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This book offers information on all sixty-six books of the Christian Bible, including theme, context, key locations, key events, revelation of Jesus Christ, and key verses. The book also offers reading guides to get more out of your reading of the Bible. The Bible is the world''s single most-profound piece of literature, a divine work for its span, majesty, and message. This book helps with insights into that majesty.
Answers to one-hundred questions on Christian faith, in the categories of big questions, Bible, doctrine, other ways, scandals, and application. Bible citations support the answers and explanations, each of which is about three pages of concise and clear text.
This book answers 100 questions that people who are not lawyers ask of lawyers in casual conversation. We all have an innate curiosity about the law because we sense how important law is. We prosper when following law but starve when not. Yet we often misunderstand law, as our curious questions about it reflect. We think that law is often nonsensical when to the contrary it is rarely so. Distrust lurks behind our odd questions about law, when law must instead be trustworthy or it fails to work effectively as law and becomes something less than law. Law must have our confidence. Let this book help make it so. Appreciate law, while you keep letting lawyers know your questions.
This book reorganizes the New Testament's verses by topic, giving the reader all verses on each topic in one place, as a study resource. The arrangement reveals the breadth, depth, and consistency of the New Testament on each of its dozens of main topics.
This book offers the reader a total of sixty distinct prayers, fifteen prayers for each prayer form of confession, adoration, thanksgiving, and request. With each prayer, the book supplies an answer to each prepare, as God might interpret and respond. With each prayer, the book further supplies a description of a personal transformation occurring because of each prayer and God's answer. The personal transformations reflect the experiences of various individuals of different sex and age. With each prayer, the book further supplies a revelation of each prayer as the one making the prayer may experience its subject in the eternal kingdom. Each prayer addresses a different universal topic, whether love, service, eternity, healing, need, comfort, and so on. The prayers of adoration treat topics for which the one praying might wish to adore God. The prayers of confession treat topics for which the one praying might ask God's forgiveness. The prayers of thanksgiving treat topics for which one might wish to thank God. And the prayers of supplication or request treat common topics on which the one praying might ask God's help.The book intends to give the reader examples of how to pray, how God answers prayer, and how those answers affect life now and eternally.
The book captures, organizes, describes, and analyzes 172 events in Jesus's life for what those events can teach disciples about following Christ. The book divides those events into eight sections Heralding, Coming, Calling, Ministry, Miracles, Sacrifice, Resurrection, and Revelation. Each section includes the events of Jesus's life that fit in those stages. Each short two-page analysis of each event includes a description of the event, an analysis of what the event might mean for a follower, and an internal reflection illustrating what looking to Christ can mean over the life of a disciple. The book's goal is to give clearer pictures of what looking to Christ can mean, increasing the number, richness, and relevance of the events of Christ's life for followers today. The book should promote the kind of rich introspection through the events of Christ's life that would lead a follower to closer relationship with Christ. What do you think about when thinking about Jesus? What do the events of his life mean to you? How do certain events of Jesus's life encourage, guide, or admonish you as you encounter challenges and blessings in your own life? Rather than simply taking Jesus's words as guides, see his words in the context of his actions, and let that context enrich your spiritual life by drawing you closer to Jesus.
Following Jesus, becoming his disciple, is a Christian''s goal. To follow Jesus, one must know and obey what he instructs and commands. This book addresses one by one the more than 260 things that Jesus said to do or not to do. The book organizes those actions and activities into sensible groups. The book then describes each activity, explains the context in which Jesus said it, and gives an example of its application over time. Use this book to structure and explore what Jesus said to do and not to do. Use this book to grow closer to Jesus as a disciple.
In this faith novel, two mysterious young visitors revive the spirit of a desultory town. The faith that they share is at the center of the town's transformation. With the town reborn, they depart in an equally mysterious manner. Witness the power of secret devotion and the identity of pursuit's cure.
Churches are essential to God's gospel mission among humankind. God chose the church, Christ's own bride, to carry his good news to all nations. Yet church pastors, leaders, and members pursue God's gospel mission in a complex, enemy-patrolled, broken world. Pastoring, leading, and administering a church can be daunting. Thankfully, God's Word offers his wisdom for church leadership and administration. God's Spirit also supplies his discernment for administrative excellence. This manual offers many church policies and procedures, informed by God's scripture and Bible accounts, on the subjects of governance, personnel, volunteers, finance, facilities, security, ministries, and other functions. We learn from God's Word, even as we learn from one another. Don't reinvent the proverbial wheel. Consider this manual's policies and procedures, themselves informed by the discernment of many others. The authors are an experienced Moody Bible Institute professor who teaches applied theology and church ministries, and heads pastoral studies, and an experienced lawyer and law professor who teaches nonprofit law, forms and advises churches, and directs church operations.
A parody of the world''s madness, from a Christian perspective, in poetry. This book has three poems each, across nine chapters taking various absurdities or corruptions of the world, each in turn. The goal is to lend some humor to a desperate human condition without Christ.
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