
From Stone to Living Word
Letting the Bible Live Again
Debbie Blue(Author)
Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Published on 1. February 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-58743-190-6 (ISBN)
Description
Many Christians sense that their encounters with the Bible are supposed to be deep, life-forming, and powerful, but that isn't always the case. They may be overly familiar with the text to the point of finding it predictable, or they may be disillusioned with the church. Too often, and for a variety of reasons, believers make the Bible an idol and unwittingly turn the Word into stone.
Author and pastor Debbie Blue helps readers discover how to turn the stone back into living Word. She first gives general guidelines for letting the Bible breathe, then looks at the Bible's main themes as dynamically encouraging and challenging. Blue frees believers from dumbed-down spirituality as she reveals that the Word is alive and thrilling.
Author and pastor Debbie Blue helps readers discover how to turn the stone back into living Word. She first gives general guidelines for letting the Bible breathe, then looks at the Bible's main themes as dynamically encouraging and challenging. Blue frees believers from dumbed-down spirituality as she reveals that the Word is alive and thrilling.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ada, MI
United States
Publishing group
Baker Publishing Group
ISBN-13
978-1-58743-190-6 (9781587431906)
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02/2008
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Person
Debbie Blue is a founding pastor of House of Mercy (HOM) in St. Paul, Minnesota. HOM is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches in the USA and is committed to the diverse and rich theology and worship of the Christian church, worldwide and historical. A graduate of Yale Divinity School, Blue is also the author of Sensual Orthodoxy. She lives on a farm outside of the twin cities with her husband and two children.
Content
Part One: Making Stones
1. Nooses and Knots
2. Ancient Riddles
Part Two: Reviving the Dead Marrow
3. In the Beginning
4. The Original Lie
5. A Midrash on the Tower of Babel
6. God's Mouth on Our Nostrils
7. Two Mule-Loads of Dirt
Flesh
8. The Ultimate Anti-Idolatry Story
9. Mary the Mother of God
10. A Pathological Attraction to Revolutionaries
11. Look At How You Hear
12. How to Entangle Him in His Talk
13. Tip the Boat Over
Blood
14. Drinking to the Dregs
15. Murdering God
16. Everlasting Life
17. Reverse Glory
Epilogue: Food
18. Delight in the Fatness and Live
1. Nooses and Knots
2. Ancient Riddles
Part Two: Reviving the Dead Marrow
3. In the Beginning
4. The Original Lie
5. A Midrash on the Tower of Babel
6. God's Mouth on Our Nostrils
7. Two Mule-Loads of Dirt
Flesh
8. The Ultimate Anti-Idolatry Story
9. Mary the Mother of God
10. A Pathological Attraction to Revolutionaries
11. Look At How You Hear
12. How to Entangle Him in His Talk
13. Tip the Boat Over
Blood
14. Drinking to the Dregs
15. Murdering God
16. Everlasting Life
17. Reverse Glory
Epilogue: Food
18. Delight in the Fatness and Live