This is a book of poetry, monologues and letters that speak about life, love, loss and everything in between. All in all, it is a piece of a flawed human's soul, a soul desperately searching for her God-given destiny. Dare to join me?
Being strong in the Lord is essential for successful Christian living. This is the underlying premise of Christian Meat for Christian Muscles. Strength in the Lord means that every area of our lives will benefit from a good dose of spiritual nutrition with Jesus as the main course. How so? Our self esteem can benefit, our character can benefit, our wisdom can benefit; and so to can our faith, our love and our appreciation of Christian values. It will require strength to lay hold of these spiritual treasures, because there is a mighty battle on to stop us. But thankfully spiritual strength is dispensed directly from the Lord. Spiritual nutrition from Jesus Christ is what He meant when He himself said unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:53-54 NIV) Of course Hes talking about His own gospel which has the power to save us, strengthen us and make us worthy of His name, and of Gods mighty Kingdom. This book will examine pivotal verses that facilitate the strengthening process. See sandtorock.com for more info on this important topic
Intimate love opens us up to suffering, sacrifice, and loss. Is it always worth the risk? Consulting philosophers, writers, and poets who draw insights from material life, Diane Enns shines a light on the limits of erotic love, exploring its paradoxes through personal and philosophical reflections. Situating experience at the center of her inquiry, Enns conducts philosophy "by another name," elaborating the ambiguities and risks of love with visceral clarity. Love in the Dark claims that intimacy must accept risk as long as love does not destroy the self. Erotic love inspires an inexplicable affirmation of another but can erode autonomy and vulnerability. There is a limit to love, and appreciating it requires a rethinking of love's liberal paradigms, which Enns traces back to the hostility toward the body and eros in Christianity and the Western philosophical tradition. Against a legacy of an abstract and sanitized love, Enns recasts erotic attachment as an event linked to conditional circumstances. The value of love lies in its intensity and depth, and its end does not negate love's truth or significance. Writing in a lyrical, genre-defying style, Enns delineates the paradoxes of love in its relations to lust, abuse, suffering, and grief to reach an account faithful to human experience.
The search of your life is the search for your life. What you are holding right now is an exploration of the human spirit; a journey into our deepest longings, our desires, our needs, our cravings, our souls. Our need for intimacy, meaning, and destiny point to the existence of God and our need to connect with Him. This book will deeply stir you to consider and chase after the spiritual implications of your souls' deepest longings.
This is the first volume dedicated to the topic of characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, the Latin novel from the second century CE. The subject has not been ignored in recent scholarship on individual characters in the work, but the lack of an earlier general overview of the topic reflects the general history of scholarship on the Metamorphoses. Literature on Apuleius’ novel until the 1960s centred around the issue of his general literary quality, and some key scholars held distinctly low estimates of Apuleius’ talents. Since 1970, most critics have seen Apuleius as a conscious and effective literary artist, and this is reflected in the emergence of this volume. The volume’s contributors are a distinguished collection of international scholars, many of whom have worked together on the long-established Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius, a project which is currently coming to completion. No ideological line has been imposed, and contributors have been free to offer their thoughts on how the text of the novel presents particular characters, including divine ones. The volume covers the whole of the novel and all the significant characters, and will constitute a substantial contribution to the interpretation of the most important Latin novel to survive complete from the ancient world.
Whether you’re seeking a new romantic relationship or hoping to improve an existing one, knowing your own qualities and desires is the first step. Love Colors offers a fresh, powerful approach to better understand yourself and then create your ideal partnership. In her earlier book, Life Colors, psychic consultant Pamala Oslie explained that auras — the field of energy that surrounds each of us — contain important clues to our personalities and reveal the ways we relate to the world. In this book, she takes that understanding of auras one step further to help you find — and keep — your perfect mate. In Love Colors, you’ll discover: • your personal love colors through a detailed personality quiz • the love colors you’re most compatible with • tips for finding, recognizing, and attracting your ideal partner • ways to move past your fears and open yourself up to love • advice on maintaining balance and harmony in your relationship With Pamala’s insights and advice, you’ll gain invaluable self-knowledge and have new tools to create fulfilling, lasting love.
Do you have an inner knowing that there is more to life? Would you like to identify your soul’s true path? Are you compelled by a desire to contribute more meaningfully in the world? In this remarkable book, Linda Howe reveals how to effectively make the shift from ordinary to ExtraOrdinary living—a life suffused with purpose, aliveness, and light—through the Akashic Records. The Akashic Records can be understood as the "Cosmic Chronicles of You": an energetic archive, or dimension of consciousness, that tells the story of your soul’s journey through space and time as a human being. By learning to access this dimension, you will gain insight into your earthly experience and discover how to transform your life into one that radiates light and magnetizes good. In these pages, enter the inspirational, fascinating realm of the Akasha with Linda as she shares her very accessible and student-tested processes designed to facilitate your awakening to your true identity and soul’s destiny. Explore the essential consciousness concepts of the Records, excavate the obstructing beliefs on your path, and learn how to realign to your soul’s highest purposes. Meditations, or Akashic Reflections, guide you every step of the way. Application of Linda’s teachings is guaranteed to make a critical difference in your life right here, right now. An ExtraOrdinary life is within your reach! What are you waiting for?
Bible doctrine is the absolute truth from God that reveals His character, His standards, and His infinitely superior wisdom. For fifty-three years, Pastor R. B. Thieme, Jr., dedicated his life to teaching Bible doctrine. He sought to clarify God’s Word through innovative vocabulary, categorical outlines, and practical illustrations, so that any believer could comprehend the majestic details of God’s plan. Now, drawn from Thieme’s personal notes and sermons, Thieme’s Bible Doctrine Dictionary presents over eight hundred terms and related doctrines. Biblical subjects—ranging from the eternal Trinity to the fall and salvation of man to the Christian way of life—are precisely defined, explained, and cross-referenced.
LOVING is GREETED here- a straight forwarded purgatorial journey as an invitation to face complex issues of the human odyssey: Who am I? How do I want to BE? What can WE BE as human beings? Whats it all about to BE equitable now? LOVING here distinguishes soul-coring intimacy from falling in love, eloquently explores by Toni Morrisons examples of misused Love, and ex[posed as abuse love for the kingdom by King Lears Usurpation of three daughters love with promises of privilege and parental regard; these misuses of LOVING and Being IN LOVING murder humanitys jazzin; for kincaring. This narrative rejects such UNLOVING scripts and habits as it offers antidotes with LOVING content and tools for equitable kincaring IN LOVING