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| alter ego bible study: Altar Ego Craig Groeschel, 2013-02-26 Discover your true identity in Christ. Many of us live for the approval of others. We let the world decide who we are, or we look to those around us to discover who we think we’d like to be. The problem is that living for what people think of you is the quickest way to forget what God thinks of you. In Altar Ego, pastor and author of Winning the War in Your Mind Craig Groeschel will show you how to sacrifice your broken ideas of approval-based identity on the altar of God’s truth and become who you were meant to be in Christ. You'll learn how to: Expose false labels and selfish motives. Live according to God's higher values with a deeper confidence in His calling. Trade in your broken ego and unleash your “altar” ego as a living sacrifice to Him. Understand how God continuously shapes you into His vision of you. Once you know your true identity and are growing in Christ-like character, then you can behave accordingly with bold behavior, bold prayers, bold words, and bold obedience. Altar Ego reveals who God says you are, and then calls you to live up to it. Rather than living a timid, halfhearted, shallow cultural Christianity, you'll boldly live in the confidence of the God who believes in you. |
| alter ego bible study: Altar Ego Bible Study Guide Craig Groeschel, 2013-04-03 Discover your true identity in Christ. Many of us live for approval of others. The problem is that living for what people think of you is the quickest way to forget what God thinks of you. In this 5-session video study guide (DVD/digital video sold separately), pastor and author of Winning the War in Your Mind Craig Groeschel shows individuals and small groups how to abandon self-worth based on accomplishments and possessions, turning instead to God to find out who we are. You'll learn to expose false labels and selfish motives, sacrificing them on the altar of God's truth. As you discover your true identity in Christ, your altar ego will drive your actions, empowering you to live according to God's higher values with a deep confidence in His calling. Rather than living a timid, halfhearted, shallow cultural Christianity, you'll boldly live in the confidence of the God who believes in you. Are you willing to lay it all on the altar? The Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God's divine plan, and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old, unhealthy, untrue, and unbiblical thoughts about yourself and introduce you to your altar-ego—who you are in Christ. Sessions include: Overcoming the Labels that Bind You You Are God's Masterpiece Trading the Immediate for the Ultimate Living with Integrity Developing Spiritual Boldness Designed for use with Altar Ego Video Study 9780310894933 (sold separately). |
| alter ego bible study: The Alter Ego Effect Todd Herman, 2019-02-05 Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. What if the games we played as children were the greatest gift to helping us achieve more today? Before stage fright, impostor syndrome, emotional baggage, and the other dubious gifts of adulthood, everyone pretended to be a superhero, a favorite athlete, an inspiring entertainer, a nurse, a firefighter, a lion, or whatever else captured our imaginations. And yet, that natural creativity is slowly squeezed out of us because we think it’s childish or it’s “time to grow up.” Now Todd Herman—backed by scientific research and countless stories from the real world—will show us how to tap into the human imagination to unleash new versions of ourselves, ready-made to kick ass. Herman has been coaching champions in every field for over twenty years, and he’s helped them bring out their Heroic Self to transcend the forces pulling them into the Ordinary World. Anyone attempting ambitious things faces adversity, resistance, and challenges, but Herman confronts these obstacles with a question: Who or what needs to show up to make success inevitable? In The Alter Ego Effect, Herman presents countless stories from salespeople, executives, entertainers, athletes, entrepreneurs, creatives, and historical figures to illustrate how to activate the Heroic Self already nested inside each of us. And he reveals that we may not be using those traits in the moments when we need them the most. From the creative entrepreneur who resisted their craft, to the accomplished military officer who wanted to be a warmer dad at home, Todd Herman’s clients have discovered there is no end to the parts of their lives they could improve by using Alter Egos. |
| alter ego bible study: My New Life - Bible Study Book Lifeway Adults, 2020-01-02 Get clarity on what it means to follow Jesus as you learn the fundamentals of the Christian faith. |
| alter ego bible study: Introduction to the Study of the Bible ... Second Edition Joseph Baylee, 1870 |
| alter ego bible study: From Ordinary to Extraordinary John MacArthur, 2009-06 A blend of teaching and inspiration from John MacArthur's popular books Twelve Ordinary Men and Twelve Extraordinary Women. Includes daily readings and scripture verses. --from publisher description. |
| alter ego bible study: Ecclesiastes John Goldingay, 2021-11-01 Ecclesiastes is the most surprising book in the Scriptures. It challenges its readers to reconsider what they think life is about and how far it is possible to understand God's involvement in the world. This commentary seeks to help people enter the world of Ecclesiastes and see how it can increase their understanding of God and of themselves. |
| alter ego bible study: Win the Day Mark Batterson, 2023-02-21 The New York Times bestselling author of Chase the Lion reveals seven powerful habits that can help you tackle God-sized goals by turning yesterday’s regrets and tomorrow’s anxieties into fuel for a better today. “This book will change the trajectory of your life.”—John Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and leadership expert Too many people delay, downsize, or shrug off their dreams just because they don’t know where to start, but playing it safe doesn’t account for the massive cost of a life not fully lived. Win the Day is the jump-start you need to go after your goals, one day at a time. You’ll discover how to: 1. Flip the Script: If you want to change your life, start by changing your story. 2. Kiss the Wave: The obstacle is not the enemy; the obstacle is the way. 3. Eat the Frog: If you want God to do the super, you’ve got to do the natural. 4. Fly the Kite: How you do anything is how you’ll do everything. 5. Cut the Rope: Playing it safe is risky. 6. Wind the Clock: Time is measured in minutes; life is measured in moments. 7. Seed the Clouds: Sow today what you want to see tomorrow. As Batterson unpacks each of these daily habits, you’ll see how simple it is to pursue them with focus and dedication—not someday down the road, but now. Transform your perspective of a single day and you’ll discover the potential waiting to be grasped at the beginning of each new sunrise. |
| alter ego bible study: A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives Yvonne Sherwood, 2000 This book charts the mutations of a particularly buoyant sliver of Bible text - the book of Jonah - as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. Written at a point between Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature and Art, this book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from 'Mainstream' to 'Backwater' interpretation. It is less a navigation of interpretative history and more an interrogation of larger political/cultural issues: anti-Judaism in Biblical Studies, the secularisation of the Bible, and the projection of the Bible as credulous ingenu, naive Other to our savvy post-Enlightenment selves. |
| alter ego bible study: Is There a Meaning in This Text? Kevin J. Vanhoozer, 2009-08-30 Is there a meaning in the Bible, or is meaning rather a matter of who is reading or of how one reads? Does Christian doctrine have anything to contribute to debates about interpretation, literary theory, and post modernity? These are questions of crucial importance for contemporary biblical studies and theology alike. Kevin Vanhoozer contends that the postmodern crisis in hermeneutics—”incredulity towards meaning,” a deep–set skepticism concerning the possibility of correct interpretation—is fundamentally a crisis in theology provoked by an inadequate view of God and by the announcement of God’s “death.” Part 1 examines the ways in which deconstruction and radical reader–response criticism “undo” the traditional concepts of author, text, and reading. Dr. Vanhoozer engages critically with the work of Derrida, Rorty, and Fish, among others, and demonstrates the detrimental influence of the postmodern “suspicion of hermeneutics” on biblical studies. In Part 2, Dr. Vanhoozer defends the concept of the author and the possibility of literary knowledge by drawing on the resources of Christian doctrine and by viewing meaning in terms of communicative action. He argues that there is a meaning in the text, that it can be known with relative adequacy, and that readers have a responsibility to do so by cultivating “interpretive virtues.” Successive chapters build on Trinitarian theology and speech act philosophy in order to treat the metaphysics, methodology, and morals of interpretation. From a Christian perspective, meaning and interpretation are ultimately grounded in God’s own communicative action in creation, in the canon, and preeminently in Christ. Prominent features in Part 2 include a new account of the author’s intention and of the literal sense, the reclaiming of the distinction between meaning and significance in terms of Word and Spirit, and the image of the reader as a disciple–martyr, whose vocation is to witness to something other than oneself. Is There a Meaning in This Text? guides the student toward greater confidence in the authority, clarity, and relevance of Scripture, and a well–reasoned expectation to understand accurately the message of the Bible. Is There a Meaning in This Text? is a comprehensive and creative analysis of current debates over biblical hermeneutics that draws on interdisciplinary resources, all coordinated by Christian theology. It makes a significant contribution to biblical interpretation that will be of interest to readers in a number of fields. The intention of the book is to revitalize and enlarge the concept of author–oriented interpretation and to restore confidence that readers of the Bible can reach understanding. The result is a major challenge to the central assumptions of postmodern biblical scholarship and a constructive alternative proposal—an Augustinian hermeneutic—that reinvigorates the notion of biblical authority and finds a new exegetical practice that recognizes the importance of both the reader’s situation and the literal sense. |
| alter ego bible study: Jesus Bible Study Guide Max Lucado, 2020-01-21 Do you find it more difficult to think of Jesus Christ as a human, like you, than to think of him as God? You may believe in God, and you may believe Jesus is God, but many Christians find it difficult to think of him as a real person--fully human as he was fully divine. Award-winning author Max Lucado reveals in this video Bible study (DVD/streaming video sold separately) that in order to really know God and understand the Gospel, it's essential that we take a closer look at Jesus' humanity. The concept of Jesus' human and heavenly nature is difficult to wrap our minds around. He's the God who formed the universe and, at the same time, knows your personal struggles...because he went through the same things. For thirty-three years, Jesus felt everything you have ever felt. Weakness. Weariness. Sadness. Rejection. His feet got tired. His head ached. He was tempted and his strength was tested. The purpose of this study is simple: by journeying through these six lessons with a small group, you will get to know Jesus—and, therefore, God—like you never have before. And by learning more about the person Jesus was and is, we come to understand more clearly the people we were created to be. The Jesus Study Guide includes: Video teaching notes Group discussion questions and activities Bible exploration and prayers Weekly personal study and reflection materials. Get ready to study who Jesus was while he walked this earth and what that means for your life today. In doing this, you will get to know God, his purpose for you, and his love for you like you never have before. *Designed for use with the Jesus: The God Who Knows Your Name Video Study, available on DVD or streaming video, sold separately. |
| alter ego bible study: Country Criminal Remi Robinson, 2012-09-05 John Anthony Simmonz is a sexy, smart, methodical genius who chose his career path since birth and that is the life of crime. He wreaks havoc in the small town of Pixton, Ga. where he was born and raised and will become known as the Country Criminal. By assuming different identities his biggest caper will be to rid the long time reigning Sheriff of the three things he loved the most; money, his precious brotherhood and his family. The Sheriff will become his biggest target and his greatest pursuer. |
| alter ego bible study: The Gospel According to Larry Janet Tashjian, 2011-04-01 After creating a controversial and hugely popular website, teenager Josh Swensen becomes trapped inside his brilliant creation and must find a way to remain anonymous. I am lying on my bed doing my homework in Greek and Latin roots for Advanced English. 'Ped' for foot, 'homo' for man, 'nym' for name. I sit with the dictionary in front of me, coming up with as many words as I can to complete the assignment. Pedestrian, homicide, pseudonym . . . I have more than thirty of them. By accident -- that's always how these life-changing things happen -- I connect two halves that don't seem like a word until I look it up. 'Pseudo', false; and 'cide,' to kill = pseudocide. To pretend to kill (yourself). I stare at the word for a good long time. Homicide, suicide, genocide: these are words you can find in the newspaper every day. But pseudocide . . . now here was something different. My mind wanders from my homework to the blue cotton threads of my bedspread. Pseudocide. A way to start again as someone completely new, a way to burn the old self and try on a new one. Josh Swensen isn't your average teenager - when he observes America, he sees a powerhouse of consumerism and waste. He's even tried to do something about it, with his start-up controversial website. But when Josh rises to messiah status of the internet world, he discovers that greed and superficiality are not easily escaped. Trapped inside his own creation, Josh feels his only way out is to stage his death and be free of his internet alter-ego, Larry. But this plan comes with danger, and soon Josh finds himself cut off from the world, with no one to turn to for help. In this suspenseful young adult novel, Janet Tashjian has written a probing tour-de-force. |
| alter ego bible study: Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books David Price, 2011-01-13 The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies. In 1510, Reuchlin wrote an extensive, impassioned, and ultimately successful defense of Jewish writings and legal rights, a stunning intervention later acknowledged by a Jewish leader as a ''miracle within a miracle.''The fury that greeted Reuchlin's defense of Judaism resulted in a protracted heresy trial that polarized Europe. The decade-long controversy promoted acceptance of humanist culture in northern Europe and, in several key settings, created an environment that was receptive to the nascent Reformation movement. The legal and theological battles over charges that Reuchlin's positions were impermissibly favorable to Jews, a conflict that elicited intervention on both sides from the most powerful political and intellectual leaders in Renaissance Europe, formed a new context for Christian reflection on Judaism.David H. Price offers insight into important Christian discourses on Judaism and anti-Semitism that emerged from the clash of Renaissance humanism with this potent anti-Jewish campaign, as well as an innovative analysis of Luther's virulent anti-Semitism in the context and aftermath of the Reuchlin Affair. This book is a valuable contribution to study of an important and complex development in European history: Christians acquiring accurate knowledge of Judaism and its history. |
| alter ego bible study: The academy , 1884 |
| alter ego bible study: Israel's Praise Walter Brueggemann, 1988 Discusses the role of praise in religion, examines the meaning of the Doxology, and considers the theology of praise |
