There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link prenatal and perinatal experiences to the origins of these unconscious underpinnings of our shared images of God. The book poses a ground-breaking paradigm by thinking about our earliest images of God, whether theist or atheist, within a psychoanalytic framework, comparing and contrasting the thought of Freud and Rizzuto. It looks at the issue of images of God from a diversity of psychological perspectives including, attachment theory, developmental theory and bio-psychosocial perspectives. This analysis leads to the conclusion that in parallel to postnatal findings, uterine and birth experiences can predispose individuals to form God representations later in life, through underpinning affective and environmental factors. This is a bold study of the development of one of humanity’s most fundamental aspects. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of the psychology of religion, psychology, psychoanalysis, religious studies and early infant development.
Pregnancy and childbirth are often depicted as a time of sickness and mood swings for women followed by twelve to twenty hours of pain and hard labor. Many women have been told they can never conceive. Others have suffered the pain of conceiving and miscarrying. Have you had enough of this picture? Supernatural Childbirth is a practical...
A modern classic--revised with more than 70 percent new material--is based on seven Scriptural realities that teach Christians how to develop a true relationship with the Creator.
Rich, soul-inspiring practices for moms who have neither quiet nor time. Dirty laundry, crayon-smeared bills, and smashed crackers . . . And there’s your Bible—buried under a pile of diapers. Bleary-eyed from lack of sleep, without a moment of peace and quiet, you wonder if the spiritual life you crave is even possible. But God sees you. He designed this parenting journey, after all. He understands the chaos of motherhood. And he joins you in everything—whether you’re scrubbing the floor, nursing a fussy newborn, or driving to soccer practice. Catherine McNiel invites you to connect with God right here, in the sacred mundane of every mothering moment.
What you believe about God sets the foundation of the person you will become. In God Has a Name, pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites you to rethink many of the prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what you believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person you become. We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways. God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to understanding God in a new light--focusing on what God says about himself in the Bible. This one shift has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way. John Mark Comer takes you line by line through Exodus 34:6-8--Yahweh's self-revelation on Mount Sinai, one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, Comer addresses some of the most profound questions he came across as he studied these noted lines in Exodus, including: Why do we feel this gap between us and God? Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him? What if our "God" is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires? What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine? No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, God Has a Name invites you to step into a fresh and biblically rooted vision of who God is that has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.
The Bible reveals glorious things. And yet we often miss its power because we read it the same way we read any other book. In Reading the Bible Supernaturally, best-selling author John Piper teaches us how to read the Bible in light of its divine author. In doing so, he highlights the Bible's unique ability to reveal God to humanity in a way that informs our minds, transforms our hearts, and ignites our love. With insights into the biblical text drawn from decades of experience studying, preaching, and teaching Scripture, Piper helps us experience the transformative power of God's Word—a power that extends beyond the mere words on the page. Ultimately, Piper shows us that in the seemingly ordinary act of reading the Bible, something supernatural happens: we encounter the living God.
What is God trying to do through your skin and bones? Spiritual director Tara Owens invites you to listen to your thoughts about your body in a way that draws you closer to God, calling you to explore how your spirituality is intimately tied to your physicality. Your body is not an inconvenience—it is a place where you can meet the Holy in a new way.
“For God alone my soul in silence waits....” In these reflections on Psalm 62 Margaret Guenther provides the foundation for a time of reflection and retreat without ever leaving home. The book’s first chapter introduces us to ways of making a retreat wherever we are, at a place apart or in the midst of our daily lives. Guenther then offers eight meditations on Psalm 62, with its themes of waiting on God’s presence with patience, trust, and expectation. She explores the images the psalm evokes of longing, silence, waiting, safety, enemies, and God as a rock and refuge. As in all her books, Guenther finds new ways to explore these ancient themes with the wit and practicality of an accomplished storyteller. These eight meditations can be read consecutively over the course of a single day or weekend, or spaced over time with periods of reflection in between. Each meditation ends with ideas for further prayer and pondering. My Soul in Silence Waits is one of our series of Cowley Cloister Books: smaller format, gift edition books designed for meditative and devotional reading.
The Mystery of Seeing God with My Own Eyes is written by Delton Richardo Woolcock through the Holy Spirit, as the Spirit gave me the conviction to the truth of my heart and life experiences to See GOD with my very own eyes. My spiritual vision of the Holy Spirit appeared to me in the Vancouver Revival Center Church, Australia mission church, headed by pastor Nat de Panama. During my time with the church, God had blocked my memory of seeing him with my own eyes, 'til year of 2019. As it says in the Bible, "God spoke to prophets by the way of a dream and visions" (Numbers. 12:6). God spoke to me by an awakened trance vision and not in a dream or under any narcotic influences. The vision of The Mystery of Seeing God with My Own Eyes came to me in 1990! This story is not fiction but a detailed record of events that led me to the church where my naked eyes and ears were unblocked to experience communication with God and visual appearance of GOD as an atmospheric man form without any sexual definition. This story of seeing God with my own eyes is based on a true story! It is truly amazing and a true story that I Delton Richardo Woolcock saw GOD with my own mortal eyes! This is what a man must do to save his Spirit from judgement of underworld city of hell. Hell is the place where God sends the spirits for punishment of their sins after they die. The mind of the spirit is not the same as the mind of the physical conscious person. We are not aware of our selves living in sub conscious mind dream life experience within ourselves. I am because I experienced my inner child spirit communicate with me while I was in a dream. That is how I know the mind of our spirit is not the same as God's nor our own spirit within our own subconscious mind. The physical conscious mind of a man ends at death. It is disconnected from GOD's mind and GOD wants our evil physical mind gone or no more. That is why we do not hear GOD's voice in our heads. GOD is not a father to us in life and will not be to us in death. The bible says GOD is not the GOD of the dead. This is truth that you must at some point come to that truth either while you are alive or while you are dead. All religious believes that the soul lives on after death is false. All evidence of life does not support we ARE LIVING ON OUTSIDE OF THE HUMAN BODY. NOR RETURNING AT BABY! At birth we begin at a new innocent conscious and our life experiences shapes our conscious. We do not begin with the old conscious. The only thing is being reincarnated is our Spirits. Many feel they have lived before. This is true by their spirit only, God harness and recanted our spirits only not our outer external conscious mind. "Love, in all things you do, you do it by love" (1 Cor. 16:14) must be obeyed at all times. Without the expression of love for one another, our faith becomes workers of sin and dead. This is my one and only commandment I live by, "LOVE". I exhort you to follow in love only and do that which is right in your own eyes and no one else's eyes. OH, yes! You must obey the law of the land too or you will end up in a city jail living a horrible locked up experience. That has nothing to do with GOD but your own fault for breaking the law of the land. In accepting my vision, there is no doubt that GOD is he who he claims he is by my story of the, "mystery of seeing GOD with my own eyes". Blessed are you-you are the true body of GOD and do know faith of love in your life. Use grace alone for our sins we do to each other... For this salvation is not of dead works that no man can boast but work of GOD in us. Obedience to God's will is to abide in, "LOVE" ... Thank you for reading, "The Mystery of Seeing God with My Own Eyes!"
