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What can God’s creation teach us about ourselves, our communities, and modern Christianity? Talks to Farmers: Inspiring, Uplifting, Faith-Building Meditations, written by world renowned preacher Charles H. Spurgeon, uncovers the lessons we can learn from taking a closer look at nature. Includes Foreword by New York Times bestselling author, pastor, and Spurgeon admirer John MacArthur.
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First published in 1882, Talks to Farmers is a collection of nineteen of Spurgeon's best-known sermons. Within each chapter, Spurgeon artfully breaks down biblical parables, psalms, and passages through an agricultural lens to teach you timeless spiritual truths and deepen your relationship with Christ. Updated for today’s reader, this new edition of Talks to Farmers is designed to cultivate your faith along the way.
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Talks to Farmers is a hopeful, encouraging read for every Christian. Convicting and enlightening, Spurgeon's style of dissecting a verse and beautifully weaving it back together for its true purpose--to point us to Christ, our everlasting source of hope and joy--truly shines in this modern edition of Talks to Farmers.
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Throughout Talks to Farmers, Spurgeon shares the essential life lessons he’s learned about:
- The importance of developing a healthy prayer life
- How implementing a practice of gratitude can change your perspective on the world forever
- What God's creation can teach us about humanity, society, and modern Christianity
- The power of our day-to-day observations of nature
- The incredible variety of ways in which faith journeys can unfold
- How God cares for us, just as he cares for every creature on earth
Nearly 140 years after these sermons were first delivered, Spurgeon's inspirational messages continue to prove practical and relevant for modern believers, drawing from salt-of-the-earth stories from the Bible that explore our relationship with both God and his creation.
""'Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be
food in my """house. Test me in this, ' says the Lord Almighty,
'and see if I will not"" """throw open the floodgates of heaven and
pour out so much blessing that""" """"you will not have room enough
for it.'""""" -- Malachi 3:1 0
In these uncertain economic times, does it really make sense to
tithe?
Douglas LeBlanc thinks the answer is clear enough in Malachi 3:10,
where God goes so far as to tell us, "Test me in this." The people
profiled in this book have done exactly that--and the effect on
their lives has been dramatic.
In these intimate journalistic portraits, LeBlanc shows us true
tithing in action. From members of the clergy, to best-selling
authors, to social activists both conservative and liberal, these
are the lives of real people who tithe in joy and plenty, in the
face of poverty and natural disaster, in community and missionally,
and as a spiritual practice commanded by God. They come from
different backgrounds and live in varying degrees of financial
comfort; but they all tithe--and wouldn't have it any other way.
Through their eyes, we come to understand this ancient practice as
God's call to a life of generosity, compassion, and joy.
"""""THE ANCIENT PRACTICES"""""
There is a hunger in every human heart for connection, primitive
and raw, to God. To satisfy it, many are beginning to explore
traditional spiritual disciplines used for centuries. . .everything
from fixed-hour prayer to fasting to sincere observance of the
Sabbath. Compelling and readable, the """"""Ancient Practices""""""
series is for every spiritual sojourner, for every Christian seeker
who wants more.
With his usual consummate clarity of thought and style, Michael
Ramsey sets out to establish what the Spirit meant in the
experience and the language of the early Christians. 'There are
none from whom we can learn more about a theme so intimately linked
with the coming of Jesus Christ.'
This book will give you a clear understanding of the real Jesus. Many
people’s Christianity is not really about Jesus; it’s something they
inherited culturally. You will learn that your relationship with Jesus
is deeper than your last attendance in church. You will put Him in the
center of everything you do.
Which Jesus do you follow? What does He believe? Or perhaps just as
important, What do you believe about Him? In The Real Jesus, the debut
book from pastor and beloved worship leader Jonathan Stockstill, you
will have an encounter with the real-life Son of God—the One who loves
you more than you could ever imagine.
After reading The Real Jesus, you will:
- Understand the difference between the mistaken, miscast,
misinterpreted Jesus of our culture and the blood-and-bones Jesus of
the Bible
- Discover a Jesus you may never have truly known—even if you
have been following Him for years or decades
- Enter into a more raw, real, and relevant relationship with
the One who loves you and calls you by name
This book will equip you to see Jesus as He really is and truly
understand what it means to be His disciple.
Beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt offers ten
practices to strengthen your confidence in God's daily presence and
power and build a faith strong enough to endure even the toughest
seasons. Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and
goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle,
disappointment, and loss. And we don't know what to do with it.
We've tried to find hope and security in various people and
places--but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more.
Something--or Someone--who won't fail us when our world falls
apart. In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele
Cushatt presents a better way. By exploring powerful personal,
historical, and biblical stories of people of extraordinary faith,
she curates and shares ten practices to help you deepen your
confidence and certainty in the God who can be trusted with your
worry, questions, confusion, and grief. As a woman who has been
through immeasurable suffering, she writes with both deep
compassion and practical insight as she guides you to: Practice
lament and process grief without guilt or shame Understand what
keeps you from trusting God and how to navigate doubt with truth
Learn simple ways to foster shalom and gratitude on a daily basis
Develop a fresh, eternal perspective that delivers both peace for
today and hope for tomorrow Savor daily "faith-builder" practices
to strengthen your confidence in God's love and purposes for you,
no matter what happens There is hope in your hardship and a God who
is both with you and for you. These ten practices point the way to
the only One you can truly trust, and ultimately, to a faith in him
that will not fail.
Theologians and leaders from many Churches and from the major world
religions, including the last four popes, have acknowledged as
unique in Christian history the spiritual gifts poured forth
through Chiara Lubich. Her spirituality of unity has the ultimate
goal of contributing to the unity for which Jesus prayed to his
Father: May they all be one (Jn 17:21). This volume gathers her
essential writings and for the first time presents them in a
systematic fashion. It is a summa of the charism of unity, which
will lead readers to ponder, understand and experience a
spirituality particularly suited to the era in which we live. The
history of the Church has seen many radicalisms of love ... that of
Francis of Assisi, of Ignatius of Loyola. There is also Chiaras
radicalism ... which seeks to make this love victorious in every
circumstance. Pope John Paul II
Take time to listen to the whispering voice of God!
Exquisitely and thoughtfully designed, we've taken the top 100 life topics and provided a brief devotional with Scripture to address each life need. For each day, there is a featured Scripture, devotion, prayer, and space for doodling, journaling, writing notes, or any other forms of creative expression. This deluxe gift book is extremely practical bringing God's promises to your life today!
In Silent Compassion, Richard Rohr explores practices for finding
God in the depths of silence and shows us that the divine silence
is more than the absence of noise. Silence has a life of its own,
and in this short but powerful little book we are invited into its
living presence to experience the wholeness of being and peace it
brings. Drawing on centuries-old practices, in Silent Compassion
Richard Rohr explores different aspects of Christian contemplation,
showing how silence can absorb the challenges of life and connect
us with the great chain of being - as well as building unity among
different religions that all use the practices of silence. Packed
full of thought-provoking wisdom, this is a book for anyone seeking
to deepen their relationship with God and looking for spiritual
fulfilment. It is perfect for morning or evening reflection, to
help revitalise and refresh the way you look at prayer. Silent
Compassion will inspire you and show that the peace of
contemplation is not something just for monks, mystics, and those
divorced from the worries of the world, but rather for all people
who can quiet their own mind to listen in the silence.
As you proceed on your path to personal growth and want to gain
insight into what prevents you from being the husband, wife,
parent, or creative person you were born to be, benefit from this
inspiring and easy-to-use workbook by T.D. Jakes, author of the
"New York Times "bestseller "Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be
Forgiven. "
More than a companion piece to "Let It Go, "this is a guide through
an "exhilarating journey that will enable you to finally reach the
potential you know is inside you and take you to a level of
personal success you may have only dreamed of until now," says
Bishop Jakes. This workbook outlines the fundamentals of
forgiveness and provides the spiritual and psychological tools to
acknowledge and process feelings that may have held you back from
fulfilling your greatest potential.
With this workbook learn how to:
- Sever the chains with which your past has held you captive, and
launch yourself into a brighter future than you may have imagined.
- Break the powerful-but-invisible negative bonds that connect you
in damaging ways to people who have hurt or offended you.
