Download or read book Into Abba s Arms written by Sandra D. Wilson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on her personal experiences, counseling skills, and theological insights, the author of "Released from Shame" and "Hurt People Hurt People" leads readers to the only source of true belonging: Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Daily in Abba s Arms written by David A. Snow and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How different would your life be now, if every day of your childhood your dad would have taken time to affectionately hold you? Maybe you would not be so busy. Maybe memories would bring a smile instead of tears from shame and regret. Maybe you would feel compassion instead of bitterness. Maybe fear would be from a roller coaster ride instead of by simply waking up. Maybe you would feel like you matter, instead of being on the outside of life, looking in. It is not too late! Daily in Abba's Arms will help you replace what was, with what should have been. Maybe the father you had did not know how to love you intimately, but the Father you have, does. After meditating on the simple writings and powerful Scriptures within this book, you will feel different. You will realize and accept the fact that you matter and you-without conditions, demands or expectations-are loved. Your confidence will grow, as you experience the truth that you are totally adequate, fully loved, continually comforted, and worthy to be Abba's Beloved Child. The strangle hold past hurts have on your life will weaken-yielding to love, joy, and peace-as you rest daily in Abba's arms. At the core of the Father's heart is the enfolding love that comforts all human suffering. David A. Snow is a husband, father, author, licensed professional counselor, and teacher. He earned graduate and post-graduate degrees in psychology, counseling, and theology. The understanding he acquired after experiencing the love of the Father, coupled with the knowledge of formal education and over 30 years of experience, provide the wisdom necessary to help you: feel the love of a Father, understand your identity as Abba's Beloved Child, and live your Belovedness.
Download or read book Abba s Heart written by Neal Lozano and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and Embrace the Extravagant, Unconditional Love of the Father How is it that so many believers get stuck when it comes to entering into a relationship with God the Father? Rather than basking in the Father's endless love, compassion, and delight, we seem to hesitate, like orphaned children unsure of a place to call home. Neal Lozano breaks through the obstacles that keep us from growing in this pivotal relationship. He shatters fear and estrangement in his joyful exploration of Jesus's promise to show us his Father--and ours. It is a heartwarming journey, starting with the universal experience of loss and ending in the Father's welcoming arms as dearly loved children.
Download or read book Abba s Child written by Brennan Manning and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you struggling to accept God’s love? We’ve bought into the lie that we are worthy of God’s love only when our lives are going well. But when life begins to fall through the cracks and things become less-than-perfect, we scramble to present a good front to the world—and to God. God longs for us to deeply believe and know that He loves us and accepts us as we are. He calls for us to remove our mask and establish an honest and deep relationship with Him. When we are our true selves, we can finally claim our identity as His own—Abba’s child. Let go of the pressure of an impostor lifestyle and lean into the life-changing wonder of a truly loving relationship with God. Abba’s Child will light the way to freely accepting your belovedness and being renewed by the reassurance of our Father’s deep care for you—regardless of how perfect your life isn’t. “Honest. Genuine. Creative. God hungry. These words surface when I think of the writings of Brennan Manning. Read him for yourself—you’ll see what I mean!” —Max Lucado, New York Times bestselling author “I pray that Brennan Manning and the timeless voices . . . in this book might offer you hope. May they remind you that you are loved by the Father-Creator Himself. May they sing and speak into your life against the voices that tell you otherwise.” —Jon Foreman, lead singer of Switchfoot
Download or read book Relational Christianity written by Wesley M. Pinkham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work begins with a transformative idea: human existence is fundamentally relational. Relational Christianity explores how the nature of the Trinity must define the Church and the Christian spiritual life. Utilizing Scripture, Christian spiritual tradition, and philosophy, Pinkham and Gruenberg paint the picture of a Trinitarian, Jesus-centered Christianity, led by the Father and explored in interpersonal oneness. In this view, God’s intimate, unifying love is the theological river that runs through the landscape of biblical revelation and through God’s movement in history. This work of Trinitarian practical theology suggests that the relation between Father, Son, and Spirit should shape and guide all Christian interactions—with God, with others, and with self. In the paradigm of relational Christianity, the formation of genuine personhood and identity are based upon relational connections—first with the Trinity, and second with God’s family. The shape of the new covenant community must reflect the Father’s nature. Church culture must prioritize relationship in the same way the Trinity does.
