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Author | : Dennis McFarland |
Publisher | : Page Publishing, Inc |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2020-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1647018145 |
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This book was not written for the church. There are enough books written that expand upon Christian morals and values. There are volumes of theological works from a countless number of Christian perspectives. A brief glimpse into history uncovers a history of scandal and abuse all perpetrated by the hands of the early Christian church. At this writing, there is a vast Christian subculture with its own art, music, fashion, and cultural forms of expression. Television personalities preach biblical themes of humility and servitude while, at the same time, they purchase private jets and live in ridiculous excess. Small churches are closing at an alarming rate, and larger congregations are getting obscured in the smoke and hype of commercialized worship services. Arguments against “the faith” are becoming increasingly articulate, and media coverage continues to cast a growing shadow over whatever good the church might be accomplishing in the world. In all this, it is easier than ever to be lost. This book is written for the lost. It originated as a result of an epiphany based on an article about the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. Once a year, Curiosity would stop and celebrate the anniversary of its arrival on Mars by stopping briefly to sing “Happy Birthday” to itself. Then, once again, it continues through the dry desolation of the planet surface on a path of discovery. When you stop and look past all the scholarly debate and man-made traditions of Christianity and look at the basic message of love and salvation presented in the scriptures, you will discover a beautiful picture. Over time, the simplicity and accessibility of this message has been diluted and overcomplicated. This book is written for the lost soul who, with a little bit of curiosity, has a desire to discover the simplicity of that message. It might be too late to change this world...but maybe we can change that one.
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Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Christian Science |
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Author | : Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1256 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Missionaries |
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Author | : Charles D. Cashdollar |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2000-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271073349 |
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A Spiritual Home explores congregational life inside British and American Reformed churches between 1830 and 1915. At a time when scholars have become interested in the day-to-day experience of local congregations, this book reaches back into the nineteenth century, a critically formative period in Anglo-American religious life, to examine the historical roots of congregational life.Taking the perspective of the laity, Cashdollar ranges widely from worship and music to fund-raising and administration, from pastoral care to social work, from prayer meetings to strawberry festivals, from the sanctuary to the kitchen. Firmly rooted in broader currents of gender, class, notions of middle-class respectability, increasing expectations for personal privacy, and patterns of professionalization, he finds that there was a gradual shift in emphasis during these years from piety to fellowship. Based on records, publications, and memorabilia from about 150 congregations representing eight denominations, A Spiritual Home gives us a comprehensive, composite portrait of religious life in Victorian Britain and America.
Author | : Jessica Johnson |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 082237160X |
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Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnson shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn"—the affective labor of communicating, promoting, and embodying Driscoll's teaching on biblical masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, which simultaneously worked as a marketing strategy, social imaginary, and biopolitical instrument. Johnson theorizes religious conviction as a social process through which Mars Hill's congregants circulated and amplified feelings of hope, joy, shame, and paranoia as affective value that the church capitalized on to grow at all costs.
Author | : Rob Bell |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2006-06-29 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 0310273080 |
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In order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith, Bell frees readers to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted.
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Publisher | : Dog Ear Publishing |
Total Pages | : 222 |
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ISBN | : 1608442209 |
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Author | : Warren Throckmorton |
Publisher | : Carolina Maud Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-07 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : 9780974670614 |
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"This work is primarily about properly understanding some claims about Thomas Jefferson ... This work is particularly aimed at understanding Jefferson in light of claims made about him by some religious conservatives, especially those by David Barton. ... The aims of this work are quite simple: to be dispassionate in the analysis of the claims about Jefferson and to understand the events in question in their proper theological and cultural context. ... The plan of the book is to take church and state claims first followed by a focus on Jefferson's personal views of the Bible and religion. Then, we [the authors] briefly examine claims relating to the University of Virginia and close with an examination of Jefferson's views of race and his actions as a slave owner"--Page xi-xiii.
Author | : Woman's Home Missionary Society (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Author | : Brian Zahnd |
Publisher | : David C Cook |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 143470792X |
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We know Jesus the Savior, but have we met Jesus, Prince of Peace? When did we accept vengeance as an acceptable part of the Christian life? How did violence and power seep into our understanding of faith and grace? For those troubled by this trend toward the sword, perhaps there is a better way. What if the message of Jesus differs radically differs from the drumbeats of war we hear all around us? Using his own journey from war crier to peacemaker and his in-depth study of peace in the scriptures, author and pastor Brian Zahnd reintroduces us to the gospel of Peace.