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"Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation," writes the apostle. In this collection of poetry, the author applies those phrases, responding to God's sometimes-dark providences with the light of Scriptural meditation. The manifold themes of the inspired Psalms shine out, giving endurance to those who wait for the Lord's deliverances, expressing a longing for justice to those who are confronted by God's enemies, interceding for mercy to those who are lost, and rejoicing in a...
| Автор | D. E. Young |
Have you ever read (or tried to read) the Bible and wondered if it makes any sense? Often, when we read about God's plan for the world in the Bible, we are confused and uncertain about what he is actually doing. We read the books (or parts of them) that we find in the Bible, attempt to piece together the different names and events, and often do so without clarity of understanding, or any concept of the historical situation and/or Bible characters. We look at all of the oblique parts of the...
| Автор | Rod Culbertson |
The ancient rhythm of night becoming day becoming night again has always set the tempo of our everyday lives. The daily spin and tilt of the Earth rules our clocks and calendars as well as our human bodies. Yet our minutes and hours and days all too often slip away completely unnoticed. For generations and cultures around the globe and across the ages, though, the moments surrounding sunrise and sunset have been noticeable exceptions: believers and seekers have long gathered in the gloaming to...
| Автор | Thom Rock |
Wenn das Feuer im Kamin prasselt, die Kerzen allenthalben fröhlich fl ackern und die Nächte nicht nur sternklar und kalt, sondern auch lang und gemütlich sind, dann ist es wieder Zeit für Advents-Geschichten. „Weihnachtswundernacht“ versammelt 16 neue und außergewöhnliche Erzählungen beliebter autorinnen und autoren und schenkt überraschend-unterhaltsame Lesemomente in der Vorweihnachtszeit.
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Jahrtausende trennen uns von Abraham und seiner Welt und dennoch können uns seine Abenteuer dabei helfen, im Glauben zu wachsen. Sieben alltagstaugliche Predigten wollen dazu ermutigen, auch in schwierigen Zeiten an Gott festzuhalten.
| Автор | Jörg Arndt |
Adrian Plass erzählt unnachahmlich in Tagebuchform von seinen teils erfolgreichen, teils misslungenen Versuchen, als «guter» Christ zu leben. Frech nimmt er aufgesetztes, frommes Verhalten aufs Korn und trifft meist zielsicher ins Schwarze. Urkomisch, tief berührend und von entwaffnender Offenheit. Mit dem «Tagbuch eines frommen Chaoten» wurde Adrian Plass zum Bestsellerautor.
| Автор | Adrian Plass |
Reason and Mystery in the Pentateuch is grounded in the faith that the following related truths are self-evident: God revealed to Moses two works, known together as the Torah. The first work is the Pentateuch (the Written Law), revealed as a book consisting mainly of a sacred history and a codex. The second work is the Mishnah (the Oral Law), an elucidation of the codex transmitted orally through many generations, then redacted as a book. The Torah has never been corrupted; the text read today...
| Автор | Aaron Streiter |
Marriage is the most demanding and potentially rewarding relationship for many adults. Learning to navigate its challenges can be difficult. Staying One is a practical guide that not only teaches the spiritual what and why of marriage but also provides advice and practice in the how. Intended to save readers from the pain of learning the hard way, it illustrates and explains biblically sound approaches to building a healthy and fulfilling marriage that lasts. These include things married people...
| Автор | Clinton W. McLemore |
Recinos discovered a love for poetry after being abandoned by Latino immigrant parents and living on the streets dealing with drugs, poverty, violence, racial discrimination, and existential desolation. After several homeless years, he was taken into the family of a white Presbyterian minister and guided back to school. Later, attending graduate school in New York City, Recinos befriended Nuyorican poets the late Miguel Pinero and Pedro Pietri who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the...
| Автор | Harold J. Recinos |
Welche Werte braucht unser Gemeinwesen? Gibt es Gerechtigkeit in der Wirtschaft? Kann ein versöhntes Miteinander verschiedener Religionen und Kulturen gelingen? Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, bayerischer Landesbischof, bezieht Position zu gesellschaftlichen Fragen, die uns auf den Nägeln brennen.
| Автор | Heinrich Bedford-Strohm |
Zwei Menschen aus verschiedenen Kulturkreisen und mit unterschiedlichem Glauben begegnen sich in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Bei ihrer Suche nach Wahrheit und Frieden, nach Wegen zur Annäherung der Religionen, finden sie ihr Glück glaubensunabhängig in einer wunderbaren Liebe.
| Автор | Gerhard W. Funk |
Die anrührende Geschichte von Paul, der als Vater, als Ehemann, als Schriftsteller, als Freund in die Krise gerät und im Gespräch mit einem Grashalm einen Ausweg findet.
| Автор | Adrian Plass |
Die europäische Kultur wäre ohne den Islam nicht zu dem geworden, was sie ist. Mit ihren verschiedenen Strömungen gehört diese Religion seit Jahrhunderten zu Europa und ist unzweifelhaft Teil der europäischen Kultur. Mit Beiträgen von Rifa’at Lenzin, Richard Nennstiel, Ulrich Rebstock und Milad Karimi.
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The past doesn't exist. The present is a lie. The future is an illusion. Time. God. Being. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. God was. God wasn't. God is. God isn't. God will be. God will not be. The journey never changes. The future is inertia. Maybe it's not the first time we've experienced it all? Died. Dead. Dying. The incarnation of God grows stranger and stranger. These are the visions. Here in the past. Here in the present. Trinities of time call to us . . . from...
| Автор | Jeff Hood |
This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to how painful it is to lose your life partner. Many of the poems are autobiographical: about first encounter, marriage,...
| Автор | S T Kimbrough Jr. |
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.
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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 |