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Author : Bill Sizemore
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622300203
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Fractured Church written by Bill Sizemore and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lina AbuJamra
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802499430
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Fractured Faith written by Lina AbuJamra and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After your faith has fractured, let what takes its place be the real thing . . . at last. Somewhere along the way, the Christianity you knew began to crumble. You began to suspect your faith was misplaced. Disillusionment set in. Churches hurt you. Their people failed you. Christian institutions were exposed as fake. And in it all, God was silent. Is He gone? Or is God really there, waiting for you to find Him instead of the counterfeits? If you’re walking this difficult spiritual path, Lina AbuJamra understands you. After experiencing the near deconstruction of her own faith, Lina had to rebuild something more solid when the faith she once knew let her down. With her diagnostic style that comes from her training as an ER doc, Lina helps you grapple with questions like: Where is God in my pain? Is this how Christians are supposed to act? Why did my story end up this way? Is this the normal Christian life? Why is it so hard for Christians to love? Let Fractured Faith help you find your way back to God. You just might discover that the real God has been waiting for you all along.
Author : Finis Cavender
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449758045
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)
Download or read book The Church Fractured written by Finis Cavender and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 1,500 churches and denominations in the United States, the church is fragmented. Jesus calls us to be one, even as He and God are one. This is a great challenge, because we now go our separate ways in a peaceful coexistence. We can unify, not on all of the details that define each church or denomination, but on the simple commands Jesus gave us. Even the Jews had four sects at the time of Jesus, but they were all Jews and at least agreed on the Torah. If we can agree on a few commandments, we will have taken one giant step toward enjoying unity, even as Jesus enjoyed being one with the Father.
Author : Michael Bird
Publisher : Lexham Press
ISBN 13 : 1577996860
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Mending a Fractured Church written by Michael Bird and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it really mean for the church to have unity? When Jesus prayed for his followers to be one, he prayed that this unity would demonstrate the truth of his claims to an unbelieving world. Sadly, the world often sees a church that is divided. Some of our divisions are based on legitimate theological concerns, yet many others are simply matters of opinion. To the world, it's all another reason to doubt God. What are the differences worth dividing over? How should we handle diversity? Mending a Fractured Church, edited by Michael Bird and Brian Rosner, seeks to answer such questions, looking to the Bible for examples of how to behave when Christians differ. Speaking to pastors, churches, and seminary students, the contributors provide a guide to maintaining unity without compromise.
Author : Gregg R. Allison
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493430238
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Embodied written by Gregg R. Allison and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We rarely give thought to our bodies until faced with a physical challenge or crisis. We have somehow internalized the unbiblical idea that the immaterial aspect of our being (our soul or spirit) is inherently good while the material aspect (our body) is at worst inherently evil and at best neutral--just a vehicle for our souls to get around. So we end up neglecting or disparaging our bodies, seeing them as holding us back from spiritual growth and longing for the day we will be free of them. But the thing is, we don't have bodies; we are our bodies. And God created us that way for a reason. With Scripture as his guide, theologian Gregg Allison presents a holistic theology of the human body from conception through eternity to equip us to address pressing contemporary issues related to our bodies, including how we express our sexuality, whether gender is inherent or constructed, the meaning of suffering, body image, end of life questions, and how to live as whole people in a fractured world.
Author : Michael Todd
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0593239202
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Crazy Faith written by Michael Todd and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Relationship Goals . . . Will you be remembered as a person who claimed to follow God but liked to play it safe? Or as a person who lived your life out on the limb and trusted God enough to live in crazy faith? Noah looked crazy when he started building the ark . . . until it started raining. It was crazy for Moses to lead a nation of people into the desert away from Egypt . . . until the Red Sea parted. It was crazy to believe that a fourteen-year-old virgin would give birth to the Son of God . . . until Mary held Jesus in her arms. There are many things that seem normal or average today that at one point in time seemed absolutely crazy. Smartphones, Wi-Fi, and even the electric light bulb were all groundbreaking, history-making inventions that started out as crazy ideas. Our see-it-to-believe-it generation tends to have a hard time exercising true faith—one that steps out, takes action, and sees mountain-moving results. Many of us would rather play it safe and stand on the sidelines, but it’s crazy faith that helps us see God move and reveals His promises. In Crazy Faith, Pastor Michael Todd shows us how to step out in faith and dive into the purposeful life of trusting God for the impossible. Even if you have to start with baby faith or maybe faith, you can become empowered to let go of your lazy faith, trust God through your hazy faith, and learn to live a lifestyle of crazy faith. With powerful stories of modern-day faith warriors who take their cues from biblical heroes, Michael Todd equips you to • believe for the impossible • choose hope over fear • be alert to the voice of God • cope with loss and doubt • develop a deeper level of trust in God • speak faith-filled declarations • inspire crazy faith in others God’s not looking for somebody to give Him all the reasons why His plans can’t happen. He’s looking for somebody to believe they will happen. In fact, He has so much He wants to do through you. The question is, Are you crazy enough to believe it?
