Glimpsing Resurrection
Glimpsing Resurrection

Author: Deanna Thompson

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1611648823

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In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who care for and minister to them deepen their understanding of how best to offer support. “The tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating those for whom healing and new life seem out of reach,†says Thompson. Glimpsing Resurrection focuses less on the “why†to help readers instead come to terms with the “how†of living with a serious disease. In particular, Thompson provides a framework and concrete suggestions for how to be a church where those who are undone by illness can be undone, as well as a place that can love and support them to hope.

Glimpsing the Future
Glimpsing the Future

Author: Murray J. Harris

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13:

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What happened when Jesus, Peter, and Paul had firsthand encounters with death? Should we welcome death as a friend or fear it as an enemy? Is there any satisfactory answer to all the powerful objections to the reality of Jesus’ resurrection? What is Paul’s view of the resurrection body? Are all humans immortal or is this a privilege reserved for the few? Who wins in the Plato-versus-Paul debate about immortality? How should we view eternity and Hades? What happens to atheists when they die? And apart from guesswork, what is the real nature of heaven? All these crucial questions and many more are addressed in this concise and comprehensive treatment of the New Testament’s answers.

A Glimpse of the Christ
A Glimpse of the Christ

Author: Richard J. "Dick" Hill

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2016-02-18

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1512729744

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The extreme value of what the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished while on earth is based on His true identity. He asked His disciples the piercing question: “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” His identity continues to be questioned today. The non-Christian community and church members alike struggle to know. Either Jesus Christ is God revealed in human flesh or He is not! This is the very issue that divides the entire human race. Evil powers continue to mount a steady assault upon the character of Christ. To disgrace His character is to destroy the effect of His work on the cross.

The Place of Story and the Story of Place
The Place of Story and the Story of Place

Author: Ernst M. Conradie

Publisher: AOSIS

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1779953070

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This third volume of the series on “An Earthed Faith” focuses on creation theology. The ten invited essays address the following core question: “What difference does it make to the story of cosmic, planetary, human and cultural evolution to re-describe this as the creative work of God’s love?” Inversely, what difference does it make to the story of God’s love to describe it in evolutionary and geographic terms? Addressing this question requires theological reflection on place (land, geography and landscape) and on evolution (cosmic, biological, hominid and human) as the story of such place. This entails a narrative reconstruction of the story where current interests, positions of power and fears are necessarily at stake (the place where the story is being told), often dominated by issues of race rather than by grace. How, then, is this story to be told, given such a sense of place? This volume will entail a highly constructive effort to address the classic tasks associated with creation theology at the cutting edge of contemporary ecotheology.

Neighbor Love Through Fearful Days: Finding Purpose and Meaning in a Tim
Neighbor Love Through Fearful Days: Finding Purpose and Meaning in a Tim

Author: Jason A. Mahn

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1506479472

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Neighbor Love through Fearful Days is a reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic, the accompanying economic collapse, a summer of climate chaos, and the pandemic of white supremacy, as well as on the calling to ""serve thy neighbor"" and work toward the common good. Jason A. Mahn's real-time reflections take on the reality of life during these pandemics alongside perennial questions about purpose, faith, and vocation

Dust in the Blood
Dust in the Blood

Author: Jessica Coblentz

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2022-01-15

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0814685277

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2023 College Theology Society Best Book Award 2023 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Theology – Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption 2023 Association of Catholic Publishers Second Place Award, Theology Dust in the Blood considers the harrowing realities of life with depression from a Christian theological perspective. In conversation with popular Christian theologies of depression that justify why this suffering exists and prescribe how people ought to relate to it, Jessica Coblentz offers another Christian approach to this condition: she reflects on depression as a wilderness experience. Weaving first-person narratives of depression, contemporary theologies of suffering, and ancient biblical tales of the wilderness, especially the story of Hagar, Coblentz argues for and contributes to an expansion of Christian ideas about what depression is, how God relates to it, and how Christians should understand and respond to depression in turn.

Suffering Well and Suffering With
Suffering Well and Suffering With

Author: Aimee Patterson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1666765457

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We live in a society that has little tolerance for suffering. Suffering is not only unpleasant. Profound, innocent suffering can upend our sense of identity. Yet, we push suffering people to the periphery to avoid an uncomfortable truth: We are all subject to suffering. In a time when Christian churches suffer the loss of authority, influence, and membership, Patterson challenges the idea that we need such power to live on earth as in heaven. Only God can transform suffering into joy. Drawing on her experience with cancer, Patterson claims Christians hold certain responsibilities while we wait for this transformation. Revisiting the story of Job, she confronts the problem of suffering and what it takes to suffer well. This sets the scene for what a fleshy, wounded Jesus Christ calls us to do: use suffering to build compassionate relationships with others who suffer.

A Glimpse of the Coming King
A Glimpse of the Coming King

Author: Richard J. Hill

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1973626713

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In A Glimpse of the Coming King, author Richard J. “Dick” Hill explores what the Word of God teaches about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. He invites believers to consider many biblical passages that predicted Christ’s first coming and then those that describe His second coming. The Bible student can look to the prophetic words of the Bible and get a glimpse of our coming King and reflect on how He will return–triumphant and victorious, ushering in a new epoch on this earth. This will be the time when the King of this entire universe, the Lord Jesus Christ, will return to this earth and be crowned King over all His created order. This small planet, so seemingly unimportant, will become the center of God’s amazing plan for this universe. By preparing spiritually now and studying the prophetic Word of God, we will treasure this magnificent kingdom and delight in the coming days of the King.

A Glimpse of the New Genesis
A Glimpse of the New Genesis

Author: Richard J. "Dick" Hill

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2023-04-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1664296069

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Most people approach the study of prophecy from the aspect of “when.” But what needs to guide our study is what Jesus had to say about His Second Coming. He gave two signs of His return—“the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel” and “as the days of Noah were so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.” In this book Richard J. “Dick” Hill, who has spent a lifetime in Christian ministry, explores how regeneration allows someone to be born into God’s kingdom. He observes that the seed of the gospel is absolutely necessary for new life (new genesis). The author notes that not only are we born into the kingdom, but we are baptized into the King by the Holy Spirit at the same moment. The church is within the kingdom of God, but the church is not the kingdom of God. God has brought Jew and Gentile together into one new man, the church. This mystery that was revealed by the apostle Paul was never mentioned in the Old Testament. God’s church will be snatched away in the fullness of time, and the dispensation of God’s grace for the Gentiles will be complete.

The End of the Christian Life
The End of the Christian Life

Author: J. Todd Billings

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1493427547

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We're all going to die. Yet in our medically advanced, technological age, many of us see death as a distant reality--something that happens only at the end of a long life or to other people. In The End of the Christian Life, Todd Billings urges Christians to resist that view. Instead, he calls us to embrace our mortality in our daily life and faith. This is the journey of genuine discipleship, Billings says: following the crucified and resurrected Lord in a world of distraction and false hopes. Drawing on his experience as a professor and father living with incurable cancer, Billings offers a personal yet deeply theological account of the gospel's expansive hope for small, mortal creatures. Artfully weaving rich theology with powerful narrative, Billings writes for church leaders and laypeople alike. Whether we are young or old, reeling from loss or clinging to our own prosperity, this book challenges us to walk a strange but wondrous path: in the midst of joy and lament, to receive mortal limits as a gift, an opportunity to give ourselves over to the Lord of life.