[PDF] Upside Down Gods eBook

Author : Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher :
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2016
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780823270347

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Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson's holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecology within a single trans-disciplinary enquiry substituting pattern, perceptual difference, and relations for 'thinginess' of scientific data.

Author : Peter Harries-Jones
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 082327036X

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Science’s conventional understanding of environment as an inert material resource underlies our unwillingness to acknowledge the military-industrial role in ongoing ecological catastrophes. In a crucial challenge to modern science’s exclusive attachment to materialist premises, Bateson reframed culture, psychology, biology, and evolution in terms of feedback and communication, fundamentally altering perception of our relationship with nature. This intellectual biography covers the whole trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his first anthropological work alongside Margaret Mead through the continuing relevance of his late forays into biosemiotics. Harries-Jones shows how the sum of Bateson’s thinking across numerous fields turns our notions of causality upside down, providing a moral divide between sustainable creativity and our current biocide.

Author : Alex Seeley
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0785216138

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What if the path to a life of abundance and blessing isn't what we expected? What if the way forward begins with going backward? In our constant search for a life filled with blessing and abundance, we often follow our human instinct and then wonder why we come up short. But it doesn't have to be that way. Join pastor and author Alex Seeley as she teaches us that God always has a better idea -- we just have to move in a new direction. In?The Opposite Life, Seeley explains that the secret to living a powerful and abundant life lies in the upside-down kingdom of God. Each chapter of The Opposite Life explores the opposite-life principles that can start to shift our mindset for the better, diving deeper into the natural contradictions between: death and life fear and faith hate and love worry and worship impossible and possible Along the way, she offers encouraging and simple challenges to help us align our lives with God's subversive plan. As we learn to exchange our default instincts for the surprising teachings of Jesus -- our pioneer of the unlikely -- we discover a life of transformational power, abundance, and more blessing than we ever thought possible. Praise for The Opposite Life: "Our broken earth longs for just this type of unveiling. It is time for us to remember who we are and respond as sons and daughters of the Most High God. There is a desperate longing for His goodness in the face of overwhelming anger, pain, and confusion. The Opposite Life is a drink of living water in a dry and arid land." --Lisa Bevere, New York Times bestselling author of Without Rival and Girls with Swords

Author : Michael Maiden
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0768489628

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Many Christians have been preaching the gospel of salvation and attempting to disciple the nations by bringing people into their church congregations, but they have not seen their cities and countries transformed. Jesus, however, preached the Gospel of the Kingdom, and He equipped and empowered His disciples to turn the world upside down in a drastic cultural transformation. In the Bible, mountains usually represent the authority of kingdoms. Learn how you can occupy the seven mountains of authority—family, church, business, government, education, arts/entertainment, and media—and bring Heaven’s influence to earth, transforming your culture and discipling the nations! You will learn: How the Gospel of the Kingdom turns the world upside down. What the seven mountains of authority are. How to take your mountains with the Gospel. To step into your destiny as a world-changer! Maiden writes: “You were predestined for a reason and purpose by God! Your gifts, anointing, personality, and history will all synergize into a dynamic purpose when you find your mountain!” Tackle your mountain today!

Author : Efrem Smith
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 163146521X

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The Christian life is actually a kind of death. We die to ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Jesus. Dying in Christ, however, is an opportunity—to experience the comforting presence of the Holy Spirit as we spread the Good News of a God who loves us enough to save us and remake us in his image. Efrem Smith helps us see that Christian discipleship is a counterintuitive life. In a world turned upside down by sin, God carefully and lovingly strips us of worldly values and turns us right-side up as good citizens and ambassadors of his Kingdom.

Author : Kristin Schmucker
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781950185016

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This is a 6 week study. Each Week has 5 days of study material, 1 day for a memory verse, and 1 day for a weekly reflection.The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus' longest recorded sermon and it is overflowing with truth for us. Packed into the three short chapters of Matthew 5-7 is truth from the lips of Jesus for every aspect of our lives and most of all for our hearts.Through this study you will be encouraged to cast your anxiety on Jesus, trust Him in difficult seasons, rejoice in all things, extend the grace that has been shown to you, and pursue Jesus and His kingdom with everything that you are.

Author : Michael S. Heiser
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1683593235

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What could the supernatural world of Stranger Things have in common with the Bible? The paranormal television series Stranger Things taps into the mysterious elements that have fueled spiritual questions for millennia. The otherworldly manifestations in Hawkins, Indiana offer compelling portrayals of important spiritual truths--and many of these truths are echoed in the supernatural worldview of the Bible. For Michael Heiser, Stranger Things is the perfect marriage of his interest in popular culture and the paranormal. In The Unseen Realm, he opened the eyes of thousands, helping readers understand the supernatural worldview of the Bible. Now he turns his attention to the worldwide television phenomenon, exploring how Stranger Things relates to Christian theology and the Christian life. In The World Turned Upside Down, Heiser draws on this supernatural worldview to help us think about the story of Jesus and discover glimpses of the gospel in the Upside Down. He argues that this celebrated series helps us understand the gospel in unique and overlooked ways. The spiritual questions and crises raised by Stranger Things are addressed the same way they are in the gospel, with mystery and transcendent power.

Author : Chad Bird
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493416405

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In our age when the church can too often seem like a poor copy of the world, Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient, backward faith. Where the world stresses the importance of success, Bird invites readers to embrace nine specific failures in the areas of our personal lives, our relationships, and the church. Why? Because what human wisdom deems indispensable is so often an impediment to our spiritual growth, and what it deems insignificant is so often essential to it. With compelling examples from the Bible and today, Bird paints an enticing picture of the counterintuitive, countercultural life that God wants for us. He helps readers delight in all of the ways that Jesus turned the world upside-down, allowing us to experience true freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.

Author : C. Kavin Rowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0199767610

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No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-à-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse, author Kavin Rowe argues that Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated political document. Luke aims at nothing less than the construction of a new culture - a total pattern of life - that inherently runs counter to the constitutive aspects of Graeco-Roman society.

Author : Michael Panford
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438954844

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The purpose of this book (The Upside Down Kingdom : Gods' plan is always opposite ours) is to correct some of the mis-conceptions, misquotations and perversions of the word of God. It aims to correct some everyday sayings which people assume are in the bible but are not, thus, bringing clarity to the truth. The views of people in the world are always different from the views of people of the word, because, "God's Plan Is Always Opposite Ours". Now, since it's only the author of a book who will be able to explain it's true meaning, it is expedient that we always visit the source (God) for explainations. There are things that the natural mind cannot understand, but the good news is that God does. To exercise your kingdom authourity, it is expedient to work with what is in your hand. Do not allow your circumstances to dictate to you because "God's Plan Is Opposite Ours !"