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Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9781853114793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA best-selling liturgical resource that now covers the calendars of all four Anglican provinces in Britain and Ireland.
Author: Brother Tristram
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2013-01-03
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 1848253656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains information on public worship, private devotion, and connecting us with our spiritual heritage. This work offers a resource for Eucharistic worship on all festivals and feast days. It provides prayers and Scripture readings for each day of the calendars of four national Anglican provinces.
Author: Michael Counsell
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1848250592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annual favourite, the CANTERBURY PREACHER'S COMPANION provides a total of 150 complete sermons for the coming year, with hymn suggestions. For each Sunday of the year there are two sermons based on the Principal and Second Service lectionaries, plus a section of sermons for special occasions - Mothering Sunday, Harvest, baptism, marriage, funerals - and for all major saints' days. In addition, it offers at-a-glance summaries of the Bible readings, seasonal introductions, a full colour liturgical calendar and hymns suggestions throughout the year. The sermons are complete and ready to use, or can be used as a base for local adaptation. A boon for hard-pressed clergy and preachers everywhere.
Author: Simon Ponsonby
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0781403669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Be holy as I am holy," says the Lord. It's the most extravagant--and audacious--invitation ever sent: Or in the words of Jesus: "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." But can that really happen? Is holiness an achievable goal for sinful human beings? That's the ultimate focus of this thoughtful, thorough, and engaging study of what it means to be holy. Drawing on the Bible and Christian thinkers through the ages, Simon Ponsonby affirms that because of God's gracious love and desire for communion with us, he has done what is possible for us not only to pursue holiness, but to achieve it. While we can never count on attaining moral perfection in this life, we need not settle for less than increasing victory over sin. And as more and more Christians choose to partner with God in the ongoing process of sanctification, we set the stage for revival.
Author: Elizabeth G. Bryson
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2022-03-16
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 166426003X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engaging read encourages deep reflection and active response; exploring the deep Biblical meaning of the 50 titles of Mary in the Litany of Loreto; discovering their symbolic meaning and relevance in our lives, so we grow closer to God. Reading this will help you grow into a closer relationship with Jesus, increase in Biblical knowledge as well as develop in understanding and appreciation of his Mother Mary, through focusing on her titles. We discover that Mary points us to Jesus, saying at the wedding at Cana ‘do whatever he tells you’ (John 2:5). There is no other book that explores all these titles of Mary.
Author: John Ball
Publisher: Puritan Publications
Published: 2016-08-19
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1626631859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBall said, "No Christian can exempt himself from this duty of meditation unless he intends to live unprofitably to others, uncomfortably to himself, and disobedient against God." Hear one of his instructions on how to meditate: "O! heavenly Father, I heartily desire to follow You wherever You shall lead me, to do what You shall command, and to cleave to You as long as I live. But I find the flesh rebellious, soliciting daily, yes, and violently hailing to those things that are evil. Ah, miserable wretch that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? You, Lord, are only able, and willing to promise help and succour. To You therefore do I fly. I pray You have mercy on me in Jesus Christ, and repair the lost image of Yourself. Your hands have made me, and fashioned me; give me understanding, and I shall live. You created me pure, You can restore me, though corrupt. Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me. Breathe into me the Spirit of Life, and establish me in the way of Your precepts. Heal my soul, for I am defiled, and cause me to grow up into the perfect stature of a spiritual man. I have wounded my soul, but cannot cure it, defaced Your image, but cannot fashion it anew. Look on my misery, dear Father, forgive my sin, and make me a new creature for Your infinite mercy, begin in me this good work, and perfect it to Your praise; in You do I trust, to You I seek for grace, for in You the fatherless find mercy." Ball divides this work into three areas: 1) what meditation is and its importance, 2) what occasional or extemporary meditation is, and 3) what solemn meditation is. Serious theological thinking is fundamental to all right Christian doing. Ball will show that godly meditation is a commanded, necessary and a spiritual help to the Christian being a vital component of a Christian living to God. In other words, everyone that names the name of Christ is required to meditate for God’s glory and their benefit. There is no duty more neglected among Christians than this duty of meditation. Therefore, you should not only read over this work, but live it over. If you would be blessed in all your enterprises or concernments with the blessings of God, (Joshua 1:8), if you would have your understanding enlightened with the knowledge of God, your affections inflamed with the love of God, your heart established with the promises of God, your solitariness cheered up with the company of God, your afflictions mitigated with the comforts of God, and if you would have your thoughts, words and works regulated by the command of God, pray and consider, pray and meditate. This is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated in modern English for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
