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Cultivating Christlikeness
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Author : Dr. Paul W. Chilcote
language : en
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Release Date : 2024-03-26
Cultivating Christlikeness written by Dr. Paul W. Chilcote and has been published by Abingdon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with Religion categories.
Are you ready to reclaim our inheritance as United Methodist Wesleyans? Our communities and the world are crying out for empathy, authenticity, and integrity. This book helps us choose ways of living that are grace-filled and redeeming. Cultivating Christlikeness is about the bold adventure of United Methodists celebrating and living into a grand vision that includes everyone in God’s extravagant embrace. Jesus invites us to partner in the work of transformation, new birth, and resurrection in every aspect of our lives. Together we can step into a future showered by God’s multiplying love. Paul Chilcote mines his decades of study, prayer, and devotion to Christian practices to share his vision for how we partner with God to make the world more loving and just. In Cultivating Christlikeness, he weaves the threads of insight and appreciation with special attention to Wesleyan ways of loving God and neighbor that can change us and change the world. With his gentle direction, we discover with new appreciation how 18th-century John and Charles Wesley illumine our 21st-century quest to befriend Jesus, who frees us to live into and by the grace of God. Chilcote’s book is a practical guide. He guides us with a mentor’s insightful nudge as we explore essential Wesleyan teachings about God and the beloved community. He helps us know how to share these understandings with our families and neighbors, and more importantly, he points us to ways to live out our commitments with purpose, courage, and joy. The framework and flow of Cultivating Christlikeness make it easily adaptable for group discussion and individual use. It includes a plan for a two-day retreat for those eager to join in a more intensive experience of mutual engagement to renew their spirits and discover fresh ways to grow in love and grace. The book is a companion to Chilcote’s, Multiplying Love (Abingdon Press), which casts the theological vision that animates this practical spiritual guide. And it is an updated and expanded revision of an earlier work entitled, Wesley Speaks on Christian Vocation, originally published by Discipleship Ministries, then reissued by Wipf & Stock.
Cultivating The Fruit Of The Spirit
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Author : Christopher J.H. Wright
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2017-01-21
Cultivating The Fruit Of The Spirit written by Christopher J.H. Wright and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-21 with Religion categories.
How should Christians live? On the one hand, some very legalistic Christians stress the importance of keeping all the rules—that you must do this and never do that if you want to prove you are really a Christian. On the other hand, there are those who reject the whole idea of rules or traditions in the church and see the point of the Christian faith as setting us free from the institutionalized religious burden. But Paul addresses these two competing views by showing us a far better way—a truly Christian way to live our lives. It is the way of the Spirit of God given to us through Christ: "Walk by the Spirit . . . led by the Spirit . . . live by the Spirit . . . keep in step with the Spirit." That is the heart and soul of Christian living. It is the center and secret of what it means to be a person who belongs to Christ. Pastor and scholar Christopher Wright invites us to live a life in step with the Spirit by cultivating the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These nine chapters, each addressing a different fruit, each conclude with questions for contemplation or discussion. Feed on the Word of God, grow in Christlikeness, and live a fruitful life.
Servants For His Glory
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Author : Miguel Núñez
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Servants For His Glory written by Miguel Núñez and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Religion categories.
Being is greater than doing. We all come into the world with a certain emptiness in our lives—an emptiness that leads to a search for meaning. And the world tells us that search for meaning can be solved by doing. Unfortunately, an overemphasis on doing has led many people away from cultivating an interior life that allows them to sustain their exterior life. This explains the many failures we continuously see in day-to-day life. When a person’s inner life—who he or she is—is not prepared, that person's character does not have the maturity or the strength to sustain them in the long run. In this book, Miguel Núñez points us to Scripture and experience to show us how being is more important than doing. He teaches us how to cultivate the foundations of our lives, so that we can be what we need to be, in order to do what we need to do.
Cultivating Christlikeness
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Author : Paul W Chilcote
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-03-26
Cultivating Christlikeness written by Paul W Chilcote and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with Religion categories.
