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* The early leaders of the Church were all Jewish
* The original Church was organized around the pattern of the Jewish synagogue
* Yeshua (Jesus) used numerous Jewish idioms in his teachings and was, perhaps, a Pharisee himself
Dr. Moseley illuminates the Jewish background of Yeshua and the Church in this best-selling book. Must reading for every believer.
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Not what I was taught as a child.......2007-07-14
Fascinating insights into what the scriptures mean. Dr. Moseley explains incidents in the life of Jesus and the early church from a 2000 years ago, Middle Eastern, approach; which is how they were written. I'm reminded of part of a Paul Simon song, "When I think of all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."
a guide for a quick tour.......2007-05-01
It is concise and informative, as a guide should be. It is an appetizer for further information and the bibliography shows where you can find the main courses. There is no index but, being a short book, the detail in the table of contents suffices. There is a glossary, and, perhaps, the most unexpected feature is the fill-in-the-blank study questions at the end of each chapter.
With no wasted words, the author deftly sketches a picture of the various views of the Torah and the way Torah was taught and lived out in the time of Yeshua. The reader can grasp quickly the background behind the words and teaching methods Jesus used. The reader can understand some of the attitudes and experiences that underlie Paul's letters and actions. Quite remarkable for such a short treatise.
However, I had some problems understanding chapter four, "The Old and the New: Different Covenants". The author apparently assumes that believers in Jesus (Yeshua) are separate from God's Chosen people, the Israelites, and they, therefore, are obligated only by the Noachide Laws. It is unclear if he or his sources believe that obedience to the Noachide Laws will bring salvation. He gives no Scriptural basis that this Noahian Covenant is redemptive or obligatory. God's Chosen people apparently have a different means to salvation than other people in this world. He does not allude to the fact that the Mosaic Covenant also included the "stranger" or the "sojourner" who joined himself to Israel. He also states, without foundation, that "God gave all nations the same possibility of becoming his people, but only Israel was willing to accept his law, while the other nations rejected this opportunity." Perhaps he is basing this statement on later Rabbinic teaching. In any case history witnesses to the fact that Israel rejected her God. I would like to see this chapter completely rewritten.
Question 16 in chapter 6 uses the term "Old Testament" and I think it means "New Testament".
Chapter 5 about Law and Grace is synthesizing--bringing apparent opposites together. And the overview about the Pharisees is enlightening--makes you feel that you could meet one on the street and shake his hand and then converse about spiritual matters.
WHAT'S IN A NAME????? BIBLE BASED FACTS????.......2007-03-01
DECEPTION #1 - JESUS AND JEHOVAH ARE THE NAMES OF THE FATHER AND SON,
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT NAME YOU CALL THEM.
How can you think the names of salvation doesn't matter, would you allow me to call you any name I like? Would you allow your boss to put any name he liked on your pay check? NO, you wouldn't, so why do you think we can give the creator any name we want. Jesus and Jehovah are not the names of the father and son. These names come from the adversary Satan. The father and son both have Hebrew names this is confirmed in the original Hebrew text, and in your KJV. In the book of Psalms 68:4 we read this:
Psalms 68:4 Sing unto the Almighty, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name YAH, and rejoice before him.
Yes my people, the creator of heaven and earth, name is Yah. In your KJV the name listed, is JAH. That is incorrect, there is no letter J, J equivalent, or J sound in the Hebrew language. In fact the letter J is one of the newest letters in the English alphabet. It came into usage sometime after 1630; Jesus or Jehovah wasn't in the original 1611 KJV (King James Version).
Many of the Hebrew Prophets carried the name Yah within their names.
SUCH AS: OBADYAH which means Servant of Yah,
ZechariYah - Yah Remembers
IsaiYah - Yah is salvation
ZephaniYah - Yah Hides
The Phrase Hallelu'Yah means PRAISE YOU YAH.
Notice in your KJV (King James Version) the spelling of those names are different, Isaiah doesn't have the YAH at the end, nor does the other names and Hallelu'YAH has JAH in the suffix. Why is that? Simple the adversary Satan is trying to take the name of salvation away from you. He is deceiving you into calling upon false GODS. YAH's name mean THE ETERNAL, THE SELF EXISTENCE, Jehovah means nothing, it's a vain name. Yah said not to take his name in vain, this is one of the first commandments.
Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of YAH in vain; for YAH will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
He will not hold you guiltless brothers and sisters, Christianity has put you into a confrontation with the most high. Christianity has deceived you into taking the creator's name in vain, you have made it useless, by calling him a false name. Jehovah is not a Hebrew name, Jehovah is not an English translation of the fathers Hebrew name. His name is on high; YAH does not need a translation for his name. All men on the face of the earth, in every language can pronounce his name, YAH.
In the KJV (King James Version) Exodus 20 doesn't mention Yah's name, it calls him by two titles, Lord and GOD.
Exodus 20:7, Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
The KJV says not to take the name of the Lord in vain. LORD is not a name it's a title, So is GOD. Lord and God both have roots in Paganism, both can be traced back to ancient pagan deities. Many bible dictionaries and concordance will tell you Wherever Lord and God is written in Scripture that the name should be YAH. If you have a concordance in your KJV bible, look under the name Yahweh, it will read this:
.........Whenever the words Lord and God appear in large and small capital letters, the original Hebrew reads YHWH.
YAH IS THE ALMIGHTY, THE CREATOR, THE HEAVENLY FATHER, THE MIGHTY ONE, THE ETERNAL, THE SET APART ONE. These are righteous titles, his name is above any title, he wants us to call upon him by his name. Jehovah is not his name, nor has it ever been.
Yah the almighty didn't name his son Jesus. Jesus is a Greco-Roman- English hybrid name. Just as Jehovah, Jesus is not a Hebrew name nor does it have any meaning, it too is a vain name. Jesus was not in the original 1611 King James Version of the bible,, . Nor was the name Jesus Present in any of the earlier English bible translations. The name Jesus isn't 500 years old. So how can this be the name by which men must call upon to be saved, if it didn't exist at the time the messiah walked the earth?
The messiah's true name is Yahoshua, it means Yah's salvation, his name tells his mission. Names are given in the Hebrew Culture based upon the character of the person. I was not born with the name Obadyah Ben Ysrayl, I took on this name after I found my true life calling. My name in Hebrew means Servant of Yah who is a son of Israel.
When the angel pronounced the messiah's name to Joseph, he told him his name would have something to do with saving:
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son. and you shall call his name Yahoshua for he shall save his people from their sins.
He shall bring Salvation to his people Israel. The name Jesus, on the other hand, has no association with any thing, but deception.
good beginner book.......2007-02-10
If you have never studied something like this, this is a good place to start, along with Our Father Abraham by Marvin Wilson and google Dwight Pryor, my favorite.
Flashes of great insight.......2007-01-03
This book would be a 1-1/2 star book but for a few flashes of great insight. I bought it because I heard that one chapter made it worth it. While the chapter on Jewish idioms spoken by Jesus is good, most of the information is available with little work on the internet.
If you can get this book on sale, it is definitly worth it, but I'm not sure I would pay full price.
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The most controversial NT passages Explained!!!.......2007-10-11
This book, written by Rabbi Harvey Falk, is a MUST HAVE for EVERYONE, whether believer or skeptic! The most controversial passages recorded in the NT are put into 1st century perspective.
Although I disagree with the rabbis perspective in the book that Yeshua and Saul came to bring a message of only the Noahide commandments to the Gentile world, the documentation presented is definitely worth the $$$ value being asked for this research.
Without this authors explanation regarding the "satanic passages" mentioned in the NT, Christians, Nazarenes and Jews will not be able to grasp Yeshua's most shocking statements!
Finally a perspective that holds water.......2006-04-05
Written by an orthodox Rabbi building on the framework of the renouned 18thC. Rav Jacob Emden, the basic idea is that the "Jesus" movement, which seems to have trained Jewish missionaries to convert Gentiles into "Petrine" Noahides (mind-blowing news about Saint Peter in this book) in anticipation of the destruction of the Temple and comming Jewish exile among the nations, operated fully within the orthodox Jewish framework, as a branch or offshoot of the "Elijahistic" Essene Hasidim. The good-guys are Hillelite orthodox & ultra-orthodox Jews, the bad-guys are Romanized Temple Sadducees (not to be confused with Essene Zadokites), and die-hard political Shammite Zealots (who even disputed their venerable teacher!) -whose halakhah was ruled out by heavenly decree and majority. Intruiging notes on the distinction of different people called Yeshu in Jewish writings leave one begging more questions. Packed with solid references from Jewish literature in their contexts, and a jolly good read all the way. Buy one for you and some for your friends. Well worth the money and you won't regret a penny.
