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"Pray with more than just your mind--learn how to use your whole
self"
In this innovative prayer book, readers are invited to do more
than read--they are asked to move in prayer by expressing the
Psalms with motion. This way of praying helps deepen and broaden a
relationship with God. It allows the pray-er to better come to
understand God as "Holy One"--and in other timeless expressions of
the psalmists.
In Praying with the Body readers will find both prayer tools and
companionship. Black and white drawings showing the postures and
expressions of the body, accompany the scripture texts and
explanations by Roy DeLeon. Working together, these elements invite
readers to taste, explore, and discover a new and different way of
knowing God.
This book is for anyone who wants a more integrated and reconciled
approach to prayer. It proposes a way of prayer that, depending on
your level of readiness, could influence both our interior and
daily life. Its meditations and reflections connect readers to
their deepest needs to be with the Beloved, to be reassured of the
divine presence in our midst. They address hunger and longing for
true happiness, for freedom from fear, and for deep peace.
"The four basic ways of praying -oral, mental, affective, and
contemplative--are all contained here." --Father Tom Ryan, author
of Prayer of Heart and Body
"A brilliant breakthrough in pilgrimage studies. An exemplary study
that shows how to bring together different academic and
institutional interests in a common cause - understanding the
relationship between pilgrimage and English cathedrals over time. A
publication that will, hopefully, inspire similar collaborative
studies around the globe." - John Eade, Professor of Sociology and
Anthropology, University of Roehampton, UK "People who oversee,
minister, lead worship, guide, welcome, manage, market, promote and
maintain cathedrals will find this book an indispensable treasure.
It is aware of the awesome complexity inherent in cathedral life
but it doesn't duck the issues: its clear-eyed focus is on the way
people experience cathedrals and how these extraordinary holy
places can speak and connect with all the diversity represented by
the people who come to them. In a spiritually-hungry age, this book
shows us how to recognise and meet that hunger. This book will be
required reading for all us "insiders" trying to invite and
signpost access to holy ground." - The Very Reverend Adrian Dorber,
Dean of Lichfield, Chair of the Association of English Cathedrals
This book looks at England's cathedrals and their relationship with
pilgrimage throughout history and in the present day. The volume
brings together historians, social scientists, and cathedral
practitioners to provide groundbreaking work, comprising a
historical overview of the topic, thematic studies, and individual
views from prominent clergy discussing how they see pilgrimage as
part of the contemporary cathedral experience.
Most Christians want to experience spiritual transformation. But
many are frustrated by the limited progress of our spiritual
self-improvement efforts. We find our praying burdened by a sense
of obligation and failure. But prayer is not merely something we
do; prayer is what God does in us. Prayer is not just communication
with God-it is communion with God. As we open ourselves to him, God
does the spiritual work of transformation in us. Spiritual director
and psychologist David Benner invites us to discover openness to
God as the essence of prayer, spirituality, and the Christian life.
Prayer is far more than saying words to God; all of life can be
prayer when offered to God in faith and with openness. Using the
four movements of lectio divina, Benner explores prayer as
attending, pondering, responding, and being. Along the way he opens
us to a world of possibilities for communion with God: praying with
our senses, with imagination, with music and creativity, in
contemplation, in service, and much more. Learn how prayer can be a
way of living. Move beyond words to become not merely someone who
prays, but someone whose entire life is prayer in union with God.
This expanded edition includes a new afterword and an experiential
guide with questions for individual reflection or group discussion.
* Activities for celebrating secular and sacred seasons of the year
* For use in churches, schools, camps, at home Many of our
experiences in life happen when several generations are together-
at church, at home, in our communities. Holidays and family events
are times for celebration, learning, rituals, food, and fun. This
edition of Faithful Celebrations focuses on the months of January
and February, when secular holidays can become times to think about
how we live out the gospel message in celebrating national holidays
with more than a day off from school or sending a greeting card.
Each event to be celebrated includes key ideas; a cluster of
activities to experience the key ideas; a list of materials needed;
full instructions for implementation; background history and
information; music; art; recipes; and prayer resources to use in a
small, intimate, or large multi-generational group. For children,
youth, adults, or any combination of ages, any of these activities
can take place in any setting. Faithful Celebrations: Making Time
for God in Winter includes New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr.
Day, Super Bowl Sunday, Valentine's Day, and Snow days.
