Download or read book The Eyes of the Heart written by Frederick Buechner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize runner-up Frederick Buechner comes another powerfully honest memoir, The Eyes of the Heart. Full of poinant insights into his most personal relationships, this moving account traces how the author was shaped as much by his family's secrets as by its celebrations.Within the innermost chambers of his consciousness, Buechner, in his characteristically self-searching style, explores the mysteries and truths behind his deepest connections to family, friends, and mentors. Extraordinarily moving, this memoir follows not chronology but the converging paths of Buechner's imagination and memory. Buechner invites us into his library-his own Magic Kingdom, Surrounded by his beloved books and treasures, we discover how they serve as the gateway to Buechner's mind and heart. He draws the reader into his recollections, moving seamlessly from reminiscence to contemplation. Buechner recounts events such as the tragic suicide of his father and its continual fallout on his life, intimate and little-known details about his deep friendship with the late poet James Merrill, and his ongoing struggle to understand the complexities of his relationship to his mother. This cast of characters comprised of Buechner's relatives and loved ones is brought to vibrant life by his peerless writing and capacity to probe the depths of his own consciousness. Buechner visits his past with an honest eye and a heart open to the most painful and life-altering of realizations. heartbreaking and enlightening, The Eyes of the Heart is a treasure for any who have ever pondered the meaning and mystery of their own past. As "one of our finest writers," according to author Annie Dillard, Frederick Buechner provides yet another chapter in the tale of his life in this gripping memoir tracing the complicated roots and path of his inner life and family, with their multitude of intersections." The Eyes of the Heart stands as a touching testimonial to the significance of kinship to the author as well as to the legions of readers who have come to regard him as one of their own.
Download or read book Eyes of the Heart written by Christine Valters Paintner and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapting the monastic practice of "lectio divina" (sacred reading) into a form of "visio divina" (sacred seeing), spiritual director and Benedictine oblate Paintner invites readers to a new way of viewing the world through the lens of a camera.
Download or read book Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart written by Elizabeth T. Groppe and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era in which the internet has made pornography readily accessible, Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart offers a theological critique of pornography and retrieves from the Christian tradition an alternative visual culture. This visual culture is constituted by both the character of the images we behold and the manner in which we see. Contributors include psychologists William M. Struthers and Jill Manning, who address the neurological effects of pornography and its influences on personal, familial, and social life. Their professional analysis is complemented by the testimony of a young man in recovery from pornography addiction. In an exposition of Christian visual culture, Orthodox iconographer Randi Sider-Rose describes the spiritual discipline of icon writing, Danielle M. Peters, S.T.D., surveys the iconography and art of Marian traditions, and art historian Dianne Phillips elucidates the meaning of divine desire as evident in Catholic visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods. Catholic theologians Ann W. Astell, Nathanial Peters, Boyd Taylor Coolman, and Nicolas Ogle discuss specific practices and dimensions of the Catholic tradition that can contribute to the cultivation of sacramental vision, and David W. Fagerberg, Kimberly Hope Belcher, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and John C. Cavadini offer reflections on sacramental imagination and the healing of vision. Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart is a work of scholarship composed with pastoral care and concern, and it will be serviceable to both classroom teachers and pastoral ministers. A special feature of the book is an inset of seventy-two full-color plates featuring both classic and contemporary works of Christian iconography and art. The essays and images invite readers to behold in beauty the truth that we are created by the triune God not for sexual objectification but with a sacramental vocation to deification through Christ and the Holy Spirit of love.
Download or read book Eyes of the Heart written by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at globalization, colonialism, education, and women's status through the eyes of the Haitian people.
Download or read book Beautiful in God s Eyes written by Elizabeth George and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is more than skin deep— it starts in the heart and works outward Exploring the timeless wisdom of Proverbs 31, Bible teacher Elizabeth George reveals how you can become a woman of true beauty—a woman who desires to honor God in all that she says and does. Beautiful in God's Eyes helps you make each day immensely meaningful as you delight in God and discover how to... experience instant progress toward personal goals manage daily life more effectively tap into unlimited energy apply biblical principles to enhance relationships move from the ordinary to the extraordinary You can experience a richer, more exciting spiritual walk as you embrace God's design for true beauty in your life.
Download or read book My Heart Christ s Home written by Robert Boyd Munger and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten million readers have enjoyed Robert Boyd Munger's spiritually challenging meditation on Christian discipleship. Now revised and expanded, My Heart--Christ's Home leads you to examine for yourself all the aspects of your life--considering what Christ most desires for you.
Download or read book See with the Eyes of the Heart written by Christopher J. Monaghan and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Monaghan invites you into the world as he sees it, throughthe eyes of the heart. For Chris, there is an internal conversation alwaystaking place with the world, life experience, and the scriptures.This book is a snapshot of Chris's thoughts and responses to life aroundhim, combining his poetic musings, scripture and evocative photographsof the everyday. See with the eyes of the heart invites you to pay attentionto that dance of Spirit in your own precious and unique journey.
Download or read book The Tell Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.
