Foreword by Willard Swartley "We considered him stricken by God, but . . ." Did God really pour out his wrath against sin on his Son to satisfy his own need for justice? Or did God-in-Christ forgive the world even as it unleashed its wrath against him? Was Christ's sacrifice the ultimate fulfillment of God's demand for redemptive bloodshed? Or was the cross God's great "No" to that whole system? This distinctively panoramic volume offers fresh perspectives on these and other difficult questions reemerging throughout the church today. Contributors: James Alison Kharalambos Anstall Mark D. Baker Sharon Baker Anthony Bartlett Marcus Borg Ronald S. Dart E. Robert Ekblad Michael Hardin Brad Jersak Andrew P. Klager Brita Miko C. F. D. Moule Wayne Northey Nathan Rieger Richard Rohr Miroslav Volf J. Denny Weaver Rowan Williams N. T. Wright

Stricken by God?: Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ

Religion & Spirituality

Jersak, Brad

Hardin, Michael

Christian Books & Bibles

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

A book that has already helped thousands of readers to discover a prayer life that is what we long for and see patterned in Scripture.

Can You Hear Me?: Tuning In to the God Who Speaks

Monarch Books

Can You Hear Me? is a compelling combination of biblical and historical research, real life experiences, and inspiring exercises on listening prayer. God desires to transform your prayer times into intimate conversations, real meetings with a living friend. Through this book, you will become aware that encountering God is simpler and more interactive than you ever dreamed.

Can You Hear Me: Tuning in to the God Who Speaks

Fresh Wind Pr

God longs to open the eyes and ears of faith in every boy and girl. He desires that each child would hear his voice and see his face--even the child in you. This hardcover children's storybook features full color illustrations by Ken Save as well as a chapter from Can You Hear Me? Tuning In to the God Who Speaks that explains how parents can encourage their children to embrace a lifestyle of listening prayer.

Children Can You Hear Me: How to Hear and See God

If Can You Hear Me? primed your heart for listening prayer, this forty-day spiritual exercise will help make it a lifestyle. Walk with Brad and Eden Jersak as you present God with 40 life-changing questions and receive His answers. These encounters will lead you to new depths of hearing God’s voice and seeing His face.

Rivers from Eden: 40 Days of Intimate Conversation with God

Jersak, Eden

Fresh Wind Press

2012 Edition includes foreword by Jason Upton and a study guide for each chapter.God desires to transform your prayers into intimate conversations, real meetings with a Living Friend.In this book, Brad Jersak lays out the biblical foundation for the practice of listening prayer.CAN YOU HEAR ME? combines solid research, inspiring testimonies, and 33 spiritual exercises–all to help you hear God more clearly.Inside Can You Hear Me?, you will: - Learn the simplicity of listening prayer and connect with God deeply and personally. - Experience personal meeting places in different rooms of your heart, in God’s Word, and in your world, that you can access freely whenever you need to meet with Jesus. - Identify and overcome blocks to connecting intimately with God. Stop the silence! - Apply listening prayer in decision-making, parenting, in your local church, and for inner healing. - Jesus alone is the wonderful counselor who delights to answer your questions. - Test and Distinguish between God’s voice and all those competing voices.

Can You Hear Me? (2012): Tuning in to the God Who Speaks

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Do Your Children Hear God? Of Course They Do!God loves children. He reveals himself freely to kids, speaking to them as a best friend. This book will encourage the childlike faith that opens the hearts of children to hear God’s voice and see his face–even the child in you!This children’s book comes with 23 full-color illustrations by Ken Save.It includes a chapter by Brad Jersak for parents and children's workers on how to do Listening Prayer with your Children.Each picture shows children meeting and talking with Jesus in a variety of life-settings.Every page acts as a stand-alone listening exercise for children, prompting interactive prayer.Each illustration begs the question: “Where is Jesus in this picture? What is He doing?”Children, Can You Hear Me? trains kids to practice God’s presence in their lives.Imagine raising an entire generation that hears God’s voice every day!

