Download or read book Where Gratitude Abounds written by Joseph M. Freeman and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each of the chapters of this book Freeman carefully opens up the text with an introductory statement. He then shares the historical background and the theological theme of the text and continues with commentary that amplifies and illustrates the passage for contemporary preaching. Chapters include: The Marvelous Style Of Jesus: Truth And Love -- Matthew 22:1-14 Spiritual Armchairs vs. Mature Discipleship -- Matthew 22:34-36 Authenticity vs. Showmanship -- Matthew 23:1-12 Terminally Distracted Or Decisively Prepared? -- Matthew 25:1-13 Commitment One Way Or The Other -- John 8:31-36 Joseph M. Freeman graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, with a B.A. degree. He earned his M.Div. degree from Yale Divinity School and spent two and half years in a Clinical Pastoral Education program at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. After serving as assistant and associate pastor for churches in Ohio and Colorado, he established Christ The Savior Lutheran Church in Fishers, Indiana. Under his energetic leadership the church has grown to 1,600 baptized members. CSS Publishing Company -

Download or read book Growing in Gratitude written by Mary Mohler and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to grow as thankful women of God. As women, we are often encouraged to "count our blessings". But truly biblical gratitude is much more than this. Mary K. Mohler unpacks Scripture to help us grow in gracious gratitude (thanking God for who he is) as well as natural gratitude (thanking him for his blessings) - and to identify and deal with some of the things that hinder us - to help us rediscover the joy of a thankful heart. This thoroughly Bible-centred unpacking of the reasons for gratitude builds on Mary K. Mohler's 25 years experience in mentoring seminary wives at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal for group use as well as for individuals.

Download or read book Not Yet Married written by Marshall Segal and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Is Never Mainly About Love and Marriage. So Learn to Live and Date for More. Many of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock God's purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you "the one," but about inspiring you to live and date for more now. If you follow Jesus, the search for a spouse is no longer a pursuit of the perfect person, but a pursuit of more of God. He will likely write a love story for you different than the one you would write for yourself, but that's because he loves you and knows how to write a better story. This book was written to help you find real hope, happiness, and purpose in your not-yet-married life.

Download or read book Colossians Philemon written by David E. Garland and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

Download or read book Relentless Gratitude written by Uno Okon and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT IS YOUR TIME TO BE TRANSFORMED BY THE POWER OF GRATITUDE Relentless Gratitude carefully weaves together timeless biblical truths with findings from scientific studies on the life-changing power of gratitude. You cannot go wrong leading a life of gratitude. In almost every conceivable scenario, it works. With gratitude, you can improve your health and well-being. Gratitude can improve your productivity at work, relationships with people, and most importantly, your relationship with God. During tough times, gratitude brings hope and makes us resilient in the face of adversity. Gratitude is akin to a moral fertilizer that fuels the growth of positive traits—so much so that it is often referred to as the mother of all virtues. Relentless Gratitude carefully weaves together timeless biblical truths with findings from evolving scientific studies on the subject gratitude. It delivers a profound perspective on gratitude that promises to transform your life in a lasting way. The author shares insights on the importance of leading a life of gratitude, especially in times of hardship and uncertainty. Relentless Gratitude unveils the blessedness of a grateful heart and brings to life the following life lessons: - When all seems lost, gratitude can significantly enrich your life. - Gratitude can fortify your heart in the face of adversity. - With gratitude, you can cultivate resilience and thrive in tough times. - Gratitude can attract great blessings into your life. For more information about the book, please visit relentlessgratitude.org.

Download or read book Knowing Wholeness written by Nancy S.B. Ging and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book of earthy, spiritual and sometimes sensual poems will inspire the reader to embrace oneself completely. Moving stuck energy and freeing the reader to celebrate aliveness is the poets goal. Equal play with this poetry is given to finding our relationship with our most potent joyful essence and the writers experiences with moving through some challenging human relationships. Her useful Unified Theory of The Self, put forth poetically in this publication, leads one to balance the realities of our human and divine conditions. Bridging paradigms and partnering polarities have been for decades the work and play of Nancy S.B. Ging, L.C.S.W., holistic psychotherapist, teacher and writer.

