Growing up fundamentalist and female-and maturing into a feminist By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn't he? She went to his house three times a week, sat in his living room, listened to his stories, loudly and lustily sang songs to him. So, one Sunday morning, she walked to the front of her fundamentalist Christian church to profess her love for Jesus and to be baptized. But from the moment her robe floated to the surface of the baptistery water, she began to question her fundamentalist Christian faith. If baptism requires complete immersion underwater, what does it mean, she wondered, if a piece of fabric attached to a would-be Christian floats to the top? Does the baptism still count? In this lovingly told tale, Susan Campbell takes us into the world of fundamentalism-a world where the details really, really matter. And she shows us what happened when she finally came to admit that in her faith, women would never be allowed a seat at the throne.
It is possible to find true love through dating. In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to "kiss dating goodbye" but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through powerful, real-life stories and Fileta's personal journey, this book offers profound insights from the expertise of a professional counselor. Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They're bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end, offer little real relationship help. True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by providing a guide into vital relationship essentials. Debra is a professional Christian counselor who reaches millions with her popular blog, Truelovedates.com, and her book offers sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. She delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued the search for true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.
" And it shall be in, in the day," Says the Lord, "That you will call Me My Husband, And no longer call Me My Master," - Hosea 2:16 (NKJV). Dates With Jesus: Allowing God To Be Your Restorer is a book that was sent by God. Sexual Immorality is a deadly issue that has swept across the nation. It is the gate keeper to toxic relationships, environments, and ideologies. My prayer for you, is that God delivers you from false ideologies of love and void fillers. I pray that you surrender all and that you will seek God's face continually. I pray that you abound in love as it reads in Philippians 1:9. "And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment." (NKJV) Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, as it reads in Hebrews 12:2, "looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." (NKJV) As Christians we must allow Him to be the author and finisher of faith. Also, we must allow Him to be the author and finisher of every portion of our life. This includes love, sin, deliverance, and ideologies that are not of God. It is time to be free from sexual immorality. It is time to be delivered. It is time to Date Jesus and Allow Him To Be Your Restorer.
Life Is Never Mainly About Love and Marriage. So Learn to Live and Date for More. Many of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock God's purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you "the one," but about inspiring you to live and date for more now. If you follow Jesus, the search for a spouse is no longer a pursuit of the perfect person, but a pursuit of more of God. He will likely write a love story for you different than the one you would write for yourself, but that's because he loves you and knows how to write a better story. This book was written to help you find real hope, happiness, and purpose in your not-yet-married life.
Spirit and Sacrament by pastor and author Andrew Wilson is an impassioned call to join together two traditions that are frequently and unnecessarily kept separate. It is an invitation to pursue the best of both worlds in worship, the Eucharistic and the charismatic, with the grace of God at the center. Wilson envisions church services in which healing testimonies and prayers of confession coexist, the congregation sings When I Survey the Wondrous Cross followed by Happy Day, and creeds move the soul while singing moves the body. He imagines a worship service that could come out of the book of Acts: Young men see visions, old men dream dreams, sons and daughters prophesy, and they all come together to the same Table and go on their way rejoicing. In short, Spirit and Sacrament is an appeal to bring out of the church's storehouse all of its treasures, so that God's people can worship our unrivaled Savior with sacraments and spiritual gifts, raised hands and lowered faces.
Reclaiming our common hope. Too often discussions about the End Times are fraught with wild speculation or discord. But a biblical view of eschatology places Jesus' return and victory at the center. All Christians hold this hope in common. In Jesus Wins, Dayton Hartman focuses on this common ground to reveal why the way we think about the End Times matters. Christian eschatology should be rooted in biblical orthodoxy to inspire hope and greater faithfulness in the present age. That's the point of eschatology after all! Drawing from his own ministry experience, Hartman testifies to the unifying power of Jesus' victory.
This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed twenty to thirty years earlier than is typically supposed by contemporary biblical scholars. What emerges is a revised view of how quickly early Christians produced what became the seminal texts for their new movement.
At Last! The answers to your prayers for love and romance: “Dating with Jesus” daily devotional provides you with 365 tells all dating tips for men for every day of the year on how to meet, date, and attract women, 145 must-have Bible verses to help you with every problem you will ever have in dating, 50 powerful and effective prayers to help you find love, and 179 spiritual comments to truly transform the way you think, talk and behave around women to help you get more dates, become more self-confident with women, improve your dating skills and relationships, and bring more love and romance into your life than you ever imagined possible. Here’s Just a Sampling of What You Will Learn: - To understand a woman’s wants, needs, desires, and motivations. And when you do you will be able to relate to them on their level in a way that will have them falling madly in love with you and craving to be with you. - Dating mistakes men make with women that cause them to be a loser in the game of love and how to correct them. - Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions show you exactly what to say and do in every situation so you don't have to spend any more lonely nights alone while all the other guys get all the action with women. - Confidence-building techniques that are guaranteed to help you overcome your shyness. - How to overcome your fear of trying to approach and meet women that you are attracted to. - Are you tongue-tied and don’t know what to say when trying to meet sexy women? Never let that happen again when you learn and use my perfect pick-up lines. Use them anytime, anywhere, in any situation with incredible results! - And now for the first time I will reveal my closely guarded secrets on how to successfully pick up beautiful, sexy women. Nothing, absolutely nothing has been left out! - A salvation prayer to make Jesus your Lord and Savior to get saved and have eternal life. The same God that created the universe lives inside of you. This gives you so much power to do anything you want and this includes the power to meet, date, and attract any woman you desire. The author teaches you how to take advantage of all this power given to you. This Book Covers Everything You Need to Know About Dating Women. It Includes: - Tested foolproof methods to get any woman you desire. (Your buddies will shake their heads in amazement on how you’re able to do this so consistently). - What signals women give to men to let them know they have the hots for you and how to take advantage of them. - What to do and say on your first date that will make you irresistible to women. - Step-by-step method on how to flirt with women. This method is so powerful that she will be dying to meet you instantly! - How to ask for a date that gets a “yes.” - How to recognize a woman that is not interested in you and just wasting your time and money. - What to say when making that first phone call to a woman you have just met to make her yearn with desire to be with you. - It’s time for you to experience and enjoy the dating life God created you to live and this book will help you get there. - All other books tell you what a woman wants from the man she loves. This book tells you how to be the man she loves. - And much, much more. Free Bonus! 100 Places to Take a Date – Learn about the 100 surefire places to take a date that are guaranteed to win a woman’s heart and make her crave to be with you again and again. Just think about it...No more winding up night after lonely night feeling all frustrated, lonely, and depressed. That's all gone when you use the surefire methods and proven techniques that work in in this relationship book for men that will have you meeting and attracting the kind of beautiful women you've only dreamed about. So, do you want to learn how to use the power of Jesus Christ to improve your dating life? Then buy it now!
"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
