Author: Peter VandenbergPublisher: CFAN Publications
ISBN: 1933446722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Into the Unknown: Recklessly following the call of God
Author: Peter VandenbergPublisher: CFAN Publications
ISBN: 1933446722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Balancing Act
Author: Robert SchnasePublisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426724586
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Our lives are filled to capacity with routines, habits, conversations, surprises, and disappointments. With all that's going on in life, it's easy to miss those quiet moments of grace which come more often than we realize. But they are there. In The Balancing Act, a collection of thirty short and insightful devotional readings originally written for his blog at www.fivepractices.org, Bishop Robert Schnase invites readers to take a daily look at how to watch for and include God in their lives. The Balancing Act is written to inspire prayer, conversation, questions, and change. Feel free to use it as a personal daily devotional or in small groups. Topics include spiritual attentiveness, life goals, and prayer. Readings will be grouped under weekly themes and include group discussion questions with each of the 30 readings. Listen to Bishop Schnase read from The Balancing Act. Please, Lord, Send Someone Else Somewhere Out There The Balancing Act Download a brochure on all available Five Practices products.
The Word in the Wind
Author: Bruce L. TaylorPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532682131
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The growing use and appreciation of the Common Lectionary (Revised) has stimulated renewed attention to the Christian calendar in its fullness and an enrichment of liturgical worship. In this volume, Bruce Taylor offers a collection of theologically rich, sacramentally sensitive, and biblically centered sermons for the Sundays and feast days in the first half of Year A of the Lectionary, featuring Gospel readings from Matthew with attention to the accompanying Old Testament and epistolary texts. Included is a sampling of sermons written as engaging stories, and a sermon presented during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Preachers will find here encouragement for their own homiletical observance of the liturgical year and ecumenical celebrations, and the mutual and intimate relationship between Word and Sacrament. All readers will find a thoughtful and stimulating resource for their own life of faith, witness, and devotion.
Metropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly
Author: The Homiletic Review
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Author: Reckless Faith
Author: Jo KadlecekPublisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307552632
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Bible studies on the life of Peter examine his letters, the book of Acts, and the Gospels. He was impulsive, arrogant, and passionate to a fault. Yet Jesus chose him to lead the early church. Peter, one of the most colorful of Jesus’ disciples, paints the picture of a man who wants desperately to be holy but is hampered by being all too human. Sound familiar? Reckless Faith looks at this caustic, cocky, cowardly, chosen man and what his life has to say to Christians today. Through a study of his letters, the book of Acts, and the Gospels, Peter springs off the page as one who held nothing back, lived large, and was used by God despite his most sinful nature. This Fisherman Resource includes author commentary, interactive questions, and opportunities for reflection as you discover how God allows us to come to him as holy and human. Great for individual study or in a group, Reckless Faith will show you that being a follower of God doesn’t necessarily mean having it all together.
Malestrom
Author: Carolyn Custis JamesPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310586259
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Updated and expanded—with a new foreword by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne—Malestrom provides a redemptive vision of biblical manhood and a way through the treacherous seas of patriarchy. Like the danger of a maelstrom in the open seas, a relentless force threatens our culture, swirling with hidden currents that distorts God's image of personhood. This book reveals how the malestrom is one of the Enemy's single most successful strategies. Its victories are flashed before us every day in the headlines as men lose sight of who God created them to be. It has consumed the evangelical church that stoops to offering toxic "manly" solutions to the wrongs it perceives in society and distracts from the rich potential God has entrusted to his sons. Digging deeply into the stories of men in the Bible who subverted cultural hierarchies, Carolyn Custis James shows us how countercultural God's design for men really is. Through personal story, biblical commentary, and cultural analysis, Custis James: Makes a strong case for the unbiblical nature of patriarchy. Illuminates the sociology of marginalization and cultural gender roles. Takes a close biblical look at Jesus and what his character and humanity means to the men of the church today. Malestrom offers what we so desperately need—a biblical, global, timeless vision of godly personhood that is big enough to encompass the diversity of men's lives and strong enough to withstand the crises they face. "It is one thing to critique the abuses of a domineering masculinity and lament the religious and societal consequences, but Carolyn Custis James takes the next crucial step and offers us a better path forward. For those asking, "What now?" Malestrom serves as a sure-footed guide." —Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Wrinkled Sheets and God’S Grace
Author: Doreen Priscilla BrownPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491736844
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Too many people, particularly young women, find themselves at the crossroads of life saddled with guilt, pain, and conflict because of unwise relational choices. Others find themselves at still a different crossroad where they are conflicted about choosing a partnerwhether to wait on God, help God out, or just throw in the towel. In Wrinkled Sheets and Gods Grace, author Doreen Priscilla Brown presents relevant spiritual insights into making the right choices in relationships, and she provides comfort through God to those women who have been hurt by their unwise choices. Through scriptural references, stories from the Bible, and inspirational quotations, she communicates the importance of selecting a partner who shares the same spiritual values and life goalsmaking sure Jesus plays a central role. Providing insight into such topics as premarital sex and living together before marriage, Wrinkled Sheets and Gods Grace explains that for a relationship to be all God wants it to be, both parties have to be intentional about putting Jesus Christ first and last in all matters and be willing to function under the authority of his statutes.
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