Die reis na volwassenheid kom met baie vrae en stampe en stote. Gelukkig kan jongmense altyd vertrou dat die Here hulle deur sy Woord sal lei.
Die sakpas-Bybel met oordenkings vir meisies sal tieners help om elke dag tyd te maak vir God met 366 kort stukkies vir elke dag van die jaar wat hulle oë gefokus sal hou op die Here. Die kort gedagtes oor onderwerpe spesifiek gemik op hulle behoeftes en lewe, van sekerheid van verlossing tot ’n rein lewe, sal hulle geloof versterk. Daar is ook ’n tematiese indeks om maklik antwoorde te kry oor kwessies waaroor hulle wonder.

Die reis na volwassenheid kom met baie vrae en stampe en stote. Gelukkig kan jongmense altyd vertrou dat die Here hulle deur sy Woord sal lei.
Die sakpas-Bybel met oordenkings vir jong mans sal tieners help om elke dag tyd te maak vir God met 366 kort stukkies vir elke dag van die jaar wat hulle oë gefokus sal hou op die Here. Die kort gedagtes oor onderwerpe spesifiek gemik op hulle behoeftes en lewe, van sekerheid van verlossing tot ’n rein lewe, sal hulle geloof versterk. Daar is ook ’n tematiese indeks om maklik antwoorde te kry oor kwessies waaroor hulle wonder.

It is normal for parents to worry about their children, especially when it comes to their faith. Making sure that they understand the Bible and its importance is crucial if they are to successfully navigate those pesky teen years and the challenges of adulthood in the future.

Bible Trivia Devotional: 365 Devotions To Enlighten And Brighten Your Day is a 365-day devotional containing fun Bible trivia and short devotions that will challenge teens to think beyond the answers to how it applies to their everyday lives. They will be guided in recalling Scriptures, heroes of the faith, miracles, historical places and events, and glean new insight and perspective from old, familiar Bible passages. Teens will discover that facts in the Bible are never trivial—it is God's living Word and a source of hope, peace and life!

Got a minute? Thanks to beloved Franciscan priest and retreat leader Fr. Albert Haase, that's all you need to stay in touch with the Gospel every Sunday through the Church year. Inspired by his early days in a busy urban parish, Sundays on the Go is Fr. Albert's gift to busy Catholics - just enough to keep you on track with Jesus, even when you're on the run! This first edition of Sundays on the Go features: A reading for every Sunday of Year A of the liturgical year Handy Scriptural references to each Gospel passage A brief, direct, and pithy homily from Fr. Albert A reflection question and a prayer Special readings for Solemnities and Feasts through the year Fr. Albert's words will help you to prepare for Sunday Eucharist, and stay in touch with the Gospel all week long. Sundays on the Go is the perfect gift for busy Catholics of all ages - professionals, parents, students, and anyone who's short on time - in need of spiritual wisdom, encouragement, and a strong connection with the Gospel.

"Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." -Exodus 3:5 "The Holy Land is everywhere." -Black Elk The two epigraphs that preface Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's Holy Land introduce the reader to the central theme that permeates her poems: that holy places deserve to be regarded with reverence and that all places are holy places. In her afterward, the poet traces these foundational concepts to her Catholic childhood wherein religious instruction consisted largely of memorizing the Baltimore Catechism. "One of questions the Catechism poses is 'Where is God?' The answer is 'God is everywhere.' We believed this to be true. God was in church, but God was also in our house (a crucifix in every room), in the backyard, in our Buick (rosary beads swinging from the rearview mirror), at our birthday parties in the basement, and in our own bodies. And though those places may not sound very holy, they were. Because God was there. Is there." In addition to affirming this foundational belief, these poems extend the terrain, moving beyond the geographical and the physical to the temporal, the carnal, the intellectual, and the spiritual realms. They assert that our days are blessed, our bodies are blessed, our minds and souls are all blessed and sacred ground. The poet explores a broad spectrum of physical locations, beginning with poems set in the Holy Land and moving on to places closer to home, ranging from the west of Ireland to rural Minnesota, from New York City to the Texas border. She also probes the temporal spaces we occupy, experiences of death and birth, love and loss, desire and desolation that mark our human passage. The English word holy is related to the Germanic word heilig, a word that means blessed and also carries within it the idea of wholeness. Holy Land attempts to honor both the holiness and the wholeness of our world-from Gotham to Golgotha, the Bronx River to the Sea of Galilee-and to honor the holiness and wholeness of our blessed and broken humanity.

