Download or read book Prodigal Confessions written by Britta Lafont and published by Britta LaFont. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parable of the Prodigal Son is a gospel story: in it we see the fall, repentance, redemption, and reconciliation. Many of us have heard this parable our whole lives. Often the Prodigal Story is portrayed as one that pictures the process of Christian salvation...and this is true. It is also true that believers, though adopted into God's family, are prone to wander back to the Pigsty, time and time again. We can find ourselves, much like the sons in the story, squandering relationship with Our Heavenly Father and feeling the pain of separation from Him. The path back to the Father via repentance is a short one, and should be taken on a regular basis. This book explores why Christians, given so much hope, love, and grace, continue to struggle with sin. Like the Gospel Story, each Prodigal's story is filled with hope and grace. God is purposeful. Our struggles are part of the process of leaving behind the old ways and learning to live new lives; it is a process that we cannot fast forward through...this is our refining, our sanctification. God uses our stories for the display of His glory: to demonstrate His power over sin, His wisdom in ordaining our life events, and His unfailing goodness toward us. The Parable of the Prodigal Son is meant to display the Father's character. Our lives are meant to reflect the same truths. Prodigal means extravagant. In our struggles, we can be extravagantly wasteful of God's gift to us of relationship with Him. But the hope of the Christian life is that He doesn't let us stay there. His compassion is active. He meets us on our way back to Him. As we learned more and more to walk in obedience, we are able to share His extravagant generosity with others.
Download or read book Confessions of a Prodigal Son written by Dontae Goodwin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prodigal Church written by Jared C. Wilson and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors want to reach the lost with the good news of Jesus. However, we've too often assumed this requires loud music, flashy lights, and skinny jeans. In this gentle manifesto, Jared Wilson—a pastor who knows what it's like to serve in a large attractional church—challenges pastors to reconsider their priorities when it comes to how they "do church" and reach people in their communities. Writing with the grace and kindness of a trusted friend, Wilson encourages pastors to reexamine the Bible's teaching, not simply return to a traditional model for tradition's sake. He then sets forth an alternative to both the attractional and the traditional models: an explicitly biblical approach that is gospel focused, grace based, and fruit oriented.
Download or read book The Confessions of Saint Augustine written by Saint Augustine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Confessions, Saint Augustine addressed himself eloquently and passionately to the enduring spiritual questions that have stirred the minds and hearts of thoughtful men since time began. Written A.D. 397, The Confessions are a history of the young Augustine's fierce struggle to overcome his profligate ways and achieve a life of spiritual grace. The first ten books of the work relate the story of Augustine's childhood in Numidia; his licentious and riotous youth and early manhood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan; his continuous struggle with evil; his attempts to find an anchor for his faith among the Manicheans and the Neoplatonists; the untiring efforts of his mother, Saint Monnica, to save him from self-destruction; and his ultimate conversion to the Christian faith at the age of thirty-two. The last three books of The Confessions, unrelated to the preceding account of Saint Augustine's early life, are an allegorical explanation of the Mosaic account of Creation. Throughout the work, the narrative, addressed to God, is intersperse with prayers, meditations, and instructions, many of which today are to be found in the liturgies of all sects of the Christian Church. The Confessions constitute perhaps the most moving diary ever recorded of a soul's journey to grace. Appearing midway in Saint Augustine's prodigious body of theological writings, they stand among the most persuasive works of the sinner-turned-priest who was to exercise a greater influence on Christian thought than any of the other Church fathers.
Download or read book The Prodigal Son written by Michael Muller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Confessions of a Prodigal Son written by Gordon Neumann and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mom Heart Moments written by Sally Clarkson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved author Sally Clarkson shares her heart and wisdom for mothers—and offers hope for each day. A mother living well in her God-ordained role is of great beauty and inestimable value to the future history of any generation. Her impact is irreplaceable and necessary to the spiritual formation of children who will be the adults of the next generation. Fun, comfort, humor, graciousness, spiritual passion, compassion for the lost, hospitality, chores, meals, training, life-giving words, hours and hours of listening and playing and praying and reading—all are parts of the mosaic of soul development. Spend the year with Mom Heart Moments, the first devotional by beloved author Sally Clarkson, and discover how as a mother you can draw closer to the heart of God. In a world constantly vying for our attention, it can be easy to get caught up in the chaos. Each day of this beautiful devotional offers encouragement and direction to become the mother God has called you to be.
Download or read book Confessions of a Prodigal written by Les Flake and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Portrait of the Prodigal written by Joseph Nelson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The theme of the prodigal son in Augustine s Confessions written by Leo Charles Ferrari and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL written by Dr. Ope Banwo and published by Dr Ope Banwo. This book was released on 2023-06-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal testimony of a 21st Century Prodigal. His days in the ‘far country’, his Redemption, Restoration and the Problems he encountered from the ‘older brothers’ in the house. One fateful Wednesday morning, the story hit me with such a powerful force that I was speechless for some moments! I had read the story of the prodigal son in the Bible many times before but the story never ministered to me the way it did on this Wednesday morning. All of a sudden, it was as if a switch had been turned on in my head and the story took a whole new line of meaning in my life. The Holy Spirit began to show me that this is the story of my life. The grace extended to the prodigal son in the story is the same type of grace I have received from God and this is the message that the Holy Spirit wants me to testify to: that is, the unlimited grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to the lost, the wayward, the incorrigible and the damned. The Lord stands ready to show His divine favor and grace on all who would dare to return from the wilderness. He dares us to return to Him and see whether He really is just and faithful to forgive us all our iniquities as He promised through His prophets
Download or read book The Confessions of a Prodigal Son written by Damian Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Confessions of a Prodigal Son is my attempt to frame the story that I see now that I had always been writing and it's my aim in these pages to exorcise a few of the demons that inspired its writing and kept it alive for so long."--The foreword, p.11.
Download or read book The Sinner s Return To God written by Rev. Fr. Michael Mueller and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridgement of one of Fr. Mueller's classics. Discusses what causes people to lose the Faith--e.g.; impurity; drunkenness; bad books--giving numerous true stories. Also covers the misapprehension of God's mercy; delay of conversion; how to come back to the Sacraments and why; contrition; the necessity of Confession; the value of General Confession; etc. Really moves the heart--as do all Fr. Mueller's books!
Download or read book Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter written by Sarahbeth Caplin and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up Jewish in a conservative Catholic town, Sarahbeth Caplin fought to create a genuine Jewish identity. But as she tried to observe Jewish rituals, and even considered a call to become a Rabbi, she felt increasingly drawn to Jesus. Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter is a story about the struggle to reconcile two seemingly contradictory sides of yourself. It's a story about leaving what is comfortable and familiar, sacrificing some relationships in the process, in order to find one's true purpose.
Download or read book Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter written by Sarahbeth Caplin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bittersweet twist of fate, I started out “too Jewish” for my Catholic friends in elementary school, but not Jewish enough for the kids I met at summer camp, with their youth group logos and wristbands. In Israel, I didn't feel I had the right to call myself Jewish at all. Now I was too Christian for Jews everywhere, but still too Jewish to completely fit in with my new bible study friends.In my most pessimistic moments, I wonder if I'll never fit in anywhere, with anyone. It's interesting because Christians are called to be pariahs, to go against the ways of this world. But I am a special kind of pariah.
Download or read book When Man Listens written by Cecil Rose and published by carl (tuchy) palmieri. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of an edition published in New York in 1937 by Oxford University Press.
Download or read book Prodigal Daughter s Confessions written by Lorraine McGhee and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love letter to my children, family and friends. Sharing my past failures and accomplishments for all. My life is an open book.
