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Book Synopsis Influencing Like Jesus by : Michael Zigarelli
Download or read book Influencing Like Jesus written by Michael Zigarelli and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Zigarelli shows how to influence others for good by adopting the same methods of persuasion that Jesus exemplified during his life and ministry.
Download or read book Persuasions of God written by Paul Lynch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persuasions written by Douglas Wilson and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They all walk toward the Abyss for different reasons, each of them with varying persuasions. Along the way they meet Evangelist, and as a result they face the Great Persuasion. Some of their conversations are recorded in this book.
Book Synopsis How to Argue like Jesus by : Joe Carter
Download or read book How to Argue like Jesus written by Joe Carter and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses Jesus' words and actions found in the New Testament to systematically evaluate his rhetorical stylings, drawing real lessons from his teachings that today's readers can employ. Jesus of Nazareth never wrote a book, held political office, or wielded a sword. He never gained sway with the mighty or influential. He never took up arms against the governing powers in Rome. He was a lower-class worker who died an excruciating death at the age of thirty-three. Yet, in spite of all odds-obscurity, powerlessness, and execution-his words revolutionized human history. How to Argue Like Jesus examines the life and words of Jesus and describes the various ways in which he sought-through the spoken word, his life, and his disciples-to reach others with his message. The authors then pull some very simple rhetorical lessons from Jesus' life that readers can use today. Both Christian and non-Christian leaders in just about any field can improve their ability to communicate effectively by studying the words and methods of history's greatest communicator.
Book Synopsis Persuasive Preaching by : R. Larry Overstreet
Download or read book Persuasive Preaching written by R. Larry Overstreet and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Dudit, executive editor of Preaching Magazine, writes in the foreword that "the reader will find in this book a valuable discussion of what persuasion really is, what the Bible has to say about it, how it is modeled in the New Testament, and what role persuasion should and should not play in our own preaching in the twenty-first century. The author has provided solid biblical content and practical guidance that will be a powerful resource for preachers and church leaders. He writes with clarity and--dare I say it?--persuasive power. I hope you will be as blessed by this book as I have been."
Download or read book Persuasions of God written by Paul Lynch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Sense of God by : Timothy Keller
Download or read book Making Sense of God written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.
Download or read book Fool's Talk written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Christianity Today Book of the Year in Apologetics/Evangelism One of Desiring God's Top 15 Books of 2015 Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Social Criticism and Cultural Engagement In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade—to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who are not interested in it. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. Guinness notes, "Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we." Following the tradition of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger, Guinness demonstrates how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners' assumptions to surprise them with signals of transcendence and the credibility of the gospel. This book is the fruit of forty years of thinking, honed in countless talks and discussions at many of the leading universities and intellectual centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness from one of the leading apologists and thinkers of our era.
Book Synopsis Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation by : Robyn J. Whitaker
Download or read book Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation written by Robyn J. Whitaker and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robyn. J. Whitaker interprets the Book of Revelation within the context of ancient rhetoric and religion. She argues that the author of Revelation uses a popular rhetorical tool, ekphrasis, to paint word-pictures of God that compete with material images to both critique image-making and simultaneously make an absent God present.
Book Synopsis Jesus, the Salesman by : R. W. Klamm
Download or read book Jesus, the Salesman written by R. W. Klamm and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how ad men make millions and Jesus changed the world, using these powerful persuasive techniques. Jesus: Salesman for God shows how the awesome power of advertising works in the media, how Jesus used these same sales techniques in the Bible, and how they can work miracles for you in everyday life. Discover how to get family, friends, and fellow workers to see and follow your point of view. Learn how to disagree without getting into an argument. R.W. Klamm can make it happen for you. He combines his easy-to-read, award-winning style with his extensive background in religion, advertising, performance in the magical arts, and vast teaching experience to bring you these life changing insights. There are even a few entertaining presentations for Christian performers. Let Jesus: Salesman for God change your life. Become a salesman, not a huckster, for God. Earlier award winning books by R. W. Klamm: Outfox the Kids for Fun and Profit, makes parenting more fun; Get More Laughs From Your Laughs, makes it fun to be funny; Fly like a Bumblebee, memoirs of a blind magician.