Author : Merium Leverett
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781682079102
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (791 download)
Download or read book The Broken Church written by Merium Leverett and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes on the greatest challenge of today's church: her brokenness. Utilizing Christ's parables of the wheat and tares and of the net from Matthew 13, the author encourages the reader to reconsider the narrative of the church, daring us to see her true nature as seen throughout history. Step by step he leads us to surprising conclusions: the first is that the brokenness of the church is part of God's plan. Secondly, that it is God's intent to use a broken church to reach a broken world. This book tackles the dysfunction of the church without apology, suggesting that the brokenness of the church is, in fact, a virtue. Just as Isaiah described Christ's work as "bearing our grief" and being "crushed for our iniquities," the body of Christ takes upon itself the brokenness of the world in order to bring it healing.
Author : Rick M. Nañez
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310862116
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? written by Rick M. Nañez and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you sometimes feel you have to check your intellect at the church door, leaving reason behind to embrace the Christian faith? Do you hunger for a “full gospel” that includes the mind as well as heart and Spirit? Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? challenges charismatic and Pentecostal believers to discover the power of a well-maintained mind—a mind on fire—to match a heart on fire and to create a life that operates within the full counsel of God . Nañez shows how human reason helps us understand and interpret God’s Word as well as defend the gospel. He shows what the Bible teaches about the mind, and explores the backgrounds of nineteenth-century and modern culture, anti-intellectualism, Pentecostal history and beliefs, and popular misconceptions about human intellect in relation to the Christian faith. Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? helps men and women practice a Christian faith that reflects the whole person and the full gospel. “Rick Nañez calls Pentecostals and charismatics to seek a balance between mind and Spirit. This book will stir you to seek all that God has for you.” —From the Foreword by Stanley M. Horton, PhD
Author : Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631495747
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation written by Kristin Kobes Du Mez and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.
Author : K. Paul Dawson
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781682077207
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (772 download)
Download or read book The Broken Church written by K. Paul Dawson and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes on the greatest challenge of today's church: her brokenness. Utilizing Christ's parables of the wheat and tares and of the net from Matthew 13, the author encourages the reader to reconsider the narrative of the church, daring us to see her true nature as seen throughout history. Step by step he leads us to surprising conclusions: the first is that the brokenness of the church is part of God's plan. Secondly, that it is God's intent to use a broken church to reach a broken world. This book tackles the dysfunction of the church without apology, suggesting that the brokenness of the church is, in fact, a virtue. Just as Isaiah described Christ's work as "bearing our grief" and being "crushed for our iniquities," the body of Christ takes upon itself the brokenness of the world in order to bring it healing.
Author : William J. Allen
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449702244
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Fractured Fellowships written by William J. Allen and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the church lose its first love? A shocking indictment! How could a Church devoted to sharing Christ be charged with neglecting her first love Jesus Christ? Author William Allen traces the problem back 1700 years, to a time when the Church began to fall in love with itself, and perverted the very nature of the true Church. After tracing this spiraling devolution, the author shows us a way back, by thinking of Church as organism, rather than as institution. For all this time, reform efforts have resulted only in "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." It is time to re-think and go back to the "first things," with Christ central.
