Download or read book Your Life Still Counts written by Tracie Miles and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God still has a plan for you--not in spite of your past, but because of it! Do regret and shame over your failures, sins, and shortcomings make you wonder how you could ever be loved, much less used, by a holy God? Tracie Miles felt the same way until she discovered the path to healing, peace, and significance. She helps you recognize that God not only has a purpose for you, but He has prepared you for your divine purpose based specifically on the experiences of your past. Through her own story and stories from other women who have discovered God's purpose for their lives because of adverse experiences, Tracie helps you see how God can turn pain into purpose. You will find forgiveness and healing from the troubles of your past, discover the courage to step out of your comfort zone to help others find hope and strength, and be inspired to step into the beautiful future God divinely designed for you. "No matter what you've been through or what's been done to you, if you're still breathing, God isn't finished with you yet! Let Tracie Miles help you discover your calling and the way you are uniquely equipped to make your life count!" --Renee Swope, bestselling author of A Confident Heart and Proverbs 31 Ministries' radio cohost, "Everyday Life with Lysa & Renee"

Download or read book Hope Prevails written by Dr. Michelle Bengtson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuropsychologist Offers Hope to Those Struggling with Depression As a board-certified neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Bengtson sees the devastation of depression. Early on, she practiced the most effective treatments and prescribed them for her clients. But when she experienced depression herself, she found that the treatments she had recommended were lacking. Her experience showed her the missing component in treating depression. In Hope Prevails, Dr. Bengtson writes with deep compassion, blending her training and faith, to offer readers a hope grounded in God's love and grace. She helps readers understand what depression is, how it affects them spiritually, and what, by God's grace, it cannot do. The result is an approach that offers the hope of release, not just the management of symptoms. For those who struggle with depression and those who want to help them, Hope Prevails offers hope for the future.

Download or read book Who s Minding the Story written by Jeff Seaton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's Minding the Story? examines the trajectory of the United Church of Canada since its heyday in the mid-1960s. Jeff Seaton argues that the denomination accepted the criticisms leveled at it by proponents of secular theology in the 1960s and made sweeping changes to its practices, its presentation of the Christian story, and its engagement with the world. Seaton argues that these "adjustments," which continue to exert strong influence in the denomination today--as witnessed in the approaches of influential contemporary United Church leaders John Pentland and Gretta Vosper--have seriously weakened the United Church's Christian identity and contributed to its decline. Engaging the work of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor in his magisterial volume A Secular Age, Seaton questions the assumptions that undergird secular theology. The book concludes with an invitation to the United Church to make a course correction by reengaging with the Christian tradition while maintaining its commitment to social justice, in a formulation Seaton names "progressive orthodoxy."

Download or read book Remember Whose You Are written by Bob Burney and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember Whose You Are! will reveal to you that: God's grace is greater than any sin. God's grace is a greater motivator to grow, change, and mature than guilt. God's grace and sovereignty are greater than any circumstance or enemy you will face. God is at work in your life whether you can see what He is doing or not. God has good plans and a future for your life awaiting your surrender. Start reading today and discover your real identity! We've got an identity problem in America - especially in the Evangelical community. I have found throughout my ministry that few people really understand who they are, spiritually. Bob Burney addresses this problem in his new book Remember Whose You Are! I believe that anyone who reads this book will be encouraged in a powerful way to see their relationship with Christ in a new way. -Fred Luter Pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans President of the Southern Baptist Convention Just look around and you will discover that many Christians are facing an identity crisis. Bob Burney deals with this problem head-on in his new book. In Remember Whose You Are! This book unveils the powerful strategy that the Apostle Paul used to bring about an incredible revival in the carnal church at Corinth. You will never be the same once you understand, "Whose you are." -Dr. Robert Jeffress Senior Pastor First Baptist Church Dallas, TX

Download or read book The Gift of Administration written by Donald Senior and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his First Letter to the Corinthians Paul cites "administrators" as one of God's gifts to the Christian community (1 Cor 12:28). But many who serve in administrative service today have difficulty seeing how their everyday work is an expression of discipleship. This book, written by an experienced administrator and noted biblical scholar, shows how the various functions of institutional administration are deeply rooted in the Scriptures and are a genuine expression of our call to discipleship. Leadership, mission statements and planning, finances and fund raising, personnel issues, communications, and public relations--all of these seemingly "secular" activities serve to build up the Body of Christ and deserve to be recognized as authentic Christian ministry. To see administrative service as a biblically rooted gift can help those involved in this way of life to find deeper and more satisfying spiritual meaning in what they do.

Download or read book Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered written by James C. Wilhoit and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on spiritual formation focus on the individual. But spiritual formation is at the heart of the church's whole purpose for existence. It must be a central task for the church to carry out Christ's mission in the world. This book offers an introduction to spiritual formation set squarely in the local church. The first edition has been well received and widely used as a textbook. The second edition has been updated throughout, incorporates findings from positive psychology, and reflects an Augustinian formation perspective. Foreword by Dallas Willard.

Download or read book Rooted written by Lara Williams and published by New Hope Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted offers study participants the opportunity to experience the transformative power of love as revealed in the Book of Ephesians. Written in an easy-to-use format, the conversational style and questions help participants uncover the daily significance in their life of God’s love coming down. Participants will be inspired to let God’s love flow out of them in fresh, new, and authentic ways to a broken world—even to those people who sometimes may be difficult to love.

