From the award-winning creator of Roseanne, Home Improvement, and several blockbuster films, comes Glimpses, a collection of stories filled with hope, humanity, and humor and an invitation to see goodness and grace in our everyday moments.
Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to resounding defeat for his Protestant allies, his reign has a significance out of all proportion to its brief six-year span.
A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most.
Composed and published while John Bunyan (1628-1688) was in prison for his religious principles, Grace Abounding is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography.
From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure of British history.
Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works.
One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies'I beg anyone who reads this account to bear in mind, for the love of the Lord, how wicked my life has been'Born in the Castilian town of vila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one.
'Give me chastity and continence, but not yet'The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting world-views.
Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church.
The acclaimed English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - prepared with the participation of the Dalai LamaOne of the greatest works created by any culture and one of the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but strangely all of these have been partial abridgements.
The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern timesFrom the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson-revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe-built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today.
From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; 2015 Christian Book Award winner *; Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity in this expanded edition with new bonus content and reflections.
A Companion WORKBOOK to Today's Most Widely Used Textbook for Learning to Interpret and Understand the BibleGrasping God's Word has proven itself in classrooms across the country as an invaluable help to students who want to learn how to read, interpret, and apply the Bible for themselves.
The schism of the Donatists, with which the treatises in the present volume are concerned, arose indirectly out of the persecution under Diocletian at the beginning of the fourth century.
Der Glaube an die Auferstehung Jesu Christi ist zweifellos das zentrale Thema des christlichen Glaubens und bildet deswegen auch die Grundlage für eine zeitgemäße Offenbarungstheologie der Gegenwart.
Shah Waliyullah Dihlavi (17031762) was a highly renowned and influential scholar of Islam who produced foundational works on the Quran, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Sufism, philosophy, and politics.
Draws on the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism to offer a progression of dream yoga practices, including pre-sleep purification, correct postures, and visualizations Offers practical instructions for identifying the dream state and modifying your dream narratives Reveals how dream yoga supports the bardo teachings and prepares the practitioner for death and rebirthMaintaining awareness while dreaming is one of the most direct and practical methods for understanding the nature of reality.
Descubre cmo las lneas y caractersticas de tus manos son un reflejo directo de tus pensamientos, actitudes y conductas, y cmo puedes transformarlas para crear tu destino Explora el significado de las diferentes lneas y signos en las palmas Examina huellas de manos de antes y despus que muestran vidas transformadas a travs de la quiromancia y las prcticas de consciencia plena, mantras y respiracin conscienteEn esta detallada gua sobre el arte y la ciencia de la quiromancia vdica, (hast jyotish), los renombrados quiromnticos-astrlogos Ghanshyam Singh Birla y Guylaine Valle revelan cmo las lneas de nuestras reflejan pensamientos, conductas y energas, y cmo es posible cambiarlas para moldear nuestro destino.
Don t let negative emotions rule your life; learn the skills to take back control Imagine how much lighter life would be if there was no more becoming angry, buckling under pressure, feeling nervous around others, regretting the past or fretting about the future.
From childhood pain to a life I never imagined, I lived in the darkness for years—numbing the hurt, running from the truth, and searching for love in all the wrong places.
