What does God want to say and do in your worship service?As a pastor or worship leader, planning a meaningful, relevant, and theologically rich worship experience for your church is of the upmost importance. How do you meet the demands of the modern congregation without getting in the way of what God is doing through worship?Created to Worship: God's Invitation to Become Fully Human is a resource that provides a theology of worship in the Wesleyan tradition. This book will help you plan for a worship service in a discerning manner, while answering the question, 'What does God want to say and do today?'

The meditative prayer practices known as Hesychasm and the Jesus Prayer have played an important role in the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. This book explores how these prayer practices have spread from a primarily monastic setting within Orthodox Christianity, into general Orthodox Christian usage, and finally into wider contemporary Western culture. As a result of this gradual geographic shift from a local to a global setting, caused mainly by immigration and dissemination of related texts, there has been a parallel shift of interpretation causing disagreement. By analyzing ongoing conversations on the practices, this book shows how such disagreements are due to differences in the way groups understand the ideas of authority and tradition. These fundamental ideas lie beneath much of the current discussion on particular aspects of the practices and also contribute to the wider academic debate over the globalization and appropriation of religious traditions.

In an age of tourism, the great challenge is to see ourselves at a deeper level: the dimension of pilgrimage. Being a pilgrim might involve a journey to distant places associated with God-revealing events, but it has more to do with simply living day by day in a God-attentive way. Jim Forest's book assists the reader to see one's life as an opportunity for pilgrimage, whether in places as familiar as your living room or walking the pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostela. Drawing on the wisdom of the saints and his own wide-ranging travels, Forest leads us to a range of "thin places," including Iona, Jerusalem, the secret annex of Anne Frank, the experience of illness, the practice of hospitality, and other places and occasions where we may find ourselves surprised by grace.

This daily devotional just cuts straight to the chase, we need the daily Bread in order to live large in this world. Start the day fortified and ready to conquer every day as you gain daily encouragement from Marialuz. As women, we're used to digging and drinking from our own cisterns; we are tempted to taste life on our own before we try His way. it is only when we realise how fragile we are, and how insurmountable and lonely the walk without Christ is, that we start to express an interest in trying God's way. God has revealed to me the secret of a joyous life; the secret is in leaving our own ways behind and embracing His way. In this first volume we have looked at the lessons God taught me, like learning to love each other despite our differences.

The Power of a Praying® Couple (3-in-1) is a compilation of three of Stormie Omartian’s best-loved books from her Book of Prayers range: The Power of a Praying® Wife, The Power of a Praying® Husband and The Power of a Praying® Parent.

The Power of a Praying® Wife will encourage and draw the hearts of wives to the Lord in prayer, helping them to unlock the power of prayer in their lives. In The Power of a Praying® Husband, Stormie helps men pray more effectively for their wives. Sixty much-loved prayers from the best-selling book The Power of a Praying® Parent will give readers peace and confidence in their parenting skills as they discover how to pray for their children in a dynamic way.

This compilation is sure to be a blessing to couples.

An invitation to an ordinary yet radical way of life, using historic Christian practices as both inspiring vision and practical instruction for how to encounter the wondrous, mysterious, living God through prayer. Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious promises, and yet, most people--even most Bible-believing Christians--find prayer to be boring, obligatory, disappointing, confusing, or, most often, all of the above. If you've ever felt this way, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools is your invitation to trade your conceptions and misconceptions about prayer for prayer in its purest form: a vital, sustaining, powerful connection with God that is more real and alive than you could have ever imagined. In these pages, Tyler Staton--author, pastor, and national director of the 24/7 Prayer movement--addresses common roadblocks to prayer and gives you the confidence to come to God just as you are. Through biblical teaching, powerful storytelling, and insights on historic Christian practices, Staton helps you . . . Express your doubts and disappointments about prayer Discover and practice multiple postures of prayer, including silence, persistence, confession, and more Understand and embrace the wonder and mystery of prayer in everyday life Realize that prayer is a powerful invitation to partner with God in the redemption of a fallen world And, ultimately, open or reopen the line of communication with your Creator and experience afresh his divine power on earth

A practical handbook for churches and schools that want to plan liturgical celebrations which are accessible to children while remaining true to the rich heritage of the Anglican tradition. It includes liturgies for key festivals of the Christian year, with supplementary material for use in church children's groups, schools and homes. Practical, pick-up and use book Will appeal to mainstream and more traditional Anglican congregations Up-and-coming author combining fresh ideas with huge amount of experience in this area.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

This book, "The Glory of Yahweh" will inspire everyone who wants a closer relationship with God. Know God, feel God, touch God and let God touch you. We need to go back to the altar of praising and worshipping God. Since the age of 5 years - the Lord has had His hands over my life, not just for protection. It goes beyond that - it's an all around blessing. I heard the call to lift up His name and worship Him. God's purpose was for me to lift up His name. I felt God was taking me through tests of what it takes to be a worshipper. I felt I was on a journey of experiences with God. It felt like a training field for what was to come. My mother waited on God throughout the hard times concerning my life. At times she thought I was going to go to heaven before my time. God preserved my life to worship Him. Worship The Lord in the beauty of Holiness. Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and every thing else will fall in place. Worship is a place of knowing God personally. It's a place of drawing strength from God, and a place that is refreshing and uplifting. Let's go back to a place of praising and worshipping God our father. Let's go back to the throne room of God.

It may seem easier to pray for your spouse, your children, your family and friends, but God wants to hear your requests for your life too. He loves it when you come to Him for help to become the woman you have always longed to be.

Best-selling author Stormie Omartian presents her most-loved prayers in The Power of a Praying® Woman Book of Prayers. Small enough to keep in purse or pocket for quick conversations with God, lovely enough to give as a special gift to encourage and draw the hearts of friends and loved ones to the Lord in prayer, this book of prayers will help unlock the power of praying.

At His feet is the answer to a woman's every need; in His hands is hope and joy for her life.

Beautifully illustrated in color for young elementary school readers, King of the Shattered Glass is a gentle parable about asking for forgiveness and receiving God's mercy!

Selections from her titles Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On, The Power of a Praying® Wife, The Power of a Praying® Woman, and The Power of a Praying® Parent create this bountiful gathering of reflections, guidance, Scriptures, and prayers. More than 120 devotions cover topics relevant to a woman's life, including:

• family and marriage
• priorities for life
• dreams waiting to unfold
• God's will and plan
• gifts of faith

Do you want to pray for your wife but are not sure what to pray about? The concise prayers in The Power of Praying® Husband Book of Prayers serve as the perfect starting point in asking for God’s guidance and blessing on your marriage.

In this book, Stormie Omartian shares best-loved prayers accompanied by Scripture and space to record your own prayers. You can keep it on hand for quick conversations with God about topics like your wife’s commitment to God, health, priorities, motherhood and faith.

Sometimes you might not know exactly what to pray for your husband. These insightful and honest prayers by best-selling author Stormie Omartian are the perfect starting point in asking for God’s wisdom and blessings for your marriage.

Each prayer highlights various facets of your husband’s life, including his temptations, fears, priorities, health, finances and work.

Meditate on the complementing Scripture verses and jot down your own reflections, petitions and answers to prayer in the space provided.