Download or read book Nelson s Annual Preacher s Sourcebook Volume 2 written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preach great sermons and plan innovative worship services with the newest edition of Nelson’s Annual Preacher’s Sourcebook. This volume is the same sermon planner you have come to depend on for more than ten years. Outstanding pastors provide an entire year’s worth of preaching and worship resources for every week. Look for a new volume every fall. Features include: Sermons, creative outlines, illustrations, and quotes for every week of the year Worship helps, including hymns, prayers, and Scripture texts Inspirational thoughts and preaching techniques Sermons for special occasions and holidays Nelson's Annual Preacher's Sourcebooks sold to date: More than 135,000

Download or read book The Witness a Religious Tract By the Author of The Last Day of the Week written by Eliza Cheap and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Manual of Family and Private Devotions Being a Series of Reflections on the More Practical Portions of the Word of God and a Prayer for the Morning and Evening of Every Day in the Year written by Daniel Dewar and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sermons addressed to a Country Congregation together with three preached before the University of Cambridge in January 1851 written by Edward Thornton CODD and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Postils for Preaching written by John Rollefson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postils for Preaching repristinates an old term for commentaries on the appointed texts by assisting preachers in their time-honored calling of preaching the Word. "Post illa," some think, probably refers to the reflecting "after this" (meaning upon the texts) that preachers must do in the context of the lives of their congregations and larger communities. These essays do not aim to be sermons but sermon-starters, goads and incitements to consider the assigned texts with serious imagination and good humor, all in the context of the church year and its inter-textual connections. The intention of this publication is to dip into a lifetime of that exegetical and homiletical "bag of tricks" as Jesus himself obliquely recommended when he noted how "every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old" (Matt 13:52). Please consider these postils a "thesaurus" ("treasury") from which to borrow insights, references, and allusions as needed and found of value.

Download or read book Finding Bethlehem in the Midst of Bedlam Adult Study written by James W. Moore and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas or confusion, Bethlehem or Bedlam... Which will you choose this year? The truth is, we don’t have to choose, because Christmas always happens right in the midst of our confusion. God breaks into our confusion and makes himself known. Christmas and confusion--weren’t they intimately related at the first Christmas when Jesus was born? Sometimes we forget that. But, that’s what this book is about--how Christ breaks into our chaos and confusion and brings Christmas--how Bethlehem always happens in the midst of bedlam. This thematic Advent study for 2013 has five sessions--one for each Sunday of Advent and one for Christmas. Each session is related to the overall theme of the book and offers an alternative to the lectionary-based Scriptures for the Church seasons. This year's theme is Bethlehem or Bedlam? A reflection is also available at the end of each session.

Download or read book Finding Bethlehem in the Midst of Bedlam Adult Study written by James Wendell Moore and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas or confusion, Bethlehem or Bedlam & Which will you choose this year? The truth is, we don't have to choose, because Christmas always happens right in the midst of our confusion. God breaks into our confusion and makes himself known. Christmas and confusion--weren't they intimately related at the first Christmas when Jesus was born? Sometimes we forget that. But, that's what this book is about--how Christ breaks into our chaos and confusion and brings Christmas--how Bethlehem always happens in the midst of bedlam. This thematic Advent study for 2013 has five sessions--one for each Sund.

Download or read book The Life of the Reverend John McVickar S T D written by William Augustus McVickar and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Deepest Belonging written by Kara K. Root and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does God meet us in this life? Rooting Christian faith in joy, freedom, and trust that God interacts with us in this life, The Deepest Belonging: A Story of Discovering Where God Meets Us invites readers to walk through surprising doorways--weakness, vulnerability, smallness, rest, and honesty--into a new perspective of the Christian life and the role of the pastor. Kara Root draws wisdom from three compelling stories, all about finding freedom on the other side of fear. In one thread, Marty, a member of the small congregation Root serves, learns that he is dying. In the second, Root finds that her once-invincible faith of assurance and answers collapses. These stories come together in a third, when the congregation does a unique and counterintuitive thing: it commissions Marty to a "ministry of dying." By embracing instead of fleeing death, Marty, this community, and Root herself are infused with life through shared experiences of God. They learn to be vulnerable and brave. They discover--again and profoundly--an unguarded faith of wondering and watching for God's presence. This is a book for all pastors and church leaders, as well as for those disillusioned with Christianity and the church and longing for something more real and honest. It explores questions such as: How does God meet us? What is church for? What is a pastor? What does it mean to be truly human? The Deepest Belonging is a call not to resist but to embrace our vulnerability. As a move away from religion seeking security, protection, and influence, this story invites individuals and congregations to return bravely to the core of our humanity: our belonging to God and one another.

Download or read book Celebrating Sunday for Catholic Families 2024 2025 written by Elizabeth Hansen and published by Liturgy Training Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Sunday for Catholic Families 2024–2025 is the perfect resource for those looking to enrich their family’s life of faith! Simple and approachable, this book is designed to help even the busiest families integrate the Sunday Gospel into their everyday lives. Encouraging family attendance and participation at Sunday Mass, this resource provides parents with a guide for reflecting on the Gospel as a family. Prompts for conversation on the way to and from Mass inspire children to focus and engage with different aspects of the liturgy, and simple family activities reinforce the connection between the Gospel stories and daily family life. Bulk pricing makes this affordable, allowing you to give it to every family in your parish.