Author : Thomas H. Vanleer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 166985096X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)
Download or read book A Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken World written by Thomas H. Vanleer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who has ears to hear . . . his words force us to make difficult choices. The Reverend Thomas Vanleer’s composition “A Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken World” is a powerful anthology of God’s righteous word of judgment and hope, calling back to its roots and original mission. Speaking in a dynamic prophetic style, Vanleer challenges the Church to de-institutionalize the Biblical message of the “Beatitudes” focus less on denominations and more on the body of Christ! — Reverend Lonnie Branch ELCA Pastor Emeritus Pastor Thomas Vanleer new book My Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken World is a brilliant and inspired must read book. It is profound and challenging in transformation of one’s understanding of the plan of God. Thank you, my friend, for listening to our Savior, for He has given you to write a masterpiece of a book. —Thomas J. Salen, president of Salen Incorporated A Pastor and friend, Reverend Tom Vanleer has been my friend and church brother for ten years. I have been honored to know him during that time as a thoughtful, wise, loving man who has improved and continue to grow as his years extend. One cannot find a better man. The labor of this book is sincere and honestly written, it is as God Himself dictated the very words he has written. The message is heartfelt and challenging to God’s Church. —Jeff Pelletier Founder of the Foundation for Excellence in Faith and Work The word of God received and transcribe in this book is Powerful, inspirational, compelling, instructional and a warning and hope to the Church and to mankind. This book gives us reassurance of who God truly is to us and refreshing for those that are truly walking with God and following his Commandments. This is a MUST READ. —Reverend Christopher Brooks Executive Director, SHINE
Author : Morag Zwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958795517
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Fractured Families written by Morag Zwartz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fractured Families: Story of a Melbourne Cult exposes a secret group which has hidden within the Presbyterian and (until recently) Anglican Churches in Melbourne since the 1930s. This is the first time the leaders have been exposed, and the damage wrought to hundreds of its members and others brought to light. But Fractured Families does more than reveal tragically broken lives. It is a warning to all churches of the far-reaching and destructive repercussions of false teaching - however subtle - in their midst. And it is an attempt to bring validation and closure to those who remain victims of the cult.
Author : Adam L. Gustine
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830873406
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Becoming a Just Church written by Adam L. Gustine and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should the local church think about justice? Adam Gustine provides a theological vision for the church's identity as a just people, where God's character and the pursuit of shalom infuses every aspect of our congregational DNA. In this renewed vision, the church becomes a prophetic alternative to the broken systems of the world and a parable of God's intentions for human flourishing and societal transformation.
Author : Thomas Vanleer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643987866
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Our Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken World written by Thomas Vanleer and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Arnade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525534733
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Dignity written by Chris Arnade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A profound book.... It will break your heart but also leave you with hope." —J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "[A] deeply empathetic book." —The Economist With stark photo essays and unforgettable true stories, Chris Arnade cuts through "expert" pontification on inequality, addiction, and poverty to allow those who have been left behind to define themselves on their own terms. After abandoning his Wall Street career, Chris Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx. He began interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, and spent hours in drug dens and McDonald's. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. The people he got to know, from Alabama and California to Maine and Nevada, gave Arnade a new respect for the dignity and resilience of what he calls America's Back Row--those who lack the credentials and advantages of the so-called meritocratic upper class. The strivers in the Front Row, with their advanced degrees and upward mobility, see the Back Row's values as worthless. They scorn anyone who stays in a dying town or city as foolish, and mock anyone who clings to religion or tradition as naïve. As Takeesha, a woman in the Bronx, told Arnade, she wants to be seen she sees herself: "a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of God." This book is his attempt to help the rest of us truly see, hear, and respect millions of people who've been left behind.
Author : Al Tizon
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493415522
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Whole and Reconciled written by Al Tizon and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ministry of reconciliation is the new whole in holistic ministry. It must be if the Christian mission is to remain relevant in our increasingly fractured world. This book offers a fresh treatment of holistic ministry that takes the role of reconciliation seriously, rethinking the meaning of the gospel, the nature of the church, and the practice of mission in light of globalization, post-Christendom, and postcolonialism. It also includes theological and practical resources for effectively engaging in evangelism, compassion and justice, and reconciliation ministries. Includes a foreword by Ruth Padilla DeBorst and an afterword by Ronald J. Sider.
