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 16
... hands on the steering wheel of their life. But spiritual integrators can also be influenced by the sights and sounds of the world that surrounds them. Consciously or unconsciously, they can yield to the temptations of excessive ambition ...
... hands on the steering wheel of their life. But spiritual integrators can also be influenced by the sights and sounds of the world that surrounds them. Consciously or unconsciously, they can yield to the temptations of excessive ambition ...
Pagina 17
... hands firmly gripping the steering wheel, spiritual integrators can end up traveling off course. I suspect that most Christians who tumble into cultural captivity do so unconsciously. They are neither spiritual isolators nor spiritual ...
... hands firmly gripping the steering wheel, spiritual integrators can end up traveling off course. I suspect that most Christians who tumble into cultural captivity do so unconsciously. They are neither spiritual isolators nor spiritual ...
Pagina 40
... hand of someone in emotional or physical pain is profound. When the caregiver is seeking to bring the presence of Christ into the predicament, the experience is redemptive. God is there absorbing the pain. A long-time advocate for the ...
... hand of someone in emotional or physical pain is profound. When the caregiver is seeking to bring the presence of Christ into the predicament, the experience is redemptive. God is there absorbing the pain. A long-time advocate for the ...
Pagina 41
... Hands And Feet Of God Focusing on just part of God's revelation is a common practice. "In re- cent years," writes cultural analyst John Drane, "I have gradually been moving towards the conclusion that our words are getting in the way of ...
... Hands And Feet Of God Focusing on just part of God's revelation is a common practice. "In re- cent years," writes cultural analyst John Drane, "I have gradually been moving towards the conclusion that our words are getting in the way of ...
Pagina 43
... hands of a loving God every time she goes off for a meal."13 Theories of faith—including the ideal of faith that is both personal and social—need to be subject to the realities of life. I suspect that even when our theory celebrates ...
... hands of a loving God every time she goes off for a meal."13 Theories of faith—including the ideal of faith that is both personal and social—need to be subject to the realities of life. I suspect that even when our theory celebrates ...
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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.