Trying Man, Trying God
Title | Trying Man, Trying God PDF eBook |
Author | Meira Z. Kensky |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Apocalyptic literature |
ISBN | 9783161504099 |
Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2009.
Trying Man, Trying God
Title | Trying Man, Trying God PDF eBook |
Author | Meira Kensky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9783161573606 |
Meira Z. Kensky examines scenes of the divine courtroom in Jewish and Christian literature from antiquity. Her central argument is that these courtroom scenes, though fanciful in nature and often remarkably entertaining, are part of a serious inquiry taking place throughout the Mediterranean as to the nature of divine justice. These scenes can contain explicit criticism about the adequacy and equity of God's justice, or can be used to attempt to vindicate God from charges of injustice and inequity. What is important is that this amounts to a rotation of the courtroom scene: the courtroom, rather than simply functioning on the narrative level with the reader as an additional spectator, is rotated so that the reader is in the judicial position, and it is the judge and the process itself which are being adjudicated. When man is tried, it is truly God who is on trial.
Take the Lid Off
Title | Take the Lid Off PDF eBook |
Author | Smokie Norful |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0718078993 |
Pastor and Grammy-winning musician Smokie Norful inspires readers to go to God and experience more fulfillment, delight, power, and success than they ever dreamed. According to Smokie Norful, sometimes our lives feel like a pot of rice in his grandmother’s kitchen: hissing, boiling over, about to explode and create panic. The only way to avoid an explosion is to take the lid off—that is, to stop being trapped inside ourselves and instead look to God and his grace to make us all he intends us to be. Taking the lid off, Norful argues, entails four actions: look inward, experiencing the cleansing of forgiveness and the power of the Holy Spirit; look outward, seeking for others to experience the joy of living for God and have the best God has to offer; look upward and marvel at God’s love and strength to accomplish his purposes; and move onward, devising a strategy to accomplish all God has put in our hearts to do. When we take these four steps, the pressure goes down, we gain peace and perception, and things work out much better in the end. When we finally take the lid off, we can become the people God has created us to be and do what we were intended to do. We get in touch with the unlimited power of his Spirit, we’re directed by the challenge of his purposes, and we experience the joy of seeing him use us to change lives. All of us need help in taking the lid off in order to trust God, take action, and reach our full potential.
Killing My Old Man; Being the Person God Sees in Me
Title | Killing My Old Man; Being the Person God Sees in Me PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Peavy |
Publisher | Covenant Books, Inc. |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2023-07-07 |
Genre | Religion |
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As a Christian, do you ever wonder why you still struggle with sin? Are you tired of repeating the same old mistakes? Have you found yourself caught in a seemingly never-ending cycle of habitual sin and shame? Are you tired of the feelings of defeat and long for the freedom, peace, and victory promised in being a new creation? Then it's time to face him. He is called the old man, the old self, or our old nature. We all have one. Are you ready to look him in the eye? Are you ready to fight him? Are you ready to live free? Let it begin today. It's time to kill your old man and be the person God sees in you. "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him" (Rom. 6:6-8).
The Gospel According to St. Mark
Title | The Gospel According to St. Mark PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Plummer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Bible |
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A plea for the ways of God to man: being an attempt to vindicate the moral government of the world
Title | A plea for the ways of God to man: being an attempt to vindicate the moral government of the world PDF eBook |
Author | William FLEMING (D.D.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1858 |
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The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
Title | The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Bible |
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