Spiritual Seasons
Spiritual Seasons

Author: Evon Horton

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0768446201

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gods supernatural work often follows a seasonal pattern. If youre not careful, you can miss the seasonal processes of the Spirit, and the blessings that accompany them. These seasons impact everything in life: relationships, workplace, and connection with God. If you are to flourish in every season, its vital to recognize and partner with the flow of Gods work. Spiritual Seasons will help you discern Gods unique seasonal movements and align yourself with Him, so that you can receive every promise and provision released by His supernatural grace. In this inspiring message, Dr. Evon Horton helps you to recognize what season youre in, embrace Gods specific path for this time, and flourish in His abundance no matter what circumstances youre encountering. Learn to navigate each spiritual season: Winter: stand fast and prepare for breakthrough. Spring: see the promises of souls. Summer: position yourself for miracles. Fall: anticipate Heavens provision and blessing. God has a good plan for every season of your life. Partner with Heaven and watch His purposes unfold!

In a High Spiritual Season
In a High Spiritual Season

Author: Joan Chittister

Publisher: Liguori Publications

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780892437757

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

Spiritual Rhythm
Spiritual Rhythm

Author: Mark Buchanan

Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

Published: 2010-08-24

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 031041329X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Abide in me," Jesus tells us, "and you will bear much fruit." Yet too often we forget that fruit needs different seasons in order to grow. We measure our spiritual maturity by how much we do rather than how we are responding to our current spiritual season. In Spiritual Rhythm, Mark Buchanan replaces our spirituality of busyness with a spirituality of abiding. Sometimes we are busy, sometimes still, sometimes pushing with all we've got, sometimes waiting. This model of the spiritual life measures and produces growth by asking: Are we living in rhythm with the season we are in? With the lyrical writing for which he is known, Mark invites us to respond to every season of the heart, whether we are flourishing and fruitful, stark and dismal, or cool and windy. In comparing spiritual rhythms to the seasons of the year, he shows us what to expect from each season and how embracing the seasons causes our spiritual lives to prosper. As he draws on the powerful words of Scripture, Mark explores what activities are suitable or necessary in each season--and what activities are useless or even harmful in that season. Throughout the book, Mark weaves together stories of young and old, men and women, families, couples, and individuals who are in or have been through a particular season of the heart. As Mark writes, "I pray that this book meets you in whatever season you're in, and prepares you for whatever seasons await. I pray that it helps you find your voice, your stride, your rhythm, in season or out. Mostly, I pray that you, with or without my help, find Christ wherever you are. And that, even more, you discover that wherever you are, he's found you."

To Everything a Season
To Everything a Season

Author: Bonnie Bowman Thurston

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-03-26

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1592446299

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The fruit of her determined prayer for a way to give her spirit time to catch up, this pithy reflection on the qualities of time will introduce highly respected biblical scholar, professor, pastor, widow, friend, and author Bonnie Thurston to a wider audience - everyone who is time-pressed and deadline pressured. The news is good: Time is the creation of a generous God who always provides not only the bare essentials, but usually a feast. As the writer of Ecclesiastes mused: For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. It is with her trust in this abundance that Thurston explores the mystery of time and the rediscovery of the Judeo-Christian understanding of time as God's sacred and bountiful gift. She looks at time from both a historical and a theological perspective; she studies seasons as measured by the liturgical cycle, the monastic day, the jubilee year, and the Sabbath; and she ponders the meaning of time participles - familiar phrases such as finding time, making time, spending time, and marking time. With her encouragement, the reader will discover that there is enough time - if we redeem the time by reclaiming the Sabbath, the time built into the rhythm of creation by God for rest and re-creation. 'To Everything a Season' offers reflection exercises to help us understand both how we think about and how we use time, as well as suggestions for ways of making Sabbath in the midst of our own crowded lives. The result is an invitation and a recipe for living in the present moment, in God's eternal Now.

Seasons of a Woman's Life
Seasons of a Woman's Life

Author: Lois Evans

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2013-01-23

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0802484204

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Are you afraid that . . you'll never reach the end of dirty diapers? You'll never be free of carpool duty? Your teenager's rebellion will never end? The empty nest is just a little too empty? Fear not, seasons change. You blink twice and find yourself in another situation. Maybe longing for the "old days" or maybe grateful for the freshness of a new season. But like it or not, the seasons will come, each in its sequence and each in its own time. Using lively examples from her own life and those of other women - including Esther - Lois Evans challenges you to to discover the purpose of your life and to depend on Him as He teaches the lessons of each season. In this book, you will find helpful priniciples, recognize familiar emotions, and take to heart encouraging promises from the pages of God's Word. In this edition a new chapter on the grandparenting season has been added. And to help you dig deeper - whether alone or with friends - chapter study questions are included.

Spirituality in Season
Spirituality in Season

Author: Ross Thompson

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2008-12-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1853118923

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

We are used to making Lent a special time for renewal, but much less has been written on the other seasons of the year. This resource explores the traditions that have shaped each season, the lectionary readings, and the liturgies observed across the ecumenical spectrum.

Winter
Winter

Author: Gary D. Schmidt

Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1893361535

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Contributors include: Basho, Will Campbell, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, Donald Hall, Ron Hansen, Jane Kenyon, Jamaica Kincaid, Barry Lopez, Kathleen Norris, Henry David Thoreau, John Updike, E.B. White and many others.

--This Season's People
--This Season's People

Author: Stephen Gaskin

Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780913990056

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A pocket book of spiritual teachings collected from talks given by Stephen, co-founder of The Farm in Tennessee, explaining the common ground of the great religions and how to follow their teachings in order to change oneself and change the world. Includes photographs of The Farm community life in the '70s.

A Season for the Spirit
A Season for the Spirit

Author: Martin L. Smith

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781596280069

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Spiritually hungry readers who want to breakthrough to a deeper experience of prayer and want practical help for Lent need look no further than to Martin Smith's A Season for the Spirit. Originally commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1991, A Season for the Spirit provides forty daily meditations for Lent, leading us on a journey of discovery in which we find that Christ, through the Spirit, embraces every aspect of our humanity. Each meditation concludes with a prayer and passage of scripture or quotation for further reflection and study. While it aims to assist a daily practice of personal prayer, it is also widely used by groups who pledge to meet regularly so that members can share their thoughts, reactions, and spiritual experiences.

A Season of Mystery
A Season of Mystery

Author: Paula Huston

Publisher: Loyola Press

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 082943755X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

We live in a culture that tells us there are few things worse than aging, that we should avoid aging at all costs, and that we must shun death. And yet, no matter how much money we spend on health supplements, no matter how many gurus we consult, the fact remains unchanged: We will grow old. In A Season of Mystery, 60-year-old Paula Huston—a grandmother, and also a caretaker for her own mother and for her in-laws—shares with readers a far more fulfilling way to approach how we live and how we think about the second half of life. Each chapter offers a spiritual practice that is particularly suited to nurturing us in ways we would never have recognized in our younger lives. For example, the practice of “listening” helps us quit superimposing our own take on every situation before we have a chance to hear and see what is truly there; the practice of “delighting” encourages us to notice and be thankful for what is small and seemingly insignificant. Each of the 10 practices serves as an antidote to the classic afflictions of old age, such as close-mindedness, complaining, and fear of change. A Season of Mystery is not intended to be a selection of self-improvement secrets; the goal of Huston’s work is to encourage people in the second half of life to become “ordinary mystics” who are no longer bound by the world’s false ideas on aging but instead be freed by God’s grace to embrace the riches that come only with growing older.