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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... matters. I can get angry reading the newspaper or watching the news on television. My spirit weeps when I meet women and children who are victims of HIV/ AIDS. Every time someone tells me about yet another divorce or a premature death ...
... matters. I can get angry reading the newspaper or watching the news on television. My spirit weeps when I meet women and children who are victims of HIV/ AIDS. Every time someone tells me about yet another divorce or a premature death ...
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... matter. Responding appropriately to those who are dealing with difficult circumstances can be profoundly challenging—especially if clear Christian thinking hasn't preceded the encounter. I will always remember the day I was sitting at ...
... matter. Responding appropriately to those who are dealing with difficult circumstances can be profoundly challenging—especially if clear Christian thinking hasn't preceded the encounter. I will always remember the day I was sitting at ...
Pagina 37
... matter, celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, absorb each other's pain and disappointments, laugh a lot and treasure their re- lationship. They never did detail what happened during the absent years. They just started again. Faith on ...
... matter, celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, absorb each other's pain and disappointments, laugh a lot and treasure their re- lationship. They never did detail what happened during the absent years. They just started again. Faith on ...
Pagina 38
... matter is ethics or values, social issues or moral dilemmas, justice concerns or family matters, lifestyle choices or vocational challenges, divine direction is etched into the framework of God's creation. And those who are re-created ...
... matter is ethics or values, social issues or moral dilemmas, justice concerns or family matters, lifestyle choices or vocational challenges, divine direction is etched into the framework of God's creation. And those who are re-created ...
Pagina 47
... matter of emphasis, of giving certain ideas a greater weight than was previously ac- corded them or of carrying one idea to its logical conclusion at the ex- pense of another.”2 Accepting that Christian diversity is a matter of emphasis ...
... matter of emphasis, of giving certain ideas a greater weight than was previously ac- corded them or of carrying one idea to its logical conclusion at the ex- pense of another.”2 Accepting that Christian diversity is a matter of emphasis ...
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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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accept American asked become behavior believe better build capacity celebrate challenge choices Christ Christian church claim commitment compassion concern continue conviction created creation cultural deal desire develop direction discern diversity embrace encounter ENEMIES WITH SMILING equal ethnic evil expect experience express faith feel find first followers friends give global God’s gospel hand human identity individual influence invites issues Jesus journey justice keep live look matter means mind moral never ourselves pain poor possible practice pray preferences presence privatized question reasons relate relationships religion religious response rooted saints seek sense serve shared side SMILING FACES social society sometimes soul speak spiritual stand story style thing tion true truth turn understand values views virtue vision voice walk worship
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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.