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Woman to Woman Wisdom
By Bettie Youngs. 2005
Whether your heart is burdened or bursting with joy, nothing satisfies quite like talking things over with another woman. Regardless…
of the paths our lives take, all women are "sisters"-we speak a common language; we share a universal bond. Because the hopes and dreams that both burden and give flight to a woman's heart dwell within all of us, we create relationships that are intensely rich, precious and prized. Thus, we comfort and encourage each other; we help each other through life's ups and downs; we know each other's experiences as if they were our own; we are a blessing to each other. As this book of beautiful, inspirational life lessons reveals, sharing the experiences of our lives imbues us with a wisdom the soul reveres: Nothing happens without God's permission.The Power and The Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican
By David Yallop. 2007
John Paul II and the dark heart of the Catholic Church... In 1984 David Yallops In Gods Name changed the…
way that the world looked at the Vatican. In The Power and The Glory David Yallop returns to Rome with another explosive story: the true history of the papacy of John Paul II. From the first moment of his papacy, Karol Wojtyla sought political influence and a role on the world stage. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he was the first media Pope and travelled around the world to preach his message. It is said that he was central in the fall of Soviet Eastern Europe, in particular within his own homeland of Poland. But has the real truth of this Papacy been revealed? The Power & the Glory explores the continued financial scandal involving theVatican bank, the mafia, Freemasonry, illegal money laundering and arms sales. Exposes the true extent of the Pope's failure to control the child abuse scandal. Contains explosive revelations from the CIA, the KGB, the Polish secret service and the most secretive place on earth, the Vatican itself. Tells for the first time John Paul II's real involvement in the fall of the Iron Curtain and the liberation of Poland. Uncovers the myth of the Holy Alliance between Reagan's America and the Vatican.Heaven is for Real for Kids
By Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo. 2011
Heaven is for real, and you are going to like it!Colton Burpo came back from his trip to heaven with…
a very important message: Jesus really, really loves children. In an effort to reach even more families with this eternally significant story, this runaway bestseller is now told from Colton--kid to kids! Children will receive the same comfort and assurance that so many adults have received from the trade book.Beautifully illustrated under Colton's direction, he shares his experiences in first person and comments on things that will be important to kids. A letter to parents is included to guide them as they talk to their children about heaven. Scripture along with a Q&A section with answers from the Bible are also included in the book.Out of Control
By Ben Young. 2006
With cell phones, instant messaging, express lanes, and PDAs, we can now cram more activities into our lives than ever…
before. But is this a blessing or a curse? Could it be that this fast-paced lifestyle is creating an underlying sense of anxiety and fragmentation? Is it any wonder the television is flooded with advertising for anti-anxiety medication? As a nation, we are stressed out, physically exhausted, and spiritually drained.Working professionals caught in the continual push for success or over-extended soccer moms who feel burdened with too many commitments will find in Out of Control desperately needed help. This book shares with readers the liberating truth that they are not helpless victims of our fast-paced society. Most importantly, it gives readers permission to slow down and presents practical methods for living a life of peace and simplicity.Every Day Deserves a Chance - Teen Edition
By Max Lucado. 2007
Teens are notorious for attitude issues that create struggles for their own lives and those around them. This book teaches…
that life is a gift, that gratitude is critical, how to deal with days in bite-sized portions, and to trust God through the great days and worst days.Every Day with Jesus: 365 Devotions for Kids
By Charles Stanley. 2018
Help your children grow closer to the Lord with Every Day with Jesus, the first devotional for children from beloved…
pastor Dr. Charles Stanley. Each devotion is based on the same themes as those in Dr. Stanley’s bestselling devotional for adults, Every Day in His Presence. These coordinated readings help families grow together in their faith.In his first-ever devotional for children, Dr. Charles Stanley takes to young readers his message of spending time each day with Jesus to develop a strong faith.This version being beautifully coordinated with the adult devotional Every Day in His Presence,adults and children read the same theme and Scripture each day, which is perfect for families to grow in their faith individually and together. Every reading includes a devotional message, Scripture, prayer, and daily takeaway to help young believers develop an intimate and rich relationship with Jesus.The children’s devotional is adapted for reading comprehension, vocabulary, and issues relevant to children.Dr. Stanley is a respected and trusted Christian teacher, and his beautiful devotional brings his life’s message to a whole new generation.Easter Experience: Participant's Guide