- Be set free to dream again and to pursue the vision you have for
your life.
- Move beyond depression and bitterness and experience the freedom
of forgiveness.
Daily Guideposts, America's bestselling annual devotional, will
help you walk faithfully with God, call upon His name, and draw
nearer to His heart. Daily Guideposts 2022 invites you to grow in
your faith all year long. Daily Guideposts 2022 centers on Psalm
145:18: "The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call
on him in truth" (NIV) and is filled with brand-new devotions from
forty-eight writers. Each writer shares how, amidst the brokenness
of this world, they experienced God's ongoing redemption and
miraculous love, as they called upon Him daily and found Him so
very near. In just five minutes a day, Daily Guideposts will help
you find the spiritual richness in your own life. Each day that you
pick up your copy of Daily Guideposts 2022, you'll enjoy: A timely,
inspirational verse from scripture A true first-person story told
in an informal, conversational style, which shares the ways God
speaks to us in the ordinary events of our lives A thoughtful
prayer designed to help you apply the message to your daily life
Additional Bible references that relate to each day's reading and
provide the opportunity for you to dive deeper Enjoy heartfelt
stories and perspectives from some of your favorite writers,
including Debbie Macomber, Edward Grinnan, Patricia Lorenz, Julia
Attaway, Karen Valentin, Sabra Ciancanelli, Mark Collins, and Rick
Hamlin. Wherever you find yourself in your faith walk, Daily
Guideposts 2022 will prepare you to embark on a journey of drawing
closer to God's goodness, mercy, and love--one day at a time.
While praying for his community on the Island of Iona, the Celtic
monk St. Columba described his experience as a thin place- a
location where heaven and earth seemed only thinly separated.In the
same way, God's kingdom is being realized here on earth with
stories of restoration and redemption. Our God moved into the
neighborhood, seeking to invite us into his story of
reconciliation, and commission us to missionally engage our
neighborhoods with the good news of the kingdom.Joining the
concepts of monasticism and mission, author Jon Huckins will walk
you through six postures of missional formation: listening,
submerging, inviting, contending, imagining, and entrusting. As you
begin to employ these postures, become apprentices of Jesus who are
committed to living in and experiencing the thin places.Through
Thin Places, create a fertile soil to commune with God, live in
deep community with others, and extend the good news of the kingdom
in your local contexts.
Este es un libro profundo y a la vez sencillo, que debe leerse con
detenimiento y oracion. En una epoca en que los cimientos de la
autoridad corren peligro de desmoronarse en la iglesia, en el
hogar, en la sociedad y en otros aspectos de la vida en general, el
autor nos ofrece consejos y ensenanzas que podran ser norte y guia
en nuestra vida. 'Que vuestra autoridad no exceda vuestro
ministerio', nos aconseja Watchman Nee en una de sus paginas."
Sacred Pathways reveals nine distinct spiritual temperaments--and
their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies--to help you improve
your spiritual life and deepen your personal walk with God. It's
time to strip away the frustration of a one-size-fits-all
spirituality and discover a path of worship that frees you to be
you. Experienced spiritual directors, pastors, and church leaders
recognize that all of us engage with God differently, and it's
about time we do too. In this updated and expanded edition of
Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas details nine spiritual temperaments
and--like the Enneagram and other tools do with
personality--encourages you to investigate the ways you most
naturally express yourself in your relationship with God. He
encourages you to dig into the traits, strengths, and pitfalls in
your devotional approach so you can eliminate the barriers that
keep you locked into rigid methods of worship and praise. Plus, as
you begin to identify and understand your own temperament, you'll
soon learn about the temperaments that aren't necessarily "you" but
that may help you understand the spiritual tendencies of friends,
family, and others around you. Whatever temperament or blend of
temperaments best describes you, rest assured it's not by accident.
It's by the design of a Creator who knew what he was doing when he
made you according to his own unique intentions. If your spiritual
walk is not what you'd like it to be, you can change that, starting
here. Sacred Pathways will show you the route you were made to
travel, marked by growth and filled with the riches of a close walk
with God. A Sacred Pathways video Bible study is also available for
group or individual use, sold separately.
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