Download or read book Necessary Breaking Points Staying Connected with God During Crises written by Frances P. Wilson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has struggles, but wishes they did not. This of course is not reality, but many still try to avoid them. They soon discover, however, that the very issues they try to avoid only increase, creating obstacles. Some try to get around the obstacles, only to encounter new ones. There is no way around obstacles, so it is back to square one. In seeking solutions for health issues, we usually seek the services of medical personnel. Generally, we learn best from those who had similar experiences, and have learned to handle, though not necessarily overcame them. There are no easy answers, nor solutions to issues we face, but we tend to listen to those who have firsthand experience. It does not mean that the answers are easier, but such individuals have more credibility. Ohers can learn from them, that they can handle the issues they are facing.
Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
Download or read book At the Breaking Point written by Jim Long and published by Campus Life Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken For A Blessing written by Paul Hillman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the trials and broken pieces you went through in life did not come to break you; they only came to make you. Since you did not break down, it is now time for you to break through. Every trials and broken pieces that you went through in life means that they did not come to kill you but to shape you. Whatever does not break you only comes to make you. If you did not break down, this is your time to break through. God is only using your pieces to make up your pages. Every broken piece of your life will make up the pages to your chapter. Someone is trying to make it through the trials and pieces that you already went through. Your trails and pieces will be their guiding tools and the road map that will build the bridge for their crossing over. You were broken not only to be blessed; you were broken to be a blessing to someone's life. There are some people who were lifted to get to the top while there are some who had to climb ropes and rocks to get there. The ones who had to climb understood that life is defined by what you went through and the ways in which you survived. This means that whatever comes to defy you only comes to define who you are on the inside. Your test will be your testimonies, and all the mess that you went through will be used by God for your messages. Jesus was broken as the living bread, broken to save lives. This means your brokenness will bring healing and restoration. For those going through a brokenness, you will be coming out whole. This book is a guideline with tools that will help you in your journey to recovery.
Download or read book Identity Crisis written by Tristan J. Tolbert and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to a younger version of myself. There have been countless days where I have questioned my sanity, individuality, spirituality, faith, purpose, and destiny. I put my trust in people who failed me. I believed in people who did not believe in themselves. I have cried and wanted to give up. But God has been faithful. Just when I thought it was over... God stepped in right on time and delivered me out of my pit. I pray the testimonies I share with you will enable and strengthen your relationship with God. It is not up to us individually to be who God created us to become. But we are many members but one body in Christ!
Download or read book First Belong to God written by Austen Ivereigh and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is not a time to hunker down and lock our doors. I see clearly that the Lord is calling us out of ourselves, to get up and walk.” —From the Foreword by POPE FRANCIS Drawing on the wisdom of Pope Francis and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Austen Ivereigh has written a captivating spiritual guide for our turbulent age. Designed as an eight-day Ignatian retreat, First Belong to God serves as a roadmap to deeper discipleship. It does this by focusing on the three foundational forms of belonging: to God, to creation, and to others. Structured around the core principles of St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, First Belong to God encapsulates the key aspects of the Francis pontificate: the essence of being “God-belonging” entities the way God’s mercy challenges our self-reliance the journey to building the Kingdom in the footsteps of Christ heeding the cry of the earth and the stranger striving for fraternity by championing synodality Whether you’re embarking on a solitary spiritual expedition or a journey with like-minded individuals, First Belong to God offers the next best thing to a personal retreat with Pope Francis: a full-soul immersion into his wisdom via the classic Jesuit retreat that shaped him so profoundly.
Download or read book God in the Midst of Thorns written by Christopher Talley and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher and Hilda Talley were living what they thought was the American dream. They had two beautiful and healthy daughters, a comfortable home, cars, clothes, food on the table, a wonderful faith community, and two terrific jobs they loved. They played at life just as hard as they worked for their lifestyle, traveling in the United States and to foreign lands as often as possible. But in 1999, that all came crashing down. Hilda went from a happy and healthy person to someone who struggles for every breath she takes, after an inadequately trained pesticide tech came into her office. Two minutes after he left, she was fighting for her life. The chemical permanently damaged her lungs and vocal cords and led to two debilitating diseases: reactive airways dysfunction syndrome and vocal cord dysfunction. Their family life changed instantly. In God in the Midst of Thorns, Christopher and Hilda share their story, a story intertwined with the testament of God’s love and the power of Christian community, as they began their journey of learning to live a new normal. The Talleys discuss how, in their struggle for understanding, they both found a new and deeper relationship with God.
