Author: Jim Forest Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1608330826 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
Drawing on stories from the lives of the saints, scripture, and everyday life, Jim Forest opens up the mysteries of the Beatitudes. These ancient blessings, with which Christ began his Sermon on the Mount, are all aspects of communion with God. As Forest shows, they are like rungs on a ladder, each one leading to the next. They appear at the doorway of the New Testament to provide an easily memorized summary of everything that follows, right down to the crucifixion ("Blessed are you who are persecuted") and the resurrection ("Rejoice and be glad").
Author: James H. Forest Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Drawing on stories from the lives of the saints, scripture, and everyday life, Jim Forest opens up the mysteries of the beatitudes. These ancient blessings, with which Christ began his Sermon on the Mount, are all aspects of communion with God. As Forest shows, they are like rungs on a ladder, each one leading to the next. They appear at the doorway of the New Testament to provide an easily memorized summary of everything that follows, right down to the crucifixion ("Blessed are you who are persecuted") and the resurrection ("Rejoice and be glad").
Author: Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 1442215550 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life. However, most interpretations of these passages either focus on the original meaning of the text or how the texts should impact ordinary living today. In The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan brings together biblical studies and Christian ethics to look at these foundational texts in a new way. For each passage Chan asks both what the texts meant and what they mean today. He helps readers to carefully study the text’s original meaning, then interpret the text within a sound ethical framework. The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes is an excellent introduction to key concepts in biblical studies and Christian ethics that combines sound study with warmth and wisdom.
Author: Michael Glerup Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830866868 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
As part of the Classics in Spiritual Formation, the sermons of Gregory of Nyssa offer a contemporary rendering of ancient spiritual wisdom for today's readers. Begin with the introduction, which provides the context and background, and then dive into the text, translated and paraphrased Michael Glerup from the original languages. You'll also find helpful callouts that show how the work relates to your personal spiritual formation and clarify unfamiliar ideas. Don't miss this unique opportunity to interact with the work of some of Christianity's great spiritual formation teachers and experience true spiritual transformation.
Author: Erik Kolbell Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press ISBN: 9780664222925 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
In this timely exploration of the Beatitudes, Kolbell suggests that the eight pillars--meekness, empathy, righteousness, peace, persecution, poverty, purity, and simplicity--are still valuable codes of conduct for busy, anxious lives.
Author: Stu Garrard Publisher: NavPress ISBN: 1631465996 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
A disruptive and surprising journey through the Beatitudes. Most of the time, life doesn’t work out like we expect it will. We spend time and energy trying to climb some sort of spiritual ladder, oblivious to the fact that it is God who is moving toward us. We want answers to our problems, yet what is offered is presence. What if we were to become united with our brokenness rather than our victories? What if God moves closest to us in the absence, the ache, and the longing? Words from the Hill turns each beatitude on its head to see the unexpected beneath the understood—diving into the story of a woman on death row to speak about mercy, personal stories from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to talk about peace, and much more. Stu Garrard has walked with these people in their stories, and he vulnerably offers his own as he unpacks the Good News of the Beatitudes. God is on your side, and He is closer than you think.
Author: Thomas Watson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1988297893 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
An exposition on the famously known "Sermon on the Mount" of the Lord Jesus Christ. Watson goes verse by verse of the Beatitudes that open up the sermon giving examples and ways to live out the words that Jesus handed down to all people for all time.
Author: Jim Forest
Author: James H. Forest
Author: Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan
Author: Michael Glerup
Author: Ellen G. White
Author: Erik Kolbell
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Author: Stu Garrard
Author: Thomas Watson
Author: Thomas Watson