Book Detail:
Author: Elia Shabani Mligo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725263521
Size: 72.45 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-05-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Rediscovering Jesus In Our Places eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The question of contextual theology and its relevance to Africa in this time of globalization, whereby there are rampant uncontrolled changes in cultures, technologies, economic policies, and even people’s religious lives, is very urgent. How is contextual theology relevant in the ever-changing contexts of the church in Africa? Indeed, there are a number of challenges which contextual theology faces within the church in Africa, which need to be addressed contextually. Some such challenges include poverty, rampant violence, homosexuality, alcoholism, the resurgence of prosperity gospel materialistic prophets and incurable illnesses like Ebola, HIV and AIDS, and the current coronavirus (COVID-19). However, which context in Africa? Context in Africa, as in other parts of the world, is always in flux; it is complex and fluid. There is no permanent context. The experience of Jesus in such a changing context needs to be rediscovered depending on what transpires in each particular place at a particular time. This book addresses some of the overarching challenges that face contextual theology and how such challenges should be addressed by the church in Africa in contemporary ever-changing context for it to be relevant in Africa. It also highlights the need to move from liberation and inculturation theologies to reconstruction theology in dealing with the challenges of the current church. Hence, the book is important to students and scholars engaging in practical, systematic, biblical, and contextual theologies in all their branches.

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Author: Kelly Matthew
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942611196
Size: 41.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-08-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Rediscover Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How well do you know Jesus? I think about this often, and I always come to the same realization. I don't know Jesus anywhere near as well as I would like to know him. The desire is there, but life gets in the way. There are times when I seem to be making great progress, and other times when I wonder if I know him at all. But I always arrive back at the same inspiring and haunting idea: If there is one person that we should each get to know in a deeply personal way, it is Jesus the carpenter from Nazareth, the itinerant preacher, the Son of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the Lamb of God, the new Adam, the Messiah, the Alpha and the Omega, the Chosen One, the Light of the World, the God-Man who wants good things for us more than we want them for ourselves, the healer of our souls. The best time to rediscover Jesus is right now. You are holding this book in your hand at this very moment for a reason. I don't know what God has in store for you, but I am excited for you.

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Book Detail:
Author: Matthew Kelly
Publisher: Blue Sparrow Books
ISBN: 9781942611202
Size: 75.77 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015
Category: Christian life
Language: en
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Download PDF Rediscover Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. At a time when so many people are spiritually disillusioned and searching for ways to live, love, work, and play that nurture the soul rather than destroy it, Matthew Kelly once again delivers a powerful book that encourages us in our weariness, challenges us in our comfort, and invites us to rediscover the beautiful possibilities God places before us daily.Rediscover Jesus is a profound invitation to seek deeply personal answers to our deeply personal questions. Each page seems to effortlessly reach into every aspect our lives, providing spiritual wisdom and practical insights that help us to know both Jesus and ourselves in a new way.Some books find us at just the right time, and those books change our lives forever. Rediscover Jesus is one of those books.

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Book Detail:
Author: Carl N. Toney
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725295261
Size: 55.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2021-08-31
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Ruining Christmas Rediscovering Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Did you know that the Christmas story almost wasn’t told? But Matthew and Luke saved Christmas. Have you wondered if Christmas is really a pagan holiday? Did marketers invent Santa Claus? And what does a Christmas tree have to do with anti-slavery? We’ll learn which traditions come from the Bible and where other traditions derive. Have you ever considered who Jesus was named after? Or why Jesus’s genealogy is traced to Joseph if he’s not Jesus’s biological father? We’ll answer questions like these surrounding Jesus’s legacy. Maybe you’ve asked what was the Bethlehem star? Or have you heard that there wasn’t an inn or innkeeper? With these kinds of inquiries, we’ll look at the circumstances surrounding Jesus’s birth. Do we know if the magi were kings, astrologers, or magicians? Or could you name the oldest person that met baby Jesus? By interacting with these people who met Jesus on that first Christmas, we’ll join the cast of characters around the manger. As we explore the stories and traditions of Christmas together, we’ll ruin some past misconceptions, but in the process, I promise that we’ll rediscover Jesus.

