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We live in a performance-driven world–a world that measures our status through results and accomplishments. The reality is that we shift this kind of thinking on God. We create a performance-driven God and fool ourselves into thinking that God's expectations must be achieved, or we are doomed. But the truth is that God is not a God who expects performance. Rather, He is a God of grace. He understands that we will fail, and that is why He redeems us in Christ. In Lessons Learned from...
| Автор | Robert Snitko |
Sing, Lost Soul is a celebration, a commemoration, an observance, an ode. Textured by time and toned by the world, this collection lauds life in both its profundity and simplicity. There is familiarity when reading Coppock's poems–a sense of experience, or at least a sense of perceiving experience. Like a dream, you slip in easily, remain awhile, and upon waking, the realization dawns: «I've been there before,» or, «I felt that once, long ago.» Weaving words to nurture and name the...
| Автор | Karl Coppock |
Recinos fell in love with poetry growing up on the streets, after being abandoned by immigrant Latino parents. Finding shelter in public libraries, Recinos discovered that poetry was a way to make sense of living on the streets in the pitiable condition of teen homelessness and heroin addiction. After being unofficially adopted at the age of sixteen into a white American family from Ohio that moved to New York, he began a drug-free life, went to college, and eventually earned a PhD in cultural...
| Автор | Harold J. Recinos |
„Weihnachtswundernacht“ versammelt 24 neue Geschichten von bekannten und beliebten Autorinnen und Autoren. Mal mit viel Humor, mal tiefgehend, aber immer unterhaltsam erzählen sie vom Wunder der Weihnachtsnacht.
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Wie gut: Wir können lernen, dankbar zu sein! Wer es schafft, das Gute im Leben zu sehen und dafür dankbar zu sein, tut sich leichter im Umgang mit seinen Mitmenschen und letztendlich mit sich selbst. Klug und mit viel Humor zeigt Hanna Backhaus ganz praktisch, wie der Perspektivenwechsel zur Dankbarkeit als Lebenseinstellung gelingen kann. Eine Einladung zum Lachen und Lernen, mit Übungen und Aphorismen, ermutigend und lebensnah.
| Автор | Hanna Backhaus |
Treat yourself to a bold adventure through the Bible. You will start off in familiar territory, but will soon find yourself exploring ancient texts from the time of Jesus and beyond. These new viewpoints will bring different answers than you may be used to hearing and reading. It will take courage to start such an extreme walk, but once you get out there, nothing can beat the view. Extreme Walking is an advanced course in Bible reading. Through a series of topics that will shed new light on...
| Автор | Tom de Bruin |
Bazyn's poems seek to encourage Christians of all stripes to present a new song unto the Lord–by actual example and useful advice. All sorts of issues relating to creativity are touched upon, whether theological, psychological, sociological, philosophical, linguistic, or autobiographical. Among the topics covered: finding your own voice; reading widely and deeply in the classics; being spare, concise in your style; discovering your genuine self beneath its assorted masks; taking...
| Автор | Ken Bazyn |
Our churches and our country long for an expression of common hope. Over the last century, venerable voices in affirmation of a common faith and a common ground have been lifted and heard in Boston, such as those of John Dewey and Howard Thurman. The Dean of Marsh Chapel, Robert Allan Hill, has preached on themes related to a common hope since 2006. Hill has lifted the theology of hope, of a common hope, at the marrow of the gospel. We cherish our forebears, who taught about a common faith and...
| Автор | Robert Allan Hill |
What you are about to read comes from the heart of the Apostle Paul, that great missionary theologian of the first century AD. It is remarkable that our understanding of the Christian faith rests primarily on thirteen letters written by a convert from rabbinic Judaism. No other set of ancient manuscripts has made such a dramatic impact on civilization over the past two millennia. Written to various churches in what we now call Asia Minor, they reveal the unique way in which God allowed the truth...
| Автор | Robert H. Mounce |
Sich regelmäßig geistliches „Kraftfutter“ zuzuführen ist wichtig, keine Frage. Allerdings erweist sich der gute Vorsatz, täglich eine Andacht zu lesen, meist als unhaltbar – ganz realistisch schafft man es nur etwa alle zwei Tage. Deshalb ist dieses Andachtsbuch für jeden zweiten Tag des Jahres, ein „Andachtsbuch für Aufrichtige“, sozusagen.
| Автор | Thomas Klappstein (Hrsg.) |
Es ist keine bedeutende Gemeinde, die sich der Gründer der Kirche für seinen Besuch ausgewählt hat. Und wie schon vor 2000 Jahren hält er sich wieder nicht an die Spielregeln und zeremoniellen Abläufe. Für die einen wird er zum Stein des Anstoßes, für die anderen zum Retter und Befreier … Die tief bewegende Geschichte einer unverhofften und unerwarteten Wiederkehr, die das Herz eines Menschen und die Grundfesten ganzer Kirchen erschüttern kann.
