Is it really possible to look out at everything in front of us, all the visuals, images and word pictures, in fact, all of creation, and still miss the main point? Are we missing what God is shouting out to us to see? Are we missing so much of a perfectly designed universe, filled with multitudes of pictures and images right before us, as we hurry through life? Herein lies a much deeper discovery of how much God has laid before us, in declaring who He is, what He is doing through His perfect creation, through His own figurative language, and through an unlimited amount of visual images specifically revealing a God who wants to be known ... and how we are to respond to it all!
Artist and screen writer Brian Godawa used to revel in his ability to argue the truth of the gospel, often crushing his opponents in the process. In time, however, he began to realize that winning an argument about the logic of Christianity did not equal persuading people to follow Jesus. What was missing? Through prayer and searching the Scriptures, Godawa realized that while God cares deeply for rationality, propositional truths were not the only, or even the primary, tools he used to reach people with his Truth. In fact, Godawa discovered that story, metaphor and imagery were central to God's communication style because they could go places reason could never go: into the heart. In his refreshing and challenging book, Godawa helps you break free from the spiritual suffocation of heady faith. Without negating the importance of reason and doctrine, Godawa challenges you to move from understanding the Bible "literally" to "literarily" by exploring the poetry, parables and metaphors found in God's Word. Weaving historical insight, pop culture and personal narrative throughout, Godawa reveals the importance God places on imagination and creativity in the Scriptures, and provides a biblical foundation for Christians to pursue image, beauty, wonder and mystery in their faith. For any Christian who wants to learn how to communicate and defend the Gospel in a postmodern context, this book will help you find a path between the two extremes of intellectualized faith and anti-intellectual faith by recovering a biblical balance between intellect and imagination.
ccording to Scripture, humankind was created in the image of God. Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God's image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis. Suitable for seminary-level anthropology courses, yet accessible to educated laypeople. Extensive bibliography, fully indexed.
This is a book about questions that most people have about things that are being taught them in todays churches. Things about the world age, where did all the races come from, when were all the races created, when was Adam and Eve created and why, did we ever live before in another earth age, and other questions. This book tries to answer these questions.
Finally, a FORMULA FOR HEALING, perfect health and the immortality of your existing body is, the result of DIVINE KNOWLEDGE, revealed in a unified and coherent format via Theta Consciousness Healing. Almost everything we have been taught from our parents, religions and governments is inherently incorrect and has caused us to be ignorant of our inherent, Divine perfection! This TEMPLATE OF PERFECTION extends through all levels of creation, from subatomic particles to ourselves and beyond and that enables us to experience perfect HEALTH, ABUNDANCE and UNLIMITED KNOWLEDGE! It will be demonstrated throughout this book that OUR ESSENCE is PURE, DIVINE ENERGY----God! This text reveals a system to reprogram our brain-computer /mind/consciousness to RECLAIM OUR DIVINE BIRTHRIGHT, and manifest the things we need and deserve in our lives. Ancient texts and modern physics are used to prove the validity of these concepts----not just mere human opinion.
Today our multi-cultural society forces Christians to be aware of those with other, equally strong religious convictions. In this challenging and popular book, Martin Goldsmith answers all the hard questions facing Christians in this area, drawing on both biblical material and his own expertise as someone with wide cross-cultural experience. A brief explanation of other religions' concept of God, revelation and salvation is included, and the question of whether it is right to evangelise those of other faiths is tackled, along with a look at practical methods that can be used. A brand new chapter asks 'Why is Jesus so special?' when each of the world religions have central figure to worship.
