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Generational Sins The Bible reveals patterns of sin passed down through generations, sometimes as generational curses. To grasp this, we must understand the nature of a curse and how it's linked to sin. Just as the laws of gravity are unbreakable, the laws of sin result in curses and death. The Ten Commandments serve as a warning against generational curses. Exodus 20:3-6 emphasizes the consequences of idolatry, highlighting the repercussions of disobedience. These spiritual laws not only affect the initial generation but can also impact subsequent ones. The Bible recognizes sin as both an ...

The written word of mankind is a revelatory tool, offering insight into a person, place, or thing. When it’s used to express ideas about a person, the reader gains insight into that person’s character and, in some sense, comes to know that person. The Holy Bible is God’s written Word and a revelatory tool, offering insight into God’s attributes and thus revealing God’s character. Through studying His Word, a person can learn about Him and come to a greater understanding of His true identity.

Rosario Picardo was a recently divorced and slightly jaded ex-Marine when he heeded God's call to plant "a church for broken people". This book chronicles the struggles and triumphs of Embrace Church, from its beginnings in his basement as a rare urban church plant to a multi-campus congregation that reaches hundreds of folks broken by poverty, burned by Christians, and in need of healing grace.

Focusing on the theology around Christ as God and man, St. Athanasius expounds on the biblical evidence of the hypostatic union. He reflects on the entity and identity of Christ as well as his purpose on Earth and his intent for his followers.

In The Practice of Catholic Theology: A Modest Proposal, Paul J. Griffiths has written a how-to book for Catholic theologians that will both instruct beginners and challenge long-time practitioners to sharpen their understanding of their craft. He defines Catholic theology as the practice of thinking, speaking, and writing about the God of Christian confession; so understood, it's something that anyone can learn to do.

From the Preface: "The purpose of this little book is to show that the dedication demonstrated by the early disciples, is without exception, enforced by the commands of our Saviour. And not only that, but it is illustrated by the conduct of the apostles and early Christians. The author therefore asks that all sincere disciples of Christ carefully weigh what is written here in the balance of the Sanctuary, not the balance of the world."

Extraordinary Love and Extravagant Generosity is a short book that describes my faith journey of “spirit and truth” (John 4:23), my understanding of the Bible as it relates to “understanding the times” (I Chronicles 12:32), my understanding of what the Bible says about the prophetic and how to discern truth from error or counterfeit, and how I believe that “extraordinary love” (I Corinthians 13) and “extravagant generosity” (II Corinthians 9:6) will be a powerful witness for salvation in the times that we live. The book includes: Chapter 1: My Personal Journey With the Holy ...

It has been said the Roman Empire was used by God in the spread of the Gospel; the well maintained roads, safe passage by sea, relative peace and order. Yet, the influence of Roman power in the land of Christianity’s origin was largely the work of one man – not a Roman, not a Jew yet a friend of the Romans and king of the Jews: Herod the Great.

This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, and Žižek),

What is baptism, and why is it significant? This book answers these questions by offering baptism as a life-giving prism through which we can view the entirety of our Christian experience. Far from being a staid ritual, baptism, whatever its form, gives each person, each local church, and the church as a whole a common source of identity and purpose. Drawing on a lifetime of pastoral experience and scholarship, Dr. Shoemaker explores the spectrum of meanings present in our own baptisms and offers a wealth of ideas for church leaders as they prepare times of worship centered around this ...

What role does God’s law play in the lives of Christians? Doesn’t God’s grace make the law totally obsolete? Should Christians who are saved by grace strive to keep the Ten Commandments? These questions, and others like them, have been a source of friction among Christians for centuries. This book offers answers by providing a thorough biblical analysis of law and grace, demonstrating how they are not at odds with each other. Topics include: the role of God's law in a Christian’s life, the distinctions between justification and sanctification, what happens when laws collide (moral ...

Although he refused to ally himself with a specific denomination, religious scholar Paul Carus had a particular reverence for Buddhism, and in 1896, published this succinct guide to the basic doctrines of the religion.

The Ancient Wisdom is a book by Anni Besant published in 1897 as per the dedication in the Leader of the undated first pressing. In this book Besant introduces and explains the physical plain, astral plane, mental plain and other planes of existence. This book is intended to place in the hands of the general listener an epitome of Theosophical Teachings, Sufficiently plain to serve the elementary student, and sufficiently full to lay a sound foundation for future knowledge.

The Separation of Church and Church is a thought-provoking book that explores the complex history of Christianity's divisions and the path toward unity. It examines theological, cultural, and political factors that have contributed to the fragmentation of the Church while emphasizing the importance of pursuing reconciliation.

This is a book about a new beginning. After 20 years of teaching and preaching with the churches of Christ in West Virginia, Andrew Burns left the tradition and found a new home in the Orthodox Church. In these pages, you will read about the issues with which he struggled, the solutions he found, and the reasoning he went through that eventually led him away from the churches of Christ. This is neither is a condemnation of the churches of Christ nor an apology for Orthodox Christianity. Instead, it is Burns' offering to those struggling with their faith that and they who suspect there may ...

Kein anderes Buch hat die Weltgeschichte und die Kultur so geprägt wie die Bibel, die von sich behauptet, Gottes Wort und Wahrheit zu sein. Kann es sein, dass dieser enorme Einfluss der Bibel bloß auf menschlichem Irrtum beruht und das Buch der Bücher doch nichts weiter ist als eine Sammlung rein menschlicher Märchen und Mythen? Um das herauszufinden, muss die Bibel auf den Prüfstand gestellt und untersucht werden, ob sie ihrem absoluten Anspruch standhalten kann.

Is it possible that the largest body of Christian believers, Roman Catholics, have fallen from their place in heaven? Dark Halo takes the listener on a fantastic voyage, down the hallowed halls of St. Peters Basilica in the heart of Rome, and behind closed doors in the Vatican to reveal that the horrors and atrocities of the Roman Catholic Church have echoed down the ages, right into our modern times.

The manner of After Crucifixion may be imagined as a moment in which in some unpretentious underground venue, the deep, resonant percussions of subwoofers roll as a carnal wave across the chest and throat before they become the bass line in a conscious musical thought. After Crucifixion has been written for the ears, the chest, the throat, no less than for focused, deliberate, disciplined thought. But it is written, in particular, for bodies befriended by the mystery of life and death

A spectacular stretch of earth, the Eastern Sierra region of California, reveals volcanic reefs, desert sand dunes, majestic mountains, and snow-fed lakes and rivers. Drawing on 40 years of college teaching on the world's religions, Professor Brad Karelius is your guide, uncovering deep spiritual dimensions in this achingly beautiful place. This book shares crystallizations of religious wisdom collected through the ages, and finely tuned descriptions of holy sites which you may visit, that will draw you deeper in your personal encounters with world spiritualities.

I bring forth the sacred doctrines, perennial teachings, and ancient wisdom within this book as I will follow the original line of consciousness and how it has spread throughout this known universe. I will give to us the conscious path throughout the three origins of this earth’s cycle. They are the belief structures that evolved from Animism in European, Indian, and Paleo-Indian. I will now explain how the plane of dark, created by the universal mind was corrupted and is attempting to be taken over by the outer universe within our own galaxy.