V 15: Resources … books and websites
____________________________________________________________________Note: It is strongly suggested that you print off a complete section for reading through at a later date than trying to read the content of this website directly off the computer screen. ____________________________________________________________________These pages are given to highlight further issues of building Christian community around the world. Jesus Christ needs to be at the centre of all efforts to building that community. Then there needs to be a wholistic emphasis on the inner person (our spirit), middle person (our soul of mind, will and emotions) and our outer persons (our physical body), as being necessary for building effective community. There are several categories here as part this Resources page:
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hand column of this website ___________________________________________________Websites:These websites have been grouped initially into two broad sections then four finer categories in the last section of four categories based on the ideas below: 1. JESUS CHRIST ….. THE ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS:
in a way I never could. In http://ianthomsonian.org/ he addresses topics such as: _____________________________________2. INNER PERSON (our spirit):See the Blog Site: http://2innerpersonourspirit.blogspot.com/ _____________________________________3. MIDDLE PERSON (our soul of mind, will and emotions): See the Blog Site: http://3middlepersonoursoulofmind.blogspot.com/ 4. OUTER PERSON (physical body) Practical application of our Christian Worldview And The Outer Created Order ….. how did we get here? ….. through Evolution or a Special Creation?). See the Blog Site:http://4outerperson.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________________Recommended Books: …..Book Depository in the United Kingdom ….. millionsof books available . Delivery around the world is included in the price of thebook._________________________________________________________Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, by Michael DentonPublisher DescriptionsMore than thirty years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologistMichael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution toexplain the history of life. He argues that there remains “an irresistible consilience ofevidence for rejecting Darwinian cumulative selection as the major driving force ofevolution.” From the origin of life to the origin of human language, the great divisionsin the natural order are still as profound as ever, and they are still unsupported by the seriesof adaptive transitional forms predicted by Darwin.In addition, Denton makes a provocative new argument about the pervasiveness ofnonadaptive order throughout biology, order that cannot be explained by the Darwinianmechanism._________________________________________The Heavenly Man, Brother Yun by Hattaway Paul.Publisher Descriptions The true story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan Province, China, and used him to preach the gospel despite intense persecution. [Publisher] The Heavenly Man is the intensely dramatic story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan Province and used him mightily to preach the gospel despite horrific opposition. Brother Yun is one of China’s house church leaders, a man who despite his relative youth has suffered prolonged torture and imprisonment for his faith. His account challenges any complacency about the situation in China, where international economic investment ignores the brutal fact that religious persecution is still a daily reality for millions.Instead of focusing on the many miracles or experiences of suffering, however, Yun prefers to emphasize the character and beauty of Jesus. This astonishing book will form a watershed in your spiritual life. _____________________________Publisher DescriptionsA leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor,bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions of dollars on war – where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary culture and politics,inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas. _____________________________Call To Conversion, The (Revised and Updated 2005) …(Why Faith Is Always Personal but Never Private) Wallis Jim (Author of the New York Times bestselling God’s Politics) Paperback Put Your Faith into Action! A leading voice at the crossroads of faith and politics offers a prophetic appeal for our times: faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions of dollars on war – where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas. – Publisher___________________________________________________________God’s Politics Wallis Jim (Author of the New York Times bestselling God’s Politics)Publisher DescriptionsSince when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care,and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside? While the Right in America has hijacked the language of faith to prop up its political agenda – an agenda not all people of faith support – the Left hasn’t done much better, largely ignoring faith and continually separating moral discourse and personal ethics from public policy. While the Right argues that God’s way is their way, the Left pursues an unrealistic separation of religious values from morally grounded political leadership. The consequence is a false choice between ideological religion and soulless politics. The effect of this dilemma was made clear in the 2004 presidential election.The Democrats’ miscalculations have left them despairing and searching for a way forward. It has become clear that someone must challenge the Republicans claim that they speak for God, or that they hold a monopoly on moral values in the nation’s public life. Wallis argues that America’s separation of church and state does not require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. In fact, the very Survival of America’s social fabric depends on such values and vision to shape. Our politics – a dependence the nation’s founders recognized. God’s Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the prophetic religious tradition – that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and lesbians).Our biblical faith and religious traditions simply do not allow us as a nation to continue to ignore the poor and marginalized, deny racial justice, tolerate the ravages of war, or turn away from the human rights of those made in the image of God. These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe, Christian or not. In the tradition of prophets such as Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, and Desmond Tutu, Wallis inspires us to hold our political leaders and policies accountable by integrating our deepest moral convictions into our nation’s public life. ___________________________________Velvet Elvis … Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell.Publisher Descriptions“Somewhere in my basement sits a Velvet Elvis – a painting of the King himself, air-brushed onto black velvet in a wooden frame. What if the painter of my Velvet Elvis announced there was no more need to paint, that he had painted the ultimate painting? We would think he had lost his mind because of our instinctive understanding that art is never done – it’s the endless process of learning,exploring, shaping and forming. And it’s no different with faith. The Christian faith will never be complete. We will always be exploring and discovering what it means to live in harmony with God and each other. If we don’t, our faith may end up in the basement. This book is about the endless need to keep painting . . . Rob Bell.”– Publisher. ____________________________________________________Irresistible Revolution, TheClaiborne ShanePublisher DescriptionsLiving as an Ordinary Radical, using unconventional examples from his own life, Shane Claiborne stirs up questions about the church and the world, and challenges readers to truly live out their Christian faith.Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a cheque to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. Shane’s faith led him:
redistribute wealth. Shane lives out this revolution each day in his local neighbourhood, an impoverished community in North Philadelphia, by living among the homeless, helping local kids with homework, and “practicing resurrection” in the forgotten places of our world. Shane’s message will comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable but will also invite us into an irresistible revolution. His is a vision for ordinary radicals ready to change the world with little acts of love. ________________________________________________________________Simply Christian by Tom WrightSimply Christian is essential reading for anyone who wants to consider the real fundamentalsof Christianity or is intrigued by its claims about the place of justice, beauty and love in ourdaily lives. Written in a lively and accessible style, though rooted in solid scholarship, thisbook describes the exciting relevance of the Bible and the Christian story for the contemporaryworld. Not since C. S. Lewis. Mere Christianity has there been such a thrilling attempt tore-express the heart of the Christian faith and the transformation it offers to every area ofpersonal and social life.SIMPLY CHRISTIAN is essential reading for anyone who wants to consider the realfundamentals of Christianity or is intrigued by its claims about the place of justice, beautyand love in our daily lives.Written in a lively and accessible style, though rooted in solidscholarship, this book describes the exciting relevance of the Bible and the Christian storyfor the contemporary world.It is laid out helpfully in three sections. The first opens with thefrustrated longings of humanity for justice,spirituality, relationships and beauty: why arethings like this, do they have to be so and can life be lived differently? Tom Wright then setsout the central Christian belief about God and his creation, and explores the biblical analysisof whats wrong with the world. He explains Gods plan for its renewal, and the centralimportance of Jesus.In the final section, he explores what it means to follow Jesus, to beenergized by the Holy Spirit and to advance Gods plan for our world. Brilliant BishopWright is one of Gods best gifts to our decaying Western church, and would-be learners andteachers of the faith will gain hugely from these fascinating pages.J.I. PACKER, professor of theology, Regent College.Publisher.____________________________________________________No God But One: Allah Or Jesus? by Nabeel Qureshi:Both Islam and Christianity teach that there is only one God, and so many people seethem as similar and overlapping. Bestselling author Nabeel Qureshi takes readers ona compelling journey that compares the two faiths in detail, revealing their radicallydifferent natures. On account of the superficial points of agreement between Islam andChristianity, any don’t see how tremendously deep the divides between them really are,and fewer still have considered the evidence for each faith. How is Jihad different fromthe Crusades? Can we know the life of Jesus as well as the life of Muhammad? Whatreason is there to believe in one faith over the other, and what difference can theGospel really make? In No God But One, New York Times bestselling authorNabeel Qureshi takes readers on a global, historical, yet deeply personaljourney to the heart of the world’s two largest religions. He explores the claimsthat each faith makes upon believers’ intellects and lives, critically examining the evidencein support of their distinctive beliefs. Fleshed out with stories from the annals of bothreligions, No God But One unveils the fundamental, enduring conflict between Islamand Christianity-directly addressing controversial topics like Jihad, the Crusades, Sharia,the Trinity, and more. Readers of Qureshi’s first book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus,will appreciate his careful and respectful comparison of Islam and Christianity. Bothreligions teach that there is No God But One, but who deserves to be worshiped, Allah orJesus?– PublisherSee the book in the Christian bookshop in Koorong in Australia____________________________________________________Books on the New Spirituality Movement:There are two religious spiritualities vying for the modern mind:
to answer, in the power of the gospel, the questions emerging in a culture dominated by planetary paganism, for the sake of her evangelism and her intentional Christian living. There is a further need:
and inform the Church of the challenge of global paganism.
in light of the post-modern pagan option.
implications of living in and witnessing to a pagan world.
Worldview to the next generation of Christians, born into a paganized culture that claims to be just and normative, and dismisses Christianity as mere bigoted “traditionalism,” by giving Christian youth an understanding of the timeless character of the Christian/pagan antithesis. The New Spirituality: This spirituality is quite different to the Spirituality from Jesus Christ as described in the page Spirituality from Jesus Christ …. where they are coming from. Each is vying for the modern mind. ____________________________________ See the website at: http://www.truthxchange.com Dr. Peter Jones has written and he Has many books which are available in the Online Store section of the website. See the section for viewing his online books at http://www.truthxchange.com/store/ See the section for viewing his online books at http://www.truthxchange.com/store/ Two of his excellent books are:
Back sounds the alarm of the New Age threat, comparing it to the ancient Christian heresy of Gnosticism.
_______________________________________________________ Robert Bell Books, DVDs and Videos: Robert Holmes Bell Jr. (born August 23, 1970) is a best-selling author, Christian speaker, and the founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church located in Grandville, Michigan. He is also the featured speaker in the first series of spiritual short films called NOOMA, and has been tagged by some in the press as “the next Billy Graham.”[1] Bell and his wife, Kristen, have two boys and live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bell See a different website on Rob Bells Church: http://www.marshill.org/ When you put Rob Bell into a search engine like Google, you find many listings for Rob Bell. _____________________________________________________________PAST EMAIL BROADCASTS ….. See the following stories:_______________________________________________________________PAST KEN AND HARRIET PLACE EMAIL BROADCASTS …..Email broadcasts to lighten up your day …. bring some fun, laughter and adifferent perspective on life.From a Christian Spirituality: Proverbs 15:13-15A merry heart maketh a Cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heartthe spirit is broken. The heart of him that hath understanding seekethknowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. All the days ofthe afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.See the following emails:
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