Money Thou Art Loosed

Readers learn God's purpose for money as Dr. Thompson explains Christians' covenant responsibility to obtain their financial inheritance.

This book releases the compelling truth about the root of defeat in the Christian walk concerning 'Binding on earth and binding in heaven and loosing on earth and loosing in heaven.' - Matthew 18:20. How many times have you gone through the motion of touching and agreeing and binding and loosing regarding certain matters only to find that nothing seemed to have changed? Bound up finances have been a major source of strongholds for what seems like centuries in the lives of Christian believers. Will you have yours... Loosed today?

Jabbar is at it again with another hot potato that he always speaks to many men and women: It's a sin and a crime to be broke!

Inspiration And Motivation (I AM) is a dream come true! This memorial treasury includes hundreds of original poems and writings organized in a diary of seven sections divided into chronological years. This beautifully crafted work of art is the most complete collection of Dana Sheree Coes inspirational and motivational poetry and writings ever published. This book has something for everyone! Youll find great substance, revelations, meditations, and confessions that will inspire, motivate, encourage, enlighten, and strengthen you through thought-provoking, burning, powerful, rich, and heavy words and expressions of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Every Time Youre There is a poem of faith that you can overcome any situation and you are not alone. Cast All Your Cares is a poem of hope written years ago when pressing through difficult and hopeless-looking circumstances. The Love of God is a poem about our greatest aim and the more excellent way of love. Liberty In the world, but not of the world, Youre just passing through, Sojourning here until you reach the land, That God has prepared for you. Wanting to be free, from all that binds and constricts, seeking liberty, from all of lifes conflicts. I must operate in the midst of order and organization, So Down with chaos and disorder, down with confusion, and down with strife. Up with order, up with clarity, up with victory, and abundant life. For ye have been called unto liberty, the price has been paid for your victory. Stand fast therefore in the liberty, wherewith Christ hath made you free. I will have liberty! I will be free! I will be Free from fear, free from confusion, free from darkness, free from illusion. Free from guilt, free from shame, free from sickness, free from pain. Free from bondage, free from depression, free from burdens, free from oppression. Free from deception, free from lying, free from disease, free from dying. Free from doubt, unbelief, and fear, Free from lack, poverty, and destruction, Liberty and freedom are here! Be not entangled again, with the yoke of bondage or with sin by love serve one another, live in liberty and at peace with each other. For ye have been called unto liberty, the price has been paid for your victory. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free Galatians 5:1 only use not liberty as an occasion to serve the flesh. Liberty! By Dana S. Coe October-November 2000

Examines the rise of one of the most prolific spiritual leader of modern times T.D. Jakes has emerged as one of the most prolific spiritual leaders of our time. He is pastor of one of the largest churches in the country, CEO of a multimillion dollar empire, the host of a television program, author of a dozen bestsellers, and the producer of two Grammy Award-nominated CDs and three critically acclaimed plays. In 2001 Time magazine featured Jakes on the cover and asked: Is Jakes the next Billy Graham? T.D. Jakes draws on extensive research, including interviews with numerous friends and colleagues of Jakes, to examine both Jakes’s rise to prominence and proliferation of a faith industry bent on producing spiritual commodities for mass consumption. Lee frames Jakes and his success as a metaphor for changes in the Black Church and American Protestantism more broadly, looking at the ramifications of his rise—and the rise of similar preachers—for the way in which religion is practiced in this country, how social issues are confronted or ignored, and what is distinctly “American” about Jakes's emergence. While offering elements of biography, the work also seeks to shed light on important aspects of the contemporary American and African American religious experience. Lee contends that Jakes’s widespread success symbolizes a religious realignment in which mainline churches nationwide are in decline, while innovative churches are experiencing phenomenal growth. He emphasizes the “American-ness” of Jakes’s story and reveals how preachers like Jakes are drawing followers by delivering therapeutic and transformative messages and providing spiritual commodities that are more in tune with postmodern sensibilities. As the first work to critically examine Bishop Jakes’s life and message, T.D. Jakes is an important contribution to contemporary American religion as well as popular culture.

In Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America: Pulpit Discourse at the Turn of the Millennium, ten scholars analyze notable sermons from the fifty-year span between 1965 and 2015, during which the Protestant sermon has undergone significant change in the United States. Contributors examine how this turbulent time period witnessed a variety of important shifts in the arguments, evidences, and rhetorical strategies employed by contemporary preachers. Because religious practice is inextricably tangled in the culture, politics, and economy of its historical situation, the public expression of a faith is certain to move with the times. In their treatment of race, sex, gender, class, and citizenship, sermons apply ancient texts to current events and controversies, often to revealing effect. This collection, thoughtfully edited by Eric C. Miller and Jonathan J. Edwards, demonstrates how the genre of the Protestant sermon has evolved—or resisted evolution—across the years. Scholars of religion, rhetoric, communication, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

This book identifies how church cultural components are created, developed, and used to educate and empower adherents, and whether and how these tools are associated with the historic Black Church. The book is particularly interested in how large Black congregations - megachurches - use rituals found in worship, theology, racial beliefs, programmatic efforts, and other tools from their cultural repertoire to instruct congregants to model success in word and deed. The book's findings illustrate that Black megachurches strive to model success on various fronts by tapping into effective historic Black Church tools and creating cultural kits that foster excitement, expectation, and entitlement.

This title offers an intriguing examination of 16 representative black megachurches and explores some of their motivations and subsequent programmatic efforts in light of prosperity or 'health and wealth' theology.