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Who are we when nobody's looking? Do we practise what we preach, or do
we take the easy way out and follow the crowd?
This 30-day devotional, part of the Food for the Journey series,
reminds us of what true biblical holiness looks like, and how glorious
it can be when fully understood and lived out.
Exploring passages from throughout the Bible, in this devotional some
of the Keswick Convention’s most inspirational preachers – including
Don Carson, Jonathan Lamb and John Stott – unpack the bible’s teaching
on holiness. In self-contained devotions perfect for a daily quiet time
they look at God's holiness and show us how we can reflect it in every
part of our lives
In a small, slim paperback format, Holiness: Food for the Journey is
perfect for carrying around with you and reading while you’re on the go
to carve out some quiet time with God. Whether on your commute, over
coffee, or during a lunch break, these devotions will help you make
Bible reading part of every day. Like all the Food for the Journey
books, its undated format means you can start and finish at any time of
the year, and work through it at your own pace.
If you are looking to understand what holiness means for our lives,
trying to find more quiet time with God or just want to dig more deeply
into what the Bible teaches us about God’s holiness, this little
devotional is packed full of wisdom that will help us in the pursuit of
holy living and our divine calling.
Hoy en dia, la humanidad se posiciona en dos principales actitudes
individuales: los que creen en "algo trascendente" y los que
rehusan o ven con indiferencia a esta "muleta de la condicion
humana" cuyas eventuales pruebas, manifestaciones o testimonios
consideran como simple proyeccion de la mente, alucinaciones o
fenomenos por explicarse un dia. Personalmente no hago gran
diferencia entre un ateo y un creyente cuando en ambos existen
bondad, respeto a la vida, equidad, gusto en servir, hermandad y
curiosidad por la verdad. Es un estado vibratorio muy parejo. Lo
que hay de muy aprovechable en este libro de Noe esperon, ademas de
estas conversaciones con difuntos, es la sorprendente propuesta que
se hizo a si mismo y nos hace una tercera opcion: la de CONOCER.
Nos propone entrar personalmente en lo desconocido para "verlo,"
experimentarlo, observarlo e interactuar con el... sin drogas, sin
necesidad de una experiencia cercana a la muerte, en plena
conciencia... solamente mediante un esfuerzo razonable, un
entrenamiento al alcance de muchos, una tecnica que ofrece
ensenarnos.
This reading of Hosea explores the book from a feminist,
psychoanalytical and poetic perspective. What is God doing with a
prostitute? How does the theme of prostitution relate to the
abjection of the woman as the other, and the fantasy of sexual
ecstasy, precisely because she escapes patriarchal order? Where is
the prophet situated in the dialectic of rage and desire that both
seduces and condemns Israel? His voice is both masculine and
feminine, and poetically embodies the sensuality of wayward Israel.
The ambiguity of voice is also that of the prophet's role, which is
both to nurture Israel, as on its Exodus from Egypt, and to be the
trap that destroys it. The problematic of voice and prophetic
function is evident in the vivid dissection of Israel's social
institutions, whose disintegration is inversely related to the
centrality of the discussion in the structure of the book, and in
the violent swings from despair to impossible hope. The focus on
immediate and uncontrollable entropy, manifest in extended tangled
metaphors, that occupies the centre of the book, is framed in the
outer chapters by intertextual references to Israel's primordial
vision, and the romantic distantiation of the Song of Songs, in
which the erotic and poetic contradictions of the book find their
perhaps ironic resolution.
The Gospel according to Matthew is perhaps the most important
single document of the New Testament, for in it we have the fullest
and most systematic account of the birth, life, teaching, death and
resurrection of the founder of Christianity, Jesus the Messiah.
Michael Green shows how this very Jewish Gospel portrays the power
and purpose of Jesus' life and work, which was to bring light to
all nations. Matthew records Jesus as Son of God, Messiah, Son of
David, Son of Man and supremely as God returning to Jerusalem as
judge and redeemer. The consequences of this steady focus are as
relevant now as then. We need Matthew's emphasis on the unity of
God's revelation, old and new, its reaching on the life of
discipleship and the meaning of the kingdom of heaven, and its
insights into the people of the messiah, the end of the world and
the universality of the Good News.
Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an
approachable and anecdotal style, Tom Wright manages to convey the
simplicity, and helps to unravel the great complexity, of this
extraordinary gospel. He describes it as "one of the great books in
the literature of the world; and part of its greatness is the way
it reveals its secrets not just to high-flown learning, but to
those who come to it with humility and hope".
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