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Broken bones mend. Flesh wounds heal. But where is the emergency room we can rush to when our hearts are broken? Divorce, adultery, spousal abuse, childhood sexual abuse, and addiction to alcohol, drugs, or pornography tear deep, gaping holes in the most tender of organs. There's no bandage and no surgery that will heal these wounds of the soul. However, forgiveness, mercy, and grace become a soothing balm in restoration. Whether you are the victim of a broken heart or the perpetrator of...
| Автор | Glenn Goree |
The calling to parish ministry involves a journey leading through lowland thickets and high plateau vistas. It's a vocation not for weak spirits. The parish presents general challenges rather than specialist endeavors. So, wearing one hat after another, the pastor may speak from the pulpit, join a team processing a current social concern, visit the intensive care hospital unit, and offer counsel at birth, marriage, or death–maybe all in one day. Clergy and non-ordained alike will find...
| Автор | David B. Bowman |
Ein satirischer Blick auf «typisch christliche» Eigenarten – scharf beobachtet, selbstironisch und extrem unterhaltsam.
| Автор | Jonathan Acuff |
"Die Sibyllinen" ist eine Sammlung jüdischer und christlicher Orakelsprüche, die aus fünf Teilen besteht. Die hier dargebotene Textausgabe stammt aus dem von Emil Kautzsch herausgegeben großen Werk «Die Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments» Tübingen 2 Bde. 1900. Friedrich Blass folgt in seiner Übersetzung den kritischen Editionen des Urtextes den Ausgaben Charles Alexandre und Alois Rzach.
| Автор | Friedrich Blass |
Band II der in Amerika besonders populären Diamond Heart Series liegt nun auch in deutscher Sprache vor. In dieser Reihe sind Vorträge von A.H. Almaas zu wesentlichen Fragen menschlichen Lebens und der inneren Suche zusammengestellt. Auch geht er ausführlich auf typische Fragen zu den verschiedensten Themen ein, die auf dem Weg zu innerer Verwirklichung von Bedeutung sind.
| Автор | A.H. Almaas |
While the message of the Bible remains the same, different insights may add new light. In this commentary attempt is made to interact with the text of the letters of John, especially as we have it in the Greek New Testament. The meaning of the word is not seen as the end but only as the basis upon which to relate the message to the present needs of the church. The church is both guardian of truth and instrument of love. These two themes are repeatedly found in the epistles of John, and as...
| Автор | Samuel M. Ngewa |
Take a Moment to Listen: Come gentle child, come rest in my heart–for I am here deep within your own. If you can still yourself just for a moment, you can hear me whisper your name. You can hear me whisper the depth of my eternal love for you, in this moment and always. Let me quiet your frightened mind, and hold your unsettled heart–for I will give you peace, the very moment you ask. Let me fill your heart with my love, and wrap my arms around you in absolute tenderness and grace. In that...
| Автор | Deborah J. Simmons-Roslak |
John Nevin's vision of the church as «one, holy, catholic, and apostolic» grew out of his critique of the revivalism and sectarianism that prevailed throughout evangelical Christianity in the nineteenth century. He deepens his perception of catholicity as an expression of Christian wholeness, his response to the parochialism that ruled American religion and life. He grounds congregational life and mission in the Lordship of Jesus Christ, ordered by the whole Christian tradition, which comes...
| Автор | John Williamson Nevin |
In this companion volume to The Word in the Wind: Sermons for the Lectionary, Year A, Advent through Eastertide, Bruce Taylor provides a collection of theologically rich, sacramentally sensitive, and biblically centered sermons for the Sundays and feast days for Pentecost and the remainder of the liturgical year commonly referred to as «Ordinary Time.» The compilation includes a sampling of story sermons and, in an appendix to the lectionary-based homilies, a sermon that was delivered at the...
| Автор | Bruce L. Taylor |
Der Geist enthält die Samen seines eigenen Erwachens – Samen, die wir hegen und pflegen können, um die Früchte eines bewusst gelebten Lebens hervorzubringen. «Achtsamkeit – eine Anleitung zum Erwachen» von Joseph Goldstein enthält die Weisheiten aus vier Jahrzehnten des Lehrens und Praktizierens. Jedem, der sich dem achtsamen Leben und dem Erwachen zu innerer Freiheit verschrieben hat, kann dieses Buch als ein lebenslanger Begleiter dienen
| Автор | Joseph Goldstein |
This book provides a detailed analysis of the Messiah's bloodline that reveals many important concepts related to the human condition of mankind. The analysis expands our understanding of the scope of God's love for all of mankind. The bloodline includes God's patriarchs, many godly kings, many women who were gentiles, and men who were evil. The Messiah's bloodline reflects a cross section of mankind and fulfills Old Testament prophecies. The bloodline is the introduction to...
