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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches
Mormon studies is one of the fastest-growing subfields in religious
studies. For this volume, Terryl Givens and Philip Barlow, two
leading scholars of Mormonism, have brought together 45 of the top
scholars in the field to construct a collection of essays that
offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Mormons. The book
begins with a section on Mormon history, perhaps the most
well-developed area of Mormon studies. Chapters in this section
deal with questions ranging from how Mormon history is studied in
the university to the role women have played throughout Mormon
history. Other sections examine revelation and scripture, church
structure and practice, theology, society, and culture. The final
two sections look at Mormonism in a larger context. The authors
examine Mormon expansion across the globe-focusing on Mormonism in
Latin America, the Pacific, Europe, and Asia-in addition to the
interaction between Mormonism and other social systems, such as
law, politics, and other faiths. Bringing together an unprecedented
body of scholarship in the field of Mormon studies, The Oxford
Handbook of Mormonism will be an invaluable resource for those
within the field, as well as for people studying the broader,
ever-changing American religious landscape.
Surprisingly Supernatural: A Practical Guide to Releasing the
Gifts of the Spirit teaches believers to receive the gifts of the
Spirit, and then how to release the spiritual gifts of prophecy,
healings and miracles, discernment, and binding or driving out
demons. Then the believers are encouraged to bring in the harvest.
When believers learn how to release the gifts of the Spirit that is
what the Bride of Christ is to do at the end of the age, and then
she will enter into the wedding banquet (see Matt. 24:14;
25:9-10).
You Will Learn -That you are supposed to ask for the Holy
Spirit, and ask for the gifts of the Spirit, and being continually
filled by the Spirit was what the first disciples experienced, and
they were the first ones called "Christians." -That if you will
learn the conditions required for you to hear God's voice, then you
will be able to prophecy. -That if you will learn the keys to
healing, then you will begin to see the sick healed when you lay
your hands on them. -That when you ask for the gift of discernment,
then you will begin to discern demons and the defilement that is
around you. Then you can cast out those demons. -That leylines are
spiritual highways that demons travel on over the earth, and you
will learn how to clean them off. -That when you release the gifts
of the Spirit, you will easily be able to show nonbelievers that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is the Savior of the World.
-That the Bride of Christ is to be continually filled by the Spirit
until she is clothed in the armor of light and clothed in Jesus
Christ, then she will bring glory to the Lord (see Rom. 13:12,
14).
Stories of contemporary exorcisms are largely met with ridicule, or
even hostility. Sean McCloud argues, however, that there are
important themes to consider within these narratives of seemingly
well-adjusted people-who attend school, go shopping, and watch
movies-who also happen to fight demons. American Possessions
examines Third Wave evangelical spiritual warfare, a late
twentieth-, early twenty-first century movement of evangelicals
focused on banishing demons from human bodies, material objects,
land, regions, political parties, and nation states. While Third
Wave beliefs may seem far removed from what many scholars view as
mainstream religious practice in America, McCloud argues that the
movement provides an ideal case study for identifying some of the
most prescient tropes within the contemporary American religious
landscape; namely "the consumerist," "the haunted," and "the
therapeutic." Drawing on interviews, television shows,
documentaries, websites, and dozens of spiritual warfare handbooks,
McCloud examines Third Wave practices such deliverance rituals (a
uniquely Protestant form of exorcism), spiritual housekeeping (the
removal of demons from everyday objects), and spiritual mapping
(searching for the demonic in the physical landscape). Demons, he
shows, are the central fact of life in the Third Wave imagination.
McCloud provides the first book-length study of this influential
movement, highlighting the important ways that it reflects and
diverts from the larger, neo-liberal culture from which it
originates.
Samuel Rees Howells, A Life of Intercession: The Legacy of Prayer
and Spiritual Warfare of an Intercessor by Richard A. Maton, Paul
Backholer and Mathew Backholer. Hardback and paperback edtions have
39 black and white photos interspersed throughout the book.
Rees Howells, a powerful intercessor, taught his son Samuel the
principles of intercession and commissioned him some weeks before
his death, stating, "Whatever you do, stand and maintain these
intercessions." For the next fifty-four years, Samuel Rees Howells
exercised a powerful intercessory ministry as he focused prayer on
gospel liberty, in order for the good news of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to be given to every creature.
With the mantle of intercession weighing heavily upon him, Samuel
spent decades participating with others in their own countries, in
profound spiritual struggles that shook world events and shaped
history for God's glory Discover how Samuel was led by the Holy
Spirit to exercise authority over the principalities and powers,
and to 'pray through' until God's purposes were fulfilled in many
lethal world conflicts. Learn how God still intervenes in world
history, from the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and from
the Six-Day War to the fall of the Soviet Union
Beginning in the days of Rees Howells, this book continues this
powerful story of intercession and traces its effectual legacy into
the twenty-first century. Filled with principles of intercession,
faith and spiritual warfare, this book provides a fascinating
insight into what is possible when the Holy Spirit finds an
individual, who will stand in the gap and become a channel for His
intercession. Ezekiel 22:30, Romans 8:26-27, Ephesians 6:12.
Richard A. Maton worked under Samuel's ministry for forty-seven
years and provides us with an eyewitness account of Samuel's life
of intercession. Richard is married to Kristine who joined Rees
Howells' Bible College in 1936 and prayed alongside him. Together
Richard and Kristine spent more than 120 years at the College
When you agree with the marvelous promises given in the Word of God, you will begin to reap God's gifts of love, joy, peace, health, and favor. When you speak those promises out loud and into the lives of others, your words can work wonders. Now, E. W. Kenyon and Don Gossett join forces to build our faith, offering timeless wisdom and challenging us to live a bolder life for God. Through His power, believers should be able to overcome adversity and sin in such areas as finances, health, marriage and other relationships, and emotions. There is power in the blood of Jesus to defeat anything and everything the enemy brings against you! You, too, can speak words of life into those who are lost, suffering, and needy. Let your compassion flow. The bolder your faith words are, the greater your results will be.
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