A Terrifying Grace

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Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 151278088X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Book Synopsis A Terrifying Grace by : Rob Yule

Download or read book A Terrifying Grace written by Rob Yule and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance and sexual intimacy are among lifes highest joys. How we handle our sexuality is an ultimate challenge, particularly in todays sexualised global culture. Rob Yule looks at a fascinating selection of romantic relationships from throughout Christian history, from Augustine, Abelard and Helose, and the Luthers to Billy and Ruth Graham and Pope Saint John Paul II. Illustrating how challenging and far-from-straightforward the relationship of men and women is in real life, he draws many insights for relationships and marriage today. A Terrifying Grace explores the romantic relationships of leading Christians throughout history and how they handled sex and marriage. What were their relationships and marriages like? What did they believe or teach about sexuality and marriage? Did their marriages or celibate lives live up to their professed beliefs? How did they handle the joys, pains, temptations, and responsibilities of their intimate relationships, alongside their public life and witness? Even great Christians have struggled to handle their intimate relationships. We can learn much from them how to live with integrity in todays hypersexualised culture.

John Wesley and Marriage

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Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223393
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (233 download)

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Book Synopsis John Wesley and Marriage by : Bufford W. Coe

Download or read book John Wesley and Marriage written by Bufford W. Coe and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, a Methodist minister examines the sources of John Wesley's ideas about marriage and shows how those beliefs found expression in the cleric's revision of the Anglican wedding service." "Author Bufford W. Coe describes the radical differences between a typical eighteenth-century wedding and a church wedding of today. He also tells the fascinating story of Wesley's romances with Sophia Hopkey and Grace Murray, based on his own private diaries, and shows how those relationships, as well as his miserably unhappy marriage, were affected by Wesley's beliefs about matrimony." "Four days after Wesley decided he would marry at the age of forty-seven, he spoke to a group of unmarried men and encouraged them to remain single. In the matrimonial service he devised for American Methodists, Wesley eliminated the custom of the bride being given in marriage by her father, although Wesley consistently taught that Christians should not marry without the consent of their parents. Wesley strongly condemned the Roman Catholic Church for requiring celibacy of its priests, but his own rules required that Methodist preachers who married during their initial probationary period were thereby disqualified." "In 1784, Wesley published The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America with Other Occasional Services. Coe studies the components of Wesley's marriage liturgy from the Sunday Service to try to determine why Wesley revised the Anglican wedding service in the way that he did."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Sermons on Several Occasions

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Sermons on Several Occasions by : John Wesley

Download or read book Sermons on Several Occasions written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revival

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ISBN 13 : 9781426778841
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (788 download)

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Book Synopsis Revival by : Adam Hamilton

Download or read book Revival written by Adam Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a Modern-Day Revival.

Good Christians, Good Husbands?

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Publisher : Mentor
ISBN 13 : 9781857924503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (245 download)

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Book Synopsis Good Christians, Good Husbands? by : Doreen Moore

Download or read book Good Christians, Good Husbands? written by Doreen Moore and published by Mentor. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley, George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards, left an enduring and fruitful legacy through their labours, and they were also married. This book gives us contemporary lessons, offering Biblical guidelines and counsel from modern day Christian leaders.

The Life of John Wesley

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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A Real Christian

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Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426721951
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis A Real Christian by : Prof. Kenneth J. Collins

Download or read book A Real Christian written by Prof. Kenneth J. Collins and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Real Christian: The Life of John Wesley fills a void in available books in Wesleyan studies by providing a brief, solid biography that focuses on Wesley himself. While exploring Wesley's ancestry, birth, death, and every major biographical and theological event between, Collins also explores the theme of John Wesley's spiritual growth and maturation. Wesley came to the conclusion that real Christians are those whose inward (and outward) lives have been transformed by the bountiful sanctifying grace of God -- what he termed real Christianity--and this he strove to obtain for himself. Real Christianity, as Wesley understood it, embraces both works of piety and mercy, the person and the social.

Family Crucible

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606080016
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Family Crucible by : Anthony J. Headley

Download or read book Family Crucible written by Anthony J. Headley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and ministry of John Wesley from the perspective of Murray Bowen's Extended Family Systems Theory and to a lesser extent from Alfred Adler's concept of family constellation. Throughout the book, the author uses concepts drawn from these theories to explore significant historical and pivotal events in the life of John Wesley. Beginning with family events prior to his birth, the author also explores his early family constellation, influential themes, factors shaping his ministry, and various relational issues, including his relationships with Sophy Hopkey, Grace Murray, and his marriage to Mary Vazeille. It concludes by drawing lessons from Wesley's life pertinent to today's ministers.

