Author: Edward Hays
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516438
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Lent calls each of us to be hobos, HOmeward BOund pilgrims who cannot rest until we rest in God, our final destination. With insight, art and a touch of humor, Edward Hays guides us along a Lenten way that takes no shortcuts or easy ways out while at the same time making the way a honeymoon, a joy-filled journey with God homeward to God. Filled with hobo marking art pieces, which point the reader along a path of a fruitful Lent, all the way to a joyous Easter.
A Lenten Hobo Honeymoon
Author: Edward Hays
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516438
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Lent calls each of us to be hobos, HOmeward BOund pilgrims who cannot rest until we rest in God, our final destination. With insight, art and a touch of humor, Edward Hays guides us along a Lenten way that takes no shortcuts or easy ways out while at the same time making the way a honeymoon, a joy-filled journey with God homeward to God. Filled with hobo marking art pieces, which point the reader along a path of a fruitful Lent, all the way to a joyous Easter.
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516438
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Lent calls each of us to be hobos, HOmeward BOund pilgrims who cannot rest until we rest in God, our final destination. With insight, art and a touch of humor, Edward Hays guides us along a Lenten way that takes no shortcuts or easy ways out while at the same time making the way a honeymoon, a joy-filled journey with God homeward to God. Filled with hobo marking art pieces, which point the reader along a path of a fruitful Lent, all the way to a joyous Easter.
Jump into the Story
Author: Ray R. Friesen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532670427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Preaching is a challenging, privileged, and awesome responsibility. As important as mining the text for its meaning and message and making connections to our twenty-first-century world is the responsibility to engage the imaginations of the people in the pews (or chairs). In this book, Ray Friesen--life-long preacher and retired pastor--has provided twenty examples of how to be creative and engage those imaginations. Most were written under the pressures of bi-vocational ministry (preaching forty times a year as half-time pastor and operating a mediation practice). They are offered to you, not as sermons for you to preach, but as examples of what is possible, even with all the other responsibilities you may have. Each sermon and type of creativity will create an opportunity to set your imagination and creativity free to engage the imaginations, hearts, and dreams of your parishioners.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532670427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Preaching is a challenging, privileged, and awesome responsibility. As important as mining the text for its meaning and message and making connections to our twenty-first-century world is the responsibility to engage the imaginations of the people in the pews (or chairs). In this book, Ray Friesen--life-long preacher and retired pastor--has provided twenty examples of how to be creative and engage those imaginations. Most were written under the pressures of bi-vocational ministry (preaching forty times a year as half-time pastor and operating a mediation practice). They are offered to you, not as sermons for you to preach, but as examples of what is possible, even with all the other responsibilities you may have. Each sermon and type of creativity will create an opportunity to set your imagination and creativity free to engage the imaginations, hearts, and dreams of your parishioners.
Emerging Evangelicals
Author: James S. Bielo
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with America’s conservative Evangelical sub-culture. It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly oppose what they consider overly slick, corporate, and consumerist versions of faith. A core feature of their response is a challenge to traditional congregational models, often focusing on new church plants and creating networks of related house churches. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, James S. Bielo explores the impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelicals. He combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement’s history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics, and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics to rethink the boundaries of “Evangelical” as a category. Ultimately, Bielo makes a novel contribution to our understanding of the important changes at work among American Protestants, and illuminates how Emerging Evangelicals interact with the cultural conditions of modernity, late modernity, and visions of “postmodern” Christianity.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with America’s conservative Evangelical sub-culture. It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly oppose what they consider overly slick, corporate, and consumerist versions of faith. A core feature of their response is a challenge to traditional congregational models, often focusing on new church plants and creating networks of related house churches. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, James S. Bielo explores the impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelicals. He combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement’s history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics, and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics to rethink the boundaries of “Evangelical” as a category. Ultimately, Bielo makes a novel contribution to our understanding of the important changes at work among American Protestants, and illuminates how Emerging Evangelicals interact with the cultural conditions of modernity, late modernity, and visions of “postmodern” Christianity.
Prodigals
Author: Greg Ross Taylor
Publisher: ACU Press
ISBN: 1684268753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The most famous story of Jesus retold Prodigals digs deeply into each line from Jesus’s famous parable about the prodigal son, inviting all readers―those down on their luck or high on their horse―to identify as prodigals. A prodigal is anyone who accepts they have a sinful human nature and turns toward the love of home, the place where we find a deeper relationship with God. Rather than divide the world into prodigals and nonprodigals, Taylor invites readers to find themselves in the teaching of Jesus as either younger or elder siblings. The life-changing power of the book comes when readers begin to identify with the characters in the story and join in the prayers and calls for transformation that conclude the chapters. -Proceeds from the book benefit 1256movement.org. -The author has lived and traveled internationally and relates the greatest parable Jesus ever told to his experiences across the United States and countries such as Israel, Uganda, the Netherlands, and Honduras. -The author has set up an email account to receive prodigal stories from readers for possible inclusion in future editions of Prodigals: [email protected].
Publisher: ACU Press
ISBN: 1684268753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The most famous story of Jesus retold Prodigals digs deeply into each line from Jesus’s famous parable about the prodigal son, inviting all readers―those down on their luck or high on their horse―to identify as prodigals. A prodigal is anyone who accepts they have a sinful human nature and turns toward the love of home, the place where we find a deeper relationship with God. Rather than divide the world into prodigals and nonprodigals, Taylor invites readers to find themselves in the teaching of Jesus as either younger or elder siblings. The life-changing power of the book comes when readers begin to identify with the characters in the story and join in the prayers and calls for transformation that conclude the chapters. -Proceeds from the book benefit 1256movement.org. -The author has lived and traveled internationally and relates the greatest parable Jesus ever told to his experiences across the United States and countries such as Israel, Uganda, the Netherlands, and Honduras. -The author has set up an email account to receive prodigal stories from readers for possible inclusion in future editions of Prodigals: [email protected].
