Download or read book The Prodigal System of Forgiveness and Reconciliation written by J. Emmett Beam and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, relationships and lives are destroyed by conflict, greed, deception, betrayal, abandonment, abuse and other cruel acts of violence. Stories of Ponzi schemes, unethical financial dealings, infidelity, gang violence and terrorism are common place in the news. Such acts result in financial ruin, divorce, physical pain, emotional trauma and even death of loved ones. Our first instinct is to pay back evil for evil and take our own revenge. Yet is that the best course? This book explores and examines some tough questions, including: - Is it possible to recover from the loss, grief and trauma resulting from an injustice? - Will post-traumatic stress plague a victim of violence forever? - How can relationships be restored after betrayal or adultery? - Is it possible to forgive someone who has cruelly or violently injured us? - Can we actually "love our enemies" as instructed in the Bible? - Can we get forgiveness from God after committing violence, infidelity or murder? - Is there a key to personal healing, no matter what someone has experienced? The good news is there is a key to personal healing and a way to recover from the losses, grief and traumas of life. And it's called forgiveness. The Parable System of Forgiveness and Reconciliation provides a practical, proven method of forgiving anyone for any type of injustice. It also describes how to restore and reconcile broken relationships. This invaluable resource will help you do one of the hardest things you'll ever do for your own personal healing: forgive someone who has betrayed, abused, violated, or committed a violent offense against you or a loved one.

Download or read book Boundless Love written by Joel W. Huffstetler and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boundless Love provides a detailed survey of the scholarship on Luke 15:11-32, the parable of the Prodigal Son--arguably the best loved and most familiar of Jesus' parables. Readers will find key insights regarding the teachings of the parable from leading experts on the Gospels including William Barclay, Kenneth Bailey, Fred Craddock, Luke Timothy Johnson, Henri Nouwen, Pheme Perkins, and N.T. Wright. Part I of this volume offers students of the Bible a firm grasp on the scholarly consensus regarding the parable's historical, literary, and theological contexts, as well as its wide-ranging applicability in today's world. Part II focuses on the exploration of the parable's potential contributions in discussions of reconciliation and draws on the insights of authors such as Annie Dillard, Sam Keen, Desmond Tutu, and Miroslav Volf. Boundless Love is thoroughly accessible and will appeal to both general readers and specialists.

Download or read book Forgiveness Reconciliation and Restoration written by Martin William Mittelstadt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although history is replete with tales of revenge, Christian forgiveness provides an alternate response. In this volume, Pentecostal scholars from various disciplines offer their vision for forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration. The essayists offer long-overdue Pentecostal perspectives through analysis of contemporary theological issues, personal testimony, and prophetic possibilities for restoration of individual relationships and communities. Though Pentecostals remain committed to Spirit-empowered witness as recorded in Luke-Acts, these scholars embrace a larger Lukan vision of Spirit-initiated inclusivity marked by reconciliation. The consistent refrain calls for forgiveness as an expression of God's love that does not demand justice but rather seeks to promote peace by bringing healing and reconciliation in relationships between people united by one Spirit.

Download or read book Forgiveness and Reconciliation written by Vincent Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance written by Randall Cecrle and published by DREC Enterprises. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance will teach you how to forgive the actions of others, eventually leading you to the ultimate reconciliation and a renewed relationship. Author Randall J. Cecrle was involved in lay prison ministry for over fifteen years, and brings a wealth of experience and inspirational anecdotes to guide you from anger and bitterness to love and peace. With verses from Scripture and real-life examples, Cecrle demonstrates how to forgive those who have hurt you. Learn how to make changes in your life so you can avoid hurting others and become a positive influence. Cecrle also teaches you the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation-forgiveness is not forgetting, it is not about the painful emotions going away, and it is not conditional on an apology from the offender. In the final chapters, Cecrle discusses repentance, trustworthiness, whether or not we are a product of our environment, and how to change our thoughts, words, and actions. Just as it takes two to create a conflict, all parties involved must also be willing to take steps toward a peaceful resolution. Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance will shepherd you on a spiritual journey toward reconciliation.

Download or read book Welcome Home Receiving the Father s Forgiveness and Acceptance Based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son written by David Ravenhill and published by Destiny Image Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combined with G. Campbell Morgan's classic The Parable of the Father's Heart, author David Ravenhill recasts the prodigal son story into 20th-century settings, citing parallels between the prodigals of yesterday and today. Welcome Home warns and warms the heart, as it not only chronicles the steady downward spiral from prosperity to the pig pen; but it also provides steps leading to full relationship restoration.

