The Times and Seasons
Title | The Times and Seasons PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 1843 |
Genre | Mormon Church |
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The Seasons of Time
Title | The Seasons of Time PDF eBook |
Author | John Bissessar |
Publisher | Sermon To Book |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-11-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781945793066 |
Deal with the mayhem of life without missing God's intended order! What if your life were not a mess, but a series of purposeful steps-intentional phases through which you could walk in confidence? Imagine being truly prepared for the changes in life, no matter what curveballs were thrown at you! John J. Bissessar is senior pastor of Seasonal Times Ministries, Inc., which offers minister/officiant services for prayer and counseling, baptism, marriage, and other spiritual needs and occasions. In The Seasons of Time, he shows us that the course of the believer's life is not random. It follows a cyclical pattern that God uses to develop specific Christ-like characteristics in us. Understanding how to identify and approach each season will help you reap the greatest benefit from everything God wants for you and the people you encounter. In this book, you'll learn: -What ancient agriculture has to do with Christians today, -Why change is a good thing and waiting is worth it, -How to know you're on the right track when things aren't going your way, -Why you should be glad when God comes at you with the pruning shears, -Where you should be getting your food and water if you want to be ready for anything, -Why you shouldn't be broken up when life smashes you to pieces, -How you can be sure the dark days won't last, -What it's going to take for you to grow beyond the basics, -What kind of harvest you can expect from God and why you shouldn't keep it to yourself. PLUS workbook sections to help guide your progress from one season to the next! Don't be defeated by your current circumstances or afraid of what's to come. God purposefully arranges our lives so we can experience the profound transformation of our character in the midst of change. Start reading your copy of The Seasons of Time today and get ready to take part in God's bountiful harvest!
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista
Title | The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista PDF eBook |
Author | Elisa Eastwood Pulido |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019094210X |
"In 1903, at the age of twenty-four, Margarito Bautista (1878-1961) left his childhood home on Mexico's Central Plateau and relocated to the Mormon Colonies in the northern Mexican wilderness. Enthused by his recent conversion to Mormonism, Bautista wanted to live in proximity to and learn from the Euro-Americans who had evangelized him. Nearly forty years later, as a Mormon excommunicate and religious entrepreneur, he returned permanently to the Central Plateau to establish his own indigenously-led polygamous utopia in the town of Ozumba. In this volume I have tried to answer two central questions concerning Bautista's journey: After dedicating so many years of his life to the evangelization of Mexicans on both sides of the U.S. border, what led to his separation from the Mormon Church? How did he become the founder of an indigenous movement which observed Mormonism's most difficult practices? My study of Bautista's spiritual trajectory has been an exercise in deep "listening" to the writings he left: a 564-page tome that employs an indigenous hermeneutic in its melding of Mormon theology and the history of Mexico, nearly sixteen years of diaries, numerous letters, and multiple pamphlets. Bautista is often represented as the sole creator of his Mexican-inspired improvisations on Mormon doctrine. The Mormon Church however played a major role in his spiritual education. Bautista took his life-long views on indigenous exceptionalism directly from Mormon scripture. In the two decades following his conversion Bautista thrived under the Mormon umbrella, moving through the ranks of Mormon priesthood, mastering Mormon doctrine and scripture in English, and becoming acquainted with esoteric temple rituals. But in 1924 his meteoric rise stalled. In this volume I will demonstrate that Bautista's insistence on independent Mexican ecclesiastical authority and his fundamentalist clinging to historical practices and doctrines, at a time when the mainstream Church was abandoning them, estranged him from both Euro-American and Mexican Mormons. Nevertheless, These same views propelled him on to his ultimate calling and mission, that of an independent religious entrepreneur and utopian founder. I will show that the roots of Bautista's uncompromising doctrine and religious activism are multiple and complex. They are found in the Mexican anarchism extant in the farmlands of central Mexico where he was raised, in the flourishing cultural nationalism of Mexico, in the transnational perspective created by his frequent movement across borders, and in the tenets of early Mormonism, which Bautista learned while a resident from 1903 to 1910 in the polygamist Mormon Colonies in the wilderness of northern Mexico"--
The Crucible of Doubt
Title | The Crucible of Doubt PDF eBook |
Author | Terryl Givens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2014-09-08 |
Genre | Faith |
ISBN | 9781609079420 |
This insightful book offers a careful, intelligent look at doubt--at some of its common sources, the challenges it presents, and the opportunities it may open up in a person's quest for faith.
Common Worship: Times and Seasons
Title | Common Worship: Times and Seasons PDF eBook |
Author | Church of England |
Publisher | Canterbury Press |
Pages | 745 |
Release | 2014-08-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 071512238X |
Provides all the essential seasonal liturgy for the Christian year, including material for using from Advent to Candlemas, and from Lent to Easter, as well as many other festivals and seasons throughout the year.
The Mystery of Time
Title | The Mystery of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Donnell Duncan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2020-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781672453158 |
Do you want to know the secret to success according to Ecclesiastes 9:11? Be in the right place at the right time. That principle forms the foundation of "The Mystery of Time". Yet, it all starts with seeing time through the eyes of The One who created it; God. Time is more than the numbers on a clock or dates on a calendar. It's more than the span between the beginning of Genesis and the end of Revelation. It's more than what can be measured with any man-made tool or instrument. God has fit time into the continuum of eternity in such a way that it governs the human experience. In this, his seventh book, author Donnell Duncan looks from seven different Biblical perspectives at the age-old question; "What is time?" He provides scriptural best practices for discerning God's timing and shares effective tools for understanding the end times. Most importantly, he reveals through the life of Jesus, the value of living according to God's schedule and tapping into the wisdom of the Holy Spirit for a revelation of the future.
Times and Seasons
Title | Times and Seasons PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1839 |
Genre | Mormon Church |
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