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Does life have you feeling unsettled, overlooked, anxious,
exhausted? Good news! There's a better way. Enter The Peace Project
with its short, digestible chapters full of practical application.
This thirty-day experiment invites you to experience lasting
personal peace through the outward practices of thankfulness,
kindness, and mercy. In these hopeful pages, Kay Wills Wyma takes
us along on a journey to see others--as well as ourselves--not as
objects or obstacles but as people of great worth. People who
matter. The result? Transformation--for you and those around you.
Experiencing the endless depths of God's peace where you can
actually, finally, somehow breathe. Welcome to the
less-than-perfect, sometimes hilarious, consistently magical
journey of practicing thankfulness, kindness, and mercy with Kay,
her kids, and some brave friends. "Kay Wyma is a funny, honest, and
encouraging guide who will walk with you toward more peace in your
life one day, one step at a time."--Holley Gerth, bestselling
author of The Powerful Purpose of Introverts "Ultimately, everyone
wants to be seen, to be valued, to feel like they matter. We can do
that. Kay's Peace Project invites readers to see and value people
through a challenge to practice thankfulness, kindness, and mercy
each day for thirty days."--Leon Logothetis, global adventurer,
author, and TV host of Netflix's The Kindness Diaries "Kay shares
her family's journey so openly and generously and welcomes you to
the table. Grab a cup of tea or coffee and settle in as she invites
you into her world in The Peace Project."--Melissa d'Arabian, Food
Network Star, New York Times bestselling author of Ten Dollar
Dinners and Tasting Grace "When you change your gaze, when you
choose to respond to life redemptively, your brain changes, your
heart changes, and the world around you heals a little. Our world
needs this message."--Susie Larson, talk radio host, national
speaker, and author of Fully Alive "From carpool with her kids to
surly people at the store, Kay shares the exasperated thoughts we
all have and offers hope and helpful solutions for seeing the world
through a more positive lens. Want to soothe your soul? Try The
Peace Project and get ready to chill out."--Melanie Dale, author of
Calm the H*ck Down "Unfortunately, I can't force others to be less
rude. But thanks to Kay, I'm better equipped to control my response
and find peace in any circumstance."--Heather MacFadyen, host and
author of the Don't Mom Alone podcast and book
Joan Chittister's powerful spiritual guide builds on the ancient
Rule of Benedict to show us how to live this life, our daily life,
well. 'The monastic archetype is embedded in every soul - because
in our true centre we are all "truly seeking God" Joan Chittister
understands and communicates this to her contemporaries with rare
insight and power' Laurence Freeman, author of The Selfless Self '
. . . the allure of this book is its promise that "the monastery of
the heart" is where we learn to live our lives "from the inside
out" in a contemporary world that is spiritually bereft and
bewildering' Ephrem Hollermann, author of The Reshaping of a
Tradition 'This marvel of a book sings in the heart and makes the
mind quiet with reverence, even as it instructs both of them with a
holy gladness' Phyllis Tickle, compiler of The Divine Hours.
Wat is gebed? Watter waarde vind ons daarin? Hoe bid 'n mens?
Die uitnodiging van hierdie boek is: Kom ons ontdek wat dit behels om tyd in die teenwoordigheid van ons Skepper deur te bring tot die punt waar ons weet dat ons ’n bewussyn ontwikkel van sy karakter, sy liefde en sy sorg vir ons as sy kinders.
In hierdie boek probeer Esté Geldenhuys die wêreld van gebed oopbreek deur:
- God se karakter te ontgin
- Die DNS van gebed te ondersoek
- Verskeie getuienisse te plaas oor die grootheid en almag van die lewende God
Mag die inhoud van hierdie boek vir elkeen wat dit lees ’n nuwe verstaan bewerk van die karakter van ons Vader, die offer wat ons Verlosser gebring het en die wonderbare kontak en kommunikasie wat die Gees van Christus vir ons bied.
Surely faith is irrational? And hasn't science buried God? Isn't
faith a psychological crutch or sociological construct? Don't you
need evidence? Wasn't Jesus just another myth? Can we really
believe the miracle stories? How do we know that the accounts of
Jesus weren't just made up? Hasn't the Bible been distorted? Did
Jesus really claim to be God? Did the resurrection actually happen?
And what has it got to do with us anyway? The Christian faith may
seem attractive, but is it true? ... And what if it is true? Could
our desires actually be a pointer to the God who really is there
and desires to be known by us?
