Sanctified - Love in Scripture
Sanctified - Love in Scripture

Author: Shirley Dudley

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2024-03-25

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1456647741

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Explore the Depths of Love Woven Through Sacred StoriesEmbark on a profound journey through time, where age-old tales reveal the very essence of the human heart "By Love Inspired: The Bible's Most Heartfelt Stories" opens the treasury of biblical narratives that have shaped morality, inspired hope, and fanned the flames of devotion for millennia.Feel the first heartbeat of affection as you encounter Adam and Eve in their paradisiacal cradle of humanity. Witness Abraham's unwavering trust as a testament to an immeasurable love for both his God and his son. Traverse through the complexities of human relations and divine symbolism with Ruth and Boaz, and see the foreshadowing of Christ's redemptive affection in the profound concept of a Kinsman Redeemer.The narrative tapestry becomes richer as you immerse yourself in accounts of covenantal friendships and the passionate poetry of Solomon, exploring the depth of royal affections. Defiance in love becomes strikingly clear through the steadfastness of Hosea for Gomer and Esther's brave heart throbbing with allegiance for her people. Witness a mother's indomitable spirit in Jochebed and Hannah, whose stories resonate with every parent's whisper of undying love.Marvel at the prophets who heralded Divine Love, and transition to the New Testament, where the tales of Mary's all-encompassing ardor for Jesus and John's intimate disciplehood draw you closer to the heartbeat of the gospel. Learn from parables and miracles that redefine the expression of love with societal outcasts and those in desperation, culminating in a Last Supper that redefines communion and betrayal.The crucifixion emerges as an ultimate sacrifice, while the resurrection triumphantly heralds love's victory over death. With every chapter, from the nurturing early Church to the wisdom-spilling letters of Paul, you become a part of the narrative--a tapestry woven with threads of reconciliation, healing, inclusivity, and the profound sagacity of love's endurance.Let your spirit be moved by the poignant anecdotes of outsiders embraced by love, the focused dedication of love in adversities, and the prophetic assurance of love's eternal promise. "By Love Inspired" is not merely a recounting of tales--it's an invitation to discover and embrace the cardinal virtue that holds our existence together, beckoning you to find your place in love's enduring story.

Affirmation and Healing Within Spiritual Direction
Affirmation and Healing Within Spiritual Direction

Author: Cynthia Herman

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1645694712

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ABSTRACT Key to the process of spiritual growth is the knowledge that human beings long for love. They desire to know their worth and value. This seeking leads to a desire for a relationship with God. In order to grow in faith to a deeper relationship with God, it is important to first have a strong sense of one's own worth as a basis for growth. This involves an accurate self-perception and a loving self-acceptance. Affirmation can help to develop a loving self-acceptance, where one can experience, feel, and see one's worth. Affirmation is a gift of love from one person to another, where one receives oneself as one experiences one's own goodness and dignity from the other and one learns one is lovable. Another key to spiritual growth is self-knowledge. Self-acceptance and self-knowledge are the beginning of the spiritual life. Developing emotional awareness leads to greater self-knowledge. Emotions need to be listened to and interpreted as part of the development of self-knowledge and self-acceptance. This emotional awareness is the beginning of understanding the negative patterns of behavior that comes out of one's woundedness. With the healing presence of Christ through prayer, one can experience God's love for them in one's woundedness and know that God dwells within and desires to transform and heal wounds with his love. This affirms one in one's worthiness, enabling one to be able to open to receive love and then return love. In spiritual direction, one seeks a relationship with God. It is a sacred time of growth, conversion, and transformation. It is a time when one looks at a relationship with self, others, and God. One is empowered by the grace of God to enter this process and continue the development of these relationships. The ministry of spiritual direction is called to be the sacred place where humanity in their fullness meets their God and accepts his mercy. When one surrenders to this grace, one is surrendering to love, mercy, and affirmation. One's self-image and relationship with others and God are touched and experienced in a new light.

Sanathana Sarathi English Volume 04 (1990 to 1999)
Sanathana Sarathi English Volume 04 (1990 to 1999)

Author: Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre

Publisher: Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre

Published: 2022-11-10

Total Pages: 3144

ISBN-13:

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Started in 1958, Sanathana Sarathi is a monthly magazine devoted to Sathya (Truth), Dharma (Righteousness), Shanti (Peace) and Prema (Love) - the four cardinal principles of Bhagawan Baba's philosophy. It is published from Prasanthi Nilayam (the Abode of Highest Peace) and acts as a mouthpiece of Baba's Ashram as it speaks of the important events that take place in His sacred Abode, besides carrying Divine Messages conveyed through Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The word meaning of Sanathana Sarathi is the 'Eternal Charioteer'. It signifies the presence of the Lord in every being as the atma guiding their lives like a charioteer. It implies that he who places his life, the body being likened to a chariot, in an attitude of surrender in the hands of the Lord, will be taken care of by the Lord even as a charioteer would take the occupant of his chariot safely to its destination. The magazine is an instrument to disseminate spiritual knowledge for the moral, physical and mental uplift of humanity without any discrimination as the subject matter discussed therein is always of common interest and of universal appeal. The fifteen Vahinis - streams of sacredness - known as the Vahini Series comprising annotation and interpretation of the Upanishads and other scriptures, Itihasas like the Ramayana, the Bhagavatha and the Mahabharata, and authentic explanations on Dhyana, Dharma, Prema, etc., have been serially published in this magazine as and when they emanated from the Divine pen of Bhagawan Baba. This magazine is published in almost all Indian languages, English and Telugu from Prasanthi Nilayam and others from respective regions. Every year Sanathana Sarathi comes out with a special issue in November commemorating the Divine Birthday. The English and Telugu magazines are posted on the 10th and 23rd respectively, of every month, from Prasanthi Nilayam. This magazine has wide, ever increasing circulation in India as well as abroad, as the study of it brings the reader closer to the philosophy of the Avatar in simple understandable language THUS SPAKE SAI... Discoursing during the launch of Sanathana Sarathi... From this day, our Sanathana Sarathi will lead to victory the cohorts of truth - the Vedas, the Sastras and similar scriptures of all faiths, against the forces of the ego such as injustice, falsehood, immorality and cruelty. This is the reason why it has emerged. This Sarathi will fight in order to establish world prosperity. It is bound to sound the paean of triumph when universal Ananda is achieved.

