Author: Richard McLauchlan
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783169214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited itself to such matters as his obsession with the ‘absent God’, his appalled fascination with the mixed cruelty and wonder of a divinely created world, his interest in the world-view of the ‘new physics’, and his increasingly heterodox stance on spiritual matters. What has been largely neglected is his central indebtedness to key features of the ‘classic’ Christian tradition. This book concentrates on one powerful and compelling example of this, reading Thomas’s great body of religious work in the light of the three days that form the centre of the Gospel narrative; the days which tell of the death, entombment and resurrection of Christ.
Silent Saturday
Author: Helen Grant
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0370332415
Category : Brussels (Belgium)
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
17-year-old Veerle is bored with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members illegally break into unoccupied buildings around the city, soon opens up a whole new world of excitement - and danger. When one of the society's founding members disappears, Veerle suspects foul play. But nothing can prepare her for the horror that is about to unfold when an old foe emerges from the shadows.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0370332415
Category : Brussels (Belgium)
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
17-year-old Veerle is bored with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members illegally break into unoccupied buildings around the city, soon opens up a whole new world of excitement - and danger. When one of the society's founding members disappears, Veerle suspects foul play. But nothing can prepare her for the horror that is about to unfold when an old foe emerges from the shadows.
God on Mute
Author: Pete Greig
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441266283
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie's fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain, don't fit, won't work. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow . . . even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest, and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441266283
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie's fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain, don't fit, won't work. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow . . . even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest, and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding.
Lent and Easter 2020
Author: George Boronat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Gospel can be considered a Manual of Prayer, a letter written by the Holy Spirit to you. But God's Word doesn't live in a book. It comes alive when you pray about It. It is not about getting to know what the 'Historical Jesus' did two thousand years ago, what He said "back then"; Jesus Christ is not 'back then' anymore, He is alive, and is longing to talk to you.Taking the Gospel of the day, the iPray provides a commentary that can be a trigger for an authentic and personal conversation with Jesus. That time of prayer spent with Jesus is like a 'cooking pot' in which you blend the Words and scenes of Jesus' life, found in the Gospel, together with your daily life, your worries, your family and friends, all heated up by the fire of the Holy Spirit.'iPray with the Gospel' is not a ready-made meal you can just throw in the microwave, as if they were some prayers that you read and that's it. It is more like a personal recipe that only you can cook with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Gospel can be considered a Manual of Prayer, a letter written by the Holy Spirit to you. But God's Word doesn't live in a book. It comes alive when you pray about It. It is not about getting to know what the 'Historical Jesus' did two thousand years ago, what He said "back then"; Jesus Christ is not 'back then' anymore, He is alive, and is longing to talk to you.Taking the Gospel of the day, the iPray provides a commentary that can be a trigger for an authentic and personal conversation with Jesus. That time of prayer spent with Jesus is like a 'cooking pot' in which you blend the Words and scenes of Jesus' life, found in the Gospel, together with your daily life, your worries, your family and friends, all heated up by the fire of the Holy Spirit.'iPray with the Gospel' is not a ready-made meal you can just throw in the microwave, as if they were some prayers that you read and that's it. It is more like a personal recipe that only you can cook with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Even If Not
Author: Kaitlyn E. Bouchillon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522729426
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
If you find yourself in between one thing and another, changing from who you used to be into who you are becoming, how will you live in the messy, beautiful middle? And what if the middle pages hold storylines that wound and surprise? Is God with us on those pages, too? In Even If Not, Kaitlyn Bouchillon invites you to let go of trying to figure out the ending of your story and instead lean into the faithfulness of God. With honest and vulnerable storytelling from her own in betweens, Kaitlyn encourages you to say - no matter what page of the story you find yourself on - that although you believe God could come through how you're asking, you'll trust Him... even if not.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522729426
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
If you find yourself in between one thing and another, changing from who you used to be into who you are becoming, how will you live in the messy, beautiful middle? And what if the middle pages hold storylines that wound and surprise? Is God with us on those pages, too? In Even If Not, Kaitlyn Bouchillon invites you to let go of trying to figure out the ending of your story and instead lean into the faithfulness of God. With honest and vulnerable storytelling from her own in betweens, Kaitlyn encourages you to say - no matter what page of the story you find yourself on - that although you believe God could come through how you're asking, you'll trust Him... even if not.
