A Taste of Heaven on Earth explores the spiritual foundation of the nineteenth-century utopian Oneida Community founded by John Humphrey Noyes, whose members sought purity of heart in all thoughts, words, and activities.
In Irish Celtic lore, "e;thin places"e; are those locales where the veil between this world and the otherworld is porous, where there is mystery in the landscape.
Tales of My Thoughts presents the flow of emotions faced during adolescence and early adulthood; not all are pleasant, but that is the journey of growth.
With the continual appearance of evidence that the emerging generation (the iGens) is not at all enamored of institutional churches, and is ignoring or forsaking them, it seemed a good time to take a step back, take a deep breath, and take a fresh look at what the church was intended to be and do in the New Testament document.
Iron Sharpens Iron is grounded in the conviction that humans have the capacity to transcend conventional spirituality to a genuine and wholesome faith that is dynamic rather than static, future-oriented rather than past-oriented, and owned rather than passively acquired.
The best-selling writer Paula Gooder continues her exploration of the Christian year, with its different seasons and moods and the varying messages they convey.
Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B, and C, and a fourth, the first such resource to support the implementation of Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary (Cascade Books).
Preachers often think of prophetic preaching in the caricature of the prophet as the lonely outsider confronting the congregation, often angrily, with the congregation's complicity in social injustice and with a bracing call for repentance.
Just as the government structure of Russia differs from that of the United States, and both differ from that of Great Britain, so it is with church government.
Living system ministry is an approach to Christian ministry in the Western world that recognizes the differences between cats, the world God created, and toasters, the world we create using our technology and our capacities, limited as they are.
In A Biblical Understanding of Pain: Its Reasons and Realities, John Timmerman examines six different sources of pain, each with its own chapter of description and biblical response.
Venturing beyond the inter-faith literature on ancient wisdom, this book identifies and explores the meaning of 36 Divine Virtues or Universal Ethical Principles shared across the world's religions, providing the reader with a pathway to a higher spiritual consciousness.
In Times Like These is written to connect readers with the Holy Gospel, their spirituality, life situations, and a process of reflection that provides a lens through which to understand the experiences on life's journey.
Eine außergewöhnliche Geschichte, so spannend erzählt wie ein Krimi: Zehn Schiffsbrüchige überleben eine Explosion auf einer Yacht in einem Rettungsboot.
These Reflective Prayers are the result of permitting a gentle reading of the lectionary texts for a given service to resonate in me and emerge as a searching engagement of the word with my spirit in a mood of settled joy.
Part of the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book collection, The Emotionally Healthy Woman provides women a way out of surface-level spirituality to genuine freedom in Christ.
La question du rapport entre, d'une part, la/les royauté(s), et, d'autre part, l'historicité et l'imaginaire, interpelle plusieurs domaines de la recherche aussi bien au sein des sociétés anciennes que contemporaines.