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Book Detail:
Author: David B. Capes
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830824723
Size: 27.31 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2015-07-08
Category: Religion
Language: en
View: 978
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Download PDF Rediscovering Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Who is your Jesus? This textbook introduction gives an enjoyable and challenging look at how we encounter Jesus in Scripture and our culture—from the New Testament to the gnostic gospels, historical Jesus studies, Islam, Mormonism, Hollywood and Americana. Follow the path to seeing Jesus truly and notice the difference it makes for faith and life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Collin Hansen
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433579596
Size: 27.10 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2021-07-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Rediscover Church eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “A Christian without a church is a Christian in trouble.” Since a global pandemic abruptly closed places of worship, many Christians have skipped church life, even neglecting virtual services. But this was a trend even before COVID-19. Polarizing issues, including political and racial strife, convinced some people to pull away from the church and one another. Now it’s time to recommit to gathering as brothers and sisters in Christ. In Rediscover Church, Collin Hansen and Jonathan Leeman discuss why church is essential for believers and God’s mission. Through biblical references and personal stories, they show readers God’s true intention for corporate gathering: to spiritually strengthen members as individuals and the body of Christ. In an age of church-shopping and livestreamed services, rediscover why the future of the church relies on believers gathering regularly as the family of God. Published in partnership with the Gospel Coalition and 9Marks.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000451682
Size: 19.17 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2021-09-23
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Christological Paradigm Shifts In Prophetic Pentecostalism In South Africa eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book explores recent developments in South African Pentecostalism, focusing on new prophetic churches. The chapters engage with a number of paradigm shifts in Christology, identified as complementing Christ, competing with Christ, removing Christ and replacing Christ. What are the implications of these shifts? Does it mean that believers no longer believe in Christ but in their leaders? Does it shift believers’ faith towards materiality than the person of Christ? This volume will be valuable for scholars of African Christianity and in particular those interested in the neo-prophetic movement and Christology in a South African context.

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Book Detail:
Author: Philip Gulley
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061968226
Size: 26.66 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2010-02-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF If The Church Were Christian eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “[Philip Gulley’s] vision of Christianity is grounded, gripping, and filled with uncommon sense. He is building bridges instead of boundaries, and such wisdom is surely needed now.” —Richard Rohr, O.F.M, author of Everything Belongs Quaker minister Philip Gulley, author of If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, returns with If the Church Were Christian: a challenging and thought-provoking examination of the author’s vision for today’s church… if Christians truly followed the core values of Jesus Christ. Fans of Shane Claiborne, Rob Bell, and unChristian will find much to discuss in If the Church Were Christian, as will anyone interested in the future of this institution.

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Book Detail:
Author: Neb Hayden
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 9781434767004
Size: 29.89 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2009-06
Category: Bible
Language: en
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Download PDF When The Good News Gets Even Better eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This unique Bible study allows readers to experience the gospels as they were originally intended by providing vital insights into Jewish culture, customs, and perspectives. Readers will gain a fresh and thoroughly relevant context to the life of Christ while they see and feel the places, the people, and the emotions as they experience the gospels in a fresh new way. Using a three-month format, this study combines all four gospels into one comprehensive and chronological narrative, allowing readers to focus on the overall themes and truths as they occurred. This remarkable guide allows readers to truly experience the gospels as never before as observers, readers, and witnesses to those miraculous events and times.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Hamilton
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1501801325
Size: 17.89 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2014-09-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
View: 385
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Download PDF Making Sense Of The Bible Leader Guide eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this six week video study, Adam Hamilton explores the key points in his new book, Making Sense of the Bible. With the help of this Leader Guide, groups learn from Hamilton as his video presentations lead groups through the book, focusing on the most important questions we ask about the Bible, its origins and meaning.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303069724X
Size: 53.20 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2021-02-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Pentecostalism And Cultism In South Africa eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Pentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity. However, the growth of Pentecostalism in South Africa has faced some challenges, including the abuse of religion by some prophets. This book first names these prophets and the churches they lead in South Africa, and then makes use of literary and media analysis to analyse the religious practices by the prophets in relation to cultism. Additionally, the book analyses the “celebrity cult” and how it helps promote the prophets in South Africa. The purpose of this book is threefold: First, to draw parallels between the abuse of religion and cultism. Second, to illustrate that it is cultic tendencies, including the celebrity cult, that has given rise to many prophets in South Africa. Last, to showcase that the challenge for many of these prophets is that the Pentecostal tradition is actually anti-cultism, and thus there is a need for them to rethink their cultic tendencies in order for them to be truly relevant in a South African context.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ian Epperson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781449065812
Size: 60.13 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2010-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Love Songs For The Apocalypse eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Everyone thinks about what it would be like to lose everything-to be poor, homeless, destitute. After leaving a drug-addicted lifestyle, author Ian Epperson felt a radical call to become poor, and he followed the voice of God into the hard-edged community of Lexington's near-north side. Love Songs For The Apocalypse is a journey from middle class suburbs to the dark and forgotten places of the world. This is a story of rediscovering Jesus in the midst of the most vulnerable people in our society. It's a story or hope where hope was lost, dead ends becoming starting points and rebirth from the wreckage of the American Dream.