Raising Adam
Author: Gerrit Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988491656
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
What does it mean to affirm that Jesus "descended into hell?" What actually happened to Jesus between Good Friday and Easter? Was this "descent" part of his suffering or part of his triumph? And why does it matter today?With a theologian's research, a pastor's heart and a poet's sensibility, Gerrit Dawson explores the answers given through the centuries to these questions. By using a narrative approach, Dawson achieves a unique synthesis of previously competing views. He shows that the ancient idea of the harrowing of hell, the Reformed view of "hell on the cross" and the 20th century recognition of the darkness of Holy Saturday can all work together. Far from being a discardable doctrine, the descent offers a unique window on the person and work of Christ, one we urgently need to open for the worship and mission of the Church today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988491656
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
What does it mean to affirm that Jesus "descended into hell?" What actually happened to Jesus between Good Friday and Easter? Was this "descent" part of his suffering or part of his triumph? And why does it matter today?With a theologian's research, a pastor's heart and a poet's sensibility, Gerrit Dawson explores the answers given through the centuries to these questions. By using a narrative approach, Dawson achieves a unique synthesis of previously competing views. He shows that the ancient idea of the harrowing of hell, the Reformed view of "hell on the cross" and the 20th century recognition of the darkness of Holy Saturday can all work together. Far from being a discardable doctrine, the descent offers a unique window on the person and work of Christ, one we urgently need to open for the worship and mission of the Church today.
Saturday's Silence
Author: Richard McLauchlan
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783169214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited itself to such matters as his obsession with the ‘absent God’, his appalled fascination with the mixed cruelty and wonder of a divinely created world, his interest in the world-view of the ‘new physics’, and his increasingly heterodox stance on spiritual matters. What has been largely neglected is his central indebtedness to key features of the ‘classic’ Christian tradition. This book concentrates on one powerful and compelling example of this, reading Thomas’s great body of religious work in the light of the three days that form the centre of the Gospel narrative; the days which tell of the death, entombment and resurrection of Christ.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783169214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited itself to such matters as his obsession with the ‘absent God’, his appalled fascination with the mixed cruelty and wonder of a divinely created world, his interest in the world-view of the ‘new physics’, and his increasingly heterodox stance on spiritual matters. What has been largely neglected is his central indebtedness to key features of the ‘classic’ Christian tradition. This book concentrates on one powerful and compelling example of this, reading Thomas’s great body of religious work in the light of the three days that form the centre of the Gospel narrative; the days which tell of the death, entombment and resurrection of Christ.
Power Prayers
Author: TEJADO W. HANCHELL Ph.D
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483605515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
"POWER PRAYERS" IS DESIGNED TO ASSIST PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND VARYING LEVELS OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY TO PLUG IN TO THE POWER SOURCE AND DEVELOP THE DAILY DISCIPLINE OF PRAYER. THIS DEVOTIONAL INCLUDES 30 PRAYERS DESIGNED TO LEAD THE READER ON a 30-DAY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERING THE POWER AVAILABLE THROUGH PRAYER. HOWEVER, AS JESUS TEACHES US IN "THE LORD'S PRAYER", THE KEY TO PRAYER IS NOT HOW OFTEN WE PRAY – IT'S WHAT WE PRAY. FAR TOO OFTEN WE STRUGGLE WITH TRYING TO FIND JUST THE RIGHT WORDS TO CAREFULLY CRAFT OUR PETITIONS TO GOD NOT REALIZING THAT THE GOAL IS NOT TO FIND OUR OWN WORDS...IT'S TO PRAY GOD'S WORD.Prayer is the "oil that keeps our engines running". Over my twenty nine years as Pastor, and in my travels, I have seen a frightening lack of emphasis, and interest in prayer. I am refreshed by Dr. Tejado Hancell's "Power Prayers" Devotional, and I am encouraged by such "old truths" penned by such a young man!BISHOP DONALD HILLIARD, JR., D.MIN., SENIOR PASTOR, CATHEDRAL INTERNATIONAL PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEYPrayer is one of the greatest assets that a blood-washed believer can possess. However, we don't often take full advantage of our endless access to our King. I am so thankful that this new book by Dr. Tejado W. Hanchell provides us with a practical road map towards walking in powerful prayer so that we can see the hand of God move on our behalf.DR. CHRIS HILL, SENIOR PASTOR, THE POTTER'S HOUSE OF DENVEROne of the Best Prayer Journals of this Decade...A very satisfying work of art – a book by a writer who personally knows the "Power of Prayer"! This book shows an intimacy in prayer that is so rare in any kind of publishing nowadays. Every once in a while a book comes along that takes your breath away, and "Power Prayers" has done just that! a Must Read!REV. P. MICHAEL MCNAIR, SENIOR PASTOR, EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH THOMASVILLE, NC
