Blessed Are the Uncool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blessed Are the Uncool write by Paul Grant. This book was released on 2009-09-20. Blessed Are the Uncool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Admit it: you want to be cool. Cool is a destination: everyone else has arrived, but you can't seem to catch up. Cool is a security blanket: you wear it ragged and hide beneath its tatters. Cool is a coping mechanism: you're leaning on it, and it keeps breaking down on you. Sooner or later, you'll count yourself among the uncool: in those moments when everybody gets the joke but you, when the new kid's swagger leaves you self-conscious, when your friends invite you to do what you swore you'd never do. In those moments God sees you and calls you blessed. In Blessed Are the Uncool Paul Grant deconstructs the cultural phenomenon of cool, an ever-elusive, exclusionary act of perpetual rebellion for rebellion's sake. A life spent chasing after cool is exposed for the fickle, fruitless and ultimately inauthentic life that it is. In its place God offers you community: where exclusion is replaced with love, rebellion is redeemed with hope, and your longings are answered with faith that in Christ, God is reconciling this uncool world to himself.
Hipster Christianity
Hipster Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hipster Christianity write by Brett McCracken. This book was released on 2010-08-01. Hipster Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insider twentysomething Christian journalist Brett McCracken has grown up in the evangelical Christian subculture and observed the recent shift away from the "stained glass and steeples" old guard of traditional Christianity to a more unorthodox, stylized 21st-century church. This change raises a big issue for the church in our postmodern world: the question of cool. The question is whether or not Christianity can be, should be, or is, in fact, cool. This probing book is about an emerging category of Christians McCracken calls "Christian hipsters"--the unlikely fusion of the American obsessions with worldly "cool" and otherworldly religion--an analysis of what they're about, why they exist, and what it all means for Christianity and the church's relevancy and hipness in today's youth-oriented culture.
So Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ: A Morning and Evening Devotional
So Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ: A Morning and Evening Devotional - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook So Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ: A Morning and Evening Devotional write by Douglas Wilson. This book was released on 2017-01-04. So Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ: A Morning and Evening Devotional available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the root of God's faithfulness and lovingkindness to us is the invitation to a great banquet: the Lord's Supper. Gospel-centered Communion is an all-encompassing sacrament, and So Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ takes inspiration for each day's grace and obedience from eating and drinking the bread and the wine. These 720 succinct and powerful readings come from the past fourteen years of Douglas Wilson's pastoral ministry, and deal with the many applications of the Lord's Supper that are suited to personal devotions. These include gospel encouragement, pursuit of sanctification, motivation and exhortation, observations on the church calendar, family life and community, daily bread, means of grace, and much more. For daily devotions in the morning and at night, So Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ will lead every evangelical Christian to think about and meditate on the transformative implications of eating and drinking the body and blood of the Lord Jesus.
What Matters Most and Why
What Matters Most and Why - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Matters Most and Why write by Jim Manney. This book was released on 2022-11-08. What Matters Most and Why available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Jim Manney is the perfect person to write this beautiful book. Let the wisdom of St. Ignatius guide you gently through your days with these lovely meditations.” — James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints How can I find meaning and joy? How can I think clearly? What’s valuable in life, and what’s irrelevant? How do we manage anger? What can we do about envy, laziness, resentment? How do I know what matters most? What do I really want? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Ignatian spirituality, the five-hundred-year-old wisdom tradition that has shown leaders, seekers, and doers the way to live a better life. The daily readings in this book emphasize answers to pressing questions about satisfaction in work and relationships. St. Ignatius and his friends believed that “God is found in all things” and “love is best expressed in deeds rather than words.” The Ignatian way is profoundly practical. It guides us through the great challenge of life — finding God and finding our place in God’s work to save and heal the world.
Jesus Made in America
Jesus Made in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus Made in America write by Stephen J. Nichols. This book was released on 2009-09-20. Jesus Made in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jesus is as American as baseball and apple pie. But how this came to be is a complex story--one that Stephen Nichols tells with care and ease. Beginning with the Puritans, he leads readers through the various cultural epochs of American history, showing at each stage how American notions of Jesus were shaped by the cultural sensibilities of the times, often with unfortunate results. Always fascinating and often humorous, Jesus Made in America offers a frank assessment of the story of Christianity in America, including the present. For those interested in the cultural implications of that story, this book is a must-read.
