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Author : Mary R. Sawyer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563383663
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Church on the Margins written by Mary R. Sawyer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-07-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the state of the American Christian community from a cross-cultural perspective.
Author : Cheryl J. Sanders
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725226081
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Ministry at the Margins written by Cheryl J. Sanders and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries women, youth, and the poor have been seen as objects of Christian ministry, but rarely as those who do ministry themselves. This is so much the case that in some quarters today ministry and mission are bad words, reeking of older and paternalistic models of Christian "service." In this challenging book, Cheryl Sanders demonstrates how mission can be updated. Far from being regressive or irrelevant in a multicultural, nonpatriarchal world, Christian mission can come alive when it is not just ministry to but ministry by marginalized groups seeking justice. Ministry at the Margins is an important Christian ethicist's rousing call to "find grace to articulate a theology of inclusion and to establish inclusive practices and multicultural perspectives that harmonize with the gospel we preach and honor the Christ we proclaim." Essential reading for pastors, church leaders, students, urban missionaries, and campus ministers.
Author : Riccardi, Andrea
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833743X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book To the Margins written by Riccardi, Andrea and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rick Mckinley
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307563596
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Jesus in the Margins written by Rick Mckinley and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good News Unpacked Jesus is our ultimate model for finding identity, acceptance, and legitimacy from the Father. As we pull back the curtain on His life, we discover that Jesus knows what it’s like to be marginalized. He understands how it feels to have society shove you to the side, to not really be accepted, and in the end to be totally rejected. He can identify with life in the margins because when God came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, He landed in the margins. On purpose. And He chose to land there because it’s in the margins that broken lives get mended, prisoners are set free, and the poor hear the Good News. Reimagine Your Life Welcome to the crowded margins of life. It’s a place where normal people don’t feel normal. Where the daily grind drowns out the soft cry within that says, “I do not have it together.” Where just beneath the surface we long for meaning and—dare we hope?—wholeness. Rick McKinley writes from experience: Only God can rescue a person from the margins. Why? Because when He came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, in the margins is where he landed. On purpose. To find you. Don’t wait till you get yourself together. Meet Jesus in the margins just as you are, and reimagine your life through the lens of His transforming love. Story Behind the Book This book was birthed out of Rick’s ministry at Imago Dei Community Church. Rick’s heart is to communicate God’s Word in an understandable way to those who are outside the reach of traditional churches. He often calls this “unpacking the gospel”—a gospel he sees as the predominant theme in all of Scripture. Rick says the kind of people he ministers to “are not afraid of the language of theology, but the theological ideas need to be brought down from the mountain.”
Author : Steve Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724277572
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Faith in the Margins written by Steve Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your ancestors could speak to you, what godly advice would they share? Two decades ago, Steve Johnson began receiving old Bibles of deceased relatives. As family deaths mounted, so did his collection of these weathered heirlooms. One day he opened the Bibles and uncovered page after page worn not just by time, but by notes recorded in the margins. He realized he had stumbled upon a treasure trove of accumulated family wisdom and insights on God's Word. Motivated by this discovery, he went searching for notes from 15 family Bibles spanning 5 generations and nearly a century. The result: an inspiring 365-day devotional book like none other.
Author : Carolyn Custis James
Publisher : Transformative Word
ISBN 13 : 9781683590804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Finding God in the Margins written by Carolyn Custis James and published by Transformative Word. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who, in the eyes of the patriarchal culture, are zeros.
Author : Letty M. Russell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664250706
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Church in the Round written by Letty M. Russell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all members around a common table of hospitality. Russell draws on her pastorate in Harlem, her classes in theology, and many ecumenical conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.
Author : Josh Packard
Publisher : Firstforumpress
ISBN 13 : 9781935049500
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Emerging Church written by Josh Packard and published by Firstforumpress. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a church resists rules, rituals, and dogma, what holds it together? Josh Packard explores the inner workings of the Emerging Church, revealing how a movement that rejects organizational trappings and embraces a do-it-yourself ethic has managed to create a distinctive place for itself at the margins of mainstream Christianity. Packard demystifies the beliefs and operations of the loosely connected Emerging Church congregations that developed in direct response to the heavily bureaucratic megachurches. While acknowledging the challenges inherent in sustaining such a movement, he shows that the church succeeds not despite its anti-institutional approach, but because of it. His work offers new insights into the interplay of culture, organizations, and doctrine in today¿s religious landscape.
