Download or read book Crumbs from the Country Church written by Pastor Jim Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 39 chapters. Each chapter begins with a poem, and the poem is followed by a discussion of the subject of the poem. Subjects range from "Rolling Through Life," "Death of a Saint," "You Live in a Rental House," "Straddlin' the Fence," to "He Was A Good Man".....and many others you will find enjoyable to read and contemplate. Inside this book you will find how God can help you through life's difficulties, some of which seemingly have no good solutions. There are examples of how a positive outlook and dedication to finding and following the right path will lead to good outcomes. Every thought is backed up by quotations from the Bible. You can learn much about happy living in this book.

Download or read book The Hopes of Matrimony a Poem written by John Holland and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Happiness in a Storm Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor written by Wendy Schlessel Harpham and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A guide to the meaning of joy and satisfaction, and the many routes to them.”—Jane Brody, New York Times Award-winning author Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD, offers her program to getting good care and finding happiness when you are sick. Having coined the term “Healthy Survivor” while dealing with her own chronic lymphoma, Harpham encourages people dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any prolonged illness to simultaneously do all they can to overcome disease and live life to the fullest. Harpham opens our eyes to the opportunities for happiness in life despite medical problems and even because of illness.

Download or read book Walking the Church Year written by Robert J. F. Elsner and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable, pocket-sized guide for incorporating labyrinths into your spiritual walk. For centuries, labyrinths have served as an essential meditation aid for Christians seeking to deepen their personal relationships with God. In this portable edition—perfect for mobile use at home or in church—Robert Elsner unravels the mysteries of the labyrinth, laying out a clear roadmap to a regular meditative practice. Following the liturgical calendar, each entry offers scripture to contemplate, prayers or mantras, a reflection, and questions to inspire further thought. Suggestions for alternate labyrinth forms ensure that these meditations can be practiced by the faithful of all physical abilities.

Download or read book Hope and the Longing for Utopia written by Daniel Boscaljon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. Hope and the Longing for Utopia offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential and the gift of religion. In addition to outlining the value of embracing unknown potentialities, these twelve interdisciplinary essays explore why it has become crucial that we commit to hoping for values that resist traditional ideological commitments. Contextualized by contemporary writing on utopia, and drawing from a wealth of times and cultures ranging from Calvin's Geneva to early twentieth-century Japanese children's stories to Hollywood cinema, these essays cumulatively disclose the fundamental importance of resisting tantalizing certainties while considering the importance of the unknown and unknowable. Beginning with a set of four essays outlining the importance of hope and utopia as diagnostic concepts, and following with four concrete examples, the collection ends with a set of essays that provide theological speculations on the need to embrace finitude and limitations in a world increasingly enframed by secularizing impulses. Overall, this book discloses how hope and utopia illuminate ways to think past simplified wishes for the future.

Download or read book We Stay the Same written by Jason Roberts and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a remote island in the South Pacific, the Lavongai have consistently struggled to obtain development through logging and commercial agriculture. Yet many Lavongai still long to move beyond the grind of subsistence work that has seemingly defined their lives on New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, for generations. Following a long history of smaller-scale and largely unsuccessful resource development efforts, New Hanover became the site of three multinational-controlled special agricultural and business leases (SABLs) that combined to cover over 75 percent of the island for ninety-nine-year lease terms. These agroforestry projects were part of a national effort to encourage “sustainable” rural development by tapping into the growing global demand for agricultural lands and crops like oil palm and biofuels. They were supposed to succeed where the smaller-scale projects of the past had failed. Unfortunately, these SABLs resulted in significant forest loss and livelihood degradation, while doing little to promote the type of economic development that many Lavongai had been hoping for. It is within this context that We Stay the Same grounds questions of hope for transformative economic change within Lavongai assessments of the inequitable relationships between global processes of resource development and the local lives that have become increasingly defined by the necessities and failures of these processes. Written in a clear and relatable style for students, We Stay the Same combines ethnographic and ecological research to show how the Lavongai continue to survive and make meaningful lives in a situation where their own hopes for a better future have often been used against them as a mechanism of a more distantly profitable dispossession.

