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Author Karen Barnstable wanted to leave her family with a journal and legacy of her significant life events, experiences and memories showing how in retrospect God had walked her through every life situation. This exercise of personal reflection and journaling led to the development of a unique process that will help others look at what God has done and is doing in each of our own lives. For those who have been thinking about capturing their life experiences on paper, or writing their...
| Автор | Karen Y. Barnstable |
addressed to the English-speaking reading public interested in grasping the meaning and message of the Qur’ansome basic Qur’anic terms, concepts and themes are explained in simple languageintended to help readers get an idea of the Qur’anic worldview – the articles of faith, particularly the concepts of God, Messengership and the HereafterReligious duties in Islam – Prayer, Fasting, Zakah and Hajj are elucidated mainly in terms of their rationale, and their all-pervading impact on man’s personal...
| Автор | Abdur Raheem Kidwai |
Preaching Black Lives (Matter) is an anthology that asks, “What does it mean to be church where if Black lives matter?” Prophetic imagination would have us see a future in which all Christians would be free of the soul-warping belief and practice of racism. This collection of reflections is an incisive look into that future today. It explains why preaching about race is important in the elimination of racism in the church and society, and how preaching has the ability to transform hearts....
| Автор | Gayle Fisher-Stewart |
The Courageous Gospel is intended for use alongside a commentary (Ashton, Brown, Bultmann, Barrett, other) in a class introducing the Fourth Gospel. The book has four parts: –A succinct summary of key matters of introduction; –A collection of sermons on the Gospel's core chapters, with reflective reminiscence and remembrance of what Raymond Brown said in lecture about the Gospel thirty years ago; –A series of background lectures that attempt, on the one hand, to honor the key...
| Автор | Robert Allan Hill |
In this book Dan Dunn proposes that the biblical theme of life is extremely important and thus provides a helpful foundation for the theory and practice of evangelism. He makes a strong case for Christ-followers to embrace a life-based evangelistic vision as a way to help non-believers choose the full and vibrant life that God intends for them in Jesus. While making this strong case, he also urges readers to avoid casting aside other evangelistic visions (such as those based on discipleship, the...
| Автор | Dan W. Dunn |
Cordell Strug served as a Lutheran pastor for almost twenty-eight years in rural Minnesota. In these stories and reflections, he gives a picture of a pastor's life from the inside. He writes of sitting with the dying and meeting with the angry, of visiting shut-ins and writing sermons, of lonely drives over frozen roads, of work he can't finish and wounds he can't heal. He is candid about what surprised or bothered him, about his misjudgments and failures, about the ever-growing...
| Автор | Cordell Strug |
How do people think about God as they look death squarely in the face? This is the central question in The Spiritual Lives of Dying People. Here are the stories of fifteen people who confront death in their own ways and who find spiritual strength in their faith. This is also the story of a remarkable and gifted priest, one who has made ministry with the chronically ill a special focus of his pastoral life and has guided people not only through their dying but also to God. In this book, readers...
| Автор | Paul A. Scaglione |
Meditate on these things . . . The discipline of meditating day and night in the Book of the Lord (Joshua 1; Psalm 1) is a costly art, hard won in any age–perhaps even more so in today's stressful times of multi-tasking ministry and cut-and-paste computing. First hand-written in black-and-red notebooks from scraps of paper, using only a King James Bible and a Strong's Concordance, The House of God records the spiritual exercise of a working pastor and itinerant preacher over eighteen...
| Автор | Rev. John Peter Bodner |
This book will help seminary students and ministers with no training in accounting to expand their core management competency and church leadership skills to include basic issues of finance and accounting. It will also provide pastors/ministers with financial management orientation to become better leaders/managers of their churches and organizations. Specifically, this book is designed to bring pastors, ministers, and seminary students up to speed in the language of accounting and money in...
| Автор | Nimi Wariboko |
Jesus and Menachem places Jesus (Jeshua) in the historical context of the Roman occupation of Judea Second Temple period The fictional character of Menachem is introduced to deepen and clarify the relationship between Jesus, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Zealots, and Rome. In a1949 review in Commentary magazine, this book is compared favorably to The Nazarene by Sholem Asch. Menachem fights the Romans at the side of the Zealot Ben-Necher, killing them as he murmurs «thou shalt not kill.»...
| Автор | Siegfried E. van Praag |
All of us yearn for a peaceable and just world, but some roll up their sleeves and set to work to make the dream real. Blessed Peacemakers celebrates 365 of them, one for each day of the year. Their stories are richly diverse. They share a commitment to peace and justice, but the various contexts in which they work make each of their stories uniquely instructive. The peacemakers include women, men, and children from across the globe, spanning some twenty-five hundred years. Many are persons...
| Автор | Robin Jarrell |
The subtitle of Maggie Ross's new book captures its essence, for it is about silence and our need to behold God. Beholding is a notion that we are in danger of losing. It is often lost in translation, even by the NRSV and the Jerusalem Bible. Beholding needs to be recovered both in theology and practice. Ross is very aware of «poor talkative Christianity.» There is a twofold plea to enter into silence–for lack of silence erodes our humanity–and to behold the radiance of God. This is a...
| Автор | Maggie Ross |
There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality. One vast resource of spiritual wisdom comes from the pre-Reformation church–from the martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity, through the long tradition of monasticism, to the medieval Christian mystics. These are the deep wells of Christian reflection from persons such as John Chrysostom, Augustine, Benedict, Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, Bernard of Clairvaux, Meister Eckhart, Hildegard of Bingen, and Julian of Norwich, to mention...
| Автор | Charles R. Ringma |