| alter ego bible study: Seeking Him Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Tim Grissom, 2019-10-01 OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD! Revival isn’t just an emotional experience. It’s a complete transformation. It can happen in your heart, in your home, in your church, and in your world. Restore your first love. Develop a heartfelt desire for God’s Word. Resolve conflicts. Repair relationships. Remove bitterness, fear, and worry. Refresh your spirit. Renew your mind. Reenergize your life. You can get back your passion and zeal for the Lord. Begin by Seeking Him! Seeking Him was transformative for me. ... It brought me nearer to the Father and helped me learn how to seek Him with joy. I totally believe it can do the same for everybody else. Jackie Hill Perry, Author, speaker, artist Every pastor’s dream. Finally! A guide to assist every member in personal revival and every church in corporate revival. Tony Evans, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship An intimate and insightful guide to holy living, a heaven-blessed soul, and a happy heart that can’t help but to be on fire for the Lord Jesus! Joni Earackson Tada, Joni and Friends |
| alter ego bible study: Our Divine Double Charles M. Stang, 2016-03-07 What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present. |
| alter ego bible study: The Truth Laurel, 2005 The Truth is the award-winning first book in The Oracle Institute foundational trilogy. It presents a summary of the divine messages sent to us by God through the Prophets. When studied successively, these spiritual lessons form a Tower of Truth that should not be broken or interpreted along sectarian lines. Instead, these Truths should be assimilated into a contemporary spiritual and scientific database and shared by everyone, regardless of religious affiliation.The Truth explores the five primary religions that evolved after the Prophets died: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, to determine whether these manmade religions have remained faithful to the Truth, including the primordial Truth that God is half masculine and half feminine energy. The Truth reveals that mankind has built a Tower of Babel with God's messages. Moreover, these now ancient religions have polarized humanity and brought us to the brink of World War III. The book also includes an objective template for measuring the adequacy of any religion, and an Appendix that shows the nexus between politics and religion and politics thought human history. |
| alter ego bible study: Adult Conversations Robert D. Collins Sr., 2014-09-11 Simplicity is the key to this book. If you have the right tool and know the correct application of that tool, then the task becomes much easier. Sometimes it is difficult to talk to certain people, even a person you have known all of your life. The key to unlocking that cumbersome situation is simply knowing the tool to use. Thats what this book is about. I inserted a number of short stories to illustrate how this tool works. Enjoy. |
| alter ego bible study: Whose Bible is it Anyway? Philip R. Davies, 1995-01-01 Can religious writings make sense to any reader who does not accept the reality of the deities to which they refer? Do Christians understand the Old Testament better than the Jews understand their Bible? The Bible, argues this book, may belong to the Church or synagogue as an instrument of religious practice, but as an object of academic study it belongs to the world as a whole, and so can function in theory and practice as a secular discourse. Whose Bible is it Anyway? shows how a genuinely academic discourse - one that distances itself from received canons of interpretation - about biblical writings can: expose a subtext of deceit within the Creation narratives; re-conceptualize the relationship between Abraham and his deity; reveal lament psalms as texts of oppression; and identify the death of Daniel's God.--BOOK JACKET. |
| alter ego bible study: 1001 Illustrations That Connect Craig Brian Larson, Phyllis Ten Elshof, 2009-01-06 Every preacher, teacher, or writer knows the value of a good illustration in helping connect the truth of the passage with the congregation or class—and how hard it is to come up with good illustrations week after week. This book contains the cream of the crop: 1001 illustrations carefully selected from among thousands on Christianity Today International’s popular website PreachingToday.com. These illustrations are proven, memorable, and illuminating. As the saying goes, they will preach! And they’re fresh, all written within the past seven years. Of course the best illustrations are no good if you can’t find the right one. These illustrations have been arranged according to twelve master topics, each divided into several subtopics. Further, they’ve been indexed according both to Bible references and to 500 keywords. A searchable CD-ROM is included, allowing you to get the illustration into your lesson or sermon with ease. |
