[PDF] Gospel Smugness eBook

Author : Blake Long
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2021-05-05
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ISBN : 9780578825519

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Christians have some navigating to do. The culture we live in hates the message we cherish. We know the gospel we share is offensive, but sometimes we make it more offensive by our behavior. Is there a way to share an offensive message to an offended culture while not being gratuitously offensive? Blake Long challenges evangelicals: let the gospel do the offending, not us. The gospel is offensive enough. Our attitude--our smugness--shouldn't make the gospel harder to believe. Long helps us find the problem and points us to the solution: Jesus Christ. There's no time to retreat. Only time to engage. Engage with boldness and gentleness; bluntness and compassion. In short, let's start witnessing like Jesus.

Author : James Boyd White
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608991350

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How can we connect the Gospels--the fundamental texts of Christian faith--to our own experience of inner and outer life? This is the question that animates Connecting to the Gospel. In it James Boyd White presents a series of Gospel passages, together with the sermons he gave on these passages as a lay preacher in the Episcopal Church, with brief commentaries and questions on each as well. The whole is designed as an aid to thought and reflection about the issues raised by the Gospel passages, as they relate both to our own larger culture and to our internal religious experiences. The texts are old texts, from the past. What relation do they have, can they have, with life in the twenty-first century? One aim of the book is to establish a set of questions, both about the Gospels and about our own lives, which the reader is invited to pursue on his or her own. It can be used both by individuals and groups engaged in study and exploration.

Author : Matt Woodley
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830869387

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In this second book in the Resonate series, Matt Woodley takes you on a journey through the Gospel of Matthew, considering the audacious idea of a God with us--confronting us in the midst of all we've invested ourselves in and dedicated ourselves to, and encouraging us with the promise that the God who made us has a better life in mind for us.

Author : Allen M. Baker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606085247

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The great burden of Al Baker's life, that which drives him in Christian ministry more than anything else, is to see the church of the Lord Jesus Christ rise up and become mighty as she has been so often in past years. One thing has become very clear to Baker--the western church is in big trouble. Many pastors are terribly discouraged in their ministries. So are their people. Pastors have been told that they can model their ministries after whoever the latest and hottest preacher is, and all will be well with them, that they can expect exponential growth in their churches. With few exceptions, this has not been their experience. They have attended the seminars and read the latest books, but they have little to show for their efforts. As a pastor, Baker is heartbroken over the vastness of people's problems in today's church--everything from incest, child molestation, homosexuality, pornography, severe depression, suicide, divorce, wayward children, adultery, fornication, and more. The pastoral problems are epidemic. The Christian faith in American churches is woefully lacking. Church people are generally no different from those of the world. What are we to do? We need revival. We need a revival culture in the western church. We need, like Israel laboring under Egyptian bondage, to become intolerable of our circumstances. Israel cried out to the Lord when their slavery became intolerable to them. May God move us to divine discontent, to be dissatisfied with the status quo!

Author : William D. Lindsey
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791435076

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Reappraises the work of Shailer Mathews, a leading but long-neglected theologian of the social gospel movement whose work prefigures contemporary liberation theologies.

Author : Lee C. Barrett
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409404439

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Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his cultural and intellectual context. This second tome of the volume considers the New Testament and seeks to clarify different dimensions of Kierkegaard's interpretive theory and practice as he sought to avoid the twin pitfalls of academic skepticism and passionless biblical traditionalism.

Author : Brennan Manning
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1601428685

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Previously published: Sisters, Or.: Multnomah Publishers, c2000.

Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Kregel Academic
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825433771

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Another new release of the highly sought-after classic commentary series from one of the most respected and articulate expositors of the twentieth century. "John Phillips writes with enthusiasm and clarity, ...cutting through the confusion and heretical dangers associated with Bible interpretation." -Moody Magazine

Author : Ronald J. Allen
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451426445

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Acts of the Apostles helps the preacher identify possibilities for sermons based on texts and themes in the book of Acts. While offering a basic exegetical framework for interpreting passages in Acts in their historical, literary, rhetorical, and theological contexts, this volume also suggests ways in which the preacher can relate passages and motifs from Acts to the congregation and world today. It also is useful in classes that seek to link text and sermon, and for congregational Bible study. Throughout his commentary, Ron Allen examines the relationship of Acts to the Gospel of Luke, discussing parallel passages between the two volumes and observing how themes in the Gospel carry forward into Acts. He notes how particular passages contribute to developing themes and to how the awareness of such a theme can contribute to the preacher's work with a particular passage. An appendix will posit several sermon series that the preacher could develop on the book of Acts, making the book especially useful to ministers who do not follow the lectionary.