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483605515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
"POWER PRAYERS" IS DESIGNED TO ASSIST PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND VARYING LEVELS OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY TO PLUG IN TO THE POWER SOURCE AND DEVELOP THE DAILY DISCIPLINE OF PRAYER. THIS DEVOTIONAL INCLUDES 30 PRAYERS DESIGNED TO LEAD THE READER ON a 30-DAY JOURNEY OF DISCOVERING THE POWER AVAILABLE THROUGH PRAYER. HOWEVER, AS JESUS TEACHES US IN "THE LORD'S PRAYER", THE KEY TO PRAYER IS NOT HOW OFTEN WE PRAY – IT'S WHAT WE PRAY. FAR TOO OFTEN WE STRUGGLE WITH TRYING TO FIND JUST THE RIGHT WORDS TO CAREFULLY CRAFT OUR PETITIONS TO GOD NOT REALIZING THAT THE GOAL IS NOT TO FIND OUR OWN WORDS...IT'S TO PRAY GOD'S WORD.Prayer is the "oil that keeps our engines running". Over my twenty nine years as Pastor, and in my travels, I have seen a frightening lack of emphasis, and interest in prayer. I am refreshed by Dr. Tejado Hancell's "Power Prayers" Devotional, and I am encouraged by such "old truths" penned by such a young man!BISHOP DONALD HILLIARD, JR., D.MIN., SENIOR PASTOR, CATHEDRAL INTERNATIONAL PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEYPrayer is one of the greatest assets that a blood-washed believer can possess. However, we don't often take full advantage of our endless access to our King. I am so thankful that this new book by Dr. Tejado W. Hanchell provides us with a practical road map towards walking in powerful prayer so that we can see the hand of God move on our behalf.DR. CHRIS HILL, SENIOR PASTOR, THE POTTER'S HOUSE OF DENVEROne of the Best Prayer Journals of this Decade...A very satisfying work of art – a book by a writer who personally knows the "Power of Prayer"! This book shows an intimacy in prayer that is so rare in any kind of publishing nowadays. Every once in a while a book comes along that takes your breath away, and "Power Prayers" has done just that! a Must Read!REV. P. MICHAEL MCNAIR, SENIOR PASTOR, EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH THOMASVILLE, NC
Miscarried Hope
Author: Rachel Lohman
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493443585
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
No grief is quite like the grief that follows pregnancy loss. But true hope and redemption are available, even in the heartbreak of miscarriage and stillbirth. For any woman who feels alone, doubtful, and overwhelmed with sorrow, this book invites you on a guided journey to rediscover the transforming hope of the gospel after pregnancy or infant loss. Built on new research from interviews with more than 400 pregnancy loss moms, Miscarried Hope helps you move through the Five Stages of Hope, while addressing cultural stigmas and challenges to grieving your loss. Through profound parallels between pregnancy loss and Holy Week, Rachel invites you to follow in the footsteps of Jesus's disciples as they grieved his death, waited in the silence, and rediscovered hope in his resurrection. With biblical truth and practical comforts for coping with the day-to-day pain of loss, Miscarried Hope leads you along a gentle road to finding hope again.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493443585
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
No grief is quite like the grief that follows pregnancy loss. But true hope and redemption are available, even in the heartbreak of miscarriage and stillbirth. For any woman who feels alone, doubtful, and overwhelmed with sorrow, this book invites you on a guided journey to rediscover the transforming hope of the gospel after pregnancy or infant loss. Built on new research from interviews with more than 400 pregnancy loss moms, Miscarried Hope helps you move through the Five Stages of Hope, while addressing cultural stigmas and challenges to grieving your loss. Through profound parallels between pregnancy loss and Holy Week, Rachel invites you to follow in the footsteps of Jesus's disciples as they grieved his death, waited in the silence, and rediscovered hope in his resurrection. With biblical truth and practical comforts for coping with the day-to-day pain of loss, Miscarried Hope leads you along a gentle road to finding hope again.
