Download or read book Coincidences Finding God in the Ordinary and the Not So Ordinary written by Earl Ferguson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coincidence has been defined as: "A remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection." But enough of them and we start to think: "something or someone is involved here. It is only after looking back on my life that I could see what I once thought were a lot of really just neat coincidences were actually encounters with God or small miracles. Do these miracles happen to everyone? I thinks so. In the Bible we read that "...in Him (God) we live and move and have our being"-Acts 17:28 NIV. The problem is that too many of us never see these encounters with God as anything more than just wonderful little coincidences. An alternate possibility: I compare coincidences to what lawyer's call "circumstantial evidence." A good trial lawyer will say that you can build an airtight case on circumstantial evidence. Of course, it takes a lot of it. I submit that our lives are full of "coincidences" or "circumstantial evidence" that God is and that He is at work in and around us. These coincidences are His call for us to see Him and trust Him. Earl was born and reared in the wonderful little town of Vandalia, Missouri. Here he met and married a "farm girl," Pat Robison, to whom he has been very happily married for sixty-two years. He has been blessed with three children and six grandchildren. Earl holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Central Christian College, Moberly, Missouri, a Master of Arts in Human Relations Services and Counseling from Governor's State University, University Park, Illinois and a Doctorate in Ministry from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. Earl served as pastor of the Farber Christian Church in Farber, Missouri and was the founding pastor of the Deer Creek Christian Church, University Park, Illinois where he served for over thirty-seven years. Since then he has. mentored young pastors and taught a few graduate level classes. For the past 17 years he has served as teaching pastor under his sons David and Jonathan at the Carillon location of Community Christian Church in Naperville, Illinois. For fun, he and Pat love fishing, playing golf and traveling.
Download or read book Experiencing God in the Ordinary written by William A. Barry and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Illumination Book Awards, Silver Medal: Theology God’s presence is not “out there” but right here. We tend to look for God in dramatic or miraculous moments, but such expectations can blind us to God’s ongoing presence. What if God is already with us, in the life we have this moment? When we experience ordinary but meaningful events, such as our first love or a favorite novel, we are in fact encountering God’s presence. As we learn to notice spiritual movement within and around us, we can recognize the many facets of God’s love that touch us daily. “As a priest and spiritual director of many decades, my driving desire is for people to experience God’s limitless love for them and to recognize it when it emerges in what they consider just ordinary life happenings and conversations.” —William A. Barry, SJ Whether we are in pain or crisis, questioning if we are really worthy of God’s attention, or are simply wondering why God would be in the mundane details of our lives, Experiencing God in the Ordinary can nurture our hope—that God is always present and can be found in an ordinary day. Complete with personal stories and various suggestions for prayer and meditation, this book is perfect for devotional reading, retreat, or small-group discussion.
Download or read book Finding God in the Ordinary written by Pierce Taylor Hibbs and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to look for God in the grand and spectacular, but most of our lives are filled with ordinary moments and routines: drinking coffee, reading a book, driving to work. Can we find God in the banalities of everyday life? In Finding God in the Ordinary, the author shows that we can, and that we must. Our world is not an ordinary world. Because it was spoken into being and maintained by the word of God's power (Heb 1:3), everything around us is always revealing the nature and character of the triune God. Our world is extraordinarily ordinary, always calling our attention to the God of glory and his work in the commonplace.
Download or read book Coincidences written by Antoinette Bosco and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here is a kaleidoscope of stories about real people from all walks of life who experienced what might be called a "remarkable coincidence" in their lives. Are the patterns of their life stories really random? Or is there an underlying design that reveals the hand and presence of Someone who cares?
Download or read book Coincidence I Think Not GOD CARES about LITTLE THINGS written by Esther Mooneyhan and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coincidence? I think not! GOD CARES ABOUT LITTLE THINGS came about when the author began again to read the Bible through. Genesis 24 relates the story of Abraham sending his eldest servant back to his home country to find a wife for Isaac. When the servant arrived, he asked God to send the right person to him. She was to give water to him and was also to offer water for all his camels. The scripture says, "And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came." Rebekah met the criteria. This led the author to thinking about how God had anticipated her needs and made a way to meet them. Thus, the book was born. Soon, other people contributed. The first story tells how God set in motion the answer to a need 15 years before the need arose. Other stories deal with how God helps us get ready for our life' s work, angels watching over us, needs while traveling, in the course ofa day's work, times of illness, and times of special needs -all in the lives of ordinary people. One lesson learned: God often has a better plan for us than we envisioned.