Excellent.......2004-09-07
Rabbi Falk has done a wonderful job of explaining the Jewishness of Jesus, as well as elucidating Mankind's Universal Laws that Jewish tradition teaches govern all non-Jews. It makes total sense that Jesus, who came first to the Jews, would then want the universal laws of God spread throughout the rest of mankind. This book is a blessing for Jews and Christians and all people who want a better understanding of the first century C.E. (A.D.) and the all-inclusive holy teachings for all human beings. For further reading, I highly recommend Michael Dallen's book "The Rainbow Covenant."
A good read with some caveats..........2004-07-27
I gave this book a high rating because it is a remarkable attempt to bridge the gap between Judaism and Christianity, and since it comes from the perspective of an orthodox Rabbi, the attempt is that much more welcome and appreciated. However, there is a big misgiving in the overall premise of the book: that Jesus was a good observant Jew who always meant to establish a separate religion for the gentiles.
It is not true that the historical Jesus went out on a mission specially addressed to gentiles. The mayority of scholars today who study Christian as well as Jewish texts, agree that Jesus was indeed an observant Jew who loved the Torah and the traditions of his people, the Jews, and he was most concerned with the preservation and practice of Judaism under the difficult circumstances of Roman oppression. His most public and well known act, overturning the tables of the moneychangers, happened right in the Holy Temple courts, and he is referred to in the Gospels as constantly engaging in discussions with other Jews, such as the Pharisees and the Sadducees, about interpretation of the Jewish Law. He is never quoted as talking to Romans and Philistines or other gentiles about the importance of following the Noachide Commandments.
The Jesus Seminar, the discussion group made of scholars from various Christian denominations, has published extensively on the Jewishness of Jesus. Prof. Bartchy at UCLA is one non-denominational historian who discusses the Jewishness of Jesus and how what we know of the scope of Jesus' public life was always centered around Judaism and interpretation of the Law among his fellow Jews.
Perhaps understanding Jesus's life as something that was always (i.e: in God's plan) exclusively meant for gentiles was the only way Falk, being an orthodox Jew, could bring himself to study and write about Jesus. If that is the case, his thesis served a good purpose even if it is flawed.
Still, even with flaws in its main argument this book is a good read. Besides the author's good intentions to bring understanding of Christianity to Jews and understanding of Judaism to Christians, the other great reason to read this book is Falk's discussion about the disagreements between the rabbinic schools of Hillel and Shamai during the first century CE. These disagreements between Hillel and Shamai help explain some of the criticisms Jesus addresses to fellow Jews in the Gospels. After reading Falk's book, I agree with him that the criticisms of Judaism attributed to Jesus in the Gospels reflect Jesus' agreement with the ideology of the school of Hillel and his disagreement with the school of Shamai. Anyone who studies Judaism knows that disagreements about interpretation of the Law is commonplace among rabbis and lay Jews alike. Therefore, that Jesus would engage in such interpretation arguments with fellow Jews is not at all unexpected or out of line, but rather completely normal for a Torah Jew.
In that sense, Rabbi Falk successfully drives home two very important historical facts Christians would benefit from fully understanding: 1) Jesus was a practicing Jew who did not endorse any kind of radically new religion but rather endorsed the Jewish ideology of Rabbi Hillel's School (ideology which is unanimously agreed upon by Judaism today). 2) Jews do not need to be converted to Christianity to obtain salvation, rather Judaism and Christianity are like siblings that come from the same source even if they grew up over the past 2000 years to be quite different from each other.
As Falk beautifully put it in the last chapter of his book: "In the name of Heaven we are your brothers. One God created us all...It is my fervent hope that these writings will make a contribution toward bringing all men and women who seek God and the brotherhood of humanity into a closer bond of fellowship."
I strongly agree with Falk on this. It is time to stop the sibling rivalry between the two religions. There is plenty of room in the world for both, as long as we respect each other's space.
