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BroadStreet Publishing Prayers on Fire 365 Days Praying the Psalms
Book SynopsisThe book of Psalms: Poetry on Fire by The Passion Translation captures the deep emotion and passionate expression of the psalmist, providing comfort and joy, and leading us to the place where worship flows. These praises placed inside poetry spill out of a fiery passionate heart. Prayers on Fire includes 365 prayers inspired by this heart-felt translation of the book of Psalms. Each day contains an excerpt from a psalm and then a prayer from the heart, providing an expression of faith and worship for sincere worshipers. Excerpt of a prayer inspired by Psalm 1:2 - As I'm hidden within your greatness, I discover your eternal purposes. In love and humility I bow before you, my awe-inspiring God. The way you watch over me, infuses me with confidence and courage. I find I can stand on my own two feet again because you are with me. You are my source; I draw life from the waters of your love. Walking step by step with you brings me joy unlike I've ever known. Your Word illuminates my
£15.19
Xlibris The Wave Becomes the Ocean
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£21.85
Trafford Publishing THE Apollo of God
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£16.61
AuthorHouse Received or. D E C E I V E D
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£11.56
AuthorHouse In The Presence of Angels
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£14.49
AuthorHouse 100 Year Patra Vol...2
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£66.45
AuthorHouse The Up the Middle Church
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£19.47
AuthorHouse Curandero Conversations
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£14.72
AuthorHouse Equipping Laity For Servant Leadership
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£12.88
AuthorHouse Changing of the Gods
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£17.99
Westbow Press Journey into the Light
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£13.07
AuthorHouse Chosen to Suffer
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£18.49
AuthorHouse Authentic Inspired Inerrant and True
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£11.61
AuthorHouse Awaiting the King
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£12.75
AuthorHouse 2012
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£26.23
iUniverse Understanding the Holy Spirit
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£11.96
Trafford Publishing Beloved Teacher
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£10.62
AuthorHouse Spiritual Food For A Searching Soul
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£16.96
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Journey to Freedom
Book SynopsisWhilst serving in the Soviet army in 1973, Sergei Ovsiannikov was arrested and imprisoned for acts of disobedience under military command. It was while in prison, like Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky, that he began to ponder deeper issues and on release trained to be a Russian orthodox priest. This extraordinary but short book is about his search for true freedom. The issues he wrestles with are profound and, like any confrontation with truth, it caused him great anguish and pain. As Ovsiannikov wrote:''It was in my prison cell that I lost fear. I realised that if they sent me to a labour camp with a long sentence, it did not matter because I was free. Of course subsequently I came to realise that freedom is not given, you have to take responsibility for it.'' It was during this time that he discovered Christianity and decided that this was the real meaning of his life.Later, after a period spent with the Russian Orthodox community in London, Ovsiannikov Trade ReviewThis is an ideal book for our current Covid-19 world where so many of us have been forced to lead lives of solitude. * The Pastoral Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Dr Rowan Williams From the Author Instead of a Preface PART ONE: LOST FREEDOM 1 How Man Was Left Without Freedom 2 Freedom, Fear and Slavery PART TWO: FINDING YOURSELF 3 What is Being Yourself? 4 Sick Soul and Healthy Soul 5 On the New Man 6 IF You Prefer Unfreedom, Come Here, or, About Passions Simply Explained PART THREE: THROUGH THE PRISM OF FREEDOM 7 Freedom and Politics, or, Does Revolution Equal Freedom 8 Religion and Tradition - the End of Freedom? 9 Love 10 Fear PART FOUR: COMING OUT INTO LIBERTY 11 From Space to Time 12 Creativity as the Method for Coming Home 13 The Gospel: Come Out into Liberty! Epilogue: The Work is Only the Beginning
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Outskirts Press Life Focus
Book SynopsisThroughout our day we are faced with many challenges, opportunities and decisions. Our attitudes and experiences will either pull us back or push us into our destiny. Life Focus: Leadership Keys for Life will give you inspiration and determination to keep driving forward in reaching your personal and business success.
