Redeeming Power
Redeeming Power

Author: Diane Langberg

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1493427563

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Power has a God-given role in human relationships and institutions, but it can lead to abuse when used in unhealthy ways. Speaking into current #MeToo and #ChurchToo conversations, this book shows that the body of Christ desperately needs to understand the forms power takes, how it is abused, and how to respond to abuses of power. Although many Christians want to prevent abuse in their churches and organizations, they lack a deep and clear-eyed understanding of how power actually works. Internationally recognized psychologist Diane Langberg offers a clinical and theological framework for understanding how power operates, the effects of the abuse of power, and how power can be redeemed and restored to its proper God-given place in relationships and institutions. This book not only helps Christian leaders identify and resist abusive systems but also shows how they can use power to protect the vulnerable in their midst.

Sanctuary Light
Sanctuary Light

Author: Nicole Parker

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781981289332

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Discover how the Sanctuary was designed to free God's people from fear, perfectionism, guilt and shame, filling our hearts instead with perpetual peace.Experience the Sanctuary in the wilderness camp through the eyes of Asher and Zara, Israelite children. Their family has just escaped from Egypt, and they are discovering how different the loving God of Israel is from the gods the Egyptians worshiped. As they contemplate the Sanctuary services, they grow to love the God of their fathers.This book answers questions like these: Did people have to sacrifice a lamb every time they said an angry word? Why would a loving God require sacrificing so many innocent animals? Was the God of the Old Testament angry and bloodthirsty, or filled with lovingkindness, just like Jesus in the New Testament? How did the Day of Atonement give Israelites joyful, confident assurance of salvation, even as it acknowledged that they were not yet perfect? This book answers these and many other questions, revealing the glory and relevance of the beautiful Sanctuary message for sinners today.Be astounded at the beauty and depth of God's love unveiled in the emotional, sensory experience the Sanctuary was designed to be. Discover the constant assurance of salvation God wanted His children to enjoy every day, through the simple illustrations of its services.Written as a story so simple a young child can understand, but exploring the unfathomable depth of themes of guilt, grace, forgiveness, faith, atonement and love, this book will delight the whole family. It includes optional discussion questions at the end of each chapter, making it ideal for family worships, homeschooling, Bible classes, and much more.Glimpse "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" as you have never known Him before. You vision of God's love unveiled in the Sanctuary will be transformed forever.

Redeeming Love: The Companion Study
Redeeming Love: The Companion Study

Author: Francine Rivers

Publisher: Multnomah

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0525654364

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Venture deeper into the heart of the classic bestselling novel Redeeming Love with this six-week study and discover life-changing Bible truths. Through Redeeming Love, millions of readers have experienced the captivating love story of Angel and Michael Hosea that illustrates God’s power to redeem even the most lost among us. Redeeming Love: The Companion Study invites you to enter more fully into both the classic novel’s eternal message and the biblical story that inspired its writing. Each week’s readings include: • a personal reflection by Francine Rivers about the writing of Redeeming Love and the power of God’s Word • key scenes from Redeeming Love, selected to illustrate God’s loving pursuit of you • Bible study lessons that creatively blend story and Scripture to glean fresh insights • thoughtful reflection questions designed to inspire you to a deeper experience of God Perfect for both individual reflection and group discussion, this study will draw you deeper into the life-transforming love celebrated in Redeeming Love.

The Book of Lights I
The Book of Lights I

Author: John A. Parry

Publisher: P & P Pub

Published: 2005-03-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780974574004

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The Book of Lights Unveiling the Mystery of God opens the portal to life's deepest and previously undiclosed spiritual secrets. It challenges the mind to share in the knowledge that only mystics, adepts, and wise men have attained throughout the Ages. This treasure-trove of hidden knowledge takes the reader step by step into the World of the Infinite. Although the Bible is utilized to provide a base for conveying this revelatory knowledge, The Book of Lights Unveiling the Mystery of God is not secular. Clerics of all persuasions will find its presentations invaluable in their ministries. It is a work that personalizes the Bible's content and provides the reader with the Creator's eternal truths. By spiritually joining the mind to the Word on Scripture's printed page, the reader obtains the intangible understanding that the author desired to convey. The Book of Lights Unveiling the Mystery of God is a work that opens the mind to those truths the reader has longed to understand and will forever cherish. Bible study groups will find their understanding of Scripture's Word progressively enhanced when they correlate the translations offered herein with the words of Jesus, Moses and all the prophets. Those who quietly spend time reflecting upon the translations of this book will find a source of peace and spiritual inspiration unlike any they have ever known. The Book of Lights is, indeed, the "Book of Life", and all who identify with its revelations shall find their name written therein. Book jacket.

Through the Eyes of Titans: Finding Courage to Redeem the Soul of a Nation
Through the Eyes of Titans: Finding Courage to Redeem the Soul of a Nation

Author: Danjuma G. Gibson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-01-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1725284235

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Human beings tend to romanticize history or idealize historical figures. This is nowhere more apparent than the civil rights era of the twentieth century. The problem is that when we idealize history, we fail to learn from it. The result is that history repeats itself along with its sins and atrocities. The January 6 Capitol insurrection and the current racial reckoning we are experiencing is unoriginal to the American experience. We have been here before. This book seeks to humanize people we have idealized. Readers are invited to challenge racial hatred and injustice in their own context by looking to the lives of historical figures who have faced the challenges we currently face. By examining the self-care practices of personalities like Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Benjamin Elijah Mays, and Martin Luther King Jr., this book examines the practices of introspection and self-work these historical figures engaged in that enabled them to fulfill the body of work they are celebrated for today. By humanizing these historical titans, we can emulate similar practices of self-care and introspection in our own lives that can equip us in continuing the ongoing work of dismantling structures of racial hatred and oppression, and promoting freedom, love, equity, and justice to redeem the soul of a nation.

Christian Faith (Two-Volume Set)
Christian Faith (Two-Volume Set)

Author: Friedrich Schleiermacher

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 1178

ISBN-13: 1611646758

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Christian Faith is one of the most important works of Christian theology ever written. The author, known as the "father of theological liberalism," correlates the entirety of Christian doctrine to the human experience of and consciousness of God. A work of exhaustive scholarship written in deep sympathy with the ministry of congregations and church bodies, Christian Faith has inspired admiration and debate from all quarters of the Christian family since its first publication in 1821. This is the first full translation of Schleiermacher's Christian Faith since 1928 and the first English-language critical edition ever. Edited by top Schleiermacher scholars, this edition includes extensive notes that detail changes Schleiermacher made to the text and explain references that may be unfamiliar to contemporary readers. Employing shorter sentences and more careful tracking of vocabulary, the editors have crafted a translation that is significantly easier to read and follow. Anyone who wishes to understand theology in the modern period will find this an indispensable resource.

Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels, 1929-1937
Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels, 1929-1937

Author: Grant F. Scott

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-05-30

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1000588017

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This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905–1985), who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study examines his six pictorial novels, each part of an evolving experiment in a new form of visual narrative that offers a keen intervention in the cultural and sexual politics of the 1930s. The novels form a discrete group – much like Beethoven’s piano sonatas or Keats’s great odes – in which Ward evolves a unique modernist style (cinematic, expressionist, futurist, realist, documentary) and grapples with significant cultural and political ideas in a moment when the American experiment and capitalism itself hung in the balance. In testing the limits of a new narrative form, Ward’s novels require a versatile critical framework as sensitive to German Expressionism and Weimar cinema as to labor politics and the new energies of proletarian homosexuality.