Doubt After Doubt Doubting The Christian Faith Paperback

Author : A. J. Swoboda
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493429590
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Doubt written by A. J. Swoboda and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a way to walk faithfully through doubt and come out the other side with a deeper love for Jesus, the church, and its tradition? Can we question our faith without losing it? Award-winning author, pastor, and professor A. J. Swoboda has witnessed many young people wrestle with their core Christian beliefs. Too often, what begins as a set of critical and important questions turns to resentment and faith abandonment. Unfortunately, the church has largely ignored its task of serving people along their journey of questioning. The local church must walk alongside those who are deconstructing their faith and show them how to reconstruct it. Drawing on his own experience of deconstruction, Swoboda offers tools to help emerging adults navigate their faith in a hostile landscape. Doubt is a part of our natural spiritual journey, says Swoboda, and deconstruction is a legitimate space to encounter the living God. After Doubt offers a hopeful, practical vision of spiritual formation for those in the process of faith deconstruction and those who serve them. Foreword by pastor and author John Mark Comer.

Author : Rob Jacik
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435719638
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubt After Doubt: Doubting the Christian Faith (Paperback) written by Rob Jacik and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit http: //www.doubtafterdoubt.com for more information! FOR CHRISTIANS: "Doubt after Doubt" is required reading for anyone who puts their faith into the Bible and Jesus Christ. The journey is from the perspective of a former Christian. It will take you deep into the Bible for answers to Christianity's biggest challenges, while considering views from popular Christian authors and modern scholars. FOR PAGANS: As a Pagan you will find "Doubt after Doubt" a fantastic resource for helping parents, loved ones, friends or others understand why you rejected Christian doctrine and why Paganism aligns most closely to your values and beliefs.

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 125026278X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith After Doubt written by Brian D. McLaren and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith. ONE of the Best Spiritual Books of 2021—Spirituality & Practice "Will help you live fuller and breathe easier..” —Glennon Doyle Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every year. Faith After Doubt is for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart. Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor and now an author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality. He proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith, but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith. The four stages—Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony—offer a path forward that can help sincere and thoughtful people leave behind unnecessary baggage and intensify their commitment to what matters most.

Author : Bobby Conway
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736963553
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting Toward Faith written by Bobby Conway and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, doubt is not the opposite of faith. Rather, doubts call for an important decision—will you give in to unbelief, or will you continue the journey toward faith? Doubt can lead to confusion, hopelessness, and despair. But as this eye-opening book demonstrates, doubts can also deepen your dependence on God, develop your sense of empathy for others, and motivate you to find satisfying answers to life's biggest questions. Here you'll find practical ways to use your doubts to build your faith, such as... letting your doubts drive you to Jesus finding a safe community where you can doubt out loud and find support using a journal to clarify your doubts and the answers you find No one can eliminate all doubt this side of heaven. So for now, discover how to use your doubts to keep you headed in the right direction—toward faith.

Author : Alister McGrath
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830833528
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doubting written by Alister McGrath and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are taught to doubt but commanded to believe. Somehow we think that admitting to doubt is tantamount to insulting God. But doubt is not a sign of spiritual weakness--rather it's an indication of spiritual growing pains, says Alister McGrath. He explores the origin and nature of doubt and the specific doubts that often plague Christians in a postmodern culture.

Author : James Emery White
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 144124607X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Nones written by James Emery White and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single fastest growing religious group of our time is those who check the box next to the word none on national surveys. In America, this is 20 percent of the population. Exactly who are the unaffiliated? What caused this seismic shift in our culture? Are our churches poised to reach these people? James Emery White lends his prophetic voice to one of the most important conversations the church needs to be having today. He calls churches to examine their current methods of evangelism, which often result only in transfer growth--Christians moving from one church to another--rather than in reaching the "nones." The pastor of a megachurch that is currently experiencing 70 percent of its growth from the unchurched, White knows how to reach this growing demographic, and here he shares his ministry strategies with concerned pastors and church leaders.

Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Religion written by A. N. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that religion has inspired many of man's worst evils: war, prejudice, bigotry, cruelty, race hatred and fear. Without it, man would be free to be God. In this polemic, A.N.Wilson singles out the Pope and the Ayatollah for particular attack.

Author : Joseph Eugene Young
Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 1630040029
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journey from Doubt to Faith written by Joseph Eugene Young and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey from Doubt to Faith will help you address your doubts and work through them to a wholesome and vibrant faith. When doubts cloud our thinking we grope in a fog of uncertainty and pessimism. We long for beliefs that will provide our ""reason to be"" and give direction to our living. Our Christian beliefs must be more than a ""hand-me-down"" from parents or church traditions. Beliefs must be ""ours"" because we have thought them through. We need beliefs that will guide our thinking so we can act with confidence and inward peace. Since doubt is a common human condition, we can use our doubts to raise questions and to research so our beliefs become well defined. Indeed doubt is one of God's most effective methods for producing a practical, working faith.

Author : Michael A. Babcock
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736940375
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Can I Believe When I Have So Many Doubts? written by Michael A. Babcock and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s okay to doubt.” With these opening words of his introduction, Michael Babcock draws in skeptics and believers alike with the comforting assurance that their questions do not disqualify them from faith. Rather, he asserts, doubt is essential to faith because our doubts drive us to God. Readers will instantly relate to Babcock’s personal, casual tone as he deftly leads them on a journey between two dangerous extremes. On one side, he cautions readers against a fundamentalist attempt to wipe doubt away. On the other side, he guards against a contemporary tendency to make doubt a badge of honor. Penetrating insights into Bible stories and characters provide a solid scriptural foundation as Babcock describes doubt as a natural part of the human condition. Babcock leads readers to a wonderful conclusion: The only answer to doubt is an encounter with the living God.

Author : John Ortberg
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 031032503X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Know Doubt written by John Ortberg and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ortberg demonstrates how doubt is very much a part of faith and how uncertainty can lead to trust. "The beliefs that really matter," he writes, "are the ones that guide our behavior. We cannot hope without faith, and so we must not hope for something but someone--Jesus Christ.