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The Adventures and New Beginnings of a Modern-Day Samaritan Woman

Author : Sandy Fine

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 24,46 MB

Release : 2016-09-27

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1483455831

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Author Sandy Fine's mother used to say Sandy renewed husbands like a driver's license. Married four times, she recounts her varied experiences in The Adventures and New Beginnings of a Modern-Day Samaritan Woman. Offering both a humorous and spiritual look at her life, Fine shares the positive stories of the men she married, the special attributes of each, and how they impacted her life. From her birth in 1955, to her first wedding at age sixteen, to the birth of her sons, her career in the insurance industry, and coming to Christ when she was twenty-nine years old, this memoir offers insight into both the important people in her life and her passionate relationship with God The Adventures and New Beginnings of a Modern-Day Samaritan Woman narrates Sandy's adventures-filled with multiple marriages and how God led her away from feeling shameful to being truly loved and accepted.



The Wrath of a Loving God

Author : Brother John of Taize

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 120 pages

File Size : 16,60 MB

Release : 2019-10-28

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1532670745

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The portrait of an angry God, quick to condemn, that many people claim to find in the pages of the Bible is undoubtedly one of the greatest obstacles to faith. The modern tendency to efface all traces of anger from our image of God is therefore comprehensible. But might this procedure not risk mutilating the authentic character of the biblical God? Could the theme of divine wrath, properly understood, rather than being a primitive vestige or an aberration, perhaps offer a key to understanding a love "as fierce as death," an approach to the mystery of our redemption in Christ? That is the challenge that this book attempts to take up.



Friends in Christ: Paths to a New Understanding of Church

Author : Brother John of Taize

Publisher : Orbis Books

Page : 185 pages

File Size : 13,31 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Friendship

ISBN : 1608332357

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"This book, for both seekers and practicing Christians, highlights the importance of friendship for human community. Beginning with stories of friendship in biblical accounts and the teachings of the early leaders of the church, Brother John describes friendship as the basis for community throughout the world and at Taizé, an international ecumenical community that draws thousands of young people from around the globe together in worship and prayer."--Back cover.



Life on the Edge

Author : Brother John of Taize

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 41,55 MB

Release : 2017-10-26

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1498243037

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Is the Christian faith something that can peacefully exist alongside all the other aspects of an ordinary human life, or does it by its very nature turn that life into something else? The author of this book, a member of a monastic community for over forty years, obviously has a vested interest in the answer. But even for believers caught up in the day-to-day life of society, work, and family, the question is an important one, at least if they are seeking a measure of consistency in the life they are living. And does not the very fact that the question of the importance and urgency of faith needs to be asked witness to the eclipse of an eschatological outlook among Christians, at any rate in the mainstream Churches? Could this oversight not explain why an eschatological understanding of faith, one which sees it as a radical, world-changing reality, has been forced to take refuge, often deformed to the point of being unrecognizable, in small "fanatical" groups on the margins of the Christian world?



Metanoia

Author : Brother John of Taize

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 92 pages

File Size : 37,38 MB

Release : 2021-06-22

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1725297957

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How can one live an authentically Christian life? Although many books and articles delineate the content of the Gospel message, the form or shape of an existence based on faith has not been studied as thoroughly. To use a language correctly, it is not enough to know the vocabulary; one must have a good grasp of its grammar. This book attempts to deepen our knowledge of the grammar of the Christian life starting from the notion of metanoia. Generally translated as “repentance” or “conversion,” the word has in fact a much richer significance: it describes a total reorientation and transformation of our being, never accomplished once and for all, through the action of the Spirit of the risen Christ. Metanoia takes us out of our self-centered outlook and our limited and self-interested actions and brings us into God’s today, where we become witnesses to a real Presence, that of the universal Body of Christ.



Engaging with C. H. Dodd on the Gospel of John

Author : Tom Thatcher

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 43,15 MB

Release : 2013-08-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1107292573

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C. H. Dodd's Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically biblical scholars have concentrated on the Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke. However, Dodd's book encouraged scholars to take John seriously as a source for the life of Jesus. This volume both reflects upon and looks beyond Dodd's writings to address the implications, limitations and potential of his groundbreaking research and its programmatic approach to charting a course for future research on the Gospel of John. Leading biblical scholars demonstrate the recent surge of interest in John's distinctive witness to Jesus, and also in Dodd's work as the harbinger of advancements in the study of the Fourth Gospel. This volume will be invaluable to all those studying the New Testament, Johannine theology and the history of the early Church.



Alaskan Bush Adventures

Author : Don Ernst

Publisher : Elm Hill

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 20,94 MB

Release : 2019-05-14

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1400306221

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There is a vast expanse of wilderness that lies within the borders of the United States—a land where there are no roads, no malls and no power lines stretching across the horizon. Instead, nature is on display in all of its glory. With forests, meadows, river basins, lakes, and mountains—the variety is as diverse as the expanse of the land itself. This is Alaska, the Great Land. Within these wild stretches of Alaska lie small, scattered, remote villages which are home to various ethnic groups of Alaskan natives. In the spring of 1990, Don Ernst and his wife moved to one of these isolated villages to begin a church planting ministry. During the next 27 years, life and ministry were within the realm of this setting. There were lessons learned from the elders and from the land. During this time of ministry there were also lessons learned from the Lord. The author shares these times of life lessons and spiritual growth in the tradition of the culture: stories. These stories of life and ministry share the tragedies and the triumphs sprinkled with grief and laughter. The author uses stories to instruct, encourage, and challenge you as he unfolds them in the real life setting of the Alaskan bush.



Start Becoming a Good Samaritan Participant's Guide

Author : Michael Seaton

Publisher : HarperChristian Resources

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 12,99 MB

Release : 2013-06-05

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0310692288

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start> Becoming a Good Samaritan is a six-session small group Bible study like no other (DVD/digital video sold separately). Prepare to have your eyes opened, your heart stirred, your vision kindled, and your faith focused and invigorated like never before! Love your neighbor. Change the world… It starts with you, today. The homeless man wandering your streets. The disenfranchised roaming your neighborhood. The sick and forgotten pushed to the edge of your town. Let’s get to work! In partnership with World Vision, start> Becoming a Good Samaritan is an unprecedented initiative that helps Christians live out Christ’s love in world-changing ways, right now, right where you live. This experience will help you explore issues like poverty, social injustice, pandemic diseases, the environment – and teach you how to start making a personal, street-level impact today. Inside are discussion questions, radical but commonsense ideas, and personal applications to help you live out your faith in ways that will change the community around you. Sessions include: Becoming a Good Samaritan Caring for the Sick Seeking Justice and Reconciliation Honoring the Poor Tending to God’s Creation Loving the Forsaken Designed for use with the Start Becoming a Good Samaritan Video Study (sold separately). In it, you’ll find John Ortberg hosting six emotionally packed sessions featuring Christian leaders like Eugene Peterson, Philip Yancey, Matthew Sleeth, Jim Cymbala, Chuck Colson, Joni Eareckson Tada, Rob Bell and many others.