This essay collection, devoted to exploring the richness of
Christian musical traditions in the Americas, reflects the
distinctive critical perspectives of the Society for Christian
Scholarship in Music, an association of scholars dedicated to
exploring the intersections of Christian faith and musical
scholarship. Now in our sixteenth year, we seek to celebrate our
work in the world and bring it to a larger audience by offering a
cross- section of the most outstanding scholarship from an
international array of writers. The proposed collection follows a
first collection published to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary
of the Society (Exploring Christian Song, M. Jennifer Bloxam and
AndrewShenton, editors, Lexington Books, 2017). That first volume
focused on Christian song in a variety of different contexts. Our
proposed collection surveys a broad geographical areaand
demonstrates the enormous diversity of music-making and scholarship
within that area. While there are some studies that focus on a
single country or region and its sacred music (see the literature
survey below), this will be the first collection to present a
representative cross-section of the range of sacred music in the
Americas and the approaches to studying them in context. The essays
in this collection are ecumenical, reflecting the breadth of
Christian traditions. The essays include several by distinguished
senior scholars in the field (including David Music, Baylor
University; and Jeff Warren, Quest University, Canada). Several
essays are by noted specialists in the field (including Jesse
Karlsberg, Emory University; and Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul
University), and several by younger scholars (including Hannah
Denecke, Florida State University; and Natasha Walsh, York
University, Canada). SCSM is particularly keen to promote the work
of students. The work of these rising stars thus appears alongside
the work of veteran scholars working in the area of Christian
sacred music, ensuring a stimulating mix of subjects, viewpoints,
and methodologies.
`It is strange that we can spend a lifetime sitting through church
services and actually not really pray. I had spent years doing just
that.' When Mary Kissell committed to getting up early every
morning to spend time in prayer, she began a practice that would
revolutionise her life. Daily developing her relationship with God,
she grew in intimacy with the Holy Spirit and discovered how He
speaks in whispers, glimpses and nudges - simple leadings that can
have the profoundest outcomes. This rich and moving memoir tells
the incredible story of how simply following the Holy Spirit's
leading saw countless people impacted around the world and the most
heart-rending situations transformed. Allow Mary's story of walking
with the Holy Spirit inspire and encourage you to do the same,
whatever season of life you are in.
Today, traditional forms of preaching are being scrutinized and
challenged. The biblical sermon is not immune to the pressure to
evolve or even fall by the wayside, leaving pastors and seminary
students confused over how best to communicate to today s
listeners. In this forward-looking textbook, Kenton Anderson
delivers a strong call to current and future ministers to indeed
choose to preach biblical sermons, despite the obstacles to doing
so. While preaching itself is non-negotiable, the exact form it
takes can be much more flexible, allowing people to hear from God
as they hear his Word preached. Rather than presenting one model or
process for preparing a sermon, Anderson explains several available
options. As you discern your message from the Bible, will you begin
with the text (deductive) or with the listener (inductive)? Will
you focus on the idea (cognitive) or the image (affective)? The
choices you make lead to five possible sermon structures: *
DECLARATIVE---make an argument * PRAGMATIC---solve a mystery *
NARRATIVE---tell a story * VISIONARY---paint a picture *
INTEGRATIVE---sing a song Each model is described in detail and
related to well-known contemporary preachers, including John
MacArthur, Rick Warren, Eugene Lowry, and Rob Bell. This book
equips you with a variety of tools for your preaching tool kit."
The essays collected in this volume provide a resource for thinking
theologically about the practice of Christian prayer. In the first
of four parts, the volume begins by reaching back to the biblical
foundations of prayer. Then, each of the chapters in the second
part investigates a classical Christian doctrine - including God,
creation, Christology, pneumatology, providence and eschatology -
from the perspective of prayer. The chapters in the third part
explore the writings of some of the great theorizers of prayer in
the history of the Christian tradition. The final part gathers a
set of creative and critical conversations on prayer responding to
a variety of contemporary issues. Overall, the T&T Clark
Handbook of Christian Prayer articulates a theologically expansive
account of prayer - one that is deeply biblical, energetically
doctrinal, historically rooted, and relevant to a whole host of
critical questions and concerns facing the world today.
Offers the opportunity to spend a month with Julian of Norwich,
with readings for both morning and evening
Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval English life which affected history, politics, art and literature. The shrines were destroyed during the Reformation and pilgrimage stopped, yet the idea of pilgrimage continued--refashioned - in Protestant theology. By reaching beyond the Reformation to explore the transformation of the idea of the pilgrim, this book confronts the religious experience of the English laity over half a millennium. In a series of ground-breaking studies the contributors challenge many orthodox assumptions about English pilgrims and their history.