Download or read book Gospel Centered Discipleship written by Jonathan K. Dodson and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on the practice of disciple making in young adult, college, graduate, and local church contexts, Jonathan Dodson has discerned some common pitfalls. For many, discipleship is reduced to a form of religious performance before God. For others, it devolves into spiritual license and a loose adherence to spiritual facts. Both approaches distort biblical motivations for Christian obedience and are in need of reform. By explaining various motivations for discipleship, Dodson charts a biblically faithful, grace-driven alternative. Additionally, he provides a practical model for creating gospel-centered discipleship groups—small, reproducible, missional, gender-specific groups of believers that fight for faith together. This book blends both theology and practice to inspire and equip Christians to effectively fight sin, keep Jesus central, and make gospel-centered discipleship a way of life. Both new and growing Christians will learn to trust the gospel in community as they fight together for holiness as well as how to start gospel-centered community groups in any local church.
Download or read book Dark Sayings written by Michael Bull and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A BOOK OF CONTEMPLATIVE THEOLOGY TO BE NEO-NOIR? In some ways, this collection of essays does resemble a detective novel: there are mysteries to solve, it always seems to be night-time, conventional methods are ignored, and nothing is what it appears to be. The Bible demonstrates that all good theology is not only a story, it is a movie, and not only a movie, but a movie deliberately designed to perplex, surprise and unsettle us. However, while the anxiety, alienation, romance, and dark wit (hopefully) remain, this book reserves noir's hard-boiled cynicism and nihilism for the foibles of those who rebel against God. For the Christian writer-director, the darkness is only a device employed to bring the reader to the light. The deliberate ambiguities are only temporary cowls that eventually will be stripped away. Like the Bible, which, if we are honest, is a very dark book, these Dark Sayings, in their fundamental mindset and ultimate trajectory, are unshakably optimistic.
Download or read book Through the Heart s Eyes written by Alexandra Vasiliu and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational poetry collection about love, longing, hope, happiness, peace, and harmony.
Download or read book Through the Eyes of Jesus written by C. Alan Ames and published by Touch of Heaven. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fix Your Eyes written by Amy Gannett and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a polarized time. Christians are quick to conceive of themselves either as theologically-minded or worship-minded; either thinking Christians or feeling Christians. The results are damaging: theology without worship is muted, stifled, and cold, and worship without theology is ungrounded, unrooted, and uninformed. This is not the way it was meant to be. Theology (our study and knowledge of God) should always lead to doxology (our worship of Him). Worship should always be rooted in theology. When we study the nature and character of God as revealed in his Word, we are invited to respond in the affectionate, obedient discipleship of worship. How can we keep our theology from being mere head knowledge? How do we give our worship roots that will last? By fixing our eyes on God Himself—the object of our study and the object of our worship. Fix Your Eyes is an invitation to understand core doctrines of the Christian faith and apply them in our daily worship of God. It walks believers through key theological concepts and shows how each can be lived out in daily life.
Download or read book The Eyes of the Heart written by Christine Valters Paintner and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book to explore photography as a spiritual practice from a Christian perspective, Christine Valters Paintner builds on the process of contemplative creativity she introduced online at Abbey of the Arts and in her book The Artist's Rule. She considers how a camera can help readers open "the eyes of the heart." More than a book on photographic technique, Eyes of the Heart is about cultivating photography as a spiritual practice. Adapting the monastic practice of lectio divina (sacred reading) into a form of visio divina (sacred seeing), spiritual director and Benedictine oblate Christine Valters Paintner invites readers to a new way of viewing the world--through the lens of a camera. Paintner guides readers through six themes connecting the medium of photography with the Christian spiritual life. Each theme provides a photographic journey in which the reader does not simply take images, but receives images and learns to see with "the eyes of the heart" (Eph 1:18). Photos by the author are included.
Download or read book God s Heart Through a Horse s Eyes written by Jessie Vyvyan and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horses and man have been working together for thousands of years. Horses are spiritual creatures and can help us to become more spiritual. They live the way that God designed them to, true to themselves and to those around them, and to their Creator. By observing them and working with them they can show us a better way to live and they can bring us closer to the Creator. Horses have taught me many lessons which I share with you now in the hopes that it will inspire and encourage you.Joy, Peace, Patience, Forgiveness, and Unconditional Love will fill your lifeas you learn to walk the path that God has laid out for you.And the horse will be your guide.
Download or read book The Eyes of the Heart written by Albert Gaw and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using St. Paul's metaphor of the "Eyes of the Heart" in his letter to the Ephesians as a psycho-spiritual approach to the study of spirituality, the author unravels the spirituality of St. Paul, St. Peter, St. James, King Saul, King David, and the prophet Jonah.
Download or read book The Eyes of the Heart written by Tracie Peterson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grasp God's Presence in Everyday Life Bestselling fiction author Tracie Peterson turns her storytelling talent to this enlightening devotional that will open the eyes of your heart to God's ever-present love. Discover the Abundance of God's Eternal Presence Like a conversation with a dear friend, these intimate devotions will help you feel a rare bond with Tracie. Using quiet moments from her own life, she reassures you that God can and will be found in the details of life. From this simple, discovery she'll help lead you to a more vital, overflowing relationship with Him.
