Living with Christ - February 2023
English | 196 pages | True PDF | 39.3 MB

C. Christopher Smith, "How the Body of Christ Talks"
English | ISBN: 1587434326 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
In today's highly charged social and political environment, we often don't know how to talk well with others-especially with people whose backgrounds differ from our own. C. Christopher Smith, coauthor of the critically acclaimed and influential Slow Church, addresses why conversation has become such a challenge in the 21st century and argues that it is perhaps the most-needed spiritual practice of our individualistic age.

Major Ian Thomas, "The Indwelling Life of Christ: All of Him in All of Me"
English | ISBN: 1590525248 | 2006 | 176 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"Christ in you, the hope of glory." -Colossians 1:27

Douglas D. Webster, "Outposts of Hope: First Peter's Christ for Culture Strategy"
English | ISBN: 1498200664 | 2015 | 174 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The original recipients of the Letter of First Peter inhabited a radically different social context from our own. We do not live under Roman imperial rule. Slave labor is not the driving force of our economy. Women are not under patriarchal domination in our culture as they once were. Society has changed, but what is beyond dispute is that Western culture remains antithetical to God's will and hostile to the Jesus way. The imperial Caesar has been replaced by the imperial self. The Pax Romana has been replaced by the American Dream. Western capitalism still trades in the bodies and souls of human beings. Culture obsesses over sexual freedom and material indulgence. Idolatry is pervasive. Autonomous individualism is the ideal. First Peter is about the inevitable clash with culture that ensues because of the good news of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Peter's bottom-up profile of costly discipleship is far more radical than we may realize. Hostility against the church is the believer's opportunity under pressure to reveal the goodness of God. Suffering and submission are essential for Peter's Christ for culture strategy. Sacrifice is the leverage of the gospel. Cross-bearing humility is the strategy for relating to culture and Christlike humility is essential for living in the household of God.

Vincent Pizzuto, "Contemplating Christ: The Gospels and the Interior Life"
English | ISBN: 0814647057 | 2018 | 228 pages | EPUB | 819 KB
The incarnation has made mystics of us all. What if we read the gospels as if that were true? In his book Contemplating Christ,Vincent Pizzuto offers an exploration of the interior life for modern contemplatives that is as beautiful as it is compelling. With an emphasis on the gospels and Christian mystical tradition, his book explores ancient themes in new and surprising ways. Drawing on his rich experience as an academic and priest, Pizzuto gradually unfolds the Christian mystery of deification to which the whole of biblical revelation and the Christian contemplative life are ordered: through the incarnation, we have all been made "other Christs" in the world.

Lee M. Jefferson, "Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1451477937 | PDF | pages: 245 | 2.9 mb
Artistic representations were of significant value to early Christian communities. In Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art, Lee Jefferson argues that images provided visual representations of vital religious and theological truths crucial to the faithful and projected concepts beyond the limitations of the written and spoken word. Images of Christ performing miracles or healings functioned as advertisements for Christianity and illustrated the nature of Christ. Using these images of Christ, Jefferson examines the power of art, its role in fostering devotion, and the deep connection between art and its elucidation of pivotal theological claims.

Be Ready (1 & 2 Thessalonians): Living in Light of Christ's Return By Warren W. Wiersbe
2010 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1434765016 | EPUB | 1 MB
Experience eternity. Today. During His life and ministry, Christ assured the apostles that He would one day return for His people. But how should this future event affect our lives today? In Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, he reveals that the promise of Christ's return is more than a doctrine of our faith. It is a remarkable truth that can shape how we live, how we connect, and how we view ministry. Part of Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe's best-selling "BE" commentary series, Be Ready has now been updated with study questions and a new introduction by Ken Baugh. A respected pastor and Bible teacher, Dr. Wiersbe balances the prophetic with the practical, and shares how Christ's powerful promise can impact every aspect of life. So be encouraged. Be revived. And Be Ready.

God's Human Face: The Christ Icon By Christoph Cardinal Schoenborn
2016 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0898705142 | EPUB | 1 MB
The principal editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, presents the sources of meditation on the mystery of God's human face from the great Masters of early Christianity. Artists and theologians have meditated upon the mystery of God's human countenance and tried to express it. This book seeks to present the great sources of this meditation--sources which today are widely unknown, or have become foreign or obscure. These sources are above all the great masters of early Christianity. In their meditation upon Christ, Bishop Schonborn seeks the sources of the art on the Icon. The reader will find not only an engaging introduction to the meaning and beauty of Icons, but an invitation to draw closer to the One who inspired these Masters of theological expression and holy art. Includes beautiful color Icon illustrations.

R. Michael Allen, "The Christ's Faith: A Dogmatic Account"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0567033996, 0567130940 | PDF | pages: 256 | 0.8 mb
The Christ's Faith coheres with orthodox Christology and Reformation soteriology, and needs to be affirmed to properly confirm the true humanity of the incarnate Son. Without addressing the interpretation of the Pauline phrase pistis christou, this study offers a theological rationale for an exegetical possibility and enriches a dogmatic account of the humanity of the Christ.

Hugh Wybrew, "Orthodox Feasts of Jesus Christ & the Virgin Mary: Liturgical Texts With Commentary"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0881412031 | PDF | pages: 148 | 27.3 mb
Christian faith in Jesus Christ as both divine and human was formulated as doctrine by the ecumenical councils of the Church in the fourth and fifth centuries. That doctrine was given liturgical expression in the feasts of Christmas and other festivals celebrating events in the life of Christ and Mary. These honor the Christian belief that, in Jesus, the Son of God became human so that human beings might share in the life of God. This book presents selected Orthodox liturgical texts for these feasts of the incarnation. Freshly translated into modern English, each day's material is introduced by a short account of its thematic sources, and accompanied by a brief spiritual and theological commentary. An opening section gives a concise account of the development of the liturgical calendar and the origins of these feasts in the Orthodox Church. Orthodox Feasts of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary introduces Western Christians to the doctrinal richness of Orthodox liturgical celebrations of the Word become flesh. A companion volume to Orthodox Lent, Holy Week and Easter, by the same author (SVS Press, 1997), it provides Christians of all traditions with material for meditation and personal prayer.