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Many of us spend our lives chasing happy. We chase happy in our relationships. We chase happy through our successes. We chase happy through the next adventure, our next paycheck, or the next escape. But maybe we've been chasing the wrong kind of happy. The book of Philippians shows us where true happiness and joy can be found. We find happy when we chase God's joy, His purpose, His encouragement, and His peace. Together, let's chase happy so we can...
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Martin Luther, full of compassion, grief, disappointment, and frustration, turns away from his entreaties to and debates with church leaders and writes instead to the German political leaders. With extreme clarity, Luther explains in this letter the unbalanced nature and habits of the religious institution - certain at this point that the German people could only be set free from this continual and escalating religious destruction through the intervention...
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When people treat you wrongly, insult you, or are outright sinful to you, how do you react? Are you satisfied to hold grudges against those who wrong you, as long as they don't lead to action? Unfortunately, your decision to harbor bitterness is just as much of a sin as the one originally committed against you, and your reaction to others' sin is a spiritual battle you are called on to win.
Lou Priolo focuses on that battle in this vital book that...
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¿Te has sentido alguna vez perdido en la oscuridad, sin saber por dónde ir o qué decisión tomar en momentos difíciles? ¿Has deseado contar con una guía, una presencia invisible que te ilumine el camino y te brinde consuelo en esos momentos de incertidumbre?
Si es así, te invito a descubrir el maravilloso mundo de los ángeles a través del audiolibro "El misterio de los ángeles. Presencias invisibles que guían nuestro camino.". En esta...
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The world has changed. The changes around us present daunting challenges to the church, and we minister in places we have never been in before. But there are no one-size-fits-all solutions because every church needs to attend to its specific situation and calling. We need to listen for not only what to do but also what not to do. In a world screaming in a thousand directions for our focus, it's essential for us to become attentive to God, our congregation,...
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Embark on a journey through time with "The Apocrypha Collection," a treasury of ancient texts that have captivated seekers of truth and wisdom for centuries.Uncover the rich history and origins of these enigmatic writings, exploring their discovery, exclusion from the biblical canon, and resurgence among scholars and spiritual seekers.
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A Treasure Trove of Ancient Wisdom: Delve into profound wisdom, enchanting tales, and ethical...
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Thomas Aquinas (c1225-1274) died before he could complete his ambitious plan for Summa Theologica, described as 'a systematic compendium' of Roman Catholic theology. Drawing on a wide range of Christian sources - and, controversially, on Greek and Latin philosophers as well as Arabian commentators - he sought to explicate matters of doctrine through a specific scheme of Question, Article, Objection, Answer and Reply.
Before his death, Aquinas completed...
9) Las cruzadas: Un apasionante recorrido por un acontecimiento de la historia cristiana que tuvo lu
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Así que cree saber lo que ocurrió durante las cruzadas. Pero, ¿lo sabe realmente?
Es una buena pregunta, ya que existen muchas ideas erróneas sobre las causas de las cruzadas, por no hablar de lo que ocurrió realmente durante las mismas. En este libro pretendemos aclarar muchas de estas cuestiones y ofrecerle una historia concisa y precisa de las cruzadas. Gran parte de la historia de las cruzadas se ha visto oscurecida a lo largo de los años...
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Many books have dealt with sexual abuse scandals in the church and the role of pastoral care for survivors. Others have provided liberatory readings of biblical texts to support survivors of sexual violence. Surviving God takes a new approach, centering the voices of sexual abuse survivors while rethinking key Christian beliefs. Starting from experiences of oppression, beliefs that contribute to oppression are challenged, and new, hopeful, and healing...
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In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of...
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The Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas, is a fundamental text in Catholic doctrine, a compendium of theology that has been studied and debated since its first publication in the 13th century. Furthermore, it has been widely regarded as one of the classics of Western philosophy, not least because, perhaps for the first time in such a systematic manner, it set out to consider the views of non-Christian figures such as Aristotle, Boethius, Muslim writers...
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In our culture today, the preoccupation over self-identity-or who we are-is hard to ignore. But the pursuit of self-understanding has been a recurring theme throughout human history. How many times have you asked yourself, "Who am I?"
The desire to answer this question-whether it manifests in self-enhancement strategies or self-serving biases-is part of being human. Yet, through a Biblical lens, we know something has gone terribly wrong with our...
15) Bezalel
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Christian artists and creative people often believe that there calling and career is not supported by the Bible or theology. Christ John Otto, founder of Belonging House, has worked for 10 years studying the eight chapters in Exodus about Bezalel. Bezalel is one of the most overlooked figures in the Bible. Bezalel's story speaks to one of the key questions of our time: "What is my identity?" The name Bezalel means 'image of God,' and reflects not...
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Este libro narra la impresionante historia del joven Gabriel Guilherme Estevão, dedicado desde el nacimiento al servicio de los demonios. De manera clara, directa e impresionante, Gabriel cuenta cómo fue educado y preparado para ser un agente al servicio de las fuerzas de las tinieblas, y desenmascara la forma de actuación de los ángeles caídos. Mientras tanto, la parte más importante - y linda - de este libro es respecto a la forma en cómo...
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The world's most influential commentator on Paul delves deeply into the letter to the Romans and draws out its vital, enduring and Spirit-filled importance for Christians today.
N. T. Wright is widely regarded as the most influential commentator and interpreter of Paul, and Paul's letter to the Romans is often thought of as the Gospel in condensed form. And, within Romans, chapter 8 is one of the most spectacular pieces of early Christian writing....
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A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.
The bitterly tangled webs of race and housing in the postwar United States hardly suffer from a lack of scholarly attention. But Tracy K'Meyer's To Live Peaceably Together delivers something truly new to the field: a lively examination of a predominantly white faith-based group-the Quaker-aligned American Friends Service Committee...
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This short book is designed to introduce people to the evidence from Church history and the teaching of the Bible showing that God will one day restore all of His creation to the perfection He intended. Hell is real, but it is temporary in its duration and remedial in its nature. At the end of time, all those God created in His image will experience the peace and joy of being in His presence. The booklet can be read in about a half-hour, and its small...
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This first volume of the Torah for Nations series is a detailed and intimate presentation of the story of Adam and Eve. While remaining true to the literal text of the Bible, it enhances the Biblical narrative by expanding the conversations between G-d, Adam, Eve, and the serpent. These enhanced conversations, while imaginative, remain true to ancient Jewish interpretation and weave a comprehensive understanding of traditional Jewish philosophy and...
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