By City On A Hill. 2009
Paint yourself into the story and transform Easter into a truly life-changing experience.Once you experience the story of Easter, absolutely…
everything in your life changes. The Easter Experience is a unique, DVD-driven study which brings the passion and resurrection of Jesus to life through dramatic storytelling and challenging teaching. The participant's guide to The Easter Experience small group DVD follows the six 20-minute episodes, providing additional information, discovery questions, and tips for helping your small group grow spiritually and bond with each other as well as with the eternal message of Easter.Religiously influenced social movements tend to be characterized as products of the conservative turn in Protestant and Catholic life in…
the latter part of the twentieth century, with women's mobilizations centering on defense of the “traditional” family. In Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism, Amanda L. Izzo argues that, contrary to this view, liberal wings of Christian churches have remained an instrumental presence in U.S. and transnational politics. Women have been at the forefront of such efforts. Focusing on the histories of two highly influential groups, the Young Women’s Christian Association of the USA, an interdenominational Protestant organization, and the Maryknoll Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious order, Izzo offers new perspectives on the contributions of these women to transnational social movements, women’s history, and religious studies, as she traces the connections between turn-of-the-century Christian women’s reform culture and liberal and left-wing religious social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Izzo suggests that shared ethical, theological, and institutional underpinnings can transcend denominational divides, and that strategies for social change often associated with secular feminism have ties to spiritually inspired social movements.Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family
By Aaron Hartzler. 2013
Sometimes salvation is found in the strangest places: a true story. Aaron Hartzler grew up in a home where he…
was taught that at any moment the Rapture could happen. That Jesus might come down in the twinkling of an eye and scoop Aaron and his family up to heaven. As a kid, Aaron was thrilled by the idea that every moment of every day might be his last one on planet Earth.But as Aaron turns sixteen, he finds himself more attached to his earthly life and curious about all the things his family forsakes for the Lord. He begins to realize he doesn't want the Rapture to happen just yet--not before he sees his first movie, stars in the school play, or has his first kiss. Eventually Aaron makes the plunge from conflicted do-gooder to full-fledged teen rebel.Whether he's sneaking out, making out, or playing hymns with a hangover, Aaron learns a few lessons that can't be found in the Bible. He discovers that the best friends aren't always the ones your mom and dad approve of, and the tricky part about believing is that no one can do it for you.In this funny and heartfelt coming-of-age memoir, debut author Aaron Hartzler recalls his teenage journey to find the person he is without losing the family that loves him. It's a story about losing your faith and finding your place and your own truth--which is always stranger than fiction.Jeremiah's Scribes
By Meredith Marie Neuman. 2013
New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through…
a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the lived experience of the sermon. By reconstructing the aural culture of sermons, Neuman shifts our attention from the pulpit to the pew to demonstrate the many ways in which sermon auditors helped to shape this dominant genre of Puritan New England.Tracing the material transmission of sermon texts by readers and writers, hearers and notetakers, Jeremiah's Scribes challenges the notion of stable authorship by individual ministers. Instead, Neuman illuminates a mode of textual production that pervaded communities and occurred in the overlapping media of print, manuscript, and speech. Even printed sermons, she demonstrates, bore the traces of their roots in the oral culture of the meetinghouse.Bringing material considerations to bear on anxieties over the perceived relationship between divine and human language, Jeremiah's Scribes broadens our understanding of all Puritan literature. Neuman examines the controlling logic of the sermon in relation to nonsermonic writing--such as conversion narrative--ultimately suggesting the fundamental permeability among disparate genres of Puritan writing.Jesus in Asia
By R. S. Sugirtharajah. 2018
Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. Asians remade…
Jesus at times appreciatively and at other times critically. R. S. Sugirtharajah situates the historical Jesus beyond the narrow confines of the West and offers an eye-opening chapter in the story of global Christianity.Spiritual Direction: Wisdom For The Long Walk Of Faith (Classics Of Western Spirituality Ser.)
