Download or read book Healing of a Restless Heart written by M. A. Andrew D. Isbell and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a story of a man still trying to heal from his childhood. A man who is still hurting and bleeding, yet at the same time being saved. This story about Andrew is the story of Jesus. His story is really all of ours - or at least many of ours. He is being healed by God the Father as he is being hurt by the sin of the world. The wounded heart of Jesus is present within all of us if we really stop and look and give that time to see it for what it really is. This life is hard and painful, but at the end of the day - if we give that pain to Jesus - he heals us in the sight of his Father.
Download or read book Her Restless Heart Women s Bible Study Leader Guide written by Barbara Cameron and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a novel by acclaimed Christian fiction author Barbara Cameron, Her Restless Heart is the story of an Amish woman caught between the traditions of her faith and the pull of a different life. This six-session Bible study explores the heart's longing for love and acceptance and the Bible's answer to this universal human need. The study equips women as they seek to know God's plan for their lives and find satisfaction and fulfillment. The Leader Guide contains six session guides plus leader helps. Her Restless Heart is the second study in the Faith and Fiction Bible study series that uses.
Download or read book The Restless Heart written by Augustine John Moore and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every sincere seeker of truth will want to know more about St. Augustine and his writings. The Restless Heart is an accurate symbol for men and women of every age and culture. In his book, The Restless Heart, Rev. Moore endeavors to state and explain many of the profound ideas of St. Augustine. You will learn for example, Augustine's philosophical and theological concepts relating to The Restless Heart, and many of Augustine's ideas. You will broaden your understanding of the spiritual life, of love, of prayer, and grow in your appreciation of one of the most brilliant minds of every age. St. Augustine, in his confessions draws one into a deeper understanding of God's merciful love and demonstrates that one must be humble and trusting before the Lord God, and seek to do His will with a joyful heart because the heart rests in God.
Download or read book Heal My Heart O Lord written by Joan Hutson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home for the Restless Heart written by Joshua Elzner and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God created this world to be a home for his children--a pilgrim-home but a home nonetheless. In other words, this creation is not our final and definitive home, since only in the innermost bosom of the Trinity will we find complete and definitive rest and perfect consummation. And yet this home of the Trinity's love and embrace is really and truly communicated to us in and through the beauty of created reality, such that this temporal world already in some way becomes a true dwelling-place, and not merely a land of exile and pilgrimage. Perhaps the central drama of our human existence in this fallen world is that creation is always both simultaneously: a home and a land of journeying, a garden dwelling-place and a desert of exile.But it will not always be this way. For the very material creation in which we find ourselves shares in our eternal destiny, our destiny to participate in the innermost life and love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And insofar as it does so already, insofar as we encounter God already in the contours of time and space, these very contours become an expression of, and a foretaste of, our eternal homeland. In moments such as this, in which our heart is ravished by the glimpse of divine beauty touching us through created beauty, and cradling us through the goodness of reality that God himself has made, we experience eternity intersecting time. Indeed, we experience how this world--yes, this very imperfect and fallen world, marred by sin, strife, and division--is destined to be our eternal homeland, the living-space in which we dwell in intimacy with God, just as Adam and Eve experienced intimacy with God in the beginning in paradise, in which God himself walked familiarly with his children among the trees of the garden.Even if the creation apart from God is nothing, it is nonetheless true that God willed it to be something, and to be something very significant and full of eternal meaning. Yes, the creation itself has an absolute meaning in the plan of God, manifesting as it does God's own absolute value as pure and everlasting Love and Intimacy. And this is true in the highest way of each human person, who beyond all other creatures was created, as Vatican II says, "for his own sake" (Gaudium et spes, 22). The absolute value and dignity of every person is a reflection of and a participation in the absoluteness of God's own personal being, since it is rooted in his own singular love for them, in which he has known, willed, loved, and delighted in them from the bosom of his own eternity, and from this eternity brought them into being, and into this eternity seeks to draw them again. And in and through the human person, the whole of the impersonal creation is also drawn to its definitive fulfillment and consummation, since it is destined to share in the everlasting intimacy that God has chosen to have with his children, adopting them, in the beloved Son, into the innermost recesses of his own divine life.If this is true, then our gift and task within this world is not merely to flee from the world, from anything that might distract our attention from the heaven that awaits us, but also to seek to make contact, within the visible creation while also stretching beyond it, with the eternal renewal of all things that awaits us at the end of time. In other words, it is not only to journey on pilgrimage through this fallen world towards heaven, but also to let heaven become incarnate, even if imperfectly, within this world. After all, when Christ came into this world he brought heaven to earth. In him eternity entered into time, and the everlasting bliss of the Trinity kissed our fractured and yet beautiful earth. And through his Paschal Mystery--his Passion and Resurrection--Christ has spanned the distance created by sin and has woven all together again in a seamless fabric within the sinews of his own reconciling Heart.