Author: C. Matthew McMahon
Publisher: Puritan Publications
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1626632251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is nothing like the Reformed Apprentice workbook series anywhere in the Christian community. It is designed to bring Reformed Theology to Christians seeking a deeper walk with Jesus Christ in the form of a workbook, not simply a text to read. In old England, an apprentice was a novice who engaged in a covenant with a tradesman to learn a particular trade. A workbook of this kind for today’s Christian, was created to engage the student of the Bible to be apprenticed under the historical pastors, theologians and teachers of Reformed Theology. As the Christian learns and grows in Christ through the Bible, they mature into a Reformed Apprentice. As with each of the workbooks in this series, its purpose is to guide the Christian into a deeper knowledge and relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, as he has revealed himself to the church in his Word and by his Spirit through the centuries in Reformed Theology. Cultivating a relationship with Christ takes work; and every Christian is commanded by God to have communion with the Father, through Christ, in the power of the Spirit. How powerful is your devotional life? This volume specifically covers the three spiritual disciplines which make up private devotions in bible reading and study, prayer and godly meditation. It extensively quotes the Reformers, the Puritans, and Reformed theologians from various ages in order to aid the Reformed Apprentice in coming to a knowledge of what truly constitutes biblical private devotions as taught in Scripture, Reformed Theology and the Reformed Faith.
Author: Richard Bowker
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 161417377X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFather Al Bernardi, S.J., has a problem. He gave sanctuary to the one man all the world wants to see—an alien from Numos. The aliens wanted him back because he alone can reveal the location of their homeworld and the secret of faster-than-light travel. The UN is all for giving him back to prevent a retaliatory alien attack. The world at large wants peace, at any cost. Father Bernardi merely wants to save a life… so he calls his friend at the Vatican. And all hell breaks loose! REVIEWS: "Highly involving… combines a good mystery with the agonies of a well-meaning people." ~Library Journal "The pace and style of a top notch suspense thriller." ~Science Fiction Review "Thought-provoking…" ~Dragon Magazine "Spellbinding… The strengths of this book are many." ~Kliatt OTHER SCIENCE FICTION TITLES by Richard Bowker Replica Dover Beach (The Last P.I. Series, Book 1) The Distance Beacons (The Last P.I. Series, Book 2) OTHER TITLES by Richard Bowker Senator Summit Pontiff Marlborough Street ABOUT RICHARD BOWKER: Critically-acclaimed author Richard Bowker has published a variety of novels including science fiction, mysteries and thrillers. When he isn't writing, Richard enjoys offering thoughts on writing, reading and learning at www.richardbowker.com
Author: Emma Ineson
Publisher: SPCK
Published: 2022-12-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0281087857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A superb book on failure . . . humorous, realistic and absolutely not judgemental.' JUSTIN WELBY In 2019, Emma Ineson wrote about ambition and what it means for Christians to be successful. And then there was a global pandemic . . . Suddenly failure began to feel very much more familiar than success. But what is failure? What did Jesus think of it? What did he say about sin, mistakes and generally mucking things up? At the start of this wonderfully humorous and encouraging book - which will end at the cross - it's suggested that our tendency to lump all kinds of failure together could be a bit unhelpful. A more nuanced understanding of what sort of failure we're dealing with might just allow us to make friends with it and respond more appropriately. This idea leads us 'Towards an (Imperfect) Theology of Failure', based on key Christian thinking, and Emma poses the question of whether sin is an individual or corporate thing. Looking at the church, we consider, what is God's purpose for it? And in the light of key concerns such as safeguarding and racial justice, how might we re-examine concepts of success and recognize and measure failure? As the book draws to an end, we are reminded of our calling to live life to the full, to take risks despite our fears. We are bound sometimes to fail! Yet gazing at Jesus - who looked like the greatest failure of all - we may discern in the heartache, vulnerability and humility of failure, the glory of the cross.
Author: David T. Strain
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 160178743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo know that we are not alone, to come to depend on one another, and to work together for the good of the lost and the glory of God—these are vital needs of the church in every age, but perhaps especially today. The letter of Paul to the Philippians, written amid suffering, yet ringing with joy, calls for precisely this kind of Christian unity. In this expository commentary, David T. A. Strain develops the apostle’s theme that the life of a Christian is incomplete and immeasurably weakened when lived apart from the fellowship of the whole church. Strain not only provides a faithful explanation of the epistle to the Philippians but also shows the contemporary relevance and urgency of its message.
