Author : Bill Hybels
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2009-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 031028063X
God instituted festivals and feasts. Jesus went to weddings and parties. Christians were made to be people who celebrate, and the focal point of praise should always be God. He is generous, and He is righteous, and believers' natural responses should be celebration.
Author : Dorena Williamson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1462781314
Why be colorblind when we can be colorFULL instead? Imani and Kayla are the best of friends who are learning to celebrate their different skin colors. As they look around them at the amazing colors in nature, they can see that their skin is another example of God's creativity! This joyful story takes a new approach to discussing race: instead of being colorblind, we can choose to celebrate each color God gave us and be colorFULL instead.
Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : Harvest Kids
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736984447
This timely picture book from Dr. Tony Evans teaches children the values of equality, diversity, and unity from a biblical perspective and provides parents with a starting point for meaningful family discussions about important cultural issues. Dr. Evans explains in simple terms that we all are created in the image of God. We may look different, come from different places, and have a little or a lot, but God loves and values us equally. Therefore, we should love and value others as He does. Made by God also introduces children to the concepts of diversity, unity, and racism from a Christian worldview and gives them practical suggestions on how they can stand up for what's right when they see injustice occurring. This helpful resource gives parents a tool they can use to engage children in important conversations on a variety of topics, including race, inequality, reconciliation, and God's plan for humanity.
Author : Jim McGuiggan
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307565165
Is There a Purpose to Suffering And Loss? We only have to live to see or experience how agonizing life can be. We are surrounded by child abuse and neglect, starving families, premature deaths of those we love, natural disasters and global disease. How could a God worthy of respect and worship allow such a world to exist? There are no simple answers. But there is hope. For, claims author Jim McGuiggan, suffering may in fact be the last thing we expect–an expression of God’s wrath, which in turn is nothing other than his relentless, loving pursuit of us. If this is true, then suffering is a vital part of God’s work to redeem his creation. Give this claim a hearing, and you just might see the suffering world in a new way–a world shot through with glory and hope and assurance.
Author : Donald E. Messer
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1501809512
This collection of essays offers a framework for reflection and study by United Methodist laity, clergy, and seminarians seeking to live into our faith’s commitment to ecumenism and interfaith relationships. The vision and voices of writers from around the world are indispensable in understanding the biblical, historical, and theological basis for ecumenical and interreligious work. The writers are Warner H. Brown, Jr. Sudarshana Devadhar, Gaspar Joao Domingos, Adam Hamilton, Benjamin L. Hartley, Hee Soo Jung, Gladys Mangiduyos, Glen A. Messer II, Bruce R. Ough, Stephen Sidorak, Jr., Mary Ann Swenson, and Rosemarie Wenner. Read what others are saying... “This sparkling book celebrates the wide-armed embrace of God’s love. Drawing from personal stories, historical narratives, texts of the Wesleyan and United Methodist traditions, and biblical witness, the authors challenge people to ponder ecumenical and interreligious relations. They offer perspectives and questions that are deeply biblical and Wesleyan and are urgent in a world torn by conflict. They shine light on polarizations and possibilities in the United Methodist Church, the Christian Church universal, and the whole human family. The book is an invitation to reflect but, more important, to pause and appreciate the largesse of God’s love that binds people across chasms of difference.” —Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore Boston University School of Theology “This book is a wonderful resource for all who take seriously the prayer for unity Jesus prayed in John 17:20-21. The authors represent a rich diversity of voices from across the globe, all calling us to focus on that which binds us together in love. I heartily recommend this book to all who are interested in building bridges of unity.” —Dr. Clayton Oliphint Senior Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Richardson, Texas "I urge all United Methodists to read Celebrating God's Love in preparation for the 2016 General Conference, because it serves as a valuable reminder of our commitment to ecumenical and interreligious relationships and dialogue." —Jim Winkler President and General Secretary National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
Author : Bryan Jeongguk Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1630879894
In the face of today's unprecedented ecological crisis, Christianity is often seen not only as sharing in the guilt of causing this crisis, but also as unwilling and incapable of providing any help in re-envisioning the required new way of life on earth. This view is justified when we consider how modern Christian theology has tended to denigrate the natural world and how the prevalent world-deserting Christian eschatology forms a spirituality that is fundamentally insensitive and indifferent to nature. In light of this, a meaningful Christian contribution to today's world of enormous ecological suffering must lie in envisioning a fundamentally new ecological vision of humanity's relationship to nature as well as providing an ethical energy to transform our current path of self-destruction. In this book, Bryan J. Lee finds, in Jurgen Moltmann's eschatological panentheism, a viable pathway toward a Christian ecological re-envisioning of the relationship between God and humanity and between humanity and nature. Furthermore, Lee demonstrates in a persuasive way how Christian worship can and should be the epicenter of ecological transformation of the society, emphatically interpreting Christian worship as an ecological-eschatological anticipation of God's cosmic perichoresis.
Author : United Church of Canada
Publisher : Etobicoke, Ont. : United Church Publishing House
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2000
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Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
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Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
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Author : Katherine A. M. Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1794877282
The 21 Days of Celebrating God devotional is intended to be a tool for helping us celebrate God's entire goodness towards us-Jesus' death, resurrection and ascension. Because Christ paid the entire price for our sins, we don't have to! He invites and enables us to live and reign with Him now, as well as in eternity, as beloved sons and daughters of the Most High God. This is the God we serve-He who is the matchless, Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The God who loves you so much that, rather than live without you, He chose to die to rescue you! The God who delights to live in you through His Spirit. The God who wants to change the world through you. The God whose favorite thing is to be in relationship with you! This is the faith we live and the God we celebrate.
