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Some teenagers are zeroes, and some are infinite. Elmer Whit may be both.Elmer is used to subtraction. He was born with less than most, and the world keeps making deductions. Until she showed up. An extraordinary girl, the multiplication of strangers, and a road trip to forgiveness prove that love-times-love equals infinite hope.

Can we engage in prayer that is more effective, less harmful, and doesn't make God look bad?This workbook, alongside the book, Divine Echoes, will inform and equip both individuals and small groups to pray transformative and subversive prayers that will increase God's shalom in the world. This study guide will also help readers develop their own theology of petitionary prayer while taking into account theodicy, social justice, and personal moral responsibility.

If you're looking for a cheery, always-uplifting devotional, then you've come to the wrong place. Not that Devoted As F*ck won't uplift and renew your spirit at times, it's merely that the goal of this book is not to make you feel good. Instead, it is an irreverent look at today's version of Christianity that is meant to shake you to your core. Sometimes cheeky, other times profound, but mostly in your face, Distefano has constructed the perfect devotional for the spiritual misfit who doesn't quite fit the cookie-cutter mold.

Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the "pastor" the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastor's basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1 Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the usual way of doing church contradicts Paul's self-evident remark that "the body indeed is not one part" and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the living church functions "with many parts." Jon dismembers the traditional pastor doctrine from various angles by combining two new essays and a response to Eugene Peterson's The Pastor: A Memoir, with three past articles and excerpts from his response to Dr. Ben Witherington's review of Pagan Christianity.

Many think that the phrase "e;body of Christ"e; is just a picture or a metaphor, but in fact it is a reality. Believers are the body of Christ on earth. The ministry of Jesus has continued through His people since the Day of Pentecost in 30 A.D. Frank Viola pinpoints this truth that is revolutionary, but became buried underneath human traditions. What had taken place [on the Day of Pentecost]? The body of Christ was born on the earth. But what does that mean? It means this: The literal body of Jesus Christ had returned to earth. It expanded; God now had a family. Jesus Christ in heaven had dispensed Himself into His body on earth. He returned to earth in the form of His body, the church, and His species was reintroduced to the planet. In the eyes of God, the Church is nothing more and nothing less than Jesus Christ on earth. (From Eternity to Here) In We Are Christ On Earth, Jon opens up a number of crucial implications flowing out of "e;Christ in us, the hope of glory."e; He presents perspectives that liberate the people of God to express and serve Jesus in endless ways. Perhaps we will better understand why Jesus said to Saul, "e;Why do you persecute Me?"e; when he was arresting and hurting believers.

If God cannot control free creatures, then how did the biblical authors interact with God's revelation to produce the biblical text?God Speaks begins by exploring and asserting a number of problematic issues facing popular notions of Inspiration today. Gordon then begins to offer an interdisciplinary solution utilizing Thomas Jay Oord's theology of Essential Kenosis and revealing how it provides a better theological basis for developing a doctrine of Biblical Inspiration. If God cannot control the biblical authors, then what they produce as the biblical text is not revelation in and of itself, but a contextualized human response to that revelation. With the rising popularity of Essential Kenosis, the dismantling of popular notions of inspiration through historical criticism, and a reclaiming of the interpretative methods of the early church, God Speaks puts forth a doctrine of inspiration and revelation that better accounts for these realities while more faithfully securing our allegiance to Christ.

What if Jesus didn''t die to save us from God?The doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement is not the Gospel. It''s a theory that originated in the 1500s under John Calvin. The damage done by this teaching is still being felt today. It''s time to abandon this toxic theology in favor of a Christ-centered view of the cross that sets us free from sin and unveils a God of love who would rather die than live without us.