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
... true in the marketplace of goods and services is spilling over into the marketplace of ideas, with philosophical and religious choices increasingly subject to the same consumer criteria.”1 Shades of what the world 18 ENEMIES WITH ...
... true in the marketplace of goods and services is spilling over into the marketplace of ideas, with philosophical and religious choices increasingly subject to the same consumer criteria.”1 Shades of what the world 18 ENEMIES WITH ...
Pagina 18
... true that there are also moments of sudden illumination, but these come only to those who have accepted the discipline of patient groping, of trying out different possibilities, of sustained reflection."2 Illustrating another dimension ...
... true that there are also moments of sudden illumination, but these come only to those who have accepted the discipline of patient groping, of trying out different possibilities, of sustained reflection."2 Illustrating another dimension ...
Pagina 19
... true. Regrettably, committed Christians can be vulnerable people. We are vulnerable to overbelieving without discernment—to embracing and being embraced by teachers and practices of churches that eventually turn out to be smiling ...
... true. Regrettably, committed Christians can be vulnerable people. We are vulnerable to overbelieving without discernment—to embracing and being embraced by teachers and practices of churches that eventually turn out to be smiling ...
Pagina 22
... true God. And whenever human allegiances displace God, get ready to meet an enemy in disguise. We can and should put faith in people. God lifts up and blesses people for good redemptive purposes. But every person has flaws. No one gets ...
... true God. And whenever human allegiances displace God, get ready to meet an enemy in disguise. We can and should put faith in people. God lifts up and blesses people for good redemptive purposes. But every person has flaws. No one gets ...
Pagina 35
... true form of preaching. They "insist that the battle against sin must be waged against inequities and injustices in the social order that twist the personal lives of individuals and do violence to their high status as creatures made in ...
... true form of preaching. They "insist that the battle against sin must be waged against inequities and injustices in the social order that twist the personal lives of individuals and do violence to their high status as creatures made in ...
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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.