Download or read book A Woman s Body Is a Temple written by Dephne Victorious Madyara and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman is an intricately beautiful specimen. How she's built is far more excellent than the human eyes and mind can comprehend. A woman is not ordinary, she not a piece of meat, she is not a slave nor is she a sex object. Her body is sacred, it is not a pleasure machine. From the side of a man she was taken and built up into a female, woman and wife by God. When God designed, formed and made her, He took the role of a Father and walked with her to present her whole and complete to her Adam. It is written that she is worth more than the most rare jewels on the earth. However, how many girls and women really understand all this in these days we are living in? Thus, 'A Woman's Body Is A Temple' is for the woman who gives out her phone number based on the car a guy drives. It is for the female who never had a father. It is for the woman who wants to know what it is like to be looked at and treated like she is above the priciest diamond. It is for the praying sister who hasn't known the measures, steps and pivotal points taken in personal friendships and relationships with the opposite sex. It is for the unmarried female who gives away parts of her body as a 'thank you' for being treated like a queen. It's for the fasting sister waiting on God for a good man. It is for the good girl who doesn't compromise her emotions and body for a man. Truly, whoever reads this book cannot remain the same again.
Download or read book My Body God s Temple written by Joseph Christiano and published by Siloam Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using King Solomon's temple as an analogy, the former fitness trainer and author of "Seven Pillars of Health" explains that physical fitness is a lifestyle mandated by God's Word, and shows Christians how to become good stewards of God's temple--their bodies.
Download or read book Living the Simply Luxurious Life written by Shannon Ables and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you uniquely give the world? We often sell ourselves short with self-limiting beliefs, but most of us would be amazed and delighted to know that we do have something special - our distinctive passions and talents - to offer. And what if I told you that what you have to give will also enable you to live a life of true contentment? How is that possible? It happens when you embrace and curate your own simply luxurious life. We tend to not realize the capacity of our full potential and settle for what society has deemed acceptable. However, each of us has a unique journey to travel if only we would find the courage, paired with key skills we can develop, to step forward. This book will help you along the deeper journey to discovering your best self as you begin to trust your intuition and listen to your curiosity. You will learn how to: - Recognize your innate strengths - Acquire the skills needed to nurture your best self - Identify and navigate past societal limitations often placed upon women - Strengthen your brand both personally and professionally - Build a supportive and healthy community - Cultivate effortless style - Enhance your everyday meals with seasonal fare - Live with less, so that you can live more fully - Understand how to make a successful fresh start - Establish and mastermind your financial security - Experience great pleasure and joy in relationships - Always strive for quality over quantity in every arena of your life Living simply luxuriously is a choice: to think critically, to live courageously, and to savor the everydays as much as the grand occasions. As you learn to live well in your everydays, you will elevate your experience and recognize what is working for you and what is not. With this knowledge, you let go of the unnecessary, thus simplifying your life and removing the complexity. Choices become easier, life has more flavor, and you begin to feel deeply satisfying true contentment. The cultivation of a unique simply luxurious life is an extraordinary daily journey that each of us can master, leading us to our fullest potential.
Download or read book Tasting Grace written by Melissa d'Arabian and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of The Next Food Network Star season five and New York Times best-selling author of Ten Dollar Dinners shares how God used food to invite her into His love. It wasn't until Melissa d'Arabian evaluated her relationship with food in light of her relationship with God that she began to appreciate food as not only a gift from him but also as a deeper invitation into his love. As she prayed, studied Scripture, and reflected on the stories from her own life, Melissa saw how God had used food to draw her into community, to redeem her moments of greatest tragedy, and ultimately to connect her more to him. In Tasting Grace, Melissa shares sixteen invitations that will transform your perception of food and the role it plays in your own life, from equality to connection to hospitality to stewardship and more. She explains how through her experiences, she learned to trust the ingredients--in recipes and in life--and join God in the act of creation. Whether you are a mom struggling to throw together a healthy meal for your family each night or a single woman longing for fellowship around your table, you will draw encouragement and inspiration from Melissa's reminder that all food, first and foremost, is a gift from God. When you return to him as the source, you will find the freedom to enjoy his beautiful and delicious creation. Advance praise for Tasting Grace “What a beautiful book. Using stories of her own triumphs and pain, Melissa digs past the surface layers of food as we see it on television, in cookbooks, and on social media. Rather, she helps us think about it in a whole new way—as nothing short of a spiritual force, a vessel through which we can experience (and extend) compassion, comfort, fellowship, love, enjoyment, and grace. It has given me a brand-new lens with which to examine the deeper significance of the food I cook, eat, and share.”—Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks “The intersection between faith and food is endlessly interesting to me, and Melissa articulates the significance and beauty of that intersection so well. Melissa is a great storyteller, and she invites us into her story and gives us a seat at her table with graciousness and wisdom. This is a lovely, meaningful book.”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times best-selling author of Present Over Perfect and Bread and Wine “This is a beautifully written book. These aren’t just words on pages; they are an invitation to a feast, to hospitality, and to finding lasting purpose in your life. Melissa has set a table fit for a King, pulled our chairs, and reminded us there’s a place for us here. This is a book that will not only feed your imagination but also your soul.” —Bob Goff, author of New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody Always
Download or read book What God Really Thinks About Women written by Sharon Jaynes and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular speaker, teacher, and author Sharon Jaynes (more than 235,000 copies sold) reveals the stories of women in the Bible who had meaningful encounters with Jesus. With her trademark biblical perspective, Sharon spends time with Jesus' mother, Mary, the woman at the well, Mary Magdalene, and others, and brings to life their experiences with the forgiveness, healing, and love of Jesus. As Sharon explores how God interacted with women of the Bible, she uncovers some surprises and is excited to share the news with readers today--God has great dreams for them and continues to transform women from insignificant to highly esteemed disgraced to full of grace guilty to forgiven Readers will discover God's heart and hope for them as He lovingly exchanges their heartache, hopelessness, or shame for the beauty of wholeness.
Download or read book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Revised Edition written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Navigate Evangelical Feminism In a society where gender roles are a hot-button topic, the church is not immune to the controversy. In fact, the church has wrestled with varying degrees of evangelical feminism for decades. As evangelical feminism has crept into the church, time-trusted resources like Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood help remind Christians of what the Bible has to say. In this edition of the award-winning best seller, more than 20 influential men and women such as John Piper, Wayne Grudem, D. A. Carson, and Elisabeth Elliot offer thought-provoking essays responding to the challenge egalitarianism poses to life in the church and in the home. Covering topics like role distinctions in the church, how biblical manhood and womanhood should work out in practice, and women in the history of the church, this helpful resource will help readers learn to orient their beliefs with God's unchanging word in an ever-changing culture.
Download or read book Breaking Soul Ties written by Dephne Madyara and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The misconception on the subject of soul ties within the Body of Christ has put us in a place of vulnerability towards the deceptions and attacks of the enemy. Nowadays some people are knowledgeable on the subject of soul ties in relation to sexual soul ties but most people are completely oblivious to the emotional, psychological and spiritual side of soul ties. Being considerably unaware that not all soul ties are formed through sex but some originate through other means that are subtle and least expected. Hence, this book aims to reveal and expose how soul ties can form spiritually, emotionally, mentally or psychologically without you realising. Using the Word of God and help of the Holy Spirit, this book discusses what exactly a soul tie is, ways they form, the manipulative effects they can have on you whilst giving prayerful action plans you can take to sever through them. This manual book is perfect for those who want to grow in Christ and be freed from soul ties.
Download or read book For the Strength of Youth written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 1965 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.
Download or read book The Daniel Plan written by Rick Warren and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Daniel Plan is far more than a diet plan. It is an appetizing approach to achieving a healthy lifestyle by optimizing the five key essentials of faith, food, fitness, focus, and friends. Unlike the thousands of other books on the market, this book is not about a new diet, guilt-driven gym sessions, or shame-driven fasts. Your path to holistic health begins here, as Pastor Rick Warren and fitness and medical experts Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Mark Hyman guide you to incorporate healthy choices into your current lifestyle. The concepts in this book will encourage you to deepen your relationship with God and develop a community of supportive friends who will encourage you to make smart food and fitness choices each and every day. This results in gradual changes that transform your life as they help you: Conquer your worst cravings Find healthy replacement foods for the foods you love Discover exercise you enjoy Boost your energy and kick-start your metabolism Lose weight Think more clearly Explore biblical principles for health . . . and ultimately create an all-around healthy lifestyle It's time to feast on something bigger than a fad. Start your journey to impactful, long-lasting, and sustainable results today! Plus, get more from The Daniel Plan with The Daniel Plan Cookbook, The Daniel Plan Journal, and The Daniel Plan 365-Day Devotional.
Download or read book What Paul Really Said About Women written by John Temple Bristow and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Temple Bristow’s What Paul Really Said About Women challenges the traditional understanding of St. Paul's epistles and sexism in the modern church. Attempting to reconcile the Apostle Paul’s scripture about women being submissive to men in Ephesians 5 with his words in Galatians 3 that there is no male or female and everyone is “one in Christ Jesus”, John Temple Bristow uncovered differences between Paul’s original Greek Ephesians writings and the English version translation that indicates a deliberate alteration of the text’s meaning in favor of men. Provocative and revelatory, Bristow’s book explores not only What Paul Really Said About Women, but the history and culture of the church that misinterpreted his message. “A convincing case for equality of the sexes based on the very passages that are all too often used as proof texts to uphold male dominance and female subordination. . . . For any person who reveres scripture but who struggles with traditional interpretations of passages concerning women and who fears that a desire for equality between the sexes is a violation of biblical principles, this book is a must.” —Letha Dawson Scanzoni, co-author of All We’re Meant to Be “Bristow acquits Paul of misogyny and restores him to his rightful stature as a great architect of human liberation. Even more importantly, Bristow urges contemporary churches . . . to follow the radically egalitarian vision of the apostle Paul.” —Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, author of Women, Men, and the Bible “Cuts through much misguided rhetoric to display the actual enhancement of women’s status in early Christian culture.” —Timothy L. Smith, author of Called Unto Holiness
Download or read book My Body Is a Big Fat Temple written by Alena Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Body Is A Big Fat Temple is a memoir that charts the emotional journey of becoming a mother with humor and honesty, as well as investigating the natal shortcomings of our culture. It tracks Dillon, a writer in her thirties, as she debates having children, and then suffers a miscarriage, morning sickness, physical changes and impairments, anxiety, labor and delivery, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting during a plague, and finally blossoming into her new identity as a mother. This isn't the airbrushed billboard for motherhood women are too-often presented to preserve the sacred image of Madonna and Baby. Dillon prepares her readers for what to really expect--dry heaves, belly hair, dark nipples, crotch lightning, sweat, pain, delirium, lots of tears, and ultimately joy--so the odyssey is given its fair due. The cost of creating life is astronomical. It requires resilience and strength (and lots of bathroom breaks). But more importantly, these truths need to be shared in order to normalize them. With more stories like these, women with reservations for motherhood, and those in the midst of its fever dream, won't feel so alone. Pregnancy is a human imperative, endured by so many, and yet there is very little narrative nonfiction on the topic--I looked--which only makes the experience more isolating. The stories of women matter. The stories of mothers matter. Let's make ourselves heard.
Download or read book Honoring the Body written by Stephanie Paulsell and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to celebrate your body by attending to daily spiritual practices In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body. Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities--bathing, clothing, eating, working, exercising, loving, and suffering--seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry. She argues that the accumulated wisdom of religious traditions provides the resources for a rich practice of honoring the body. This practice will not be just an individual practice, however. It will be a shared, communal practice, one we engage in with others. Honoring the Body is for those who want to honor their body and the bodies of others, who wish for a community that cherishes, attends to, celebrates, and soothes the body.
Download or read book The Secret Wisdom of a Woman s Body written by Pat Samples and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormous rewards await you when you learn to trust and respect your body. This revolutionary guide to the second half of life goes way beyond the usual anti-aging recipes for fitness and healthy eating. Practical exercises, fun activities, and inspiring stories will help you tune in to your inner wisdom and discover your own natural source of confidence and satisfaction. Through mindful attention to your body's stories, you'll learn core emotional and spiritual lessons that foster authentic, integrated living. You'll learn how to find meaning from your experiences, which makes it easier to resolve lingering or painful issues. As you feel more at home in your body, you'll feel a renewed sense of passion and creativity--and rediscover your own innate beauty, wisdom, and power. Praise for The Secret Wisdom of a Woman's Body "A wise, passionate guide for women facing the challenges of aging. It offers practical methods and inspiring stories to help you deepen your appreciation of yourself and find your innate resources for healing and growth within your body." --Judith Blackstone, author of The Enlightenment Process "A fascinating book and journey in getting to know your body--its secrets, treasures, and potential--across the life cycle." --Gene D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at the George Washington University and author of The Creative Age
Download or read book Healing written by Raymond Lloyd Richmond and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALINGFROM EMOTIONAL WOUNDS A revised and expanded version of the 2006 First Edition. You cannot surrender your pain and suffering to God if deep in your heart you persist in clinging to psychological defense mechanisms which shield you from that very pain. There is nothing wrong with psychological defenses. In fact, they help to protect us from emotional injury. But if you cling to the defense mechanisms that were created in your childhood and carry them on into adulthood-as most everyone does unconsciously-your quest for spiritual healing will be thwarted by overwhelming resentments and conflicts. Still, God has been trying to show you that there is more to life than resentment and conflict, something so beautiful and desirable that only one thing can resist its pull: hate. So now, and in every moment until you die, you will have a profound choice between your enslavement to old defenses and the beauty of God. That decision has to come from you. You will go where you desire. CONTENTS Preface Part One The Unconscious | Victimization | Spiritual Purgation | Compunction | Healing | Four Steps to Humility | Fear | Wretchedness | Desire and Motivation | Outside the Box | Boundaries Part Two: Questions and Answers Blame and Responsibility | Defenses and Illusions | Disasters and Trauma | Evil | Good from Evil | Love | Meeting Your Enemy in Heaven | Mercy | Pride and Honor | Refusing Mercy | Self-love | Sin | Suffering | Temperament Appendix I: When You Don't Know You're Sick Appendix II: Blind to Your Own Anger Appendix III: Coping with Distractions Introduction | Understanding, not Ignoring | The Definition of Fantasies (aka Temptations) | The Relationship Between Thoughts and Feelings | Distractions and Fantasies in General | Feelings of Darkness and Abandonment | Feelings of Stuckness and Paralysis | Sexual Fantasies | Fantasies of Grandiosity | Evil Fantasies | Self-destructive Fantasies | The Jesus Prayer | Do Not Lose Your Peace | Be Gentle With Yourself | Don't Punish Yourself Appendix IV: Dream Interpretation Introduction | Freud: The Royal Road | Other Ideas | The Dream Text | The Clinical Work | Some Helpful Points | Traumatic Nightmares | Incubus and Succubus | Other Troubling Dreams Appendix V: A List of Emotions Appendix VI: Spiritual Fruits Index
Download or read book Sacred Woman written by Queen Afua and published by One World. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.
Download or read book Woman s Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1 2 written by Alice A. Keefe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keefe's analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea's metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel's apostasy in a lurid 'fertility cult'. Against this reading, Keefe's study considers Hosea 1-2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea's symbol of Israel as an adulterous woman is read as a commentary upon the structural violence in Israelite society which accompanied the eighth century boom in 'agribusiness' and attendant processes of land consolidation.
Download or read book Incorruptible Beauty written by Dephne Madyara and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King of kings Is Calling Back His Bride To Live For Him Completely In This "Vainglory" Culture That Excessively Obsesses Over Image and Materialism. Sadly, The Standards of The World Have Secretly Crept Into the Body of Christ. We Live In An Anti-Christ Generation Where Sexual Immorality Is Casually Esteemed as "One Night Stand". A Society Blind To The Implications of Sexual Sins That Welcome Divorce Inducing Demons Called "Spirit Husband/Wife". A World With Shockingly Poor Standards of Being Virtuous Among Young Women and Men Being Esteemed By Numbers "6 Pack", "Bank Balance", "Sexual Experiences", Rather Than Integrity. Hollywood Has Painted A Masterpiece of Lies Opposing God's Very Purpose For A Man and A Woman. We Live In A Blind Society Endorsing A Movement of "Women Empowerment", That Is Spiritually Inspired By Jezebel. Woman Empowerment Outside God's Truth Is Poison That Has Become Sweet In This Generation. In Such A Time As This, No Longer Can INCORRUPTIBLE BEAUTY Be Limited To Gender, Background, Ethnicity Nor Financial Status. Incorruptible Beauty That Springs Forth From The Very Word of God Activated Through The Holy Spirit Power of God, Is Compulsory For All Mankind. This Book Serves To Equip The Body of Christ Whilst Challenging Mediocrity For Total Surrender To Christ In All Areas of the Reader's Life Through Inward Adornment Found In God's Word.
