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Puzzles of Faith and Patterns of Doubt

Author : Gregory F. Tague
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982481967
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Puzzles of Faith and Patterns of Doubt written by Gregory F. Tague and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, you will notice those who have risked observing their living with the delicate venture into what is other. You will wander in the wilderness of the pain caused by misinformed choices. You will see those who turn hallucination into healing. You will enjoy the turning of death from empty religion into the raw gift of grief. You will pay attention to the packages offered in the stories that announce the timely gift of reconciliation and forgiveness; hope from the places of deep pain re-imagined and healed through the telling. Each describes what is beyond the ordinary, as well as what is deeper in the vicissitudes of a faith moving well beyond religion and into the heart songs which religion hopes to honor, but has become limited by its penchant to be above doubt and beyond mystery." From the Foreword by Rev. David Rommereim

Grace Collection (Books 1-3)

Author : Christine Dillon
Publisher : Christine Dillon
ISBN 13 : 0648589013
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Grace Collection (Books 1-3) written by Christine Dillon and published by Christine Dillon. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come on a journey with Esther and her family and friends ... ordinary people learning what it means to follow Jesus in tough times. Award winning, Australian, contemporary Christian fiction. Book 1 – Grace in Strange Disguise Instead of a wedding, Esther is facing radical surgery and chemotherapy. Where is God when she needs him most? Esther is a people pleaser. It’s never been a major problem because she’s just gone with the flow. Her father has always preached, “Follow Jesus and you’ll be blessed.” And up until age twenty-eight, Esther has never had any reason to doubt it. Will she appease her father? Or will she listen to the words of a stranger who challenges everything she believes? Book 2 – Grace in the Shadows Two women. One collision course with truth. Physiotherapist Esther has survived cancer, but wounds within her family remain unhealed. Is her revived faith the reason for the rift or could a simmering secret be the root cause? Cosmetics consultant Rachel buried her past – and her father’s God – but the past refuses to stay buried. Will she continue to run or is confronting her pain the way to freedom? Can God’s grace shine even in the darkest of shadows? Book 3 – Grace in Deep Waters When is a marriage over? When do you stand and fight? William Macdonald is at the pinnacle of his career. Pastor of a growing megachurch and host of a successful national radio programme. Clever and respected, he’s a man with everything, including a secret. His wife has left him and he can’t risk anyone finding out. Blanche Macdonald is struggling. Her once rock-solid marriage is showing cracks. She promised to love her husband for better or for worse, but does loving always mean staying? Blanche desires to put God first. Not William. Not her daughter. Not herself.

The Complete Grace Collection (Books 1-6)

Author : Christine Dillon
Publisher : Christine Dillon
ISBN 13 : 0645354775
Total Pages : 1738 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Grace Collection (Books 1-6) written by Christine Dillon and published by Christine Dillon. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 1738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like compelling Christian fiction, relatable characters, and real emotion, then you’ll love Christine Dillon’s inspiring series. Come on a journey with Esther and her family and friends ... Award-winning, Australian, contemporary Christian fiction. Ordinary people learning what it means to follow Jesus in tough times. Review of book 1: "A read-in-a-single-sitting book. Strongly Christian. Deeply engaging. It will have you smiling and tearing up in equal measure, yet avoids schmaltz or cliched sentimentality …" Book 1 - Grace in Strange Disguise Esther - Where is God when she needs him most? Book 2 - Grace in the Shadows Two women. One collision course with truth. Book 3 - Grace in Deep Waters William and Blanche - When is a marriage over? When do you stand and fight? Book 4 - Grace in the Desert Pete and Rachel - Must yesterday’s pain strangle tomorrow's hope? Book 5 - Grace Beneath the Frost Paul - Professional success. Personal failure. Book 6 - Grace Across the Miles Gina - How can you belong when you don't know who you are? A soul-inspiring series for those who like their Christian fiction, realistic, thought-provoking, and motivating.

Doubt

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : Lion
ISBN 13 : 9780856480621
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Doubt written by Os Guinness and published by Lion. This book was released on 1976-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crucible of Doubt

Author : Terryl Givens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609079420
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Doubt written by Terryl Givens and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book offers a careful, intelligent look at doubt--at some of its common sources, the challenges it presents, and the opportunities it may open up in a person's quest for faith.