Are you ready to reclaim our inheritance as United Methodist Wesleyans? Our communities and the world are crying out for empathy, authenticity, and integrity. This book helps us choose ways of living that are grace-filled and redeeming. Cultivating Christlikeness is about the bold adventure of United Methodists celebrating and living into a grand vision that includes everyone in God's extravagant embrace. Jesus invites us to partner in the work of transformation, new birth, and resurrection in every aspect of our lives. Together, we can step into a future showered by God's multiplying love. Paul Chilcote mines his decades of study, prayer, and devotion to Christian practices to share his vision for how we partner with God to make the world more loving and just. In Cultivating Christlikeness, he weaves the threads of insight and appreciation with special attention to Wesleyan ways of loving God and neighbor that can change us and change the world. With his gentle direction, we discover with new appreciation how 18th-century John and Charles Wesley illumine our 21st-century quest to befriend Jesus, who frees us to live into and by the grace of God. Chilcote's book is a practical guide, leading us through selected excerpts from the Wesleys, adding fresh insights and probing questions as we explore essential teachings about God and the beloved community. He helps us know how to share these understandings with our families and neighbors, and more importantly, he points us to ways to live out our commitments with purpose, courage, and joy. The framework and flow of Cultivating Christlikeness make it easily adaptable for group discussion and individual use. It includes a plan for a two-day retreat for those eager to join in a more intensive experience of mutual engagement to renew their spirits and discover fresh ways to grow in love and grace. The book is a companion to Chilcote's Multiplying Love (Abingdon Press, 2023) that casts the theological vision that animates this practical spiritual guide. And it is an updated and expanded revision of an earlier work entitled Wesley Speaks on Christian Vocation, originally published by Discipleship Resources then reissued by Wipf & Stock.
Cultivating Christlikeness In And Through Suffering
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Author : Katherine McLennan Kimball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Cultivating Christlikeness In And Through Suffering written by Katherine McLennan Kimball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Spirituality categories.
"Pain and suffering are inevitable in this world. However, in a time where we have relatively easy and inexpensive access to over-the counter-painkillers, anesthesia, and opioids, it has become harder for us to know how to handle suffering when it cannot be medicated, numbed, or distracted away. The reality of suffering is particularly challenging for Christians who believe that suffering and death were defeated once and for all by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and who are yet called to live faithfully in the midst of suffering until the eschaton. In this thesis I offer St. Bonaventure's imaginative meditations on the passion (The Tree of Life and The Mystical Vine) as resources for the contemporary church. I argue that these texts are oriented towards transformation into the likeness of Christ. As the readers focus their attention on the suffering, death, and resurrection of the god-man Jesus Christ and grow in love for him, they become - by grace- sharers in what they see. More important than offering a subjective, internal experience of being joined to Christ, these texts offer a way to become real, embodied participants in his life, death and resurrection. This participation necessarily involves becoming like Christ in his suffering; suffering is part of the process of appropriating the victory over evil that Christ (the New Adam) accomplished on our behalf. While Bonaventure's invitation to suffer with Christ is uncomfortable, it is by no means masochistic: suffering is not valuable for its own sake, but because of its role in the process of becoming Christlike, that is, fit for the coming kingdom where suffering will have no place. Neither is Bonaventure's invitation hopeless: the same Christ who suffered and died was resurrected and glorified; those who join in the first will share with him the second. By reframing human suffering in the light of the Christian story, these texts train us to suffer faithfully in this world as we await the world that is to come." --Abstract.
Becoming Like Jesus
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Author : Christopher J. H. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-14
Becoming Like Jesus written by Christopher J. H. Wright and has been published by Langham Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-14 with Religion categories.
