Download or read book Reflected Love written by Christopher Basil Brown and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing four contemporary companioning narratives into dialogue with gospel descriptions of Jesus' encounters with people, this book demonstrates how wonderfully diverse interpersonal ministry--pastoral care, counselling, chaplaincy, mentoring, spiritual companioning, and spiritual direction--is active participation in his shepherding, healing, restorative, and guiding purposes. Jesus' invitation, as the true shepherd, master guide, and companion, is to embody and reflect his humble, life-giving, and restorative dynamic. With the essence of his way encapsulated in the words, "Come unto me" (Matt 11:28-30), and gospel accounts opening to us his person and his interpersonal dynamic, we are invited and gifted to offer to pilgrims profound respect as persons created in the likeness of God; the accompaniment of a gentle and humble heart; welcoming and sacred spaces; relational solidarity; creative and often non-directive entry points into the deeper rhythms and flows of their human experience (noting Jesus' use of metaphor, imagery, enlivened imagination, parable, paradox, wakefulness, and attentiveness to the everyday); and, the prayerful attentiveness that will guide them to find rest for their souls. The encouragement is to get on the road with this master guide-companion and experience his kingdom breaking through, in, and around the lives of pilgrims and their companions.
Download or read book Love Warrior written by Glennon Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club 2016 Selection "Riveting...a worthy investment...this book has real wisdom." --New York Times Book Review "A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who's ever married or plans to marry should really give it a read." -- Chicago Tribune "Provocative... I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too." -- Oprah Winfrey "This memoir isn't really about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with her husband; it is about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with herself. Utterly refreshing and... badass." -- Bustle.com A memoir of betrayal and self-discovery by bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are all born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.
Download or read book Swimming With The Whale written by Daniel Joseph and published by Daniel Joseph Gobin. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swimming with the Whale is an introduction to the teachings and practices of Daskalos and the Researchers of Truth. In this book the reader will witness the Miracles, Wonders and Healings made possible by some of the most advanced teachings on God, Man and the Nature of Reality available anywhere. Volume one of Diving with the Whale will describe in detail the higher dimensions of reality that scientist are now calling Parallel Universes. These higher worlds of different dimensions are the very places we are destined to travel through after the death of our material body. And during our sojourns through the worlds of the 3rd, 4th and 5th dimension we are constantly changing as a personality. This transformation impulse to change and awaken is what drives our “spiritual evolution”. Volume one also reveals the underlying dynamics that gives us satisfaction or misery in life; and provides practical teachings and practices that will enable us to reduce our suffering and increase our contentment in life. This book will also show how destructive and constructive forces are influencing our family as well as all nations. This Volume concludes with an insightful examination of the role a clean heart plays in our spiritual awakening.
Download or read book Finding God in a World Come of Age written by Roger Haight and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his days in prison in Berlin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer had time to read and reflect on the Enlightenment and to ask the question of how Christians might live in a world come of age. One can interpret Karl Rahner’s theological and pastoral writing as addressing that question. Born in 1904, he lived through both World Wars to a ripe age of 80 and wrote 1651 published works. Although his writing had a unique historical genesis and intellectual setting, along with a technical vocabulary, he consistently wrote out of pastoral concern in an effort to make Christian faith and belief credible in his Western European culture and the new post–WWII context. Probably his most important student was Johann Baptist Metz who was born in Germany 1928, conscripted into the army as a teenager, and after it, turned to the seminary and to theology. He studied with Rahner in Innsbruck and received his doctorate in theology in 1961 and taught at the University of Münster for thirty years. As Dorothee Soelle converted Bultmann’s existential analysis into social commitments, so did Metz give new social meaning to Rahner’s “transcendental” theology in a time of social cataclysm. Thus, together, Rahner and Metz, not in competition but as complementary, offer a distinctive response to the spiritual question of finding God in the present-day secular world.
Download or read book The Unfortunate Death of James Douglas O Flaherty written by Miles Hunt and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Romantic Psychedelic Revolutionary written by David Nazar and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A barefoot hippie on probation encounters a debutante on a streetcar in New Orleans and falls in love. Thus begins an amazing adventure. There are miraculous escapes, incredible coincidences, and the story of one young man's journey for Goldwater conservative to radical LSD revolutionary - from rational materialism to mysticism - from fast food to natural food. If you have ever been curious about what it was really like to be a hippie, and what motivated the movement," The Romantic Psychedelic Revolutionary" is for you. And it is all completely true.
Download or read book Swimming With the Whale Second Edition written by Daniel Joseph and published by Uriel Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve Baskets Full written by Sibyl Marvin Huse and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharpening the Focus of the Church written by Gene A. Getz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S ALL HERE The purpose of the church. The growth of the church through proper edification. New Testament principles of administration and organization. Communication of the principle of New Testament evangelism. The effects of the church on the world. The effects of the world on the church. How culture affects the church. How the church should affect culture. How to formulate objectives, goals, and standards in order to be a true New Testament church.
