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This book will help Christians locate where they are spiritually
and show them how to grow into the next stage of spiritual
development.
This panoramic vision was given to the author over a period of one
year. It includes an unfolding of the last battle between light and
darkness. A condensed version was printed in "The Morning Star
Journal" as "The Hordes of Hell Are Marching--" it quickly became
the most popular work we have ever printed, and has been circulated
around the world. This is the complete vision, including Parts IV
& V, which have not been previously published.
This book teaches why real faith is not based upon physical
evidence, but upon the Word of God.
Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the difficult, often
joyful, and sometimes harrowing account of his life in East
Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood and of his Chinese-Hakka
history. On a journey to discover how the poor and exiled are
blessed, At Home in Exile is the story of his integration of social
activism and a stubborn evangelical faith. Holding English classes
in his apartment (which doubled as a food pantry for a local
church) for undocumented Latino neighbors and Cambodian refugees,
battling drug dealers who threatened him, exorcising a spirit
possessing a teen, and winning a landmark housing settlement
against slumlords with a gathering of his neighbors-Jeung's story
is, by turns, moving and inspiring, traumatic and exuberant. As
Jeung retraces the steps of his Chinese-Hakka family and his
refugee neighbors, weaving the two narratives together, he asks
difficult questions about longing and belonging, wealth and
poverty, and how living in exile can transform your faith: "Not
only did relocation into the inner city press me toward God, but it
made God's words more distinct and clear to me...As I read
Scriptures through the eyes of those around me-refugees and
aliens-God spoke loudly to me his words of hope and truth." With
humor, humility, and keen insight, he describes the suffering and
the sturdiness of those around him and of his family. He relates
the stories of forced relocation and institutional discrimination,
of violence and resistance, and of the persistence of Christ's love
for the poor.
Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore
grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor
choices, and at times without hope. A series of terrible mistakes
left her feeling wrecked and alone and a sudden tragedy threw
Sherry into an emotional tailspin too powerful to escape. Sherry
hangs by a thread, unable to see how she can go on living, until it
happens: on a morning of no particular significance, she walks into
a church and BAM the truth of Jesus' forgiving love shatters her
world and cleaves her life in two: She goes to bed stunned; she
wakes up a Christian. Unwilling to return to the darkness of her
former life, Sherry attacks her faith head on. Soon the life Sherry
Gore remakes for herself and her children as she seeks to follow
the teachings of the Bible features head coverings, simple dress,
and a focus on Jesus Christ. Only then does she realize, in a fit
of excitement, that there are others like her. They are called
Amish and Mennonite, and she realizes she has found her people. The
plain choice that Sherry makes is not easy - and life still brings
unexpected pain and heartache - but it changes everything for her,
as she becomes one of the few people on earth to have successfully
joined the Amish from the outside. She has found her place. And her
story proves that one can return from the darkest depths to the
purest light with the power of God.
Become a Resting Place For God's Presence and Power!
Historically, God has moved mightily through revivals, awakenings, and
outpourings of His Spirit. But these legendary moments are only a
glimpse into what God desires for you each and every day.
Your everyday life can be a permanent dwelling place for God’s presence.
Todd Smith, pastor of Christ Fellowship Dawsonville and leader of the
North Georgia Revival, has firsthand experience in creating a
habitation for God. He was on the verge of quitting the ministry when
the Holy Spirit began showing him how to create a place in his life for
the presence of God to live.
Today, Todd shares these keys with you! Discover how to…
- Shift from revival visitation to Holy Spirit
habitation—where God’s manifest presence rests upon you with power.
- Become a carrier of God’s holy fire—where you impact the
atmosphere around you.
- Practice core values that protect the presence—keys that
help you cultivate and sustain a lifestyle saturated in God’s presence
and power.
- Create atmospheres that pass God’s test—discover what the
Holy Spirit is seeking in order for Him to manifest His presence.
- Pray three things that position you for supernatural setups.
- Discover the supernatural power and peace that comes when
you make your life a habitation for God’s glory!
Sara Moslener sheds light on the contemporary purity movement by
examining how earlier movements established the rhetorical and
moral frameworks utilized by two of today's leading purity
organizations, True Loves Waits and Silver Ring Thing. Her
investigation reveals that purity work over the last two centuries
has developed in concert with widespread fears of changing
traditional gender roles and sexual norms, national decline, and
global apocalypse. In Virgin Nation Moslener highlights various
points in U.S. history when evangelical beliefs and values have
seemed to provide viable explanations for and solutions to
widespread cultural crises, resulting in the growth of their
cultural and political influence. By asserting a causal
relationship between sexual immorality, national decline, and
apocalyptic anticipation, leaders have shaped a purity rhetoric
that positions Protestant evangelicalism as the salvation of
American civilization. Nineteenth-century purity reformers,
Moslener shows, utilized a nationalist discourse that drew upon
racialized and sexualized fears of national decline and pointed to
sexual immorality as the cause of Anglo-Saxon decline, and national
decay. In the early to mid-twentieth century, fundamentalist
leaders such as Billy Graham and Carl F.H. Henry sought to
establish an intellectually sound millennialist theology that
linked sexual immorality, national vulnerability, and the
expectation of imminent nuclear apocalypse. Then with the
resurgence of Christian fundamentalism in the 1970s, formerly
apolitical social conservatives found themselves swayed by the
nationalist and prophetic ideologies of the Moral Majority, which
also linked sexual immorality to national decline and pending
apocalypse. However, millennialist theologies, relevant at the
height of the cold war, had mostly disappeared from political
discourse by the 1970s when the Red Scare began to fade from
popular consciousness. For contemporary purity advocates, says
Moslener, the main obstacle to moral and national restoration is
sexual immorality, a cultural blight traceable to the excesses of
the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Today the movement positions
the adolescents who embody sexual purity as an embattled sexual
minority poised to save America from the repercussions of its own
moral turpitude, with or without government assistance.
