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(0)Brian Mahan
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
xxvii, 209 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the wise and often witty Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose, Brian Mahan considers the question of how it is possible to create a meaningful spiritual life while living in a culture that measures us by what we have rather than who we are. Drawing on nearly two decades of teaching experience. Brian Mahan shares stories of personal struggle and triumph that demonstrate how those who seek meaning and purpose have recalimed their authentic selves by resolving...
Author
Language
English
Description
Youth ministry has increasingly lost touch with its origins in the way of Jesus and the social practices intrinsic to Christian discipleship, and has instead substituted layers of Jesus talk, middle class values, fun and games, and doses of warm fellow-feeling. Awakening Youth Discipleship articulates the history of this domestication of youth and ministry. Mahan, Warren, and White tell a story of the ways in which our society has colluded to shape...
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Language
English
Description
Who would have believed that a simple family history would evolve into a tale of secret societies, complex Freemason and Templar codes, strange symbols and tales of buried treasure?However, as the McMahan family odyssey unfolds, it appears certain that deprivations and hardship during and after America's Civil War created a parallel story that began in war-torn Missouri and ended in the mountains of central Idaho.After recalling childhood stories...