Finally, as recommendation for further reading, Bruce Chilton, a Christian scholar at Bard College, wrote a book titled Rabbi Jesus that paints a fairly plausible picture of Jesus' life in the first century CE, and he also presents Jesus as primarily involved with his fellow Jews and not the gentiles.
I recommend reading Chilton's book before you read Falk's, since it is more current, straightforward and it will painlessly place you in the historical and social context of the First Century CE. (However, I believe Chilton's narrative needs to be taken in with a grain of salt since it reads more like a novel than a historical account. Still, Chilton does a good job of letting the reader know when he is letting his imagination go.)
I also recommend the works of E. P. Sanders.
Was Jesus an observant Jew?.......2004-02-18
Harvey Falk, a rabbinic writer believes that Jesus can only be understood as an observant Jew who upheld most of the doctrine of the School of Hillel against the School of Shammai (although he broke with Hillel on the subject of divorce.) He sees Jesus as on a mission to encourage the gentiles to follow the Noahide laws (the seven commandments given to Noah which all righteous gentiles must follow according to Judiasm in order to achieve salvation.) He sees many condemnations of the Pharisees in the Christian Gospels as reflecting the often quite contentious disputes between the two schools.
Falk's style of writing is more likely to be familiar to Jews who have learned Talmudic defenses of halacha than to Christains. Falk goes both forward and back in rabbinic history to justify actions of Jesus. The book is extensively footnoted with reference to rabbinic texts.
Although I believe that Falk stretches things at times to indicate that Jesus and his followers always followed Jewish law (picking grain from the field on the Sabbath probably was not to forestall starvation,) he makes an excellent case that Jesus was primarily observant. (Although Christians often believe that healing the sick by prayer on the Sabbath was forbidden (Matthew 12:9-14), it was not explicitly forbidden by Jewish law and the text probably refers to a dispute between the schools of Hillel and Shammai on how high the "wall" should be around the laws of keeping the Sabbath.)
The book presents a vivid picture of the first century and its theological disputes. Falk looks at scriptures of Judiasm, Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls to convey the contemporary contraversies of that time.
I highly recommend this book both to Christians who want to understand the Jewish roots of Christianity and elucidate heretofore obscure sections of the Gospels, as well as to Jews who want to understand a first century rabbi whose teachings have largely been excluded from Jewish studies. Note that Falk is NOT a messainic Jew and believes in a dual covenant theory of salvation. His book was done primarily to foster understanding and dialogue between the two religions.
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Is That All There Is??.......2006-08-02
To the reviewer who felt short changed by this book, we all feel the same way. However, if a careful anaylsis of the remaining evidence leads to a less than complete view of the past than we might wish, so be it. I think the author has done what he can with the sources. If you wish to know more about the sects of Judiasm during the Second Temple period, you will need to look somewhere outside the texts as Stemberger exhausts them. There may be many things we can know about the past, however, somethings we will never be able to reconstruct. The period between the return from the exile and the Maccabbean revolution is a black hole.
Stemberger gives us a reasonable and reasoned assessment of what we can know from the texts. Conservative, judicious, and always erudite this is scholarship at its best. This book is a great cautionary into reading things into texts that are simply not there. Furthermore, if the author of this book has "a dog in the fight" that we call modern biblical scholarship, I can not find it. So, at least in some circumstances, it is still possible to write reasonablly objective history where Jesus of Nazareth is involved. Within its limits, this book is the state of the art on the topic it covers. If Second Temple Judiasm and the formation of Christianity are on your lists of concerns, I reccommend this book most highly.
Good Assessment of Subject and Sources.......2004-03-14
Stemberger begins his book with a description of the primary sources for the contemporaries of Jesus. These are Flavius Josephus, the New Testament, and Rabbinic statements. The next section of his book compares the theology of the groups. Then comes the histories of the groups. Stemberger concludes with the question of whether rabbinicism is a direct descendent of Phariseeism.
Stemberger has written a good assessment of his topic. One might wish that he had included some other group, but it probably was not a Jewish contemporary of Jesus. His fair treatment of his subject and his sources may be seen in his final chapter where he says that rabbinicism was a compromise.