Crossing Boundaries, Redefining Faith
Author: Michael Clawson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498219683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Emerging Church Movement, an eclectic conversation about how Christianity needs to evolve for our postmodern world, has been breaking traditional bounds and stirring up controversy for more than two decades. This volume is the first academic work to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to understanding this complex and boundary-crossing phenomenon. Containing contributions by researchers from a diverse set of disciplines, this book brings together historical, sociological, ethnographic, anthropological, and theological approaches to offer the most thorough and multifaceted description of the Emerging Church Movement to date. Contributors: Juan Jose Barreda Toscano Dee Yaccino Gerardo Marti Lloyd Chia Jason Wollschleger James S. Bielo Jon Bialecki Heather Josselyn-Cranson Xochitl Alviso Chris James Tim Snyder
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498219683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Emerging Church Movement, an eclectic conversation about how Christianity needs to evolve for our postmodern world, has been breaking traditional bounds and stirring up controversy for more than two decades. This volume is the first academic work to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to understanding this complex and boundary-crossing phenomenon. Containing contributions by researchers from a diverse set of disciplines, this book brings together historical, sociological, ethnographic, anthropological, and theological approaches to offer the most thorough and multifaceted description of the Emerging Church Movement to date. Contributors: Juan Jose Barreda Toscano Dee Yaccino Gerardo Marti Lloyd Chia Jason Wollschleger James S. Bielo Jon Bialecki Heather Josselyn-Cranson Xochitl Alviso Chris James Tim Snyder
The Crisis of Authority – Workforce Tensions
Author: Myrah K. Mashigo-Tshabalala
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493138901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The public service in South Africa faces an enormous challenge in improving service delivery not only to meet the citizens expectations but to ensure quality life for the nation. The urgent need exists to establish what went wrong and how can the situation be turned around. The book established the root causes and the link between two key challenges identified by the government; management weaknesses and the absence of a strong performance culture. It offers critical approaches to cleanse and humanise the workplace, restore sanity, level-headedness. Reflection, Introspection, Self-Interrogation and Self - therapy are key in this whole equation.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493138901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The public service in South Africa faces an enormous challenge in improving service delivery not only to meet the citizens expectations but to ensure quality life for the nation. The urgent need exists to establish what went wrong and how can the situation be turned around. The book established the root causes and the link between two key challenges identified by the government; management weaknesses and the absence of a strong performance culture. It offers critical approaches to cleanse and humanise the workplace, restore sanity, level-headedness. Reflection, Introspection, Self-Interrogation and Self - therapy are key in this whole equation.
Prayer Notes to a Friend
Author: Edward Hays
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516674
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Creatively suggests new ways to give breath to your soul and to nourish your prayer. Short reflections with powerful insights about how to enhance and renew your daily prayer.
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516674
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Creatively suggests new ways to give breath to your soul and to nourish your prayer. Short reflections with powerful insights about how to enhance and renew your daily prayer.
The Great Escape Manual
Author: Edward M. Hays
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516568
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Presents escape plans that will help you break through the walls of anger, fear, impatience, advancing old age, crowded schedules, and work. Each chapter concludes with reflections and a "how to" section of practical techniques for liberation.
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516568
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Presents escape plans that will help you break through the walls of anger, fear, impatience, advancing old age, crowded schedules, and work. Each chapter concludes with reflections and a "how to" section of practical techniques for liberation.
St. George and the Dragon and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Author:
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Once again, parable-man and storyteller Edward Hays opens the doors of the mind's magic theatre and provides a collection of mystic maps to guide readers on the path to the most fabulous of all hidden treasures--the Holy Grail. Illustrations by the author.
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Once again, parable-man and storyteller Edward Hays opens the doors of the mind's magic theatre and provides a collection of mystic maps to guide readers on the path to the most fabulous of all hidden treasures--the Holy Grail. Illustrations by the author.
The Lenten Labyrinth
Author: Edward Hays
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516223
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The journeys of Lent and of life are seldom straight roads, but are usually like complicated mazes or labyrinths. While we often can feel lost along the complex twisting patterns of the labyrinth path, to travel the maze of the Way is the greatest of all adventures. This guidebook of daily reflections for this journey of transformation has the power to change "to radically enrich" our way of thinking, loving and believing. Each day's reflection-which takes but a few minutes to read-is followed by brief questions/exercises aimed at inspiring personal implications. Short of time? A few minutes daily with Father Hays can nourish a hungry soul for 24 hours. Both books of daily Lenten reflections-The Ascent of the Mountain of God and The Lenten Labyrinth-maximize our limited resources of time, making our journey through Lent into the heart of Holy Week a time of real renewal.
Publisher: Forest of Peace Publishing
ISBN: 9780939516223
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The journeys of Lent and of life are seldom straight roads, but are usually like complicated mazes or labyrinths. While we often can feel lost along the complex twisting patterns of the labyrinth path, to travel the maze of the Way is the greatest of all adventures. This guidebook of daily reflections for this journey of transformation has the power to change "to radically enrich" our way of thinking, loving and believing. Each day's reflection-which takes but a few minutes to read-is followed by brief questions/exercises aimed at inspiring personal implications. Short of time? A few minutes daily with Father Hays can nourish a hungry soul for 24 hours. Both books of daily Lenten reflections-The Ascent of the Mountain of God and The Lenten Labyrinth-maximize our limited resources of time, making our journey through Lent into the heart of Holy Week a time of real renewal.