"The Poor, the Crippled, the Blind, and the Lame"
Title | "The Poor, the Crippled, the Blind, and the Lame" PDF eBook |
Author | Louise A. Gosbell |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 427 |
Release | 2018-08-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 316155132X |
The New Testament gospels feature numerous social exchanges between Jesus and people with various physical and sensory disabilities. Despite this, traditional biblical scholarship has not seen these people as agents in their own right but existing only to highlight the actions of Jesus as a miracle worker. In this study, Louise A. Gosbell uses disability as a lens through which to explore a number of these passages anew. Using the cultural model of disability as the theoretical basis, she explores the way that the gospel writers, as with other writers of the ancient world, used the language of disability as a means of understanding, organising, and interpreting the experiences of humanity. Her investigation highlights the ways in which the gospel writers reinforce and reflect, as well as subvert, culturally-driven constructions of disability in the ancient world.
Saturate
Title | Saturate PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Vanderstelt |
Publisher | Crossway |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2015-04-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433546027 |
What does living for Jesus look like in the everyday stuff of life? Many Christians have unwittingly embraced the idea that “church” is a once-a-week event rather than a community of Spirit-empowered people; that “ministry” is what pastors do on Sundays rather than the 24/7 calling of all believers; and that “discipleship” is a program rather than the normal state of every follower of Jesus. Drawing on his experience as a pastor and church planter, Jeff Vanderstelt wants us to see that there’s more—much more—to the Christian life than sitting in a pew once a week. God has called his people to something bigger: a view of the Christian life that encompasses the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in between. Packed full of biblical teaching, compelling stories, and real-world advice, this book will remind you that Jesus is filling the world with his presence through the everyday lives of everyday people... People just like you.
Gracism
Title | Gracism PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Anderson |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2023-05-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1514007339 |
We can't ignore color, class, or culture. Instead, we must engage race with a different posture. Responding to ongoing problems of prejudice and injustice, the original seven sayings of the gracist now become eight in this revised and expanded edition that revives the biblical model for showing special grace to those on the margins.
The Catholic Bible, Personal Study Edition
Title | The Catholic Bible, Personal Study Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Marie Hiesberger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 2433 |
Release | 2006-12 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 0195289269 |
"The essential resource for Scripture students"--Cover.
Early Christian Care for the Poor
Title | Early Christian Care for the Poor PDF eBook |
Author | K.C. Richardson |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2018-08-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1498296521 |
Beginning with Jesus’s ministry in the villages of Galilee and continuing over the course of the first three centuries as the movement expanded geographically and numerically throughout the Roman world, the Christians organized their house churches, at least in part, to provide subsistence insurance for their needy members. While the Pax Romana created conditions of relative peace and growing prosperity, the problem of poverty persisted in Rome’s fundamentally agrarian economy. Modeling their economic values and practices on the traditional patterns of the rural village, the Christians created an alternative subsistence strategy in the cities of the Roman empire by emphasizing need, rather than virtue, as the main criterion for determining the recipients of their generous giving.
Life-study of Luke
Title | Life-study of Luke PDF eBook |
Author | Witness Lee |
Publisher | Living Stream Ministry |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 2023-09-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 153603181X |
Luke’s Gospel reveals God among men in His saving grace given to fallen mankind. Its purpose is to present the Savior as a genuine, normal, and perfect man. It gives a complete genealogy of the man Jesus, from His parents back to Adam, the first generation of mankind, and shows that He is a genuine descendant of man—a son of man. Its record of the life of this man impresses us with the completeness and perfection of His humanity. Hence, this Gospel stresses the Lord as the Man-Savior. In contrast to Matthew, Luke does not stress the dispensational aspect or the Jewish background. It is the Gospel written to mankind in general, and it announces the good news to all people. Its characteristic is absolutely not Jewish, but Gentile. It is a Gospel to all sinners, both Jewish and Gentile. Since it is such, the sequence of its record is according to morality, not according to historical events.
The Greatest Story Never Told
Title | The Greatest Story Never Told PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Reverend Jeffrey Davis |
Pages | 161 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1617040592 |