"If you could ask God for one thing and know that you would get it now, what would it be?", as the minister went around the room with his microphone getting responses no one asked the question I so desirably wanted to know, "LORD, what do You want me to do and I will do it? And How do I hear You" Was I asking for too much? Or should I just do what I think and hope He would guide me from within? He did respond. This is what this book is all about –...
Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years, Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches charts, in one concise volume, the history of Greece’s religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present, post-independence Greece.Focusing on the encounter and interaction between Hellenism and (Orthodox) Christianity, which is the most salient feature of Greece’s religious landscape—influencing not only Greek religious history, but Greek culture and history as a...
Too often we turn prayer into well-intentioned patterns of our own making. Too often we assume prayer is primarily about words. Sometimes there's an almost magical understanding that if we get the words right, if we trust enough or believe enough, God will «answer.» But most of us know that God is not a divine magician or our own personal valet and that prayer is much more than our feeble attempts to make God pay attention to what God already knows. Using the alphabet as a template of...
Holy Russia, Sacred Israel examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jewry and the ‘Old Testament’ philosophically, theologically and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciousness was being stimulated by events ranging from the pogroms of the 1880s, through two Revolutions and World Wars, to exile in Western Europe. An attempt is made to locate the boundaries between the Jewish and Christian, Russian and Western,...
I See You There Love, Christina XOXOXO , is the incredible true story of Christina Ann Best, who survived the odds stacked against her at birth, of not only living but thriving. Miracles abounded in Christina’s young life, including a trip to heaven. Then, at the age of twenty-eight, amidst tremendous health issues, Jesus opens Christina’s eyes to Himself and heaven as well. Christina’s mother, Missy Kistner, tells us her personal journey with her daughter that will profoundly inspire your bond...
