Download or read book This Is Our Song written by Janet Wootton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have made an amazing, creative, and prolific contribution to hymnody through the centuries of Christian worship. Excluded from liturgical commissions and denied other opportunities for involvement in the worship of the churches, women were able to express and influence spirituality in the writing of hymns. This influence spreads across the whole range of hymn-writing, including writing for children, which was at one time seen as women's natural place, but also the introduction of new voices through translations; engagement in social campaigns such as temperance and the abolition of slavery; mission and evangelism; and the general development of worshipping life. However, with the exception of the nineteenth century, the voices of women have been largely silenced or marginalized. The "Hymn Explosion" of the 1960s onward almost completely ignored women's writing, and there has only recently been something of a recovery. There is much more to Our Song than people think! This book opens up women's writing from the beginnings of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the development of printing and the rise of popular hymnody to the present day. Living hymn-writers add their voices in a series of biographical "stories," which complete the overarching story of Our Song.

Download or read book The Knickerbacker written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Altarpieces written by Michael D. O'Kelly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire?ies at dawn. . . Winged essences, charred bodies still on ?re. This evocative poetry-essay collection issues a call for a renewed embracement of the readers own expressive self. Weve each a persona to hear --- a voice to resonate through silences of night and the noises of everyday. Life is a mystery hard to crack. We bang it like a door and strum it like a lyre until it opens some new portal through which the voice can authentically sound-out the truths of being human. Thats the happening of this book. Altarpieces have always been artistic creations to conceive lifes sacred space. This book follows that tradition, if rather untraditionally. These pieces speak to hear life on ones own terms; from ones own altar and cathedral. This gathering created a poet-self identity --- called Apokstrophes. The essays join with the poems to conceive poetry and the spiritual quest with a renewed existential-eco-romantic perspective; sounding that quest with both feet grounded on worldly other Planet Earth. The challenge to grasp life at the core is a wrenching-wrestling match with the Other, that ever-present dimension of poetry on lifes path. --- Joining philosophical play with the authenticity of word-pieces as true orients, OKellys book, with many poets helping along the way, has taken up that challenge with unflinching creativity. Want a spiritual adventure? Fly! Take the ride! Oh, the ride! Fins spurred in shivers of hide. Lifes dearness reined in the roll of the tide.

Download or read book Song of Increase written by Jacqueline Freeman and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most joyful emanation produced by a colony of bees is known as the “song of increase”—declaring that the hive is flourishing and the bees are happy in its abundance. Song of Increase takes us inside the world of the honeybee to glean the wisdom of these fascinating creatures with whom humanity has shared a sacred bond for millennia. Within these pages is a bee-centric approach to living with honeybees, rather than advice for simply maximizing the products they provide. Jacqueline Freeman takes us beyond traditional beekeeping and offers a way to work in harmony with honeybees for both their good and ours. “Our way is one of kind observation,” she explains, “where we create supportive homes and fields for bees to live in, as well as tend the heartfelt relationships we form by being together.” Song of Increase focuses on hidden aspects of apiculture that lead us naturally to more sustainable practices. Freeman illuminates the unity consciousness that guides every action in the colony and how this profound awareness can influence the way we see both the natural world and ourselves. Each chapter presents a wealth of information about the life of bees, including Freeman’s personal insights and direct teachings received from the bees themselves.

Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.

Download or read book The Knickerbocker written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Heart The Key to Everything in the Christian Life written by Tim Rowe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need to recover a truth that has been all but lost in modern-day Christianity. It has been buried for too long, and it is too valuable to be forgotten. This life-changing truth is that the heart is the key to everything in the Christian life. The heart is the wellspring of all our actions, emotions, motives, and character. Everything we are, everything we say, and everything we do flows directly from the heart. In The Heart-The Key to Everything in the Christian Life, believers will discover how the heart is central to spiritual growth and how it will help us better reflect the image of Christ in a fallen world. The heart is the key to our service and obedience to the Father. The heart is the key to the purity and depth of our worship, praise, and love of God. It is time the Christian church once again teaches a proper understanding of the heart so that we can fully embrace and manifest the life of Christ within us.

Download or read book Glistenings written by Michael D. O'Kelly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ill find you again, I must, Wild thing presence undying in my mind . . . www.marilynokelly.com

Download or read book This Is My Story This Is My Song written by Sheila Turrentine and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I felt a shift in my grieving as it went from earthly bound to heavenly bound; I could smile at just the thought of the day when I would see her face to face. I no longer cried because I wanted her back in my world, but I looked forward to the day that I would join her in her, new world. My heart-cry was gone and replaced with the peace of knowing that this earthly life is just a vapor of our existence. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all day long! This line was continuously going through my thoughts as I began this book about the unexpected loss of Emilie, my 18-year-old daughter, in a tragic accident. I lay open my heart and share the good, bad, and ugly of the whole emotional process. I cannot even fathom where or who I would be right now if I had no faith in God and his heart-healing power. Most of all, I want people to know that with Jesus they are not alone in their grief.

