40 Days of Decrease
40 Days of Decrease

Author: Alicia Britt Chole

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0718077075

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What if you fasted regret? What if your friends fasted comparison? What if your generation fasted escapism? What if your community fasted spectatorship? Trigger a spiritual revolution with this daily devotional for Lent. Decrease life's unnecessary details and increase your relationship with the Lord so you can live in awe of Christ's resurrection! 40 Days of Decrease is a guide for those hungering for a fresh Lenten/Easter experience. Dr. Alicia Britt Chole guides you through a study of Jesus’ uncommon and uncomfortable call to abandon the world’s illusions, embrace His kingdom’s realities, and journey cross-ward and beyond. Containing readings, refection questions, daily fasts, ancient quotes, and more, each day offers a meaningful consideration of Jesus’ journey and then invites you into a daily fast of heart-clutter—the stuff that sticks to your soul and weighs you down. You can begin your forty-day journey any time of the year, but you may find it especially meaningful as a Lenten preparation to live in awe of Jesus’ resurrection. Each daily, 1000-word entry includes a: Devotion based on Jesus’ life Reflection question to guide journaling or group discussion Heart fast to inspire a tangible response Thought-provoking Lenten quote Optional sidebar into the historical development of Lent Suggested reading that takes you from John 12 to John 21 Journaling space for reflection In the same way self cannot satisfy self no matter how long it feasts, self cannot starve self no matter how long it fasts. Decrease—like increase—is only holy when its destination is love. Dare to live awed by Christ’s resurrection!

Forty Days to Defeat Your Past
Forty Days to Defeat Your Past

Author: Larry Dugger

Publisher: Charisma Media

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 162998695X

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What is your struggle? A bad habit? Addiction? Unforgiveness? Insecurity? Even when change is in our best interest we resist. We even vilify those pushing us in that direction. The problem, however, is they are not the real villain. The real villain is our behavior. Unbecome everything you were never meant to be. Just as Jesus squared off with the devil in the wilderness, we must square off with our devils. Forty Days to Defeat Your Past is a one-day-at-a-time process that uses the number forty to help readers identify and defeat the destructive patterns of their past. Take on the forty-day challenge and establish new, healthy, fulfilling habits to launch the starting point for you to walk out the life you've only ever dreamed about.

Forty Days
Forty Days

Author: Ken Snyder

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-12-16

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1666733784

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If you cry and laugh within one of the essays in this collection, don’t be surprised. Real stories, observations, rants should evoke emotion. Ideally, they should also warrant deposit into the inner “Hmm . . . box” we all have inside our heads. The messages herein span everything from the author’s first encounter with God through a decision to bequeath his body to science after two unforgettable Irish wakes. In between are encounters with a pedophile priest, a remarkable homeless man who found a life of purpose in homelessness, and a man the author sent to prison. There is also an encounter with God on a golf course; time in a church cult; the inevitable mountaintops and painful tumbles from them with family; love lost and love found; death on the “installment plan” and much more. Forty Days is pointing us toward the light. The essays are points on the author’s life path, but yours as well. Discover, as you look into your own heart through the author’s, faith, faithlessness, hope, loss, restoration, blessing, you.

Forbidden Music
Forbidden Music

Author: Michael Haas

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 0300154313

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DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div

Make Miracles in Forty Days
Make Miracles in Forty Days

Author: Melody Beattie

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1439102163

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We've all had situations in our lives that seem beyond our control or that have no clear remedy. In this concise, inspirational guide, bestselling self-help guru Melody Beattie shows us that we have the ability to make a miracle for almost any circumstance we're facing. She offers a distillation of what she knows about gratitude, surrender, and connecting with our essential power. She challenges us to be more present each day and details a six-week action plan, the Miracle Exercise, to jump-start transformation in our lives.--From publisher description.