In the last sermon he ever preached, John Stott echoed the Apostle Paul when he said that God’s greatest desire and plan for us is to become like his Son, Jesus Christ. BUT HOW? Stott prayed daily that God would bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit in his own life; a prayer clearly answered and evident in his Christlikeness. Chris Wright, a close friend of John Stott, reflects on all nine qualities that the Apostle Paul includes in the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians. He shows how they are rooted in the character of God, first revealed in the Old Testament, and modelled and taught by Jesus. With applications to encourage biblical growth with depth, and questions at the end of each chapter, this is an ideal resource for preachers, study groups and personal reflection. Many people rightly stress the importance of the gifts, power and ministries of the Holy Spirit, but easily neglect Paul’s command to live and walk by the Spirit and cultivate the fruit that only he can bear in our lives. Paying close attention to the beautiful and robust qualities that Paul includes in the fruit, and seeking daily to cultivate them with God’s help, is surely one way we can become more and more like Jesus.
An Infinite Journey
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Author : Dr. Andrew M. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Ambassador International
Release Date : 2014-01-09
An Infinite Journey written by Dr. Andrew M. Davis and has been published by Ambassador International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-09 with Religion categories.
After we’ve come to faith in Christ, God leaves us in this world for a very clear purpose: his own glory. But how are we to glorify God for the rest of our lives? The Bible reveals that God has laid before every Christian two infinite journeys which we are to travel every day: the internal journey of growth into Christlike maturity, and the external journey of worldwide evangelism and missions. This book is a road map for the internal journey, laying out how we are to grow in four major areas: knowledge, faith, character, and action. In this book, we’ll learn how God grows us in knowledge, faith, character, and action. We’ll also discover that spiritual knowledge constantly feeds our growing faith, faith will transform our character, our transformed character will result in an array of actions more and more glorifying to God, and our actions will feed our spiritual knowledge. This upward spiral will lead us to become more and more like Jesus Christ in holiness. And not only will this book help us understand Christian growth in detail, it will also give us a passion to grow every day for his glory.
An Infinite Journey Growing Toward Christlikeness
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Author : Andrew M. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Ambassador International
Release Date : 2013-12-16
An Infinite Journey Growing Toward Christlikeness written by Andrew M. Davis and has been published by Ambassador International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Religion categories.
After we've come to faith in Christ, God leaves us in this world for a very clear purpose: His own glory. But how are we to glorify God for the rest of our lives? The Bible reveals that God has laid before every Christian two infinite journeys which we
The Fruit Of The Spirit
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Author : Stuart Briscoe
language : en
Publisher: Shaw Books
Release Date : 2000-03-07
The Fruit Of The Spirit written by Stuart Briscoe and has been published by Shaw Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-07 with Religion categories.
Be Renewed Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. All of us desire to exhibit these qualities in our lives. But what does it mean to “live by the Spirit”? The fruit of the Spirit is the result of the inner workings of God, but it is also a product of our response and understanding. It comes from obedience as well as dependence. In this studyguide, Stuart Briscoe invites you to study more deeply how believing and behaving affects one another. Using passages from both the Old and New Testament, Briscoe offers us a deeper understanding of the nine fruits of the Spirit in Galatians, giving us encouragement and insight into what it means to live as Christ did.
Becoming Christlike Disciples
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Author : H. Ray Dunning
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2010-01-20
Becoming Christlike Disciples written by H. Ray Dunning and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-20 with Religion categories.
Making the connection between living a holy life and following Christs example of love, H. Ray Dunning provides spiritual guidance for Christians who want to grow in grace. His treatment of the joy and comfort that results from holy living is both helpful and encouraging. Inviting readers to return to the biblical meanings and descriptions of the holy life, Dunning challenges believers to cultivate a holy walk with Godand he provides guidance for that effort. His exploration and explanation of key spiritual disciplines in the life of the Christian will benefit pastors and lay persons for years to come. From the time I first sat under his teaching, H. Ray Dunning has been the pivotal theological influence on my understanding of the Holy God. My preaching, theology, and pastoral practice reflect the shaping that took place under his influence. Read reverently, think deeply, and live gratefully. Dan Boone President, Trevecca Nazarene University