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Books > Christianity > Christian Worship
Good News of Great Joy by John Piper invites Christians to make
Jesus the center of the Advent season through 25 devotional
readings.
"If prayer is so important, why is it so difficult?" Starting from
this universal question, Neil T. Anderson, bestselling author of
The Bondage Breaker, explores how readers can intimately connect
with their loving heavenly Father, looking at the confidence
believers can have in taking their struggles before God-and in
interceding for others their release from bondage and the freedom
they gain to walk in the Spirit the gracious way God leads them to
love Him, not His blessings Liberating Prayer emphasizes the
life-changing truth that prayer is relationship, not ritual-and
that as already-accepted children, believers are free to be honest
with their Father. End-of-chapter questions are ideal for group
study and help readers immediately apply what they've learned in
their own prayer lives. Based on material previously released in
Praying by the Power of the Spirit.
This is a popular introduction, aimed at general readers, to prayer
and the spiritual life in the tradition of Ignatius Loyola. A deep
prayer life is not just something for mystics or religious
specialists. It's for everyone, and everyone has a capacity for it.
There is a great thirst for spiritual depth among Christians and
seekers. This is a popular introduction to prayer and the spiritual
life - a guide for Lent and the rest of the year - in the tradition
of Ignatius Loyola. Simmonds also explores Ignatian influence on
the life of the seventeenth-century Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward. The
Ignatian tradition is hugely adaptable to different approaches. At
its heart is personal encounter with Jesus, so The Way of Ignatius
will help people to pray with the Scriptures in an imaginative way.
It includes questions to aid reflection and discussion at the end
of each chapter, and also looks at the way in which the Passion and
resurrection of Jesus are woven into the patterns of human life.
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In a culture that prizes keeping one's options open, making
commitments offers something more valuable. The consumerism and
instant gratification of "liquid modernity" feed a general
reluctance to make commitments, a refusal to be pinned down for the
long term. Consider the decline of three forms of commitment that
involve giving up options: marriage, military service, and monastic
life. Yet increasing numbers of people question whether
unprecedented freedom might be leading to less flourishing, not
more. They are dissatisfied with an atomized way of life that
offers endless choices of goods, services, and experiences but
undermines ties of solidarity and mutuality. They yearn for more
heroic virtues, more sacrificial commitments, more comprehensive
visions of the individual and common good. It turns out that the
American Founders were right: the Creator did endow us with an
unalienable right of liberty. But he has endowed us with something
else as well, a gift that is equally unalienable: desire for
unreserved commitment of all we have and are. Our liberty is given
us so that we in turn can freely dedicate ourselves to something
greater. Ultimately, to take a leap of commitment, even without
knowing where one will land, is the way to a happiness worth
everything. On this theme: - Lydia S. Dugdale asks what happened to
the Hippocratic Oath in modern medicine. - Caitrin Keiper looks at
competing vows in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. - Kelsey Osgood, an
Orthodox Jew, asks why lifestyle discipline is admired in sports
but not religion. - Wendell Berry says being on the side of love
does not allow one to have enemies. - Phil Christman spoofs the New
York Times Vows column. - Andreas Knapp tells why he chose poverty.
- Norann Voll recounts the places a vow of obedience took her. -
Carino Hodder says chastity is for everyone, not just nuns. - Dori
Moody revisits her grandparents' broken but faithful marriage. -
Randall Gauger, a Bruderhof pastor, finds that lifelong vows make
faithfulness possible. - King-Ho Leung looks at vows, oaths,
promises, and covenants in the Bible. Also in the issue: - A young
Black pastor reads Clarence Jordan today. - Activists discuss the
pro-life movement after Roe and Dobbs. - Children learn from King
Arthur, Robin Hood, and the occasional cowboy. - Original poetry by
Ned Balbo - Reviews of Montgomery and Bikle's What Your Food Ate,
Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man, and Bonnie Kristian's
Untrustworthy - A profile of Sadhu Sundar Singh Plough Quarterly
features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to apply
their faith to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth
articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art.
