Download or read book Living Easter Through the Year written by John Pritchard and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features ideas, reflections, and resources on how to extend the message of resurrection through the weeks following Easter and into the rest of our lives. This work includes articles of reflection, ways to celebrate resurrection and to continue the risen life, worship ideas, personal stories, poetry, music, art, a group course, and more.
Download or read book Subversive Jesus written by Craig Warren Greenfield and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jesus left the most exclusive gated community in the universe to come live with the people he loved and gave his life for, he turned everything we know and believe about life on its head. Jesus said that he came to bring good news to the poor, but most Western Christians remain disconnected and isolated from the poor and their contexts of injustice. Even our churches echo society’s pressure to isolate ourselves from the margins (e.g. by moving to a better suburb) and instead teach us how to be “nice people” who worship a “nice Jesus” and don’t disrupt the status quo. Convinced that Jesus places love for the poor and the pursuit of justice central, Craig Greenfield has sought to follow in Christ’s footsteps by living among people at the edges of society for the last fourteen years. His quest to follow this Subversive Jesus has taken Craig and his young family from the slums of Asia to inner city Canada and back again. This is the story of how Jesus led them to the margins: initiating the Pirates of Justice flash mobs, sharing their home with detoxing crackheads, welcoming homeless panhandlers and prostitutes to the dinner table, and ultimately sparking a movement to reach the world’s most vulnerable children. This book is a strong and potentially controversial critique of the status quo too often found in our churches, but it offers an inspirational and hopeful vision of another way. While readers may not relocate to a slum, they will certainly come to view their lives and ministry through a fresh lens—reconsidering how they are uniquely called by Jesus to subversively love the poor and break down systems of injustice in their sphere of influence.
Download or read book My Catholic Faith written by Louis LaRavoire Morrow and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Catholic Faith, Louis LaRavoire Morrow presents a comprehensive guide to the beliefs, practices, and traditions of the Catholic Church. This book serves as a valuable resource for both newcomers to the faith and lifelong Catholics seeking to deepen their understanding of their religious heritage. Morrow explores the core tenets of Catholicism, offering insights into the sacraments, prayer, and the role of the Church in daily life.
Download or read book The Story Travelers Bible written by Tracey Madder and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes 85 fully illusatrated Bible stories and more!"--Cover.
Download or read book The Easter Story What Really Happened written by Chuck Missler and published by Koinonia House. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Really Happened? Most reasonably informed Christians are well aware that many of the traditions that surround the Christmas holidays have pagan origins and very little correlation with the actual events as recorded in the Bible. However, most of us are surprised when we discover that some of what we have been taught about Easter is not only in error, but deliberately so!
Download or read book Let Us Bless the Lord Year One Easter through Pentecost written by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular author, retreat leader, and priest Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning office—the ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, Crafton usually sits down at her computer and sends out an e-mail that says simply, "Let us bless the Lord," the traditional closing line of the morning prayer service. Her devoted readers reply, "Thanks be to God.” Crafton communicates with thousands of subscribers to her daily e-mail meditations. They—and others who say the Daily Offices—will treasure this collection of brief meditations. Based on the assigned biblical texts for each day of Year One's Easter and Pentecost seasons, Crafton’s writings complement perfectly the morning, noon, evening, and nighttime prayers that are the Daily Offices. Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is an Episcopal priest and popular preacher, retreat leader, and writer. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Episcopal Life, and other publications. She is the author of many books, including Let Every Heart Prepare, Some Things You Just Have to Live With, Meditations on the Psalms, The Sewing Room, and others available from Morehouse Publishing.
Download or read book The Practice of Piety written by Lewis Bayly and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of Indulgences written by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exclusive English-language translation of the Manual on Indulgences explains what indulgences are and provides the many devotional prayers associated with them.
Download or read book Let Us Bless the Lord Year Two Easter through Pentecost written by and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning office - the ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, she sits at her computer and sends an email that says simply, "Let us bless the Lord," the traditional closing line of the morning prayer service. Her devoted email readers--having taken part in the ritual themselves-- reply, "Thanks be to God." Crafton communicates with thousands of subscribers to her daily email meditations. They - and others who say the Daily Offices - will treasure this collection of brief meditations. Based on the assigned biblical texts for each day of Year Two's Easter through Pentecost seasons, Crafton's writings complement perfectly the morning, noon, evening, and nighttime prayers that comprise this beautiful tradition.
