Download or read book Cultivating Proactive Faith Shifting from Reaction to Action in Our Spiritual Lives written by Curtis A. Carter and published by CURTIS A. CARTER. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fast-paced world we live in, it's easy for Christians to fall into a reactive faith, responding to life's challenges with worry and fear rather than anticipation and confidence. "Cultivating Proactive Faith" is a guide for Christians seeking to transform this reactive faith into a proactive one. This book takes readers on a journey of spiritual growth, exploring the concept of proactive faith through biblical examples and practical applications. It provides insights into the roles of wisdom and community, addresses potential challenges like distractions, doubts, discouragement, complacency, and fear of change, and offers strategies to overcome them. Through each chapter, readers will gain tools to embrace and nurture a proactive faith, enabling them to impact their world positively. The book also includes "Reflection Points" at the end of each chapter to provide readers with key takeaways and encourage deeper contemplation. "Cultivating Proactive Faith" is more than just a book; it's an invitation to embark on a transformative journey, where readers will discover the profound impact proactive faith can have on their lives and the world around them. Whether you're a new believer or have been walking in faith for years, this book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to grow spiritually and live a more proactive, faith-driven life.
Download or read book Blessings Beyond Measure Defeating the Poverty Spirit and Unlocking Divine Prosperity written by Curtis A. Carter and published by CURTIS A. CARTER. This book was released on 2023-08-05 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Blessings Beyond Measure," readers are invited on a transformative journey to understand and conquer the Poverty Spirit—a deceptive force that clouds our perception of God's boundless provisions. Distinguishing between the biblical "Spirit of Poverty," which speaks to humility and dependence on God, and the "Poverty Spirit," which ensnares our minds with illusions of scarcity, this guide offers a deep dive into the subtle mechanisms that hinder our spiritual and material prosperity. Drawing upon biblical narratives, such as Eve's deception in Genesis and Paul's warning about spiritual blindness in Corinthians, the book illuminates the Poverty Spirit's strategies. With each chapter, the author provides scripture-backed insights to unmask these deceptions, shifting the reader's mindset from lack to abundance. Whether you've struggled with financial hardships, spiritual doubts, or both, "Blessings Beyond Measure" provides the tools to break free from the chains of the Poverty Spirit. It's not just about financial prosperity; it's about embracing the fullness of God's blessings in every area of life. As you turn each page, be prepared to challenge ingrained beliefs, confront internal barriers, and step into the divine inheritance of joy, freedom, and abundance that awaits.
Download or read book The Fruit of the Spirit written by Al L. Holloway and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the schism of valuing spirituality with respect to social work practice has lessened over the years, there continues to be a gap in our understanding as to exactly what spirituality is and how one might incorporate it within social work practice? It is my contention that social workers should not only be incorporating spirituality within their practice, but also, they should become spiritual exemplars themselves. Fruit of the Spirit: A Primer for Spiritually-minded Social Workers provides some provocative notions that will spur the reader forward on his/her spiritual development. It introduces to the reader the notion of spiritual differentiation from the animalistic notion of self (which I describe as the "indifferent-heart realm"), to the development of humanistic principles ("craving-heart realm") to the ultimate experience of our purposeful journey of being fully cognizant of our spiritual selves ("pure-heart realm"). This process is exemplified with a gardening metaphor, which the reader can progress from "seeding" (awareness of one's spiritual self and the sowing of spiritual seeds), "weeding" (the structure and care of developing our spiritual selves) and the "harvesting" (the ingesting and granting of spiritual "fruits" that has been produced). Traditional knowledge of social work practice helps to elucidate the student; whereas, embracing spiritual principles is about transforming and transcending the student to higher levels. The "fruits" that are gathered are the attributes of God (e.g., love, peace, goodness, etc.). There are exercises at the end of each chapter that will assist the reader in developing his/her spirituality.
Download or read book Manresa written by Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faith and Will written by Julia Cameron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A]n authentic, valuable, and introspective work" (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Artist's Way. This inspiring book from the bestselling author of The Artist's Way explores one of the most vital questions that spiritual seekers encounter on the journey to enlightenment: Where do I turn when my soul is urging me to keep growing toward God but my mind and being, stubbornly, will not follow? The author of more than thirty groundbreaking books that deftly trace the intersection between art and faith, between creativity and spirit, Julia Cameron has earned millions of fans around the world. In this, her most personal book to date, she provides a heartbreakingly honest and insightful depiction of her struggle to reconnect to her faith and her realization that having faith, of necessity, means relinquishing will. A wise and passionate book, Faith and Will gently guides readers through the process of learning to let go and, in turn, learning to live.
