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Bring the 'passion' narrative alive with 'Parish Passion Play',
which is suitable for production by anyone with little or no acting
experience. Ideally suited for use in a parish church, the play is
based upon the chronology presented by Professor Colin J. Humphreys
in his book 'The Mystery of the Last Supper'.
Bring the 'passion' narrative alive with 'Parish Passion Play',
which is suitable for production by anyone with little or no acting
experience. Ideally suited for use in a parish church, the play is
based upon the chronology presented by Professor Colin J. Humphreys
in his book 'The Mystery of the Last Supper'.
Written by: Joylann Lumpford (Author Credits) The Words Within a
Butterfly release in a way that is so breath-taking, yet so
revitalizing, simultaneously, that a reader has no choice but to
believe that the feeling of this triumph is attainable in their own
personal flight of life. Thus, providing hope for reoccurring
victory in life to create an individual's story. These words share
the presence of God through the unwavering faith in His word, as
the ability to allow the float of a butterfly to mirror life's up's
and down's.
Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's
Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to
parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of
children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II
is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and
vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers
various aspects of home schooling, with a special section detailing
the things that Charlotte Mason thought were important to teach to
girls in particular. Part IV consists of examples of how education
affected outcome of character in famous writers of her day.
Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator
whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children
are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and
that it was better to feed their growing minds with living
literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and
knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of
education, still used by some private schools and many
homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with
younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and
noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder
and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art,
music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early
science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to
understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather
than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on
character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits.
Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time
should be short enough to allow students free time to play and to
pursue their own worthy interests such as handicrafts. Traditional
Charlotte Mason schooling is firmly based on Christianity, although
the method is also used successfully by secular families and
families of other religions.
Why has the Serenity Prayer become one of the top three prayers in
the world? This prayer strikes a common cord within all humankind.
Life can knock the breath out of you. The Serenity Prayer can
breathe within you the breath of life. A surge of spiritual energy
can enhance coping skills. Letting go what you cannot change grants
productive freedom. You will not be chasing after rabbits avoiding
futile habits. This book applies the prayer to 10 common aspects of
life resulting in a Serenity Prayer lifestyle. The probing
questions and exercises at the end of each chapter can help you in
the prayer's application. This book's purpose is three fold. First,
it will enable you to heal. Secondly, you will have the wisdom to
accept reality and courage to fulfill your possibilities. Thirdly,
you will develop priceless hope. This hope can grant determination
and prevent your goals from extermination.
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Karen Case-Green, Gill Cudmore Sakakini; Foreword by W. David O. Taylor
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The discipline of preaching has undergone several evolutionary
moments in the past century, focusing on its purpose as being
variously persuasion, explanation, and, most recently,
communication. Of particular and lingering influence has been Harry
Emerson Fosdick's "preaching as counseling" model, which urged
therapeutic, individualistic methods upon the pastor. In the search
for a model of preaching that is apt for our postmodern moment, Kay
Northcutt respectfully eschews these earlier models and suggests
that the "what" of preaching should consist in spiritual formation
or the practice of "spiritual direction" - pointing listeners to
God. Taking an evocative, rather than "how-to," approach, Northcutt
notes the gaps created by these earlier models and makes a case not
only for framing preaching as an "attractive art" but also for
understanding the preacher's authority as particularly religious in
nature. By demonstrating the dynamics of her model of preaching as
spiritual direction, the author provides readers with a new
paradigm for developing their own homiletical discipline.
The things I've written about in this book reflect my approach to
life, that approach is "common sense." The scientific laws I"ve
written about are proven facts of science that can be found
elaborated on in numerous sources and the Bible verses are I've
quoted are right out of the King James Version Bible. Whether
looking at science, the Bible or how to build a house, I want to
know what makes sense. Certainly all answers to life are not
simple, but there is no reason to accept complicated nonsense for
an answer if by common sense the question can be reasoned and
answered. I was nominated for an appointment to West Point during
my junior year in high school but because of some heart changing
decisions I made just before and during my senior year, I chose to
go to Bible college instead. I have served the Lord as a laymen in
the church all of my adult life and worked in the secular world,
mostly in the construction industry as a contractor. I have had a
passion about the creation vs. evolution subject since my teens and
have read and studied everything I've gotten in my possession,
whether pro creation or pro evolution. I have listened diligently
when the subject was being taught and have watched numerous
evolution programs on educational and documentary television
programs. Everything I read, heard or saw on the subject, caused me
to do deeper studies. When all is said and done and all hoaxes,
errors, contradictions, and impossibilities are eliminated, what is
still left standing and makes common sense, is creation I hope this
book will give some Christians the ammunition to withstand
Atheistic confrontations and that it may also win some nonbelievers
over to understand that there really is a Creator God.
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