Download or read book Finding God in the Ordinary written by Charina Illescas-Brooks and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding God in the Ordinary {Embracing a God-filled Life} will make you cry and laugh at the same time. It is a book filled with emotions that is sure to give you hope when you doubt, joy in times of sadness, faith in a faltering trust, and assurance of His love.... This is our story. Will you join me in Finding God in the Ordinary?
Download or read book Godsends written by William Desmond and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project—replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation—in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In Godsends, Desmond’s newest addition to his ambitious masterwork, he presents an original reflection on what he calls the “companioning” of philosophy and religion. Throughout the book, he follows an itinerary that has something of an Augustinian likeness: from the exterior to the interior, from the inferior to the superior. The stations along the way include a grappling with the default atheism prevalent in contemporary intellectual culture; an exploration of the middle space, the metaxu between the finite and the infinite; a dwelling with solitudes as thresholds between selving and the sacred; a meditation on idiot wisdom and transcendence in an East-West perspective; an exploration of the different stresses in the mysticisms of Aurobindo and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons; a dream monologue of autonomy, a suite of Kantian and post-Kantian variations on the story of the prodigal son; a meditation on the beatitudes as exceeding virtue, in light of Aquinas’s understanding; and culminating in an exploration of Godsends as telling us something significant about the surprise of revelation in word, idea, and story. Godsends is written for thoughtful persons and scholars perplexed about the place of religion in our time and hopeful for some illuminating companionship from relevant philosophers. It will also interest students of philosophy and religion, especially philosophical theology and philosophical metaphysics.
Download or read book COINCIDENCE OR GOD INCIDENCE YOU DECIDE written by Lisa Crumbley and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had something happen to you that you couldn't explain? Maybe you just attributed it to coincidence. But what if it was more than a random chance; what if it was orchestrated by God? In this book, we invite you to read true stories of ordinary people and decide for yourself whether you think it was random chance or something else - Coincidence or God-Incidence. Regardless of your decision, these stories are meant to inspire, encourage, and uplift you.
Download or read book The Almighty in the Ordinary written by John Page and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God feel distant? Do you wish God would show Himself to you so you would know He's there? In "The Almighty in the Ordinary", pastor and author John Page finds a God who is closer than we think. Using normal life situations or things-babies, gardening, hunting, television, water, dogs, and such-he offers spiritual insights to reveal God in the everyday. A must-read for the seeker and believer alike!
Download or read book He Speaks written by Rebecca Schwartzkopf and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He Speaks" is the story of God speaking into an ordinary life. I used to think that I was the exception, the only person who didn't hear God. I was wrong. God speaks a lot more than we think. This book is my story-the product of looking back at my life only to find that God was all over my past. He was and is truly present in your every step. My hope is that my story will be a catalyst for you to look back over your own life and see what you thought to be coincidence was God speaking to you. God is not hiding; He is not in the shadows. He is present and will be as involved in our lives as we let Him. I invite you to look into an ordinary life and find an extraordinary God.
Download or read book Holy Ordinary written by Carol Mead and published by Cara Llc. This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What are Coincidences A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense written by Alessandra Melas and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a common opinion that chance events cannot be understood in causal terms. Conversely, according to a causal view of chance, intersections between independent causal chains originate accidental events, called “coincidences”. Firstly, this book explores this causal conception of chance and tries to shed new light on it. Such a view has been defended by authors like Antoine Augustine Cournot and Jacques Monod. Second, a relevant alternative is provided by those accounts that, instead of acknowledging an intersection among causal lines, claim to track coincidences back to some common cause. Third, starting from Herbert Hart and Anthony Honoré’s view of coincidences (Causation in the Law. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959). This book provides a more detailed account of coincidences, according to which coincidental events are hybrids constituted by ontic (physical) components, which is the intersection between independent causal chains, plus epistemic aspects, including but not limited to, access to information, expectations, relevance, significance, desires, which in turn are psychological aspects. The main target of the present work is to show that the epistemic aspects of coincidences are, together with the independence between the intersecting causal chains, a constitutive part of coincidental phenomena. This book aims to introduce and discuss recent work in psychology concerning one’s judgment about coincidences; this data offers further materials and reasons to reflect upon our understanding of coincidences and to refine our hybrid conception.
