In a world that idolizes celebrity and success, 2 Corinthians remains one of our most vital and significant reminders that it is not human strength but God''s power that paves the way for victory in the spiritual realm. In this accessible and relevant book, Jonathan Lamb explores key lessons for authentic Christian ministry, including the role of suffering in strengthening our dependence on God, the necessity of both discipline and forgiveness in our church communities, and the centrality of union with Christ for all true Christian witness. Strength in Weakness will prove a valuable resource for pastors, small group leaders, and anyone seeking to grow in reliance on God. It provides a variety of tools for personal study or group teaching, including an introduction with practical suggestions for how to use the text, clear headings for easy navigation, and questions for reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter. Information boxes with further background on context, key themes, and important points of doctrine are also provided for those desiring to dig deeper into related topics.
In a world which often seems out of control, Christians today need to make a vital spiritual journey through the book of Habakkuk. This journey begins with life's toughest questions. It involves times of patient waiting. But it leads to a revelation of God's greatness and the discovery that he truly is in control of the world, the events of history, and of our own lives. We discover that God can be trusted, even in the darkest times.From Why to Worship is structured with sections and subsections that provide a clear set of preaching units that will serve preachers in building a sermon series but this is also an ideal book for individual or group use with questions, discussion points, ideas for action and further study suggestions.
En un mundo que ensalza la celebridad y el exito, la Segunda Carta a los Corintios sigue siendo uno de nuestros recordatorios mas vitales y significativos de que no es la fuerza humana sino el poder de Dios lo que allana el camino de la victoria en el ambito espiritual. El autor explora, en este libro, lecciones fundamentales para el autentico ministerio cristiano, incluyendo el papel del sufrimiento en el fortalecimiento de nuestra dependencia de Dios, la necesidad de la disciplina y el perdon en nuestras comunidades de fe y la centralidad de la union con Cristo para todo verdadero testimonio cristiano. Mi poder se perfecciona en la debilidad sera un valioso recurso para pastores, lideres de grupos pequenos y cualquier persona que busque crecer en la confianza en Dios. Proporciona una variedad de herramientas para el estudio personal y la ensenanza en grupo y preguntas para la reflexion al final de cada capitulo.
Una de las preguntas mas importantes que enfrentan los cristianos el dia de hoy es como puedo vivir una vida integra? Teniendo en cuenta todo lo que decimos acerca de la fe cristiana, es posible vivir una vida cristiana autentica y que demuestre una fe que funciona? Luego de tratar una amplia gama de desafios practicos, como las pruebas y las tentaciones, la pobreza y la riqueza, la manera en que usamos las palabras, la paciencia que tenemos cuando sufrimos, nuestras luchas contra el mundo o nuestra naturaleza humana y el diablo, Santiago nos desafia a que nos volvamos discipulos plenos de Jesucristo. El autor nos presenta una gua de estudio de la Epstola de Santiago. No pretende ser un comentario exhaustivo ni tampoco un libro tcnico. Es, ms bien, una gua muy prctica, as como la propia epstola. El autor explica que esta gua es una adaptacin de una serie de sermones referidos a los aspectos prcticos de la vida cristiana. Concluye, junto con Santiago, describiendo el papel que desempea la comunidad de fe en la vida de aquellos que siguen a su Seor, pero tambin en los que de alguna manera se han extraviado de la fe. Es un recurso valioso para el estudio personal o en grupo. Incluye preguntas para profundizar la reflexin, ideas prcticas y asuntos para mayor investigacin.
Los cristianos en todo el mundo enfrentan dificultades y amenazas de todo tipo comolas tentaciones de desplazar la prioridad de la Palabra de Dios, o la de perder de vistala grandeza y santidad de Dios, o la de adoptar valores contrarios a los del evangelio enlugar de vivir de acuerdo con los estndares de Dios. Muchos aos antes, la fe personalde Nehemas y la fe del pueblo de Dios enfrentaron amenazas constantes que no soloprovenan de una oposicin hostil sino tambin de tentaciones como las sealadas. El autor explica, a la luz del mensaje de Nehemas, lo que significa vivir de acuerdo a lasprioridades de Dios, de escuchar y obedecer a la Palabra de Dios y de sostener elservicio cristiano con fidelidad y determinacin en medio de las adversidades. Apoyadopor preguntas y sugerencias prcticas, aborda una serie de temas que son tan urgentespara los cristianos de hoy como lo fueron para el pueblo de Dios en Jerusaln en losdas de Nehemas. El lector encontrar un recurso valioso para la preparacin de sermones. Es un libroescrito para todos los creyentes porque todos enfrentamos el desafo de mantener lafe en medio de las amenazas y los peligros.
In early 2020, a highly contagious virus made its way around the world. In a matter of days the things that many people relied on for security were shown to be flimsy sources of hope. Authors from three of the worstâ¿affected countries in Europe have united in this book to reflect on the only comfort we have in life and death â¿ Jesus Christ. Each taking a different aspect of what this hope looks like, they answer the question, what can we believe and hope for in times like this?
El autor aborda en este libro los fundamentos de la predicación, nos ofrece una introducción a la tarea de predicar bíblicamente y nos ilustra el poder transformador de la Palabra de Dios enfocando nuestra atención en el corazón, la tarea y el propósito de la predicación.