| alter ego bible study: Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews Peter the Venerable, 2013 Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews represents a turning point in medieval anti-Jewish polemics. On the one hand, the polemic's intention--to bring about the conversion of the Jews--is predicated on an assumption that Jews are rational agents who may be persuaded of Christian truths by philosophical argument, empirical evidence, and proper biblical exegesis. On the other hand, Peter also introduced the notion that the Jews' enduring blindness stems from a persistent strain of bestial irrationality, for which they themselves are responsible. Peter traces this irrationality to the medieval Jews' commitment to the Talmud. Peter is the first medieval Christian author to name the Talmud explicitly. The Jewish convert to Christianity, Petrus Alfonsi, had ridiculed Talmudic folklore in his Dialogue Against the Jews. Peter the Venerable borrowed from but also surpassed Alfonsi's critique, as even his use of the name Talmud indicates. By emphasizing the irrationality of the Jews, Peter cast doubt upon their essential humanity and paved the way toward an increasingly violent treatment of the Jewish minority in medieval Christendom. Perhaps for this reason, Peter's Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews has been popular among modern anti-Semites as well.--Publisher description. |
| alter ego bible study: I Am What God Says I Am Shaunte' Reese Smith ~Godschosenqueen~, 2009-08-19 UP until this very moment in my life, I have searched for answers to the biggest questions of why. Why am I so fat? Why can=t he love me? Why am I not successful? Why did he leave me? Why was I even born? Why was I raped? Why am I not pretty enough? Why was I a singled teenage parent? Lord why have you forsaken me? LordYJust why? I am just not enoughYI will never meet the markY On July 19th of 2008 while I was napping early in the evening beside my husband, the Lord spoke to me in my sleep and said to meYit=s time for you to move from the Not enough AThinking@ to More Than Enough ALiving @Y And so Healing BeginsY |
| alter ego bible study: Journey into Newness Patrick C. Heston, 2022-08-23 Wilderness periods of our lives—those dry and desperate seasons when God seems distant and detached, perhaps even indifferent or impotent—can seem an abnormal and painful part of our lives that simply must be painfully plodded through and somehow endured. Yet, far from being something abnormal and life-threatening, like a cancer invading our bodies, wilderness periods represent a fundamental element of our life in the Spirit and part of God’s well-orchestrated plan to guarantee that we become and possess everything he desires for us. |
| alter ego bible study: A Conversation between a Muslim and a Christian Peter Barnes, Mohamad Younes, 2023-07-13 There are many books which set out the case for Islam or for Christianity and point out what they regard as defects in the other religion. This book does that, but it seeks to do so in the form of a workbook which groups of Christians or Muslims might use, and it is conducted in a spirit where truth is paramount but so too is kindness and civility. The two authors have become friends and hope that this can be detected in the exchanges. As the major doctrines of each religion are dealt with, we are conscious that these doctrines are important and need to be examined rigorously and charitably. We hope we have succeeded to some degree at least. |
| alter ego bible study: With Us in the Wilderness - Bible Study Book Lauren Chandler, 2021-02 The Book of Numbers is a story of identity, wilderness, and God. Numbers continues the historical narrative begun in Exodus, the story of God's people newly freed from Egypt's shackles and wandering toward the promised land. While Numbers accounts for the next 39 years of their wilderness wandering, it's also a story of God's presence among His beloved. Even when they rebelled--and this book tells of many rebellions--God's love and promises remained. It's in that love and those promises the children of Israel found their identity and where we must find ours today. (7 sessions) Features: Leader helps to guide questions and discussions within small groups Personal study segments to complete between 7 weeks of group sessions Interactive teaching videos, approximately 15 minutes per session, for purchase or rent Benefits: Leverage Old Testament truths for your life today. Recognize God's faithfulness in keeping His promises. Discover your identity as His beloved even in seasons of wilderness wandering. |
| alter ego bible study: Hope in the Dark Craig Groeschel, 2018-08-21 Can God be good when life is not? Rediscover faith in the character, power, and presence of God. Even in the questions. Even in the hurt. I want to believe, I want to have hope, but . . . Pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel hears these words often and has asked them himself. We want to know God, feel his presence, and trust that he hears our prayers, but in the midst of great pain, we may wonder if he really cares about us. Even when we have both hope and hurt, sometimes it's the hurt that shouts the loudest. In Hope in the Dark, Groeschel explores the story of the father who brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus, saying, I believe! Help my unbelief! In the man's sincere plea, Jesus heard the tension in the man's battle-scarred heart. He healed not only the boy but the father too, driving out the hopelessness that had overtaken him. He can do the same for us today. As Groeschel shares his pain surrounding the health challenges of his daughter, he acknowledges the questions we may ask in our own deepest pain: Where was God when I was being abused? Why was my child born with a disability? Why did the cancer come back? Why are all my friends married and I'm alone? He invites us to wrestle with such questions as we ask God to honor our faith and heal our unbelief. Because in the middle of your profound pain, you long for authentic words of understanding and hope. You long to know that even in overwhelming reality, you can still believe that God is good. Hope in the Dark is also available in Spanish, Esperanza en la Oscuridad. |