From Out of the Shadows

Author : Jacquelyn Smithson Howard
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book From Out of the Shadows written by Jacquelyn Smithson Howard and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all understand the Teacher-Student relationship. For most of us, the role of the Student is familiar. We are supposed to study hard, do our homework, turn it in on time, and never question the motives of the Teacher.But what if you were taught to think for yourself, free to not accept every lesson that was handed to you, and given the freedom to express your opinions. What if you could question any and every authority without fear of retaliation? Sandra was that student, who was born into a family that promoted critical thinking, and ultimately grew up and became the Teacher.Imagine what kind of questions the Student, turned Nun then Teacher would pose after several years of practice, and a perfect record of never having failed a student! She must have some very interesting questions on some very interesting topics.

Doubt

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : Lion
ISBN 13 : 9780745910369
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Doubt written by Os Guinness and published by Lion. This book was released on 1987 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Believing Brain

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429972610
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Believing Brain written by Michael Shermer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop of belief confirmation. Shermer outlines the numerous cognitive tools our brains engage to reinforce our beliefs as truths. Interlaced with his theory of belief, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. Ultimately, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not a belief matches reality.

The Pattern of Evil

Author : Lawrence LeShan Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469124033
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book The Pattern of Evil written by Lawrence LeShan Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we wish to learn from the Holocaust how to act against a recurrence, we must ask what the SS thought they were doing as they organized and ran the horrific camps. Then we can know how to watch for early signs of the emergence of this type of thinking and move against it. This book addresses itself to this problem and arrives at new answers. Modern science and philosophy have gradually become aware of the degree to which human beings use different sets of assumptions about the nature of reality (how things are and work) in different situations. As this book demonstrates, when the Mythic world picture is used to solve political problems (instead of the appropriate Sensory world view) the concentration camp becomes a possibility. The process, however, is not inexorable, but can be aborted if understood.

Solving the Missing Member Puzzle

Author : Arlon K. Stubbe
Publisher : CSS Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788023527
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Solving the Missing Member Puzzle written by Arlon K. Stubbe and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is wrong. People are going missing, right in front of your eyes! One minute they are staring back at you from their favorite pew, the next Sunday you are looking at an empty spot in that pew. Is there a way to determine ahead of time which members are the likely "religious dropouts"? Often the clues are clearly visible -- but can you recognize them? What's more, do you know what you can do now to keep your "missing members" from drifting away? The secret lies in knowing and understanding the attitudes and belief systems that people hold, because certain sets of attitudes are linked to inactivity. A detailed examination of this distressingly common experience, Solving The Missing Member Puzzle can help you spot potential dropouts in advance, learn the reasons why they become inactive, and counteract the process with a proactive strategy for reaching them while they are still within your grasp. Based on "blind" interviews with individuals from ten different congregations, it reveals the underlying attitudes and belief systems that encourage or discourage dropping out of church. Solving The Missing Member Puzzle is a valuable tool for leaders of any church or organization -- it shows how you can develop more faithful members, and assists in their growth, participation, and retention. Don't wait until people drop out before you take action. Learn ways to anticipate which members of your congregation might become inactive and the preventive measures that you can take to help keep them in the pews. Arlon K. Stubbe is the pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He previously served parishes in Michigan. He is also the author of Shaping the Word (LPTC Publishing). He is a graduate of Carthage College and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

Agnostic-Ish

Author : Josh Buoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692710517
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Agnostic-Ish written by Josh Buoy and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about science, religion, and the world in between. I was born into a Christian family, but fell out of religion and in love with the scientific method. I had little need of faith, I thought, when science could tell me so much more about the world, and ask so little of me in return. But as I aged into young adulthood, a new chapter of my story began. Did I really know why I believed what I believed? How could I be so certain of my convictions when I hadn't even honestly considered the evidence? This book traces my journey through the furthest reaches of thought, a journey that took me through the realms of psychology, biology, physics, and belief. Could I find a place for faith in the modern world? Or was I right to cast it off as I did?