Download or read book It All Comes out in the Wash written by May Dilles and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People get ready, Theres a train acomin. Its picking up passengers coast to coast. All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming. You dont need no ticket, you just get on board. May Dilles took a little ride on that very train. God was on it too, in His bad outfit. This is the story of her remarkable journey, the events leading to that train ride that forever changed her life, and what happened next.
Download or read book The True Servant of Abba written by Michael Carluccio and published by michael j carluccio. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual self help book to enable you to gain the peace that passes all understanding.
Download or read book The Ragamuffin Gospel written by Brennan Manning and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you bedraggled, beat-up, burnt-out? Most of us believe in God’s grace—in theory. But somehow we can’t seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet. Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we’ve done. We come to Him as ragamuffins—dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His “furious love.” Brennan Manning’s now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it—simple honesty—has changed thousands of lives. Now with a Ragamuffin’s thirty-day spiritual journey guide, it will change yours, too. Includes a 30-Day Spiritual Journey Guide! “Brennan Manning does a masterful job of blowing the dust off of shop-worn theology and allowing God’s grace to do what only God’s grace can do—amaze.” -Max Lucado, Bestselling author of The Gift for All People
Download or read book Christian Psychotherapy in Context written by Joshua J. Knabb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Psychotherapy in Context combines theology with the latest research in clinical psychology to equip mental health practitioners to meet the unique psychological and spiritual needs of Christian clients. Encouraging therapists to operate from within a Christian framework, the authors explore the intersection between a Christian worldview and clients’ emotional struggles, drawing from sources including both foundational theological texts and the “common factors” psychotherapy literature. Written collaboratively by two clinical psychologists, an academic psychologist, and a theologian, this book paves the way for psychotherapeutic practice that builds on Christian principles as the foundation, rather than merely adding them to treatment as an afterthought.
Download or read book Xavier s Legacies written by Kevin M. Doak and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan’s so-called Christian century? Far from being a relic of the past – something brought to Japan by sixteenth-century missionaries such as Francis Xavier and then forgotten – Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic way for Japanese believers to shape their cultural identities. This volume documents the appeal of Catholicism, not only among farmers and fishers but also among scientists, diplomats, novelists, and members of the imperial household who have found in Catholicism an alternative way to keep “tradition” and negotiate modernity since the late nineteenth century.
Download or read book Brother Matthew One Disciple s Love Story written by Matthew Anderson and published by Dr. Matthew Anderson. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it really like to be one of the original disciples of Jesus? Who was the man we know only as Matthew? How did he become one of the most despised of Jews, a tax collector? What happened after his life was transformed by a single encounter with Jesus?This is the story of Levi who later became Matthew, one of the twelve. A powerful and inspirational mixture of fiction and Biblical fact that will take you into his heart, loves, losses, a descent into a personal hell and finally the total transformation of his life through his relationship with his Master Jesus.
Download or read book Imago Dei written by Maximus Confessor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fruit of the Spirit, 'the image of God,' is the great enigma vitae, the solution of which is exposed herein. For Maximus Confessor+, the hermetical vendor of anagogical ideograms, opens the door to the reader and says, "You, too, can be as God."