"John and Stasi nailed it. This book opens to an untouched snapshot
of a real, live, redeemed marriage and closes with hope and hunger
for our own..." - Beth Moore, bestselling author of "Get Out of
That Pit"
With astonishing vulnerability that engages readers from the first
page, John and Stasi Eldredge openly discuss their own marriage and
the breakthroughs they have won from the challenges they've faced.
Each talks to the reader about what he and she have learned,
providing a balance between male and female perspectives that has
been absent from previous books on this topic.
John and Stasi begin "Love & War" with an obvious confession:
"Marriage is fabulously hard." But beneath and behind the
inevitable tensions a man and woman "locked in the same submarine"
are going to have, the real battle is against the work of the
Enemy, who plots and schemes to tear love apart. The Eldredges show
how couples can win "by fighting "for" each other, instead of
"against" each other." As they say, "We live in a great love story,
set in the midst of war."
"This is a book of wisdom and hope...a beautiful labor that will
move your marriage to far deeper joy." Dan. B. Allender, author of"
The Wounded Heart"
Authors Richard Langer and Joanne J. Jung teach that "followership"
is essential to both organizational and spiritual flourishing,
reexamining the nature of leadership and followership in light of
the life-transforming power of following Jesus Christ.
The author of the critically-acclaimed Binding the Strong Man
exposes the social and spiritual "stones" that impede us in our
development and growth as Christians. "In every age", writes Myers,
"disciples despair that the story has ended, only to discover that
the stone 'has been rolled away, ' reopening the possibility - and
imperative - of following the Way of Jesus". As a sequel to Binding
the Strong Man, Who Will Roll Away the Stone? brings Myers' study
of the gospel of Mark full circle. The first book provided a
compelling reading of Mark's gospel as a manual of radical
discipleship in the ancient Roman empire. Who Will Roll Away the
Stone? picks up and extends the gospel's challenge specifically to
those living in the contemporary imperial context. Each chapter
opens with classic questions from within the gospel itself.
Beginning with Peter's denial of Jesus, Who Will Roll Away the
Stone? shows how and why first-world Christians - politically free,
socially mobile, and resource-rich - seem typically unable or
unwilling to struggle for social change. Myers uses three of the
most troubling and problematic of recent events - the Los Angeles
riots, the Gulf War, the Columbus quincentennial - to demonstrate
how the subtle complexities of a culture of technological wizardy,
information overload, and short-term memory can be recognized as
blocking the first step on the journey of discipleship. Myers then
turns to the second stage of discipleship which is conversion,
literally a call to change direction both as individuals and as a
society. He continues with a "deconstruction" of the modus vivendi
of U.S. culture, using experiments in other ways of living,
including social relocation andnonviolent politics. He then moves
into the third stage of the call to discipleship, to reconstruct
the church and the world through positive action: building
solidarity with one another and with the poor, accepting and
celebrating diversity and its gifts, and reclaiming the discourse
of the reign of God from those who use it to defend the status quo.
Elisabeth Elliot plots the treacherous passage through pain, grief,
and loss, a journey most of us will make many times in our life.
Through it all, she says, there is only one reliable path, and if
you walk it, you will see the transformation of all your losses,
heartbreaks, and tragedies into something strong and purposeful. In
this powerful book, Elisabeth Elliot does not hesitate to ask hard
questions, to examine tenderly the hurts we suffer, and to explore
boldly the nature of God whose sovereign care for us is so intimate
and perfect that he confounds our finite understanding. A Path
through Suffering is a book for anyone searching for faith,
comfort, and assurance. Includes a new foreword by Joni Eareckson
Tada.
What makes life meaningful? More to the point, what makes our life
meaningful? Without a good answer to that question, we can expend
much energy and experience much anxiety as we attempt to live lives
of significance, only to find that in the end we missed the point
entirely and along the way were deeply dissatisfied. But there is
hope. In Why You Matter, Michael Sherrard shows that life is only
meaningful if God exists. He then shows how that fundamental fact
provides clarity for some of the most important questions of our
lives, including - Who am I? - How should I treat others? - What
should I do with my life? - How do I make sense of suffering? If
you have struggled with a sense of self-worth and direction in your
life, or if you have a friend, colleague, or family member who is
searching for meaning in a world of suffering, chaos, and
uncertainty, Why You Matter will give you confidence that your life
matters--but maybe not for the reasons you think.
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