God does not want you to be sick. Health and healing continue to be areas of great need for people everywhere. People across the globe have been healed through modern medicine, doctors, and surgery, yet thousands still suffer with incurable diseases to the point of death.

God's Word has specific promises for believers regarding healing. In this life-transforming message, How to Live and Not Die, Norvel Hayes reveals just how important it is to the heavenly Father that His children walk in divine health.

Finding Your Hidden Treasure by Benignus O'Rourke is a contemplative path inwards, to the depths of your own being. Through silent prayer and meditation, and by discovering this ancient way of finding God, O'Rourke provides insight and guidance for your spiritual journey. He then outlines a practical approach, moving from silence to action, and explains how to take God's love to others in everyday life.

When sickness strikes, people around the world pray for healing. Many of the faithful claim that prayer has cured them of blindness, deafness, and metastasized cancers, and some believe they have been resurrected from the dead. Can, and should, science test such claims? A number of scientists say no, concerned that empirical studies of prayer will be misused to advance religious agendas. And some religious practitioners agree with this restraint, worrying that scientific testing could undermine faith. In Candy Gunther Brown's view, science cannot prove prayer's healing power, but what scientists can and should do is study prayer's measurable effects on health. If prayer produces benefits, even indirectly (and findings suggest that it does), then more careful attention to prayer practices could impact global health, particularly in places without access to conventional medicine. Drawing on data from Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians, Brown reverses a number of stereotypes about believers in faith-healing. Among them is the idea that poorer, less educated people are more likely to believe in the healing power of prayer and therefore less likely to see doctors. Brown finds instead that people across socioeconomic backgrounds use prayer alongside conventional medicine rather than as a substitute. Dissecting medical records from before and after prayer, surveys of prayer recipients, prospective clinical trials, and multiyear follow-up observations and interviews, she shows that the widespread perception of prayer's healing power has demonstrable social effects, and that in some cases those effects produce improvements in health that can be scientifically verified.

This book

is meant to help all clergy, religious, and

lay people to share more fully in the

Prayer of the Church through inspirational

prayers and reflections centered

on the celebration of the Hours.

Description: In this thoroughly revised edition of a classic in spirituality, Walter Brueggemann guides the reader into a thoughtful and moving encounter with the Psalms. This new edition includes a revised text, new notes, and new bibliography. ""The movement and meeting of God with us is indeed a speech-event in which new humanness is evoked among us. Being attentive to language means cultivating the candid imagination to bring our own experience to the Psalms and permitting it to be disciplined by the speech of the Psalms. And, conversely, it means letting the Psalms address us and having that language reshape our sensitivities and fill our minds with new pictures and images that may redirect our lives."" --from Chapter 3 Endorsements: ""I am so glad to see this second edition of Praying the Psalms. In it Walter Brueggemann reveals the ways in which the Psalms teach the mother tongue of biblical speech by inviting us to the risk of daring candor with God.The contemporary church in North America regularly suffers collective amnesia in the face of the languages of techno-speak, market share and sentimental cliche that shape the world we inhabit. Praying the Psalms offers a surprising antidote to this chronic forgetfulness. It invites us to recover our ancient memory and true identity by learning again to pray the Psalms. I know of no better book for introducing a congregation to the Psalms than this one."" --Edwin Searcy, Pastor, University Hill Congregation, United Church of Canada, Vancouver, BC ""'The Psalms just don't speak to me.' Anyone who has ever felt this way should read Brueggemann's book. . . . He shows how these ancient prayers can lead us from the disorientation of our chaotic lives into a reorientation of transformation. His treatment of both the post-Holocaust Christian use of these very Jewish prayers and the troublesome call for vengeance is most timely. This book shows how the Psalms can indeed speak to us."" --Dianne Bergant, CSA author of Preaching the New Lectionary ."" . . Brueggemann pushesme and other readersto recognize the full gamut of passions reflected in the Psalms: joy and exultation but also disappointment, sorrow, anger, resentment, even the desire for vengeance. . . . I am grateful to Brueggemann for making me more alert to what the Psalmsare saying about our common human relation to Godand more honest about my own feelings as Ipray the Psalms every day as part ofthe Liturgy of the Hours."" --Joseph A. Bracken, SJ coauthor of Self-Emptying Love in a Global Context ""Few persons have so lived in and with the Psalms as Walter Brueggemann. Here he takes us into their depths, which are so clearly the depths of our human existence. The piety of the Psalms is strong medicine. Brueggemann bids us take it for the cure of our souls."" --Patrick D. Miller author of Interpreting the Psalms and They Cried to the Lord About the Contributor(s): Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of numerous works including Theology of the Old Testament, Inscribing the Text, Prophetic Imagination, and David's Truth.

"The Prayer of Love and Silence" issues a powerful invitation to respond to the love of Christ. The volume is centered on the need for prayer and teaches that prayer should be a continual response to Christ's call to make him the center of one's life.

Through a pointed analysis of our spiritual and practical difficulties in prayer, Wallis show how the Holy Spirit helps us in our weeknesses. Learn how to yeild yourself to Him, to allow Him to pray through you, and let the Holy Spirit lead you into "the deep things of God."

This book of Catholic prayers is designed to help believers participate at Mass and receive the Sacraments and to be united with God in the circumstances of life and celebrations of the Mysteries of salvation during the Liturgical Year.

What Happens When Women Pray is a practical and biblical book about prayer. Its teachings have been tested in hundreds of prayer seminars all over the world, as both men and women have learned to pray in more personal and believing ways. What Happens When Women Pray will show you how to move into the dynamic that occurs when people pray. It just might change your life or the life of someone you know and love. Since 1968, Evelyn Christenson has led prayer seminars worldwide. Millions of readers have enjoyed Evelyn's books, which include, "Lord, Change Me" and "Praying God's Way." Evelyn lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating America's broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments of prayer have been represented in Hollywood movies since the silent era, appearing unexpectedly in films as diverse as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Frankenstein, Amistad, Easy Rider, Talladega Nights, and Alien 3, as well as in religiously inspired classics such as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. Here, Terry Lindvall examines how films have reflected, and sometimes sought to prescribe, ideas about how one ought to pray. He surveys the landscape of those films that employ prayer in their narratives, beginning with the silent era and moving through the uplifting and inspirational movies of the Great Depression and World War II, the cynical, anti-establishment films of the 60s and 70s, and the sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters of today. Lindvall considers how the presentation of cinematic prayer varies across race, age, and gender, and places the use of prayer in film in historical context, shedding light on the religious currents at play during those time periods. God on the Big Screen demonstrates that the way prayer is presented in film during each historical period tells us a great deal about America's broader relationship with religion.

Encounter God's heart and hear his gentle voice. God delights in hearing from us. He listens to our songs and sighs, and he answers us with words of love and truth. This daily devotional contains whispers from God to the heart of his people. Each entry will encourage you with his words of comfort, joy, and unconditional love. Lean into God's presence and enjoy his peace today.