Sentences with phrase «books on scripture»

Sometimes you need to put down all the books on Scripture and Theology and just read a good story.

I mostly read books on Scripture and theology, but need the «fiction» to relax sometimes.

Not exact matches

Sheryl Sandberg's book on inspiration and advice for women business leaders may someday be scripture on how to claim their

Sheryl Sandberg's book on inspiration and advice for women business leaders may someday be scripture on how to claim their rightful roles in the office and the boardroom.

It's a cherry - picking of scripture used to address what's happening right now in popular culture,» says Knust, author of the recent book «Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions on Sex and Desire.»

After reading Klaus Bockmuehl's book, Listening to the God Who Speaks: Reflections on God's Guidance from Scripture and the Lives of God's People, the conclusion one would have to draw is that if you're not hearing God, you're deaf.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

We will be looking at these passages: Matthew 28:19 - 20, Mark 16:16; several Scriptures on baptism from the Book of Acts, Romans 6, Colossians 2:12, and 1 Peter 3:21.

If you want to see how today's foundational truth is applied to our understanding of theology, Scripture, and culture, I highly recommend you get my book on the Atonement from Amazon.

I first posted my dream (and all the Scriptures that explained it to me) on a Christian book review site when I wrote a negative review of «Heaven is for Real,» and was subsequently emailed for a year by Thomas Nelson and Crossbow publishing to write a book about it.

I would say to any person commenting on your 10 Ways the Non-Violent Atonement Changes Your Theology blog, to read your book first (its not an expensive purchase) before launching into any detailed discussion or disagreement.It answers many of the potential concerns people have and gets the reader to reflect very strongly on what they have been taught about the atonement and to put on a new set of glasses when reading scripture.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

He desires here to record his deep appreciation of the service of these men: Dr. Henry E. Allen, University of Minnesota, read the chapter on Moslem Sacred Literature; John Clark Archer of Yale University, on the Sikh Scriptures; Swami Akhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, and Swami Vishwananda of the Vedanta Society of Chicago, on Hindu Scriptures; Dr. Chan Wing - Tsit (W. T. Chan), Dartmouth College, on the Chinese Literature; Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton, of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, on Buddhist Scriptures; Dr. D. C. Holtom, on the Japanese Sacred Books; Dr. Charles F. Kraft, of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the Old Testament; Dr. George E. Mendenhall, of Hamma Divinity School, on the Babylonian Literature; Dr. Ernest W. Saunders of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the New Testament; and Dr. John A. Wilson of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on the Egyptian Literature.

He said nothing of a book that would combine the old covenant scriptures with the account of His life on earth and letters that were written to people who lived under the law, that people who have never lived under the law would have to try to discern and apply to their lives until He returned, or they died.

I think that every Bible should have a big «STOP» sign on the first page along with that passage of scripture letting the reader (or potential reader) know that this book is not for everybody, but only for those that have been enabled by God to read and understand it.

Under his inspiration, several of the Hindu scriptures were translated into Persian, and he was himself the author of many books on religion, including a biography of Sufis and saints, and a treatise on the technical terms of Hindu pantheism and their equivalents in Sufi theology.

Just 37 years having a saving faith in Christ... reading a lot about church history... reading books by spiritual giants such as Tozer, Ravenhill, Finney, Spurgeon, Chambers, etc... reading and listening to such teachers as Winkie Pratney, Ravi Zacharias, etc... and just trying to read the scriptures and asking God to guide me on a right path.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

To learn more about this way of reading Scripture and gain a Crucivision theology, buy my book on Amazon today.

This book does not address Scripture, but it sheds important light on the cultural norms and practices that would have shaped early Christians» understandings of same - sex sexuality.

The book does not so much explain the various prophetic texts in Scripture, as provide a framework to read and study it on our own.

Think whatever you want about George R. R. Martin and his books, Scripture agrees with him on this one.

By Hays's own admission, though, the book is small, a «sort of progress report» on what will eventually be a larger, fuller study of the «echoes» of Jewish Scripture in the four Gospels.

And, the training was both the reading of books and the studying of Scripture together (Pastoral Epistles) as well as on - the - job training.

My only issue with the book is how much emphasis Heiser places on the «Divine Counsel» motif in Scripture.

Among his publications are: The Scripture Principle, Harper & Row, 1984; Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith, InterVarsity Press, 1980; (editor) Grace Unlimited, Bethany Fellowship, 1975; Truth on Fire, The Message of Galatians, Baker Book House, 1972, Biblical Revelation, Moody Press, 1971, Set Forth Your Case, Craig, 1968; and A Defense of Biblical Infallibility, Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967.

