It's No Secret

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Author: Rachel Olsen

Publisher: David C Cook

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1434702596

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Are you tired of life as usual? Done with feeling exhausted, or worse, bored? Ready to trade your issues and hang-ups for greater intimacy and fulfillment? Then it’s time you did some digging for biblical “bling” and discovered the shining secrets to life in God’s kingdom. Rachel’s writing is lighthearted and even fun, but she’s serious about helping you uncover biblical secrets that can make your life shine. This book will help you: • Overcome the comparisons and competitive urges that leave you lonely • Accept help from others • Discover God’s surprising source of spiritual beauty and strength. • Embrace your need for rest. • Handle conflict and criticism with grace • Find adventure as you yield whole-heartedly to God • Dig into the Bible for yourself, and understand what you find there Grab your Bible, your girlfriend, and come discover 12 secrets the world doesn’t know.

To Sin No More

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Author: David Rex Galindo

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 150360408X

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For 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding the first college of propaganda fide in the Mexican city of Querétaro, the Franciscan Order established six additional colleges in New Spain, ten in South America, and twelve in Spain. From these colleges Franciscans proselytized Indians in frontier territories as well as Catholics in rural and urban areas in eighteenth-century Spain and Spanish America. To Sin No More is the first book to study these colleges, their missionaries, and their multifaceted, sweeping missionary programs. By focusing on the recruitment of non-Catholics to Catholicism as well as the deepening of religious fervor among Catholics, David Rex Galindo shows how the Franciscan colleges expanded and shaped popular Catholicism in the eighteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world. This book explores the motivations driving Franciscan friars, their lives inside the colleges, their training, and their ministry among Catholics, an often-overlooked duty that paralleled missionary deployments. Rex Galindo argues that Franciscan missionaries aimed to reform or "reawaken" Catholic parishioners just as much as they sought to convert non-Christian Indians.

And Sin No More

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Author: Marian J. Morton

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0814206026

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In this compelling study, Marian Morton traces the development of public and private health-care policies for single mothers and identifies the ways in which attitudes about religion, race, and cultural definitions of womanhood affected their treatment. Focusing on the history of the public hospital and four private maternity homes in Cleveland, Morton considers the care of unwed mothers in the context of developing American social policy from the mid-nineteenth century to today. While social policy has taken on a growing responsibility for health care of dependent people, the perception of unwed mothers as "sinful" by the Christian church and "undeserving" because their situation was brought about by moral failure has differentiated them from other dependent populations. Government provides unmarried mothers with the least support, and private maternity homes, run mostly by churches, have remained committed to the nineteenth-century notion of spiritual reclamation. As Morton shows, regardless of the time period, women pregnant out-of-wedlock have been the dependent population most easily disciplined by private agencies and the most resented and politically vulnerable recipients of public assistance. This vital work sheds new light on the current controversies over public assistance and legalized abortion and offers a powerful appraisal of the uncertainties and inequities of American social policy as it applies to women who fail to conform to social definitions of womanhood.

Nothing Else Matters

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Author: Nancy A. Almodovar

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-03-18

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1666718122

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It is said that Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, a leading scholar in the history of Christianity and Sterling Prof. Everett of history at Yale University, on his deathbed confessed this: If Christ has not risen from the dead, nothing else matters. If Christ has risen from the dead, nothing else matters. I came across this quote in my research for the "Apologetics Together" courses that I offer on social media and was immediately awed at its profound implications. Indeed, if Jesus has not risen, we must agree with Saint Paul that the world remains in their sins and are eternally lost. However, since Jesus has risen, those who have placed their trust in him are assured of salvation and eternal life. This book looks at the prophecies and fulfillment in the Scriptures which assure us that he who died on the cross at Calvary rose again on the third day for our justification.

No More Hiding, No More Shame

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Author: Brent Edward McNamara

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1617392685

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No one wants to talk about it. No one wants to admit to it. But it's time for No More Hiding, No More Shame. It's time for transparency. Here are the facts: Forty million adults in the U.S. regularly visit porn sites on the Internet. Forty-seven percent of families say pornography is a problem in their home. But this problem isn't limited to the secular world. Pornography addiction has reached epidemic proportions in the church. A recent survey showed that 51 percent of pastors confessed to looking at porn on their church office computers; 37 percent say it is a current struggle. Twenty percent of Christian women have admitted they are addicted to pornography. For author Brent McNamara, these statistics hit close to home. Pornography addiction destroyed his life, his family, and his ministry. In this book, he traces the source of his addiction from its childhood roots to its adulthood manifestation and then shows how he ultimately overcame this addiction by the grace of God. In sharing his own story and struggle with pornography, McNamara offers readers who are trapped in pornography addiction the hope that they too can be free from this terrible addiction and gives them step-by-step, practical advice on how to get there. Brent McNamara earned a B.S. in Bible-Pastoral Studies from Philadelphia Biblical University and is currently pursuing his M. Div. at Philadelphia Biblical University. He is Pastor of Connection at Crossbridge Community Church in Woolwich, New Jersey. Brent also facilitates a Christian Addiction Recovery Group.

The Bible Treasury

The Bible Treasury PDF

Author: H.F. Witherby

Publisher: Irving Risch

Published: 2015-02-28

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13:

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A word on Luke 2 The service of a good man. (Acts 11: 24) From Gilgal to Bochim. (Judges 1, 2) Paul: a good conscience before God. (Acts 22) Brief word on 2 Corinthians 11, 12. Thoughts on Ephesians 1 Thoughts on Ephesians 5: 17-21 The seal and the earnest of the Spirit. (Eph. 1: 13, 14.) Testimony for Christ The guidance of grace. (Num, 9, 10.) Remarks on the Revelation Fragments Unbelief on the Way Spirituality The Holy Spirit in relation to Testimony Corporate and Individual Brief word on Genesis 17: 1-8 Psalm 25 General remarks on the Prophetic word A happy close. (2 Tim. 1: 12) Varieties in the coming glory answering to Christ's titles A Few Words More on Psalm 25 Letter on Daniel 9: 24-26 The Prospect Strength in Weakness A few words on Leviticus 16 The Lord's dealings now (Hebrews 9) The Declared Purpose, and Present Moral Processes John 8: 12, and 9: 5 compared Address to my brethren (F. W. Grant) The Burnt-offering compared with those of Atonement day Exodus "Ye serve the Lord Christ" Correspondence - the Lord's coming The last words of David Thoughts on Romans 7, 8. Our priesthood. (Num. 18: 1-19) Revelation 5 David and Solomon "Open" "Exclusivism" On Leviticus 4 and 6: 24-30 One flock, not many folds