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Soul Sense: Your Breakthrough To Soul-Full Living and Leadership
Par Adrienne Arien Duffy. 2017
Through the hundreds of people Adrienne Duffy has guided toward the realization of their full potential, and in the hundreds…
of workshops she has facilitated, one message has emerged universally over others: “We want something in addition to the achievement of goals and results. We are people who aim high and take risks, but we also long to have meaning and to be grounded. How can we create a more centered, purposeful life and workspace, in this era of constant change, chaos, and minute-by-minute progress?” Soul Sense is the answer: Listening to your Soul Call, stoking your Soul Fire, and practicing Soul Care brings depth, growth, and balance. Soul Sense can be thought of as common sense seasoned with the sixth sense. It is what is known as good, and right, and just in one’s personal and professional life, while embracing the powers of intuition that transcend such definitions. Soul Sense is logical and instinctual, practical and untamed. Tuning into and trusting your Soul Sense brings increasing fulfillment to your life, and to the lives of those around you. The courageous choice to honor your Soul Sense, ultimately, is up to you – and it is Duffy’s joy and intention to lead you toward this profound gift. Your Soul Sense awaits….Reflexiones sobre los Salmos: Revela el significado de estos versos antiguos y preciados
Par C. S. Lewis. 2023
Una hermosa obra maestra teológica del venerado C. S. Lewis en la que considera las porciones más poéticas de las…
Escrituras y lo que nos dicen sobre Dios, la Biblia y la fe.En este acertado y esclarecedor libro, C. S. Lewis, el gran escritor británico, erudito, teólogo laico, locutor, apologista cristiano y autor bestseller de Mero cristianismo, Las cartas del diablo a su sobrino, El gran divorcio, Las crónicas de Narnia y muchos otros amados clásicos, examina los Salmos. A medida que Lewis revela el significado de estos versos poéticos intemporales, aclara su importancia en nuestra vida cotidiana y nos recuerda su poder para iluminar momentos de gracia.The Reflections on the PsalmsA beautiful masterpiece of the revered author&’s moving theological work in which he considers the most poetic portions from Scripture and what they tell us about God, the Bible, and faith.In this wise and enlightening book, C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—examines the Psalms. As Lewis divines the meaning behind these timeless poetic verses, he makes clear their significance in our daily lives, and reminds us of their power to illuminate moments of grace.Of Love and Separation: Meditations on My Divine Master
Par Swami B. Puri. 2001
This beautiful book includes poems, essays, and offerings that will capture the hearts of all aspiring spiritual practitioners. This book…
includes, poems, essays, and teachings that capture the hearts of all aspiring spiritual practitioners. These meditations by Swami B. P. Puri, on his spiritual teacher Saraswati Thakur give a glimpse into the divine and profound relationship that these two masters shared.In Where the Colors Blend, Stephen Copeland&’s self-discovery and God-discovery is told over a period of six years in the…
context of an annual retreat to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Roanoke, Virginia, where an obscure, forty-year-old church softball tournament takes place each summer to raise funds for mission work in Paraguay. In stepping into these stories, and sharing them with the reader, Stephen simultaneously journeys deeper within himself, discovering the divine in the process and taking readers deep into the throes of doubt, deconstruction, and depression. But it&’s there, in the darkness, that an authentic hope finds him. Throughout the narrative, readers experience with Stephen a number of paradigm shifts in the areas of: Spirituality: from exhausting oneself trying to get close to God to simply abiding: awakening to who we already are at the core of our beings as children of God.Psychology: from suppressing emotions, pains, and insecurities to curiously and non-judgmentally exploring them.Relationships: from trying to change others or silently judging them to accepting others as they are and learning from those who are most different than ourselves: abandoning ignorance and arrogance.Art, writing, and work: from being taunted by internal demands and a relentless pursuit of perfection to simply enjoying the gift of the process. Stephen's present-tense narrative, mysteriously unfolding all the way, is free-thinking and free-flowing, swinging from humor to complex theology, from someone else&’s story to sudden introspectiveness and application, creating a unique experience for readers as it challenges them to adopt their own lifestyle of introspection and contemplation.The Interfaith Alternative: Embracing Spiritual Diversity
Par Steven Greenebaum. 2012
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance, and compassion. Yet…
three thousand years after Moses, twenty-five hundred years after the Buddha, two thousand years after Jesus, and fifteen hundred years after Muhammad, we are still divided by our differences. Religious intolerance, discrimination, even persecution and violence make up the not-so-golden rule. The Interfaith Alternative shows us how we can celebrate each other without fear of losing our own identity. It illuminates the path to creating a nurturing spiritual community that honors and includes all religious languages--an alternative to Jews worshiping only with Jews, Christians with Christians, and Muslims with Muslims. In doing so, it demonstrates that through coming together in a mutually supportive environment we can concentrate on our shared desire to remake the world into a compassionate, loving place. At its core, Interfaith is about community and justice. Once we truly embrace diversity, we embrace our common humanity. A powerful antidote to the current climate of fear and mistrust, The Interfaith Alternative argues that it is not how we encounter the sacred, but what we do about it that counts--there are positive alternatives to religious lines in the sand. Steven Greenebaum is an Interfaith minister whose experiences directing choirs of different faiths and denominations have helped him to understand the profound wisdom of many spiritual traditions. Steven has dedicated his life to working for social and environmental justice. He is the founder of the Living Interfaith Church in Lynnwood, Washington.The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-day Version Of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Par John Bunyan, Alan Vermilye. 2020
