Download or read book Things that No Longer Delight Me written by Leslie C. Chang and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes: I like objects for company, to decorate the plainest spaces, decorum and I amass details, jade bracelet, her animal-print dresses, an oval coral cameo. How do objects counter loneliness, she asks, and speak to us of how to behave? In Things That No Longer Delight Me, lyric is driven by a compulsion or need to collect, in order to make sense of the past and stay connected to it. And what if that connection were to be lost? Confronting loss, the book pieces together a family history from stories fragmented and overheard. It asks: What is hearsay and what is history? It seeks to embody story, or historical detail, in lyric form. Resisting nostalgia, its poems respect what is diminished by grief or loss yet reveal details that hold sway over us and give us continuing pleasure.

Download or read book The Pleasures of God written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia

Download or read book The Book of More Delights written by Ross Gay and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Download or read book When I Don t Desire God written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining how to become a Christian hedonist, a bestselling author offers guidance on how to find spiritual joy to readers who are unsure of where to seek it.

Download or read book The Dangerous Duty of Delight written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2001 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen your relationship with God by enjoying Him and His creation! Discover just how to delight in the Lord in this compact version of Piper's classic Desiring God.

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Download or read book BEULAH HalleluYAH written by Marcia Quainoo and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beulah HalleluYAH is purposed to bring glory to our Father in heaven by serving the community through giving, praising, testifying, and trusting the Lord. HalleluYAH! It was a few years ago, when I was attending my daughter's graduation, that the spirit of the Lord awakened me by calling me "beulah." At that time, I had no idea of the true essence of beulah, but I knew (by the spirit of the Lord) that it was in the Bible and the Lord wanted me to seek out the meaning. Beulah referenced the church to come. The bride that was no longer forsaken or desolated. HalleluYAH! As the church, when we die to self and submit to the will of God, we can become who God says we are. HalleluYAH! The Lord was prophetically speaking in the "now" tense. The Lord has seen me. He wanted me to see me, just as He wants you to see you. There is much that I can say as prelude to this testimony, but I have committed to staying in the "now" and giving God all the praise for what only He has done. HalleluYAH! I will leave this with you. The Lord asked me, while on this journey, "What is most important, your desire or my will for your life?" My answer, "Your will is most important, Lord." I ask you the same question. Beulah HalleluYAH proves God's Word to be true. It is written, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6:33). Trust God. Keep the faith. Wait on the Lord. Amen.

Download or read book Private Thoughts on Religion written by Thomas Adam and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Private Thoughts on Religion and a Christian Life written by William Beveridge and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Private thoughts on religion and a Christian life written by William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Angela of Foligno s Memorial written by Angela (of Foligno) and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful voice of major Italian medieval woman mystic, translated with commentary. Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She devoted herself to a relentless pursuit of God when as a middle-aged woman she lost her mother, husband and children; illiterate herself, she dictated her experiences to her confessor, who transcribed her words into Latin as the Memorial. In a direct and vigorous style, it tells of her suffering, visions, joy, identification with Christ, and finally her mystical union with God. However, her book has always been viewed with suspicion, indeed even bordering on heresy; her spirituality goes beyond conventional language as well as beyond accepted doctrines and modes of prayer. This annotated selection from the Memorial is preceded by a biographical introduction which places Angela's text in its historical, cultural, and spiritual context; the accompanying interpretive essay which follows compares Angela's experience with that of twentieth-century Christian feminist theologians. The volume is completed with an annotated bibliography. CRISTINA MAZZONI is Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languagesand Linguistics at the University of Vermont.

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Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire's brilliant satire, in the original French, with a new and exacting English translation on the opposing page. Through the adventures of Candide, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes, see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring — all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty burlesque of human excess.