Download or read book Our Fractured Wholeness written by Diana Ventura and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born with cerebral palsy, Diana Ventura has known brokenness her entire life. Through telling her story, she shares what it means to live with and overcome brokenness of all kinds. As she reflects on her own experience and that of others, Diana offers understanding and insight. There is a mystical path through the landscape of suffering, she says, and those who travel it can find God and healing even in the midst of pain and sadness. Readers who join her on this journey of prayer and faith will be better equipped to meet the everyday challenges of living with brokenness with hope, dignity, and true love.

Download or read book Our Fractured Wholeness written by Diana Ventura and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born with cerebral palsy, Diana Ventura has known brokenness her entire life. Through telling her story, she shares what it means to live with and overcome brokenness of all kinds. As she reflects on her own experience and that of others, Diana offers understanding and insight. There is a mystical path through the landscape of suffering, she says, and those who travel it can find God and healing even in the midst of pain and sadness. Readers who join her on this journey of prayer and faith will be better equipped to meet the everyday challenges of living with brokenness with hope, dignity, and true love.

Download or read book Fractured Into Wholeness written by Susan H Lawrence and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I didn't see it coming. I sat in the darkness of the spare bedroom hours after the man I loved and planned to spend the rest of my life with announced he wanted something different. I was no longer enough.""But I was, and I am enough. I didn't get a choice in how my marriage ended, but I got to choose how I responded. I felt as if my life had exploded into a million pieces. In the consuming darkness, I felt a tiny speck of hope. I chose to trust in the dark what I had learned in the light." We all experience crises. The details differ, but some of the emotions of our experiences are the same. Fractured Into Wholeness is a story of struggle, forgiveness, and redemption. It's messy, and it's authentic. It will encourage and challenge you to take the next best step no matter what is going on in your life."Is God preparing me? Pruning me? Killing me? Healing me? Sometimes it all feels the same.""I can't tie my fractured into wholeness journey into a tidy bow. It's a knotted, frayed gathering of what remains of shredded threads. But it still binds."

Download or read book Good and Beautiful and Kind written by Rich Villodas and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA BESTSELLER • An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience—from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award “A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it.”—Glenn Packiam, pastor and author of Blessed Broken Given We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture. How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls. Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily. In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how… • These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma. • We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence. • The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus. Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

Download or read book Whole and Reconciled written by Al Tizon and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ministry of reconciliation is the new whole in holistic ministry. It must be if the Christian mission is to remain relevant in our increasingly fractured world. This book offers a fresh treatment of holistic ministry that takes the role of reconciliation seriously, rethinking the meaning of the gospel, the nature of the church, and the practice of mission in light of globalization, post-Christendom, and postcolonialism. It also includes theological and practical resources for effectively engaging in evangelism, compassion and justice, and reconciliation ministries. Includes a foreword by Ruth Padilla DeBorst and an afterword by Ronald J. Sider.

Download or read book Help for the Fractured Soul written by Candyce Roberts and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective, real-life strategies, tools, and encouragement for those desiring to help others find healing from severe trauma and discover the Father's truth and love.

Download or read book The Unbroken Wholeness Power of God written by Don Christie and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is all about experiencing the awesome WHOLENESS power of God through a life of discipleship and prayer. The book is a call to get back to the simple basics of the Bible using the wholeness and oneness principles as a guide. In a few of the later chapters the book explores some simple, but remarkable number patterns such as the mathematical constants for light, time, gravity, creation fire, and many more, all of which were encoded in the Psalms 3000 years ago, about 2,900 years before they were known. These simple number patterns such as 19 for electricity, 27 for light, 29 for creation fire, and 38 for gravity, all have 'key words' in the first few verses of the Psalm number that is the same exact number of the math constant. The book also explores a few (ELS) or what is called Equidistant Lette! r Sequences to show hidden codes in the Bible. There also is a unique matrix code for the World Trade Center attack included. Many more interesting Bible numbers that equal modern day scientific theory and fact are found in the Tabernacle of Moses and other places in the Bible. The book brings out the wholeness principles contained in the Bible and how to apply them to your life. The book also validates the fact that the Bible contains the simple mathematical evidence for the existence of God with patterns of numbers that are way beyond chance.

Download or read book Ephesians written by Andrew T. Le Peau and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken marriages, shattered friendships, racial divisions, war between nations—we live in a fractured world. How can the pieces be put back together? In this eleven-session LifeGuide® Bible Study on Ephesians Paul lifts the veil from the future to allow us to see God's plan to unite everyone and everything in Christ. Studying this book will renew your hope.

