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 10
... questions that continue to be unresolved. The interface between the theory of my faith and my behavior is still being examined. Sometimes my theory gets re- fined, while other times I must face the reality that some of my attitudes and ...
... questions that continue to be unresolved. The interface between the theory of my faith and my behavior is still being examined. Sometimes my theory gets re- fined, while other times I must face the reality that some of my attitudes and ...
Pagina 44
... question more important than "Do you want to be a millionaire?" He asked the man, "Do you want to be healed?" After an exchange between the two, Jesus miraculously healed the man, commanding him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." The ...
... question more important than "Do you want to be a millionaire?" He asked the man, "Do you want to be healed?" After an exchange between the two, Jesus miraculously healed the man, commanding him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." The ...
Pagina 46
... question marks. They have the truth about what cannot be known for sure. If the Christian call is to be "the aroma ... question is not about the existence of truth or whether God has revealed truth to us. Rather, the question re- volves ...
... question marks. They have the truth about what cannot be known for sure. If the Christian call is to be "the aroma ... question is not about the existence of truth or whether God has revealed truth to us. Rather, the question re- volves ...
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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.