Download or read book A Companion in Crisis written by Philip Yancey and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world entered a long dark night, Philip Yancey returned to a nearly 400-year-old manuscript for guidance. In it, he found a trustworthy companion for living through a global pandemic - or any other crisis. As Yancey says: 'Nothing had prepared me for John Donne's raw account of the confrontations with God.'The preacher and poet wrote his Devotions in 1623, during a pandemic in his city of London. For a month Donne lay sick, hearing the church bell toll each death wondering if his would be next.Philip Yancey has compiled a 30-day reader based on Donne's meditations. This new version of a beloved classic has startling relevance as we face similar questions:What is God trying to tell us?Does God use illness as punishment?How do I find peace and comfort?A Companion in Crisis combines Donne's timeless reflections with present-day commentary, offering universal truths on how to live and die well.
Download or read book Companion Devotions written by Standard Publishing and published by Standard Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring book provides a full year of Bible readings and meditations that correlate with the Standard Lesson Commentary. Each page contains one devotion with space for personal notes and prayer requests. It can be used for personal, family or group devotions. Each devotion includes an application that helps the reader to understand and personalize the lesson Scripture each day. It contains a daily fact or comment that will lead one's thinking to the next week's lesson in the Standard Lesson Commentary.
Download or read book Good Enough written by Kate Bowler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** We begin to feel less alone, more loved and less judged when good is . . . enough. In this collection of 40ish short spiritual devotionals, Good Enough reveals the small things we can do to inch toward a deeper, richer, truer kind of faith. Through blessings, prayers and human truths, learn to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, and discover a companion for when you want to stop feeling guilty that you're not living your best life now. Hailed by Glennon Doyle as 'the Christian Joan Didion', in these gorgeously written reflections Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie proffer fresh imagination for how truth, beauty, and meaning can be discovered amidst the chaos of life. Their words celebrate kindness, honesty and interdependence in a culture that rewards ruthless individualism and blind optimism. Ultimately, in these pages we can rest in the encouragement to strive for what is possible today - while recognising that though we are finite, the life in front of us can still be beautiful.
Download or read book A Companion to Mysticism and Devotion in Northern Germany in the Late Middle Ages written by Elizabeth Andersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Lüneburg convents. The mystical and devotional writing of Northern Germany is contextualised through chapters on the Netherlands, Scandinavia and East Prussia. The seminal influence of the liturgy on these texts and their transmission is revealed in the creative interplay of Latin and Low German. Through the individual chapters and their appendices, which also contain translations into English, the reader can access a wealth of texts produced by communities of religious and lay women who write learnedly in Latin and fervently in Low German. Together, the chapters and appendices reveal a fascinating regional "mystical culture" which also reverberated across Northern Europe. Contributors include: Jürgen Bärsch, Anne Bollmann, Veerle Fraeters, Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Ernst Hellgardt, Tanja Mattern, Balazs Nemes, Sara S. Poor, Eva Schlotheuber, Almut Suerbaum, and Geert Warnar.
Download or read book Prayer Book Spirituality written by John Robert Wright and published by Church Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The young Christian s companion or Manual of devotion for the use of schools and young persons written by Elizabeth Strutt and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standard Lesson Commentary Companion Devotions written by Standard Publishing and published by Standard Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring book provides a full year of Bible readings and meditations that correlate with the Standard Lesson Commentary. Each page contains one devotion with space for personal notes and prayer requests. (Motivation)
Download or read book The Young Christian s Companion Or Manual of Devotion for the Use of Schools and Young Persons Selected from the Liturgy of the Church of England and the Holy Scriptures By Elizabeth Strutt written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everything Happens for a Reason written by Kate Bowler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”—Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason “I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising
Download or read book The Chosen Book Two written by Amanda Jenkins and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick up where the best-selling book one left off. The Chosen Book Two features forty brand-new devotions that contain a Scripture, a unique look into a Gospel story, suggestions for prayer, and questions that lead you further in your relationship with Christ. Foreword by Alex Kendrick.