Seeing God
Seeing God

Author: Hans Boersma

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 0802876048

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Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award in Theology/Ethics (2019) To see God is our heart's desire, our final purpose in life. But what does it mean to see God? And exactly how do we see God--with our physical eyes or with the mind's eye? In this informed study of the beatific vision, Hans Boersma focuses on "vision" as a living metaphor and shows how the vision of God is not just a future but a present reality. Seeing God is both a historical theology and a dogmatic articulation of the beatific vision--of how the invisible God becomes visible to us. In examining what Christian thinkers throughout history have written about the beatific vision, Boersma explores how God trains us to see his character by transforming our eyes and minds, highlighting continuity from this world to the next. Christ-centered, sacramental, and ecumenical, Boersma's work presents life as a never-ending journey toward seeing the face of God in Christ both here and in the world to come.

The Interface of Science, Theology, and Religion
The Interface of Science, Theology, and Religion

Author: Dennis Ngien

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1532643365

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In celebration of Alister E. McGrath's sixty-fifth birthday in 2018, this Festschrift aims to highlight him as a lauded scholar, who exemplifies an interface of science, theology, and religion. It comprises works by McGrath's theological allies and colleagues from diverse ecclesial homes including Graham Ward, Oliver Crisp, Tony Lane, Sung Wook Chung, Randall Zachman, Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Jonathan Wilson, Jeffrey P. Greenman, Robert Kolb, Sister Benedicta Ward, Michael Lloyd, Bethany Sollereder, and Patrick Franklin. Critical but appreciative is the posture with which these contributors engage the wide range of McGrath's own scholarly pursuits and publications. This volume, edited by Dennis Ngien, covers these themes that are central to the life and witness of the church: atonement, Christology, Trinity, eschatology, mission, Reformation, science, nature, culture, evangelism, and theodicy--there is much to ponder and reap here. Readers will join with the contributors and pay tribute to McGrath who has risen to a life of significance as a scientist turned theologian, professor, author, Christian apologist, and churchman.

A Vine-Ripened Life
A Vine-Ripened Life

Author: Stanley D. Gale

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1601783442

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The grace that stimulates the fruit and maturity of a sanctified life comes to us through Jesus Christ. We bear much fruit only as we abide in Him. In A Vine-Ripened Life , author Stanley Gale points us to Jesus, the Vine of life of John 15, in whom we, as branches, must live and grow to bear the fruit of a grace-grown life. He explains, “Having begun in Christ we remain in Christ, continuing to draw our life from Him and maturing in grace.” With pastoral sensitivity and an engaging style, Gale teaches readers both about the fruit of Christian character and how to cultivate it. Questions at the end of each chapter make this an ideal study for individuals or groups.

The Birth of Kirtan
The Birth of Kirtan

Author: Ranchor Prime

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13:

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A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Life
Life

Author: Elvis C. Foster

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 166244687X

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This book, to some extent, is perhaps a strange cocktail, a book about life observations written by a computer scientist, occasionally pulling from philosophy and often drawing from Scriptures. The observations included in this small volume are attempts by the author to understand this very complex thing called life. It includes his observations about people, the world, and life. In sharing this work with the public, it is the author’s hope that the reader will travel with him through the various topics included to the discovery that there is more to life than just the mundane activities of survival that we often get obsessed with. The book consists of thirty-one short topics touching on issues such as love, decision-making, human tendencies, race relations, life as a teacher, family and society, friendship, good versus evil, truth versus falsehood, psychological prisons, stewardship, knowledge and enlightenment, human communication, test of character, and love. The book begins and ends with a focus on the very pertinent and important issue of love. The intent and objective of the author is to inspire additional thought, reflection, and in some cases research on the topics covered. It is also hoped that as readers contemplate the various topics discussed, they will find their points of equilibrium on these issues.

Beyond an Angry God
Beyond an Angry God

Author: Steve McVey

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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How would your life change if you really believed and could even feel that God is absolutely crazy about you? Steve McVey’s penetrating new look at the transforming power of God’s grace leads you to that change. Steve unpacks the biblical revelation of the Trinity as a loving relationship, and he highlights the goal of history: God intends to include us in that circle of love! Steve answers troubling questions that can keep you from fully sensing God’s love, acceptance, and forgiveness, such as… Why does God look like a bad cop in the Old Testament and a good cop in the New Testament? At Calvary, was the Father angry at the Son? Is He ever angry with me? Why do I sometimes feel separated from God, abandoned, guilty, and ashamed? Theologians have described the Trinity as perichoresis—a dance. Are you ready to be swept into the Father’s embrace?