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Holy Habits is an initiative to nurture Christian discipleship. It
explores Luke's model of church found in Acts 2:42-47, identifies
ten habits and encourages the development of a way of life formed
by them. These resources, which include an introductory guide, have
been developed to help churches explore the habits in a range of
contexts and live them out in whole-life, missional discipleship.
This little book is a treasure trove of reflections and
contemplations on images from nature, each one connected to a
gospel reading. Based on thirty years of sermons, Skaller explores
the essence of sensory images such as flowers, shells, clouds and
landscapes, going deeper to help us understand them as divine
manifestations in our everyday world. They in turn enable us to
come to insights, feelings and intuitions about the purpose of the
world, and of ourselves. Presented in a beautiful gift hardback
edition, this is a book of reverence and wonder, in which we can
glimpse the reality of the divine.
Scripture, and especially the Book of Psalms, has always formed the substance of the daily prayer of Christian monks and nuns. Monastic men and women spend more time among the scriptures each day than in most other activities. How do such regular interactions with the texts of the Old and New Testaments help us renew our Christian imaginations; how might these reflective encounters enable all of us to discover the wind of the Spirit, the fountain of living water and the fire from which God speaks, within the printed pages of our Bibles?
In The Wind, the Fountain and the Fire, Mark Barrett, a Benedictine monk of Worth Abbey, offers a Lenten pathway through scripture, opening the gateway of sacred imagery as a mode of prayerful reflection. For each week of Lent he has selected a different image: the Dust; the Mountain; the Well; the Light and the Tomb. In these richly imagined biblical symbols we are invited to find keys which can unlock both our experience of scripture and our understanding of our own hearts.
The life stories of the Celtic saints are inspirational. They
demonstrate great and unassuming faith, often in the face of
insurmountable difficulties. In Celtic Saints David Cole draws us
to relate our own life journey and developing relationship with God
into the life story of the Celtic saint of the day. A corresponding
biblical text and blessing encourages and motivates us to transform
our lives for today's world in the light of such historic faith.
Previously published as 40 Days with the Celtic Saints.
The customizable Pour Out Your Heart Prayer Journal includes sample
prayers, hymns, sections to record prayers, and more. Designed to
use over many years, it guides women toward a joyful, consistent
prayer life.
When life sends us trouble, we should pray. When we experience
blessings, we should pray. When a friend or loved one is going
through a difficult time, we should pray. We know this. Yet too
often we don't know exactly what to say--so we say nothing. Drawing
from her many popular books on prayer, Linda Evans Shepherd offers
you a compact, giftable compilation of powerful prayers arranged by
topic, so you can find the words to ask God for help, consolation,
wisdom, and many other needs for yourself or others. Covering such
concerns as stress, anxiety, hard times, illness, and much more,
the prayers in this book will be the ones you turn to again and
again as you walk through life with the ones you love.
Todos oramos... algo.
Oramos por mantenernos sobrios, centrados o solventes. Cuando el
tumor parece maligno. Cuando el dinero se acaba antes de que
termine el mes. Cuando el matrimonio se desmorona. Oramos.
Pero acaso no nos gustaria orar mas? Mejor? Con mas intensidad?
Con mas fuego, fe o fervor?
Sin embargo, tenemos hijos que alimentar, facturas que pagar,
plazos de entrega por cumplir. El calendario se abalanza sobre
nuestras buenas intenciones como un tigre sobre un conejo. Y que me
dices de los altibajos en nuestra historia de oracion? Palabras
inciertas. Expectativas sin alcanzar. Peticiones sin respuesta.
No somos los primeros en tener problemas con la oracion. Los
primeros seguidores de Jesus tambien necesitaron orientacion sobre
la oracion. De hecho, el unico manual de instruccion que pidieron
fue sobre la oracion.
Y Jesus les dio una oracion. No un sermon sobre la oracion. No
la doctrina de la oracion. El les dio una oracion citable,
repetible, portatil. Acaso no podemos usar la misma?
En "Antes del amen" el reconocido autor Max Lucado se une a los
lectores en un recorrido al corazon mismo de la oracion biblica,
ofreciendo esperanza ante las dudas y confianza hasta para los mas
debiles en la oracion. Destilando distintas oraciones de la Biblia
en una oracion de bolsillo sencilla, Max recuerda a los lectores
que la oracion no es un privilegio para el piadoso, ni tampoco el
arte de unos pocos escogidos. La oracion es simplemente una
conversacion sincera entre Dios y su hijo. Dejemos que comience la
conversacion.
Prayer, the greatest fringe benefit of being a Christian, is God's
enticement to get our attention. He likes our company. Access to
God means access to ultimate power. We are all on level ground
here. Whether you are middle class, aristocratic, royal, rich,
poor, red, yellow, black, or white, you are valued by your heavenly
Father as much as anybody who has ever lived. God will take on your
case as if you were the most important person who ever lived.
Prayer gives you that privilege--access to ultimate power. God can
make anything happen. He can heal. Solve any problem. Change your
financial situation. Vindicate. Open doors. Cause everything that
has happened in your past (whether it was right or wrong or whether
you were right or wrong) to work together for good (Rom. 8:28).
Prayer is one of the most fundamental practices of the Christian
faith, yet how many of us really commit adequate time to talking to
God? As R. T. Kendall points out in Did You Think to Pray? we can
only benefit from spending more time with Him.
For anyone who longs to experience God in the thick of life's
demands, Sara Hagerty's Adore offers a simple, soul-nourishing
practice for engaging with God in the middle minutes of your day.
None of us signed up for a conventional experience with the
unconventional God, yet too often the spiritual life can become
routine, dare we say, even boring. In Adore, Sara Hagerty gives us
all permission to admit "I barely know You, God," and with this
honest admission, to scoot a little nearer to this familiar
stranger. Adoration is the simple practice Sara discovered for
starting where you are, and letting the grit of your day greet the
beauty of God's presence. Adoration is for the woman who feels
frenzied and fearful in the middle minutes of her day. It is a
simple practice for 7:37 a.m. when the children are waking and the
dryer is already humming but also for the 12:17 p.m. lunch break
and for 5:53 p.m. while stuck in traffic. Adoration is the place
where we put how we feel in front of God's Word, and watch what
happens to our insides. It's what you were made for. Join Sara in
this soul-stirring journey through thirty attributes of God which
you can walk through at your own pace. Learn how the simple habit
of adoration--in the middle minutes of your day--can help you see
God with fresh eyes, and talk to Him right there. Experience a new
way of engaging with God in your everyday. Adore will show you how.
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