Recommended Books
Seven Women: and the secret of their greatness by
In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history's greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God's call upon their lives--as women. Each of the world-changing figures who stride across these pages--Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks--is an exemplary model of true womanhood. Teenaged Joan of Arc followed God's call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyr's death. Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. And Rosa Parks' deep sense of justice and unshakeable dignity and faith helped launch the twentieth-century's greatest social movement. Writing in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals howthe other extraordinary women in this book achieved their greatness, inspiring readers to lives shaped by the truth of the gospel.
Call Number: BR1713 .M48 2015ISBN: 9780718021832Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: making a female ministry in the early twentieth century by
This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.
Call Number: BV676 .P39 2015ISBN: 9781137494696Publication Date: 2015-02-11
Philip's Daughters: women in pentecostal-charismatic leadership by
This volume brings together twelve scholars from a variety of scholarly fields including biblical studies, history, theology, sociology, anthropology, and missiology in a multi-disciplinary exploration of themes related to women's leadership within the three branches of the renewal movement: Holiness, Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions. These scholars - women and men - from both within and outside the traditions, draw on various methodologies including hermeneutics, ethnography, critical theory, and historical analysis to explore the experiences and contributions of women from the movement's inception to the present. They keep before us the challenges that still impact women's full participation as equal partners in ministry and leadership on both the American and global scene. The volume looks at the multiple roots of women's margin alization within the renewal movement while suggesting progressive solutions that take seriously the social locations of Pentecostal and Charismatic congregations and the theological foundations on which the movement has been built. At the same time, it locates these discussions within the broader postmodern realities facing the church as it attempts to faithfully live out its witness to the biblical truth that both male and female are created in the God's image and endowed with the capacity to work creatively toward the unfolding of the Kingdom.
Call Number: BR1644 .P5 2009ISBN: 9781556358326Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Women and the Landscape of American Higher Education by
The post-millennial vision of nineteenth century America led to greater educational opportunities for women, but these were focused on women's domestic efficacy in developing messianic mothers to help create the kingdom of God on earth. Yet, by embracing the doctrine of sanctification, Wesleyan Holiness women were able to move from women's sphere (domesticity) to the public sphere (public ministry), which they had come to see as their intended place. Not only did they make this shift for themselves, but they created Christian institutions of higher education that provided opportunities for both women and men to prepare for public ministry. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new force would enable women to further demonstrate their equality in the work of the Lord. In 1901, the Pentecostal movement was ushered in when Agnes Nevada Ozman became the first person in the modern era to speak in tongues. This movement saw the promise and fulfillment of equal empowerment of men and women for service by the Holy Spirit, which sent individuals throughout the world to further the kingdom of God. As the theological shift from a postmillennial to a premillennial view occurred, opportunity became necessity as priority was given to the creation of schools to prepare ministers to reach lost souls before the return of Jesus. The founding of such schools was pioneered by Wesleyan Holiness and Pentecostal women who carried the torch as their movement grew into the twentieth century. This book compiles the inspiring stories of some of the most notable women who, from society's perspective stepped outside established roles to claim a significant place in the history of American higher education.
Call Number: BV4030 .R84 2010ISBN: 9781606088692Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Abolition of Women: How radical feminism is betraying women by
"For the great majority on both sides of the abortion debate, the idea of a pro-life feminist is the ultimate contradiction in terms. Abortion has become so central to feminist thinking that women who affirm their belief in both women's empowerment and the in alienable right to life can find themselves viewed with suspicion and hostility from both sides. Yet the author of this book is indeed a pro-life feminist, and her insightful analysis of contemporary issues can provide the basis for common ground between those defending human rights. This book unashamedly calls mainstream feminists, journalists and Western politicians to account for their silence and - in some cases - vocal justification of the persecution of women because of an absolutist loyalty to abortion. It asks uncomfortable questions to those who claim to believe in women's empowerment: Where is their passionate outrage when Chinese women are forcibly aborted and sterilised? Where is their concern for the thousands of baby girls killed by abortion every year because their lives are held as worthless simply for being female? What about the thousands of women used as surrogates for wealthy Western couples, treated as chattels and denied their most basic human rights? But the book also tackles difficult issues for the pro-life side--the need for a sensitive, rea listic approach to problematic pregnancies and the importance of confronting the continued exploitation and abuse of women within a sexualised society. Pro-life feminism is not only possible, it is vital if the complex struggles facing women are to be adequately met. Abolition of Woman is a rallying cry to feminists to stand with the pro-life movement, fighting to build a society in which women are equal and every human life is protected."--back cover.
Call Number: HQ767.3 .N37 2018ISBN: 9781621641698Publication Date: 2018
Identity Theft by
Who am I? It's a question we all ask ourselves at some point. Depending on the season we focus our identity on our job performance, marital status, personality type, or social network, among other options. However, there's a larger question to consider. Who does the Bible tell me I am in Christ?