The oil business has never been truly a market, where prices are determined by simple supply and demand. Instead it is distorted by long lead times, a producer cartel, subsidies and a lack of true alternatives. Jonathan Lamb argues that this is all changing. Fracking has provided a resource with unparalleled flexibility, subsidies are in retreat, natural gas is conquering all, while the price gyrations of the past decade have forced an industry focus on costs and technology. The threat of alternatives is forcing the pace of efficiency and the threat of peak demand has changed the way that resource holders view the business. Oil prices are driven more by market forces than ever before, making high prices unsustainable, potentially good news for consumers, if not the planet.
One of the biggest questions facing Christians today is, 'How can I live wisely?'. Given all that we say about the Christian faith, is it possible to live an authentic, credible Christian life that demonstrates faith that works? Covering a wide range of practical challenges - whether trial and temptation, or poverty and riches, or our use of words, or our patience in suffering, or our struggle with the world, the flesh and the devil - James helps us become wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ.This book is ideal for individual or group use and includes questions, discussion points, ideas for action and further study.
The purpose of our lives is to know the God of the universe who made us and loves us. It is this purpose that biblical preaching meets through explaining God's word. Biblical preaching centres around proclaiming God's Word and preachers are to be mouthpieces for God as we encounter the living Christ through Scripture. Jonathan Lamb illustrates the power of God's Word by focusing our attention on the heart, task and purpose of preaching by leading us through Nehemiah 8:1-12. Reworked to benefit from the authors' years of experience working alongside indigenous preaching movements around the world, this book includes excellent resources for group studies, preaching preparation and running a preachers' group.
Christians the world over are under pressure, facing difficulties and dangers of all kinds. Nehemiah was raised up to lead God's people at a critical moment, and the story of his practical realism and courageous faith is vital for Christians today. Providing an overview of the Nehemiah story, this book explains the critical importance of choosing God's priorities and truly hearing and responding to God's word. It tackles essential themes for Christian living, including how we can know God's protection under pressure, how we can build Christian community, and how we must live by God's standards. Faith in the Face of Danger is structured with sections and subsections that provide a clear set of preaching units that will serve preachers in building a sermon series but this is also an ideal book for individual or group use with questions, discussion points, ideas for action and further study suggestions.
Christlikeness is something God planned from the beginning and will one day finally complete. But how can we overcome the pull of sin? Is it possible to change? These talks from Keswick 2016 will inspire us with the goal to become like Christ and to live an authentic Christian life that provides a credible witness to the gospel we proclaim.
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "e;it narratives"e; became so popular. What does it mean when property declares independence of its owners and begins to move and speak? Jonathan Lamb addresses this and many other questions as he advances a new interpretation of these odd tales, from Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay, and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas journals. Lamb emphasizes the subversive and even nonsensical quality of what things say; their interests are so radically different from ours that we either destroy or worship them. Existing outside systems of exchange and the priorities of civil society, things in fact advertise the dissident obscurity common to slave narratives all the way from Aesop and Phaedrus to Frederick Douglass and Primo Levi, a way of meaning only what is said, never saying what is meant. This is what Defoe's Roxana calls "e;the Sense of Things,"e; and it is found in sounds, substances, and images rather than conventional signs.This major work illuminates not only "e;it narratives,"e; but also eighteenth-century literature, the rise of the novel, and the genealogy of the slave narrative.
This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre, and torture.
An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth centuryScurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In this book, Jonathan Lamb presents an intellectual history of scurvy unlike any other, probing the speechless encounter with powerful sensations to tell the story of the disease that its victims couldn't because they found their illness too terrible and, in some cases, too exciting.Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major literary works, Lamb traces the cultural impact of scurvy during the eighteenth-century age of geographical and scientific discovery. He explains the medical knowledge surrounding scurvy and the debates about its cause, prevention, and attempted cures. He vividly describes the phenomenon and experience of "e;scorbutic nostalgia,"e; in which victims imagined mirages of food, water, or home, and then wept when such pleasures proved impossible to consume or reach. Lamb argues that a culture of scurvy arose in the colony of Australia, which was prey to the disease in its early years, and identifies a literature of scurvy in the works of such figures as Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Bacon, and Jonathan Swift.Masterful and illuminating, Scurvy shows how the journeys of discovery in the eighteenth century not only ventured outward to the ends of the earth, but were also an inward voyage into the realms of sensation and passion.
Is God really in control?' This is a question confronting Christians today - but it is not a new one. In this practical, thought-provoking and inspiring collection of Bible teachings taken from The Keswick Convention 2004, many speakers seek to tackle this seemingly timeless topic.Jonathan Lamb shows how the question was faced by the prophet Habakkuk, as Israel's world seemed to be crashing around their ears, and how he answered it with a ringing 'Yes!' Peter Maiden expands the essential message of how all Christians must take a stand against Phariseeism and Ian Coffey uses the example of John the Baptist to examine the theme of disappointment with God.This title is brought to you by Keswick Ministries. Find out more at https: //www.keswickministries.org
This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travellers who roamed the South Seas from the late 17th through the late 19th centuries.
Laurence Sterne's quotations, plagiarisms and allusions were often employed in the service of the pleonasm, or 'performed pun'. Jonathan Lamb describes Sterne's operation of the pleonasm as his 'double principle'. He asks why the collection and arrangement of fragments had such an appeal for Sterne, and why his most original effects are derived from imitations and repetitions.
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