Challenging Jesus - 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 Challenging Jesus write by Matthew Olliffe. This book was released on 2020-04. Challenging Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 10 Interactive Bible Studies for small groups and individuals
The Challenge of Jesus
The Challenge of Jesus - 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 The Challenge of Jesus write by N. T. Wright. This book was released on 2015-02-26. The Challenge of Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With an all-new introduction by the author, N. T. Wright's classic work helps us grow in our understanding of the historical Jesus within first-century Palestine while challenging us to follow Jesus more faithfully into the postmodern world of the twenty-first century.
The Difficult Words of Jesus
The Difficult Words of Jesus - 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 The Difficult Words of Jesus write by Amy-Jill Levine. This book was released on 2022-10-31. The Difficult Words of Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As well as telling parables and stories, giving teachings on how to discern questions of ethics and human nature, and offering beatitudes for comfort and encouragement, Jesus also spoke words and flung insults that followers then and now have found difficult, to say the least. He instructs disciples to hate members of their own families (Luke 14:26), warns that unending fire awaits some people, says body parts should be cut off if they offend. He calls a foreign woman a ‘dog’, the Jews ‘offspring of vipers’ and his closest disciple ‘Satan’. Preachers often gloss over these or avoid them altogether as they are still so shocking. In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine sheds vital light on understanding these by exploring how these sayings sounded to those who first heard them. She reveals Jewish modes of expression, humour and the long tradition of Jewish insults and what they mean, and how we might interpret these sayings today within a gospel of love and reconciliation.
Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus
Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus - 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 Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus write by David Bivin. This book was released on 1994-10-01. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus“This book will stir the pot of biblical scholarship for years to come. It will force many to rethink the origin of the Gospels and the Jewishness of Jesus. Some may disagree with Bivin and Blizzard at certain points. No one, however, can ignore the soundness of their conclusion: Jesus is a Hebrew...
Subversive Jesus
Subversive Jesus - 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 Subversive Jesus write by Craig Warren Greenfield. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Subversive Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Jesus left the most exclusive gated community in the universe to come live with the people he loved and gave his life for, he turned everything we know and believe about life on its head. Jesus said that he came to bring good news to the poor, but most Western Christians remain disconnected and isolated from the poor and their contexts of injustice. Even our churches echo society’s pressure to isolate ourselves from the margins (e.g. by moving to a better suburb) and instead teach us how to be “nice people” who worship a “nice Jesus” and don’t disrupt the status quo. Convinced that Jesus places love for the poor and the pursuit of justice central, Craig Greenfield has sought to follow in Christ’s footsteps by living among people at the edges of society for the last fourteen years. His quest to follow this Subversive Jesus has taken Craig and his young family from the slums of Asia to inner city Canada and back again. This is the story of how Jesus led them to the margins: initiating the Pirates of Justice flash mobs, sharing their home with detoxing crackheads, welcoming homeless panhandlers and prostitutes to the dinner table, and ultimately sparking a movement to reach the world’s most vulnerable children. This book is a strong and potentially controversial critique of the status quo too often found in our churches, but it offers an inspirational and hopeful vision of another way. While readers may not relocate to a slum, they will certainly come to view their lives and ministry through a fresh lens—reconsidering how they are uniquely called by Jesus to subversively love the poor and break down systems of injustice in their sphere of influence.