'We are the Beloved. We are intimately loved long before our
parents, teachers, spouses, children and friends loved or wounded
us. That's the truth of our lives. That's the truth I want you to
claim for yourself. That's the truth spoken by the voice that says,
"You are my Beloved."' - Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved Henri
Nouwen, priest, professor and writer, devoted much of his later
ministry to emphasising the singular concept of our identity as the
Beloved of God. In an interview, he said that he believed the
central moment in Jesus' public ministry to be his baptism in the
Jordan, when Jesus heard the affirmation, 'You are my beloved son
on whom my favour rests.' 'That is the core experience of Jesus,'
Nouwen writes. 'He is reminded in a deep, deep way of who he is ...
I think his whole life is continually claiming that identity in the
midst of everything.' You Are Beloved is a daily devotional created
from the very best of Nouwen's writings, paired with daily
Scripture readings, that reveals our identity as children of God,
and which encourages us to live out that truth in our daily lives.
Nouwen is at once refreshingly accessible, unafraid to wrestle with
challenging questions, and above all an encouraging and sympathetic
voice along the way.
This omnibus edition brings together Phillip Keller's three
devotional classics, A Shepherd Looks and the 23rd Psalm, A
Shepherd Looks at the Good Shepherd, and A Shepherd Looks at the
Lamb of God. As a shepherd, Phillip Keller knew what it was to
protect a vulnerable flock on a daily basis. The special skills of
a shepherd demanded compassion, care, and guidance. His practical
experience provides a wellspring of profound spiritual insight,
reflected in these timeless meditations on the most famous psalm of
all, on the relationship between the Good Shepherd and his sheep,
and on the sacrificial role of Christ the Lamb of God.
This is a sequel to two highly successful collections of short
songs ("Come All You People" and "There Is One Among Us") for use
in worship. Here the net is thrown wider with material from
AIDs-ridden communities in the developing world side by side with
recent products from the Wild Goose Resource Group. It is an ideal
collection for small choirs, social justice enthusiasts,
multiculturalists and all who regard themselves a global Christian.
This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes the first two
tractates of the Second Order, Sabbat and 'Eruvin. These tractates
deal with discussion of all regulations regarding Shabbat, the
weekly day of rest, including the activities prohibited on Shabbat.
The tractate 'Eruvin covers questions of definition of what is
allowed to do on Shabbat. The Second Order is the last one to be
published in Heinrich W. Guggenheimer's edition of the Jerusalem
Talmud.
A Spiritual Journey to God's Best offers powerful tools for
victorious Christian living. Birthed out of the Michaelyn Hodges'
own spiritual battle in the crucible of life, readers learn about
spiritual warfare and victory through prayer. The seeker will learn
foundational principles while the seasoned believer will advance on
the path to a more intimate relationship with Christ. This 40
lesson bible study exposes the lies of the enemy and replaces them
with God's truth.
A Spiritual Journey to God's Best offers powerful tools for
victorious Christian living. Birthed out of the Michaelyn Hodges'
own spiritual battle in the crucible of life, readers learn about
spiritual warfare and victory through prayer. The seeker will learn
foundational principles while the seasoned believer will advance on
the path to a more intimate relationship with Christ. This 40
lesson bible study exposes the lies of the enemy and replaces them
with God's truth.
This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role
played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred
places, past and present. It thus addresses two major gaps in the
existing literature, by providing a broad historical narrative
against which patterns of continuity and change can be more
meaningfully discussed, and focusing on the central, but curiously
neglected, area of the core dynamics of pilgrim experience.
Bringing together the still-developing fields of Pilgrimage Studies
and Sensory Studies in a historically framed conversation, this
interdisciplinary study traces the dynamics of pilgrimage and
engagement with holy places from the beginnings of the
Judaeo-Christian tradition to the resurgence of interest evident in
twenty-first century England. Perspectives from a wide range of
disciplines, from history to neuroscience, are used to examine
themes including sacred sites in the Bible and Early Church;
pilgrimage and holy places in early and later medieval England; the
impact of the English Reformation; revival of pilgrimage and sacred
places during the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries; and the
emergence of modern place-centred, popular 'spirituality'.
Addressing the resurgence of pilgrimage and its persistent link to
the attachment of meaning to place, this book will be a key
reference for scholars of Pilgrimage Studies, History of Religion,
Religious Studies, Sensory Studies, Medieval Studies, and Early
Modern Studies.
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