Rightside-Up Living in an Upside-Down World
Rightside-Up Living in an Upside-Down World

Author: David Gibson

Publisher: 21st Century Christian, Incorporated

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780890989135

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When Paul and Silas taught the gospel in Thessalonica, they were accused of having "turned the world upside down" (Acts 17:6, KJV). In reality, sin has turned our world upside down, and only the power of the gospel can turn it right-side up again. As Christians, we are constantly faced with teachings, policies, and behaviors that clearly contradict God's Word; even from within the church. Through spiritual training and discernment, we recognize that God has it right, and the world is subverting the message. David Gibson skillfully stacks the upside-down lies of the world against God's truth for us to examine. His conclusions provide us with the solid ground needed for building a right-side up life in Christ.

Living Right Side Up in an Upside Down World
Living Right Side Up in an Upside Down World

Author: Patti Miller Dunham

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2013-07-31

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1628391146

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In your need, discover God as a Friend. In your weakness, discover God’s Strength and Power. In your loneliness, discover God as your Companion. In your pain, discover God as your Comforter. In your confusion, discover God as your Stability and Truth. In your loss, discover God’s intimate Love. In your feelings of unworthiness, feel God’s complete Acceptance. In your fear and devastation, discover God’s Comfort and Security. In your feelings of shame, discover God’s Forgiveness. Take God’s hand in yours as you read these powerful, inspiring, heart touching pages. You will never be the same again.

Right-Side-Up in an Upside-Down World
Right-Side-Up in an Upside-Down World

Author: Kathe S. Rumsey

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1973687682

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Although hopelessness surfaces from every area of our world, governments and their leaders would have you believe they are adept at crisis management. They would have you think they possess the ability to get everything under control, solve the world’s problems and manage chaos. However, the evidence of their failure expands. Everything around the globe is shifting positions, dismantling law and order. Anyone can search the daily news and see for themselves mankind’s foolishness. Our sin is not hidden. The church must wake up, repent and use the spiritual authority Jesus Christ invested to believers (Matthew 28:18-20). Right-Side-Up in an Upside-Down World imparts practical wisdom and offers hope through God’s Word. This daily journal will help the reader use their God-given authority in their daily lives. This work stresses the importance of seeking the Word of God and prayer in every situation. Christians can view the world’s calamities with the peace of God that is beyond understanding. Anxiety will not overcome us nor have place in our lives if we seek God and His wisdom in prayer (Philippians 4:6-7). We live in uncertain times. Right-Side-Up supplies insight from God’s Word to direct us through the dark maze the world creates. Without true light, mankind will continue to stumble and fail. As believers, our hope springs from our assurance that nothing takes God by surprise (Romans 8:28). We know He is in control of all things. God ordains individuals in leadership roles for good or for bad to accomplish His plan (2 Chronicles 7:14; 1 Timothy 2:1-4). Nothing happens without His knowledge. In a world inundated with information and change, only the Bible, the inerrant Word of God, contains God’s wisdom that can offer mankind true hope for a better tomorrow (Colossians 2:2-3).

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way
It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

Author: Lysa TerKeurst

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0718039866

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New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances and shows readers how to live assured when life doesn't turn out like they expected. What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention hurtful, and His promises doubtful? Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a moment, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned, and we quietly start to wonder about the reality of God’s goodness. Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But she's also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa invites us into her own journey of faith and, with grit, vulnerability, and honest humor, helps us to: Stop being pulled into the anxiety of disappointment by discovering how to better process unmet expectations and other painful situations. Train ourselves to recognize the three strategies of the enemy so we can stand strong and persevere through unsettling relationships and uncertain outcomes. Discover the secret of being steadfast and not panicking when God actually does give us more than we can handle. Shift our suspicion that God is cruel or unfair to the biblical assurance that God is protecting and preparing us. Know how to encourage a friend and help her navigate hard realities with real help from God's truth.

The World Turned Upside Down
The World Turned Upside Down

Author: Michael S. Heiser

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 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.

Killing Us Softly
Killing Us Softly

Author: Efrem Smith

Publisher: NavPress

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 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.

Upside-Down Spirituality
Upside-Down Spirituality

Author: Chad Bird

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 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.

World Upside Down
World Upside Down

Author: C. Kavin Rowe

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-02-10

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 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.