Beyond Our Imaginations The Infinite God

With our world getting sicker and the days getting darker, what and where can we find the substance of our faith? What will guide us in troubled times when we are more concerned with the pleasures and the minutia of our daily lives? With the watering down of the Word of God into today's pop messages to please the ear, it's no wonder the people starve spiritually when even the milk of the Gospel is gone. Herein, the author attempts to lure the reader back to the Lord's table-to sup the wine, to break the bread, to consider what is the food of our Lord that we may spiritually be fed and grow into eternal life instead of the fast food of man hurriedly eaten to starve our souls toward an early death. This is one man's journey into the mustard seed of his own faith.

Our society is under attack from the enemy; the attack is coming from every angle, targeting everything we once believed in and stood for, including “In God we trust.” We can feel the heat and see the effects of these attacks of evil advances brewing and threatening the core institutions that underscore the foundations of our beliefs and livelihood due to outright disconnect from God, our creator.

The challenge facing Christianity today is not a lack of motivation or resources, but a failure of imagination.A growing number of people are disturbed by the values exhibited by the contemporary church. Worship has become entertainment, the church has become a shopping mall, and God has become a consumable product. Many sense that something is wrong, but they cannot imagine an alternative way. The Divine Commodity finally articulates what so many have been feeling and offers hope for the future of a post-consumer Christianity.Through Scripture, history, engaging narrative, and the inspiring art of Vincent van Gogh, The Divine Commodity explores spiritual practices that liberate our imaginations to live as Christ's people in a consumer culture opposed to the values of his kingdom. Each chapter shows how our formation as consumers has distorted an element of our faith. For example, the way churches have become corporations and how branding makes us more focused on image than reality. It then energizes an alternative vision for those seeking a more meaningful faith. Before we can hope to live differently, we must have our minds released from consumerism's grip and captivated once again by Christ.

Apologetics, the defense of the Faith, shows why our Christian faith is true—but it’s much more than that. Apologetics isn’t just the province of scholars and saints, but of ordinary men and women: parents, teachers, lay ministry leaders, pastors, and everyone who wants to develop a stronger faith, to understand why we believe what we believe, to know Our Lord better, and love him more fully. In Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith, Holly Ordway shows how an imaginative approach—in cooperation with rational arguments—is extremely valuable in helping people come to faith in Christ. Making a case for the role of imagination in apologetics, this book proposes ways to create meaning for Christian language in a culture that no longer understands words like ‘sin’ or ‘salvation,' suggests how to discern and address the manipulation of language, and shows how metaphor and narrative work in powerful ways to communicate the truth. It applies these concepts to specific, key apologetics issues, including suffering, doubt, and longing for meaning and beauty. Apologetics and the Christian Imagination shows how Christians can harness the power of the imagination to share the Faith in meaningful, effective ways.

Volume 3 of the leading full-color Bible Chart series. Ideal for Sunday school teachers, college and seminary professors, pastors, and homeschoolers, the resources in this easy-to-use anthology include more than 220 reproducible charts, photographs, maps, and handouts, many of which are new to this edition. Topics include spiritual gifts; the lives of Esther and David; the parables of Jesus; the attributes of God; and more. Perfect for busy people who want hundreds of facts at a glance. Charts include: Favorite Bible topics including forgiveness, money, prayer, heaven, and more Comparisons of Christian views on baptism, communion, revelation, and spiritual gifts Bible characters including Jospeh, Moses, David, Ruth, and more Book of the Bible overviews Jerusalem Time Line - 24 foldout One-Year Bible Reading Plans - 3 options Creeds Charts comparing the creeds and Bible references Rose Publishing Product Code: 262X

The whole manifested world goes to show us what use we have made of God's gift. Receiving a gift does not mean that we are going to use it wisely, but we have the gift. Everyone has the gift; and the world simply reflects the use of that gift.In "The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare puts these words into the mouth of Portia: "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine who follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching."So you and I have been given a gift. To what use have we put it? In a book written in the First Century, written at the time of our Gospel, -- it's called the Hermetica, and this is a translation by Walter Scott. It is a wonderful series of four volumes; and in this he says: "There are two gifts that God has given to man alone, and to no other mortal creature, and these two gifts are Mind and Speech. And the gifts of Mind and Speech are essential and identical with Immortality. If they are used rightly, man will not differ in any respect from the immortals; and when he quits the body, these two will be his guides and they will lead him into the troop of the gods and. to the souls that have attained to bliss."