Download or read book Gleanings and Memoranda written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Toilers and Spinsters written by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Toilers and spinsters and other essays written by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The British Homoeopathic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Unpromising Hope written by Thomas R. Gaulke and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a theopoetic key, this book challenges Christian reliance on the motif of promise, especially where promise is regarded as a prerequisite for the experience of hope. It pursues instead an unpromising hope available to the agnostic or belief-fluid members and leaders of faith communities. The book rejects any theological judgement about doubt and hopelessness being sinful. It also rejects any hope which is grounded in a sense of Christian supremacy. Chapter 1 focuses on Ernst Bloch’s antifascist concept of utopian surplus, putting Bloch in conversation with queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz and womanist theologian M. Shawn Copeland. Chapter 2 explores the saudadic and theopoetic hope of Rubem Alves. Chapter 3 turns to the womanist theologies of Delores Williams, Emilie Townes, and A. Elaine Brown Crawford. Finally, chapter 4 engages the post-colonial eschatology of Vítor Westhelle, framing hope as nearby in space, rather than nearby in time. Each chapter offers an unpromising hope that may be tapped into by those who wish to affirm belief-fluidity in their own communities, and by those who wish to speak of hope honestly, whether or not, at any given moment, they believe in God or in the promises of a god.

Download or read book Speculum Amantis written by Arthur Henry Bullen and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English Verbs with prepositions particles written by Anthony Paul Cowie and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Band 1.

Download or read book The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice written by Mark McKergow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by ‘stretching the world’ of their clients. The book brings new ideas from enactive cognition which show how skilled attention on the client and their words is important both practically and conceptually. It provides both a summary of the development of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) over time and how the latest developments form a newly coherent form of practice based on developing descriptions. The author has structured the book using simple and easy to understand metaphors to paint a rich, creative, and visual picture of therapy for the reader, which makes it an accessible read. This book will be of interest to a wide range of SF practitioners internationally, as well as to those involved in coaching, counselling, family therapy, education, social work, healthcare and organisational change.

Download or read book The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate edited by S Annesley St Giles in the Fields edited by Thomas Case and in Southwark edited by Nathaniel Vincent Being Divers Sermons Preached A D 1659 1689 By Several Ministers of the Gospel in Or Near London Fifth Edition Carefully Collated and Corrected With Notes and Translations by J Nichols Indexes By the Rev T H Horne and Others written by Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hope and Heresy written by Leigh T.I. Penman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalyptic expectations played a key role in defining the horizons of life and expectation in early modern Europe. Hope and Heresy investigates the problematic status of a particular kind of apocalyptic expectation—that of a future felicity on earth before the Last Judgement—within Lutheran confessional culture between approximately 1570 and 1630. Among Lutherans expectations of a future felicity were often considered manifestations of a heresy called chiliasm, because they contravened the pessimistic apocalyptic outlook at the core of confessional identity. However, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, individuals raised within Lutheran confessional culture—mathematicians, metallurgists, historians, astronomers, politicians, and even theologians—began to entertain and publicise hopes of a future earthly felicity. Their hopes were countered by accusations of heresy. The ensuing contestation of acceptable doctrine became a flashpoint for debate about the boundaries of confessional identity itself. Based on a thorough study of largely neglected or overlooked print and manuscript sources, the present study examines these debates within their intellectual, social, cultural, and theological contexts. It outlines, for the first time, a heretofore overlooked debate about the limits and possibilities of eschatological thought in early modernity, and provides readers with a unique look at a formative time in the apocalyptic imagination of European culture.

Download or read book Biblical Illustrator Volume 2 written by Exell, Joseph S. and published by Delmarva Publications, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 10933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like it if one of the greatest preachers could help you prepare your sermons? How about 20+ ministers to assist you with your sermon? Joseph Exell included content from some of the most famous preachers such as Dwight L. Moody, Charles Spurgeon, J. C. Ryle, Charles Hodge, Alexander MacLaren, Adam Clark, Matthew Henry and many more. He compiled this 56 volume Biblical Illustrator Commentary and Delmarva Publications, Inc. is publishing it in a 6 volume digital set with a linked table of contents for ease of studying. This set includes the analysis on entire Bible, Old and New Testament. Complete your resources with this Biblical Illustrator by Joseph Exell.