Finding Pieces of the Puzzle

Author : Ronald A. N. Kydd
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621890600
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Finding Pieces of the Puzzle written by Ronald A. N. Kydd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change. Radical politics. National debt. Globalization. What do Christians have to say to the big questions we all face? Whatever they try to say, they will be seriously handicapped if they do not know their own story. Finding Pieces of the Puzzle will fill the knowledge gap. It breaks away from the usual manner in which history is written. Here is a sweeping overview of the story of Christianity that takes the reader to parts of the world seldom visited, that watches as the message of Christ encounters cultures as different as ninth century Persia and sixteenth century Kongo. The story is carried from the first to the twenty-first century by a series of mini-biographies--a young woman facing martyrdom, a boy from a little French town who becomes Pope and launches an army, an African-American who uses a successful international trade network to combat slavery. The glory, the confusion, the shame, the holiness of Christianity are all here. As the pieces are slipped into place, the puzzle begins to make sense. Watching Christians of the past face their challenges helps us understand who modern Christians really are.

James Prosek

Author : James Prosek
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300250797
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book James Prosek written by James Prosek and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works by Prosek and others are juxtaposed with natural objects in an illuminating interrogation of the artificial boundaries we create between art and nature Award-winning artist, writer, and naturalist James Prosek (b. 1975) has gained a worldwide following for his deep connection with the natural world, which serves as the basis for his art and numerous popular books. In this cross-disciplinary catalogue, Prosek poses the question, What is art and what is artifact—and to what extent do these distinctions matter? Drawing on the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Prosek places man- and nature-made objects on equal footing aesthetically, suggesting that the distinction between them is not as vast as we may believe. In more than 150 full-color plates, objects such as a bird’s nest, dinosaur head, and cuneiform tablet are juxtaposed with Asian handscrolls, an African headdress, modern masterpieces, and more. Artists featured include Albrecht Dürer, Helen Frankenthaler, Vincent van Gogh, Barbara Hepworth, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollack, as well as Prosek himself, whose works depict fish, birds, and endangered wildlife. Also included are an incisive essay by Edith Devaney and texts by Prosek that explore the magnificent productions of our wondrous interconnected world.

Songs from Bialik

Author : Atar Hadari
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628149
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Songs from Bialik written by Atar Hadari and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel's national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children's verse, were set to music and proved to be among the most popular twentieth-century Hebrew songs. An essayist, storyteller, translator, and editor, he had a unique ability to use fully the entire linguistic and conceptual inventory of the Hebrew language. Bialik's career was a turning point in Hebrew literature, bringing Biblical Hebrew into a contemporary usage and forming the basis of its renewed vigor. His legacy remains embedded in modern Hebrew literature like an immovable foundation stone. Atar Hadari's new translation of Bialik's major poetry fills a long-standing gap in English letters.

The Primitive Church Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Primitive Church Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Petitionary Prayer

Author : Scott A. Davison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191075183
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Petitionary Prayer written by Scott A. Davison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the philosophical issues involved in the idea of petitionary prayer, where this is conceived as an activity designed to influence the action of the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God of traditional theism. Theists have always recognized various logical and moral limits to divine action in the world, but do these limits leave any space among God's reasons for petitionary prayer to make a difference? Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation develops a new account of the conditions required for a petitionary prayer to be answered by employing the notion of contrastive explanation. With careful attention to recent developments in metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory, Scott A. Davison surveys the contemporary literature on this question. He considers questions about human freedom and responsibility in relation to different views of divine providence, along with the puzzles inherent in Christian teachings concerning petitionary prayer. Davison develops new challenges to the coherence of the idea of answered petitionary prayer based upon the nature of divine freedom, the limits of human knowledge, and the nature of those good things that require a recipient's permission before they can be given. He proposes new defences, building upon careful analysis of the shortcomings of previous proposals and clarifying the issues for future debate.

Darwin's Doubt

Author : Stephen C. Meyer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062071491
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Doubt written by Stephen C. Meyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life—a mystery that has intensified, not only because the expected ancestors of these animals have not been found, but because scientists have learned more about what it takes to construct an animal. During the last half century, biologists have come to appreciate the central importance of biological information—stored in DNA and elsewhere in cells—to building animal forms. Expanding on the compelling case he presented in his last book, Signature in the Cell, Meyer argues that the origin of this information, as well as other mysterious features of the Cambrian event, are best explained by intelligent design, rather than purely undirected evolutionary processes.