Exploring how the Bible may be appropriately used in practical and
public theology, this book looks at types of modern practical
theology with specific emphasis on the use of the Bible. Bennett
juxtaposes the diversity of modern practical theology with the work
of leading nineteenth-century public 'theologian', John Ruskin, and
then assesses the contribution of this analysis to some modern
issues of public importance in which the Bible is used. The final
chapter offers a framework for a biblically informed critical
practical theology which draws on the writer's experience and
invites the readers to engage their own.
Most Christians have experienced the "laundry list" phase of
spiritual life, in which praying means giving God an agenda of
needs to handle. But how do you move to having real conversation
with God? How do you hear what God is saying back to you? How can
you make your experience of God's presence part of everyday life?
In this six-session LifeGuide(R) Bible Study, Jan Johnson covers
the disciplines of prayer and of practicing God's presence. Going
deeper in these areas will help you to draw closer to God in
everything you do. For over three decades LifeGuide Bible Studies
have provided solid biblical content and raised thought-provoking
questions--making for a one-of-a-kind Bible study experience for
individuals and groups. This series has more than 130 titles on Old
and New Testament books, character studies, and topical studies.
You want a vibrant, empowering connection with Jesus and this book will point the way. Whether youre launching or rebooting your secret place, lay down the essential building blocks that will give your prayer life longevity. Take the 20/20 challengedevote 20 minutes a day to prayer for 20 days. Discover the delight of an abiding relationship with Jesus and launch a prayer habit that will continue to grow all your days.
* Hopeful and uplifting in tone * Understands prayer as something
which is actively 'lived' rather than as something 'set apart'
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.
Lent is not about giving up or taking up, but a radical opening up:
the opening up of our lives to God's transformative kingdom. That
is the challenge Trystan Owain Hughes sets in Opening Our Lives.
Through practical daily devotions he calls on us to open our eyes
to God's presence, our ears to his call, our hearts to his love,
our ways to his will, our actions to his compassion and our pain to
his peace.
Guidance for Leaders Seeking a Richer Way to Employ Worship Music
Worship expert Constance Cherry offers comprehensive guidance to
Christian leaders seeking a deeper, richer way to employ worship
music in engaging ways for twenty-first-century worshipers.
Following Cherry's successful book The Worship Architect, this work
helps Christian leaders think theologically and act pastorally
about worship music in their churches. It addresses larger issues
beyond the surface struggles of musical styles and provides tools
to critically evaluate worship songs. The book is applicable to all
Christian traditions and worship styles and is well suited to both
the classroom and the local church. Each chapter concludes with
suggested practical exercises, recommended reading, and basic
vocabulary terms.
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.
`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.
Reconciling Christians offers 40 biblically-based meditations, with
questions for reflection, for use at weekly gatherings (6 weeks) or
for everyday devotion during Lent.
Claim your prophetic promise in the midst of the storm!
What do you do when you receive a promise from the Lord but it doesn’t
come to pass? How do you get from promise to fulfillment?
When Ryan Johnson’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, God took him on a
revelatory journey, showing him how prophetic promises are realized. In
the midst of her grim diagnosis, Ryan’s mother was having recurring
dreams of playing with her adult grandchildren. These dreams were
prophetic signposts that the diagnosis would not be a death sentence.
This gave Ryan faith to press into God for answers and contend for a
miracle. Now his mother is healed and cancer free! During this process,
the Holy Spirit revealed keys to activating faith and seeing promises
come to pass, even when it seems like the situation is hopeless.
How to Contend for Your Miracle will show you how to…
- Use the dreams, visions, and prophetic words that God gives
as anchors for your faith and weapons against the enemy.
- Activate the gift of faith to accelerate the fulfillment of
your prophetic promises.
- Thrive in the midst of your struggle by standing on the
Word of God.
Rise up! Contend for your miracle, so all of God’s promises can come to
pass!
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