Queering Wesley, Queering the Church

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725254050
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Queering Wesley, Queering the Church by : Keegan Osinski

Download or read book Queering Wesley, Queering the Church written by Keegan Osinski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after Stonewall, the experiences of LGBTQ+ Christians are--rightfully--beginning to be received with interest by their churches. Queering Wesley, Queering the Church presents a prototype for thinking about Wesleyan holiness as an expansive openness to the love and grace of God in queer Christian lives rather than the limiting and restrictive legalism that is sometimes found in Wesleyan theology and praxis. This inventive project consists of queer readings of ten John Wesley sermons. Reading these sermons from a queer perspective offers the church a fresh paradigm for theological innovation, while remaining in line with the tradition and legacy of Wesley that is so central and generative to Wesleyan churches. Arguing that a coherent line of thought can be drawn from Wesley's conception of holiness to the queer, holy lives of LGBTQ+ Christians, Queering Wesley, Queering the Church playfully utilizes queer theory in a way that is fully compatible with Wesleyan teaching. This book aims to be a first step in seriously considering the theological voices of LGBTQ+ Christians in the Wesleyan tradition as a valuable asset to a vital church.

Thoughts on a Single Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Thoughts on a Single Life by : John Wesley

Download or read book Thoughts on a Single Life written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism by : Robert Southey

Download or read book The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's House Rules

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Publisher : BPS Books
ISBN 13 : 097844020X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (784 download)

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Book Synopsis God's House Rules by : Donald N. Bastian

Download or read book God's House Rules written by Donald N. Bastian and published by BPS Books. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bastian reaches back to the matchless story of Adam and Eve and then gives couples and families simple but profound biblical truths from "house rules" written by the Apostle Paul to the early church.

Methodist Morals

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Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621902409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Methodist Morals by : Darryl W. Stephens

Download or read book Methodist Morals written by Darryl W. Stephens and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodist Morals offers keen insight into the public church, interpreting the United Methodist Social Principles as a dynamic discourse about morality and human rights in light of faith. Revised every four years by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church, the Social Principles exposes the moral deliberations of this distinctly American and increasingly ?worldwide? church as it struggles to achieve community across multiple languages and cultures. Perhaps no other document provides as rich a depiction of Protestants participating in the moral argument of public life. This is the first full-length study of Methodist social teachings in over fifty years. Examining official Methodist teachings from institutional, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives, Darryl Stephens provides a rich analysis of this case study of Protestant social witness, drawing on his expertise in church polity, Methodist history, and Christian social ethics. A wide range of comparisons— with documents of the United Nations, with moral debate in Germany and Zimbabwe, and with historical Methodist statements of social witness—shows the Social Principles to be a unique form of social witness. The issues of war,abortion, human sexuality, and marriage illustrate the messiness of democratic deliberation in an ecclesial context and the evolution of a people ever concerned with the sin of ?worldliness? even as they become more attuned to transforming social structures. Stephens also contrasts this conception of the public church with the ecclesiologies of prominent Methodist ethicists Stanley Hauerwas and Paul Ramsey. Intended for students of Methodism, ecumenical church leaders, and scholars of Christian social ethics and contemporary US mainline religion, this work reveals the challenges to and possibilities for achieving moral community in an increasingly global and diverse world--from publisher's website.

Crossing the Divide

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Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1634098323
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossing the Divide by : Jake Hanson

Download or read book Crossing the Divide written by Jake Hanson and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Christians today reach a world that is becoming increasingly intolerant to the teachings of the church? John Wesley entered the scene of 18th century England with greater hostility than exists today in the West. His life and teaching offer the 21st century church a way forward. John Wesley forged his ministry in the midst of mobs, riots, and angry diatribes, yet this fearless evangelist found a way to reach the very enemies in need of transformation. This complex personality drove one of the most significant renewal movements of the English-speaking world--a movement that transformed the spirituality, morality, and work of the church for the next three centuries.

Killing Jesus

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Publisher : Worthy Books
ISBN 13 : 1617952214
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Killing Jesus by : Stephen Mansfield

Download or read book Killing Jesus written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TORTURE -- INFANTICIDE -- BRUTALITY -- MURDER The World Would Never Be the Same "The execution of Jesus was a crime born of the streets, the barracks, the enclaves of the privileged, and the smoke-filled back rooms of religious and political power brokers. Its meaning lives in these places still." It is the most fiercely debated murder of all time. Its symbol is worn by billions of people worldwide. Its spiritual meaning is invoked daily in time-honored rituals. In Killing Jesus, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield masterfully recounts the corrupt trial and grisly execution of Jesus more than two thousand years ago. Approaching the story at its most human level, Mansfield uses both secular sources and biblical accounts to bring fresh perspective to the human drama, political intrigue, and criminal network behind the killing of the world's most famous man

John Wesley's Life & Ethics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis John Wesley's Life & Ethics by : Ronald H. Stone

Download or read book John Wesley's Life & Ethics written by Ronald H. Stone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book covers the ethical reflection and teaching of Wesley and at appropriate points places it in comparative perspective with other eighteenth-century contributors to ethics and social thought. Ethical topics addressed in the volume include: abolition, vocation, family, money, the social nature of humanity, politics, economics, imperial relations, and war and peace."--BOOK JACKET.

John Wesley

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Publisher : Christian Heroes: Then & Now
ISBN 13 : 9781576583821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book John Wesley written by Janet Benge and published by Christian Heroes: Then & Now. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing his calling with singleness of vision, John Wesley offered the hope of Christ to millions of people who were outside the influence of the churches of the day. Focused on God's love and holy living, the movement Wesley founded quickly multiplied in vibrant Methodist societies all over England and would soon influence far-flung nations for Christ (1703-1791).