95 Theses To The Modern Evangelical Church Desiring God Sermons Audio by Desiring God Biblos.com: Search, Read, Study the Bible in Many Languages www.searchingtogether.org/blog/ I am amazed by all the resources available to the twenty-first century reader. Some I find “accidentally” in the course of internet searches, while others are sent to me. Below I’ve written a synopsis of some I’d recommend. If any strike a chord, pursue them! THE POWER OF WEAKNESS, Keith Giles, 2012, 96 pages. I’ve read this book twice. Keith Giles The Power of Weakness [Kindle Edition] PROPHETIC CRACK: Pushers in the Pulpits, Addicts in the Pews, Julia M. This is an important book for our day. In the Foreword, Claudette Anderson Copeland readily confesses what is the experience of many: “We just know there is something chronically, excruciatingly wrong in the way we experience our connections within the church.” Tragically, as Copeland points out, “for a startling number of folks in this present generation, church has become a downright dangerous place to be.” There is one primary voice in leadership. One could rightfully ask, “Where in the NT would this pastor centrality be found?”
Wesley Center-Noncanonical Literature Noncanonical Literature Documents to Aid Students and Scholars in Biblical Interpretation including Introductions and Summaries of Many Noncanonical Works Non-Canonical Literature Disclaimer The Bible is an invaluable collection of sacred ancient texts, written and assembled over several hundreds of years by numerous authors. Apocryphal and pseudepigraphal literature was apparently intended either to supplement or supplant existing canonical literature. Table of Contents Click here to read about the recently discovered and published Gospel of Judas at the nationalgeographic.com. Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Old Testament Apocrypha Old Testament Pseudepigrapha New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Apocryphal NT Acts Apocryphal NT Apocalypse Apocryphal NT Gospels Pseudonymous Writings Nag Hammadi Codices Other Noncanonical Early Christian Literature Fathers of the Christian Church Links to Related Sites The Works of Josephus Philo of Alexandria
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