Download or read book Love is the Way written by Bishop Michael B. Curry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were created by love, for love, to love and to be loved. And we are at our best when we live in God's love. And I believe deep down, it's what we all want. We don't want hatred. We don't want the abyss. We want Beloved Community. The way of love is how to live it. When Prince Harry married Meghan Markle in 2018, two billion people watched around the world. For one brief moment, love recreated the cosmos, the world came together. And the Bishop Michael Curry preached his revolutionary sermon on the power of love. In this book, Bishop Curry shares his deep faith that characterised that cultural moment: the way of love. It is the underappreciated, all-but-forgotten understanding of agape, the love that uplifts, liberates and changes the world. Though some might believe the world has to be the same, this way has the power to change things for the better. In his warm and accessible style Bishop Curry holds out the hope of love in troubling times.
Download or read book The Westminster written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season written by Bernard of Clairvaux and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux evoke the inner conversion of the human person who is open to the Word/words, the external conversion that is submission to the obedience of community life, and, finally, the personal recognition of the true nature of the divine Word. This volume contains Saint Bernard's sermons for the liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter. Included are sermons for the Purification, Septuagesima, the feast of Saint Benedict, and the feast of the Annunciation, all of which are interpreted by Bernard in light of the paschal mystery. In the sermons for Lent, especially, one gets to know a more hesitant and searching Bernard than appears in his other liturgical sermons. This volume is the third of a projected five volumes of Bernard's liturgical sermons.
Download or read book The Truth at the Heart of the Lie written by James Carroll and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Courageous and inspiring.”—Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God “James Carroll takes us to the heart of one of the great crises of our times.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve An eloquent memoir by a former priest and National Book Award–winning writer who traces the roots of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal back to the power structure of the Church itself, as he explores his own crisis of faith and journey to renewal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY James Carroll weaves together the story of his quest to understand his personal beliefs and his relationship to the Catholic Church with the history of the Church itself. From his first awakening of faith as a boy to his gradual disillusionment as a Catholic, Carroll offers a razor-sharp examination both of himself and of how the Church became an institution that places power and dominance over people through an all-male clergy. Carroll argues that a male-supremacist clericalism is both the root cause and the ongoing enabler of the sexual abuse crisis. The power structure of clericalism poses an existential threat to the Church and compromises the ability of even a progressive pope like Pope Francis to advance change in an institution accountable only to itself. Carroll traces this dilemma back to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, when Scripture, Jesus Christ, and His teachings were reinterpreted as the Church became an empire. In a deeply personal re-examination of self, Carroll grapples with his own feelings of being chosen, his experiences as a priest, and the moments of doubt that made him leave the priesthood and embark on a long personal journey toward renewal—including his tenure as an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe writing about sexual abuse in the Church. Ultimately, Carroll calls on the Church and all reform-minded Catholics to revive the culture from within by embracing anti-clerical, anti-misogynist resistance and staying grounded in the spirit of love that is the essential truth at the heart of Christian belief and Christian life.
Download or read book The Epworth Era written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story written by Jan Berenstain and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bear cubs are candy-crazy this Easter! But Missus Ursula and some Sunday school students tell the cubs about Jesus’s resurrection and show them that salvation is much sweeter than candy! Includes a sheet of colorful stickers!
Download or read book The Easter Journey Signs of Life written by Waiting for Water and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Easter Journey: Signs of Life - A Study in the Gospel of John is a compelling, biblically centered and life changing study written for small groups, individuals or families who want to deepen their walk with God and engage their faith in the world through the weeks leading to Easter Sunday. This nine week study creatively explores the seven miracles (signs) that Jesus performed in the gospel of John. While the study begins from the Sunday before Ash Wednesday through the Sunday following Easter, it can be used at any time of the year by those who want to make a difference in the world. Written by pastors and leaders from across the United States, this study has the potential to change lives throughout the world. Working with international water organizations (Blood: Water Mission, India Partners, Living Water International, Living Waters for the World, Seeds of Hope International and The Water Project), this study will have a tangible impact in people's lives
