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"In 2005, a group of construction workers in Jerusalem made an incredible discovery. Underneath the parking lot they were digging up lay an ancient city that was built in the tenth century! Three years later, gold coins from an even earlier century were found at the site. The city of Jerusalem is like a layer cake of history--more than five thousand years of complicated history--all of which author Ellen Morgan explains clearly and objectively in...
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"A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconnect to their faith, find inner healing, and build spiritual community-from Glennon Doyle's "favorite faith writer" and the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Feminist and editor of A Rhythm of Prayer. It's hard to leave a faith that has raised us. Maybe it's even harder to stay. But what can feel impossible is living in the tension. Living with...
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Statistics don't lie. People today are more fatigued, burned out, and overwhelmed than ever. Smartphones constantly ping and alert and demand our attention. And social media can eat up hours of our days with mindless scrolling and tapping while leaving many feeling empty and lonely. Add to that family commitments, work that is accessible around the clock, and overscheduling, and you have a life that can feel unmanageable and frantic . . . even running...
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"Why not just make the cake? That's a question countless people across the country started asking in 2012, when Jack Phillips told two men who walked into his Masterpiece Cakeshop that he couldn't create a custom cake for their same-sex wedding. And the question only grew more urgent as Phillips had to defend himself first before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and then numerous courts--losing at every step of the way until the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Una introducción básica sobre las ocho religiones más importantes del mundo. Gerald R. McDermott explica lo que debes saber sobre las religiones más importantes del mundo para involucrar a personas de otra fe, al mismo tiempo que comprendes de una mejor manera tu propia fe y práctica cristiana. McDermott ofrece una visión general de las creencias principales del cristianismo, el judaísmo, el islam, el hinduismo, el budismo, el confucianismo,...
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In this introduction to the Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements, Dr. Gomes defines the characteristics of a "cult of Christianity" and why such a group subverts the search for spiritual truth. He explains the emotional and spiritual appeal of cults, who is susceptible, and the techniques cult leaders use to attract members. This book, in dealing with a wide range of issues relating to cults and religious movements in general, complements...
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Fast, informed answers to the challenges of false religions -- This is an age when countless groups and movements, new and old, mark the religious landscape in our culture. As a result, many people are confused or uncertain in their search for spiritual truth and meaning. Because few people have the time or opportunity to research these movements fully, the Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements series provides essential information and...
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Recently found scientific facts allowed Benjamin Freeman to use a scripturally supported variant of the scientific method to meld the major holy books with each other and with overlapping secular truth. Once I show that modern science proves that Judeo-Christians should see the Qur'an as the Bible's third testament, this book then offers compelling support for somewhat unique interpretations of the Noah's Ark, Garden of Eden, Armageddon, and the crucifixion...
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The current social and political climate makes it easy to benefit from religious misunderstanding. Political and religious leaders create fear of the religious other in order to drum up support for themselves. But the best way to combat deliberate misrepresentation is to provide accurate, timely information about the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Originally published in 2007, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?...
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Hosanna: Bible Stories Retold offers readers a fresh perspective on various stories from the Bible. The book covers a wide range of narratives, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, providing an overview of significant events, characters, and moral lessons. The retelling of these Bible stories is designed to be engaging and informative, catering to readers of different ages. The language is simplified and modernized to ensure easy comprehension...
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Secularización, transhumanismo, crisis de civilización y valores cristianos, cuidados, fraternidad abierta, diálogo entre fe y cultura, pastoral con jóvenes emigrantes, pastoral rural… Estos y otros conceptos de presente y de futuro se entreveran en este volumen que recoge las aportaciones de la XXXIII Semana de Estudios de Teología Pastoral.
El futuro del cristianismo está al servicio de un mundo que se busca a sí mismo. La misión sigue...
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An experienced teacher of the prophetic materials provides students with an accessible entre into this fascinating aspect of Hebrew Bible studies.
The author begins by asking five basic questions about Israelite prophecy and the prophetic books.
Do the prophetic books witness to a real phenomenon of prophecy in Israel?
What is the relationship of the "classical" or "writing" prophets to the "pre-classical" prophets?
Where do we look for the origins...
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Luke's remarkable work has moved beyond its original audience. Over time it has become a means of nourishing countless individuals on their spiritual and religious journeys. Luke's gospel is valuable not only in its religious context, for it offers a captivating window into the intricacies of the first century world, its history, literature, its sacred as well as its secular beliefs. This book will be useful not only for those with a religious worldview...
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This revealing story concerning the Earth and Hell is called the Loop of Transformation. It's a mystery story filled with the unusual, and it reveals cruel, evil, and unusual things prophesized to come upon this Earth from the pits of Hell.
This exposure story purposely dives deep into the wonderful word of God. It involves the puppet master, the rebellious angels, and the spirits of unbelievers, and everyone cast into the pits of Hell after...
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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Eugene Peterson here firmly grounds spirituality once more in Trinitarian theology and offers a clear, practical statement of what it means to actually live out the Christian life.
Writing in the conversational...
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God is without beginning and is without end but when the bible says he is the beginning and the end, bible is referring to the beginning of his project and the end of his project. Particularly the beginning and the end of the living creatures, angels, and the human beings. We all begin with him, but we will end up either in heaven or hell, good or bad respectively. Bible says all things were created by God good and evil (Isaiah 45:7). This book reveals...
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A collection of fifty-one questions that Jesus asked or that people asked Jesus arranged in two-page chapters. All come from the Gospels or Acts. The book can be used like a devotional and would work well for group study in a small group or book club. It will help the reader to grow in spiritual maturity. Some of Jesus' parables are explained because they provide answers to questions or raise questions themselves.
It provides something of a commentary...
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One of the most overlooked subjects in the Bible are the chapters that deal with genealogies.
There are two accounts of genealogies that give approximate ages of births and deaths in the book of Genesis. Is there some underlining information or remez that God wants to reveal to His believers through this data?
One of the most intriguing parable Jesus gave his disciples is found in Matthew 13:44. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure...
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