Author: Heidi Haverkamp
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611648475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Our faith is full of heroes who experienced God powerfully in solitude. From Hagar and the Hebrew prophets to Jesus in the wilderness to Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena, we see how escape from the toil and temptations of daily life can open our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to the still, small voice of God. In the vast desert or a tiny room, solitudeâ€"frightening for some and a welcome reprieve for othersâ€"is far from an antisocial self-indulgence but rather is an opportunity for transformation and empowerment to serve God's people ever more deeply. While most of us can't take weeksâ€"or even a few daysâ€"for private retreat, Holy Solitude offers readers thoughtful inspiration and practical devotional activities such as taking a solitary bus ride or baking a loaf of bread for a neighbor. Daily reflections introduce readers to figures in both Scripture and Christian history whose stories of discernment and discipline are a guide for our own spiritual practices as we seek to know God more fully and follow Christ more faithfully.     Â
Holy Solitude
Author: Heidi Haverkamp
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611648475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Our faith is full of heroes who experienced God powerfully in solitude. From Hagar and the Hebrew prophets to Jesus in the wilderness to Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena, we see how escape from the toil and temptations of daily life can open our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to the still, small voice of God. In the vast desert or a tiny room, solitudeâ€"frightening for some and a welcome reprieve for othersâ€"is far from an antisocial self-indulgence but rather is an opportunity for transformation and empowerment to serve God's people ever more deeply. While most of us can't take weeksâ€"or even a few daysâ€"for private retreat, Holy Solitude offers readers thoughtful inspiration and practical devotional activities such as taking a solitary bus ride or baking a loaf of bread for a neighbor. Daily reflections introduce readers to figures in both Scripture and Christian history whose stories of discernment and discipline are a guide for our own spiritual practices as we seek to know God more fully and follow Christ more faithfully.     Â
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611648475
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Our faith is full of heroes who experienced God powerfully in solitude. From Hagar and the Hebrew prophets to Jesus in the wilderness to Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena, we see how escape from the toil and temptations of daily life can open our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to the still, small voice of God. In the vast desert or a tiny room, solitudeâ€"frightening for some and a welcome reprieve for othersâ€"is far from an antisocial self-indulgence but rather is an opportunity for transformation and empowerment to serve God's people ever more deeply. While most of us can't take weeksâ€"or even a few daysâ€"for private retreat, Holy Solitude offers readers thoughtful inspiration and practical devotional activities such as taking a solitary bus ride or baking a loaf of bread for a neighbor. Daily reflections introduce readers to figures in both Scripture and Christian history whose stories of discernment and discipline are a guide for our own spiritual practices as we seek to know God more fully and follow Christ more faithfully.     Â
Things Worth Dying For
Author: Charles J. Chaput
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 125023977X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
With a balance of wisdom, candor, and scholarly rigor the beloved archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia takes on life’s central questions: why are we here, and how can we live and die meaningfully? In Things Worth Dying For, Chaput delves richly into our yearning for God, love, honor, beauty, truth, and immortality. He reflects on our modern appetite for consumption and individualism and offers a penetrating analysis of how we got here, and how we can look to our roots and our faith to find purpose each day amid the noise of competing desires. Chaput examines the chronic questions of the human heart; the idols and false flags we create; and the nature of a life of authentic faith. He points to our longing to live and die with meaning as the key to our search for God, our loyalty to nation and kin, our conduct in war, and our service to others. Ultimately, with compelling grace, he shows us that the things worth dying for reveal most powerfully the things worth living for.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 125023977X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
With a balance of wisdom, candor, and scholarly rigor the beloved archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia takes on life’s central questions: why are we here, and how can we live and die meaningfully? In Things Worth Dying For, Chaput delves richly into our yearning for God, love, honor, beauty, truth, and immortality. He reflects on our modern appetite for consumption and individualism and offers a penetrating analysis of how we got here, and how we can look to our roots and our faith to find purpose each day amid the noise of competing desires. Chaput examines the chronic questions of the human heart; the idols and false flags we create; and the nature of a life of authentic faith. He points to our longing to live and die with meaning as the key to our search for God, our loyalty to nation and kin, our conduct in war, and our service to others. Ultimately, with compelling grace, he shows us that the things worth dying for reveal most powerfully the things worth living for.