After an explosion of conversions to Pentecostalism over the
past three decades, tens of millions of Nigerians now claim that
"Jesus is the answer." But if Jesus is the answer, what is the
question? What led to the movement's dramatic rise and how can we
make sense of its social and political significance? In this
ambitiously interdisciplinary study, Ruth Marshall draws on years
of fieldwork and grapples with a host of important
thinkers--including Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin--to
answer these questions.
To account for the movement's success, Marshall explores how
Pentecostalism presents the experience of being born again as a
chance for Nigerians to realize the promises of political and
religious salvation made during the colonial and postcolonial eras.
Her astute analysis of this religious trend sheds light on
Nigeria's contemporary politics, postcolonial statecraft, and the
everyday struggles of ordinary citizens coping with poverty,
corruption, and inequality.
Pentecostalism's rise is truly global, and" Political
Spiritualities" persuasively argues that Nigeria is a key case in
this phenomenon while calling for new ways of thinking about the
place of religion in contemporary politics.
Did God call the Church to be an institution? The Reformation gave
Europe national churches, but these came to disappoint enthusiastic
believers as lacking commitment. Was the right exit policy simply
to join 'free' presbyterian or congregational-type churches, as
found say in America? By the 1820s, the more strategic thinkers
felt not. Some followed Newman into Catholicism: other
pre-charismatics advocate an ongoing apostolate that would
recapture prophetic gifts: J N Darby was led to the fierce
conclusion that all churches, as man-made institutions, were bound
to fail. The believer's true hope was the return of Jesus Christ.
With others, Darby pioneered a less formal association of
believers, free of clergy and founded on radical holiness. Darby
was a tireless traveler, talented linguist and Bible translator.
His influence is still felt in systematic theology, missionary
societies, para- and house-church movements, possibly even in US
foreign policy towards the state of Israel.
Get Your Foundation Right—Then Build Toward the Sky!
A building contractor has a top priority every time he begins a construction project: to get the foundation right. He knows that’s the key to the stability and endurance of the structure he is building. If his crew lays the foundation wrong, the rest of the building might ultimately look good—but it will always have problems and will possibly never fulfill its purpose for being constructed in the first place.
That same principle is true as you build your life in Christ. You will never build strong or last long in your quest to fulfill what God has put you on the earth to accomplish unless you first focus on laying your spiritual foundation on the rock-solid truths of His Word.
In this book, author Rick Renner provides the scriptural “mortar and brick” that defines the six fundamental doctrines listed in Hebrews 6:1,2—precisely the ingredients you need to lay a sound and stable foundation for the structure called your life in Christ.
Do you recognize a need to fortify your foundation? If so, you’re holding a mighty tool in your hands right now that will help you do just that. The rich truths found within these pages will strengthen your foundation so it can hold you steady and stable as your life grows into a mighty edifice that displays God’s glory and power—just as He has always intended!
Redeem Your Timeline!
Haunted by your past? Anxious about the future? The omnipotent God of
the Bible is not confined by the limits of time. He is not ashamed of
your past or uncertain about your future. Every moment of your life is
always held in the palm of His hand.
Troy Brewer – pastor of OpenDoor church, founder of Troy Brewer
Ministries, and dynamic prophetic voice – shares a revolutionary
teaching on your relationship to time.
As a believer, you can invite Jesus into your personal timeline to
supernaturally redeem your past and miraculously prepare your future.
Because past sins have been erased, the pain of trauma, abuse, and
heartbreak can be redeemed. Future fears can be put to rest, as stress,
anxieties, and uncertainties are surrendered to Him.
Redeeming Your Timeline guides you through a personal encounter with
Jesus to…
- Overcome paralyzing guilt and shame.
- Conquer the crippling fear of failure.
- Silence the whispers of anxiety.
- Break free from the bonds of childhood trauma.
- Experience freedom from panic attacks.
- Discover deep, lasting inner peace.
Discover the supernatural freedom that comes when Jesus enters your
timeline!
Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter
relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually,
debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives
unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her
daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their
weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted
a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating
civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter's most faithful
correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred
letters that reflected their lively interest in literature,
theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity,
belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges.
Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's
disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered
the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched
precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image - of
simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience - sustained
her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a
larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive.
Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations,
journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex
and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration;
friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural
communication, the ethics of international development, and
letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects
on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving
others while they're ours to hold.
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