Download or read book To Stir a Restless Heart written by Jacob W. Wood and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healing the Wounded Heart written by Thom Gardner and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing the Wounded Heart exposes negative emotions such as fear, rejection, worthlessness, shame, insecurity, defilement, and hopelessness that prevent us from living in the grace and peace God intends for us. Uncover the lies embedded in emotional wounds and discover peace and truth in the presence of the Living Christ.
Download or read book Enough is Enough written by John Westfall and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a flair for storytelling and an engagingly honest charm and wit, the acclaimed author of Coloring Outside the Lines discusses the joyful gift of grace that releases us from achievement-oriented living, provides the unconditional acceptance we crave, and offers believers the greatest adventure of our lives.
Download or read book The Restless Heart written by Ronald Rolheiser and published by Image. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful exploration of loneliness, in the tradition of Henri Nouwen's classic Reaching Out. Loneliness may be more pervasive now than at any other time in human history. Cell phones and "instant messaging" not withstanding, our longing for meaningful connections seems to increase in direct proportion to our accessibility. In The Restless Heart, Ronald Rolheiser identifies different types of loneliness and discusses the dangers and opportunities they represent in our lives. Using contemporary parables from literature, film, and his own life, he shows that loneliness can be a tremendously creative and even valuable force when it is recognized, accepted and used as a dynamic catalyst. With his trademark clarity of vision, honesty, and intelligence, Rolheiser offers a distinctively Christian approach to living an examined, involved life and presents suggestions that will free readers to discover greater meaning and fulfillment in their own lives.
Download or read book Stations of the Heart written by Richard Lischer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father’s heartbreaking and hopeful story about his beloved son, in which a young man teaches his family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and grace. "A book after my own heart, profound, gorgeous, deeply spiritual and human, beautifully written, heartbreaking, but also, because of the writer's wisdom and spirit, triumphant." —Anne Lamott As the book opens, Richard Lischer’s son, Adam, calls to tell his father, a professor of divinity at Duke University, that his cancer has returned. Adam is a charismatic young man with a promising law career, and that his wife is pregnant with their first child makes the disease’s return all the more devastating. Despite the cruel course of the illness, Adam’s growing weakness evokes in him a remarkable spiritual strength. This is the story of one last summer, lived as honestly and faithfully as possible. Deeply moving and utterly lacking in sentimentality or self-pity, Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable book about life and death and the terrible blessing of saying good-bye.
Download or read book On the Road with Saint Augustine written by James K. A. Smith and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
Download or read book Peace written by Becky Thompson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Love Unending and Midnight Mom Devotional reassures anxious women that even if you can't shake off fear, your faith is not broken. For years, Christian women have been told, "If you just prayed more, had more faith, and trusted Jesus, you'd have more peace." But what does it mean when a Christian momma continues to worry? How does she reconcile her feelings of fear with her faith in God? And how does she raise her children in a home full of peace when she feels anything but peaceful? Becky Thompson, a best-selling author with a degree in biblical studies, knows firsthand what it is like to suffer from the crippling effects of anxiety--a condition she has struggled to overcome for most of her life. For her and many others, the fear she faces is not a faith issue. It's a physical one that affects over 40 million adults in the US. As Becky examines the relationship between the promise of peace in Scripture and the reality of life, motherhood, and anxiety, she brings both a practical and spiritual approach to the discussion of anxiety and how it impacts your mind, body, and spirit. Peace meets moms in the forest of fear where they have felt isolated and alone and walks them toward hope, reminding them that there are millions of other women who walk the same dark, uncertain trails they do and there isn't something wrong with their faith because they can't shake the fear. Peace is a lifeline for the Christian mom desperate for solid advice based on sound doctrine and presented in a way that makes her feel understood and far less alone on her journey toward healing.
Download or read book A Healing Heart written by Angela Breidenbach and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a woman's wounded heart find its way back to God and discover an unexpected new love?