Although scholarly, it's weak........2003-04-01
This book is sometimes so overly "scholarly" that you get lost. It would make a poor introduction book for those looking to get a basic understanding of Jewish sects in Jesus day. The translation is sometimes poor, leaving one confused. The order in which the author decides to present his material seems a little backwards. And if that wasn't enough, the author spends most of his time debunking others opinions on the matter, without really offering a true solution, reconstructing the contemporaries of Jesus. It's a painful book to read.
First Century Jigsaw Puzzle.......2002-12-14
This is an excellent, restrained and well-balanced study of the three most prominent Jewish religious groups around Jesus' time.
The author successfully integrates all the available sources, including: the New Testament, rabbinical sources, Yosef Ben Mattathias, a.k.a. Josephus Flavius, Dead Sea scrolls and apocrypha. This is a daunting task because their perspectives and agendas are incongruent. Throughout, he maintains lucidity and caution in judging how useful they are for the purpose of delineating who's who and what's what in Jewish society in the first century A.D. Usually, he cautions, these sources are not very helpful. The gaping holes in our knowledge tempt the creativity of the researcher to fill them up with his intuitions. For example, a basic assumption of writers in this field is that the New Testament Pharisees represent the same group as the rabbinical "Prushim." I am not even convinced that this identification is correct. Stemberger does not address this issue explicitly. He has his theories, but he exercises academic discipline and points out the limits of our knowledge. I felt the book added a lot to my grasp of the contentious nature of the New Testament and of the rabbinical sources, as well as Ben Mattathias' disregard for consistency.
Stemberger was in his element in his comparison of the shifts in the portrait of the Pharisees in the New Testament, particularly his emphasis on Luke's surprising description of the Pharisees. According to Luke, Jesus' relationship to the Pharisees could not have been as bad as they are portrayed in the other Gospels. "In the banquet scenes, Luke emphasizes the closeness of the Pharisees to Jesus, and in Acts he clarifies the points of association between the Pharisees and the Christian community." This is one of the few areas where the author indulges in some connecting of the dots. It is worth quoting him at length.
"If it were possible, using various arguments, to doubt that Paul had been a Pharisee at first, it would still be difficult to question the role of the Pharisees among the first Christians. What reason might Luke have had for such a position, if corresponding tendencies did not exist? This might shed some light on the anti-Pharisee polemic in the Gospel tradition, especially in Matthew and John. Is this not at least partially an intra-Christian polemic in the process of the community freeing itself from the roots of the law? It is not contradictory that we find the polemic especially sharp in the Gospels to which we credit a Jewish-Christian background. It was there that the problem of differentiation was greatest!"
One can stretch this insight to understand the anti-Jewish tenor of parts of the Gospels, which is grounded in early church politics. Parts of the Gospels seem to have a clear agenda to distance Jesus from his Jewish milieu. This is done without much subtlety. This tension determined editing decisions the authors of the Gospels made with their source material. Their work has fostered a perpetuation and fixation of the then contemporary animosities. In that sense centuries of strife between Judaism and Christianity stem from first century tensions between different communities, vying to differentiate from and to de-legitimize each other.
Stemberger sees through Ben Mattathias' Hellenic posturing. Overall, I felt his intuitions regarding rabbinical sources were also right on target. (The exception is when he speculates on page 102 on a possible connection between Daniel's "ba-halaqlaqqot" and the Qumran's "dorshei-halaqot." However, the two are unrelated. One comes from the word "halaq," "smooth," and the other from "halakha," "the law." Elsewhere in the text, the author implies that he is aware of these semantics.) He opines that the various Jewish schools had more in common with one another than not. For instance, he mentions the issue of the Sabbath. There is no evidence for significant points of conflict between the various schools of Judaism at the time regarding the Sabbath. Uncompromising withdrawal from all forms of labor on the Sabbath has always been one of the very basic and holiest tenets of Judaism, biblical as well as rabbinical. He then goes on to juxtapose this with his assessment of the Gospels and their sources regarding the Sabbath. He points out that there is no way to interpret the sources other than that both Jesus as well as the early Christian community disregarded the Sabbath regulations.
This is a difficult point. This was after all a legalistic society obsessed with the smallest details of observance of even lesser aspects of Moses' law. Therefore, it is hard to grasp how Jesus could have survived even one Sabbath if he openly disregarded its observance, let alone made public pronouncements condemning it. To the author's credit, he is not tempted to smooth over this issue by trying to find a way to bridge historical common sense with faith.
