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Open your Bible and prepare to learn how God is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). Beloved teacher Ray Stedman takes you on a journey through Gods Word that will both inspire and motivate you. The theme of this book, the believers riches in Christ, becomes clearly evident as Immeasurably More leads you through portions of the Old and New Testamants in an easily-read, easily-grasped devotional experience.
Katherine Willis Pershey has never slept with the mailman or kissed an ex-boyfriend. Good thing, since she’s married. But simply not committing adultery does not give you the keys to “happily ever after,” as Pershey has come to find out in her own marriage and in her work as a pastor. What is this sacred covenant that binds one person to another, and what elements of faith and fidelity sustain it? In Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity, Pershey opens the book on all things marital. With equal parts humor and intelligence, Pershey speaks frankly about the challenges and consolations of modern marriage. As she shares her own tales of bliss and blunder, temptation and deliverance, Pershey invites readers to commit once again to the joyful and difficult work of cherishing another person. For better or worse. For life.
With huge marches in central London, demonstrations outside asylum hotels and opinion polls showing that immigration is one of the most important electoral issues for the majority of the population, churches and individual Christians are grappling with how to respond.
The call to recognise God in the stranger has never been more relevant.
God Is Stranger strips us of our comfortable assumptions about God and invites us to look afresh at his character. When Abraham welcomes three men for dinner, he ends up pleading for the life of a city. When Jacob meets God by the river, they end up in a fight. And when two forlorn disciples meet a stranger on the road, their lives are turned upside down.
God Is Stranger challenges us to lay down our expectations of God and delight in the power that is proven by his very strangeness.
Reclaiming an Evangelical History of Activism In recent years,
there has been renewed interest by evangelicals in the topic of
biblical social justice. Younger evangelicals and millennials, in
particular, have shown increased concern for social issues. But
this is not a recent development. Following World War II, a new
movement of American evangelicals emerged who gradually increased
their efforts on behalf of justice. This work explains the
important historical context for evangelical reengagement with
social justice issues. The authors provide an overview of
post-World War II evangelical social justice and compassion
ministries, introducing key figures and seminal organizations that
propelled the rediscovery of biblical justice. They explore
historical and theological lessons learned and offer a way forward
for contemporary Christians.
Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction
of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic
systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture,
its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western
world.
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Matthew
(Hardcover)
Stanley Hauerwas; Edited by R. R. Reno, Robert W. Jensen, Robert L. Wilken
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R843
Discovery Miles 8 430
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This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve
readers by demonstrating the continuing intellectual and practical
viability of theological interpretation of the Bible. Figures of
the classical church such as Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and Wesley
interpreted the Bible theologically, believing Scripture as a whole
witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Modern interpreters of the
Bible questioned this premise. But, in recent decades, a critical
mass of theologians and biblical scholars has begun to reassert the
priority of a theological reading of Scripture. The "SCM
Theological Commentary" series enlists leading theologians to read
and interpret Scripture for the twenty-first century, just as the
church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did
for their times and places.
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