Download or read book Centering Prayers written by Peter Traben Haas and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering Prayers is a collection of inspired prayers crafted as brief preludes or postludes to periods of personal, contemplative prayer. Each radiates God’s love. Tailored for the seasons and months of the year, they integrate a spiritual theology with certain mystical depth. You will want to read them slowly and pray them quietly, one day at a time. "In Daily Companion, Peter Haas offers intimate prayers that rest on the deep rooted tradition of his faith. His vulnerability and longing lead you to your own journey. His fearless asking: Strengthen me in love. Draw me into your life, draw you to deeper places. He acknowledges, You are the shadow that crosses near in the silence of prayer. Praying these prayers with Haas becomes a daily chant reminiscent of those in monasteries the world over, kneeling in prayer in the silent hours before dawn." Paula D'Arcy Author of Gift of the Red Bird, Waking Up to This Day
Download or read book The Catholic All Year Prayer Companion written by Kendra Tierney and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic deposit of faith and tradition is wide and deep! There are so many different devotions and ways to pray that it's impossible for anyone to ever use them all, let alone in a busy family. Fortunately, the liturgical calendar is here to help! In this companion to her bestselling book about liturgical living traditions in the home, The Catholic All Year Compendium, Kendra Tierney lays out hundreds of prayers, devotions, practices, blessings, indulgences, novenas, hymns, Bible readings, poems, encyclicals, and humor in an easy to use format, according to the liturgical seasons and feast days of the Church calendar. These prayers and practices are a great way to connect with the Bible, the saints, the Church, and your family throughout the year. Without paging through stacks of books, you can easily access hundreds of beautiful devotions for every season of the liturgical year. This book will help you and your family to: Pray the Christmas Novena nine days leading to Christmas Day; Sing the beautiful Pange Lingua Gloriosi for the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas; Discover the Seven Sundays of Saint Joseph; Do the Stations of the Cross during Lent; Have a Tenebrae service for the Triduum; Have a blessed bonfire for the Nativity of St. John the Baptist; Host a family joke night in honor of St. Lawrence, and so much more! Produced with busy families in mind, Kendra Tierney brings these jewels of the Church into your home and family.
Download or read book Redeeming Love The Companion Study written by Francine Rivers and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture deeper into the heart of the classic bestselling novel Redeeming Love with this six-week study and discover life-changing Bible truths. Through Redeeming Love, millions of readers have experienced the captivating love story of Angel and Michael Hosea that illustrates God’s power to redeem even the most lost among us. Redeeming Love: The Companion Study invites you to enter more fully into both the classic novel’s eternal message and the biblical story that inspired its writing. Each week’s readings include: • a personal reflection by Francine Rivers about the writing of Redeeming Love and the power of God’s Word • key scenes from Redeeming Love, selected to illustrate God’s loving pursuit of you • Bible study lessons that creatively blend story and Scripture to glean fresh insights • thoughtful reflection questions designed to inspire you to a deeper experience of God Perfect for both individual reflection and group discussion, this study will draw you deeper into the life-transforming love celebrated in Redeeming Love.
Download or read book Bible Devotions for Bedtime written by Daniel Partner and published by Barbour Books. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going a step beyond Bible stories, this fun devotional book challenges children ages five to eight to stop and think about the meaning of each account. More than five dozen devotions are drawn from the breadth of Scripture-from the Creation to Revelation-and are brightly illustrated, in full color, for young readers' pleasure. Bible Devotions for Bedtime is perfect for parents wanting to spend spiritual "quality time" with their kids! It's an ideal follow up to Barbour's Bible Stories for Bedtime.
Download or read book Time of Grace written by Mark A. Jeske and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a group of devotions all written by evangelist Mark Jeske.
Download or read book The Quiet Time Companion written by Ro Willoughby and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 30-minute daily studies surveys the entire Bible in two years, using alternately nine different study methods.
Download or read book The Churchman s Companion a Practical and Devotional Commentary Upon Select Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in a Series of Choice Passages from the Writings of Bishops Beveridge Hall By a Clergyman written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