Download or read book The Process of Reconciliation written by John M. Hirsch and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an emotional system all relationships are capable of becoming conflicted. When this happens people often resort to unhealthy non-beneficial ways of resolving the conflict. The Process of Reconciliation provides insights into the dynamics influencing the breakdown and some steps to become reconciled. Insights are shared based on Scripture, family systems thinking, understanding a values system hierarchy and years of working with conflicted congregations. The result is a resource that provides concrete steps in helping individuals overcome their fears and enter into a conflict resolution process. John Hirsch has been a pastor of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod for 37 years. He served one congregation in Brighton Michigan for 22 years and now as Director of Congregational and Worker Care for the Texas District, LCMS since Jan. 1995. In his latter role he has worked with dozens of conflicted congregations. He has a B.A. in psychology from the University of Texas in Austin, a M.A. in educational psychology from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI, a M.Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, IL, and a D. Min. from Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI. He also has five quarters in CPE and extensive training in conflict resolution in a variety of resolution models. In The Process of Reconciliation Dr. John Hirsch provides helpful and practical advice for effective and God-pleasing reconciliation. If you need to step out from under the burden of conflict, resentment, or unforgiveness, this book is for you. -Rev. Michael W. Newman, author of Satan's Lies, What Happens When You Die and Revelation: What the Last Book of the Bible Really Means.

Download or read book Mirror of the Prodigal Son written by Akili Xzavier Williams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wow, this is so exciting for me, to be able to share The Power of Reconciliation with you. It is both a joy and pleasure. I have made the ministry of Reconciliation a primary goal of mine. Bringing mankind back to God one person at a time is the mandate of my ministry. The bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:18 "All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation": So after reconciling me back to Him through Christ, He has given me the ministry of reconciliation. Which is to bring you back to him, Isn't that just wonderful, how the strategy of God is. After reading Mirror of the Prodigal Son, I pray that you turn every area of your life back to God and share this message of Reconciliation, so that others can do the same. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share this message with you.

Download or read book Reclaiming Joy written by Rev. Susan Eaton and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you involved in a quarrelsome or contentious relationship that is keeping you stressed and on guard? Are you holding on to some bitterness rooted in the past? Does the constant barrage of online bickering make you anxious and angry? Do you feel stuck in a place that is stealing your joy? If you have ever been challenged by any of these issues, then you are in the right place. This study of Genesis 26 will help you explore where you might be stuck. It will ask you to address some common attitudes, habits, and behaviors that are preventing you from living the life of joy God desires for you. Take this prayerful journey of introspection with the Holy Spirit and learn to embrace forgiveness, gain freedom from a painful past, and find healing from the things that are keeping you out of the wide-open space of joyful living.

Download or read book Repentance and Forgiveness written by Matthew E. Burdette and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconciliation is at the heart of the Christian faith. It is what God accomplishes by the incarnation of his Son, by Jesus’ cross, resurrection, and exaltation: that all people be drawn to God in Christ, and, in being so drawn, drawn into fellowship with one another. The good news of reconciliation is, therefore, also a call to repent and to receive forgiveness, and then, concomitantly, to forgive. The present volume endeavors to reexamine these most fundamental Christian claims. These essays, which were first presented at the 2017 annual Pro Ecclesia conference, return to the biblical sources to help us understand reconciliation afresh. The authors raise questions about repentance and forgiveness from various perspectives: Jewish, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant. They also consider our present-day context, what has been called the “technoculture,” as well as the practice of repentance and forgiveness. With contributions by: Stephen Westerholm Ellen T. Charry Dominic Langevin, O. P. Peter C. Bouteneff Brent Waters John P. Burgess

