Download or read book God s Gardeners written by Melissa Ong and published by Graceworks. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories marks Singapore’s first book on creation care. Each story captures how ordinary Christians from different walks of life have humbly put their faith into radical action, and integrated the biblical ethos of creation care into the everyday. The writers reflect on creation care as an organic part of the path of discipleship and missional living, rather than an imposed or burdensome duty. The book presents a refreshing local perspective on the distinctiveness of Christian environmental ethics, seeks to encourage fellow Christians on this creation care journey, and inspire those who have yet to begin. Ultimately, it is an invitation to followers of Christ to care for God’s marvellous creation as an act of worship and love.

Download or read book The Year of the Flood written by Margaret Atwood and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life. Two people find they have unexpectedly survived: Ren, a young dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails (the cleanest dirty girls in town), and Toby, solitary and determined, who has barricaded herself inside a luxurious spa, watching and waiting. The women have to decide on their next move—they can’t stay hidden forever. But is anyone else out there?

Download or read book Oryx and Crake written by Margaret Atwood and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.

Download or read book Pantheologies written by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical—that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be material, mutable, and multiple. Since the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, Western thought has therefore demonized what it calls pantheism, accusing it of incoherence, absurdity, and—with striking regularity—monstrosity. In this book, Mary-Jane Rubenstein investigates this perennial repugnance through a conceptual genealogy of pantheisms. What makes pantheism “monstrous”—at once repellent and seductive—is that it scrambles the raced and gendered distinctions that Western philosophy and theology insist on drawing between activity and passivity, spirit and matter, animacy and inanimacy, and creator and created. By rejecting the fundamental difference between God and world, pantheism threatens all the other oppositions that stem from it: light versus darkness, male versus female, and humans versus every other organism. If the panic over pantheism has to do with a fear of crossed boundaries and demolished hierarchies, then the question becomes what a present-day pantheism might disrupt and what it might reconfigure. Cobbling together heterogeneous sources—medieval heresies, their pre- and anti-Socratic forebears, general relativity, quantum mechanics, nonlinear biologies, multiverse and indigenous cosmologies, ecofeminism, animal and vegetal studies, and new and old materialisms—Rubenstein assembles possible pluralist pantheisms. By mobilizing this monstrous mixture of unintentional God-worlds, Pantheologies gives an old heresy the chance to renew our thinking.

Download or read book Niv God s Word for Gardeners Bible written by Shelley Cramm and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV God s Word for Gardeners Bible is a hardcover devotional Bible designed to highlight the many ways God speaks to his people using the language of seeds, cultivation, growth and gardens. Put down your roots and let the Ultimate Gardener tend to your soul."

Download or read book Growing God written by Kerry Walters and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What I Learned from God While Gardening written by Niki Anderson and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes true stories on a garden-related theme, followed by a spiritual application, a brief prayer, and a practical gardening tip.

Download or read book God as a Gardener Exploring Plants in Bible Parables written by Dr Carolyn a. Roth and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite differences between God and ourselves, God yearns to communicate with us. In scores of Old and New Testament parables, God used plants to illustrate his nature, spiritual truths about his kingdom, and how he wants us to live. Yet, interpreting Bible parables illustrated by plants isn't easy. Twenty-first century society is far removed from the Bible's original audience. Because westernized individuals live in an industrial and technology-driven society, often contact with plants grown for food is second- or third-hand at best. We don't have an aha moment where we understand a parable by its comparison to a plant, e.g., a fig tree. God as a Gardener encompasses 24 parables illustrated by plants, 12 from the Old Testament and 12 from the New Testament. This Bible study is written for the average church member who wants to understand the message in parables, but, at the same time desires a Bible study with a unique perspective. The book meets both of these requirements. Further, each chapter contains a colored photograph of an original water-colored illustration of the parable's plant(s). Carolyn Roth is an award-winning biblical gardener and celebrated author of a book on plants of the Bible. I cannot think of a better person to be writing a book that is sure to capture the interest of millions of Christians who want to learn more about the Bible. Dr. Gerald R. McDermott, Anglican Chair of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School. The private and small-group devotional value of this volume is limitless, life-changing, and God-exalting. Dr. Ed Bez, President, Biblical Botanical Gardens Society, Atlanta, Georgia"

Download or read book God s Garden My Life written by Bonnie J. Lee and published by Tome Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's Garden My Life is a unique blend of gardening techniques developed through years of experience and training as a Master Gardener, and inspirational lessons gleaned from applying that experience to a spiritual life. Bonnie J. Lee has expertly applied all she has learned about gardening from the preparation of the soil to deciding what to plant and designing a garden to discovering the challenges of nature, to the garden of a person's life. Her spiritual applications of gardening knowledge will lift spirits and bring us closer to what God created us to be. This easy to read book will be an essential garden tool for everyone from those who have ever dreamed of having a garden to the most experienced gardener. It will also be an essential tool to all of us who want our lives to be filled with beauty and fruit.