Call Number: BV4598.25 .K78 2018ISBN: 9780692134665Publication Date: 2018-06-16
God Forgive Us for Being Women: rhetoric, theology, and the pentecostal tradition by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2018Also available in print: BR1644 .Q35 2018 Holy Spirit Resource Center
She Offered Them Christ by
Dr. Paul W. Chilcote has been involved in theological education on three continents, serving as a missionary with his wife Janet in Kenya, and as a charter faculty member of Africa University in Zimbabwe. Dr. Chilcote previously served as Nippert Professor of Church History and Wesleyan Studies at Methodist Theological School in Ohio and more recently helped to launch the new campus of Asbury Theological seminary in Florida. He is the author of nine books, the most recent of which include Praying in the Wesleyan Spirit (Upper Room Books), Her Own Story: Autobiographical Portraits of Early Methodist Women (Kingswood Books), The Wesleyan Tradition: A Paradigm for Renewal (Abingdon Press), Recapturing the Wesley's Vision (InterVarsity Press) and Changed from Glory into Glory (Upper Room Books). He serves as a unit editor in The Works of John Wesley project, is president of The Charles Wesley Society, and enjoys a special relationship with Mt. Angel Abbey in Oregon as a Benedictine Oblate. Dr. Chilcote is a frequent speaker and workshop leader in applied Wesleyan studies, particularly in the areas of spirituality, worship, discipleship, and evangelism.
Call Number: not at ORUISBN: 9781579106683Publication Date: 2001-06-15
Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry by
Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church, and Ministry, co-edited by Margaret English de Almin ana and Lois E. Olena, concerns women and Pentecostalism. It introduces the way the Pentecostal/charismatic movement has been shaped by and has shaped women from its beginning and offers a wide variety of responses to the opportunities and limitations women have experienced in their commitment to religious service. Scholars, activists, leaders, and exemplars from a variety of disciplines reflect on the question: How have women responded to a religious context that has depended upon their gifts while, at the same time, limited their voices and perspectives? This volume offers missing and/or silent voices an important corrective and a way forward to shape gender-focused discussions. Contributors are: Estrelda Yvonne Alexander, Peter Althouse, Linda M. Ambrose, Melissa L. Archer, Amy C. Artman, Denise A. Austin, Kate Bowler, Barbara Cavaness-Parks, Loralie Robinson Crabtree, Naomi Dowdy, Margaret English de Almin ana, Beth (A. Elizabeth) Grant, Jacqueline Grey, Mimi R. Haddad, Jennifer A. Miskov, Stephanie L. Nance, Lois E. Olena, Ava Kate Oleson, Joy E. A. Qualls, and Zachary Michael Tackett.
Call Number: BX8780.Z5 W66 2017 Holy Spirit Resource CenterISBN: 9789004332522Publication Date: 2016-11-10
Chasing the Dragon by
The true story of how one woman's faith resulted in the conversion of hundreds of drug addicts, prostitues and hardened criminals in Hong Kong's infamous Walled City.
Call Number: BV3427.P8 A3 2004 Holy Spirit Resource CenterISBN: 0830734007Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Corrie ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom: shining in the darkness by
When Hitler's madness invaded Holland, Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) and her family risked everything to extend God's hand of love and protection to their Jewish neighbors. Corrie's life is a testimony of forgiveness, compassion, and courage to do what is right. "No pit is so deep," she believed, "that God's great love is greater still."Children, parents, and teachers love the adventurous Christian Heroes Then & Now biographies and unit study curriculum guides. Now Heroes for Young Readers introduces younger children to the lives of Christian heroes!
Call Number: BR1725.T35 M4 2002 CMCISBN: 9781576582312Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Corrie ten Boom: keeper of the angel's den by
The life of Corrie ten Boom, survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, is a testimony to the victory of forgiveness over bitterness (1892-1983).
Call Number: BR1725.T35 B46 1999 CMCISBN: 1576581365Publication Date: 1998-09-01
Corrie ten Boom, her story by
Three bestselling autobiographies, The Hiding Place, Tramp for the Lord, and Jesus is Victor, by Corrie Ten Boom. These spell-binding stories have sold over 2,000,000 copies. Now all together in one volume.