Reading The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan can be a bit challenging even for the best of readers. Not so…
with this new, easy-to-read version that translates the original archaic language into simple conversational English allowing readers of all ages to easily navigate the most popular Christian allegory of all time. The story chronicles the epic adventure of a man named Christian who leaves his home in the City of Destruction and begins a life-long quest to the Celestial City. Set against the backdrop of a hazardous journey, this powerful drama unfolds as Christian’s adventures lead him into fascinating lands and encounters with interesting people who either help or hinder his progress along a narrow way. With a gallery of memorable characters and visits to colorful places, Bunyan’s allegorical narrative describes one man's extraordinary adventure on his journey to faith.The Stuff of a Lifetime: Self, Sense, Soul, and Spirit in Human Experience
Par Gene Ruyle. 2015
A book to help people understand what they are doing with their lives. Addressing its readers directly and as individuals,…
this book allows them to move through it in their own way. It takes them on a wide-ranging expedition into their lives, so that they may be better guided by their own uniqueness. It seeks to enkindle within people the desire to reclaim their bodies, recover their souls, and re-enter the world. "A book that should make a name for Gene Ruyle as a contemporary philosopher who has something important to say. " -Atlanta Journal/Constitution (www. generuyle. com)This gorgeous collection gathers Alice Walker's wide-ranging meditations-many of them previously unpublished-on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies. For…
the millions of her devoted fans, and for readers of Walker's bestselling 2006 book, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, here is a brand new "gift of words" that invites readers on a journey of political awakening and spiritual insight.The Cushion in the Road finds the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist at the height of her literary powers, sharing fresh vantages and a deepening engagement with our world. Walker writes that "we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality if we are truly alive," and the pieces in The Cushion in the Road illustrate this idea beautifully. Visiting themes she has addressed throughout her career-including racism, Africa, Palestinian solidarity, and Cuba-as well as addressing emergent issues, such as the presidency of Barack Obama on health care, Walker explores her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world.Rich with humor and wisdom, and informed by Walker's unique eye for the details of human and natural experience, The Cushion in the Road will please longtime Walker fans as well as those who are new to her work.Simple Life: Time, Relationships, Money, God
Par Thom S. Rainer, Art Rainer. 2009
he research and change methods that made Simple Church a multiawarded, #1 ministry best seller are now applied to everyday…
matters in Simple Life. Authors Thom S. Rainer and Art Rainer interviewed a cross-section of 1,077 individuals to confirm that most people feel their lives are overly stressful and misguided, not allowing enough time for what really counts. As they share these highly relatable stories, the Rainers chart a simple path from joyless to joyful.He Loves Me!: Learning To Live In The Father's Affection
Par Wayne Jacobsen. 2007
So many Christians believe God's love is fickle: when they sin, He turns away in disgust and anger. They vacillate…
between "He loves me" and "He loves me not" because of their behavior. That reasoning, writes Wayne Jacobsen, is as flawed as pulling petals from a daisy. Rather God's love is sturdy, enduring, and undisturbed by people's failings because God loves humankind not for what they do--but who they are. They are God's beloved creation.Startlingly honest and empathetically written, HE LOVES ME! reveals the facts of God's relentless grace. Readers will learn how to live consciously, confidently in this love all the time. Questions for personal reflection and group discussion help make these truths practical and life-changing. Insecure Christians ready for a revolutionary relationship with God will find out just how accessible that is.Searching for God Knows What
Par Donald Miller. 2004
In Searching for God Knows What, best-selling author Donald Miller invites you to reconnect with a faith worth believing. With…