Download or read book The Memory Box written by Tyra Garlington and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End is the Beginning Tyra Garlington woke one morning dizzy, disoriented, and alone on the bathroom floor. Her pain was excruciating and she could barely breathe. Unable to move or call for help, she soon closed her eyes and surrendered to what she believed was the inevitable. What happened next would change her forever. The Memory Box is a story of how one woman came to truly know and live the promise of Gods grace that had always been with heras she was beaten practically to death in the 1960s south, as her beloved parents died both from cancer, and as she had to say goodbye to the disappointment that was her marriage. It is a series of reflections that give hope to anyone experiencing abuse, betrayal, clinical depression, or loss. In her brokenness, Garlington found peace and a way to move on to live a brilliant life full of giving, of helping others understand the power of knowing that you are not your circumstances and that Gods grace is there to uphold you and propel you forward in ways unimaginable. When your heart attacks you violently and unexpectedly, you pray. As you struggle, you realize that Gods presence, power, protection and provision is there to sustain you. Tyra Garlington found the secret to his infinite gracethat its timeless promise came shining through was more than amazingit was sufficient. Her story is her gift to you. To receive it, please open your heart and hear Gods message of grace for you.
Download or read book Living with the Wind in Your Face written by Edward Powell and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Living With the Wind in Your Face!" Ed Powell challenges readers to trust God unreservedly in order to stand strong against the opposing winds of a secular self-absorbed society. He warns us of the consequences of compromise but reminds us of the rewards of discipleship. - Doug Salser, President Literature Ministries International, Greenville, TX. I have used Edward Powell's devotional books in my own devotions and found them insightful, Biblically sound, and uplifting ... a reflection of the life and pilgrimage of Edward Powell. I recommend them highly to my friends everywhere. - G. L. Johnson, Senior Pastor People's Church, Fresno, CA. "These devotions communicate Biblical truth and personal faith ... [and] are insightful and thought provoking. They challenge the reader to examine their walk with Christ and stimulate each one to journal personal reflections on scriptures read." -Dr. William B. Coker, Pastor World Gospel Church, Terre Haute, IN. "Clear, concise, easy reading! Scriptural and inspired by the Holy Spirit, these devotions give the reader a deeper understanding of the love and grace God has for you." -Jay Blint, Business Consultant Holly Lake Ranch, TX. EDWARD POWELL, A "miracle" of God's grace, was critically wounded in WW II when both forearms and leg were almost blown off be shrapnel from German artillery. He spent two and a half years in Army hospitals recovering as doctors rebuilt his arms and leg. For 6o years he has taught God's Word, spoken in churches, civic groups and of God's grace, sufficiency and faithfulness. He has written three companion books of devotions entitled Dare To Believe, Dare To Trust and Dare To Walk.
Download or read book Not by Sight written by Jon Bloom and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trusting Jesus is hard. It requires following the unseen into an unknown, and believing Jesus's words over and against the threats we see or the fears we feel. Through the imaginative retelling of 35 Bible stories, Not by Sight gives us glimpses of what it means to walk by faith and counsel for how to trust God's promises more than our perceptions and to find rest in the faithfulness of God.
Download or read book Breaking Open the Word of God written by Karan Hinman Powell and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three in a three-part series that functions as a pastoral tool for sharing the word of God; focuses on Cycle C and emphasizes using the lectionary in catechesis throughout the year.
Download or read book Ethics in Crisis written by David Clough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in Crisis offers a constructive proposal for the shape of contemporary Christian ethics drawing on a new and persuasive interpretation of the ethics of Karl Barth. David Clough argues that Karl Barth’s ethical thought remained defined by the theology of crisis that he set out in his 1922 commentary on Romans, and that his ethics must therefore be understood dialectically, caught in an unresolved tension between what theology must and cannot be. Showing that this understanding of Barth is a resource for contemporary constructive accounts of Christian ethics, Clough points to a way beyond the idolatry of ethical absolutism on the one hand, and the apostasy of ethical postmodernism on the other.
Download or read book Between Magisterium and Marketplace written by Robert C. Saler and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship of the church to theology? How does the church relate to the work of creative theological authorship, particularly when authors propose novel claims? The author takes up these challenging and provocative questions and argues for a fresh ecclesiology of the church as event, specifically as a diffusively spatialized event.