| Автор | Adrian Plass |
In diesem Buch umwandert der Autor immer denselben höchsten Berg. Oft bewegt er sich nicht und betrachtet seine majestätische Schönheit. Dann bestaunt er ihn von einem anderen Standpunkt, doch es ist immer derselbe stabile Berg namens Liebe.
| Автор | Simon Kyung-ha Herz |
Jack and Diane. Two names joined in the common parlance by a pop song. They are also the aliases of two people whose real names–Adam and Eve–are no less joined in the common parlance, and represent the divine calling they share–a calling to show humanity the way back to the garden of Eden. Neither knows the other exists until their travels lead them to the same town. It is there that their mission begins–a mission that unleashes terrors, teaches lessons, and yields the answers they hope will...
| Автор | Stephen Campana |
You are holding a collection of short stories that reveal how every aspect of life takes a particular dimension when considered from the perspective of faith in relationship with everyday experiences. From the darkness of human selfishness, the author manages to bring forth the light of God, inviting us to feel gratitude even under the most challenging situations. Rev. Andinach has transcended the dogma of religion to share with us the bittersweet experience of simply being a human being...
| Автор | Pablo R. Andiñach |
What does prayer look like in contemporary America? With a welcoming tone and plainspoken diction, the forty poems in Hansen's collection explore that question. Including elements of autobiography, Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life investigates Christianity in the present, depicting a faith in God that is continuously in flux. Readers journey through the seasons of the church year as Hansen recounts doubts, conversions, frustrations, and confessions. Ultimately, these poems are...
| Автор | Nathaniel Lee Hansen |
The lexicon of the church is confusing to those who are not a part of the culture. Given the great commission and our call to «make disciples» (Matt 28), I have thought a lot about how to explain some of the terms long time church attenders are very familiar with in a way that invites new believers into the conversation that has been going on for centuries. This devotional includes definitions of words often used in Scripture and church culture. All of the definitions are taken from the...
| Автор | David S. Smith |
Jesus invited his disciples to be with him in Gethsemane as he struggled with his own hour of death. These Lenten devotions are intended to help us do just that: to be with Jesus in his hour(s) facing dying–not just as observers, but as fellow mortals, with all of our own fears and anxieties. The daily exposure and interaction with texts of Scripture related to Jesus' own dying will bring the reader into close interaction with Jesus and biblical sources of promise and hope. Through...
| Автор | Dale Goldsmith |
Dieses Buch schildert die Geschichte des bedeutendsten Helden der Weltgeschichte, der die Menschheit tatsächlich vor dem endgültigen Untergang retten wird: Jesus Christus. Es geht in dieser packenden Geschichte um die Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem Guten und dem Bösen schlechthin – und ihren Protagonisten.
| Автор | Ellen White |
„Danke, Gott, auch fürs Kompott!“ (Neuaufl age) ist eine Sammlung origineller Tischgebete für alle Gelegenheiten. Alle Gebete sind bewusst kurz und in Reimform gehalten, sie trainieren nicht nur die Sprachfähigkeit und das Rhythmusgefühl, sondern sie lassen sich so auch viel schneller merken und auch mal in der Schule oder woanders beten.
| Автор | Annette List |
Achtsamkeit heißt: zur Ruhe zu kommen, Gutes dankbar wahrzunehmen und Gegebenes, das man nicht ändern kann, zu akzeptieren. Die gute Nachricht: Achtsamkeit lässt sich einüben. Hans-Arved Willberg zeigt Wege auf, wie Sie Ihre inneren Schweinehunde und Sorgengeister austricksen können.
| Автор | Hans-Arved Willberg |
Eine spirituelle Erzählung über die eine unendliche bedingungslose Liebe.
| Автор | Simon Kyung-ha Herz |
In seventeenth-century France, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717) writes about the suffering of the apocalypse followed by the consummation of the second coming. Guyon believed that in our earthly pilgrimage, we may find the way to union with our Savior Jesus Christ. To read her commentary on Revelation–translated into English here for the first time–is to be caught up in her conversation with the living Lord. We experience the wonder and passion of this conversation which is her authenticity at its...
| Автор | Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon |
The desire and struggle to pray pulses through this spiritually resonant collection in forms as various as psalms, Tai Chi, meditation, needlework, lament, and thanksgiving. Even poems not overtly about prayer lead the reader into prayer-like contemplation as the poet considers war, environmental devastation, corporate greed, and poverty as personal, as well as sociopolitical, subjects. Crossing borders between the distant and the local, the historic and the contemporary, I Call to You from...
| Автор | Judith Sornberger |
The question «What is human nature?» is in vogue today. Like everything else, this concept is being deconstructed in the context of the reigning ideology of individualistic materialism. Is there a fixed human nature, or is this simply a manipulatable social construct with no objective reference? This book says: «Yes, there is: the imago Dei: man/woman created in the image of God.» Hobson argues that this text from Genesis 1:26-28 is a God-given anthropological revelation that establishes the...
| Автор | George Hobson |