Download or read book In Christ Alone written by Stuart Townend and published by Shawnee Press (TN). This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Glory Sound Simply Sacred). The increasing treasury of modern hymns and sacred songs by Keith and Kristyn Getty and collaborator Stuart Townend are explored in this new resource designed for choirs of any level. Many of this writing team's biggest successes are included, all lovingly adapted by some of our most gifted arrangers. Music for the entire church year is contained in this collection. Transcending stylistic boundaries, the music and message are home in both contemporary-styled worship venues and traditional programs. Creative instrumental adornments offer additional options for performance while sensitive arranging make this compilation accessible to choirs of any size. Available separately: SAB, Listening CD, Preview Pack (Book/CD Combo), 10-Pack Listening CDs, Instrumental CD-ROM (Score & parts for flute, penny whistle, oboe, acoustic guitar, electric bass, drum set, percussion, violin 1 & 2, viola, cello *Note, instrumentation varies on each song), StudioTrax CD (Accompaniment Only), SplitTrax CD.

Download or read book Out of My Ashes I Will Rise written by Wanda Kidd and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanda D. Kidd is an Author, Evangelist, Seminarian and Facilitator with a passionate message of empowerment for life! She enlightens the heart and illuminates the mind with powerful messages of truth in self-evaluation, accountability, spiritual authority and the renewal of the mind. These provoking messages ultimately lead open hearts to healing, deliverance and life change. This reading is a riveting and powerful work that not only ignites the minds of the readers bringing them to a place of empowerment, but it also brings them to healing, restoration, wholeness and newness. The revelation knowledge of Jesus' mission statement is unfolded: "...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." No matter where the challenges of life have positioned you at this time, you do not have to stay there! This book invites you to rise up out of your ashes, take back your life, move forward and be made whole in every area of your life! The question is...Are you ready for a life change?

Download or read book Our Song written by Casey Peeler and published by Casey Peeler. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle Montgomery is a small town Carolina girl. She leaves her simple life, family, and friends behind to open for the one and only country music mega star, Jake Bryant. With a break in their tour, sparks are bound to fly when Jake visits the small Podunk town of Lattimore. That is until Belle's long-time friend Chase McSwain makes his feelings known. Will sparks fly between Belle and Jake, or will Chase extinguish them before they start?

Download or read book Mishkan T filah written by Central Conference of American Rabbis/CCAR Press and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jewish Cooking Boot Camp written by Dr Andrea Marks Carneiro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight from the kitchen of a fun, fabulous Jewish mom, Jewish Cooking Boot Camp is a guide to whipping up traditional favorites for a new generation. Handed down over the centuries, these recipes and tips will take even the most kitchen-challenged gal (or guy) confidently through the Jewish holidays, Shabbats, and other important occasions (like having a significant other's mother over for dinner). In addition to more than fifty easy-to-make, scrumptious, traditional (and nontraditional) recipes, Roz and Andrea provide expert tips from Jewish bartenders, nutritionists, and party planners; interviews with rabbis about creating modern family traditions; inspirational traditions from Jewish families around the globe; kosher wine pairings—and much more. Jewish Cooking Boot Camp takes every last ounce of intimidation out of Jewish cooking while serving up a hearty helping of family, culture, and other flavors to savor.

Download or read book Our Song HeartStrings A Steamy Emotional Rockstar Romance written by Savannah Kade and published by Griffyn Ink. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever fallen for one of the boys in the band? JD has bet everything on getting his band Wilder off the ground. Then he inherits a five-year-old daughter he didn’t know he had. Can he let his neighbor Kelsey help him out? Even though he dreams of her at night, he can keep things strictly friendly… right? Craig’s one night stand at a friend’s wedding has turned into three. But then Shay is gone. When he finally tracks her down months later, she’s holding her life together with duct tape and hope. What she doesn’t know is that so is he. Can two wounded souls heal each other? Fall hard for the men in Wilder. You’ll cheer with their successes and cry with the let-downs. Boy next door, single dad, broken hearts, and more will take you through two book series starter by Maggie Award winner Savannah Kade. “The perfect mix of Sexy and Sweet!” – Liliana Hart, New York Times bestselling author. Start reading Our Song, now!

Download or read book American Monthly Knickerbocker written by Charles Fenno Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Song written by Sande Schones and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Song takes you on the journey of a cancer survivor documenting her struggle with fear, and her profound faith and trust in God.