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Plastic Jesus
Author: Eric Sandras
Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781576839232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eric Sandras seeks to empower readers wherever they are to live life as Christ intended: with a radical sense of purpose that only He can provide.
Plastic Jesus
Author: Robert Miskimon
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0595099092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fire that drives creativity sometimes kills artists, as John Preston learns in his rollicking journey across America in search of his own soul. From Hells Angels to Indian uprisings to romance on the run, his journey takes him deeper into the creative process and a connection with all humanity.
Plastic Jesus
Author: Poppy Z. Brite
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 1497625858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1960's brought Seth and Payton all they'd fantasized about—perfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospered and suffered in one another's arms. The two men carried each other and carried a group that created both a history and a future for rock. But at some point their music blurred with the news of their love and the world was faced with the choice to embrace its heroes or revert back to its deep-rooted prejudices.
Meet Jesus
Author: Lynn Tuttle Gunney
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781558965249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Meet Jesus is a picture book that introduces young children (ages 4-8) to Jesus and his lessons of love, kindness, forgiveness and peace. Meet Jesus emphasizes the humanity rather than the divinity of Jesus, giving the story broad appeal for liberal or progressive Christians and non-Christians alike. The text includes Bible references with corresponding Bible passages in the back of the book.
Plastic Jesus and Other Stories
Author: Judith Ets-Hokin
Publisher:
Published: 2020-02
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781646693368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →PLASTIC JESUS AND OTHER STORIES covers a range of genres, including fantasy, mystery, and romance in a collection of 13 stories to be consumed either straight-up or, most often, with a twist. From the title story, where the inanimate dashboard Jesus animates his surrounding characters (and himself) in unexpected ways, to the surprise in "Chance" that awaits Charles in the aftermath of his winning the prestigious National Integrity Award, the stories each deliver their own sensibility, quirkiness, and punch. A long-lost love is touchingly rekindled in "Edward and Stella," while a health nut about to receive special recognition doesn't realize what's about to hit her in "The Award," and life lessons are learned for more than just the participants in "The Affair." Can witchcraft actually play a role in drastically upsetting people's lives in "The New Neighbors," or are some things "...just terrible coincidences," as the witch Wyndsong proclaims? Then, there's "Destiny," with a female entrepreneur about to sell her successful business and move on to what's next (which comes as a devastating disclosure to her family), "The Hunt," about whether the deer belong on Deer Island or not (and who gets to decide), and "The Dowry," when young love in another culture can be fatally misunderstood. Through these varied and wonderful tales we get a vision of the wonderful world of Judith Ets-Hokin.
Let My People Go!
Author: Stan Moody
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2013-04-12
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1449789072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The judgment scene in Matthew 25 is a call for believers in Jesus Christ to get out of our clubhouses and onto the streets, where the “least of these my brothers” (v.40) may be found. Let My People Go is a twelve-step invitation to our American church culture to examine what we are supposed to be doing as Christians, what we are doing, and whether what we are doing is standing in the way of what we are supposed to be doing. The man who deeply affected author Stan Moody as a Christian was a brilliant, sixty-four-year-old convicted sex offender by the name of Sheldon Weinstein. On April 24, 2009, Shelly died in solitary confinement at Maine State Prison of a ruptured spleen about an hour after Moody requested toilet paper for him. Moody has chronicled his death in a narrative titled “Death in B117.” With America now boasting 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, the last vestige of hope for these discarded citizens in our jails and prisons and on our streets is a faith community now facing declining membership and shrinking revenues. Poverty and homelessness has at last come home; how we respond to it is a reflection of the seriousness of our faith.
Materializing the Bible
Author: James S. Bielo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-08-12
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1350065056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments? To answer this question, anthropologist James Bielo explores a diverse range of practices and places that “materialize the Bible,” including gardens, theme parks, shrines, museums, memorials, exhibitions, theatrical productions, and other forms of replication. Integrating ethnographic, archival, and mass media data, case studies focus primarily on U.S. Christianity from the late 19th-century to the present. Composed as 20 short chapters that may be read in any order, the book is divided into three sections. Section I, “Variations on Replication,” analyzes examples that recontextualize elements from the (actual or imagined) biblical past. Section II, “The Power of Nature,” turns to the natural world associated with Christian scripture and how it is mobilized as a privileged media. Section III, “Choreographing Experience,” examines lived interactions with the affordances of materializing the Bible. Bielo argues that materializing the Bible works as an authorizing practice to intensify intimacies with scripture and circulate potent ideologies. Performed through the sensory experience of bodies, physical technologies, and infrastructures of place, Bielo illustrates how this phenomenon is always, ultimately, about expressions of power.
Vintage Jesus
Author: Mark Driscoll
Publisher: Crossway Books
Published: 2011-01-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433519659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Great for nonbelievers and new Christians, this work of popular-level theology introduces the person and work of Christ by answering a series of questions about Jesus. Now in paperback.
The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: Helen K. Bond
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0567125106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The introduction to this new guide sets out the sources (Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian), noting the problems connected with them, paying particular attention to the nature of the gospels, and the Synoptic versus the Johannine tradition. A substantial section will discuss scholarship on Jesus from the nineteenth century to the explosion of works in the present day, introducing and explaining the three different 'quests' for the historical Jesus. Subsequent chapters will analyse key themes in historical Jesus research: Jesus' Galilean origins; the scope of his ministry and models of 'holy men', particularly that of prophet; Jesus' teaching and healing; his trial and crucifixion; the highly contentious question of his resurrection; and finally an exploration of the links between the Jesus movement and the early church. Throughout, the (often opposing) positions of a variety of key scholars will be explained and discussed (eg. Sanders, Crossan, Dunn, Wright, Brown).