Download or read book Marion and Derrida on The Gift and Desire Debating the Generosity of Things written by Jason Alvis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the various encounters between Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida on “the gift,” considers their many differences on “desire,” and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys to some of phenomenology’s most pressing structural questions, especially regarding “deconstructive” approaches within the field. The book claims that the topic of desire is a central lynchpin to understanding the two thinkers’ conflict over the gift, for the gift is reducible to the “desire to give,” which initiates a turn to the topic of “generosity.” To what degree might loving also imply giving? How far might it be suggested that love is reducible to desire and intentionality? It is demonstrated how Derrida (the generative “father” of deconstruction) rejects the possibility of any potential relation between the gift and desire on the account that desire is bound to calculative repetition, economical appropriation, and subject-centered interests that hinder deconstruction. Whereas Marion (a representative of the phenomenological tradition) demands a unique union between the gift and desire, which are both represented in his “reduction to givenness” and “erotic reduction.” The book is the first extensive attempt to contextualize the stark differences between Marion and Derrida within the phenomenological legacy (Husserl, Heidegger, Kant), supplies readers with in-depth accounts of the topics of the gift, love, and desire, and demonstrates another means through which the appearing of phenomena might be understood, namely, according to the generosity of things.
Download or read book Love s Redeeming Work written by Geoffrey Rowell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a rich vein of writing within Anglican tradition that has helped to form the theology and spirituality of the contemporary church. For many readers, much of this material remains unfamiliar and is often difficult to access. Love's Redeeming Work draws together the works of major writers from the sixteenth century to the present day who have contributed to this development. Each selected writer is introduced with a brief biography, which gives background information about the author, and highlights the relationships that existed with others from the same period. This will enable the reader to set the writings in their proper context, enhancing understanding of the material. The selections then follow. In some instances these may be familiar, but other examples will introduce fresh ideas for every reader. Each writer's selection is concluded with a list of source texts, which can encourage readers to explore in more depth those areas which intrigue and excite them. Love's Redeeming Work traces a path that has enabled Anglicanism in particular, and the wider church as well, to develop an ever-deepening awareness of the need for a spiritual depth in the Christian life informed by a better knowledge of tradition. In exploring this material, it is the compilers' hope that readers will find new riches that will encourage and sustain their own quest for holiness.
Download or read book Devotions of the Heart written by Lorna Hanishewski and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devotions of the Heart, Book One is the first book in a two-book series. It contains six months’ worth of devotionals, written from the acquired wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of scripture that Lorna has obtained through times of prayer, praise, and study of God’s Word. Each devotional touches on a wide range of topics that are sure to uplift your soul and inspire you to develop a closer relationship with the Lord as you read and meditate. Topics include: Prayer Praise God’s Presence Leading by the Spirit Freedom in Christ Hope Overcoming fear, sorrow, and grief Be encouraged and uplifted as Devotions of the Heart helps you develop even greater intimacy with the Lord.
Download or read book Who Dies written by Stephen Levine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book that explains how to open to the immensity of living with death—and how participating fully in life is the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. In Who Dies?, the Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death.
Download or read book The Spoken Word written by Zuriel Ann Murphy and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many struggle to live a victorious life as a result of their ignorance of the potency, which the Spoken Word carries. Challenges are made to be faced, but it is only revelation and incessant confession of Gods Word that is capable of making any man triumphant. The Spoken Word is 365 days devotional, exploring all areas of life, and revealing the power of God to heal, transform, enrich and bless. This devotional is released by God in this season to satisfy the hunger of men, heal the broken hearted, liberate the captives, and empower the weak. Who would ever believe that the wisest man Solomon, was born out of the erroneous affair of David and Bathsheba? In this case, the author recounts, From the shells of total shame, and from the marrows of the utmost disgrace, God can still birth fame When you think all is over, and when you have given up to an ill fate; God will start something fabulously new in your life.
Download or read book Faith in the Marketplace written by Samuel Lee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary missions often include evangelistic and socio-economic dimensions. For effective missions, some way of assessing what is being achieved is needed beyond just the common metrics touching on the spiritual and/or economic which neglects social transformation that ideally should also be occurring. This book seeks to identify key factors for holistic evaluation based on salient characteristics that emerged as three Entrepreneurial Church Planting sites were studied in San Francisco (Redeemer Community Church), Selma, Alabama (Blue Jean Church), and Lynch, Kentucky (Meridzo Ministries). What emerges from these case studies is the importance of relationality, general emphasis on growth and development, and a well-established focus on holistic transformation. The mechanisms for the operation of holistic transformation are spelled out to reflect the operation of the three actors of the Trinity in missions. The practical component of the book is the conceptual framework that reveals the operation of holistic transformation and ways to measure the dynamic relationships that occur.
Download or read book The Source Adventure written by Janet McClure and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is discovery, and this book is a journey of discovery to learn to grow, to recognize the opportunities: to be aware. It asks the big question, "Why am I here?" and leads the reader to examine the most significant questions of a lifetime.
Download or read book Science Reports of the T hoku University written by Tōhoku Daigaku and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: