Ephesians
Ephesians

Author: Mark D. Roberts

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0310599121

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A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Each volume employs three main, easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story: LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story. EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting. LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students. —Ephesians— Like all of Paul's letters, Ephesians is centered in the gospel and its implications. It tells the story of what God has done in Christ and spells out the ethical implications of this story. But the letter to the Ephesians is unique among Paul's letters in many ways, including in how it tells of the story of God, beginning "before the creation of the world" and ending in eternity. Edited by Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III, and written by a number of top-notch theologians, The Story of God Bible Commentary series will bring relevant, balanced, and clear-minded theological insight to any biblical education or ministry.

NIV, Spiritual Renewal Study Bible
NIV, Spiritual Renewal Study Bible

Author: Stephen Arterburn

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2013-12-23

Total Pages: 3209

ISBN-13: 0310433665

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Experience New Growth and Transformation in Your Spiritual Walk Are you experiencing a hunger to know God more completely in your life? Do you long for a deeper connection with him? If so, then the NIV Spiritual Renewal Bible—the recipient of the 1999 ECPA Gold Medallion Award—is for you. Using a time-tested process honed over decades of counseling and teaching, Stephen Arterburn employs 7 core principles of spiritual renewal and refreshment, connecting you more closely with God’s Spirit through his Word and helping you to develop the deep, satisfying change you desire in your spiritual life. Features: • 66 book introductions focused on the thematic study and spiritual renewal aspects of each Bible book • Text notes highlight renewal themes as they emerge from the text of the Bible • Multi-feature character profiles assess how different personalities managed different challenges in their walk with God • Spiritual keys devotional reading plan: Two cycles (OT and NT) of 49 devotions each lead the reader through 7 keys of spiritual renewal with 7 devotions for each key • Spiritual disciplines essays that describe the various disciplines of the faith such as prayer, Scripture reading, and others • Spiritual disciplines profiles: one-page articles that describe how certain characters of the Bible employed the various Spiritual disciplines in their lives

A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal
A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal

Author: Steven M. Studebaker

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-26

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1137480165

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This book argues that Christians have a stake in the sustainability and success of core cultural values of the West in general and America in particular. Steven M. Studebaker considers Western and American decline from a theological and, specifically, Pentecostal perspective. The volume proposes and develops a Pentecostal political theology that can be used to address and reframe Christian political identity in the United States. Studebaker asserts that American Christians are currently not properly engaged in preventing America’s decline or halting the shifts in its core values. The problem, he suggests, is that American Christianity not only gives little thought to the state of the nation beyond a handful of moral issues like abortion, but its popular political theologies lead Christians to think of themselves more as aliens than as citizens. This book posits that the proposed Pentecostal political theology would help American Christians view themselves as citizens and better recognize their stake in the renewal of their nation. The foundation of this proposed political theology is a pneumatological narrative of renewal—a biblical narrative of the Spirit that begins with creation, proceeds through Incarnation and Pentecost, and culminates in the new creation and everlasting kingdom of God. This narrative provides the foundation for a political theology that speaks to the issues of Christian political identity and encourages Christian political participation.

Renewal Theology
Renewal Theology

Author: J. Rodman Williams

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 1473

ISBN-13: 0310873673

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Renewal Theology deals with the full range of Christian truth from within the charismatic tradition. Previously published as three separate volumes, Renewal Theology represents the first exhaustive, balanced articulation of charismatic theology. Renewal Theology discusses: Book One--God, the World, and Redemption - Book Two--Salvation, the Holy Spirit, and Christian Living - Book Three--The Church, the Kingdom, and Last Things. As theology, this work is an intellectual achievement. But it is much more than that. The author urges the church to undertake its task of theology in the proper spirit: - an attitude of prayer - a deepening sense of reverence - an ever-increasing purity of heart - a spirit of growing love - a theological approach rooted in the glory of God. Done in such a spirit, theology becomes a faithful and powerful witness to the living God.

Transforming Renewal
Transforming Renewal

Author: Andy Lord

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2015-01-12

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1625640544

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Pentecostal and charismatic renewal movements have seen great growth over the last century and have engaged with many Christian traditions. Yet there are signs that all is not well, and there is a need to develop theologies of renewal that engage with practice and across the traditions if the movements are to continue to grow. In particular, this book seeks an ecumenical engagement between David Watson and Thomas Merton, leaders in the charismatic and monastic renewal movements. The aim is to reflect on the theological roots of these renewal movements through a study of particular people who lived them in practice and sought to help others understand how the triune God was at work. This is done against the wider background of contemporary renewalist theology to develop constructive proposals for renewal theology in the future. Receptive ecumenism provides the method for bringing the different voices into conversation in ways that also point forward in approaches to ecumenical dialogue. It is thus a study relevant to those seeking new ways in theology, those involved in renewal and ecumenical movements, students of Thomas Merton, and all who seek to better understand the Christian renewal movements that have swept the world.

Dare to Dance: Tapping into Spiritual Renewal
Dare to Dance: Tapping into Spiritual Renewal

Author: M. Marva Allison

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-12-18

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1491825235

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IINCREDIBILY EXCITING! This is LIFE CHANGING. DO NOT DENY THAT THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX SOMETIMES PROVIDE AN ANTIDOTE FOR SUCCESSFUL CHANGE. Dare to Dance: Tapping into Spiritual Renewal is life affirming, inspiring and demonstrates a deeper way to grasp a fuller meaning of growing in spiritual reality. Choregraphying your life and accepting the trails of daily life begins your spiritual dance. Just like a spider spin its nightly web to connect for the following day, you become awestruck by how the mystery of having faith holds it all together. You learn how to recognize and accept your blessings.

The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Pneumatological Renewal
The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Pneumatological Renewal

Author: Jos Moons SJ

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9004498575

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This book applies a novel method of critical reading of Lumen Gentium and Mystici Corporis in combination with redaction-historical analysis to channel the Second Vatican Council’s modest attempts at pneumatological renewal into a more open and receptive faith practice and theology.

Spiritual Renewal
Spiritual Renewal

Author: Andrew Murray

Publisher: Whitaker House

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1641237244

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The great work of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ in our hearts and lives as the crucified one who dwells within us. Let this be the chief aim of all your devotion: complete dependence on God and an expectation of continually receiving all goodness and salvation from Him alone. —Andrew Murray To live a life of grace filled with God’s blessings, Christians must set aside time each day to read the Scriptures, spend time alone in prayer, and seek to draw closer to the Lord. In Spiritual Renewal: 90 Devotions for a Deeper Fellowship with God, Andrew Murray provides quiet reflections on the Bible that invite believers to enter into God’s presence and fellowship with Him daily. Murray shares his heartfelt teachings on: Fellowshipping with Christ on the cross The exceeding greatness of God’s power How temperance in all things brings us closer to the Lord The missionary messages of the apostles The role of the Holy Spirit in the church Through intimate hours spent with your Savior, you will experience the depths of God’s abiding presence, the joyful sense of peace that comes from fellowship with our heavenly Father, and the abundant life in Christ that is available to all who seek it.

Pentecostals and Charismatics in Latin America and Latino Communities
Pentecostals and Charismatics in Latin America and Latino Communities

Author: Néstor Medina

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1137550600

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Pentecostal-charismatics in Latin America and among Latinos: communities that share profound historical, linguistic and cultural roots. This compilation brings together practitioners and academics with pentecostal-charismatic affiliations, who analyse from within the development of the movement among these diverse communities.