Liberty to the Captives

Liberty to the Captives
Author: Raymond Rivera
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0802869017

Liberty to the Captives is a book for any Christians who want to learn how to bring hope and redemption to their communities — for those who are ready to step beyond their comfort zone, leave the status quo behind, and take up Christ's call to minister within a world crying out for the freedom only God can bring. Longtime pastor Raymond Rivera's testimony of a life completely turned around — from gang member to RCA pastor — underscores his powerful message. Full of practical advice about how holistic community-based ministry can bring transformation, healing, and liberation from captivity, Liberty to the Captives encourages Christians to respond to God's call by ministering wherever God has placed them. Based on over forty-five years of pastoring inner-city churches, Rivera's inspiring vision challenges all Christians to think again about how their faith should lead to social action and defense of society's most vulnerable people.

Learning to Speak God from Scratch

Learning to Speak God from Scratch
Author: Jonathan Merritt
Publisher: Convergent Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601429312

In a rapidly changing culture, many of us struggle to talk about faith. We can no longer assume our friends understand words such as grace or gospel. Others, like lost and sin, have become so negative they are nearly conversation-enders. Jonathan Merritt knows this frustration well. After moving from the Bible Belt to New York City, he discovered that the sacred terms he used to describe his spiritual life didn’t connect as they had in the past. This launched him into an exploration of an increasing American reluctance to talk about faith—and the data he uncovered revealed a quiet crisis of affecting millions. In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan revives ancient expressions through incisive cultural commentary, vulnerable personal narratives, and surprising biblical insights. Both provocative and liberating, Learning to Speak God from Scratch will breathe new life into your spiritual conversations and invite you into the embrace of the God who inhabits them.

Liberty for All

Liberty for All
Author: Andrew T. Walker
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493431153

Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as concerned about publicly defending the rights of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and atheists to do the same. Andrew T. Walker, an emerging Southern Baptist public theologian, argues for a robust Christian ethic of religious liberty that helps the church defend religious freedom for everyone in a pluralistic society. Whether explicitly religious or not, says Walker, every person is striving to make sense of his or her life. The Christian foundations of religious freedom provide a framework for how Christians can navigate deep religious difference in a secular age. As we practice religious liberty for our neighbors, we can find civility and commonality amid disagreement, further the church's engagement in the public square, and become the strongest defenders of religious liberty for all. Foreword by noted Princeton scholar Robert P. George.

Live in Liberty

Live in Liberty
Author: Daniel Bush
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577996283

A systemic problem plagues the local and global church: We habitually lose the gospel. In its place, we substitute personal prosperity, legalism, politics--and we end up paralyzing the mission of the church. Galatians contains Paul's passionate defense of the gospel. It shows us how to enjoy God's presence and everlasting peace, setting us free to love and be loved. In Live in Liberty, Daniel Bush and Noel Due help you apply the spiritual message of Galatians so that you may experience the liberating presence of God.

Fighting For Your Freedom

Fighting For Your Freedom
Author: Bishop Isaac Ogbeta
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-02-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1478786647

Fighting for Your Freedom. Let My People Go. Free At Last. This book will teach you how to fight for your freedom; Freedom from financial bondage, Fear, Relationship, and Addiction. There used to be generational curses in my life; Generational curses of Poverty, Failure and Loss; As a result, I was in debt and the pressure was unbearable that I decided to take my life at which point The Holy Ghost told me to go into fasting and prayers and it was revealed to me in my dream to sow a seed (Giving Sacrificial Offering to the poor (those dying of hunger and to the orphans); In obedience, I sowed my seed and thereafter an idea was given to me to write books whereby millions of copies of my books had be sold all over the world and God took me out of debt by breaking generation curses from my life.