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The Way of Jesus
Author: Bruce Chilton
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1426700067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The way of Jesus means that despite our tears and scars, we can become vessels of divine light. A young man loses his wife while their baby escapes without injury. In abject grief he reaches out to a friend for solace. What words of comfort are even possible? How can Jesus repair and renew these lives in this world? Author Bruce Chilton begins in the everyday. He shows how following Jesus not only repairs shattered lives, but renews them. While no broken life is ever simply reassembled and although there is no magic going back to the pristine, repair and renewal will empower us to truly live and love again. But our path requires something from us--mindful practice of Jesus' teachings about the soul, spirit, kingdom, insight, forgiveness, mercy, and glory.
The Jesus Way
Author: Eugene H. Peterson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-09-02
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0802867030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arguing that the way Jesus leads and the way we follow are symbiotic, Peterson begins with a study of how the ways of those who came before Christ revealed and prepared the way of the Lord that became complete in Jesus. He then challenges the ways of the contemporary American church, showing in stark relief how what we have chosen to focus on--consumerism, celebrity, charisma, and so forth--obliterates what is unique in the Jesus way.
Story-Shaped Worship
Author: Robbie F. Castleman
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 083083964X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Story-Shaped Worship Robbie Castleman attempts nothing less than to uncover the fundamental shape of worship. Right worship doesn't require a traditionalist return to earlier forms of church, she argues, but a fresh response to God in light of the revealed patterns of worship we find in the Bible and church history.
Death by Church
Author: Mike Erre
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0736924965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examining how materialism and consumerism have made their way into the church, a teaching pastor and author of Jesus of Suburbia reveals how Christians can more effectively demonstrate Christ's presence and how the church can cooperate with Jesus in the world in which they live. Original.
Prosecuting Jesus
Author: Mark Osler
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2016-08-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1611646731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who is Jesus? Christians have been arguing about the answer to that question since there have been Christians, and it seems unlikely that they're going to agree on an answer anytime soon. Mark Osler, always a bit uncomfortable in church, was never able to find a Jesus that seemed real to himâ€"until he put Jesus on trial. Drawing on his training as a federal prosecutor and professor of law, he and a group of friends staged the trial of Jesus for their church, as though it were happening in the modern American criminal justice system. The event was so powerful that before long Osler received invitations to take it on the road. Each time he served as Christ's prosecutor, the story of Jesus opened up to him a bit more. Prosecuting Jesus follows Osler in this extraordinary journey of discovering himself by discovering Jesus. Juxtaposing things we rarely put together, like the passion of Christ and our ideas about capital punishment, Osler explores an active engagement between Jesus and our contemporary law and culture.
J-Curve
Author: Paul E. Miller
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2019-06-24
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 143356159X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do we have the wrong map for the Christian life? Life's inconveniences, disappointments, and trials can leave us confused, cynical, and eventually bitter. But the apostle Paul traces out the path of dying and rising with Jesus—what Paul Miller calls the “J-Curve”—as the normal Christian life. The J-Curve maps the ups and downs of daily life onto the story of Jesus. It grounds our journeys not in some abstract idea but in union with Christ and his work of love. Understanding our lives in light of the J-Curve roots our hope, centers our love, and tethers our faith to Christ.
The Jesus Way
Author: Peter Walker
Publisher: Monarch Books
Published: 2020-02-21
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0857219618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book teaches the basics of the Christian faith, looking first at what Jesus himself taught, and then at what his apostles had to say. It is for anyone who wants to follow Jesus, but is not sure or would like to be reminded of the way. In short clear steps, Dr Peter Walker takes us through the basics of enjoying Jesus' forgiveness, welcoming his Spirit and feeding on his scriptures; then explores the principles of worshipping with his people, following his teaching and trusting him with our future. This classic of the field has been revised and is accompanied by access to an online PDF workbook and video content.
The Way of Jesus
Author: Rebecca Manley Pippert
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2003-05-29
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780830821242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book to give away to people with questions about Jesus, Rebecca Manley Pippert offers a frank conversation about what Jesus means to those who follow him and the difference that has made in her life and in the lives of others. A Saltshaker Resource.
The More Excellent Way
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Publisher: Crucifer Press
Published: 2006-10
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780977985302
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates why, unlike in the early centuries, the ethical behavior of Christians today is so little different from that of non-Christians. It does this by first reviewing the teachings of Jesus about how Christians are to live and the positive response of early Christians to these teachings. The major portion of the book then documents how the rise of asceticism and the proliferation of church law came to eclipse Jesus' teachings of serving others through unselfish love. It reviews how Chrysostom, Augustine, Luther, and others tried to return the church to the New Testament way of life. The book reaches two conclusions: Christians today prefer to live by only avoiding the gross evils forbidden by the Ten Commandments rather than by Jesus' all-inclusive New Commandment of loving one another as he loved us. They are also willing to offer God the piety of churchly activity, but what God also asks, a life of goodness serving one's fellowman, they feel is just asking too much.