Children, Can You Hear Me?: How to hear and see God

If Brad Jersak's 'Can You Hear Me? primed your heart for listening prayer, this forty-day spiritual exercise will help make it a lifestyle. Walk with Eden and Brad Jersak as you present God with 40 life-changing questions and receive God's answers. These encounters will lead you to new depths of hearing God's voice and seeing God's face.'Rivers from Eden' is designed to help readers make 'listening prayer' a lifestyle. It models an approach to prayer in which your time spent with God becomes an intimate, interactive meeting.The premise, laid out in detail in 'Can You Hear Me?', is that all of God's children can learn to hear his voice (Job. 33:14, John 10:27) and see his face (Heb. 12:2, 2 Cor. 4:6).When the eyes and ears of your heart are opened, prayer becomes a real meeting with a living friend.

Description: Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment? Is divine mercy bound by the demands of justice? How can anyone presume to know who is saved from the flames and who is not? Reacting to presumptions in like manner, others write off the fiery images of final judgment altogether. If there is a God who loves us, then surely all are welcome into the heavenly kingdom, regardless of their beliefs or behaviors in this life. Yet, given the sheer volume of threat rhetoric in the Scriptures and the wickedness manifest in human history, the pop-universalism of our day sounds more like denial than hope. Mercy triumphs over judgment; it does not skirt it. Her Gates Will Never Be Shut endeavors to reconsider what the Bible and the Church have actually said about hell and hope, noting a breadth of real possibilities that undermines every presumption. The polyphony of perspectives on hell and hope offered by the prophets, apostles, and Jesus humble our obsessive need to harmonize every text into a neat theological system. But they open the door to the eternal hope found in Revelation 21-22: the City whose gates will never be shut; where the Spirit and Bride perpetually invite the thirsty who are outside the city to ""Come, drink of the waters of life."" Endorsements: ""Who are the damned? Who are the saved? The questions have a way of provoking controversy, often quite heated. Brad Jersak, self-identified as an evangelical who accepts the Biblical witness as authoritative, turns the controversy into a conversation, a quiet conversation. He listens. He listens to opposing voices. He listens to Scripture as God's last word on the subject. He listens to the scholars and theologians. Out of the listening something like a 'humility of hope' (Jersak's phrase) begins to replace dogmatisms and we find ourselves part of a conversation with Christian brothers and sisters who are seriously praying for the world's salvation."" --Eugene H. Peterson author of Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers ""Deeply grounded in evangelical faith and committed to evangelical categories of theological interpretation, Jersak probes the meaning of 'Final Judgment' in Christian faith and tradition. The phrase, for Jersak, must be kept in quote marks, because he sees that what is 'final' is not 'judgment' but the openness of God. The book traces the way in which Christians, and the author, 'exchange certainty for hope.' In the end the residue of evil will not have the last word; what prevails is the goodness of God's love. Readers will be greatly instructed by this thoughtful book."" --Walter Brueggemann author of Divine Presence Amid Violence (Cascade, 2009) ""Combining theological rigor and pastoral sensitivity Her Gates Will Never Be Shut is sure to push the boundaries of the contemporary theological landscape and expand the theological horizons of scholars, pastors, and lay Christians alike. Grounded, timely, and open--this is evangelical theology at its best."" --Jon Stanley co-editor of ""God is Dead"" and I Don't Feel so Good Myself: Theological Engagements with the New Atheism (Cascade, 2009) About the Contributor(s): Bradley Jersak is an author and seminar speaker based in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He is the author of Can You Hear Me? (2003), Kissing the Leper (2006), and co-editor of Stricken by God? (2007).

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem

Wipf & Stock Publishers

Kissing the Leper is about eyes that see. Jesus once counselled us to "buy medicine for your eyes from me so that you can see, really see" (Rev. 3:18 MSG). Kissing the Leper is about getting our eyes repaired from religious and cultural prejudice so that we can see Jesus in others, especially those that our world discards as "the least." The author has compiled the voices and testimonies of historical and contemporary practitioners to develop a devotional theology of encounter. Specifically, Brad Jersak challenges us to meet and welcome Christ in human form from society's margins to the banqueting table of God.

Kissing the Leper: Seeing Jesus in the Least of These

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Stricken by God?: Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ

Can You Hear Me?: Tuning In to the God Who Speaks

Can You Hear Me: Tuning in to the God Who Speaks

Children Can You Hear Me: How to Hear and See God

Rivers from Eden: 40 Days of Intimate Conversation with God

Can You Hear Me? (2012): Tuning in to the God Who Speaks

Children, Can You Hear Me?: How to hear and see God

Rivers from Eden: 40 Days of Intimate Conversation with God

Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem

Kissing the Leper: Seeing Jesus in the Least of These