The most influential leader in the early church was undoubtedly the apostle Paul. He never lost the vision of God's single new humanity—Jews and Gentiles together. And in his letters we watch him exercising his leadership skills among the early Christians.This nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study by John Stott is based on his book Basic Christian Leadership and covers the first four chapters of 1 Corinthians, in which Paul responds to a complex church situation and to questions the Corinthians have addressed to him. He does so with clarity, wisdom, humility, love and gentleness—qualities that we can learn from as leaders today.For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking questions—making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.
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Ever since the apostle Paul addressed the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers in Athens, relating the Christian worldview to a non-Christian world has been a challenge. And despite Peter's charge to be ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15), most Christian laypeople have left apologetics—the defense of the faith—to the ecclesiastical pros. Faith Has Its Reasons is a study of four different models of how apologetics should be done, an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, and a proposal for integrating the best insights of each. Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman have assembled a wealth of information about what Christians believe and how to present that faith to an unbelieving world. Remarkable both in its depth of content and ease of accessibility, Faith Has Its Reasons gives Christian laypeople the tools to address such critical questions as: - Why is belief in God rational despite the prevalence of evil in the world? - What facts support the church's testimony that Jesus rose from the dead? - Can we be certain Christianity is true? - How can our faith in Christ be based on something more secure than our own understanding without descending into an irrational emotionalism?
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Gesundheit, Kreativität, persönliches Glück – Charles Pépin zeigt: Wir müssen anderen begegnen, um uns selbst zu begegnen. Begegnungen verändern uns, indem sie uns mit dem Anderen konfrontieren, schreibt Charles Pépin. Nachdem uns die Pandemie auf Abstand gezwungen hat, geht der Philosoph der Frage nach, was freundschaftliche, romantische, professionelle und zufällige Begegnungen für den Einzelnen bedeuten. Er zeigt: Jeder zwischenmenschliche Kontakt ist auch eine Begegnung mit der Welt und mit uns selbst. Mit vielen Beispielen aus dem täglichen Leben verortet Pépin diese These in der Philosophiegeschichte, spannt einen Bogen von Aristoteles über Hegel bis Jean-Paul Sartre und lässt auch unterhaltsame Seitenpfade zu David Bowie und Lou Reed nicht aus. Über allem steht die Erkenntnis: Leben heißt auch lernen, anderen wirklich zu begegnen.
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Bill Buford, Kultautor des Bestsellers „Hitze“, ist zurück am Herd! – Selbstironisch und urkomisch ist die Odyssee auf der Suche nach den Geheimnissen der französischen Küche. Bill Buford, Starautor des „New Yorker“, setzt sich gern Extremen aus. Er lebte unter Hooligans und arbeitete in Italien als Pastamacher. Nun unterwirft er sich den Regeln der französischen Spitzenküche. Dafür verpflanzt er seine Frau und seine dreijährigen Zwillingssöhne kurzerhand nach Lyon. Er wird Bäckerlehrling, Schüler des Institut Paul Bocuse und Praktikant im legendären La Mère Brazier, wo er lernt, wie man ein Fischfilet auf 62,5 Millimeter filetiert, Hummertürmchen baut und wie nah Kameradschaft und Intrige in der Küche beieinanderliegen. Aller Widerstände zum Trotz gibt Buford nicht auf, denn ihn treibt die Frage an: Liegt der Ursprung der französischen Küche in Italien? Eine faszinierende kulinarische Reportage.
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Alle reden von Bildung. Sie wurde zu einer säkularen Heilslehre für die Lösung aller Probleme – von der Bekämpfung der Armut bis zur Integration von Migranten, vom Klimawandel bis zum Kampf gegen den Terror. Während aber „Bildung“ als Schlagwort in unserer Gesellschaft omnipräsent geworden ist, ist der Gebildete, ja jeder ernsthafte Bildungsanspruch zur Provokation geworden. Die Gründe dafür nennt Konrad Paul Liessmann in seinem neuen Buch. Dafür begibt er sich sowohl in die Niederungen der Parteienlandschaft als auch in die Untiefen der sozialen Netzwerke, er denkt über den moralischen Diskurs des Zeitgeists nach und darüber, warum es so unangenehm ist, gebildeten Menschen zu begegnen.
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Although there is a lot of advice in this book about how to 'do' your quiet time with God, it definitely is not a sort of DIY work on meditation or prayer. It was written in the hope that it would be a help in not only developing our own prayer life, but also of becoming aware that God is with us all the time, not just during our Prayers, or our Coffee with God. Paul tells us to Pray at all times and the intention of this book is to help us understand what this means and then apply that to our everyday life. The aim of this book is to help each one of us to understand exactly what it is that God wants of us and then to do it by coming into such a deep relationship with Him. In the book we will look into many subjects all of which are in a way related to each other and so the different subjects are really only chapters dealing with one subject matter, notably our walk with God by making Him assume prime place in our lives. Let me make myself clear at the outset that although I'm no expert in “Christian Spirituality”, I do I invite you not to just ignore my suggestions, but to at least give them a chance and thereafter feel free to make up your own mind about them. The book is wide-ranging in an effort to show that nothing falls outside of our walk with Him but all of them can and will lead to an awareness of the Presence of God. Terry Hayward
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Paul Grayson walked the city street slowly. He was sauntering towards the spaceport, but he was in no hurry. He had allowed himself plenty of time to breathe the fresh spring air, to listen to the myriad of sounds made by his fellow men, and to revel in the grand freedom that being out in the open gave him. Soon enough he would be breathing canned air, pungent with the odor of compressor oil and the tang of the greenery used to replenish the oxygen, unable to walk freely more than a few dozen steps, and unable to see what lies beyond his viewports. Occasionally his eyes looked along the low southern sky towards Alpha Centauri. Proxima, of course, could not be resolved by the naked eye, much less the stinking little overheated mote that rotated about Proxima. Obviously unfit for human life and patently incapable of spawning life of its own, it was Paul Grayson's destination, and would be his home for a few days or a few weeks depending entirely upon whether things went good or bad. Only during the last four out of two thousand millions of years of its life had this planet been useful. Man needed a place to stand; not to move the earth with Archimedes's lever but to survey the galaxy. Proxima Centauri I was the only planet in the trinary and as bad as it was, it was useful for a space station. In an hour, Paul Grayson would be locked in a capsule of metal hurling himself through space towards Proxima I. He was looking forward to ten days cooped up in a spacecraft of the type furnished by the Bureau of Astrogation to its engineers which was a far cry from the sumptuous craft run by the Big Brass. His confines would be lined with functional scientific equipment; his air supply would be medically acceptable but aesthetically horrible; and his vision limited to the cabin, for beyond the viewports would be only the formless, endless, abysmal blackness of absolutely nothing while the ship mounted into multiples of the speed of light...
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Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state capital. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart. When they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a town modeled on Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the author's birthplace. Carol is appalled at the backwardness of Gopher Prairie. But her disdain for the town's physical ugliness and smug conservatism compels her to reform it...
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