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Author : James David Hudnut-Beumler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813520834
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Looking for God in the Suburbs written by James David Hudnut-Beumler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ashley Hales
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083087397X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Finding Holy in the Suburbs written by Ashley Hales and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban life—including tract homes, strip malls, commuter culture—shapes our desires. More than half of Americans live in the suburbs. Ashley Hales writes that for many Christians, however: "The suburbs are ignored ('Your place doesn't matter, we're all going to heaven anyway'), denigrated and demeaned ('You're selfish if you live in a suburb; you only care about your own safety and advancement'), or seen as a cop-out from a faithful Christian life ('If you really loved God, you'd move to Africa or work in an impoverished area'). In everything from books to Hollywood jokes, the suburbs aren't supposed to be good for our souls." What does it look like to live a full Christian life in the suburbs? Suburbs reflect our good, God-given desire for a place to call home. And suburbs also reflect our own brokenness. This book is an invitation to look deeply into your soul as a suburbanite and discover what it means to live holy there.
Author : James David Hudnut-Beumler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813520834
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Looking for God in the Suburbs written by James David Hudnut-Beumler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Byron Forrest Yawn
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736950427
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Suburbianity written by Byron Forrest Yawn and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Warren famously wrote, “It’s not about you.” But much of the Western church seems to disagree, having settled for a self-centered message of personal fulfillment. With incisiveness and a passionate love for the church, pastor and author Byron Forrest Yawn offers a compelling call away from narcissism and back to the powerful and transforming gospel of Jesus. He shows the difference between... Sunday-morning life coaches selling self-help seminars, and preachers proclaiming God’s redemptive work through Christ promises of prosperity and comfort, and a realistic and helpful perspective on suffering escape from unbelievers and their godless world, and redemptive engagement with people As Byron exposes the false gospel of “suburbianity,” he offers readers a better alternative: to look beyond themselves and embrace God’s call to be His image-bearers and ambassadors, partnering with Him as He restores people and all creation to His original design.
Author : John Eldredge
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418571415
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Walking with God written by John Eldredge and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2010-09-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a series of stories of what it looks like to walk with God, over the course of about a year.” So begins a remarkable narrative of one man’s journey learning to hear the voice of God. The details are intimate and personal. The invitation is for us all. What if we could hear from God . . . often? What difference would it make? We have a lot to sort through on any given day. A whole lot to navigate over the course of a week or a month. Am I in the right place? The right relationships? How am I going to come up with enough money to do the things I want to do? And what about love—is this the one? Will it last? What is causing all those fears I keep pushing down inside? Why can’t I overcome those “habits” that look more and more like addictions? Am I at the right church? Should I even go to church? What is God doing in my life? All day long we are making choices. It adds up to an enormous amount of decisions in a lifetime. How do we know what to do? We have two options. We can trudge through on our own, doing our best to figure it all out. Or, we can walk with God. As in, learn to hear his voice. Really. We can live life with God. He offers to speak to us and guide us. Every day. It is an incredible offer. To accept that offer is to enter into an adventure filled with joy and risk, transformation and breakthrough. And more clarity than we ever thought possible.
Author : Philip Yancey
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0892968397
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)
Download or read book What Good Is God? written by Philip Yancey and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in What Good Is God? concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia Tech campus soon after the massacre; an AA convention; and even to a conference for women in prostitution. At each of the ten places he visited, his preparation for the visit and exactly what he said to the people he met each provided evidence that faith really does work when what we believe is severely tested. What Good Is God? tells the story of Philip's journey -- the background, the preparation, the presentations themselves. Here is a story of grace for armchair travelers, spiritual seekers, and those in desperate need of assurance that their faith really matters.
Author : Albert Y. Hsu
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083083334X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Suburban Christian written by Albert Y. Hsu and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Hsu unpacks the spiritual significance of suburbia and explores how suburban culture shapes how we live and practice our faith. With broad historical background and sociological analysis, Hsu offers guidance and hope for all who would seek the welfare of the suburbs.
Author : James Hudnut-Beumler
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807883044
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar written by James Hudnut-Beumler and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture. After the constitutional separation of church and state was put in force, Hudnut-Beumler explains, clergy salaries had to be collected exclusively from the congregation without recourse to public funds. In adapting to this change, Protestants forged a new model that came to be followed in one way or another by virtually all religious organizations in the country. Clergy repeatedly invoked God, ecclesiastical tradition, and scriptural evidence to promote giving to the churches they served. Hudnut-Beumler contends that paying for earthly good works done in the name of God has proved highly compatible with American ideas of enterprise, materialism, and individualism. The financial choices Protestants have made throughout history--how money was given, expended, or even withheld--have reflected changing conceptions of what the religious enterprise is all about. Hudnut-Beumler tells that story for the first time.
Author : Dave L. Goetz
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061743097
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Death by Suburb written by Dave L. Goetz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goetz, a former pastor, shows that the suburbs are a real world, but a spiritually corrosive one. The land of SUVs and soccer leagues can truly be toxic to the soul. Suburbanites need to understand how the environment affects them and what spiritual disciplines are needed for their faith to survive and thrive. Goetz identifies eight toxins in the suburban life, such as hyper–competition and the "transactional" friendship, and suggests eight corresponding disciplines to keep the spiritual life authentic. Goetz weaves sociology studies, his own experiences, current events, wisdom of the spiritual masters, and a little humor to equip spiritual suburbanites for how to relate to God amidst Starbucks, strip–malls, and perfect lawns.
