Author: Charles E. Van Engen Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 172522660X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
From the explosive contexts of Nairobi, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Madras burst fresh insights on the mission of the church for the city. Jude Tiersma and Charles Van Engen worked closely with an international team of experienced urban practitioners to explore the most urgent issues facing those who minister in today's cities. From each particular urban setting, a team member contributed a story from ministry in the city. Each story uniquely illustrates a different challenge of urban ministry in the face of injustice, marginalization, and urban structures. This book brings you these stories, then retells them in light of Scripture, introducing new hope to each one. From these stories emerge new ideas about the nature of cities and how to practice ministry in them. The new methodology employed by Van Engen and Tiersma's team leads us in the first steps toward a theology of mission for the city. God So Loves the City is a must for pastors, seminary students, missiologists, congregation members, and all who are concerned about urban ministry.
Author: Timothy Keller Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525954155 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 338
Book Description
We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.
Author: Dandi Daley Mackall Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc ISBN: 1418551252 Category : God (Christianity) Languages : en Pages : 16
Book Description
This book celebrates God's love for children in every land. Ten nationalities are represented with a peek into cultures, locations and languages.
Author: Carolyn Weber Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830843841 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 229
Book Description
When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to think bigger about love. In this book we follow Weber through courtship and into marriage and parenthood. Now a literature professor, Weber reflects on her relationship with a sometimes-absent father and how that has shaped her. Through her personal story, as well as spiritual, theological, and literary reflection, Sex and the City of God explores what life looks like when we choose to love God first.
Author: Sara Miles Publisher: Canterbury Press ISBN: 184825623X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
City of God is a moving, prophetic account of the divine in daily life. It tells the story of one day in Sara’s ministry: Ash Wednesday, when she carries ashes out of church to public places. Sara explores the profound meanings set loose by touching the forehead of a stranger and paints an unforgettable picture of the search for God all around us.
Author: Stephen T. Um Publisher: Crossway ISBN: 1433532921 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 178
Book Description
We live in a unique moment in history. Right now, more people live in urban centers than ever before. This means that we have an unprecedented opportunity to influence the majority of the world through the church in the city. Helping us to make the most of this moment, urban pastors Justin Buzzard and Stephen Um lay out a compelling vision for cultural engagement and church planting in our world’s cities. If you’re looking for motivation to maintain a commitment to the city or for guidance as you consider going all in, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of urban life that informs, instructs, inspires, and answers questions including: Why cities are so important What the Bible says about cities How to overcome common issues and develop a plan for living missionally in the city Instead of retreating from or taking from our cities, here is a call to make the cities our home, to take good care of them, and to participate in God’s kingdom-building work in the urban centers of our world.
Author: Chiara Lubich Publisher: New City Press ISBN: 1565483391 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 71
Book Description
These pages are good news in every sense of the word, from forgetting the worries of the day to the certainty that God loves each and every one and demonstrated this by giving his life. For every sentence in this book you can find a corresponding passage in the Bible, the authoritative source of all Chiara's thinking. Collections of quotations from famous people are in circulation everywhere. Often these brief sentences offer rich aphorisms that are able to strike at the heart of many issues. Chiara Lubich's words had never been put together in such a format, a gap that this small book seeks to overcome. These helpful sentences express what we ourselves sometimes think and experience but can never quite seem to put into words so well. They can help us to live what we feel inside to be our true destiny.
Author: Kelly M. Kapic Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310329698 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
God So Loved, He Gave places the practice of giving within the larger story of God's generosity. Here we discover how our participation in the overflow of divine giving is vitally connected to the Trinitarian nature of God, the unfolding drama of Scripture and ultimately the Gospel itself.
Author: Charles E. Van Engen
Author: Timothy Keller
Author: Jonathan R. Wilson
Author: Dandi Daley Mackall
Author: Carolyn Weber
Author: Sara Miles
Author: Phil Mortensen
Author: Stephen T. Um
Author: Chiara Lubich
Author: Kelly M. Kapic