Book Synopsis Possession and Persuasion by : Robert Hach
Download or read book Possession and Persuasion written by Robert Hach and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-11-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possession and Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Christian Faith is a rhetorical analysis of Christian history and theology initially prompted by my experience in a fundamentalist Christian sect. The story of this experience is briefly told in the prologue, "The Rhetoric of Surrender," which describes the "surrender" of my life to God through a commitment to an authoritarian Christian sect in Gainesville, Florida, in 1972, when I was a freshman at the University of Florida. I spent the following fifteen years, first, as a student recruit, trainee, and then leader in the founding church in Gainesville, and then, as a recruiter and trainer in other parts of the U.S. until I finally left the movement (now called the International Churches of Christ) in 1987. I subsequently combined graduate study in rhetoric with a continuing interest in biblical and historical scholarship in an effort to understand how my religious experience fit into the broader context of Christian history and theology. I concluded that the New Testament language of faith, originally formulated to persuade hearers of the Christian message by means of understanding, had been radically redefined and its effects rhetorically reengineered by the ecclesiastical Christianity which had gradually emerged after the first century; this process of rhetorical reinvention produced a language of faith that possessed its hearers by means of a mystical form of indoctrination, in the interest of building a religious empire. The degree to which ecclesiastical Christianity, throughout its history, has taken its faith-language seriously--my experience having been produced by a movement that took this language to its logical conclusion --is the degree to which its adherents experience a religious bondage that amounts to the antithesis of the spiritual freedom and social equality of the original experience of Christian faith. Part I, "Faith as Possession," addresses critical changes made by post-apostolic theologians in the apostolic discourse of the New Testament about the message of Jesus, specifically with reference to the rhetorics of "authority" (Chapter One), "knowledge" (Chapter Two), and "justice" (Chapter Three). This rhetorical reengineering of apostolic language facilitated the rise of the institutional Church, which rapidly replaced the apostolic message as the authorized mediator between God and humanity in general and between God and the community of faith in particular. That is, the dynamic of persuasion by an eschatological message was rapidly replaced by the dynamic of possession by an ecclesiastical system. The redefinition and reconceptualization of these apostolic terms amounted to the rhetorical invention of Christianity, a form of Greco-Roman mythology which has little in common with the faith of Jesus as it is revealed in the New Testament. The faith of Christianity became, and continues to be to varying degrees, a form of possession insofar as it consists of, in both a mystical and an institutional sense, belonging to "the Church," which relieves its members of their responsibility for their own identity and destiny. Part II, "Faith as Persuasion," explores the rhetoric of three apostolic ideals, which have generally received little more than lip service by post-apostolic Christianity: "understanding" (Chapter Four), "anticipation" (Chapter Five), and "freedom" (Chapter Six). These concepts are integral to persuasion as the modus operandi of the apostolic Christian faith. Understanding is a prerequisite to authentic persuasion in that persuasion, or belief, without understanding is the essence of possession. In that the meaning and power of the Christian message are a matter of the hope of resurrection to life in the coming kingdom of God, anticipation is the logical response to being understandingly persuaded of the truth of the message. And insofar as internal bondage characterizes life without hope
Book Synopsis Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse by : Thomas H. Olbricht
Download or read book Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse written by Thomas H. Olbricht and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from the Heidelberg conference on rhetoric and the New Testament.
Book Synopsis Apostle of Persuasion by : James W. Thompson
Download or read book Apostle of Persuasion written by James W. Thompson and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of a career of researching and teaching Paul's letters. Highly respected senior New Testament scholar James Thompson offers a unique approach to Pauline theology, focusing on Paul's attempts to persuade his audience toward moral formation. Thompson recognizes Paul as a pastor who brought together theology and rhetoric to encourage spiritual formation in his communities. Attempts to find total consistency in Paul's writings fail, says Thompson, because Paul's persuasive tactics changed depending on the situation he was addressing.
Book Synopsis How God Becomes Real by : T.M. Luhrmann
Download or read book How God Becomes Real written by T.M. Luhrmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.
Book Synopsis The Passion and Persuasion by : Robert Hach
Download or read book The Passion and Persuasion written by Robert Hach and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Divine Persuasion by : Charles M. Armentrout
Download or read book The Divine Persuasion written by Charles M. Armentrout and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you facing adversity or obstacles that feel insurmountable... or are you trying but never overcoming? Do you feel a lack of faith? Have you reached the bottom and are you ready for a change? If you keep doing what you've always done, will you find God's purpose for your life? Is this positive for you? Do you feel God has a purpose for you but aren't sure how to find out what it is? The Divine Persuasion is a powerful autobiography of a preacher who despite adversity discovers God's plan for his life. This is a book of action and doesn't just tell you how Charles M. Armentrout found God's will, but also the unstoppable power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill that purpose. The Divine Persuasion is full of real-life examples of how faith can play out if you will only listen to God's voice. His discoveries documented in this book show you how people from different backgrounds struggling with racism, alcoholism, purposelessness, and pride are helped by transformational principles You can take the wise practical teachings of Charles M. Armentrout and apply them to your own life for immediate action. Do you think you were born with impossible challenges? * Learn how Charles dealt with a speech impediment * Discover how the Spirit led Charles when everyone told him to give up * See how Charles navigated through self-doubt * Be amazed at how not even fires or insults could stop the purpose of God How will you learn God's will for your life? * Follow Charles's exciting story on actually hearing the voice of God * Learn how you also can overcome obstacles that block you from living out God's plan for you * Find out how the biblical methods Charles lays out clearly can be applied to your life today * See the role of humility and patience that only the Spirit can give Are you open to being persuaded by God? * Never wonder "what if" you could find out what God has to tell you * Wake up every day knowing what God intends for your life * Be Inspired by Charles's life and learn how you too can live your life for something bigger * Feel comfortable with your identity in Christ. Find out how to let go of your fears and take flight towards God's will for your life, period. Does God have a Divine Persuasion for you too? Try The Divine Persuasion today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top right of this page! P.S. You won't regret reading this book and the change it can bring to your life today.
Book Synopsis Gentle Persuasion by : Dr. Joe Aldrich
Download or read book Gentle Persuasion written by Dr. Joe Aldrich and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentle Persuasion is an encouraging appeal of all Christians of all ages and abilities to become part of God's strategy for brings needy men and women to Christ. Join Joe as he explains how cherry piess, hammers and saws, lawn mowers, broken-down cars, chariots of fire, babysitters, duck hunters, llama farmerss--and even attack lambs with steel wool--can draw your friends to the Savior.