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Outskirts Press Experimentando la Gracia
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£11.35
Xlibris The SelfCreating Universe
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£16.99
WestBow Press Rescue
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£18.25
WestBow Press Spiritus Sanctus
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£11.25
WestBow Press Blessed Is He Who Is Not Offended
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£8.95
AuthorHouse Hidden Truths of the Bible
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£14.93
Authorhouse Imam Ali Ibn Musa AlRidha
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£15.69
Authorhouse The Mark of the Beast Revelation 13
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£14.67
Lexington Books The Crisis of the Holy
Book SynopsisAll religions are experiencing rapid changes due to a confluence of social and economic global forces. The modern world threatens the foundations of the world's religions and the cohesive assurances of their societies. Factors such as the pervasive intrusion of globalizing political and economic developments; polarized and morally equivalent presentations seen in the media; the sense of surety demanded in and promised by a culture dominated by science are but some of the factors that have placed extreme pressure on all religious traditions. This has stimulated unprecedented responses by religious groups, ranging from fundamentalism to the syncretistic search for meaning. The totality of pressures and responses is pushing religious people into controversial forms. As religion takes on new forms, balances between individual and community are disrupted and reconfigured. Religions often lose the capacity to recall their ultimate purpose or to lead their adherents towards it. This is why weTrade ReviewThe Crisis of the Holy makes an important and original contribution to a field that has been well researched and written about—the impact of modernity on religion. By adopting a double perspective—that of an external, observation-based one and an internal, reflective and theologically oriented one, the collection breaks new ground concerning the possibility of new creative and meaningful forms of religion emerging out of the modern 'crisis of the holy.' -- Shlomo Fischer, The Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsForeword: Think-Tank of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, Barcelona, 2004 Preface, Alon Goshen-Gottstein Chapter 1: “The Holy” in Religions, Alon Goshen-Gottstein Chapter 2: Summary of Essays, Alon Goshen-Gottstein Chapter 3: Buddhism, Michael von Brück and Maria Reis Habito Chapter 4: Christianity: A Roman Catholic’s View, Sidney H. Griffith Chapter 5: Judaism: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contemporary Jewish Crisis of the Holy, B. Barry Levy Chapter 6: Hindusim: The Creation and Transformation of Hinduism, Deepak Sarma Chapter 7: Islam, Vincent J. Cornell Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections, Alon Goshen-Gottstein
£69.00
Balboa Press Au The Book Under the Pillow: Written After the
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£52.20
Balboa Press My Spiritual Journey into Christ Consciousness
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£8.25
Balboa Press The Law of Balance: Thrive by Balancing Your
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£22.75
Xlibris Dictionary of Indian Palmistry Symbols: What the
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£18.95
Hodder & Stoughton Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters,
Book SynopsisDubbed 'a heroic gate-crasher' by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian McLaren explores reasons to leave or stay within the church and if so, how ...Do I Stay Christian? addresses in public the powerful question that surprising numbers of people - including pastors, priests and other religious leaders - are asking in private. Picking up where Brian's warmly received Faith After Doubt (2021) leaves off, Do I Stay Christian? is not McLaren's attempt to persuade Christians to dig in their heels or run for the exit. Instead, he combines his own experience with that of thousands of people who have confided in him over the years to help readers make a responsible, honest, ethical decision about their religious identity.There is a way to say both yes and no to the question of staying Christian, McLaren says, by shifting the focus from whether we stay Christian to how we stay human. If Do I Stay Christian? is the question you're asking - or if it's a question that someone you love is asking - this is the book you've been waiting for.'Brian's new book on remaining Christian knocks it out of the ballpark in terms of framing and naming the questions. I cannot stop reading it. Thank you, Brian!'Fr Richard Rohr, OFM, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation, author of The Universal ChristTrade Review'be prepared to be deeply challenged and hugely encouraged' [Praise for FAITH AFTER DOUBT] * Christianity Magazine *'challenging, provocative, and, at times, uncomfortable read' [Praise for FAITH AFTER DOUBT] * Church Times *He finds himself in a spacious place where Christianity can be much more concerned with being generous than being doctrinally correct... 'Do I Stay Christian' invites the reader also to become a traveler...this is an important, engaging, life-affirming book. * Reform Magazine *
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Spiritual Substance: The Heart of Christianity
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£11.21
Hampton Roads Publishing Co The Master of Lucid Dreams: In the Heart of Asia a Russian Psychiatrist Learns How to Heal the Spirits of Trauma
£17.09
Ronin Publishing Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness
Book SynopsisENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic. A great mystery of altered states of consciousness and species development is expanding with new archeological and anthropological discoveries. Religious story telling (myth) is a timeless journey. Surprisingly it's not about truth. It's about finding one's self in the midst of the discovery of the "Other." It is the story of what is separate and unknown that creates self-consciousness. Our entire life consists ultimately in the discovery of the "Other," which gives meaning to the discovery of the self. The arts and language are the fossil remnants scattered on our path. ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS discusses the influence of psychoactive substances on consciousness, human evolution and mystical experiences. It explores how religion, mythology, art and culture stem from entheogenic consciousness and why it's important to us today. "Entheogens, or psychoactive sacraments, have a long, storied history that has played an essential role in the evolution of consciousness, mythology, culture, religion, art - and even history and politics. ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS outlines this suppressed - yet seminal - undercurrent of history, giving examples of the role of entheogens from the primal shamanic religions through, the historical religions, esoteric mystical traditions including the Mystery Religions, alchemy and Freemasonry, and into contemporary expressions. Authors Ruck and Hoffman draw upon decades of research and personal experience in discussing the best documented examples of historically important entheogenic evidences, various ongoing threads of research and speculation to muse upon the 'meaning' of it all..." Our hominid ancestors experienced a spiritual wakening at the very dawn of consciousness that set them apart from the other creatures of our planet. It was a journey to another realm induced by a special food that belonged to the gods. This was a plant that was animate with the spirit of deity. It was an entheogen. It was the visionary vehicle for the trip of the first shaman. The story was told over and over again until it achieved the perfect form of a myth. The realm was imagined as a topographical place, the outer limit of the cosmos, the fiery empyrean, or its geocentric opposite, our own planet Gaia. Myths multiplied over time, but they always preserved this primordial truth. These myths provide a road map, a scenario, if you can read them, for whoever today wants to follow. However, it is not an easy journey, and it is also fraught with many dangers, of getting lost, of finding no return. Access to the entheogens is now largely prohibited or strictly licensed. The restrictions constitute an infringement of cognitive freedom, limiting the further evolution of human potential into productive creative imagination and experiences that lie beyond the normal, the traditional province of shamans, who can understand the speech of plants and animals, change shape at will, and journey, both physically and in the spirit, to distant exotic realms. In addition, religions have staked out territorial claims to this realm of spiritual consciousness. They have colonized it, identified it with their god, often reserving the access for their own elite. Similarly, trade in drugs, both medicinal and illegal, has colonized the etheogens, making them only chemicals, rationally depriving them of their spirit. ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a guide for the curious that provides a historical overview of the role that entheogens have played in the development of our unique supremacy as a species and offers also pathways and advice for reconnecting with the primordial sources of nature's power. ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS investigates the role entheogens have played in the evolution of humankind's attempt to define reality in a context of metaphysical or theological dimensions. Although other botanical intoxicants will be considered (cannabis, daphne, opium, Syrian rue, datura, mandrake), none, with the possible exception of mandrake, seem to have lent themselves so readily to metaphoric personifications, which make this the subject for a course on mythology. The source of humankind's fascination and repulsion for fungi, indeed, leads to a fundamental consideration of the psychological nature of mankind's fascination or awareness of what in the categorization of religions is termed animism and rituals of ecstatic shamanism. In addition, the linking of bread and wine as sacramental foods is due to parallel concepts of controlled fungal growth as a simulacrum of the cosmos itself. The goal is not so much to acquire factual knowledge of this vast subject, but to open up pathways for reflection upon the basic nature of human existence and consciousness. The narrative is the awesome history of discovery and the findings of ancient rituals that meld into twentieth-century controversy and criticism of psychedelics. The future of humanity and the direction of twenty-first century brain science is challenged as well as our sense of social convention. Entheogens have been deemed be prohibited controlled substances and as such is an infringement of cognitive freedom. Whatever the danger of potential abuse, the substance is not the fault, but the user. The hammer is not guilty, but the carpenter who misuses it because of deficient training. In order to exonerate the executioner in Classical antiquity, the axe was brought to trial and found guilty. The prohibition has drastically retarded the investigation into the therapeutic potential of proscribed drugs, including their efficacy in curing addiction. Some of these substances also offer the potential for accessing levels of cognition and consciousness beyond the ordinary, the traditional provenance of mystics and shamans, like bilocation, clairvoyance, and zoomorphism.