Written for You
Author: Miguel De La Cruz
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098077237
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
God, life, and questions. For many more questions than answers. Please read this book, for there is one prose poem written for you. Written for You is a book with prose poems recited by Pastor Sam Iglesias, then a Bible verse followed by his homily. They are linked together for continuity; this allows the reflection of the word of God and how it will enable you to understand the Lord's grace. The Lord has not changed and what was is still today. Find God, in his words, in the Holy Bible. Your starting point of building your faith and trust. Written for You is written in the hope that it may affect you profoundly, so it may show you that the word of our Lord is relevant in your life; continue to learn and teach the word, serve the Lord. Allow yourself to be a teacher, allow the Holy Spirit to be present. Jesus said, “Wherever you may go in the world, tell all of the good news.” Pastor Sam gives you the good news, for the Lord commands him, as it is commanded for you to share the good news with all. Written for You is only a key; it can open the door, but you must choose from the two alternatives, the world or the word. We must pray for the grace, valor, and wisdom. When we surrender and submit to his authority, then the true purpose of who you are will be revealed and allow you to see the light, so you may worship the Lord in his splendor and do his will.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098077237
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
God, life, and questions. For many more questions than answers. Please read this book, for there is one prose poem written for you. Written for You is a book with prose poems recited by Pastor Sam Iglesias, then a Bible verse followed by his homily. They are linked together for continuity; this allows the reflection of the word of God and how it will enable you to understand the Lord's grace. The Lord has not changed and what was is still today. Find God, in his words, in the Holy Bible. Your starting point of building your faith and trust. Written for You is written in the hope that it may affect you profoundly, so it may show you that the word of our Lord is relevant in your life; continue to learn and teach the word, serve the Lord. Allow yourself to be a teacher, allow the Holy Spirit to be present. Jesus said, “Wherever you may go in the world, tell all of the good news.” Pastor Sam gives you the good news, for the Lord commands him, as it is commanded for you to share the good news with all. Written for You is only a key; it can open the door, but you must choose from the two alternatives, the world or the word. We must pray for the grace, valor, and wisdom. When we surrender and submit to his authority, then the true purpose of who you are will be revealed and allow you to see the light, so you may worship the Lord in his splendor and do his will.
Black Liturgies
Author: Cole Arthur Riley
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593593642
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies “A true spiritual balm for our troubled times.”—Michael Eric Dyson, author of What Truth Sounds Like For years, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amid ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the pandemic, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces, she began dreaming of a more human, more liberating expression of faith. She went on to create Black Liturgies, a digital project that connects spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black memory, and the Black body. In this book, she brings together hundreds of new prayers, along with letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer forty-three liturgies that can be practiced individually or as a community. Inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth, Arthur Riley writes with a poet’s touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today. For anyone healing from communities that were more violent than loving; for anyone who has escaped the trauma of white Christian nationalism, religious homophobia, or transphobia; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment, and a vision for what might be.
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593593642
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies “A true spiritual balm for our troubled times.”—Michael Eric Dyson, author of What Truth Sounds Like For years, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amid ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the pandemic, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces, she began dreaming of a more human, more liberating expression of faith. She went on to create Black Liturgies, a digital project that connects spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black memory, and the Black body. In this book, she brings together hundreds of new prayers, along with letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer forty-three liturgies that can be practiced individually or as a community. Inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth, Arthur Riley writes with a poet’s touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today. For anyone healing from communities that were more violent than loving; for anyone who has escaped the trauma of white Christian nationalism, religious homophobia, or transphobia; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment, and a vision for what might be.