Download or read book God s Money Back Guarantee written by C. Gerard Lepre and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to your money, your personal finance strategy should be made up of the same Christian moral principles you follow for every other aspect of your life. Without them, you will be as doomed financially as you would be spiritually. Successful financial planner C. Gerard LePre proves with seven easy-to-follow biblical principles that the application of spiritual morality to economic common sense can be the key to reaching financial freedom. This plan evolves out of scriptural principles valid in all aspects of your life. These proactive solutions should have an immediate and lasting impact on your personal security. Just follow these strategies for strong financial results: -Develop and adhere to your Christ-centered budget -Increase and conserve your treasures through a Christian life-style -Reorganize your existing debt -Maximize insurance utilization -Reallocate income tax dollars -Create investment opportunities -Achieve estate conservation In addition, there are seventy tactics offered in this book for making the most of your income and assets. LePre further explains the four divine purposes of money. Through understanding the biblical economic principles, disciplining oneself to follow these lessons, and applying them to the strategies, one can prosper in faith and finance. LePre helps you develop Christianomics, the personal, spiritual science that focuses on the distribution, management, and consumption of wealth.
Download or read book Practicing His Presence written by Brother Lawrence and published by Christian Books Publishing House. This book was released on 1985-09-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you wish to know your Lord in a deeper way, your are invited to join the numerous Christians who, over three centuries, have turned to this book in order to begin that journey to the depths of Christ.
Download or read book The Worldview of the Word of Faith Movement Eden Redeemed written by Mikael Stenhammar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches the Word of Faith as a worldview, and analyses the movement through N. T. Wright's model for worldview-analysis in order to provide necessary nuance and complexity to scholarly interpretations of the Word of Faith. The reader receives insights into the movement's narrative, semiotic, practical and propositional dimensions, which cumulatively offer a multifaceted understanding of how the Word of Faith interprets reality and engages with the world. The analysis shows that there is a narrative core to Word of Faith beliefs in the form of a unique theological story with focus set on the present restoration of Eden's authority and blessings. This study demonstrates how the Word of Faith operates as a distinct worldview that parses the world through the lens of faith's causative power to affect a direct correspondence between present reality and Eden's perfection. The findings advance a critical and therapeutic approach that acknowledges how the worldview both strengthens and subverts Pentecostalism.
Download or read book Encounter in Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing written by Daniël Johannes Louw and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Council on Pastoral Care and Counseling (ICPCC) met in August 2011 in Rotorua, New Zealand for its 9th International Congress. Various discussions in the field arose from actual challenges, such as the earthquake in Japan, social changes, and, mainly, deprivations all over the world. The ICPCC offers guidelines on how to cope with these situations, which also include the indigenous traditions of the Maori culture, projects on inter-religious encounter, etc. - all of which provoke a rethinking of traditional spirituality. The Congress proceedings are presented in this book as a state of discussion within this globalized network. (Series: Theologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Vol. 33)
Download or read book Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace written by Judi Neal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the field of management has developed as a research discipline over the last century, until the early 1990s there was essentially no acknowledgement that the human spirit plays an important role in the workplace. Over the past twenty years, the tide has begun to turn, as evidenced by the growing number of courses in academia and in corporate training, and an exponential increase in the publications emerging through creative interaction of scholars and practitioners in organizational behaviour, workplace diversity, sustainability, innovation, corporate governance, leadership, and corporate wellness, as well as contributions by psychotherapists, theologians, anthropologists, educators, philosophers, and artists. This Handbook is the most comprehensive collection to date of essays by the preeminent researchers and practitioners in faith and spirituality in the workplace, featuring not only the most current research and case examples, but visions of what will be, or should be, emerging over the horizon. It includes essays by the people who helped to pioneer the field as well as essays by up and coming young scholars. Among the questions and issues addressed: · What does it mean to be a “spiritual” organization? How does this perspective challenge traditional approaches to the firm as a purely rational, profit-maximizing enterprise? · Is faith and spirituality in the workplace a passing fad, or is there a substantial shift occurring in the business paradigm? · How does this field inform emerging management disciplines such as sustainability, diversity, and social responsibility? · In what ways are faith and spirituality in the workplace similar to progressive and innovative human resource practices. Does faith and spirituality in the workplace bring something additional to the conversation, and if so, what? The aim of The Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace is to provide researchers, faculty, students, and practitioners with a broad overview of the field from a research perspective, while keeping an eye on building a bridge between scholarship and practice.
