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Book The Ladder of the Beatitudes

Download or read book The Ladder of the Beatitudes written by Jim Forest and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on stories from the lives of the saints, scripture, and everyday life, Jim Forest opens up the mysteries of the Beatitudes. These ancient blessings, with which Christ began his Sermon on the Mount, are all aspects of communion with God. As Forest shows, they are like rungs on a ladder, each one leading to the next. They appear at the doorway of the New Testament to provide an easily memorized summary of everything that follows, right down to the crucifixion ("Blessed are you who are persecuted") and the resurrection ("Rejoice and be glad").

Book The Ladder of the Beatitudes

Download or read book The Ladder of the Beatitudes written by James H. Forest and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on stories from the lives of the saints, scripture, and everyday life, Jim Forest opens up the mysteries of the beatitudes. These ancient blessings, with which Christ began his Sermon on the Mount, are all aspects of communion with God. As Forest shows, they are like rungs on a ladder, each one leading to the next. They appear at the doorway of the New Testament to provide an easily memorized summary of everything that follows, right down to the crucifixion ("Blessed are you who are persecuted") and the resurrection ("Rejoice and be glad").

Book Gregory of Nyssa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Glerup
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2012-06-15
  • ISBN : 0830866868
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Gregory of Nyssa written by Michael Glerup and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the Classics in Spiritual Formation, the sermons of Gregory of Nyssa offer a contemporary rendering of ancient spiritual wisdom for today's readers. Begin with the introduction, which provides the context and background, and then dive into the text, translated and paraphrased Michael Glerup from the original languages. You'll also find helpful callouts that show how the work relates to your personal spiritual formation and clarify unfamiliar ideas. Don't miss this unique opportunity to interact with the work of some of Christianity's great spiritual formation teachers and experience true spiritual transformation.

Book The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes

Download or read book The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes written by Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life. However, most interpretations of these passages either focus on the original meaning of the text or how the texts should impact ordinary living today. In The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan brings together biblical studies and Christian ethics to look at these foundational texts in a new way. For each passage Chan asks both what the texts meant and what they mean today. He helps readers to carefully study the text’s original meaning, then interpret the text within a sound ethical framework. The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes is an excellent introduction to key concepts in biblical studies and Christian ethics that combines sound study with warmth and wisdom.

Book The Lord s Sermon on the Mount

Download or read book The Lord s Sermon on the Mount written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Jesus Meant

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  • Author : Erik Kolbell
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664222925
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book What Jesus Meant written by Erik Kolbell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely exploration of the Beatitudes, Kolbell suggests that the eight pillars--meekness, empathy, righteousness, peace, persecution, poverty, purity, and simplicity--are still valuable codes of conduct for busy, anxious lives.

Book The Desire of Ages

Download or read book The Desire of Ages written by Ellen G. White and published by Bytes 4 the Heart. This book was released on 1898 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Words from the Hill

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  • Author : Stu Garrard
  • Publisher : NavPress
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 1631465988
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Words from the Hill written by Stu Garrard and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disruptive and surprising journey through the Beatitudes. Most of the time, life doesn't work out like we expect it will. We spend time and energy trying to climb some sort of spiritual ladder, oblivious to the fact that it is God who is moving toward us. We want answers to our problems, yet what is offered is presence. What if we were to become united with our brokenness rather than our victories? What if God moves closest to us in the absence, the ache, and the longing? Words from the Hill turns each beatitude on its head to see the unexpected beneath the understood--diving into the story of a woman on death row to speak about mercy, personal stories from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to talk about peace, and much more. Stu Garrard has walked with these people in their stories, and he vulnerably offers his own as he unpacks the Good News of the Beatitudes. God is on your side, and He is closer than you think.

Book The Beatitudes

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  • Author : Thomas Watson
  • Publisher : Fig
  • Release : 1660
  • ISBN : 1619791145
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book The Beatitudes written by Thomas Watson and published by Fig. This book was released on 1660 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian

Download or read book The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian written by Isaac and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heaven on Earth

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  • Author : Chris Seidman
  • Publisher : Abingdon Press
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 1426759908
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Heaven on Earth written by Chris Seidman and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So often, our view of the good life is the busy, exhausted, driven, and unhappy life. But what if there was a different way to live--now, not when we get to heaven, but now? A short list of “blessings” called the Beatitudes is Jesus’ declaration of what “the good life” is, and an invitation to immerse ourselves in it. If we understand the Beatitudes, we realize they are less about what we do and more about what God is doing--what God values, how he operates, and what’s he’s up to in our (actually his) world. Authors Seidman and Graves offer a practical guide to changing our course to realize the good life now.

Book The Beatitudes  An exposition of Matthew 5 1 12

Download or read book The Beatitudes An exposition of Matthew 5 1 12 written by Thomas Watson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exposition on the famously known "Sermon on the Mount" of the Lord Jesus Christ. Watson goes verse by verse of the Beatitudes that open up the sermon giving examples and ways to live out the words that Jesus handed down to all people for all time.

Book Living with Wisdom

Download or read book Living with Wisdom written by James H. Forest and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This pictorial biography of Thomas Merton - revised now for the fortieth anniversary of his death - tells the story of the extraordinary Trappist monk whose writings, including his classic autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, have exerted a profound influence on millions. Beginning with Merton's early life and conversion, his entry into the Abbey of Gethsemani, and his fame as an author, Forest explores his increasing search for solitude, his emergence as a prophetic voice of peace and social justice, and the dialogue with other religions that continued until his sudden death in 1968."--BOOK JACKET.

Book All is Grace

Download or read book All is Grace written by James H. Forest and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of: Love is the Measure. c1994.

Book My Life with the Saints  10th Anniversary Edition

Download or read book My Life with the Saints 10th Anniversary Edition written by James Martin and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year Winner of the Christopher Award Winner of the Catholic Press Association Book Award WITTY, WRYLY HONEST, AND ALWAYS ORIGINAL, My Life with the Saints is James Martin’s story of how his life has been shaped by some surprising friends—the saints of the Catholic Church. In his modern classic memoir, Martin introduces us to saints throughout history—from St. Peter to Dorothy Day, St. Francis of Assisi to Mother Teresa—and chronicles his lifelong friendships with them. Filled with fascinating tales, Martin’s funny, vibrant, and stirring book invites readers to discover how saints guide us throughout our earthly journeys and how they help each of us find holiness in our own lives. Featuring a new chapter from Martin, this tenth-anniversary edition of the best-selling memoir updates readers about his life over the past ten years. In that time, he has been a New York Times best-selling author, official chaplain of The Colbert Report, and a welcome presence in the media whenever there’s a breaking Catholic news story. But he has always remained recognizably himself. John L. Allen, Jr., the acclaimed Catholic journalist, contributes a foreword that shows how Martin has become one of the wisest and most insightful voices of this era. “An outstanding and often hilarious memoir.” —Publishers Weekly“One of the best spiritual memoirs in years.” —Robert Ellsberg“Remarkably engaging.” —U.S. Catholic“Martin’s final word is as Jungian as it is Catholic: God does not want us to be Mother Teresa or Dorothy Day. God wants us to be most fully ourselves.” —The Washington Post Book World

Book The Ladder of Divine Ascent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saint John Climacus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781291772982
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book The Ladder of Divine Ascent written by Saint John Climacus and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ladder of Divine Ascent is an ascetical treatise on avoiding vice and practicing virtue so that at the end, salvation can be obtained. Written by Saint John Climacus initially for monastics, it has become one of the most highly influential and important works used by the Church as far as guiding the faithful to a God-centered life, second only to Holy Scripture.

Book Thomas Merton  a Pictorial Biography

Download or read book Thomas Merton a Pictorial Biography written by James H. Forest and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: