Download or read book Biblical Insights into Divine Friendships written by Dr.Samuel Shamaun and published by Samuel Shamaun . This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Biblical Insights into Divine Friendships" offers a compelling exploration of the profound friendships depicted throughout the Bible and their relevance to our lives today. Delving into key passages, characters, and themes, this book illuminates the transformative power of genuine companionship rooted in faith and love. From the enduring bond between David and Jonathan to the intimate reflections of the Song of Solomon, readers are invited to journey through the pages of Scripture and discover timeless truths about the nature of divine friendship. With practical applications and inspirational insights, this book serves as a guide for cultivating deeper, more meaningful relationships that reflect the love and grace of God. Whether you're seeking to strengthen existing friendships or forge new connections, "Biblical Insights into Divine Friendships" offers invaluable wisdom and encouragement for building authentic relationships that honor God and enrich our lives.
Download or read book When You Find Another A Conversation About Friendship Among Friends written by Kay Harms and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes we take friendships for granted, but truly these unique relationships are treasures to be carefully cultivated. Author Kay Harms calls friendship "an ongoing conversation" and encourages us to consider carefully what we are speaking into each other's lives. For this simple and sweet book, she invited other authors to join the conversation, contributing stories of friendships found, cultivated, lost and renewed. You'll find encouragement, biblical truth and tender personal insights in this delightful book, and you'll want to share it with a friend.
Download or read book Made for Friendship written by Drew Hunter and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God made you for friendship. Friendship is one of the deepest pleasures of life. But in our busy, fast-paced, mobile world, we've lost this rich view of friendship and instead settled for shallow acquaintances based on little more than similar tastes or shared interests. Helping us recapture a vision of true friendship, pastor Drew Hunter explores God's design for friendship and what it really looks like in practice—giving us practical advice to cultivate the kinds of true friendships that lead to true and life-giving joy.
Download or read book Friendship written by Women of Faith, and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow in intimacy with God through in-depth Bible study. Women of Faith, renowned for its unique combination of personality and truth, offers fresh new messages in four new topical study guides in the popular Women of Faith Study Guide Series. Each study guide, teeming with insights and quotes from the conference speakers, provides 12 weeks of Bible study and a leader's guide for small groups. Friendship: Cultivating Relationships that Enrich Our Lives uses Scripture to address issues such as: How to have fulfilling friendships with some humor and fun Building lasting and fulfilling friendships Choosing the right kinds of friends Learning to be vulnerable and honest to maximize intimacy How to move past the superficial to spiritually bonded friendships
Download or read book Friendship with God eBook written by Trevor Hudson and published by Struik Christian Media. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you open to re-imagining your relationship with God as a friendship? Do you want to be transformed into the person God wants you to be? Friendship with God transforms us. As we learn to trust God as our Divine Friend, it has a transforming effect on our whole lives. It affects how we pray, our relationships with each other and the way we understand our everyday lives. It changes the way we think and feel, what we desire and long for, the way we see each other and how we seek to live our lives in the world. We could say our friendship with God creates the climate in which you and I become the people God wants us to be. In his latest book, Friendship with God, Trevor Hudson digs into these two interwoven themes of friendship and personal transformation. He explains that friendship is a helpful analogy for the intimate kind of relationship God wants with us. Put very simply, the gospel invites you and me into friendship with God. When we become friends with Jesus, we are drawn into God’s greater dream for the world. This indeed is the purpose of our lives on earth. We are created to become friends of God and to partner with God in making his dream a greater reality in the world around us. Topics that are addressed include: Living Beyond Loneliness God’s Passionate Longing for Friendship Getting to Know Our Friend Understanding Prayer as Deepening Friendship Looking Outward Together Exploring Our Friend’s Address Book Discerning What Our Friend Wants Us to Do Blessing Others as Our Friend Has Blessed Us Facing Our Fears with Our Friend Asking Our Friend the Hardest Question The creator God who loves us and set the whole universe into existence, and who sustains our lives in the immediacy of each moment, wants our intimate friendship. As you explore this good news you will be encouraged to see your faith and your life in a totally new way.
Download or read book Friendship with the Friend of Sinners written by Jared C. Wilson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible calls Jesus the friend of sinners, but it's hard to imagine what friendship with Jesus really looks like. We so often don't even know how to do friendship with the people around us, despite all the options we have to connect. So how are we supposed to feel that close to a holy, perfect, and invisible God? How do we see Jesus as the real person he is? And how do we experience true friendship with him when we struggle to maintain true friendship on earth? Join author Jared C. Wilson as he explores what it means to be a friend of Jesus. Through candid personal stories and insights into the Gospels, Wilson uncovers easily overlooked details of the close relationship Jesus had with his followers. He reveals the ways we often hold Jesus at arm's length and shows how to draw close to him through radical honesty, consistent communication, and unconditional love. If you've found yourself lonely and longing for connection and friendship, it's time to discover the remarkable possibility of closeness with Christ.
Download or read book Washed and Waiting written by Wesley Hill and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesley Hill's personal experiences and biblical reflections offer insight into how a nonpracticing gay Christian can "prove, live out, and celebrate" the grace of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. For many who are on this path, it's a lonely one. The reality of loneliness and isolation of the celibate homosexual Christian is something that Hill lives and takes seriously in his pursuit of the gospel-centered life. To those on a similar journey, it's often a life of uncertainties and questions. In Washed and Waiting, Hill explores the three main struggles that have been part of his daily effort to live faithfully: What exactly does the gospel demand of gay and lesbian Christians, and how can it enable them to fulfill its commands? How do Christians who experience homoerotic desires live with the loneliness such desires entail? Is there any relief for it? What comfort does the gospel offer? Can those of us who struggle with homosexuality please God and truly experience his pleasure in the midst of sexual brokenness? Interspersed throughout these main sections are character sketches and stories of people who have experienced this journey's trials and triumphs. Hill offers wise counsel that is biblically faithful, theologically serious, and oriented to the life and practice of the church. As a celibate gay Christian, he gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to wrestle firsthand with God's "No" to same-sex sexual intimacy and contemplate serious and difficult questions.
Download or read book Reclaiming Friendship written by Ajith Fernando and published by Herald Press. This book was released on 1993-04-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends. We all crave them. Yet how do we nurture friendships in a frenzied, fragmented, fallen world? Ajith Fernando sees the obstacles. But he convinces us that even today we can make true friends. Drawing insights from Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, this book shows us how to find friends, fulfillment, and wisdom through-- commitment Christian discipline spiritual accountability team ministry service to others reliance on God's strength
Download or read book Jesus and Peter written by Michael Perham and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isn't it a mind-blowing thought that God, the creator of all that is, wants to be our friend? Friendship means an intimacy and an understanding that few of us associate with God. For many, playing the servant to Jesus' master may sound like the easier option. Yet Jesus holds out the hand of friendship to all of us. Michael Perham tells the beautiful story of how the friendship between Jesus and Simon Peter developed. This book traces Peter's journey from the moment he answered Jesus' call to his role as a leader in the first Christian communities. Peter's story exemplifies our desire to become God's friends, and the struggles we might experience along the way. Full of fresh insights into the Scriptures, Jesus and Peter will help you to nurture a joyful and satisfying friendship with God. And what can be more rewarding in life than to become God's friend?
Download or read book Friendship Maps written by Joy A. Williams and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you hunger to have a sense of where you are in God's process, purpose, principles, and power at each crossroad in your life? Do you long to travel life's journey with caring, friendly companions, a well-tested compass, and a trustworthy map? If so, then Friendship MAPS: A Journey through Maturity, Aspirations, Perspectives, and Struggles will point you in the right direction. Friendship is filled with possibilities, and the nature of our friendships often changes throughout our lives. It is a worthwhile endeavor to explore the potential that this person-to-person dynamic holds for each of us. By examining the scope of our maturity, aspirations, perspectives, and struggles (MAPS), we can see how these factors relate to our heart connections. Using the MAPS approach, you can explore the significance of your choices, the threat of superficiality, and the sufficiency of God's grace as you seek to connect your heart with His and others. Just like the road maps stored in our cars or the GPS in our dashboard, Friendship MAPS provides markers for where we are and where we are going as we relate to those around us. The path that will lead us to good friendships is sometimes a rocky one. Therefore, it helps to have an excellent guidebook. With its solid foundation in biblical truth, Friendship MAPS: A Journey through Maturity, Aspirations, Perspectives, and Struggles fits the bill. Joy Williams has enjoyed over thirty years of friendships spanning geographical, generational, and cultural lines. Her commitment to Christ, coupled with the grace He has given her in life experiences, fuels her passion for each one of us to enjoy fulfilling friendships guided by God's purposes. Joy lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband, Brady, and their son. www.mapsinchrist.com
Download or read book Beyond Sonship to Friendship written by Angela Lougee and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Sonship to Friendship, How to Gain Uncommon Attention from God Would Jesus call you a mere acquaintance or a true friend? It is essential to know the difference. Many are called to be sons, but few are chosen to be friends. In Beyond Sonship to Friendship, internationally acclaimed author and Bible teacher, Angela Lougee, delves into the powerful mysteries of becoming one of the few who gains uncommon attention from God, and is accounted as His true friend. Is there a genuine yearning in your soul to be more than just one in the crowd? Do you want to unveil the principles of tapping into the benefits, favor, and intimacy, exclusively reserved for God's friends? Inside the pages of this book you'll uncover hidden ways to become a part of God's inner circle, thus joining the ranks of His most loyal disciples and the great Prophets of old. Through solid biblical strategies, you will learn exactly what you must do to realign your character and your choices with God's criteria, and position yourself to possess the promises and provision laid up for those who walk closely with God. No longer do you have to settle for hearing and talking about being God's friend. now you can experience it for yourself. Angela Lougee is impacting the masses across the US, Africa, and Europe with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A graduate of Revival Impact Bible School, Lougee is passionate about sharing practical wisdom and biblical teaching to those seeking to fulfill their divine purpose. She holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration, as well as a Master of Science Degree in Human Resource Management from The Robert Gordon University, in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is an ordained minister, anointed speaker, life coach, doting wife and proud mother. For more details visit www.rhemalifesolutions.com
Download or read book The Blessings of Friendships written by Focus on the Family and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study #4 in the Focus on the Family Women’s Bible Study Series. This study will help women build godly relationships with one another and experience the joy and support that comes from bearing each other's burdens and lifting one another up in prayer. Provides the opportunity for women to reconnect with their Savior and one another through Bible study, prayer, fellowship and activities.
Download or read book Multireligious Reflections on Friendship written by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors discuss the positive effects of friendship and some of the culturally diverse ways that friendships develop. Friends help us co-exist in diverse societies, live sustainably in our ecosystems, heal from trauma, develop inner virtues, engage wisely in social action, and connect with the divine. While friendship is a core human value, cultural traditions have used different tools to build friendships. For example, Indigenous communities emphasize reciprocity on the land; Jewish traditions encourage respect for study partners; Buddhist teachers suggest discernment in befriending; Christian texts speak of bringing God’s love into community. The fifteen scholars contributing to this book draw on the teachings of six different global traditions: Indigenous, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian. Each scholar applies the tools of their tradition—reciprocity, respect, discernment, love, and more—to discuss how we might become our best selves in community.
Download or read book Friendship Across Religions written by Alon Goshen-Gottstein and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship is an outcome of, as well as a condition for, advancing interfaith relations. However, for friendship to advance, there must be legitimation from within and a theory of how interreligious relations can be justified from the resources of different faith traditions. Friendship Across Religions explores these very issues, seeking to develop a robust theory of interreligious friendship from the resources of each of the participating traditions. It also features individual cases as models and precedents for such relations—in particular, the friendship of Gandhi and Charlie Andrews, his closest personal friend. Contributors: Balwant Singh Dhillon, Timothy J. Gianotti, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Maria Reis Habito, Ruben L. F. Habito, Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Stephen Butler Murray, Eleanor Nesbitt, Anantanand Rambachan, Meir Sendor, Johann M. Vento, and Miroslav Volf
Download or read book True Friendship written by John Cuddeback, Ph.D. and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want true friends. But how many of us really know what friendship is, or where to find it? In these pages, philosopher John Cuddeback weaves together the timeless wisdom of Scripture, of the ancient Greeks, and the saints to map out the steep and beautiful path to man's greatest joy—true friendship. Following Aristotle's teachings on the unbreakable connection between happiness and virtuous living, Cuddeback sees friendship at the very center of the human drama. Although there are different kinds of friendship, the deepest kind can only be achieved through a life of virtue, and this is where the human person comes most fully alive. True Friendship offers simple yet rich advice on how to tap into this reality in our own lives. Such friendship demands much of us, but it gives us even more, as individuals and as a society. Both the Old and New Testaments place a premium on friendship. In the Christian vision, the philosophers' insights attain a broader supernatural perspective. Christ transforms human friendship and expands it. With help from the writings of Saints Thomas and Aelred, Cuddeback discovers what lies at the heart of the Christian life—the wondrous and unsurpassable reality of friendship with God in Jesus, the Divine Friend, who is at work in all our authentic friendships.
Download or read book Friendship with God written by Jamie Moore and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to start a friendship between you and God.
Download or read book The Friendships of Jesus written by James Russell Miller and published by Darolt Books. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you." John 15:13-15 George MacDonald said in an address, "The longer I live, the more I am assured that the business of life, is to understand the Lord Jesus Christ." If this is true, whatever sheds even a little light on the character or life of Christ, is worth while. Nothing reveals a man's heart, better than his friendships. The kind of friend he istells the kind of man he is. The personal friendships of Jesus reveal many tender and beautiful things in his character. They show us also what is possible for us in divine friendship; for the heart of Jesus is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. These chapters are only suggestivenot exhaustive. If they make the way into close personal friendship with Jesus any plainer for those who hunger for such blessed intimacythat will be reward enough.