humor, intelligence, and his trademark writing style, he shows that relationship is God's way of leading us to redemption. And our need for redemption drives us to relationship with God. "Being a Christian," Miller writes, "is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas." Maybe you are a Christian wondering what faith you signed up for. Or maybe you don't believe anything and are daring someone--anyone--to show you a genuine example of authentic faith. Somewhere beyond the self-help formulas, fancy marketing, and easy promises there is a life-changing experience with God waiting. Searching for God Knows What weaves together beautiful stories and fresh perspectives on the Bible to show one man's journey to find it. "Like a shaken snow globe, Donald Miller's newest collection of essays creates a swirl of ideas about the Christian life that eventually crystallize into a lovely landscape . . . [He] is one of the evangelical book market's most creative writers." --Christianity Today "If you have felt that Jesus is someone you respect and admire--but Christianity is something that repels you--Searching for God Knows What will give you hope that you still can follow Jesus and be part of a church without the trappings of organized religion." --Dan Kimball Author of The Emerging Church and Pastor of Vintage Faith Church, Santa Cruz, CA "For fans of Blue Like Jazz, I doubt you will be disappointed. Donald Miller writes with the wit and vulnerability that you expect. He perfectly illustrates important themes in a genuine and humorous manner . . . For those who would be reading Miller for the first time, this would be a great start." --Relevant a person who writes about ultimate concerns--spirituality, meaning, purpose, life, God, and joy. In Searching for God Knows What, you'll find more of his great writing, honest feeling, and spiritual insight to help you on your journey. --Brian McLaren Pastor, Author--www.anewkindofchristian.comSix More Songs: Further Reflections on Faith and Rock'n Roll
Par Ivor Moody. 1995
In a society many consider now to be post-Christian, with traditional rituals and expressions of belief and faith struggling to…
maintain their appeal, we desperately need different signs and symbols to help us realise afresh the message of the Christian Gospel and the importance of faith. Ivor Moody argues that the songs studied in this book can provide a way to do just that. They are familiar, much-loved icons of music played and admired by millions and famous throughout the world; but also, they might contain a message to the world of faith and spirituality to look again at how the sacred can be found within the secular. They are stories of a priest and a parishioner feeling crippled by their loneliness; a musician who has ended up in a dead-end bar with others who need to blot out life for a little while; a community living with division and repression, a dying soldier, a singer experiencing a kind of epiphany and people living with mental illness. Each song connects us to something in our own story. Songs which have been with us for years and which thread through our lives but which could provide those new signs and symbols which will be able to inform and enrich our relationship with God.The Immutable Laws of Living: The Inspirational Blueprint to Living Your Meaningful Life
Par Lee H. Baucom. 2018
What if there are some rules to living? What if these &“laws&” are frequently broken? In fact, you probably are…
breaking some of them right now.Anyone struggling or feeling stuck in life is breaking at least one of these laws. Just like gravity, these laws affect every person, whether that person understands them or not. Instead of breaking the laws (even without realizing it), readers discover how to obey the laws. They learn how to get &“unstuck,&” find success without chasing it, and finally, obtain peace.The Immutable Laws of Living helps readers understand:Why life isn&’t fair, and why that isn&’t the problem.How to deal with life challenges, and come out ahead.How your thoughts keep you stuck, and how to free yourself.Why fighting change won&’t work, and why you don&’t have to.How to deal with your fears and get them to help you.How to make a real and lasting impact.If you believe there are hidden rules or laws to living a great life, there are. And you can learn them for yourself. Follow the laws and learn to thrive!Living Your Destiny: Inspirations for New Consciousness
Par Hal A. Lingerman. 1992
Teaches you to identify and creatively harmonize your natural energies in the spirit of Pythagoras, the master teacher of ancient…
Greece. He describes a nine-fold spectrum of energies that can be utilized by all of us for enhanced living.Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages: Stories of Enlightenment
Par Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Robert Ullman. 2001
Be inspired by these 34 unique stories of the moment of enlightenment. In each of the stories in this book…
lay spiritual gems waiting to be discovered by the sincere seeker. This is not just a dry text. These writings were authored directily by realized beings describing their own experience in crossing over from individual to cosmic consciousness. Such dramatic and immediate accounts will open your heart and mind to the possibility of your own inner peace, enlightenment, and self-realization. These stories have the power to transmit the state of these great beings, which can aid you in awakening to your divine nature.La ciudad del amor
Par Claudio María Domínguez. 2012
La ciudad del amor es el testimonio que Claudio María Domínguez plasmó luego de su encuentro con Sai Baba. En…
abril de 2011, Sai Baba abandonó este mundo. Ese ser maravilloso que había encarnado entre nosotros para "encender la lámpara del amor en nuestros corazones, para hacer que cada día ilumine con renovado brillo". Años antes, Claudio María Domínguez había acudido a su encuentro, con más dudas que certezas, en un recorrido plagado de turbulencias internas y emociones encontradas. ¿Quién era Sai Baba? ¿Por qué había encarnado en esa época? ¿Cuántos serían los que cada día decidirían asumir una profunda transformación interior, con gratitud por la vida y por cualquiera que fuese su concepto de Dios? La ciudad del amor es el testimonio que Claudio plasmó luego de ese encuentro, para compartir con todos el relato de ese ser sublime que nos lleva a regresar a Dios. Al dios de los cristianos. Al dios de los judíos. Al dios de los hindúes. Al dios de los budistas. Al dios de los que creen que no tienen dios. Al dios que está en todos y para todos.Film and the Afterlife (Routledge Studies in Religion and Film)
Par David Rankin. 2020
This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and…
the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very few subjects as compelling and universal. The book compares the representation of death, dying and the afterlife in films to scholarly surveys of attitudes towards life-after-death through the analysis of twenty films made between the end of World War II and now. It looks at the portrayals of stages between death and a final destination; spatio-temporal and personal continuity; the nature of afterlife existence in terms of embodiment, or not; and the contact between the worlds of the living and the dead. This book offers a wide-ranging view on a compelling subject in film. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion and Film, Religion and Media, the Philosophy of Religion, and the Sociology of Religion, as well as Religion, Media and Film Studies more generally .Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora (Routledge Studies in Religion)
Par R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Jualynne E. Dodson. 2018
Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue…
to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent. The chapters in this volume use historical and contemporary examples to show how people of African descent develop and engage with spiritual rituals, organizations and practices to make sense of their lives, challenge injustices and creatively express their spiritual imaginings. This book poses and answers the following critical questions: To what extent are ideas of spirituality emanating from Africa and the diaspora still influenced by an African aesthetic? What impact has globalisation had on spiritual and cultural identities of peoples on African descendant peoples? And what is the utility of the practices and social organizations that house African spiritual expression in tackling social, political cultural and economic inequities? The essays in this volume reveal how spirituality weaves and intersects with issues of gender, class, sexuality and race across Africa and the diaspora. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students interested in the study of African religions, race and religion, sociology of religion and anthropology.The Enneagram Type 1: The Moral Perfectionist (The Enneagram Collection)
Par Beth McCord. 2019
Type 1: The Moral Perfectionist, from The Enneagram Collection, is for anyone who loves the Enneagram and wants to go…
deeper with this interactive book exploring the unique motivations, longings, and strengths and weaknesses of a Type 1—those who have a core desire to have integrity, to be good, balanced, accurate, virtuous, and right.The Enneagram has never been more popular. This ancient personality typing system identifies nine types of people and how they relate to one another and helps people discover what motivates them, their fears, and how best to interact with others. With the growing popularity of this self-assessment tool in all spheres of life, including personal relationships, professional relationships, faith communities, students, and even pop culture, these interactive books are great for anyone newly interested in the Enneagram or the longtime Enneagram enthusiast. With space to journal about the unique motivations, longings, and strengths and weaknesses of a Type 1—those who have a core desire to have integrity, to be good, balanced, accurate, virtuous, and right, Beth McCord shows how to transform self-limiting behaviors into life-enhancing personal empowerment. In addition to deeply informative content from Enneagram expert Beth McCord, the pages include interactive prompts and space provided for reflection and notes. Each book teaches about the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for that personality type in order to lead to a more meaningful life, lasting relationships, and a deeper understanding of God and yourself.Returning the Lost Sheep: Ministry to the Alcoholic and Addict: An Orthodox Perspective
Par Maria Athanasiou. 2013
About ten percent of all people in the United States struggle with addictions to alcohol and drugs. Clergy are often…
the first “professionals” who are made aware of an alcohol or drug problem. Unfortunately, clergy are not always trained sufficiently in this type of ministry, and the opportunity to bring hope and healing to an alcoholic and addict may be missed. Returning the Lost Sheep: Ministry to the Alcoholic and Addict, an Orthodox Perspective is a book that focuses on the theological understanding of addiction, and then looks at the core competencies that priests should be familiar with in this field. Some of the competencies include: Understanding the definition of alcoholism and addiction, the signs of dependencies, the characteristics of withdrawal, the effects on the family and the individual, as well as the characteristics of the stages of recovery, and how early diagnosis and recovery benefit the individual and family. Special emphasis is given to ministry to the addict’s family members, who also become affected through their loved one’s disease. The last part of the book is a simple handbook for priests on how to minister to alcoholics and addicts. Suggestions on creative ways to begin a conversation with an addicted person, a list of questions to determine addiction, and a step-by-step manual on how to coordinate an intervention are included. It also show the steps to take after the addict returns from treatment, including attending meetings with them, working the steps with them, and how and when they should begin to receive communion again. Relapse, a very common and frustrating reality in early recovery, is also covered. Finally, suggestions on how to establish recovery groups within the church, as well as how to increase alcohol and drug awareness within the community are included. Clergy and family members will benefit greatly from the statistical information and practical guidance found in theses pages.