Frederick Buechner 101
Author: Carl Frederick Buechner
Publisher:
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780990871903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the writings of Frederick Buechner, choreographed by Anne Lamott
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Listening to Your Life
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0061842818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaily meditations taken from the works of an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and preacher who has articulated what he sees with a freshness and clarity and energy that hails our stultified imaginations.
Secrets in the Dark
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2007-03-13
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0061146617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrederick Buechner has long been a kindred spirit to those who find elements of doubt as constant companions on their journey of faith. He is a passionate writer and preacher who can alter lives with a simple phrase. Buechner's words, both written and spoken, have the power to revolutionize and revitalize belief and faith. He reveals the presence of God in the midst of daily life. He faces and embraces difficult questions and doubt as essential components of our lives, rather than as enemies that destroy us. "Listen to your life!" is his clarion call. This theme pervades this definitive collection of sermons, delivered throughout Buechner's lifetime. Presented chronologically, they provide a clear picture of the development of his theology and thinking. Reflecting Buechner's exquisite gift for storytelling and his compassionate pastor's heart, Secrets in the Dark will inspire laughter, hope, and bring great solace. Turn the pages and rediscover what it means to be thoughtful about faith. See why this renowned writer has been quoted in countless pulpits and beloved by Americans for generations.
The Remarkable Ordinary
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 0310352525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn to see God's remarkable works in the everyday ordinary of your life. Your remarkable life is happening right here, right now. You may not be able to see it--your life may seem predictable and your work insignificant until you look at your life as Frederick Buechner does. Named "the father of today's spiritual memoir movement" by Christianity Today, Frederick Buechner reveals how to stop, look, and listen to your life. He reflects on how both art and faith teach us how to pay attention to the remarkableness right in front of us, to watch for the greatness in the ordinary, and to use our imaginations to see the greatness in others and love them well. Pay attention, says Buechner. Listen to the call of a bird or the rush of the wind, to the people who flow in and out of your life. The ordinary points you to the extraordinary God who created and loves all of creation, including you. Pay attention to these things as if your life depends upon it. Because, of course, it does. As you learn to pay attention to your life and what God is doing in it, you will uncover the plot of your life's story and the sacred opportunity to connect with the Divine in each moment.
Speak What We Feel
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2001-08-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780062517524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this compelling book, the great contemporary spiritual writer and novelist Frederick Buechner plumbs the mysteries and truths behind the literature that speaks to him most powerfully. Buechner presents the four authors who have been his greatest influences, focusing on the question that has emerged at the center of his life-how to face mortality, failure, and tragedy. Through sensitive biographical exploration and close reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins's sublime later sonnets, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, and William Shakespeare's most powerful play, King Lear, Buechner invites readers to discover the deeper joy and purpose of reading. He shows how these writers -- by putting their passion and pain into their work -- have enabled him to bear the weight of his own grief and sadness by "speaking out from under the burden of theirs." Buechner's ruminations on their writings leads to the revelation that God accepts us for doing the best we can, even if our lives are in some ways a failure; even if we have lived a life haunted by tragedy, as Buechner's has been haunted by his father's suicide. Buechner connects his readings to the fabric of his life and the lives of his subjects as he explores the ways in which these writers have shaped him and enhanced his faith. Buechner's insights into the power and imagination of their work resonate with his love for all that literature has given him throughout his life -- a passion he generously shares with us in Speak What We Feel.
A Room Called Remember
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0061873500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the "room called Remember," that "still room within us all where the past lives on as part of the present,...where with patience, with clarity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived."
Wishful Thinking
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 1993-09-24
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780060611392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner puts the language of God, the universe, and the human spirit under his wry linguistic microscope. In his often ironic and always keen-sighted reflections on such terms as agnostic, envy, love, and sin, he invited us to look at theses everyday words in new and enlightening ways. Freshly revised and expanded for this edition, Wishful Thinking is a "beguiling" [Time] adventure in language for the restless believer, the doubter, and all who love words.
Telling Secrets
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnabashedly Christian....a meditation on the connection between knowing and sharing secrets and discovering the reality of a loving and merciful God. --Chicago Tribune Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Peculiar Treasures
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 1993-09-30
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780060611415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second book of his popular lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner profiles more than 125 of the Bible's most holy and profane people -- and one whale. In his lively and witty prose, Buechner brings to life such moments from scripture as: Adam's pangs of regret for a remembered Eden Delilah's last glimpse of Samson as they dragged him away Lazarus's first impressions upon rising from the dead To read Peculiar Treasures is to realize that many of these legendary figures are not who we thought they were. But they are -- in their human dreams,ambitions, and imperfections -- very much like us.
The Magnificent Defeat
Author: Frederick Buechner
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1985-05-08
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 006061174X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Magnificent Defeat, Frederick Buechner examines what it means to follow Christ, the lessons of Christmas and Easter, the miracles of grace, and "the magnificent defeat" of the human soul of God.
