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The Anti-Nazi Categorical of Courage
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Bonhoeffer was supportive in creating what became known pass for the Confessing Church, which defiantly cast off the pro-Hitler, state-run cathedral. Although Bonhoeffer’s theology might have differed in generous points stomach that reminiscent of The Allies of Kingdom, he at no time
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I’ve been reading the New Testament out loud with my son this summer. We are working through each book in as large a chunk as we can so that we retain the original intentions of the writers.
One of the things I’ve noticed more deeply as we’ve moved rapidly from epistle to epistle is that most every writer warns believers about the world system. We all know that warning exists, but a quick move from one book to another really drives home that these writers were deeply concerned about that world system and how it negatively impacts the Christian life.
Here is a classic example of such a warning, but in a slightly different translation (J.B. Phillips’s New Testament in Modern English, the one we are reading) than some are used to:
Never give your hearts to this world or to any of the things in it. A man cannot love the Father and love the world at the same time. For the whole world-system, based as it is on men’s primitive desires, their greedy ambitions and the glamour of all that they think splendid, is not derived from the Father at all, but from the world itself. The world and all its passionate desires will one day disappear. But the man who is following God’s will is part of the permanent and cannot die.
— 1 John 2:15-17 (NTME)
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The Prayer of Jabez
Book by Bruce Wilkinson
| Author | Bruce Wilkinson |
|---|---|
| Series | BreathThrough |
| Genre | Religion |
| Publisher | Multnomah Books |
Publication date | 2000 |
The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life is a book by Bruce Wilkinson published in 2000 by Multnomah Books as the first book in the "BreakThrough" book series. It is based on the Old Testament passage 1 Chronicles 4:9–10:
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying: "I gave birth to him in pain." Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, saying: "Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory! Let Your hand be with me, and keep me from the evil one." And God granted his request.
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In the book, Wilkinson encourages Christians to invoke this prayer for themselves on a daily basis:
I challenge you to make the Jabez prayer for blessing part of the daily fabric of your life. To do that, I encourage you to follow unwaveringly the plan outlined here for the next thirty days. By the end of that time, you'll be noticing significant changes in your life, and the prayer will be on its way to becoming a treasured, lifelong habit.[1]
The book became an international bestseller, topping the New York Times be