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Medieval Institute Publications Two Middle English Prayer Cycles: Holkham,
Book SynopsisThis book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts. Each shines its own light on medieval faith. The Holkham Prayers and Meditations (ca.1410) is a rare example of female authorship, written by an unnamed woman to guide a “religious sustir.” Simon Appulby's Fruyte of Redempcyon (1514) is more popular in aim, composed by one of England’s last anchorites to serve his urban community. Both texts are accompanied by extensive notes and introductory essays to aid students and specialists alike.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Holkham Prayers and Meditations Introduction Text Textual and Explanatory Notes Fruyte of Redempcyon Introduction Text Textual and Explanatory Notes Appendix: Antidotarius Headings
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul
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Baker Publishing Group Rejoicing in Lament – Wrestling with Incurable
Book SynopsisAt the age of thirty-nine, Christian theologian Todd Billings was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable cancer. In the wake of that diagnosis, he began grappling with the hard theological questions we face in the midst of crisis: Why me? Why now? Where is God in all of this? This eloquently written book shares Billings's journey, struggle, and reflections on providence, lament, and life in Christ in light of his illness, moving beyond pat answers toward hope in God's promises. Theologically robust yet eminently practical, it engages the open questions, areas of mystery, and times of disorientation in the Christian life. Billings offers concrete examples through autobiography, cultural commentary, and stories from others, showing how our human stories of joy and grief can be incorporated into the larger biblical story of God's saving work in Christ.Table of ContentsContents1. Walking in the Fog: A Narrowed Future or a Spacious Place?2. Sorting through the Questions: The Book of Job, the Problem of Evil, and the Limits of Human Wisdom3. Lamenting in Trust: Praying with the Psalmist amid a Sea of Emotions4. Lamenting to the Almighty: Discerning the Mystery of Divine Providence5. Joining the Resistance: Lament and Compassionate Witness to the Present and Future King6. Death in the Story of God and in the Church7. Praying for Healing and Praying for the Kingdom8. In the Valley: Toxins, Healing, and Strong Medicine for Sinners9. The Light of Perfect Love in the Darkness: God's Impassible Love in Christ10. "I Am Not My Own": Our Story Incorporated into Christ's
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Ave Maria Press Gifts of the Eucharist: Stories to Transform and
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Rooted
Book SynopsisYou were born to make an impact in this world and you know it. You feel it deep down in your bones. Apathy is your nemesis and your hunger to change the world keeps you up at night. But no matter how deep this hunger growls, we can only make a meaningful impact if we are rooted in Jesus. And here’s the thing: God is not interested in developing your vision first. He is interested in developing you. In Rooted, Banning Liebscher takes us to the life of David to show how God expands our root system in the hidden places before leading us to where we all desire to go, the visible world. It was in a field of prayerful devotion, a season of serving, and a cave of community that God prepared David for his crown, the same way God prepares us. Take a look at your own life. Are you embracing God’s process, the sometimes painstaking and maddening process? When we can release ourselves to God we will find that we can thrive while He develops us, rather than succumb to discouragement. Whatever your age or season of life, it takes immense courage to slow down enough to let God grow a root system in your life so that you can bear fruit that remains. You are where you are because God has planted you there. Discover what it looks like to embrace His process so you can do what He has called you to, change the world.
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Xulon Press The Man Died
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Booklocker Inc.,US Pilate's Prisoner: A Passion Play
Book SynopsisIn this historical and theological novel, Pontius Pilate is enfleshed as a historical person, a man of contradictions, and a religious atheist who superstitiously evokes the Roman gods.Pilate ingeniously arranges to have some time alone with a wandering Galilean and illiterate religious teacher named Jesus. In their often heated verbal exchanges and arguments, Jesus finds his most deeply held religious beliefs challenged, as Pilate too wrestles with his own assumptions and prejudices.
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Murphy & Moore Publishing Spirituality, Religion and Psychotherapies
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Mango Media Life's Big Questions: 200 Ways to Explore Your
Book SynopsisAnswer Life’s Questions with A New Perspective"...200 questions that can truly impact your life in positive ways...to help us bring meaning and exploration back into our daily lives.“ —Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine, and MiraclesFilled with questions, inspiring anecdotes, and guided meditations, Life's Big Questions invites readers to examine their beliefs about spirituality and learn new ways to encounter sacred moments.A perceptive guidebook on life. Why does evil exist? What is the meaning of death and dying? What can meditation and mindfulness do for you? When should you begin to think about your sacred destiny? Do miracles actually exist? This book about the big stuff aims to answer all of life’s questions—or at least some of them. A book about a bigger perspective. While you may recognize author Jonathan Robinson from his appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show, he is also a bestselling author and professional psychotherapist. He spends his days thinking deeply about life’s questions—and he is ready to share his thoughts with you. A book of meditations, Life’s Big Questions approaches the answers to life's most sacred questions from both a spiritual and a therapeutic viewpoint. Inside Life’s Big Questions, you’ll find: Answers to some of the most fundamental of life’s questions—from a fresh perspective Examples and suggestions on new ways to encounter the sacred in your daily life Meditations on self love, the meaning of life, how to let go, and more If you liked books about meditation, mindfulness, and life’s questions such as The Purpose Driven Life, The Book of Secret Wisdom, or Cosmic Queries, you’ll love Life’s Big Questions.Trade Review”Asking good questions is an important ingredient to new learning and greater awareness. In this book, Jonathan Robinson asks 200 questions that can truly impact your life in positive ways... With the many inspiring questions and anecdotes in this book, Robinson has found a way to help us bring meaning and exploration back into our daily lives.“—Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles (from the foreword)
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Author Academy Elite Fearlessly Chosen: A Journey Through His Hands To
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Bibliotech Press The Spirit-Filled Life
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