“This book is undoubtedly one of the landmark Christian writings of our time. It serves as a clear clarion call, challenging all who represent the Christian faith to align with the true gospel.” —Alan Platt, Founder, Doxa Deo Ministries and The City Changers Movement “Get ready—A Kingdom Identity is inspiring, challenging, and a game changer. So, let the conversation begin.” —Steve Dixon, Senior Pastor, Christian Life Cathedral Christ came to reveal to us our true, redeemed identity! The most tragic consequence of the fall of humankind was our loss of the conviction of our true identity in Jesus Christ. What happens when we understand our identity in Him? We are released into being fully human and fully alive. When we understand and embrace our identity in Christ, we gain solid footing for living out God’s purpose for our lives. Our faith will deepen, our hearts will be enlarged, and we will permeate society with God’s love and goodness, making a positive impact for God’s kingdom on all humanity. In A Kingdom Identity, you will learn these life-changing principles: * Christianity is entirely about Jesus Christ and His desire for His identity to abide in every believer. * We are made complete in Christ. God’s purpose is that we bear His image to the world. * God calls every believer to be a minister and priest of His kingdom. * God never intended for us to separate from the world. God calls every believer to live by the life of Christ in them as they work in all pillars of society. If you can internalize the truths in A Kingdom Identity, mountains in you and around you will move. When you are yourself, in Christ, God will be expressed to the world.
At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past. Accordingly, infrastructure became the physical manifestation, the concrete identity of these objectives and architecture formed an integral part of this narrative. Moving between scales and from artefact to context, Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 provides critical insights and narratives on what is a complex and hitherto overlooked landscape, one which is often as much international as it is Irish. In doing so, it explores the interaction between the universalising and globalising tendencies of modernisation on one hand and the textures of local architectures on the other. The book shows how the nature of technology and infrastructure is inherently cosmopolitan. Beginning with the building of the heroic Shannon hydro-electric facility at Ardnacrusha by the German firm of Siemens-Schuckert in the first decade of independence, Ireland became a point of varying types of intersection between imported international expertise and local need. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century, by the year 2000, Ireland had become one of the most globalized countries in the world, site of the European headquarters of multinationals such as Google and Microsoft. Climatically and economically expedient to the storing and harvesting of data, Ireland has subsequently become a repository of digital information farmed in large, single-storey sheds absorbed into anonymous suburbs. In 2013, it became the preferred site for Intel to design and develop its new microprocessor chip: the Galileo. The story of the decades in between, of shifts made manifest in architecture and infrastructure from the policies of economic protectionism, to the opening up of the country to direct foreign investment and the embracing of the EU, is one of the influx of technologies and cultural references into a small country on the edges of Europe as Ireland became both a launch-pad and testing ground for a series of aspects of designed modernity.
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