Call Number: BR1725.T35 A3 1995ISBN: 9780884861263Publication Date: 2004-02-05
The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom by
Pam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's best-selling book The Hiding Place, which recounted how she and her family had hidden Jews during World War II in Holland until their betrayal and arrest by the Nazis, had launched for Corrie a worldwide ministry of travel and speaking. Awed by the spiritual challenge this companionship posed, Pam wondered how she could keep up with the energetic 83-year-old. But God knit a strong bond between the young Englishwoman and the remarkable Dutch evangelist. Then Corrie suffered a stroke. Hospitalization followed; physical therapy; then long, loving hours at home. Corrie regained a little mobility for a time -- until the next strokes hit. She never regained her speech. But the ministry that had touched millions continued as Corrie communicated through her eyes, through elaborate guessing games with those around her, through silent intercession for people God brought to mind. For those five silent years of imprisonment, Corrie's spiritual depth offered mute testimony to her ongoing trust in her heavenly Father. The details of these years will move all who loved Corrie ten Boom. They will encourage those involved with the elderly or handicapped -- and those who are themselves bedridden -- that God is at work mysteriously in and through even the most incapacitated. This book attests to the truth Corrie loved so dearly: that, in spite of everything else, Jesus is always Victor.
Call Number: BR1725.T35 R67 1986 Holy Spirit Resource Center and AnnexISBN: 0310611210Publication Date: 1986-05-11- Corrie ten Boom, her life, her faith: A biography by The touching story of Corrie Ten Boom, whose never wavering faith in the Lord supported her during her years in a German concentration camp and then as a travelling witness to the wonderful gifts of God and life.Call Number: BR1725.T35 C37 1983 Holy Spirit Resource Center and AnnexISBN: 0800712935Publication Date: 1982-10-01
- Corrie ten Boom [sound recording] : [message given at the World Conference on the Holy Spirit, Jerusalem, 1974] byCall Number: BT121.2 .T43 Holy Spirit Resource CenterPublication Date: 1974
Heidi Baker
Compelled by Love by
Compelled by Love, the true story of the ministry of Heidi and Rolland Baker in the war-torn, poverty and disease-stricken country of Mozambique, chronicles twenty-seven years of ministry among the poorest people on earth. The book is based upon the beatitudes as seen through the eyes of third-world pastors and missionaries. The Bakers have experienced God’s miraculous provision of food to thousands, brought physical healing and spiritual wholeness to His poorest children, and witnessed the transformed hearts of people caught in desperate life or death situations. Their stories prove the reality of God’s kingdom on earth, and demonstrate how to transform this world through the power of love.
Call Number: BT382 .B3625 2008ISBN: 9781599793511Publication Date: 2008-07-18
Always Enough: God's miraculous provision among the poorest children on earth by
Even the most desperate poverty, the most devastating illness, the most heart-wrenching grief is not beyond God's help. His love and power have no limits-and that's a message readers from all walks of life need to hear. The modern miracles that Rolland and Heidi Baker experience every day in their work with Mozambique's throwaway children, movingly chronicled in Always Enough, will inspire anyone looking for hope in the midst of suffering. The Bakers, formerly missionaries in Indonesia and Hong Kong, share how their work for the past eight years in Mozambique, one of the poorest nations on earth, has borne spiritual fruit beyond their wildest dreams. Every day presents multiple impossible needs. But in the face of everything Satan can do, as Rolland and Heidi lay down their lives and "minister to the one," there is always enough. Readers will discover that the simple practice of choosing to step out and trust God every day unleashes his provision for every need.
Call Number: BV3625.M65 B35 2003ISBN: 9780800793616Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Learning to Love: passion, compassion and the essence of the gospel by
Missionary Leaders Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Glimpses from Africa Continuing where their book Expecting Miracles left off, this narrative draws from the last five years of the life of Iris Ministries. Woven alongside fascinating narrative from Mozambique is teaching from Heidi and Rolland that communicates the distilled wisdom about the heart of the Gospel from all their years of serving the poor. More than any of their previous books, this one has the most to say about what Rolland and Heidi have learned about love--whether in Africa or wherever home might be: finding intimacy with Jesus, concentrating on the humble and lowly, being willing to suffer for love's sake, finding God's supply of utterly needed miracles, and walking in the unquenchable joy of the Lord. Every reader will find incredible challenge and refreshment in these pages.
Call Number: BV2616 .B28 2013ISBN: 9780800795528Publication Date: 2013-02-15
Expecting Miracles: true stories of God's supernatural power and how you can experience it by
In 2003 readers around the world read in Always Enough about the amazing things God was doing in the poorest nation on earth. Since then Heidi and Rolland Baker's ministry has electrified the body of Christ, lay Christians and ministry leaders alike, who have witnessed it firsthand. Now readers can spend a year with the Bakers, watching God continue to work miraculously in Mozambique and learning how he longs to work similarly in our own lives.combining extraordinary narrative with insights and teaching principles, Expecting Miracles connects believers in developed countries with those in poverty and offers priceless lessons on how God's power transforms lives.
Call Number: BV3625.M65 B34 2007ISBN: 9780800794347Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Janice Fiamengo
- Toxic FeminismWebsite of Janice Fiamengo, former feminist
- Feminism - Fiamengo FilesPlaylist of YouTube videos on feminism
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