Jesus said let them come to me.Those children killed in these OT scriptures are saved from growing up in an evil society (God said they were were evil and a bad influence on His children) The book of Revelation is about God pleading with mankind to find Him.

After the flood, we will begin to work our way through some of the violent texts in Scripture, until we eventually arrive at the Book of Revelation, and then conclude with a study on Hell.

- Genesis 1 (100 % written)- The Unforgivable Sin (Revised and Expanded, 80 % written)- The Gospel According to Scripture (80 % written)- Pastoral Leadership (100 % written)- Close Your Church for Good (100 % written)- The Bible Mirror (20 % written)- Commentary on Esther (100 % written)- Jesus among Other Religions (10 % written)- A «Redeeming God» book series on the topic of divine violence (30 % written)

The book of Jude calls people who pervert the scriptures heretics and false teachers, Romans 6:1 - 2 calls people who turn from God's grace inmoral, and God constantly calls on to people to come to the light.

My constant purpose was and is to adumbrate on every subject I handle a genuinely canonical interpretation of Scripture - a view that in its coherence embraces and expresses the thrust of all the biblical passages and units of thought that bear on my theme - a total, integrated view built out of biblical material in such a way that, if the writers of the various books knew what I had made of what they taught, they would nod their heads and say that I had got them right.

As Don Whitney wrote in his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, «When we meditate on Scripture, it colors our thinking about God, about God's ways and His world, and about ourselves.»

The only intelligible solution to this problem would seem to be to admit the relative religious value, based on experience, of each group's scriptures for its own corporate life, but to recognize that no book has final authority.

Yes, the church encourages you to study the scriptures, church books, church magazines and pray to base their testimonies on, but all of those «resources» are produced by the church, bought in your bookstores and sent by subscription to your home.

By the way why didn't you quote the scripture from the book of revelation where it talks about Jesus sporting a tattoo on his thigh when he returns?

The Sadducees are ignorant of the scriptures (a telling blow, since they based their denial of the resurrection on the silence of the Torah, the first five Old Testament books), and they do not trust the power of God.

Lindsell, in his book The Battle for the Bible, contends that the Bible itself and the history of the Christian church support a view of inspiration that insists on the inerrancy of the autographs of Scripture in every detail of chronology, geography, astronomy, measurement, and the like, even when such details are incidental to the central intent of the passage.»

Religion permeates our culture, shows up on our doorsteps with literature, scriptures and threats of eternal d.a.m.nation, influences our science books, contaminates our political systems, indoctrinates our children and postulates that its doctrine must be followed, lest we be destroyed in body, in soul, or both.

Go to google, and search in the «Images» section of google on the words: «Anubis mummification»... then search again on The Book of Abraham, which is the Mormon «scripture» written by Joseph Smith which he claimed was written by Abraham himself!

Toward this end, students of Scripture will find the guidelines and reference material suggestions helpful in the chapters on interpreting and communicating the Pauline letters, as well as the helpful commentary guide at the end of the book.

The discipleship area is focused on text and audio material, and so if you don't spend much time reading theology books, studying Scripture, or listening to theology podcasts or books on audio, you probably won't enjoy the discipleship area of this website.

Update (Oct. 31): Jen Hatmaker posted a 650 - word response on her Facebook page Monday, saying she «wrestled with and through Scripture, not around it» before coming to a decision to affirm same - sex relationships, which recently led to LifeWay Christian Resources pulling her books from its stores.

Rather than being excited about some new insight from Scripture or idea about theology which I get to pass on to others, my writing has become more about pageviews, backlinks, ad revenue, email subscriber stats, book sales, and comment counts.

as far as using the scriptures in Proverbs to defend prohibition, the same book of the Bible advocates giving strong drink to those who are poor or down on their luck in order to forget their problems.

Scripture Union unveiled on Thursday a new free and «accessible» story book, «The First Christmas» [pictured above], which is written by award - winning author, Gemma Willis.

The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.»

If we are going to go around telling folks they are calling God a liar based on a few scriptures in a Book, then one should first consider the accuracy of said bBook, then one should first consider the accuracy of said bookbook.

But there were some major flaws in the book, not only with some logical errors, but also with some misunderstandings of Scripture, and a misunderstanding of how and why the early church began to meet on Sunday rather than on Saturday as had been the custom among Jesus and His disciples.

Examining the successful use of Scripture on the part of Bill Clinton and George Bush, and the unsuccessful use by Joe Lieberman and John Kerry ¯ not to mention Howard Dean's absurd excursion into the New Testament book of Job ¯ Berlinerblau demonstrates that biblical citations are most effective in American political rhetoric when they are (1) sparse, (2) positive, (3) vague, (4) shallow, and (5) veiled.