Download or read book The Parable of the Prodigal Son written by Mark Roberts-Seymour and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the parable "The Prodigal Son" attributed to Jesus by the Synoptic Gospel writer Luke - a father has two sons. The word prodigal means "wastefully extravagant"), becomes destitute and he dies and is reanimated. He makes his way home expecting his his father is likely to no longer recognize him. The father welcomes him back and celebrates his return. The older son refuses to participate. The father reminds the older son that he should still celebrate the return of the younger son because he was 'dead' and is now found.A portion of this parable deals with death and reconstitution, specifically the 32nd verse of Luke 15. The Vulgate translation of the highlighted text from the Koine Greek is: "quia frater tuus hic mortuus erat et revixit." This is best translated into modern English as "because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again". English substitutions might also render this as; deceased, departed or passed on. If the meaning was that the prodigal was lost, removed, detached, parted from or estranged - the appropriate Koine or Latin word would have been employed, rather than 'dead'. This distinction is paramount to the meaning of the parable as Christ intended it to be understood. Death is death - but victory over death is possible, and integration into the community [family] is also possible. As with the Elias-John the Baptist transmigration acknowledgement of Jesus - this parable deals on several levels with death, reanimation, recognition and reconciliation. It also chastises the hubris of the older son who clings to avarice and the Mosaic law at the expense of mercy.

Download or read book The Prodigal s Wilderness When the wrong Path Really Is the Right Path written by Sue White and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARABLE OF TRANSFORMATION: Much has been written regarding Luke Chapter 15 and there's been a great debate regarding which theme(s) should be considered and which one(s) ignored; however, this book will take a different approach by viewing it as a parable of transformation. The wilderness (or desert) is the place where transformations occur. As you read through the Bible, you'll see that God had many of the heroes of the faith participate in their own wilderness adventures, for example: Moses and the Israelites, David, Elijah, John the Baptist and even Jesus. They were all transformed by their desert experiences.The desert is God's preferred learning laboratory for believers. All believers will likely spend some time in the wilderness, in God's "boot camp." Some will enroll multiple times. But, the bottom line is this: God is still in control and he has a plan to conform you to his image (Rom. 12:2) so that he can have greater fellowship with you. God is sovereign even when you're in the midst of a wilderness experience and feeling scared, confused or overwhelmed. The wilderness may seem like it's the "wrong" path, that you've gotten lost or strayed from God, but he can redeem even the most crooked path and use all of your experiences along the way for good (Rom. 8:28).In the end, the "right" path ultimately brings you closer to God whereas the wrong path ultimately takes you further away from him. You can't really tell until you get to the end of the path. People in your life may be critical of your life choices, but in reality, they may not be seeing God's hand at work in your life, invisibly, behind the scenes. Consequently, you need to be true to yourself and trust God to bring you home, and he will!

Download or read book The Return written by J. John and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the story of the prodigal son - or do they? In this fascinating book, skilled communicators J.John and Chris Walley give a new twist to an old story. THE RETURN is a three-part exploration of this most loved parable, combining fiction, Bible study and real-life testimony to open up this timeless story and its themes of grace and reconciliation.

Download or read book The Healing Power of Forgiveness written by Jean Maalouf and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgiveness is a powerful agent for healing, a catalyst of growth and change. When we allow ourselves to be bound to the past by an unwillingness to forgive--"or to be forgiven--"we limit our wholeness and ability to be all that God intended us to be. Though often difficult, the steps we can take toward forgiveness are steps that bring us closer to a healthy relationship with God and with others.

Download or read book Mirror of the Prodigal Son written by Akili Xzavier Williams and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akili Xzavier Williams is the Founder and Lead Pastor of New Direction Bible Fellowship in Pompano Beach, Florida. Akili is also the C.E.O./President of Inside Out Transition Consults, Inc. He has a zeal for ministry and endeavors to bring mankind back to God. Akili's ministry is one that stems from firsthand knowledge and a personal relationship with Christ. Akili received the call to ministry at the early age of 9 years old. After backsliding at the age of 17 years old, Akili lived a riotous lifestyle. A lifestyle filled with sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll; so to speak. Now, reconciled back to God, Akili preaches and teaches the message of Reconciliation. Akili's style and delivery of ministry challenges the non-believer and believer alike, to make a connection with God. This connection is one that Akili believes we all must make, if we are to maximize our God potential. Akili's theological approach is transparent, prophetic, practical, and personable.

Download or read book Beyond Revenge written by Michael McCullough and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is revenge such a pervasive and destructive problem? How can we create a future in which revenge is less common and forgiveness is more common? Psychologist Michael McCullough argues that the key to a more forgiving, less vengeful world is to understand the evolutionary forces that gave rise to these intimately human instincts and the social forces that activate them in human minds today. Drawing on exciting breakthroughs from the social and biological sciences, McCullough dispenses surprising and practical advice for making the world a more forgiving place. Michael E. McCullough (Miami, Florida), an internationally recognized expert on forgiveness and revenge, is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he directs the Laboratory for Social and Clinical Psychology.