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Book Detail:
Author: N. T. Wright
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830899138
Size: 68.58 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2015-02-26
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Challenge Of Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. With an all-new introduction by the author, N. T. Wright's classic work helps us grow in our understanding of the historical Jesus within first-century Palestine while challenging us to follow Jesus more faithfully into the postmodern world of the twenty-first century.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jack Finegan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 34.46 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1952
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Rediscovering Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Diana Butler Bass
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062659561
Size: 53.78 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2021-03-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Freeing Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The award-winning author of Grateful goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on the comprehensive, multi-faceted nature of Jesus, keeping his teachings relevant and alive in our daily lives. How can you still be a Christian? This is the most common question Diana Butler Bass is asked today. It is a question that many believers ponder as they wrestle with disappointment and disillusionment in their church and its leadership. But while many Christians have left their churches, they cannot leave their faith behind. In Freeing Jesus, Bass challenges the idea that Jesus can only be understood in static, one-dimensional ways and asks us to instead consider a life where Jesus grows with us and helps us through life’s challenges in several capacities: as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence. Freeing Jesus is an invitation to leave the religious wars behind and rediscover Jesus in all his many manifestations, to experience Jesus beyond the narrow confines we have built around him. It renews our hope in faith and worship at a time when we need it most.

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Book Detail:
Author: Brian Zahnd
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514003341
Size: 49.54 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-11-09
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF When Everything S On Fire eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is it possible to hold on to faith in an age of unbelief? Written with personal and pastoral experience, Brian Zahnd extends an invitation to move beyond the crisis of faith toward the journey of reconstruction. As the world rapidly changes in ways that feel incompatible with Christianity, this book provides much-needed hope that a stronger, more confident faith is possible.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ed Silvoso
Publisher: Chosen Books
ISBN: 1493411667
Size: 55.65 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-05-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Ekklesia eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dynamic New Teaching from Bestselling Author Ed Silvoso The word church has many connotations; we think of it as a specific building, as a group of people, even as a long service to sit through. We hardly ever think of it as world-changing--and neither does society. Yet this is exactly what the first-century ekklesia was. In these vital, eye-opening pages, bestselling author Ed Silvoso takes you back to the first days of the church. Digging into Scripture, he shows how the New Testament church--devoid of buildings, professional clergy, and religious freedom--was able to transform the hostile, pagan places into which it was born and set in motion a process that changed the world forever. Even more, Silvoso offers a roadmap back to becoming the ekklesia Jesus called his church to be. In the midst of the social, economic, political, and moral chaos in our world today, we possess the hope that people and nations so desperately need--and we can become the revolutionary, transformational, life-giving voice Jesus called us to be. A new, in-depth curriculum kit--which features a DVD with 12 brand-new teaching sessions, a group guide for both leaders and participants, and a copy of the book--is also available. Expounding on the book's dynamic teachings, each kit contains everything you need to equip your group to transform the world around them.

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Book Detail:
Author: Maurice Halbwachs
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677449X
Size: 47.23 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2020-05-21
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF On Collective Memory eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge. Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always selective; various groups of people have different collective memories, which in turn give rise to different modes of behavior. Halbwachs shows, for example, how pilgrims to the Holy Land over the centuries evoked very different images of the events of Jesus' life; how wealthy old families in France have a memory of the past that diverges sharply from that of the nouveaux riches; and how working class construction of reality differ from those of their middle-class counterparts. With a detailed introduction by Lewis A. Coser, this translation will be an indispensable source for new research in historical sociology and cultural memory. Lewis A. Coser is Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Boston College.

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Book Detail:
Author: Obery M. Hendricks Jr
Publisher: Three Leaves
ISBN: 0385516657
Size: 60.45 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2007-08-21
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Politics Of Jesus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Who was Jesus? And how was this first-century political revolutionary, whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom, turned into a meek and mild servant of the status quo? How is it possible to profess a belief in Jesus, yet ignore the suffering of the poor and the needy? Just how truly faithful to the vision of Jesus are the many politicians who claim to be Christian? These are the kinds of questions Obery Hendricks, a biblical scholar, activist, and minister, asks in this provocative new book. In this day and age of heated political debate, Hendricks’s The Politics of Jesus stands out as much for its brilliant re-creation of the life and mind of Jesus of Nazareth as for its scathing critique of modern politicians “of faith.”

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Size: 54.28 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1924
Category: Theology
Language: en
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Download PDF The Christian Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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