| alter ego bible study: The Mytholgy of God Derrick van Zyl, 2017-11-30 Man has been creating gods for the last 40 000 years in order to make sense of himself and to explain life as it was primitively perceived before science developed, knowledge expanded and with it our factual understanding of where we come from, who we are and how we came to be here on our little blue planet. Not a single god had anything to do with creating you or anything at all for that matter. Not even your god, the one you were brought up and indoctrinated with. This book is an attempt to firstly explain how the universe was formed. How planets, and eventually us, evolved over a period of 13.73 billion years based on facts, derived from science, verified, peer-reviewed and corroborated and by also coming to the same conclusions using vastly different methods as opposed to creationist fairytales and superstition. If you understand the basics of evolution, then the second part in which Islam and Christianity are exposed for what they are, may give you some perspective of how ‘religion poisons everything’, in the words of the late great Christopher Hitchens. This book, is not only a consciousness raiser regarding the delusion that religion imposes and the biblical past and current violence it perpetually perpetrates, despite its desperate claims to the contrary, but also hopefully, will help to eradicate its theocratically, skewed fundamentalism where extremism finds its wings. It’s a book about truth. It is about morality and intellectual honesty and unveiling the mask of religion and exposing the delusion of blind faith through reason. Exposing these religions with their ‘cult like’ delusional inaccuracies cannot be underestimated. Our future, as a species, depends on it. In the words of Stephen Roberts: ‘When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.’ Put your belief in people and love. Imaginary gods do not deserve them. Quote “The amount of research that went into this book is prodigious – exceeding what I have seen in volume and scope in all of the PhD theses that I edited over the years!”Editor’s comment. |
| alter ego bible study: Critic and Literary World Jeannette Leonard Gilder, Joseph Benson Gilder, 1891 |
| alter ego bible study: The Critic , 1891 |
| alter ego bible study: Brecht and Tragedy Martin Revermann, 2021-12-16 Explores Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before. |
| alter ego bible study: Reopening the Word Marie Noonan Sabin, 2002 In Reopening the Word, Marie Sabin argues that Mark's gospel represents an early and evolving Christianity, which shaped its theological discourse out of the forms familiar to early Judaism. |
| alter ego bible study: Religious Thought in the Reformation Bernard M. G. Reardon, 2014-01-09 Most general accounts of the reformation concentrate on its events and personalities while recent scholarship has been largely devoted to its social and economic consequences. Benard Reardon's famous book has been designed specifically to reassert the role of religion in the study of reformation history and make the theological issues and arguments that fuelled it accessible to non-specialists today. |
| alter ego bible study: Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains Lisa Isherwood, 2016-04-08 Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains takes as a starting point the hermeneutics of suspicion. The book illustrates the way in which texts and interpretations have been manipulated for the purpose of power and control. Through careful-counter readings it challenges the ways in which the female divine has been pushed back by relentless male interpretation and misrepresentation. The essays range across liberation theology and queer theory to sexual hospitality and the 'Song of Songs' as a challenge to hetero-patriarchy. The book provides an accessible resource for any student interested in the ways in which narrow readings of Scripture can become a power base for hierarchies of exclusion. |
| alter ego bible study: The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature Nancy Rosenfeld, 2016-02-24 Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form in the seventeenth century. This development is centered on characters and poetry of four seventeenth-century writers: the Satan character in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the Tempter in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Diabolus in Bunyan's The Holy War, the poetry of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Dorimant in George Etherege's Man of Mode. The initial understanding of this development is through a sequential reading of Milton and Bunyan which examines the Satan character as an archetype-in-the-making, building upon each to work so that the character metamorphoses from a groveling serpent and fallen archangel to a humanized form embodying the human impulses necessary to commit evil. Rosenfeld then argues that this development continues in Restoration literature, showing that both Rochester and Etherege build upon their literary predecessors to develop the satanic figure towards greater humanity. Ultimately she demonstrates that these writers, taken collectively, have imbued Satan with the characteristics that define the human. This book includes as an epilogue a discussion of Samson in Milton's Samson Agonistes as a later seventeenth-century avatar of the humanized satanic form, providing an example for understanding a stock literary character in the light of early modern texts. |