According to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of Eden. Amy Nemecek listens for this divine dialect as she communes with God on her walks along country roads and creek banks, through forests and hayfields. She observes the world around her with expectation, knowing that God still speaks to us as he is at work making all things new. If we have ears to hear, we can catch snippets of his grace in the watercolor silhouette of a bird, the thrum of a tractor engine, the tang of a grapefruit, the curvature of an ampersand. Amy doesn't want to miss any of it, so she remains attentive to the smooth grit of beach sand, the tendrils of a nebula, and the steady gaze of a fossil. She delights in the details, and you will too. In this collection of lyric and narrative poems, you are invited to walk with her as she reflects on larger themes of beauty, loss, motherhood, family, and vocation. She contemplates the sacredness of ordinary moments that we usually don't recognize except in hindsight. Twining through every line is an aching hopefulness that ties together her love of words, her devotion to scripture, and her deep gratitude for each of life's joys and griefs. "Rub dust on your palms, pluck the ripened sunshine, and taste this poetic grace." -Dwight Baker, president and CEO of Baker Publishing Group

25 World Church songs, with an emphasis on Central and South America. Includes: Cantai ao SenhorEl cielo cantaRe ya mathemathaIf you believe

In Plantation Church, Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about the "Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive Afro-Caribbean population was able to establish a form of Christianity that preserved African Gods and practices, but fused them with Christian teachings, resulting in religions such as Cuba's Santeria. Despite their common ancestry, the Black religious experience in the U.S. was markedly different because African Americans were a political and cultural minority. The Plantation Church became a place of solace and resistance that provided its members with a sense of kinship, not only to each other but also to their ancestral past. Despite their common origins, the Caribbean and African American Church are almost never studied together. This book investigates the parallel histories of these two strands of the Black Church, showing where their historical ties remain strong and where different circumstances have led them down unexpectedly divergent paths. The result will be a work that illuminates the histories, theologies, politics, and practices of both branches of the Black Church. This project presses beyond the nation state framework and raises intercultural and interregional questions with implications for gender, race and class. Noel Leo Erskine employs a comparative method that opens up the possibility of rethinking the language and grammar of how Black churches have been understood in the Americas and extends the notion of church beyond the United States. The forging of a Black Christianity from sources African and European, allows for an examination of the meaning of church when people of African descent are culturally and politically in the majority. Erskine also asks the pertinent question of what meaning the church holds when the converse is true: when African Americans are a cultural and political minority.

How do you picture the Holy Spirit? A vague fuzzy cloud? An invisible, impersonal force? The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is a person. Scripture gives us strong word pictures of the Spirit as wind, fire, a counsellor, anointing oil and more - and these eight Bible studies will help us explore those. 8 sessions: Wind/Breath, Ezekiel 37:1-14 Water, John 4:1-14, 7:37-39 Fire, Acts 2:1-4 Pledge, Ephesians 1:11-14 Counsellor, John 14:15-27 Advocate, Romans 8:26-27 Anointing Oil, Luke 4:14-21 Giver of Gifts, I Corinthians 12:1-11

This book raises in a new way a central question of Christology: what is the divine motive for the incarnation? Throughout Christian history a majority of Western theologians have agreed that God's decision to become incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ was made necessary by "the Fall": if humans had not sinned, the incarnation would not have happened. This position is known as "infralapsarian." A minority of theologians however, including some major 19th- and 20th-century theological figures, championed a "supralapsarian" Christology, arguing that God has always intended the incarnation, independent of "the Fall."
Edwin Chr. van Driel offers the first scholarly monograph to map and analyze the full range of supralapsarian arguments. He gives a thick description of each argument and its theological consequences, and evaluates the theological gains and losses inherent in each approach. Van Driel shows that each of the three ways in which God is thought to relate to all that is not God -- in creation, in redemption, and in eschatological consummation -- can serve as the basis for a supralapsarian argument. He illustrates this thesis with detailed case studies of the Christologies of Schleiermacher, Dorner, and Barth. He concludes that the most fruitful supralapsarian strategy is rooted in the notion of eschatological consummation, taking interpersonal interaction with God to be the goal of the incarnation. He goes on to develop his own argument along these lines, concluding in an eschatological vision in which God is visually, audibly, and tangibly present in the midst of God's people.

Engage students with the 'Developments in Christian Thought' content for OCR A Level Religious Studies; build their knowledge, deepen their understanding and develop their skills using this accessible textbook, brought to you by subject specialists with examining experience and the leading A Level Religious Studies publisher and OCR's Publishing Partner. - Confidently cover the content your students need to know in an appropriate level of depth with this component textbook that has been written in light of what has been learned from from the first assessment - Enable students to develop and hone the AO2 skills they need, with Analyse and Evaluate tables in every topic outlining the key evaluation points - Help students of all ability levels to build their subject knowledge with key content explained clearly throughout using accessible language - Engage students with the content; each topic begins with a real-life example which puts the content into context and has discussion points throughout to get students actively thinking about key concepts - Encourage students to critically engage with challenging issues and ideas; core, stretch and challenge activities at the end of every topic help students to develop a comprehensive and nuanced understanding - Provide students with the opportunity to check their knowledge and practise exam questions with the 'Wrap-up' section at the end of each topic