Download or read book HEALING PRESENCE written by Alex Mathew and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in a theistic context; that, I believe God is in control. It is not an easy proposition to intelligent, technical and scientifically thinking AI Robotic brains. Existence itself is the Love-Truth that infill and surrounds all that exist, It is The all-inclusive - ‘IS’. Existence itself is a present- continuous-ongoing-event that can only be represented by ‘IS’ or the present-continuous- state-of-being. The idea of meta-love counseling or ‘beyond’ counseling is, being-in-the- moment-that-reveals-itself to the one who is ready in sensitive alertness to receive whatever IS. This book maintains that none is entitled to alter the perpetual ‘IS” The ‘Counselor’ as Jesus meant will lead you into situations that redeem and heal. The idea is very simple. In that particular state-of-being the counselor whom we refer to as the Christian-Meta-Love –Counselor or a Healing Presence, functions as a conduit of healing in the confused, suffering, broken, desperate, defeated, self-centered, unforgiving individuals to gain freedom from their private bondage to experience Healing. It is not as much as what the Meta-Love-Counselor does but who she or he is within the glorious presence of Jesus who in fills the Meta-love-counselor to function as an agent of the healing in and through the Meta-love-counselor only acts as a channel of healing. The Holy Spirit; source of all comfort and healing begins flowing to the person in need, through you, who functions as a genuine conduit for the happening, healing process. The dynamics of such happenings is not explainable technically; as it is there for anyone in the Spirit to experience it and for those outside it to reject outright. Without love, the counselee will only be influenced to believe everything is fine. Love-Truth makes all things possible including all comforting, healing and wholeness. Surrounded by Love-Truth, all things become possible. Surrender in Love-Truth to sense the magic of love.
Download or read book You Are Free written by Rebekah Lyons and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to keep striving for freedom. You can live into the freedom you already have in Christ. In You Are Free, Rebekah Lyons--author of Rhythms of Renewal--reveals her journey of releasing stress, anxiety, and worry to uncover the peace that comes from Jesus Christ. Have you bought into the lie? So many of us do. We measure our worth by what others think of us. We compare and strive, living our lives for the approval of others. Pressure rises, fear and anxiety creeps in, and we hustle to keep up. But Jesus tells us that he gave his life to set us free, giving us purpose and calling us to live in that God-given freedom and purpose. Maybe we're afraid to live in this truth because we can't even believe it. Rebekah reminds us that Christ doesn't say we can be or may be or will be free. He says we are free. Do you dare to believe it? In You Are Free, Rebekah invites you to: Overcome the exhaustion of trying to meet others' expectations and rest in the joy that God's freedom brings Find permission to grieve past experiences, confess your areas of brokenness, and receive strength in your journey toward healing Throw off self-condemnation and step boldly into what our good God has for you Discover the courage to begin again and use your newfound freedom to set others free Freedom is for everyone who wants it--the lost, the wounded, and those weary from all of the striving. It's for those of us who gave up trying years ago and for those of us who are angry and hurt, burnt out by the Christian song and dance. You are the church, the people of God. You were meant to be free. Join Rebekah as she helps you discover the freedom that comes when we learn that God is enough.
Download or read book Healing Takes Time written by David P. Gallagher and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loss can occur in many forms, such as the death of a loved one, divorce, or termination of a job. Healing Takes Time is filled with 52 meditations and reflections to help people experiencing loss start a journey of healing. This biblical resource draws on experiences from Galagher's life, and includes a theme, relevant Scripture passages, personal illustrations, and practical steps to take toward healing in each meditation. Just as a physical injury takes time to mend, emotional and spiritual anguish require time, patience, and faith to heal. Perspective is often lost during painful times, and the Scripture passages in this book are a fresh reminder of God's love and faithfulness. Most people have heard about the stages of grief, but knowing the stages academically is quite different from knowing them in the heart. Healing Takes Time helps those suffering loss, loneliness, and sorrow prayerfully walk through the stages of grief step-by-step. Healing Takes Time is ideal for support groups or people working at their own pace. This short, practical, and focused book is a helpful companion for anyone experiencing emotional or spiritual distress. David P. Gallagher (www.agingsuccessfullytoday.com), is a professor, author, and Pastor Emeritus with five decades of pastoral experience. He teaches for the University of Sioux Falls and Moody Distance Learning and is the author of three previous books: Senior Adult Ministry in the 21st Century, Aging Successfully, and Havens of Hope.
Download or read book A Short History of Christian Doctrine written by Bernhard Lohse and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has earned wide acceptance as an outstanding single volume history of doctrine. It is ideally suited for classroom and seminar use as well as research and independent study. With remarkable conciseness and clarity Lohse, shows how doctrinal development has occurred in the various periods of the Church's history from the first century to the present. He explores and discusses, one by one, the dogmas and doctrines that constitute the milestones in the story of the Church's effort to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ to each age. This Revised American Edition includes a new preface by the author, an account of the significance of the Second Vatican Council and alterations in the "For Further Reading" section to bring it up to date.