Author : Charles H. Parker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067427671X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Faith on the Margins written by Charles H. Parker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the 1572 revolt against Spain, the new Dutch Republic outlawed Catholic worship and secularized all church property. Calvinism prevailed as the public faith, yet Catholicism experienced a resurgence in the first half of the seventeenth century, with membership rivaling that of the Calvinist church. In a wide-ranging analysis of a marginalized yet vibrant religious minority, Charles Parker examines this remarkable revival. It had little to do with the traditional Dutch reputation for tolerance. A keen sense of persecution, combined with a vigorous program of reform, shaped a movement that imparted meaning to Catholics in a Protestant republic. A pastoral organization known as the Holland Mission emerged to establish a vigorous Catholic presence. A chronic shortage of priests enabled laymen and women to exercise an exceptional degree of leadership in local congregations. Increased interaction between clergy and laity reveals a picture that differs sharply from the standard account of the Counter-Reformation's clerical dominance and imposition of church reform on a reluctant populace. There were few places in early modern Europe where a proscribed religious minority was so successful in remaining a permanent fixture of society. Faith on the Margins casts light on the relationship between religious minorities and hostile environments.
Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608333418
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Reading the Bible from the Margins written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. Describing how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins," this book afters valuable new insights into biblical texts today.
Author : Richard Swenson
Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 1615214755
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Margin written by Richard Swenson and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. Today we use margin just to get by. This book is for anyone who yearns for relief from the pressure of overload. Reevaluate your priorities, determine the value of rest and simplicity in your life, and see where your identity really comes from. The benefits can be good health, financial stability, fulfilling relationships, and availability for God’s purpose.
Author : United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781601376831
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (768 download)
Download or read book The Power of Forgiveness: Pope Francis on Reconciliation written by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Forgiveness, Pope Francis on Reconciliation calls the reader to explore the mercy of God, received in a profound way by turning toward God in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This heartfelt collection of the Pope's reflections on the need for repentance, awareness of sin, God's divine mercy, forgiveness of others, and confession and absolution, is a transformative read for Catholics of all vocational states!
Author : Al Barrett
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334058627
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Being Interrupted written by Al Barrett and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a ‘Street Nativity Play’ that didn’t end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Being Interrupted" locates an institutionally-anxious Church of England within the wider contexts of divisions of race and class in ‘the ruins of empire’, alongside ongoing gender inequalities, the marginalization of children, and catastrophic ecological breakdown. In the midst of this bleak picture, Al Barrett and Ruth Harley open a door to a creative disruption of the status quo, ‘from the outside, in’: the in-breaking of the wild reality of the ‘Kin-dom’ of God. Through careful and unsettling readings in Mark’s gospel, alongside stories from a multicultural outer estate in east Birmingham, they paint a vivid picture of an 'alternative economy' for the Church's life and mission, which begins with transformative encounters with neighbours and strangers at the edges of our churches, our neighbourhoods and our imaginations, and offers new possibilities for repentance and resurrection.
Author : Timothy J Keller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578633756
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (337 download)
Download or read book How to Reach the West Again written by Timothy J Keller and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity is declining in the West. Churches in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe are closing their doors at an accelerating rate. How will the church respond? In this short but sweeping manifesto, New York Times bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller argues that this decline should prompt us to rethink evangelism from the ground up. Using the early church as our guide, churches and individual Christians must examine ourselves, our culture, and Scripture to work toward a new missionary encounter with Western culture that will make the gospel both attractive and credible to a new generation.
Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334473
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins: Second Edition Revised and Expanded written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn Custis James
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0310330858
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Gospel of Ruth written by Carolyn Custis James and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, the Book of Ruth is viewed as a beautiful love story between Ruth and Boaz. But if you dig deeper, you'll find startling revelations---that God makes much of broken lives, he calls men and women to serve him together, and he's counting on his daughters to build his kingdom. Now in softcover.
Author : Christopher L. Heuertz
Publisher : IVP Books
ISBN 13 : 9780830834549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Friendship at the Margins written by Christopher L. Heuertz and published by IVP Books. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Heuertz, international director of Word Made Flesh, and theologian and ethicist Christine Pohl show how friendship is a Christian vocation that can bring reconciliation and healing to our broken world. They contend that unlikely friendships are at the center of an alternative paradigm for mission, where people are not objectified as potential converts but encountered in a relationship of mutuality and reciprocity.