| alter ego bible study: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Flannery O'Connor Robert Donahoo, Marshall Bruce Gentry, 2019-09-01 Known for her violent, startling stories that culminate in moments of grace, Flannery O'Connor depicted the postwar segregated South from a unique perspective. This volume proposes strategies for introducing students to her Roman Catholic aesthetic, which draws on concepts such as incarnation and original sin, and offers alternative contexts for reading her work. Part 1, Materials, describes resources that provide a grounding in O'Connor's work and life. The essays in part 2, Approaches, discuss her beliefs about writing and her distinctive approach to fiction and religion; introduce fresh perspectives, including those of race, class, gender, and interdisciplinary approaches; highlight her craft as a creative writer; and suggest pairings of her works with other texts. Alice Walker's short story Convergence is included as an appendix. |
| alter ego bible study: Saul, Doeg, Nabal, and the "Son of Jesse" Joseph Lozovyy, 2009-08-15 This work examines some of the stories in 1 Sam. 16-25 with the particular focus placed on Saul, Doeg, Nabal and the son of Jesse. It seeks to discover new meaning in the structure as well as in the characters' functions in the narratives by studying the stories synchronically and diachronically. One of the mysterious characters in 1 Samuel that has puzzled many a scholar is Nabal the Calebite. This study scrutinizes the elements of his characterization in 1 Sam. 25 and considers his abuses of the son of Jesse, the contextual role of the geographic setting and political environment during King Saul's reign. Similarly, this volume studies the function of the character of Doeg the Edomite in 1 Sam. 21 and 22 regarding his Edomite origin, his particular business in Nob and his official status in Saul's court. The phrase the son of Jesse is quite important in 1 Samuel and serves a particular purpose in the thematic development in the second half of the book. Viewed against the background of the Saul/David relationship, it underscores the superiority of the Davidic person in advancing the divine plan for the nation of Israel. The determination of the book's historical context is the key to understanding the multilayered messages. The roles of history and ideology in making these stories are also considered with the proposal that the making of the book(s) of Samuel after the Exile (5th c. B.C.) might have been instigated by the writer's desire to create the context needed for further development of the messianic ideas. |
| alter ego bible study: Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman, 2003-09-02 Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this Encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavours. While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the Encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new researchers this is intended as a reference for students and scholars in all areas of study, as well as the general public. |
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Study and Reflect My ego, that self-constructed identity I worked so hard to build, came from a twisted combination of my accomplishments and other people’s opinions of me. Altar Ego, …
Dr. Lester Sumrall 1913 ~ 1996 - Archive.org
The Holy Spirit is not an alter-ego (other self) of Jesus. Modernism in theology, especially the denial of the deity of Christ, removes all positive functions of the Holy Spirit from any group.
Altar Ego Study Guide Becoming Who God Says You Are
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ALTAR-BUILDING - Mentoring Ministry
Abraham built an altar when he arrived in the land to which God has sent him. He built the ultimate altar of sacrifice on which he placed his son Isaac. Isaac, too, was an altar-builder. …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are [PDF]
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
The Neuroscience of Bible Study - Rutgers University
Before you try to memorize a new bible verse, take some time to dwell on what it means. Think about how it relates to you, personally. Were there recent events in your life that are relevant to …
Higher Self and Higher Ego - Philaletheians
Higher Manas or Ego is Individualised Mind in its Microcosmic aspect. Lower Manas or Egotism is ray from the Higher Ego, and its alter ego. Brain is the vehicle of Lower Manas enthroned in …
What Does the Bible Teach About Our Emotions? - RPM …
We need a biblical, practical theology of emotionality. In this introductory series, we look at a Creation, Fall, Redemption model of our emotions. We examine: In many Christian circles, …
I’ve Got a Big Ego!: Distinguishing Between Your Ego and the …
May 14, 2025 · 1. An ego is a person’s sense of _____ or _____. The Ego is what drives how you see yourself and how you want others to see you. In simple terms, ego is your inner “I” that …
Emotions 11 - Overcoming Low Self-Esteem - Bible Charts
In this lesson we want to study about overcoming low self-esteem. WHAT IS SELF-ESTEEM? Self-esteem relates to your self-identity. Who am I? What am I? Why am I? Examples of each …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are (book)
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
The Alter Ego Effect | Todd Herman - immersionheaters.uk