Download or read book Broken Unto Wholeness written by Marilyn Hansen and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a desire to be used by God as His instrument to bring wounded souls into wholeness through the shed blood of His Son Jesus, by sharing our brokenness with others. We feel sorrowful but blessed when we discover that God can use all things together for the good of those who love Him. Marilyn Hansen is one to encourage others, while struggling to believe that God could make something beautiful out of her own brokenness. Being obedient to God's call, she writes about how He made the broken pieces of her life whole for His glory. It was as though God were saying, "Marilyn, how do you think the world has seen Me? If it wasn't for your brokenness, I couldn't make you whole. I chose you just the way you are. I have allowed you to be broken to make you whole. Be filled with My Spirit. I only ask that you pour yourself out that others might be made whole." As I look back on my life, I feel very blessed that God could take the broken pieces and use them as a testament of His healing power. I wish He had not had to sacrifice His Son for me, but know I also am a sinner in need of His grace. I wish I had known Him earlier in my life, so I could be obedient to Him and fulfill His plan for my life. But by His grace, He has enabled me to be His servant by ministering to other wounded souls through which I can bring honor and glory to Him. He has taken the broken pieces of my life and made something beautiful for His use. His grace is sufficient in meeting my needs and yours. Let us allow Him to use us that He might be glorified by our willingness to be obedient to Him and fulfilling all He has called us to be. Will you allow God to make you Broken Unto Wholeness so He can take you on a journey that others will see and desire to let Him be seen in you? Your life does make a difference because of how He is glorified in your brokenness.

Download or read book Radical Wholeness written by Philip Shepherd and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are persuaded to separate from the body and live in the head. Disconnected from the body’s intelligence, we also disconnect from the wholeness of the present. This schism within us is the primary source of stress not just in our personal lives, but for the systems of the planet. Drawing from neuroscience, anthropology, physics, the arts, myth, personal stories and his experiences helping people around the world to experience wholeness, Philip Shepherd illuminates what true wholeness means and offers practices designed to help readers soften into the intelligence of the body. Radical Wholeness is a call to action: to recover wholeness and experience a new way of being.

Download or read book Stumbling toward Wholeness written by Andrew J. Bauman and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We desire to be transformed, to grow more and more like Christ. But for many of us, our strategies for change don't work. We misperceive God as a judgmental Father, leaving us demoralized and paralyzed by shame. Stumbling toward Wholeness offers a new strategy for spiritual growth and life transformation: regularly returning to the arms of a kind and loving Father. There are many books that explore the parable of the Prodigal Son, but few approach it with the personal vulnerability and psychological insight of Andrew Bauman. Andrew shows how taking the time to identify with each of the brothers in this story can help us come to terms with our own brokenness and the need for God revealed in it. We discover a process of change that applies to each of us and a healing journey that moves us toward the likeness of the Father in how we love the people around us and address the pain others have caused us.

Download or read book Mending My Broken Pieces written by Trina San and published by Victorious You Press. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was raised to keep family secrets. Although it was not a direct command, she knew it was an indirect expectation. She knew what happened in the house, and their lives stayed there, and no one outside could know. Her family was the best to the outside world, but they who lived in the house knew differently. That cycle continued until Trina San was grown and raising her own family.She experienced many challenges in my life, and at times, wanted to quit on herself. Her earliest memory of witnessing domestic violence between her parents shattered her childhood innocence, and those broken pieces stayed broken throughout most of her life. From learning of her mom's diagnosis as being mentally unstable to the teasing about her weight in school to the attempted rape, the promiscuity, and teen pregnancy; to the failed men, the failed marriage, and the lack of self-worth - there was never an end in sight to mending her broken pieces.Trina's knees should have been bloody because she often cried out to God to stop her pain. She wanted her life to be easy, but it wasn't for so many years. The infidelities, lies, fear, doubts, insecurities, and divorce kept shattering the already broken pieces. She finally realized that through all those troublesome times, God was with her even when she did not know it. An incredible story of restoration, Author Trina San's story, Mending My Broken Pieces, will have you sitting on the edge of your seat from the very first page wondering; will the cycle of brokenness ever end?