Susie
Author: Ray Rhodes Jr.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802496768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The definitive biography of Susannah Spurgeon. While many Christians recognize the name of Charles H. Spurgeon, the beloved preacher and writer, few are familiar with the life and legacy of his wife, Susie. Yet Susannah Spurgeon was an accomplished and devout woman of God who had a tremendous ministry in her own right, as well as in support of her husband. Even while dealing with serious health issues, she administered a book fund for poor pastors, edited and published her husband’s sermons and other writings, led a pastor’s aid ministry, wrote five books, made her home a hub of hospitality, and was instrumental in planting a church. And as her own writing attests, she was also a warm, charming, and fascinating woman. Now, for the first time, Susie brings this vibrant woman’s story to modern readers. Ray Rhodes Jr. examines Susannah’s life, showing that she was not only the wife of London’s most famous preacher, but also a woman who gave all she had in grateful service to the Lord. Susie is an inspiring and encouraging account of a truly remarkable woman of faith that will delight Spurgeon devotees and fans of Christian biographies alike. “I am writing in my husband’s study, where he thought, and prayed, and wrote. Every inch of the place is sacred ground. Everything remains precisely as he left it. His books (now my most precious possessions), stand in shining rows upon the shelves, in exactly the order in which he placed them, and one might almost fancy the room was ready and waiting for its master. But oh! That empty chair! That great portrait over the door! The strange, solemn silence, which pervades the place now that he is no longer on earth! I kneel sometimes by his chair, and laying my head on the cushioned arms, which so long supported his dear form, I pour out my grief before the Lord, and tell Him again that though I am left alone, yet I know that ‘He hath done all things well’…”
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802496768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The definitive biography of Susannah Spurgeon. While many Christians recognize the name of Charles H. Spurgeon, the beloved preacher and writer, few are familiar with the life and legacy of his wife, Susie. Yet Susannah Spurgeon was an accomplished and devout woman of God who had a tremendous ministry in her own right, as well as in support of her husband. Even while dealing with serious health issues, she administered a book fund for poor pastors, edited and published her husband’s sermons and other writings, led a pastor’s aid ministry, wrote five books, made her home a hub of hospitality, and was instrumental in planting a church. And as her own writing attests, she was also a warm, charming, and fascinating woman. Now, for the first time, Susie brings this vibrant woman’s story to modern readers. Ray Rhodes Jr. examines Susannah’s life, showing that she was not only the wife of London’s most famous preacher, but also a woman who gave all she had in grateful service to the Lord. Susie is an inspiring and encouraging account of a truly remarkable woman of faith that will delight Spurgeon devotees and fans of Christian biographies alike. “I am writing in my husband’s study, where he thought, and prayed, and wrote. Every inch of the place is sacred ground. Everything remains precisely as he left it. His books (now my most precious possessions), stand in shining rows upon the shelves, in exactly the order in which he placed them, and one might almost fancy the room was ready and waiting for its master. But oh! That empty chair! That great portrait over the door! The strange, solemn silence, which pervades the place now that he is no longer on earth! I kneel sometimes by his chair, and laying my head on the cushioned arms, which so long supported his dear form, I pour out my grief before the Lord, and tell Him again that though I am left alone, yet I know that ‘He hath done all things well’…”
Growing Deep in the Christian Life
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0310497310
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Takes theology out of the ivory tower and enables you to apply it to where you live every day."--Back cover.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0310497310
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Takes theology out of the ivory tower and enables you to apply it to where you live every day."--Back cover.
Letters from the Desert
Author: Charles de Foucauld
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Index to American Catholic Pamphlets
Author: Eugene Paul Willging
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Heart for Europe
Author: James Bogle
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852441732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852441732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
Author: Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic ex-priests
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholic ex-priests
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
The Publisher
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Karl 1
Author: Marcel Uderzo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936260348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004, the Emperor Karl I of Austria is known as the Emperor of Peace who, during the First World War, offered peace along with Pope Benedict XV; but no one listened to them...The beautiful and colorful comic-book style presents the life of this great and inspiring leader who followed the will of God in all things, especially amid the tumult of the war.¿May he be an example for all of us¿ ¿ Blessed Pope John Paul II
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936260348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004, the Emperor Karl I of Austria is known as the Emperor of Peace who, during the First World War, offered peace along with Pope Benedict XV; but no one listened to them...The beautiful and colorful comic-book style presents the life of this great and inspiring leader who followed the will of God in all things, especially amid the tumult of the war.¿May he be an example for all of us¿ ¿ Blessed Pope John Paul II