| Автор | A. M. Deigloriam |
Over the years there have been many treatments of Paul's theology that have focused on what the churches he wrote to were like, and what that might mean for today. However, what Paul says about relationships between churches has been frequently neglected, or only briefly considered. This book analyzes Paul's use of the word «church» as well as family imagery, holiness language, body imagery, and Paul's understanding of imitation and apostleship to demonstrate the breadth of his...
| Автор | James T. Hughes |
Life comes with ups and downs, including the trauma of loss, death, and grief. Because such experiences are no respecter of persons, such trauma is a levelling agent. Every human being experiences some type of loss, from that of loved ones, relationships, jobs, and status to that of property, belief systems, and deteriorating health. Some loss appears seasonal; some expected and unexpected; others overwhelming and life changing. Baptized Rage, Transformed Grief is a cornucopia of poems that...
| Автор | Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan |
The book of Job is the most challenging–and most engaging–of all the books in the Hebrew Scriptures. It challenges one's faith in the essential goodness of God and humanity. In this volume, Rabbis Kravitz and Olitzky provide an original, modern translation and commentary while also inviting classic rabbinic commentators of the past to provide insight to the text. Along with helping the reader to understand the original Hebrew sources, the authors also strive to answer some of the basic...
| Автор | Leonard S. Kravitz |
The New Testament book of Hebrews offers some of the most memorable passages of Scripture on perseverance, faith, rest, the word of God, angels, divine discipline, salvation, the city of God, and Christ, Son and High Priest. Much of its text has spoken with remarkable directness to peoples of all nations down through the centuries. At other points it has remained a difficult argument, even, so it is said, a riddle. This is a commentary for those who want to follow what this book says–follow it...
| Автор | Jon C. Laansma |
By the grace of God, every human being, at the proper time–that is, «in God's timing»–can become a Christian, irrespective of ethnicity, race, or gender (male or female). «Becoming a Christian» means «a spiritual transformation» from within our inner-being, as we are «born anew» in the spirit when we accept the loving sacrifice of Christ as atonement for our sins and believe in his resurrection from the dead as the empowering act of love that guides our present lives, as well as our lives...
| Автор | Leo Emmanuel Lochard |
This compact commentary on 1 Corinthians is both readable and full of insights that will engage students, ministers, and scholars alike. The Apostle Paul writes to a relatively new church in which members are failing to maintain solidarity with other members. They struggle to find their unique place in Roman society as Gentile followers of Jewish leaders that proclaim Christ as Lord. Their many problems include competition over leadership and social prestige, sexual impropriety, household...
| Автор | B. J. Oropeza |
This commentary on Revelation is for those who are looking for an easy-to-read, biblically central, and Christologically focused commentary on one of the most intriguing books of the Bible. It is a shame that pastors and followers of Jesus avoid the book of Revelation because of the confusing theories they heard about in the past, or just too many movies! This commentary attempts to get away from the needless debate (though different views are presented) and focus the reader's attention on...
| Автор | Andrew Scott Brake |
This book studies kingship with reference to the Johannine Jesus. Postcolonialism leads us to an avenue from which to read this Gospel in the more complex and wider context of the hybridized Jewish and Greco-Roman worlds of the Roman Empire in the first century CE. This provides a new perspective on the kingship of the Johannine Jesus, whose kingly identity is characterized by hybridized christological titles. For the Johannine readers in the first century, who were exploited, oppressed, yet at...
| Автор | Sehyun Kim |
What is found in this series unveils an entirely different side of C. K. Barrett, a side one might never have known about if one had knowledge only of his famous commentaries and monographs. Herein lies a goodly selection of Kingsley's sermons preached largely in small- and medium-sized Methodist churches in the northeast of England, though often elsewhere in England and around the world. Fred Barrett was not the scholar his son was, but on close inspection, one can most definitely see...
| Автор | C. K. Barrett |