Download or read book When God Talks Back written by T.M. Luhrmann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists. Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people—from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society—can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.
Download or read book Extraordinary in the Ordinary written by Lanie Ehlinger and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary in the Ordinary: How God shows up miraculously in the ordinary moments of Life is a compilation of short devotionals sharing examples of how God pursues a relationship with each of us. He loves to reveal Himself in real and tangible ways and is in every detail of our daily lives. Many times we just do not have eyes to see Him. My hope is that this book will allow the reader to see the Lord in the ordinary of their lives allowing the hound of heaven to find them.
Download or read book God Moments written by Andy Otto and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do you seek God? Are you waiting for him to appear in a monumental, life-altering event? In God Moments, Catholic blogger Andy Otto shows you how to discover the unexpected beauty of God’s presence in the story of ordinary things and in everyday routines like preparing breakfast or walking in the woods. Drawing on the Ignatian principles of awareness, prayer, and discernment, Otto will help you discover the transforming power of God’s presence in your life and better understand your place in the world. Andy Otto found God’s presence in surprising moments during his life—when, as a Jesuit scholastic, he taught children in Jamaica and also as he discerned the call to marriage with his wife. By combining elements of Ignatian spirituality with the lessons that came from his experiences, Otto identified three practices that helped him find God in all things: Awareness—Gain an understanding that God is present in the ordinary messiness of our lives such as battle with depression or sharing in the struggle of a friend. Prayer—Develop a prayer life using Ignatian practices such as asking for a morning grace and examining how your prayer was answered at the end of the day. That way you can focus on a personal relationship with God that finds everyday physical activities such as making a meal as an opportunity to talk to him. Discernment—The more you are aware of God’s presence and draw closer to him in prayer, the better you can learn how to plug into God’s narrative of the world in a way that enables you to participate in the divine story through the use of your gifts and talents. With God Moments as a guide, you’ll have a better understanding of how to seek personal wholeness in the reality of God’s presence in the ordinary and learn to accept his invitation to participate in his transformation of the world.
Download or read book Stalking Michelangelo Finding God written by Christine M. Panyard and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine M. Panyard thought she was studying Michelangelo and Renaissance art, but she was actually being moved towards God. The gothic cathedral is a metaphor for spiritual development in Stalking Michelangelo, Finding God. Her story began outside the church, where she was for many years. It takes the reader on a journey around and through the cathedral to the altar, much as she moved from being a lapsed Catholic to formation as a Secular Discalced Carmelite. Christine became an author and award-winning photographer on her way to God.
Download or read book Inarticulate Speech of the Heart written by Larry J McCloskey and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 40 years, Larry McCloskey has had the privilege of working with persons with disabilities. He applied for a job, which grew into a profession, which—because of the people—became a welcomed vocation. The people in this account might be regarded as common or even unexceptional by modern celebrity culture, but to the examining mind they are really quite astonishing. Here, Larry reveals that the most spectacular lives, those that can best instruct us on how to live life well, regardless of circumstance, tend to pass quietly and unnoticed by the distracted majority. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, winner of the Word Guild Best Manuscript Award, exposes the deeper meaning in people’s lives beyond the material world restrictions and trendy nihilistic thinking. “Character,” Larry asserts, “is determined by how we play the cards we have been dealt,” and in this book he attempts to articulate what can only be characterized as the inarticulate speech of its characters’ perfect but wounded hearts. Prepare to be astonished and affected profoundly. “Winner of the 2020 Word Guild Best New Manuscript Award”
