Friendship Can Save The World The Book Of Ruth And The Power Of Diverse Gospel Community

Author : Carrie Stephens
Publisher : ACU Press
ISBN 13 : 1684268788
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendship Can Save the World written by Carrie Stephens and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God uses diverse friendships to fulfill his miraculous will in the world. In an increasingly polarized world, our collective ability to navigate friendships with people whose backgrounds, experiences, and views differ from our own has diminished. Along the way, valuing diversity has come to be seen by many Christians as a secular pursuit. However, we love and serve a diverse God (being three unique persons himself) who taught us to love those we tend to have a hard time loving: outsiders, enemies, foreigners, the poor, and the weak. In Friendship Can Save the World, Carrie and Morgan Stephens offer an invigorating retelling of Ruth, Boaz, and Naomi to help us love people unlike us. Weaving in real life stories from their multiethnic, multigenerational, and socioeconomically diverse church, they highlight the power of unique friendships in God’s greater missional story. Readers will find inspiration to love and be loved more courageously as we all forge a path into a more redemptive future.

Author : Carrie Stephens
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1643525719
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Guacamole written by Carrie Stephens and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt on the edge, alone, down and out, or maybe wondered what in the world God can do with someone like you? Sometimes you wake up feeling less than great about your life. Or your relationships. Or your job. Or your whatever. Sometimes you even feel pushed to the side, put on the shelf, overlooked, and not particularly important to, well, anything. Sometimes, you feel even less important. . .than a side of rice and beans. (You know, kind of like that stuff served on the side that no one really asked for?) What if you found out you were something more like tableside guacamole—that fancy kind they wheel up to the table and make right on the spot? What if you were made on purpose, for a purpose that can release God’s glorious colors and flavors in the world? You didn’t arrive here by accident, nor have you been served up as an unwanted side dish. The God of creation has created you, and He isn't waiting for you to become some better version of yourself so He can finally love you. . .or use you. . .or delight in you. Generously seasoned with humor and empathy, with stories of triumph, failure, heartbreak, and redemption, Holy Guacamole will connect your heart to the unchanging truths of God’s Word and the unfailing power of God’s call to live a life full of His love for you and for the world. God longs to reveal to you all the ways you are His beautiful, flavorful, colorful creation. Let Him show you all the ways you are Holy Guacamole—His masterpiece, His signature offering to a world in need of His love.

Author : Dana L. Robert
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146745706X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faithful Friendships written by Dana L. Robert and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the necessity of boundary-crossing friendships for Christian discipleship Friendship isn’t always given a lot of thought—and lately, it doesn’t get a lot of time and effort, either. But in a world of busy and isolated lives, in which friendships can too easily become shallow, tenuous, and homogeneous, Dana Robert insists that good friendships are a vital and transformative part of the Christian life—a mustard seed of the kingdom of God. She believes Christians have the responsibility—and opportunity—to be countercultural by making friends across cultural, racial, socioeconomic, and religious lines that separate people from each other. In this book Robert tells the stories of Christians who, despite or even because of difficult circumstances, experienced friendship with people unlike themselves as “God with us,” as exile, as testimony, and as celebration. Jesus was a friend to his disciples. Through Jesus’s life and the lives of his followers down through the ages, Faithful Friendships shows readers how friendship can become life-changing—and even worldchanging.

Author : Joey Bonifacio
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1616386789
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The LEGO Principle written by Joey Bonifacio and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the example of LEGO®, a company that has been transforming the way people play for more than fifty years, Joey Bonifacio shows you how to make a difference—one connection at a time.

Author : Paul David Tripp
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433541416
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Morning Mercies written by Paul David Tripp and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 Gospel-Centered Devotions for the Whole Year Mornings can be tough. Sometimes, a hearty breakfast and strong cup of coffee just aren't enough. Offering more than a rush of caffeine, best-selling author Paul David Tripp wants to energize you with the most potent encouragement imaginable: the gospel. Forget "behavior modification" or feel-good aphorisms. Tripp knows that what we really need is an encounter with the living God. Then we'll be prepared to trust in God's goodness, rely on his grace, and live for his glory each and every day.

Author : Richard Twiss
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830898530
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys written by Richard Twiss and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missio Alliance Essential Reading List One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. The history of North America is marred by atrocities committed against Native peoples. Indigenous cultures were erased in the name of Christianity. As a result, to this day few Native Americans are followers of Jesus. However, despite the far-reaching effects of colonialism, some Natives have forged culturally authentic ways to follow the way of Jesus. In his final work, Richard Twiss provides a contextualized Indigenous expression of the Christian faith among the Native communities of North America. He surveys the painful, complicated history of Christian missions among Indigenous peoples and chronicles more hopeful visions of culturally contextual Native Christian faith. For Twiss, contextualization is not merely a formula or evangelistic strategy, but rather a relational process of theological and cultural reflection within a local community. Native leaders reframe the gospel narrative in light of post-colonization, reincorporating traditional practices and rituals while critiquing and correcting the assumptions of American Christian mythologies. Twiss gives voice to the stories of Native followers of Jesus, with perspectives on theology and spirituality plus concrete models for intercultural ministry. Future generations of Native followers of Jesus, and those working crossculturally with them, will be indebted to this work.

Author : Marjory Zoet Bankson
Publisher : Augsburg Books
ISBN 13 : 9781451413656
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seasons of Friendship written by Marjory Zoet Bankson and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, Bankson explores what we can learn from their unique friendship that survived marriages and moves, death and displacement. Bankson proposes that we need different kinds of friendships in different seasons of our lives. Stories from the author's own life illustrate the contemporary aspects of Ruth and Naomi's journey. The concluding chapter presents a unique perspective on the Book of Ruth as a parable of our friendship with God. The first title in the new Women to Walk With series, Seasons of Friendship includes personal journaling themes for reflection and a study guide with discussion questions and group exercises.

Author : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780867165036
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruth and Naomi written by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a retelling of the story of Ruth, this book offers an opportunity to see the Scriptural truth in our own lives and to value the sanctity and depth of each human life, with each chapter ending with a prayer that emphasizes the theme of human love being the root of all that is good.

Author : Jared C. Wilson
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433526395
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gospel Wakefulness (Foreword by Ray Ortlund) written by Jared C. Wilson and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We may know the gospel. We may believe it—even proclaim it. But we also may assume the gospel and become lethargic. In this book Jared Wilson seeks to answer the central question, how do we experience and present the gospel in a fresh, nonroutine way in order to prevent ourselves and others from becoming numb? His answer may be surprising: "by routinely presenting the unchanging gospel in a way that does justice to its earth-shaking announcement." We don't excite and awaken people to the glorious truths of the gospel by spicing up our worship services or through cutting-edge, dramatic rhetoric, but by passionately and faithfully proclaiming the same truths we have already been given in Scripture. Wilson's book will stir churches to live out the power of the gospel with a fervent, genuine zeal. After an explanation of the term "gospel wakefulness," Wilson unpacks implications for worship, hyper-spirituality, godly habits, and sanctification, as well as other aspects of church life. Pastors, church leaders, and all in ministry, especially those who are tired or discouraged, will be uplifted, emboldened, and empowered by this book.

Author : John Michael Sheehan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792016738
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Application Commentary on Friendship written by John Michael Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship can be just a passing moment in time or it can be one that lives on through this lifetime and eternity to come. This powerful commentary on the book of Ruth will change your life and perspective upon true biblical friendship leading each willing heart towards a closer relationship with God, family, and friends under the guiding light of the Holy Spirit as Pastor and Doctor of Theology John Michael Sheehan shares his walkthrough to book of Ruth.