Transforming Acts
Transforming Acts

Author: Bruce G. Epperly

Publisher: Energion Publications

Published: 2016-07-30

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1938434641

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In Healing Marks (Energion Publications, 2012), Dr. Bruce Epperly challenged Christians to take the healings of Jesus seriously as a pattern for how we can become healing communities. Now he turns to the book of Acts as a pattern for the church in the 21st century. He says, “I believe that Acts of the Apostles provides a fluid, open-spirited, and holistic faith for twenty-first century people as well as a vision for congregational transformation and renewal. Anything can happen to those who follow Jesus. Life is adventurous, surprising, and interesting. Worship leads to mission and mission challenges narrow-mindedness and self-imposed limitations. For those who embrace the spirit of Acts of the Apostles, worship will never be boring and every day will be a holy adventure.” This book is not just an exposition of the book of Acts. It is a call to action. But it is more than that. It draws from the lessons of the early church a plan of individual and communal action to live an adventurous life of faith and to change the world. Each chapter includes activities to help you apply the content to your life and mission. Labeled “Transforming Acts” these point to the transforming acts you can take in your personal or congregational life . Acts is a story of a small group of people who set out to do what appeared humanly impossible – change their world. In this book you are invited to become a part of that story, to attempt the humanly impossible, and to bring transformation and renewal to the church and to the entire world.

Sacred Acts, Holy Change
Sacred Acts, Holy Change

Author: Eric H F Law

Publisher: Chalice Press

Published: 2002-02-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780827234529

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Eric Law draws on his years of experience with congregations of all denominations to spell out processes for achieving genuine transformation in a congregation attempting to be multiculturally inclusive.

National Climate Change Acts
National Climate Change Acts

Author: Thomas L Muinzer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 150994172X

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This groundbreaking book collects contributions from many of the world's leading climate and energy law scholars and provides the first major study of national Climate Change Acts. This cutting-edge type of legislation originated with the first Climate Change Act framework which was passed in the United Kingdom in 2008, and is intended to enable the law to grapple effectively with one of the great problems of our times, anthropogenic climate change. Since 2008, national framework climate legislation has been slowly but steadily emerging in countries across the world. This trailblazing collection employs a comparative analytical legal methodology and offers the first comprehensive study of this new, innovative form of legislative regime. In addition to containing broad internationalist chapters, deep-dive national case study chapters are included that focus on individual countries and provide analytical depth. A final chapter draws together the threads of the book's foregoing contributions to deduce generalisable conceptual insights based on current knowledge and experience. Uniquely, the book provides a conceptual model for Climate Change Acts that can usefully inform the development of national framework climate legislation in all countries.

The Reading and Transformation of Isaiah in Luke-Acts
The Reading and Transformation of Isaiah in Luke-Acts

Author: Peter Mallen

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0567045668

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An investigation in to where, how and why Luke interacts with Isaiah; focusing on the importance of the servant motif for Luke, in supplying the job description for Jesus' messianic mission and that of his followers.

Sexual Citizenship and Social Change
Sexual Citizenship and Social Change

Author: Darren Langdridge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 019992631X

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"There has been enormous change in social and state acceptance regarding sex and sexualities over the last thirty years or so in the West, with an apparent new acceptance and openness towards diverse sexual practices and sexualities. Much of this change has come about through community claims for rights grounded in critical social theory and the language of citizenship. While accepting that much of this critique has been valuable in advancing rights for sexual minorities, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change raises the spectre that the mode of critique itself may now have become problematic. To this end, this book examines the use and abuse of critique in contemporary sexuality scholarship and associated activism and presents an argument that a new danger for contemporary sexual life emerges from an excess of critique. This implicates a particular form of critique that is detached, and unfettered, set loose from the usual anchor of tradition. What is most dangerous of all with this excess of unfettered critique is that it emerges from within minority sexual communities (and their allies), not from the usual conservative opposition to progressive change. Even the most ostensibly well-meaning critic - and associated critique - can become problematic when their arguments are detached from tradition. So, while recognising there is proven value in critique, it has limits, and we are arguably witness to some sensible limits being breached. While other authors focus their critical efforts on resistance to change and the limitations of tradition, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change takes on critique itself"--