Download or read book They Called Him Yeshua the Story of the Young Jesus written by Donald L. Brake and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brake and Beach invite the reader to “time travel” into the first century, the world of an ordinary family facing extraordinary challenges, as they grapple with young Jesus’s developing self-awareness and preparation for His divine mission. “With biblical and historical accuracy, insightful sanctified imagination and brilliant storytelling, Brake and Beach foreshadow what we know with certainty from the New Testament. Get ready for epiphanies aplenty.” —David Sanford, executive editor of four Bibles published by Zondervan and Tyndale House “In these pages, you are welcomed inside the home of a young son of Israel who is “growing in wisdom and stature.” Do step inside. Smell the morning bread baking. Feel the daily tension living in small-town Nazareth where the brutal Roman military is stationed. Reect on the love, and the fear, and the faith of a family living amid oppressive pain from multiple sources—politics, the economy, and religion. And see the young boy blossom into the grown man who is the Savior of the world and its Deliverer. “I want to know my Lord more intimately. Don Brake has helped me. Reecting on some of the pages here, I walked today where Jesus walked.” —Stu Weber, pastor, author, and retired US Army awarded three Bronze Stars as a Green Beret in Vietnam. He is a best-selling author of several Gold Medallion nalist books. “Brake writes as a scribe, communicating the scenes as they’re happening, yet making readers privy to under currents with powerful ramications. Yes, this is a novel, but it is also devotional, study, and inspiration to draw us nearer to the One they called, Yeshua.” —Mesu Andrews, Novelist of nine biblical character novels
Download or read book Shepherding Women in Pain written by Bev Hislop and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical resource for anyone who wants to help women with the pressures, frustrations, and trauma they face Women today often have sources of tremendous pain in their lives such as infertility, divorce, domestic violence, eating disorders, and more. Yet, most leaders are not prepared to help women who have real pain from such traumatizing issues. If you want to be better equipped to help women in pain, this book was written for you. Designed to give leaders and care givers greater understanding and insights, Shepherding Women in Pain is a compilation from contributors who have expertise and experience on the given issue. Learn about domestic violence from expert Stacey Womack, founder and executive director of Abuse Recovery Ministry & Services; or learn how to help women who struggle with eating disorders from Kimberley Davidson, founder of Olive Branch Outreach. The reader will be provided concise, practical, and grace-infused information designed to help women deal constructively with the trauma of their life experiences. This book will serve as a key resource--to read and re-read often--for those who serve women in pain. A remarkable blend of expertise and empathy, Shepherding Women in Pain is a perfect resource for pastors, church staff, and women’s ministry leaders alike who want to help women in pain experience Jesus, joy, and wholeness again.
Download or read book Some Kind of Crazy written by Terry Wardle and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable story, in the tradition of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, that reveals how a careful look at a broken past can open a path to profound healing and a satisfying future. Terry Wardle grew up in the Appalachian coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania, part of a hardscrabble family of coal miners whose cast of characters included a hot-tempered grandfather with a predilection for blowing up houses, a distant and disapproving father, and a mother who disciplined him with harsh words and threats of hellfire. After enduring a crazy childhood, Terry graduated to a troubled adolescence, and then on to what seemed like a successful transition into adulthood, earning multiple degrees and founding one of the country’s fastest growing churches. But all was not well. All his life, he felt he was never enough. Plagued by a truckload of fear no matter what he accomplished, he fell down the ladder of success into the deepest ditch of his life—ending up in a psychiatric hospital. Fortunately, that’s when he discovered that Jesus has no fear of ditches. In fact, Jesus does some of his best work with people who find themselves there. In sharing his remarkable journey, Terry offers hope that healing and wholeness are possible no matter how broken a life may be. His larger-than-life story will help you move forward along your own healing path.
Download or read book Free to Run the Race written by Gary V. Ventimiglia and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free to Run the Race describes the living out of our life in Christ (Hebrews 12:1). It speaks of running "with endurance the race that is set before us." This can be done by fixing our "eyes on Jesus." "Undoing the Burden of Parental Disregard," speaks to a specific encumbrance that weighs the runner down making it harder to keep focus and finish the race. The burden is called "parental disregard." It is not being allowed to "be oneself," to pursue one's inner direction, or natural proclivity in one's life. It is the experience of developmental woundedness that says being oneself in temperament, aptitudes, natural talents, and the expressing of this is prohibited. Prov 22:6 says, "train up a child according to his own way." The burden of parental disregard is the emotional pain in living out an identity that is not based on any expression of one's natural "way(s)" or bent(s). This makes the development of trust in a heavenly Father (parent) difficult. The relieving of this burden takes a ruthlessly honest focus on this woundedness and its working out its implications honestly that allows a more truthful understanding of God's love for our lives.
Download or read book Aviva vs the Dybbuk written by Mari Lowe and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who now can’t always get out of bed in the morning. As tensions escalate in the Jewish community of Beacon with incidents of vandalism and a swastika carved into new concrete poured near the synagogue...so does the tension grow between Aviva and Kayla and the girls at their school, and so do the actions of the dybbuk grow worse. Could real harm be coming Aviva's way? And is it somehow related to the "accident" that took her father years ago? Aviva vs. the Dybbuk is a compelling, tender story about friendship and community, grief and healing, and one indomitable girl who somehow manages to connect them all.
