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Music can either Connect You to God or Drive You to the Devil.
It is time for Christians to recover the full potential of anointed music—in our
assemblies and in society, in our services and on the streets, in studios and in
schools. Today’s Jesus revolution may only succeed with the help of Holy Spirit–
inspired music and an encounter with God.
After reading this book, you will never again listen to a song the same. Discover how
you can use music to release the sounds of heaven and change the world.
In this compelling book, Mark Stibbe argues that God wants to use
Christians to speak prophetically into the lives of unbelievers,
waking them up to the fact that Jesus is alive and he knows their
every thought, word and action. There are many biblical examples of
God's people using prophecy in their witness to unbelievers. Jesus
used prophecy in His ministry to seekers. After Pentecost, God gave
the gift of prophecy to believers as one resource among many in
their witness to the world. Furthermore, Christians today receive
prophecies for those who don't know Christ, often with immediate
and life-changing effects. This book contains many such
testimonies.
This book introduces the reader to the history of European Christian pilgrimage in the twelve hundred years between the conversion of the Emperor Constantine and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. It sheds light on the varied reasons for which men and women of all classes undertook journeys, which might be long (to Rome, Jerusalem and Compostela) or short (to innumerable local shrines). It also considers the geography of pilgrimage and its cultural legacy.
For anyone who longs for a consistent prayer life yet struggles
with distractions, doubts, or knowing where to start, bestselling
writer and beloved speaker Chrystal Evans Hurst offers a simple and
heartfelt method for having meaningful conversations with God, one
day at a time. The kind of intentional, fervent prayer life we'd
like to experience often seems intimidating or just out of reach.
Chrystal knows how that feels and shares her own relatable journey
through the challenges and joys of deepening her prayer life.
Showing up to pray just one day at a time, Chrystal found a simple
yet powerful practice that made consistent prayer amazingly doable.
A warm and encouraging writer, Chrystal shares the same supportive
help she found for talking with God specifically and intentionally
throughout the day. With relatable stories and timeless Scripture,
The 28-Day Prayer Journey offers three prompts each day to guide
you through an easy yet intimate prayer experience. From giving
thanks, hearing God, and making requests to simply knowing what to
say, Chrystal gives practical explanations and easy steps for the
core tenets of prayer, including: Praise and Thanksgiving--offering
gratitude to God Repentance--seeking forgiveness from God
Asking--presenting your requests to God Yielding--surrendering to
God The 28-Day Prayer Journey will strengthen your faith and
transform your life with the profound experience of communicating
with a loving God. Whether you are new to prayer or well-versed in
communication with God, this hopeful and supportive guide will help
you experience God's presence in ways you never have before through
the practice of meaningful prayer.
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Worship professor and practitioner Constance Cherry shows how to
create services that are faithful to Scripture, historically
conscious, relevant to God, Christ-centered, and engaging for
worshipers of all ages in the twenty-first century. More than 150
colleges and seminaries have used or currently use the first
edition as a required text. In this new edition, each chapter has
been substantially updated and revised, including illustrations,
key terms, examples, technological references, and suggested
resources for further reading. A new chapter on global worship and
a new appendix on live-streamed worship are included.
Holloway preached a powerful and very personal brand of sermon at
Gray's Inn, and elsewhere, between 1997 and his death in office in
2010. Such was his following that it went without question that a
selection of the 190 sermons he left should be published, not only
for the benefit of those who heard them delivered, but to reach the
much wider audience for whom these unique essays will provide
guidance and entertainment, as well as human and spiritual wisdom.
A classic book of ceremonies and services according to the Western
Rite, for all services other than the Eucharist which a parish
priest would normally carry out. It contains orders of service for
baptism, marriage, funerals, sick visiting, home communion and
penance, as well as numerous blessing ceremonies for buildings,
objects and events. It may be used alongside Common Worship and The
Book of Common Prayer, and includes an appendix of prayers for a
wide range of needs and occasions. Material from the Western Rite
and the Book of Common Prayer is printed side-by-side, making this
a useful resource for priests and parishioners who prefer ancient
rites which pre-date the splits and divisions brought about by the
Reformation.
This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran
Hodayot (= Thanksgiving Hymns) in light of ancient visionary
traditions, new developments in neuropsychology, and
post-structuralist understandings of the embodied subject. The
thesis of this book is that the ritualized reading of reports
describing visionary experiences written in the first person "I"
had the potential to create within the ancient reader the
subjectivity of a visionary which can then predispose him to have a
religious experience. This study examines how references to the
body and the strategic arousal of emotions could have functioned
within a practice of performative reading to engender a religious
experience of ascent. In so doing, this book offers new
interdisciplinary insights into meditative ritual reading as a
religious practice for transformation in antiquity.
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