Download or read book How To Forgive by Faith written by Andrew Freed and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Forgive by Faith was written to help those who know they should and want to forgive, but just can't find their way. Everyone is going to be offended in some way in life. Some offenses are so painful that you may not have be capable of forgiving in your own strength. By faith you can forgive. How to Forgive by Faith clearly explains the nature of offense and the trap associated with holding on to them, but the author doesn't stop there. The author walks you through the process of using faith to release the most horrific offenses. In a four-step process, he uses the Word of God to walk you out of unforgiveness and into emotional freedom. Finally, the author teaches you how to guard your heart to prevent future offenses from taking root. He give you practical steps to enhance your spiritual immune system against offenses.
Download or read book Charisma and Christian Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Self Help The True Path to Harnessing God s Wisdom Realizing Life s Potential and Living the Abundant Life written by By Rev. Jason K. Pankau with Lisa Leach and John B. Donovan and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Making a Shift in the Study of Religion and Other Essays written by Russell T. McCutcheon and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many would today argue that the onetime dominance of the phenomenology of religion has receded, and with it the traditional approach to studying religion as a unique and deeply-felt experience that defies explanation, the essays collected here take quite the opposite stand: that this approach has merely been re-branded and continues to characterize much work being done in the field today. Offering a different way forward—one that is based on experiences gained by the members of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, a program that has successfully reinvented itself over the past 20 years—the book includes a variety of practical suggestions for how members of Religious Studies departments can revise their approach to studying and teaching about religion. Seeing religion instead as mundane but always exemplary of basic social elements found all across cultures, the volume argues that the way forward for this field lies not in the specialness of its object of study but, instead, the fact that thinking and acting as if something is special is itself an ordinary aspect of history and culture. Making just this shift helps the scholar of religion to contribute to wide, interdisciplinary conversations all across the Humanities and Social Sciences, demonstrating the practical relevance of their work.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Faith written by Charles W. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does life have meaning? Is hope really possible? Is there a way to find strength in the midst of loss? Is there a God? If so, does He care about what happens to us? These are some of life's biggest, deepest questions. Yet millions of people believe they have found the path that will lead them to the ultimate answers. They call it faith. In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Faith, authors Moore and Bittner tackle the timeless issues of why some people choose to believe in a loving and forgiving God, what such belief can look like, and how Christian faith can yield benefits in every aspect of life, from improving family and work relationships to providing strength in the face of setbacks and loss. To help readers explore their own journeys of faith, each chapter includes a variety of self-discover exercises, tips, and helpful sidebars explaining faith from a conservative Christian perspective.
Download or read book Awakening from Anxiety written by Connie L. Habash and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this spiritual guide to equip yourself with the tools needed to tear down anxiety and build inner peace. Spiritual people often find that their own expectations of living a life dedicated to a higher power makes them more susceptible to high-functioning anxiety. Sometimes, traditional relaxation techniques either do not work, don’t last, or, in some cases, actually increase their anxiety. Psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and interfaith minister Rev. Connie L. Habash has helped hundreds of spiritual people overcome fear and anxiety, regain happiness, and feel calmer. In over twenty-five years as a counselor helping spiritual people overcome anxiety, Rev. Connie has taught that it takes more than chanting mantras, stretching, or relaxation techniques to calm anxiety. It requires a transformation in perception, moment-to-moment body awareness, and a conscious response to thoughts and emotions. Awakening from Anxiety provides valuable psycho-spiritual tools to deepen spiritual awakening and calm fears:Learn what anxiety is and when it becomes a problemUnderstand the six mistakes spiritual people make that increase anxietyDiscover the seven keys to a more calm, confident, courageous lifeKnow how to break through the old patterns of stress, worry, and fear into a new perception of your true selfExplore spiritual principles and yoga philosophy to cultivate inner peace If you enjoyed Stop Anxiety from Stopping You and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Awakening from Anxiety will take your healing and renewal from anxiety to the next level. “A book I will recommend to many for both practical advice and spiritual insights for handling stress, worry, and anxiety.”?Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Calm
Download or read book Unveiling Freedom written by Roman Kucak and published by RKM Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Freedom? navigates the complex concept of freedom from philosophical, contemporary, spiritual, and practical perspectives. It begins with a deep dive into historical and modern philosophies of freedom, exploring the tension between free will and determinism. The discussion then shifts to today's global challenges, digital surveillance, and the quest for personal rights, offering a nuanced view of modern freedom. Spiritual insights from the teachings of Jesus Christ introduce a profound dimension of spiritual liberation, emphasizing love and truth. Concluding with actionable advice, the book guides readers on incorporating freedom into daily life through mindfulness and ethical living, inspiring a journey towards personal and collective liberation.