Download or read book Hugs for Gardeners written by Dawn M. Brandon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone you know needs a hug today...It may even be you! Whether it's a rose, a sunflower, or a big, fat tomato plant that captures your attention, watching your garden grow is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It brings you back to the important things in life -- connecting with the earth and celebrating God's creation. The pages of this heartwarming book bloom with stories that will delight anyone who loves to be surrounded by nature. Authors Tammy L. Bicket and Dawn M. Brandon are dedicated gardeners who share stories of life as it's experienced around a garden. Inspirational messages bring greater depth to each story and personalized scriptures by LeAnn Weiss express God's desire to see you grow in His love. Uplifting quotes are sure to encourage and bless. It doesn't matter if you're a beginning gardener or a longtime veteran, this beautiful book will delight your soul like the first day of spring!

Download or read book Gods and Goddesses in the Garden written by Peter Bernhardt and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. Did you know that these and other dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live on in the names of trees and flowers? Some grow in your local woodlands or right in your own backyard garden. In this delightful book, botanist Peter Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names. Unlike other books about botanical taxonomy that take the form of heavy and intimidating lexicons, Bernhardt's account comes together in a series of interlocking stories. Each chapter opens with a short version of a classical myth, then links the tale to plant names, showing how each plant "resembles" its mythological counterpart with regard to its history, anatomy, life cycle, and conservation. You will learn, for example, that as our garden acanthus wears nasty spines along its leaf margins, it is named for the nymph who scratched the face of Apollo. The shape-shifting god, Proteus, gives his name to a whole family of shrubs and trees that produce colorful flowering branches in an astonishing number of sizes and shapes. Amateur and professional gardeners, high school teachers and professors of biology, botanists and conservationists alike will appreciate this book's entertaining and informative entry to the otherwise daunting field of botanical names. Engaging, witty, and memorable, Gods and Goddesses in the Garden transcends the genre of natural history and makes taxonomy a topic equally at home in the classroom and at cocktail parties.

Download or read book God s Garden on Earth Today written by Sue Shields and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the simple analogy of earth being God's garden, and the people His desired harvest, and His divine desire to bring us back into His New Garden of Eden. God's Garden on Earth Today, shows in a simple to understand format, how God is still at work today in the believer's life, even if they fail to recognize that fact. Written in a unique, yet simple style that the average reader can understand the basic truths of God's Word, and how it still relates to our world today. God has always had a plan, and the desire to return His children back to His Garden, and restore that personal relationship He had with man before the fall, and his removal from the Garden of Eden. Using simple analogies, parables and metaphors help expose the similarities between the first marriage of Adam and Eve in the garden, and the Bride (Church) who is awaiting her soon coming Groom, (Jesus) and our upcoming marriage on His arrival.

Download or read book God s Naked Gardener written by Andreas Rydland and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written with the idea of taking a nonconfrontational approach to challenge what I perceive as a dogmatic status quo in many churches today. My wish is that my efforts can serve as a launch pad for a discussion that will question why we do the things we do and move us towards a Christ-centric community of faith. Allegorical language is used to bring out the point that some traditions we hold dear have become, at best, counterproductive and accomplish nothing in reaching out to a lost and dying world. This book tries to show Gods plan and desire for humanity in contrast to what we continually do in order to get back into the garden. The essence of the text is Gods love towards us, and that is what we need to reflect to the world.

Download or read book The God of the Garden written by Andrew Peterson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it’s easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. It’s hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking. This book is in many ways a memoir, but it’s also an attempt to wake up the reader to the glory of God shining through his creation. One of the first commands to Adam and Eve was to “work and keep” the garden. Award-winning author and songwriter Andrew Peterson, being as honest as possible, shares a story of childhood, grief, redemption, and peace, by walking through a forest of memories: “I trust that by telling my story, you’ll encounter yours. Hopefully, like me, you’ll see that the God of the Garden is and has always been present, working and keeping what he loves.” Sometimes he plants, sometimes he prunes, but in his goodness he intends to reap a harvest of righteousness.

Download or read book God Made Rainy Days So Gardeners Could Get the Housework Done written by Creative Mix Journals and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it A hilarious blank notebook/journal for taking notes, jot down ideas, to-do list, planner, etc. Blank lined pages, small lined notebook. Matte cover finish size 6x9 inches, 120 pages. Great gift idea on any occasion.

Download or read book Lessons from the Master Gardener written by Donna J. Ashby and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons From The Master Gardener is a parallel of botanical and Biblical principles that enhance the application of scripture in a believer's life. The nine chapters start with soil preparation and progress through harvesting the crop. Each chapter springboards from a scriptural passage related to agricultural process. A divine picture is drawn of the relationship between the physical world in which we live and the spiritual realities we need to know in order to live a victorious life.

Download or read book Gardening Eden written by Michael Abbate and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the snake, the apple, and the Ten Commandments, God created a garden… “Spiritual environmentalism” did not start out as an oxymoron–it was an invitation. Yet today, many believe God’s first job description for humankind has been replaced by other “worthier pursuits”. Why has this simple instruction become so controversial? How does one sort through all the mixed messages? Is changing our lives to save the world really our responsibility–or even possible? Gardening Eden invites you to consider a new, spiritual perspective to practical environmentalism. The question is not whether our souls find expression and inspiration in our incredible planet, but how best to preserve that fundamental connection. Green living is no longer a fad–simple lifestyle solutions are now available to everyone. Discover creation care as an act of worship and a call to deeper harmony with our Creator, our fellow gardeners, and our living Earth. Gardening Eden is the primer in how this shift will transform not only our world, but your very soul.