Download or read book When Silence Speaks written by Cit Ananda and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry slides in the front door and stays for a while, pulling up a chair in the Heart. Reading the mystic poetry in When Silence Speaks: Messages from the Heart is like the best friend you haven’t seen in years entering through the front door of your soul.Each poem approaches from a different angle, shepharding you to surrender as you embrace these transcendent poems, like the scent of roses, into your Heart. Experiences are played with, spun on a prayer wheel of words, revealing a deeper, truer purpose, and unraveling the sacred mystery of life. Reading this collection is like hearing the whispers of a loved one and feeling the gentle touch of their nurturing hand on your shoulder as you sit together in silence, without any need for words to know each other’s Heart, to hear each other’s prayers. These poems are that close, guiding you to discover the inherent Divinity within your humanity. “Cit Ananda has gifted us all with her exquisite poems, channeled from Source and ready to lead each reader into the transcendence all around us.” ~ Donna Baier Stein, Publisher of Tiferet Journal

Download or read book The Pleasure Is Mine Overcoming the Need to Please written by Judith A. Coburn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can't say no? The difference between healthy generosity and unhealthy pleasing lies in the ability to say no.Pleasing isn't pleasing for the pleaser. If you are caught up in saying yes when you want to say no and if you often feel guilty for no good reason, you may be stuck in the pleasing trap.In this light-hearted and gentle book, you will have many opportunities to recognize your own need to please: "If your theme song is, "I Did it Your Way" and you don't work at a fast food restaurant....you might be a pleaser. Moreover, THE PLEASURE IS MINE provides insight and exercises to help you authenticate your voice and untangle your self-worth from the need to please.

Download or read book The Gratitude Factor written by Charles M. Shelton and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps readers to reflect on the role of gratitude in their lives and to cultivate this virtue for their own benefit. The first author to offer a critique of gratitude through an explanation of various types of gratitude, Charles Shelton uses his skills as a clinical psychologist to present insights into the human experience of gratitude based on his own research. The exercises, strategies, and reflection questions threaded throughout the book give it a practical dimension that facilitates the reader's growth. Shelton's highly original reflection on Jesus as a grateful person lends a spiritual dimension to his work. This book will benefit individual readers as well as serve as a resource for spiritual direction workshops, spiritual formation courses, or ministry formation programs.--From publisher description.

Download or read book Herald and Presbyter written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Moms For Hire written by Deborah Jelin Newmyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moms For Hire is a stylish, eight-step guidebook for moms who want to re-enter the workforce and amp up their professional mojo. Whether you downsized your bustling career to raise your children, or you chose the full-time job of being a stay-at-home mom, you now feel ready to get back in the work game, but re-entry can be intimidating. Using creative exercises, advice, and anecdotes from well-known working moms, this book will become a guide to creating your own successful re-entry strategy. From simply giving voice to your desire to work, to learning how to negotiate the best deal once you land the dream job, Moms For Hire guides you through each step of the process in a way that keeps you motivated and inspired. The simple promise is this: if you commit one hour a day to this book, you can find rewarding work. The search for fulfilling employment requires plenty of will, stamina, and support; let Moms For Hire be your devoted partner as you step into this new, life-changing adventure.

Download or read book The Gift of Who I Am written by Christine Black Cummings and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a solitary walk in April of 2013, The Gift began to flow into my consciousness. Thanks to Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and the teachings of Ernest Holmes Science of Mind, I knew to listen. And to transcribe its words. Shortly thereafter, I shared what I thought was a complete poem of 140 words in seven stanzas of four lines each with encouraging classmates at the Center for Spiritual Living Palm Desert. I added a rainbow I’d photographed in Hawaii the previous month, created bookmarks and gave them as gifts. Likely due to my receptivity immediately after I sent the manuscript of the book I’d been writing for 12 years—Black-Eyed Susan, A Love-Child Finds Her Father and Her Self—to its publisher, The Gift kept giving and growing, reaching pretty much its current form in December of 2013. Although I had clarity “The Great Creator” had delivered “The Gift” to me, I kept asking, “What is this?” Because it sounded like poetry from my childhood and I felt no urge to make edits, I came to believe its message was one my angry 13-year-old self-opted to not hear when I angrily vowed that I didn’t need a father—Heavenly or earthly—in my life. This time, my 67-year-self listened, absorbed and, as instructed, “put me in your pocket and hold me in your heart.” My heart kept reminding me “The Gift” wasn’t just for me. So I asked, “What am I to do with it?” The answer I kept hearing was: “Share.” And so I did, from time to time, with selected friends and in creative circles. In the summer of 2019, after our beloved 17 year-old grandson Tyler passed from the earthly part of his soul’s journey, I set my intention to publish “The Gift.” Since seven is the number of completion and 2020 is the year of clear vision, now is the divinely appointed time and I am ready. And upholding that each of us is a unique expression of our Creator, “The Gift of Who I Am.”

Download or read book Nebraska Volleyball written by John Mabry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to tell the fifty-year story of how volleyball took hold at the University of Nebraska, going from its early origins to its first National Championship and beyond.

Download or read book The Culture Trap written by Derron Wallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of racial and ethnic minority youth in schools, including Black Caribbean young people in London and New York City. Since the 1920s, Black Caribbeans in New York have been considered a high-achieving Black model minority. Conversely, since the 1950s, Black Caribbeans in London have been regarded as a chronically underachieving minority. In both contexts, however, it is often suggested that Caribbean culture informs their status, whether as a celebrated minority in the US or as a demoted minority in Britain. Drawing on rich ethnographic observations, as well as interview and archival data from two of the largest public schools in London and New York City, Wallace interrogates the fault lines of these claims, and highlights the influence of colonialism, class, and context in shaping Black Caribbeans' educational experiences. As racial and ethnic achievement gaps and discussions about what to do about them persist in the US and Britain, Wallace shows how culture is at times used as an alibi for racism in schools, and points out what educators, parents, and students can do to change it.

Download or read book Virtues Abounding written by Mark O'Keefe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living a morally good life today is a challenge. But we become fully and authentically human precisely by the decisions we make every day—some of them relatively simple, others complex and difficult. Once a choice is made, we still must claim the moral resolve and strength of character to implement it. Virtues are precisely the sustained habits that help us maneuver life’s many choices and to become the good people that we want to be. St. Thomas Aquinas offers the classic Christian presentation of the four principal virtues of prudence, justice, courage, and temperance. But these are precisely cardinal or “hinge” virtues that provide the foundational framework for Aquinas’s much broader presentation of a multitude of other virtues. Neglect of this larger array of moral attitudes for good living would miss the breadth of Aquinas’s insights into a human life truly well-lived. Virtues Abounding explores, in contemporary language, the practical insights that Aquinas offers for the moral life today. Whether in university, seminary, or adult faith formation settings—whether for a deeper intellectual understanding of virtues or for personal reflection and growth—Virtues Abounding will provide new insight into a classic but too often overlooked storehouse of moral riches.

Download or read book Walking the Theological Life written by Timothy Gaines and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theologian Tim Gaines invites you into the adventures of theology, not as a disconnected discipline, but as an invitation to respond to God from the deepest parts of ourselves. More than an intellectual pursuit, Gaines explores the lives of key biblical characters to help us grow in our understanding of how to do theology virtuously.

Download or read book Radical Intimacy written by Zoë Kors and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative guide and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world. “With intimacy as the foundational principle of our existence, we can build a life based on what we truly need, not what we think we need or have been told we need. By embracing the practice of radical intimacy, I can confidently promise my readers a personal revolution of self-acceptance, appreciation, vitality, and confidence. And without fail, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, earth-shattering sex follows.”—Zoë Kors Part practical guide, part client stories, part personal narrative, Zoë Kors draws on her experience as a sex and intimacy coach, thought leader, and relationship writer in sharing her powerful and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our intimate relationships over time. She addresses the essential truth that is almost universally missed in discussions of sex and intimacy: We can meet each other only to the extent that we can meet ourselves. Kors guides the reader on a five‑part journey through nine areas of opportunity for deepening intimacy with themselves, their partner, and their world, inviting them to embrace emotional, physical, and energetic self‑mastery, which is required to skillfully relate with others. At the conclusion of each part, there are a collection of experiential exercises which support the reader in embodying the concepts they’ve just read. Voice-driven, accessible, and with the right amount of tough love, Radical Intimacy takes the mystery out of human connection. From academia and science to mysticism and self-development, Kors delivers a rich and varied understanding of human sexuality and intimacy through the lens of the body, brain, heart, spirit, and culture.