This book is a story of a man still trying to heal from his childhood. A man who is still hurting and bleeding, yet at the same time being saved. This story about Andrew is the story of Jesus. His story is really all of ours - or at least many of ours. He is being healed by God the Father as he is being hurt by the sin of the world. The wounded heart of Jesus is present within all of us if we really stop and look and give that time to see it for what it really is. This life is hard and painful, but at the end of the day - if we give that pain to Jesus - he heals us in the sight of his Father.
Destiny Hart's dream of becoming a singer has come true. But with the exhilarating rush of success comes a price-and a battle to recapture the traditions that were her foundation. Reconnecting with what matters most, Destiny is putting an unexpected new spin on her career that wi;; redirect her life in ways she never imagined.
Based on a novel by acclaimed Christian fiction author Barbara Cameron, Her Restless Heart is the story of an Amish woman caught between the traditions of her faith and the pull of a different life. This six-session Bible study explores the heart's longing for love and acceptance and the Bible's answer to this universal human need. The study equips women as they seek to know God's plan for their lives and find satisfaction and fulfillment. The Leader Guide contains six session guides plus leader helps. Her Restless Heart is the second study in the Faith and Fiction Bible study series that uses.
Every sincere seeker of truth will want to know more about St. Augustine and his writings. The Restless Heart is an accurate symbol for men and women of every age and culture. In his book, The Restless Heart, Rev. Moore endeavors to state and explain many of the profound ideas of St. Augustine. You will learn for example, Augustine's philosophical and theological concepts relating to The Restless Heart, and many of Augustine's ideas. You will broaden your understanding of the spiritual life, of love, of prayer, and grow in your appreciation of one of the most brilliant minds of every age. St. Augustine, in his confessions draws one into a deeper understanding of God's merciful love and demonstrates that one must be humble and trusting before the Lord God, and seek to do His will with a joyful heart because the heart rests in God.
God created this world to be a home for his children--a pilgrim-home but a home nonetheless. In other words, this creation is not our final and definitive home, since only in the innermost bosom of the Trinity will we find complete and definitive rest and perfect consummation. And yet this home of the Trinity's love and embrace is really and truly communicated to us in and through the beauty of created reality, such that this temporal world already in some way becomes a true dwelling-place, and not merely a land of exile and pilgrimage. Perhaps the central drama of our human existence in this fallen world is that creation is always both simultaneously: a home and a land of journeying, a garden dwelling-place and a desert of exile.But it will not always be this way. For the very material creation in which we find ourselves shares in our eternal destiny, our destiny to participate in the innermost life and love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And insofar as it does so already, insofar as we encounter God already in the contours of time and space, these very contours become an expression of, and a foretaste of, our eternal homeland. In moments such as this, in which our heart is ravished by the glimpse of divine beauty touching us through created beauty, and cradling us through the goodness of reality that God himself has made, we experience eternity intersecting time. Indeed, we experience how this world--yes, this very imperfect and fallen world, marred by sin, strife, and division--is destined to be our eternal homeland, the living-space in which we dwell in intimacy with God, just as Adam and Eve experienced intimacy with God in the beginning in paradise, in which God himself walked familiarly with his children among the trees of the garden.Even if the creation apart from God is nothing, it is nonetheless true that God willed it to be something, and to be something very significant and full of eternal meaning. Yes, the creation itself has an absolute meaning in the plan of God, manifesting as it does God's own absolute value as pure and everlasting Love and Intimacy. And this is true in the highest way of each human person, who beyond all other creatures was created, as Vatican II says, "for his own sake" (Gaudium et spes, 22). The absolute value and dignity of every person is a reflection of and a participation in the absoluteness of God's own personal being, since it is rooted in his own singular love for them, in which he has known, willed, loved, and delighted in them from the bosom of his own eternity, and from this eternity brought them into being, and into this eternity seeks to draw them again. And in and through the human person, the whole of the impersonal creation is also drawn to its definitive fulfillment and consummation, since it is destined to share in the everlasting intimacy that God has chosen to have with his children, adopting them, in the beloved Son, into the innermost recesses of his own divine life.If this is true, then our gift and task within this world is not merely to flee from the world, from anything that might distract our attention from the heaven that awaits us, but also to seek to make contact, within the visible creation while also stretching beyond it, with the eternal renewal of all things that awaits us at the end of time. In other words, it is not only to journey on pilgrimage through this fallen world towards heaven, but also to let heaven become incarnate, even if imperfectly, within this world. After all, when Christ came into this world he brought heaven to earth. In him eternity entered into time, and the everlasting bliss of the Trinity kissed our fractured and yet beautiful earth. And through his Paschal Mystery--his Passion and Resurrection--Christ has spanned the distance created by sin and has woven all together again in a seamless fabric within the sinews of his own reconciling Heart.
When troubles threaten to drive God's peace from your heart, this book will restore it. You'll learn secrets that will help you accept God's will without becoming fatalistic, passive, or complacent.
You don't have to keep striving for freedom. You can live into the freedom you already have in Christ. In You Are Free, Rebekah Lyons--author of Rhythms of Renewal--reveals her journey of releasing stress, anxiety, and worry to uncover the peace that comes from Jesus Christ. Have you bought into the lie? So many of us do. We measure our worth by what others think of us. We compare and strive, living our lives for the approval of others. Pressure rises, fear and anxiety creeps in, and we hustle to keep up. But Jesus tells us that he gave his life to set us free, giving us purpose and calling us to live in that God-given freedom and purpose. Maybe we're afraid to live in this truth because we can't even believe it. Rebekah reminds us that Christ doesn't say we can be or may be or will be free. He says we are free. Do you dare to believe it? In You Are Free, Rebekah invites you to: Overcome the exhaustion of trying to meet others' expectations and rest in the joy that God's freedom brings Find permission to grieve past experiences, confess your areas of brokenness, and receive strength in your journey toward healing Throw off self-condemnation and step boldly into what our good God has for you Discover the courage to begin again and use your newfound freedom to set others free Freedom is for everyone who wants it--the lost, the wounded, and those weary from all of the striving. It's for those of us who gave up trying years ago and for those of us who are angry and hurt, burnt out by the Christian song and dance. You are the church, the people of God. You were meant to be free. Join Rebekah as she helps you discover the freedom that comes when we learn that God is enough.
Healing the Wounded Heart exposes negative emotions such as fear, rejection, worthlessness, shame, insecurity, defilement, and hopelessness that prevent us from living in the grace and peace God intends for us. Uncover the lies embedded in emotional wounds and discover peace and truth in the presence of the Living Christ.