By Henri J. Nouwen. 2006
Henri Nouwen—beloved author, priest, and internationally recognized spiritual master, counselor, and guide—offers gentle wisdom for universal questions of the spiritual…
life:Who am I? Where have I been and where am I going? Who is God for me? Where do I belong? How can I be of service? As a priest, pastor, and professor of spirituality at Notre Dame, Yale, and Harvard, Nouwen offered spiritual direction to many students, but his famous course on spiritual direction was never recorded during his lifetime. Now, in Spiritual Direction, the first of a series, one of Nouwen's students (Michael Christensen) and one of his editors (Rebecca Laird) have developed his courses and practice of spiritual direction into a book of profound wisdom for living a deep spiritual life.Wild Truth Bible Lessons
By Mark Oestreicher. 1996
Ready to introduce your junior highers to wild examples of spiritual maturity? Check out biblical adventures of these people and…
the character qualities they exemplify -- real people who, in wild Bible stories, did really wild things for God: - Kid King . . . Josiah (influencing others) - Wise Guy, the King of Good Decisions . . . Solomon (wise decisions) - Little Timmy, the Teenage Teacher . . . Timothy (living for God while still a young teen) - Dave's posse . . . David's mighty men (doing outrageous things for God) - Whiney Bro, the Fair-Share Demander . . . the Prodigal Son's brother (demanding your rights) - Moe's Mom, the Cruise Director . . . Moses' mother (trusting God in difficult situations) - Pete, the Second-Chance Wonder . . . Peter (God's forgiveness) - Samantha, the Water Woman . . . the woman at the well (racism). You won't believe all the off-the-wall discussion starters, video ideas, scripts, games with a point -- and, of course, Bible passages you can use to springboard junior highers into topics that don't just mean the world to them, but are the world. Friendship. Embarrassment. Rights. Racism. Each lesson reaches back into history to underline for junior highers the reality of Old and New Testament people and principles -- and then reaches forward, challenging your students to make better decisions, better friends, better lives. Each lesson thoroughly preps you to teach it, including convenient reminders of what materials you need and when you need them. And in each lesson students dig into Wild Pages that bring scriptural principles right into the kids' own experience. 12 lessonsStep Up: Becoming the Leader God Made You to Be
By Denise Vaneck. 2012
How do you define leadership? What kind of leader are you? What kind of leader can you be? Can you…
be both a leader and a follower? You can get a handle on these and other crucial questions by wrapping your brain around Leadership 101. It focuses on the nuts and bolts of solid Christian leadership (prayer, service, communication, conflict management, mentoring, etc.) but also goes deep into the soul of leadership. In these pages you’ll find out why leading isn’t always what we expect—and how leaders aren’t always who we expect them to be. You’ll learn to integrate your heart with the skills of leadership. And you’ll discover how Jesus, David, and others journeyed on the leadership path—so you can join them, too. This interactive guide also includes checklists, surveys, fill-in-the-blank questions, and journal exercises so you can take your own leadership pulse, identify the traits you want to live out, and record your thoughts and prayers right on the pages—which helps you put leadership into practice more quickly and effectively. Just remember: Leadership isn’t a job…it’s a journey.The Father Glorified
By David Watson, Patrick Robertson, Gregory C. Benoit. 1982
Learn the best methods for winning people to Christ with the help of CityTeam Ministries. In a follow up to…
their book Miraculous Movements, the missionaries of CityTeam share more insights into how best to share God's love around the world. The authors take you beyond their work in Africa to California to show how the biblical principles used by the early church in the Book of Acts can work for us today.This book highlights the key scriptural principles that help Christians use faith-based discipleship to reach out in love in their own communities. The authors outline the principle of service to others that open doors of opportunity to the work of the gospel.Features include:Biblical principles for reaching new people for ChristWays to lead people to Christ by leading them through the story of the BibleStories of Gods work around the worldCatholic Modern: The Challenge Of Totalitarianism And The Remaking Of The Church
By James Chappel. 2018
In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state—disastrous concepts unleashed by the…
