Enemies with Smiling Faces: Defeating the Subtle Threats That Endanger ChristiansInterVarsity Press, 20 sept. 2009 The world is a dangerous place. Enemies lurk everywhere--in the workplace, in schools, in small towns and big cities, and even in the church. Their faces are various, but they are equally tempting and deceptive. Learning to recognize these "enemies with smiling faces" can keep you from falling prey to their mind-bending, heart-rending lies. Some enemies mask themselves in popular "Christian" concepts that are not truly biblical:
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Pagina 17
... encounter after encounter: Demand less, permit more Surrender less, control more Consume more, pay less Avoid pain, escape the mundane Let your personal preferences reign. The rhythm of such cultural chants seeps into the perceptions ...
... encounter after encounter: Demand less, permit more Surrender less, control more Consume more, pay less Avoid pain, escape the mundane Let your personal preferences reign. The rhythm of such cultural chants seeps into the perceptions ...
Pagina 18
... encounter get confused with the depth and substance of long-term commitment. Philosopher of religion Elton Trueblood laments, "The terrible danger of our time consists in the fact that ours is a cut flower civilization. Beautiful as ...
... encounter get confused with the depth and substance of long-term commitment. Philosopher of religion Elton Trueblood laments, "The terrible danger of our time consists in the fact that ours is a cut flower civilization. Beautiful as ...
Pagina 29
... encounter. I will always remember the day I was sitting at our kitchen table and the phone rang with the traumatic news that a van loaded with InterVar- sity students had just been in a head-on collision with a semi-trailer truck. Staff ...
... encounter. I will always remember the day I was sitting at our kitchen table and the phone rang with the traumatic news that a van loaded with InterVar- sity students had just been in a head-on collision with a semi-trailer truck. Staff ...
Pagina 31
... encounter with God's Spirit have not developed the mind of Christ so that they can respond insightfully to injustice, oppression and pain. Preempting Completeness "Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor ...
... encounter with God's Spirit have not developed the mind of Christ so that they can respond insightfully to injustice, oppression and pain. Preempting Completeness "Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor ...
Pagina 36
... encounter with Christ can be captivated by their experience. The power of confession, the dynamics of forgiveness and the hope of living in new ways are enthralling. It is no wonder that people who taste and see that Jesus is who he ...
... encounter with Christ can be captivated by their experience. The power of confession, the dynamics of forgiveness and the hope of living in new ways are enthralling. It is no wonder that people who taste and see that Jesus is who he ...
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WORLDLY ENEMIES WITH SMILING FACES | 63 |
LEARNING TO RELATE TO ENEMIES WITH SMILING FACES | 105 |
STRATEGIES FOR LIVING AMONG THE ENEMIES | 169 |
Epilogue | 218 |
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Pagina 81 - No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Pagina 76 - For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Pagina 146 - As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Pagina 49 - That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Pagina 42 - We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us — and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
Pagina 80 - I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches.
Pagina 80 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
Pagina 39 - For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
Pagina 67 - And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Pagina 131 - The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men.