Confronting the Idolatry of Family
Author: Janet Forsythe Fishburn
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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When Heaven and Earth Collide
Author: Alan Cross
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 2014-02-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1603063501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion—and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn’t white evangelicals do more to bring racial reconciliation to the South during the 19th and 20th centuries? These questions are asked and answered through an exploration of history, politics, economics, philosophy, and social and theological studies that uncovers the hidden impetus behind racism and demonstrates how we can still make many of the same errors today—just perhaps in different ways. The investigation finally leads us in hopeful directions involving how to live out the better way of Jesus with an eye on heaven in a world still burdened and broken under the sins of the past.
Keeping Your Balance
Author: Pam Hardy
Publisher: Carpenter's Son Publishing
Published: 2020-10-21
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Keeping Your Balance looks at the challenge that Christians face in maintaining a biblical balance in seven key areas of life.
These include the following: family and ministry; self-denial and liberty; patience and confrontation; the temporal and the eternal; the inner man and the outer man; reality and hope; and striving and trusting.
In each of these categories, the author first highlights the balance that is clearly set forth for the believer in Scripture. Second, a discussion is presented of the symptoms that may be manifested when an individual loses balance in a particular area. The practical life consequences of that imbalance are also examined. An understanding of these tensions is absolutely vital for living a life to the glory of God.
Household Gods
Author: Ted Kluck
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 161291585X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the midst of a Christian subculture that idolizes families, an evangelical history of overcelebrating families, and a secular culture that overprograms families, one American family identifies the danger they're in the midst of and embarks on a radical adventure. Household Gods offers an examination of the culture that spawned family idolatry and the steps we can take to flee this idolatry and escape to the Cross.
Sexuality and the Sacred, Second Edition
Author: Marvin M. Ellison
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 161164187X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christian discourse on sexuality, spirituality, and ethics has continued to evolve since this book's first edition was published in 1994. This updated and expanded anthology featuring more than thirty contemporary essays includes more theologians and ethicists of color and addresses issues such as the intersection of race/racism and sexuality, transgender identity, same-sex marriage, and reproductive health and justice.
Transforming the Struggles of Tamars
Author: Lina Androviene
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-05-29
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1625641087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the unprecedented challenge of involuntary singleness for women, and the implications of disregarding this challenge for the Christian (and particularly, baptistic) communities of faith. It argues that these communities not only fail involuntarily single women, but also in so doing, suffer a serious detriment to their own communal health and Christian witness. Taking the challenge of involuntary singleness as a test case, this book explores the method of convictional theology and argues for a holistic framework that can draw together the personal, communal, and visionary spheres of human existence. Although primarily a work of theological ethics, it also draws from a number of different disciplines, including cultural studies and sociology as well as intersections of science and theology.
Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society
Author: Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1136658750
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Until recently, religious institutions have been organized to suit the traditional American family, where the wife stayed at home, caring for children. Today, churches and synagogues are beginning to adapt to the reality of the American family: dual-career marriages, high levels of divorce, interfaith marriages, partnerships that may not be marriages. Religious organizations must serve families that don't fall into the Ozzie and Harriet mold. The first group of papers in this edited volume documents changing trends in the connection between religion, work, and the family. In the second part of the book, we see how changing families and flexible congregations are experimenting with new forms of religious life.
Sweet Surrender
Author: Dennis Hiebert
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1606088963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every culture has a way of perceiving and practicing marriage. Many contemporary Western Christians mistake what their culture prescribes regarding marriage with what the Bible portrays, and thereby take as biblical what is merely cultural. Uncritical conformity to cultural imperatives of marriage then becomes a Christian virtue, and a sweet surrender. Few recognize, much less question this confusion, even when its consequences are unhealthy. In Sweet Surrender Dennis Hiebert challenges Christians to comprehend what is cultural in their view of marriage, hold as optional what is not explicitly required by the Bible, and live out their marriages within the transcendent grace of God. Gaining greater awareness can free marriages from the control of culture for something more simply but deeply Christian. Marriages benefit when they are released from cultural directives that are not biblical callings, even if they choose to retain them as cultural practices. This book is for Christians who are ready to rethink their assumptions about marriage.
Untamed (Shapevine)
Author: Alan Hirsch
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1441207511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discipleship is costly. Are we willing to critique and even challenge much we've been taught for the sake of the kingdom? For this is the radical nature of the discipleship to which Jesus calls us. He did not allow the outside culture to hold him captive; instead he established the kingdom of God and turned the world on its head. Jesus was untamed, and he calls his church to be the same. In this provocative and compelling book, internationally known missiologists Alan and Debra Hirsch overthrow culturized understandings of theology and culture, and cast a vision for a distinctly mission-shaped way of living the Christian life. Written for any Christian serious about issue of discipleship, Untamed covers such topics as church, humans as bearers of the image of God, family life, culture, and sexuality. Through it all they seek to answer the question, how are we to think and live day to day as followers of Jesus? Each chapter ends with suggested practices to help readers begin to live out the book's principles as well as questions for group discussion.
Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada
Author: Marguerite Van Die
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2006-01-19
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0773576770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Van Die, a sympathetic and perceptive observer and a gifted and deft interpreter, describes the lives of the Colbys of Carrollcroft - members of Canada's emerging economic elite who were active in the local community, public life, and politics - drawing attention to the links connecting domestic religion and private life, business concerns, and social change in one family's life over three generations.