Download or read book Spiritual Crisis written by J Lebron Mcbride and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s no revelation that in today’s world many people suffer from some form of spiritual crisis. But, fortunately, there is hope. In Spiritual Crisis: Surviving Trauma to the Soul, you’ll discover how you can reverse the impact of spiritual crisis and apply healing balm to the traumatized soul. A comprehensive, real-life approach to spiritual care, it gives you the understanding necessary to put a lid on the daily chaos that seeks to destroy those whose lives have been shattered by tragedy, terror, and disillusionment. Written from the perspective of a compassionate professional who has navigated the dark and turbulent waters of his own spiritual crises, Spiritual Crisis represents a loving cross-section of aid from the fields of pastoral theology, psychology, and health care. Christians and non-Christians alike will benefit from its frank approach to aiding troubled souls through the tough times of belief transition, loss of faith, and potentially damaging extremes in living and thinking. Specifically, you’ll read about: understanding the effects and roots of spiritual crisis and trauma coping with loss counteracting disillusionment with the church negotiating belief transitions dealing with religious burnout intervening in denominational identity crises Oftentimes, it’s hard to know what will make a loved one survive or succumb to the impact of seemingly insurmountable personal emergencies. However, this book is a “call to care” that will enable you to help others turn back the tide of debilitating hardship in their lives and restore the tempering unity of mind and body. Whether you’re a beginning pastoral counselor, a marriage and family therapist, or friend of a troubled loved one, Spiritual Crisis will show you and those you work with how to turn crisis into care.
Download or read book Cold Fusion written by Gennady Barabtarlo and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While historical and political aspects of the Russo-German relationship over the past three to four centuries have received due attention from scholars, the range of the far more diverse, important, and peculiar cultural relations still awaits full assessment. This volume shows how enriching these cultural influences were for both countries, affecting many spheres of intellectual and daily life such as philosophy and religion, education and ideology, sciences and their application, arts and letters, custom and language. The German-Russian relationship has always been particularly intense. Oscillating as it has between infatuation and contempt, it has always been marked by a singular paradox: a German cultural presence in Russia resulting either in a more or less complete fusion, as in the case of Russifield German, or in a pronounced mutual repulsion, accompanied by the denigration of each other's culture as inferior. It is this curious paradox that determines the perspectives of the articles that were specially written for this volume, providing it with a unifying focus.
Download or read book A Christian Theology on Man s Need of Redemption God s Redemptive Purpose and Christ s Redemptive Work written by Dr. John Thomas Wylie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication, “A Christian Theology On Man’s Need Of Redemption, God’s Redemptive Purpose And Christ’s Redemptive Work,” is proposed to cover commonly three points in the field of Christian doctrine. I understand the treatment is insufficient. The idea of the subject blocks sufficiency. Who could give a sufficient treatment to such a subject? There are radical and quick changes occurring in the field of theology. One endeavors the supposition that the vast majority of the progressions are currently the correct way. Men are turning their contemplations toward the need and reality of revelation, of man’s wrongdoing (sin) and powerlessness of both the individual and social disappointment of man without God, of the sufficiency of God’s grace for man’s need, and of the centrality of Jesus Christ and his saving work for mankind’s history. The matter of Christian religious theology is to analyze and set out as exactly as possible, precisely as could be allowed; how God saves men in this truly evil world, not to hypothesize about what God would have done in an entirely different sort of world. It ought to be recalled that theology is concerned, first, last and constantly, with the character of God. Theology is concerned about nothing else other than to express how God saves men in an evil world. Man does not live by bread alone. It is increasingly essential that man have something to live for than that he have something to live on; and existence without God isn’t true life. Present day man needs to confront that reality and acknowledge it. No mention of the work of the “Holy Spirit,” is mentioned for it is covered in a previous publication, entitled: “The Holy Spirit.” Finally, Reverend Dr. Wylie is devoted to publishing books that spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, helping Christians to live as per that gospel, advance restoration, revival in the church, give testimony regarding Jesus Christ, Christian Unity and Fellowship in Christian Love.
Download or read book Cold Fusion written by Геннадий Барабтарло and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant German communities existed in Russia for three centuries until the Bolshevik revolution gradually extirpated their presence. These 18 papers explore a number of cultural influences that the German presence had on Russian letters, art, architecture, music, and other cultural pursuits. Spe.