Author : Samuel Wells
Publisher : Church Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1640652779
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book In Conversation written by Samuel Wells and published by Church Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two contemporary theologians, Samuel Wells and Stanley Hauerwas, add their voices to the ongoing conversation about Christian life in the twenty-first century. This third book in the In Conversation series dives deeply into the theological and personal ideas and motivations for the work of two prominent Christian thinkers. Readers will discover their thoughts on the Trinity, parish ministry, and non-violence, along with anecdotes and intimate notions on marriage, family, and even baseball. Followers of Wells’s and Hauerwas’s theological and homiletical work will find out what has influenced them most, and where they’d like to go from here. A fascinating read for Episcopalians and Anglicans, and those who enjoyed the first two In Conversation books.
Author : John Piper
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1601422911
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of God written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
Author : Dave L. Goetz
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0060859687
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Death by Suburb written by Dave L. Goetz and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goetz, a former pastor, shows that the suburbs are a real world, but a spiritually corrosive one. The land of SUVs and soccer leagues can truly be toxic to the soul. Suburbanites need to understand how the environment affects them and what spiritual disciplines are needed for their faith to survive and thrive. Goetz identifies eight toxins in the suburban life, such as hyper–competition and the "transactional" friendship, and suggests eight corresponding disciplines to keep the spiritual life authentic. Goetz weaves sociology studies, his own experiences, current events, wisdom of the spiritual masters, and a little humor to equip spiritual suburbanites for how to relate to God amidst Starbucks, strip–malls, and perfect lawns.
Author : Andrew S. Finstuen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807898536
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Original Sin and Everyday Protestants written by Andrew S. Finstuen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theological issues in general--and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular--became newly important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar "age of anxiety" as the Cold War took root. Finstuen focuses on three giants of Protestant thought--Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich--men who were among the era's best known public figures. He argues that each thinker's strong commitment to the doctrine of original sin was a powerful element of the broad public influence that they enjoyed. Drawing on extensive correspondence from everyday Protestants, the book captures the voices of the people in the pews, revealing that the ordinary, rank-and-file Protestants were indeed thinking about Christian doctrine and especially about "good" and "evil" in human nature. Finstuen concludes that the theological concerns of ordinary American Christians were generally more complicated and serious than is commonly assumed, correcting the view that postwar American culture was becoming more and more secular from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
Author : Niki Milburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781632963376
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Those Who Seek God written by Niki Milburn and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Those Who Seek God," little readers will enjoy a sweet story about young animals wanting to learn more about God. Through Bible verses and conversations with loved ones, these characters discover that seeking God is simple.
Author : Myer Bloom
Publisher : Indra Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781920787165
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Does God Live in the Suburbs? written by Myer Bloom and published by Indra Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent books attacking religion have held the headlines. Now this book presents the beliefs of ordinary people. This book features: Interviews with average believers of various faiths -- no militants, no theologians and no clerics; In their words, what they believe and how they practise their faith; 71.6% of the British people declared religious affiliation in the 2001 national census; The interviews in this Australian book provide an indirect insight into the beliefs of ordinary Britons; Includes contents page and index.
Author : MaryAnn McKibben-Dana
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827235224
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Sabbath in the Suburbs written by MaryAnn McKibben-Dana and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Yeah, right. Sabbath-keeping seems quaint in our 24/7, twenty-first century world. Life often feels impossibly full, what with work, to-do lists, kid activities, chores, and errands. And laundry... always and forever laundry. But the Sabbath isn't just one of the ten commandments; it is a delight that can transform the other six days of the week. Join one family's quest to take Sabbath to heart and change their frenetic way of living by keeping a Sabbath day each week for one year. With lively and compelling prose, MaryAnn McKibben Dana documents their experiment with holy time as a guide for families of all shapes and sizes. Tips are included in each chapter to help make your own Sabbath experiment successful.
Author : Timothy H. Sherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Preaching of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen written by Timothy H. Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatness of America's most influential preachers of the twentieth century came from their significant contributions to both religious and secular society. Some names, like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Billy Graham, are universally recognized today as two such significant preachers. While there are several other notable names from various Christian denominations listed in the annals of famous twentieth-century preachers, little recognition has been given to the Catholic contribution to preaching in the twentieth century. The Preaching of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen remedies this by shedding light on the ways and means by which Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen influenced generations of both Catholic and non-Catholic Americans. Though many associate Sheen with his five years on primetime television in the 1950s, it was the decades he spent preaching that brought a religious tone to the Cold War and led the way to a national renewal of religion. Heavily influential during the Cold War era, Sheen used his preaching to depict the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union as an epic battle set between the forces of good and evil. Drawing extensively from his sermons, particularly those delivered on Good Friday, this rhetorical study explains how and why his preaching was so persuasive to the people of his day. Book jacket.