French Revolution. Yet by the 1960s its position was reversed. How did the world’s largest religious organization become modern? James Chappel finds answers in the shattering experiences of the 1930s.Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
By Brant Pitre. 2014
In Jesus the Bridegroom Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition and…
unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith the cross of Christ In this thrilling exploration Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution Instead the Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an everlasting nuptial covenant To be sure most Christians are familiar with the apostle Paul s teaching that Christ is the Bridegroom and the Church is the Bride But what does this really mean And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife If you would have been at the Crucifixion with Jesus hanging there dying is that how you would have described it How could a first-century Jew like Paul who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding And why does he refer to this as the great mystery Ephesians 5 32 As Pitre shows the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by going back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing the entire history of salvation from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary as a divine love story between Creator and creature between God and Israel between Christ and his bride--a story that comes to its climax on the wood of a Roman cross In the pages of Jesus the Bridegroom dozens of familiar passages in the Bible--the Exodus the Song of Songs the Wedding at Cana the Woman at the Well the Last Supper the Crucifixion and even the Second Coming at the End of Time--are suddenly transformed before our eyes Indeed when seen in the light of Jewish Scripture and tradition the life of Christ is nothing less than the greatest love story ever toldJesus Is My All in All: Praying with the Saint of Calcutta
By Mother Teresa. 2008
The postulator for Mother Teresa's cause for sainthood, Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, has culled some of her most stirring words into…
a powerful book that her admirers will treasure. JESUS IS MY ALL IN ALL follows the Roman Catholic novena format; derived from the Latin word for nine, the novena provides a nine-day rhythm of prayer and reflection. A prayer to Mother Teresa herself is the foundation for each day's reflections, which illuminate such topics as:* Finding Jesus in your heart* Becoming convinced of Jesus' love for you* Seeking guidance from Mary the Mother of Jesus* Drawing on Jesus' thirst to quench the needs of those around youAccompanied by striking full-color images, JESUS IS MY ALL IN ALL immortalizes the words and wisdom of one of humanity's most radiant women.From the Hardcover edition.Thorns in the Flesh
By Andrew Crislip. 2013
The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in…
saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of texts from the fourth through sixth centuries that reflect persistent and contentious attempts to make sense of the illness of the ostensibly holy. These sources include Lives of Antony, Paul, Pachomius, and others; theological treatises by Basil of Caesarea and Evagrius of Pontus; and collections of correspondence from the period such as the Letters of Barsanuphius and John.Through close readings of these texts, Crislip shows how late ancient Christians complicated and critiqued hagiographical commonplaces and radically reinterpreted illness as a valuable mode for spiritual and ascetic practice. Illness need not point to sin or failure, he demonstrates, but might serve in itself as a potent form of spiritual practice that surpasses even the most strenuous of ascetic labors and opens up the sufferer to a more direct knowledge of the self and the divine. Crislip provides a fresh and nuanced look at the contentious and dynamic theology of illness that emerged in and around the ascetic and monastic cultures of the later Roman world.On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision
By William Lane Craig. 2010
This concise guide is filled with illustrations sidebars and memorizable steps to help Christians stand their ground and…
defend their faith with reason and precision In his engaging style Dr Craig offers four arguments for God s existence defends the historicity of Jesus personal claims and resurrection addresses the problem of suffering and shows why religious relativism doesn t work Along the way he shares his story of following God s call in his own life This one-stop how-to-defend-your-faith manual will equip Christians to advance faith conversations deliberately applying straightforward cool-headed arguments They will discover not just what they believe but why they believe--and how being on guard with the truth has the power to change lives forever