Good News for Anxious Christians, expanded ed.
Title | Good News for Anxious Christians, expanded ed. PDF eBook |
Author | Phillip Cary |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2022-08-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1493437569 |
A talented teacher unpacks the riches of traditional Christian spirituality for Christians burdened by the guilt and anxiety of introspective, in-my-heart spiritual techniques. Phillip Cary explains that knowing God is a gradual, long-term process that comes through the gospel experienced in Christian community. The first edition has sold over 17,000 copies. The expanded edition includes a new afterword that offers further insights since the first edition was published over ten years ago.
Good News for Anxious Christians
Title | Good News for Anxious Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Director Philosophy Program Phillip Cary |
Publisher | Brazos Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Christian life |
ISBN | 9781441259738 |
A talented teacher unpacks the riches of traditional Christian spirituality for Christians burdened by the guilt and anxiety of introspective, "in my heart" spiritual techniques.
The Anxious Christian
Title | The Anxious Christian PDF eBook |
Author | Rhett Smith |
Publisher | Moody Publishers |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 080247909X |
Is anxiety “un-Christian”? Many Christians believe the answer to this question is yes! Understandably, then, many Christians feel shame when they are anxious. They especially feel this shame when well-intentioned fellow believers dismiss or devalue anxiety with Christian platitudes and Bible verses. Rhett Smith, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, helps us understand anxiety in a new way. Rhett argues that, rather than being destructive or shameful, anxiety can be a catalyst for our spiritual growth. Using Biblical thinking and personal examples, Rhett explains how anxiety allows us to face our resistance and fears, understand where those fears come from, and then make intentional decisions about issues such as career, marriage, money, and our spiritual lives. Allow this book to challenge your view of anxiety, and allow God to use your anxiety for good.
Flee, Be Silent, Pray
Title | Flee, Be Silent, Pray PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Cyzewski |
Publisher | MennoMedia, Inc. |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2019-02-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1513804367 |
What if prayer could be simple rather than strenuous? Anxious, results-driven Christians can never pray enough, serve enough, or study enough. But what if God is calling us not to frenzied activity but to a simple spiritual encounter? What if we must merely receive what God has already given us? In Flee, Be Silent, Pray, writer and contemplative retreat leader Ed Cyzewski guides readers out of the anxiety factory of contemporary Christianity and toward a God whose love astounds those quiet long enough to receive it. With helpful guidance into solitude, contemplative prayer, and practices such as lectio divina and the Examen, Cyzewski guides readers toward the Christ whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light. Ready to shed the fear of the false self and the exhaustion of a duty-driven faith? Flee. Be silent. Pray.
A Christian Survival Guide
Title | A Christian Survival Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Cyzewski |
Publisher | Kregel Academic |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0825443318 |
No one ever plans to fail in their faith. We all think we'll be the kind of Christian who follows the straight and narrow, ending our days with the relief of knowing we were ultimately a good and faithful servant. So why do so many leave that road? What enables some to survive as Christians when so many others have faltered? With A Christian Survival Guide, Ed Cyzewski steps up to be your trail guide and provide some possible answers. He addresses some of the biggest, toughest questions in Christianity, including: - Disturbing Bible stories - Hell and what it means - Does the Bible have to be "true"? - The question of evil- Money and the church- Evangelizing when no one wants to listen Candid and wry, Cyzewski deals with the tension of hard questions without resorting to empty answers, cliches, relativism, or the smug certainty that can so often drive seekers and strugglers further away. This popular blogger also has a knack of making long-ago biblical figures absolutely recognizable in today's issues. This survival guide is not meant to be a "one size fits all" handbook. It is a first step to confronting the big issues and challenges of a life of faith--even the ones that Christians fear most. Cyzewski writes for those who both care and question deeply, and offers survival tips to help readers move from living on the edge to a place of health and life.
History of Christianity
Title | History of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Johnson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 816 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1451688512 |
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Good News About Worry, The
Title | Good News About Worry, The PDF eBook |
Author | William Backus |
Publisher | Bethany House |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2010-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1556611870 |
"A Christian psychologist explains how to ease and reduce anxiety by replacing worry-producing thoughts" --Provided by publisher.