Theology of Transformation
Theology of Transformation

Author: Oliver Davies

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-11-14

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0191509469

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Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology. Oliver Davies argues that the changing framework allows a return to the defining question of the Easter Church: 'Where is Jesus Christ?'. This is a question which can bring about a fundamental re-orientation of theology, since it gives space for the theological reception of the disruptive presence of the living Christ as the present material as well as formal object of theology in the world. At the centre of this study therefore is a new theology of the doctrine of the exaltation of Christ, based upon St Paul's encounter with the exalted or commissioning Christ on the road to Damascus. This places calling and commissioning at the centre of systematic theology. It provides the ground for a new understanding of theology as transcending the Academy-Church division as well as the divide between systematic and practical theology. It points also to a new critical theological method of engagement and collaboration. This book begins to explore new forms of world-centred theological rationality in the contexts not only of scripture, doctrine, anthropology, ecclesiology and faith, but also of Christian politics and philosophy. It is a work of contemporary and global Christological promise in Fundamental Theology, and is addressed to all those who are concerned, from whichever denomination, with the continuing vitality of Christianity in a changing world.

TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORMATION

Author: Stan Rynott M.A. LSCW COG

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13:

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This book is for people like me who were or are as lost or complacent as I was when I quit college, my family and Church to get a job and get married to my future ex-wife. Pastor Craig Groeschel “In order to grow in our Faith we must stand out in the right way for the right reasons to Change the direction in our lives.” Pastor Scott Adams. “Jesus doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called.” This book is a historical and theological synopsis in a confluence of the Old and New Testaments as a consistent and reliable Testimony of God’s plan and purpose for we his beloved children. It is seasoned with Christian music video suggestions that will enhance your reading experience in the spirit of the music, scripture and the text...in Your Servant Heart. This book is about TRANSFORMATION. On the road to Damascus, the tyrant Pharisee Saul (see Acts 9) received a sudden and dramatic ego busting invitation from Jesus. Hate filled Saul morphed into Paul, the Apostle of love who wrote 13 of the 21 epistles (letters) of the New Testament. Transformation is more gradual and pleasant for us.. a consequential Gift of Amazing Grace from God. Thank you, Jesus! It was for us that he suffered and died on the cross: An ending and a new beginning when he breathed out his last breath – “Tetelestai” It is finished. Satan thought he had won the battle, but we are the victors under God and walking with Jesus Christ. From Jesus’ sacrificial Love, we have spiritual awakening and new life as new creations; divinely appointed and anointed heirs to the Kingdom of Heaven,

ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life (Ebook)
ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life (Ebook)

Author: Crossway

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 5289

ISBN-13: 1433568888

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"This study Bible is a must-have to help us see Jesus Christ throughout the whole Bible." —biblereviewguys.com The ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible is designed to help readers see Christ in all of Scripture, and grace for all of life. It features book introductions, gospel-centered study notes, and a series of all-new articles—written by a team of over 50 pastors and scholars. This content explains passage-by-passage how God's redemptive purposes culminate in the gospel and apply to the lives of believers today. Readers will be challenged to see how the message of the gospel transforms sinners from the inside out.

Childhood Transformed
Childhood Transformed

Author: Eric Hopkins

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780719038679

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Childhood Transformed provides a pioneering study of the remarkable shift in the nature of working-class childhood in the nineteenth century from lives dominated by work to lives centered around school. The author argues that this change was accompanied by substantial improvements for many in the home environment, in health and nutrition, and in leisure opportunities. The book breaks new ground in providing a wide-ranging survey of different aspects of childhood in the Victorian period, the early chapters examining life at work in agriculture and industry, in the home and elsewhere, while the later chapters discuss the coming of compulsory education, together with changes in the home and in leisure activities. A separate section of the book is devoted to the treatment of deprived children, those in and out of the workhouse, on the streets, and also in prison, industrial schools and reformatories. Offering a fresh and more focused approach to the history of working-class children, this book should be of interest to all lecturers and students of nineteenth-century social history.