Antonio Garc'a-Trevijano denounces in the first pages of this book. To confront the great lie that Europe does have democratic regimes, a lie rooted in people's confounding of the liberties they enjoy with the political freedom that they lack, the author builds a realistic theory of democracy to end the false idea that corruption, state crime, and public immorality are democracy's (undesirable) products and not the natural and inevitable fruits of oligarchic regimes. Thanks to a superb review of the events that mark the history of democracy, the author reveals the obstacles that, from the 17th century English revolution, the United States' War of Independence, and the French Revolution, opposed political freedom, deviating old Europe's democratic possibilities toward the current parties' state. There exist important theories of the state and of constitution, but none that can be called a theory of democracy. Antonio Garc'a-Trevijano's original theory, a modern synthesis of Rousseau's pure democracy and Montesquieu's political freedom, responds to European need for a theory of democracy as a real alternative to the corrupted parties' regime that was engendered by Western pragmatism during the Cold War.