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In ParableLife many of Jesus' most familiar parables are examined in three ways: From the context of the text, through an imagininative retelling of the story behind the story of the parable, and how the parable looks today in real time through actual stories of people living now. There is a growing conversation about what it means to live as a follower of Jesus here and now. Living as a part of the body of Christ is more than just finding a slot on a churchs organizational chart and more than acquiring an impressive collection of Bible data by filling a chair in a sanctuary or Sunday School class. To many, the kingdom of God looks like a tangle of beautiful, sloppy, fast-growing rainforest plants, not a tidy line-up of plants safely contained in five-gallon containers on a shady patio.
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The Pharisees' guide to total holiness
William L Coleman
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Great study.......2004-12-09
This is a great in-depth study on the history and development of the Pharisees. My opinion of Pharisees was basically a negative one until I studied this book. This book will give you a true study on how the Pharisees started, developed and their place in history. I recommend it highly for a study book to add to your library.
Insight into straying from a pathway.......2003-10-13
People who are otherwise morally upright, insightful into their own spiritually and that of other people, and alert to errors in thinking and behavior, often fall victim to their own righteousness. This book by William Coleman gives a thorough and theologically sound study into this sort of tendency and it causes the reader to look at his or her own biases.
As St. Augustine said, "Never fight evil as though it arose from outside of ourselves." [Hope I didn't mangle that too much!] That is a major point in this delightful book. But it also explores the tendency of people to commit the same errors that they criticize.
It is an easy book to read and yet it challenges the reader to explore a number of issues. After reading the book, I have used it in two Boble study classes, and it went over very well with a range of personality and philosophy types.
Perhaps more importantly, it has made me more alert to my own attitudes!
Total Holiness the Pharisee Way.......2001-08-21
This book is an easy reading look at the Pharisees and how the maligned sect actually began with sincere love of God and a devotion to serving Him...and how that turned into intolerance, bigotry and narrowmindedness. The book opened my eyes to see how easily I personally and churches as a whole can go down that same path. The book is great!
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The Pharisees and Jesus
A. T. Robertson
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Beware of Men deals with the problem of "religious opposition" in the Church. Most Christians expect opposition and resistance to come from those outside the Church, but many are caught by surprise when they encounter opposition and resistance from those within the church.
Even though we do not war against flesh and blood (Eph 6:12), it is clear from the scriptures that Satan uses people. He especially likes to use "religious" people to oppose those who boldly proclaim the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. It was the "religious" crowd who provoked the Romans to kill Jesus. It was the "religious" folk who stirred up riots against the Apostles and the Early Church. Satan's tactics have not changed. He still tries to use "religious" individuals to hinder the proclamation and demonstration of the Gospel today. In fact, there are more warnings about deceptive "religious" men in the New Testament than even about the devil! The Holy Spirit inspired the Apostles to include these warnings in New Testament so that you and I would not be ignorant of the devil's devices!
Beware of Men: Exposing the Spirit of the Modern-Day Pharisee is a 192 page survival guide for fervent Christians who want to successfully fulfill the plan of God for their lives. It was written to embolden the pure in heart, strengthen the weak, lift up the downcast and bring courage to the trembling soul. It is intended to bring release to those who have been held captive by the heavy chains of religious manipulation and control. Beware of Men unmasks "pharisaic" attitudes and activities in the Body of Christ and it provides practical and scriptural answers to many of the perplexing issues that Christians face today.
Beware of Men will teach you how to:
* Protect yourself from religious abuse, control and deception.
* Know the difference between "control" and "covering."
* Keep your gifts and call from spiritual "suffocation."
* Hurdle "religious" accusations, traps and arguments.
* Identify three types of Pharisees in the Church today.
* Overcome opposition from those who call themselves "brethren."
* Identify and remove "pharisaic" tendencies in your own life and ministry.
* Be successful and stay on the cutting edge of the move of God.
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- 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
- A Concise Introduction to Logic (with CD-ROM) (Concise Introduction to Logic)
- A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
- A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
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- Between God and Man
- Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians & Gays Talk About Their Experiences
- Billions of Missing Links: A Rational Look at the Mysteries Evolution Can't Explain
- Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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