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Vastyd is ’n pelgrimsreis van 40 dae wat altyd op ’n Woensdag begin (Aswoensdag) en op ’n Saterdag (Donkersaterdag/Stil Saterdag) eindig. Hierdie boek fokus op ’n metaforiese pelgrimsreis wat by “ashoop” begin en 40 dae later by “hoop” eindig en vra die volgende vrae: Hoe skud ’n mens jou “valse self” af? Hoe laat jy emosionele bagasie agter? Hoe leef ’n mens met hoop in ’n wêreld wat al minder hoopvol lyk? Hoe word jy ’n vrygewiger mens? Hoe daag jy ’n verbruikerskultuur uit? Is dit...
| Автор | Ronell Bezuidenhout |
Toe Daniël Basson vir Anna Catharina die eerste keer soen, is dit op aanbeveling van sy neef Arnoldus. Dié het hom die raad gegee om ’n vrou te kies wat hóm liefhet en die een te vergeet op wie hy so hopeloos beenaf is. Anna is van kleins af verlief op Daniël en sy verruil met plesier haar gemaklike lewe vir die harde bestaan van ’n boervrou op ’n afgeleë Karooplaas, sonder om selfs op hul troudag seker te wees dat Daniël haar net so volkome liefhet soos sy vir hom. Onderlinge struweling is daar...
| Автор | Helena Hugo |
Recovering Benedict encourages us to nourish our physical and spiritual lives using the Rule of Benedict and the twelve-step recovery principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. As the “father of Western monasticism,” Benedict pulled together various strands of monastic spirituality into a single handbook for holiness. Alcoholics Anonymous presented an equally innovative way to address alcoholism based on twelve steps drawn from numerous spiritual sources. While it took a sixth-century Italian...
| Автор | John Edward Crean Jr. |
The Wesley Study Bible gives you a fresh way to hear God’s voice, share in God’s grace, and become more like Jesus Christ through study of the scriptures. Journey with popular author, Maxie Dunnam, as he guides you with steps to read through the Bible in one year. These fifty-two devotions refer to the Life Application Topics in the Wesley Study Bible, so that you will grow as a more faithful disciple. These heart warming stories and prayers will form you as a follower of Jesus—whose daily life...
| Автор | Maxie Dunnam |
Since it was first introduced in the Summer of 2000, Common Praise the new Hymns Ancient & Modern has sold over one hundred thousand copies, and been adopted by parishes in every diocese in England and Wales including eight English cathedrals and in five of the seven dioceses in Scotland. It is also used in numerous schools, colleges, hospitals, residential homes, retreat houses, religious communities, crematoria, missions and military garrison chapels.
| Автор | Hymns Ancient and Modern |
Tsoknyi Rinpoche is a reincarnate lama educated in the Tibetan Buddhisttradition. He has been teaching students from around the world since 1990.“Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keepon bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; itgets very claustrophobic. Carefree means being wide open from within,not constricted. Carefree doesn’t mean careless. It is not that you don’tcare about others, not that...
| Автор | Tsoknyi Rinpoche |
Quintessential Dzogchen elucidates how our confusion can dawn aswisdom. Arranged for the simple meditator, these pithy instructionsstrike the heart of the Buddha’s teachings by explaining how to bothacknowledge and train in your own enlightened essence.Quintessential Dzogchen is an invaluable handbook replete with sourcematerials for those who seek further guidance. In forty-two writings bysome of the greatest masters, both past and present, as well as excerptsfrom the most profound...
| Автор | Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche |
Why are 80 percent of our congregations stagnant or dying? There are a variety of reasons. This book dives deeply into one of the main reasons–the failure to adapt to the cultural changes of our day. When the Reformation began 500 years ago it sparked a number of radical changes (like worshipping in the vernacular rather than in Latin, etc.) that shocked the church. Over time many saw the merit of those changes and adapted. In the very same way today, major cultural changes are taking place. Is...
| Автор | J. Fred Lehr |
Resisting Tyranny is a new book about an American Revolutionary patriot, Matthew Lyon, a Congressman from Vermont, who was thrown into jail for criticizing then President John Adams under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. This is the story of a young Irish immigrant who became a leader in the Republican Party of his time, a crusading newspaper editor, and the founder of a town in Vermont and another in Kentucky. His legacy makes history come alive in our time with warnings for us to treasure...
| Автор | John C. Morgan |