The study shows us the power of identity–the power of how we see yourselves–and what happens when we, for a moment in time, can call forth a different self. That’s from a chapter …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are Craig Groeschel
Altar Ego reveals who God says you are, and then calls you to live up to it. Rather than living a timid, halfhearted, shallow cultural Christianity, you'll boldly live in the confidence of the God …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are Craig Groeschel
Altar Ego: A DVD Study: Becoming Who God Says You Are ... Instead of an outward-driven, approval-based ego, we learn to live with an “altar” ego, God’s vision of who we are becoming. …
Job as Alter Ego: The Bible, Ancient Jewish Discourse, and
Job as Alter Ego: The Bible, Ancient Jewish Discourse, and Exile Literature I Since the beginnings of Western litera-ture the Hebrew Bible-together with the Classics - has supplied scores of …
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Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
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Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are Copy
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
Alter Versus Ego: An Exploratory Assessment of Altruism
ALTER VERSUS EGO: AN EXPLORATORY ASSESSMENT OF ALTRUISM ROBERT W. FRIEDRICHS Drew University "Altruism," defined operationally by means of mutual ratings of a …
Altar Ego Craig Groeschel (Download Only)
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
9780310894940 altar ego pg int - g.christianbook.com
Study and Reflect My ego, that self-constructed identity I worked so hard to build, came from a twisted combination of my accomplishments and other people’s opinions of me. Altar Ego, pages …
Dr. Lester Sumrall 1913 ~ 1996 - Archive.org
The Holy Spirit is not an alter-ego (other self) of Jesus. Modernism in theology, especially the denial of the deity of Christ, removes all positive functions of the Holy Spirit from any group.
Altar Ego Study Guide Becoming Who God Says You Are
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ALTAR-BUILDING - Mentoring Ministry
Abraham built an altar when he arrived in the land to which God has sent him. He built the ultimate altar of sacrifice on which he placed his son Isaac. Isaac, too, was an altar-builder. Moses raised …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are [PDF]
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
The Neuroscience of Bible Study - Rutgers University
Before you try to memorize a new bible verse, take some time to dwell on what it means. Think about how it relates to you, personally. Were there recent events in your life that are relevant to …
Higher Self and Higher Ego - Philaletheians
Higher Manas or Ego is Individualised Mind in its Microcosmic aspect. Lower Manas or Egotism is ray from the Higher Ego, and its alter ego. Brain is the vehicle of Lower Manas enthroned in Kama …
What Does the Bible Teach About Our Emotions? - RPM …
We need a biblical, practical theology of emotionality. In this introductory series, we look at a Creation, Fall, Redemption model of our emotions. We examine: In many Christian circles, …
I’ve Got a Big Ego!: Distinguishing Between Your Ego and the …
May 14, 2025 · 1. An ego is a person’s sense of _____ or _____. The Ego is what drives how you see yourself and how you want others to see you. In simple terms, ego is your inner “I” that says, …
Emotions 11 - Overcoming Low Self-Esteem - Bible Charts
In this lesson we want to study about overcoming low self-esteem. WHAT IS SELF-ESTEEM? Self-esteem relates to your self-identity. Who am I? What am I? Why am I? Examples of each of the …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are (book)
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
The Alter Ego Effect | Todd Herman - immersionheaters.uk
The study shows us the power of identity–the power of how we see yourselves–and what happens when we, for a moment in time, can call forth a different self. That’s from a chapter called “The …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are Craig Groeschel
Altar Ego reveals who God says you are, and then calls you to live up to it. Rather than living a timid, halfhearted, shallow cultural Christianity, you'll boldly live in the confidence of the God who …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are Craig Groeschel
Altar Ego: A DVD Study: Becoming Who God Says You Are ... Instead of an outward-driven, approval-based ego, we learn to live with an “altar” ego, God’s vision of who we are becoming. …
Job as Alter Ego: The Bible, Ancient Jewish Discourse, and
Job as Alter Ego: The Bible, Ancient Jewish Discourse, and Exile Literature I Since the beginnings of Western litera-ture the Hebrew Bible-together with the Classics - has supplied scores of writers …
Altar Ego A Novel Copy - celebsonyachts.com
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
Altar Ego (Download Only) - zebra.dfusion.com
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
Altar Ego Becoming Who God Says You Are Copy
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
Alter Versus Ego: An Exploratory Assessment of Altruism
ALTER VERSUS EGO: AN EXPLORATORY ASSESSMENT OF ALTRUISM ROBERT W. FRIEDRICHS Drew University "Altruism," defined operationally by means of mutual ratings of a cohort's …
Altar Ego Craig Groeschel (Download Only)
Altar Ego Bible Study Guide offers discussion questions and other supplemental material to delve further into God s divine plan and will ultimately help you sacrifice any old unhealthy untrue and …