Download or read book Journey to Wholeness Reflections for Transforming Your Life written by Jean Farish, PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey To Wholeness Reflections for Transforming Your Life is an inspirational book designed to inspire conscious living and serve as a catalyst for transformation. It reflects on the human condition and our yearning for inner harmony and fulfillment as we struggle to return to our innate state of wholeness. Wholeness is a natural and innate state of being. It is ultimate fulfillment. It is a conscious connection to our core being. Life circumstances and experiences often fracture aspects of ourselves and shift us into a different state of reality as we struggle against who we really are. Thus, we find ourselves lost in illusions and false beliefs and must find our way back to our center of wholeness. The challenge is becoming more congruent and connected with the mental, physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspect of ourselves; living well, and ultimately loving ourselves into wholeness...ultimate fulfillment. The book offers a unique and fundamental approach for insightful introspection on topics relevant to our daily existence with reflective thoughts for us to ponder in moments of happiness and those of quiet desperation. Eastern and western principles, practices and creative inspirations from great thinkers of our time on being whole and living well provides a variety of perspectives for personal growth and self-renewal on our journey to wholeness. As we become more knowledgeable of ourselves and aware in our daily lives, and sustain a mindset of conscious living with the realization that each moment presents a fresh opportunity to begin again. The author shares personal perspectives that are meaningful and insightful in the struggle for wholeness. Our labyrinth journey of life takes us out and back home to the place of wholeness wherein lies ultimate fulfillment.

Download or read book Whole written by Steve Wiens and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look around, and you’ll notice: The world is covered with jagged edges. People and places are broken all around us. We were made for better than this: We were made to be whole, and wholly human, to tend a world that is wholly humane. We were made in the image of God. This book is a quest to recover that image in ourselves and our neighbors, to help us all become human and humane again. For Christians who lament the brokenness in themselves, their neighbors, and the world around them, Whole offers a rallying cry to pursue wholeness together.

Download or read book Salmon in the Spring written by Jason Kirkey and published by Hiraeth Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at the end of the Cenozoic Era with the life systems withering away, a surprising creativity appears, a kind of mystical balancing act. The world's spiritual traditions are entering into deeply engaged conversations through which the riches of each are ignited in new ways. With The Salmon in the Spring, Jason Kirkey has boldly carved out his place in this exciting work with his original interpretations of the concepts and stories of ancient Ireland . . . Kirkey's vision speaks directly to our present ecological challenge. Rejecting those nature- denying forms of spirituality that have been used too easily to justify our domestication of the planet, The Salmon in the Spring announces its thrilling spiritual foundation: 'Our wild nature is our soul.' --Brian Swimme, California Institute of Integral Studies

Download or read book The Beauty Chasers written by Timothy D. Willard and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we afford to chase beauty in a world that emphasizes distraction and naked ambition over a lifestyle of wonder and spiritual restfulness? The everyday road of life is littered with the pains of growing up, loving and failing to love, of peace and discord. What is God saying through all the muck of life? God speaks to us through beauty. But to hear his words, we must slow down and listen with our hearts. What would happen if we slowed down and looked at the world and our lives with new eyes? The Beauty Chasers shows us a secret passageway that leads beyond the utility mindset that banished beauty from our hearts. Author Tim Willard gives us a guidebook for discovering how to see the world with fresh eyes and let beauty guide us in life and our relationship with God. The Beauty Chasers will... inspire you to live life as a participant instead of a spectator. guide you toward a life of presence rather than distraction. give you permission to slow down and drink from the well of spiritual rest. refresh your perspective on the "wonder-full" ways of God. help you live like beauty matters. Are you ready to live life to a different cadence? Do you find yourself longing to recapture the wonder in your spiritual journey? Are you willing to walk the path less traveled? If so, then read on, friend.

Download or read book Answered Prayer written by Martinson Sarfo and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayer is a spiritual weapon that God has given to humanity to enable the world to experience His perfect will and glorious Kingdom. When prayer is answered it brings joy to people and glory to God. Answered prayer also motivates more prayer, and generates miracles, which fuel revival and soul winning into the kingdom of God. Furthermore, answered prayer paralyzes satanic forces, and it creates conducive atmospheres for fruitfulness, personal development and church growth. Unfortunately, many people pray and do not receive answers to their prayer because they "e;pray amiss."e; Therefore, they give up praying and just "e;live"e;, accepting whatever comes their way. Prayer must yield results, and for prayer to yield results it must be done right. In Answered Prayer, Rev. Martinson Sarfo provides insight into the dynamics of prayer, and factors that guarantee answered prayer. This book will show you how to pray right and receive answers to your prayers.