Résultats pour "The Stranger" dans Christianisme

While visiting the Holy Land, Amanda answers the prayers of a stranger…and begins an amazing Christmas journey. Amanda Vance is ambivalent about her husband’s idea for a big family holiday up north. Last year she planned a special Christmas in their own home, carefully preparing a nursery...

How did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, and how should the church respond? Historian Carl R. Trueman discusses how influences ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography moved modern culture toward an era of "expressive individualism." Investigating philosophies from the Romantics, Nietzsche, Marx, Wilde, Freud, and the New Left, he outlines the history of Western thought to the distinctly sexual direction of present-day identity politics and explains the modern implications of these ideas.

Nick Cominsky’s spiritual life is running on empty. With his passion diluted by religious routine and the sapping circumstances of everyday life, he longs to reconnect with God, but following the standard spiritual prescriptions just isn’t working. Since when did loving God become such an...

This is a biblical exploration podcast for the curious, the questioning, and those navigating faith deconstruction. If your theological questions have been met with resistance or hostility instead of answers, this is for you. We skip the basic Sunday school stories and dig deep into the complex, strange, and often skipped-over parts of scripture, theology, and church history. Whether you are deconstructing your faith, holding onto your Christian roots, or just looking for a deeper academic and spiritual understanding of the Bible, we wrestle with the texts together to discover hidden beauty.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus comes a surprising history of Jesus’ most radical commandment, tracing how this extraordinary duty to love even those who are strangers to us has shaped our world and our lives. From the earliest of times up through Greek and Roman...

Unravel the cryptic verses and biblical mysteries of Scripture to transform your spiritual growth and daily devotions. Whether you are seeking contemplative inspiration during your morning commute or wrestling with unresolved theological questions, these ancient texts are not roadblocks to faith...

Jade spent her whole life searching for peace and happiness, repeatedly beating her wings with all her might, only to fly straight into the glass wall that separated her from the light. She could see it, but she couldn’t touch it. After repeatedly falling to the ground, stunned and bruised, she began to believe that the light was not meant to be given to someone like her. She did not deserve it. She tried working as a hostess at a Korean bar, later as an exotic dancer, and she once married a knight in shining armor—who would not carry her on his white horse.

Our universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine.We have been conditioned to see the world as a series of mundane boxes: a job to do, a body to feed, and a religious ritual to maintain. We’ve been told that the "real world" is the one we can touch, while the supernatural is a distant, optional extra.They told us wrong. Strange New Realms is an invitation to step out of the shadows and into the substance. We will explore the biblical worldview that the modern age has forgotten—or ignored. This isn't just a Bible study; it’s a recovery mission.From the ...

In The Temple and the Lodge, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh reveal the survival and evolution of a world-changing order through the birth of the Masonic lodge. Recounting the brutal events in the 14th century that led to the sudden disappearance of the Knights Templar - a powerful military and banking order founded in 1119 and active in the Crusades - the authors document the Templars' reappearance in the court of excommunicate Scottish king Robert the Bruce.  

Is the Holy Spirit a stranger in your faith? Have you ever felt there's a gap between the life promised in the Bible and the one you're living? For many followers of Jesus, the Holy Spirit is a familiar stranger—a rumored figure we know of, but don't truly know. We hear stories of God's power...

In A Stranger in Jerusalem, Trevan Hatch attempts to situate the stories about Jesus within their Jewish context. Jesus was a Jew, his friends were Jews, his first followers were Jews, he studied the Hebrew Scriptures (either orally or from texts), he worshiped in the synagogue, and he occasionally traveled to Jerusalem to observe the Israelite festivals. Hatch illustrates that Jesus does not seem to have rejected Judaism or acted as a radical outsider in relation to his Jewish peers, but rather, he worked within a Jewish framework.

Discover the dangers and deceptions of the modern Charismatic movement and learn how to be biblically faithful to the Holy Spirit's true work. In Strange Fire, bestselling author and pastor John MacArthur chronicles the unsavory history behind the modern Pentecostal and Charismatic movements so...

The story of a girl's struggle to accept her disabilities and how she came to understand God's Word and to live her life for Him.

Ever wished there was a book about some of the weirdest and most disturbing stories in the Bible that was also hilarious to read? You've found it. It turns out, there's a lot of strange stuff in the Bible, and this book takes a tongue-in-cheek look at all of it. Approximately 80 percent of...

In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history. After the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable but frightening turn. For the last 10 months of her life, Ermine was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons.

Are you tired of powerless religion? Do you long to see God move in ways that defy logic and transform lives? In this groundbreaking book, Yowell Samuel takes you beyond theory into a dynamic exploration of how ordinary believers can operate in extraordinary power.

Experience how the power of the cross unleashes meaning and purpose in the midst of your daily life. This meditative and spiritual reflection by Ken Costa considers the cross and the king who died upon it. Christ’s work on the cross established a kingdom that is strange indeed, if a king died...

What does the Bible really say about Homosexuality? It depends who you ask. In this comprehensive book, Steve Wells presents the scriptural arguments that conservatives use to condemn homosexuality, as well as the liberal interpretations that claim that the Bible approves of homosexuality.

There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won’t be able to fix on my own. But in them all, I know God will be there, calling me to look to him. Inviting me to take the next step toward his open arms. And I will say yes. And yes. And yes. Annahita Parsan was born into a Muslim...

A gripping tale of escape from Egypt, The Stranger at Our Shore is the true story of one young man’s journey out of Islam into new life in Christ. Through his remarkable testimony, Chicago pastor Joshua Sherif calls on the Western Church to reconsider the plight of the modern-day sojourners in our land—the strangers at our shore and the ones living right next door—and to return wholeheartedly to its first charge: making disciples. Any believer will walk away from this book feeling less intimidated and better equipped to disciple people who are different than them.