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In the Beginning God Created the Country Church

Author : Butch Ikels

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 76 pages

File Size : 37,88 MB

Release : 2005-02-11

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1725242907

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'In the beginning God created The Country Church' has been written during the busy days of active growth of The Country Church in Marion, Texas. Several well known leaders in church growth requested that the history and events of The Country Church be recorded. Pastor Butch Ikels has attempted to carry this out with a three fold purpose. First and foremost, to exalt The Lovely Lord Jesus who made it all possible. Second, to inspire church planters in rural areas to trust the Lord and dare to minister outside the box. Thirdly, to encourage and edify those who serve in remote or ill-defined areas. Prayerfully, that through the pages of this book, they might see the miracle of I Corinthians 1:18-31 lived out in a congregation.



The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 49,27 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Bible

ISBN : 9780802136107

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Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.



God Has a Name

Author : John Mark Comer

Publisher : Thomas Nelson

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 39,12 MB

Release : 2024-10-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1400249570

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What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become. In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become. We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways. God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way. John Mark Comer takes you line by line through Exodus 34:6-8--Yahweh's self-revelation on Mount Sinai, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, Comer addresses some of the most profound questions he came across as he studied these noted lines in Exodus, including: Why do we feel this gap between us and God? Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him? What if our "God" is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires? What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine? No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.



Revelation

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Publisher : Canongate Books

Page : 60 pages

File Size : 27,98 MB

Release : 1999-01-01

Category : Bibles

ISBN : 0857861018

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The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.



One Nation Under God

Author : Kevin M. Kruse

Publisher : Basic Books

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 24,92 MB

Release : 2015-04-14

Category : History

ISBN : 0465040640

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The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.



In the Eye of the Storm

Author : Max Lucado

Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 40,14 MB

Release : 2012-08

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0849947324

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The author paints a picture of Christ's calm in what he calls "the second most stressful day in the life of our Savior." He shows the secret of transforming panic into peace, stress into serenity, and chaos into control.



Crumbs from the Country Church

Author : Pastor Jim Walker

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 46,9 MB

Release : 2010-04-09

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1450076246

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This book contains 39 chapters. Each chapter begins with a poem, and the poem is followed by a discussion of the subject of the poem. Subjects range from "Rolling Through Life," "Death of a Saint," "You Live in a Rental House," "Straddlin' the Fence," to "He Was A Good Man".....and many others you will find enjoyable to read and contemplate. Inside this book you will find how God can help you through life's difficulties, some of which seemingly have no good solutions. There are examples of how a positive outlook and dedication to finding and following the right path will lead to good outcomes. Every thought is backed up by quotations from the Bible. You can learn much about happy living in this book.



Laudato Si

Author : Pope Francis

Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor

Page : 119 pages

File Size : 14,44 MB

Release : 2015-07-18

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1612783872

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“In the heart of this world, the Lord of life, who loves us so much, is always present. He does not abandon us, he does not leave us alone, for he has united himself definitively to our earth, and his love constantly impels us to find new ways forward. Praise be to him!” – Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ In his second encyclical, Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home, Pope Francis draws all Christians into a dialogue with every person on the planet about our common home. We as human beings are united by the concern for our planet, and every living thing that dwells on it, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. Pope Francis’ letter joins the body of the Church’s social and moral teaching, draws on the best scientific research, providing the foundation for “the ethical and spiritual itinerary that follows.” Laudato Si’ outlines: The current state of our “common home” The Gospel message as seen through creation The human causes of the ecological crisis Ecology and the common good Pope Francis’ call to action for each of us Our Sunday Visitor has included discussion questions, making it perfect for individual or group study, leading all Catholics and Christians into a deeper understanding of the importance of this teaching.



What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women

Author : Kevin Giles

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 30,94 MB

Release : 2018-10-19

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1532633696

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Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over forty years. In this book, What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women, he gives the most comprehensive account to date of the competing conclusions to this question and the issues surrounding it. To understand the bitter and divisive debate among evangelicals over the status and ministry of women, it needs to be understood that those who since 1990 have called themselves "complementarians" argue that in creation before the fall God set the man over the woman. Thus, the leadership of the man and the subordination of the woman in the home, the church, and wherever possible in the world (the whole creation) is the God-given ideal that is pleasing to God. It is this "theology" that Kevin Giles deconstructs and shows to be without a biblical foundation. Giles shows that he is fully conversant with the complementarian position and yet is unpersuaded by it. He sees it as an appeal to the Bible to preserve male privilege, similar to the appeals to the Bible to validate slavery and Apartheid; appeals to the Bible made by some of the best Reformed and evangelical biblical scholars, and now seen to be special pleading. Carefully studying the limited number of texts on which complementarians predicate their theology of the sexes, Giles finds not one of them actually teaches what complementarians claim. Furthermore, complementarians too often ignore the texts that are very difficult for them. In this book the ordination of women gets only passing mention. The constant focus is on whether or not the Bible subordinates women to men as an abiding theological principle.



A Christian Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

Author : Dr. D. Carlton O'Rork Dmin. Phd.

Publisher : WestBow Press

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 44,3 MB

Release : 2020-03-13

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1973688492

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First Francis Shaffer and now Dennis O’Rork try to explain what is going wrong in the church today and how to fix it. Will God Himself have to return and tell us the same thing. Why not listen to them today and be ready for His return. This book is an attempt to wake up the latest generations of citizens to the growing threat of religious breakdown.