Renewing Your Wedding Vows
Renewing Your Wedding Vows

Author: Sharon Naylor Toris

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307490130

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Say “I do” all over again with significance and style Whether this is your chance to have the wedding you always wanted, you’re celebrating a milestone anniversary, or you simply want to reaffirm your commitment to each other, the renewing of your vows is an important symbolic step in your relationship. Celebrated wedding planner Sharon Naylor helps you make your second time around your best yet. Renewing Your Wedding Vows provides valuable guidance on how to: ?phrase your invitation ?choose appropriate attire and flowers ?incorporate children into the ceremony ?decide about gifts and registries ?write your vows ?plan the logistics of the proceedings ?choose your location: ballroom, beach, your home, and more...

The Everything Wedding Vows Book
The Everything Wedding Vows Book

Author: Don Lipper

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-11-17

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1605507695

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Writing personalized wedding vows is a wonderful way to make the big day that much more special. Packed with ideas, insights, and inspiration, this completely revised third edition helps you declare your love in a uniquely personal way. This book features information on how to develop meaningful, personal wedding vows, incorporate a favorite song or poem, get family members involved, include children, and more! For extra fun, this book also includes celebrity wedding vows and great love lines from the movies. This is the only book you need to create the perfect statement for their new life with their partners.This edition includes completely new material on: ethnic vow traditions from around the world, vows incorporating holidays and nature, and vows for same-sex ceremonies.

A Practical Wedding
A Practical Wedding

Author: Meg Keene

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0738246735

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A companion to the popular website APracticalWedding.com and A Practical Wedding Planner, A Practical Wedding helps you sort through the basics to create the wedding you want -- without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day is not so much how it looked as how it felt. In this refreshing guide, expert Meg Keene shares her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship. You'll discover: The real purpose of engagement (hint: it's not just about the planning) How to pinpoint what matters most to you and your partner DIY-ing your wedding: brilliant or crazy? How to communicate decisions to your family Why that color-coded spreadsheet is actually worth it Wedding Zen can be yours. Meg walks you through everything from choosing a venue to writing vows, complete with stories and advice from women who have been in the trenches: the Team Practical brides. So here's to the joyful wedding, the sensible wedding, the unbelievably fun wedding! A Practical Wedding is your complete guide to getting married with grace.

Time to Build
Time to Build

Author: Joy Punnoose

Publisher: Word Alive Press

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1486619673

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A very timely book for the days in which we are living. A great heart check for churches, leaders, and all Christians to function in line with our calling. A must-read for all! —Rev. Dr. Hank Kanters A helpful book from the leader of one of Asia’s most dynamic missions! Time to Build is full of practical insights into effective ministry… —Rev. Doug Wagley In this encouraging survey of the book of Nehemiah, Dr. Joy Punnoose challenges us to build our lives on the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit… —Dr. Steve Lombardo Rebuilding is hard work—just ask Nehemiah! In his life, Nehemiah felt a burden, a purpose, and so he left a house of royalty and fulfilled it! His passion, vision, enthusiasm, drive, determination, and innovative ideas make an excellent blueprint for the leaders of the Church today. In Time to Build, Pastor Joy Punnoose offers practical advice on leadership using examples from both the life of Nehemiah and his own vast experience in leadership. Remember, with God’s help you too can rise to the challenge of becoming a dynamic and godly leader.

The Vow
The Vow

Author: Ed Gungor

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1418536547

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In his first release since the best-selling There is More to the Secret, Ed Gungor challenges the church to return to authenticity and community. Over and over again in scripture Christians are encouraged to "make vows to the Lord" (e.g., Psalm 76:11). Is it possible that making vows-- intentionally inserting various Christian practices into our lives-- would have great value to 21st-century Christians? What if we thoughtfully and publicly articulated vows before God and those we love? Would it help our lives take on the tone of the eternal? Has something been lost in the openness of the 21st century? The answer is yes! Gungor says: "Vow-making is an old trail that was very familiar to the ancients who have gone before us, but is virtually unknown for we moderns. As I have wandered down this path, it has been both intriguing and empowering, and, on another level, just plain dangerous. But I really think it's leading somewhere. That's the why of this writing."

The Life of the Vows
The Life of the Vows

Author: Thomas Merton

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 0879070307

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As novice master of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton presented weekly conferences to familiarize his charges with the meaning and purpose of the vows they aspired to undertake. In this setting, he offered a thorough exposition of the theological, canonical, and above all spiritual dimensions of the vows. Merton set the vows firmly in the context of the anthropological, moral, soteriological, and ecclesial dimensions of human, Christian, and monastic life. He addressed such classical themes of Christian morality as the nature of the human person and his acts; the importance of justice in relation to the Passion of Christ, to friendship and to love; and self-surrender as the key to grace, prayer and the vowed life. Merton's words on these topics clearly spring from a committed heart and often flow with the soaring intensity of style that we have come to expect in his more enthusiastic prose. The texts of these conferences represent the longest and most systematically organized of any of numerous series of conferences that Merton presented during the decade of his mastership. They may be the most directly pastoral work Merton ever wrote.

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Author: Michael Carasik

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2011-08-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0827609213

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For the first time, Miqra'ot Gedolot is available in an accessible English edition. First published 500 years ago as the "Rabbinic Bible," the biblical commentaries known as the Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nahmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers. Each page of The Commentators' Bible contains several Hebrew verses from the book of Exodus, surrounded by both the 1917 and 1985 JPS translations and new English translations of the major commentators. This large-format volume is beautifully designed for ease of navigation among the many elements on each page, including explanatory notes and selected additional comments from the works of Bekhor Shor, Hizkuni, Abarbanel, Sforno, Gersonides, and others. - Publisher.

A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up
A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up

Author: Michael V. Fox

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1608994961

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Pervaded as it is with pessimism, paradox, and a multitude of contradictions, Ecclesiastes has long been one of the most difficult books of the Bible to understand. As this study demonstrates, however, it is precisely these contradictions that make Ecclesiastes so meaningful and so powerfully relevant to life in the world. By looking carefully at the language and thought of Ecclesiastes, as well as at its uses of contradictions in probing the meaning of life, Fox confronts the problems that have confounded interpretation of this biblical book. He shows that by using contradiction to tear down holistic claims of meaning and purpose in the world and rebuilding meaning in a local, restricted sense instead, the author of Ecclesiastes shapes a bold, honest-and ultimately uplifting-vision of life. Based on solid scholarly insight yet readable by all, Fox's work provides some of the best commentary available on this challenging section of Scripture.

Vows in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Vows in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Author: Tony W. Cartledge

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1992-11-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781850752981

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Vows, oaths, and curses are all quite separate enterprises in the Bible, and especially in the Old Testament. Unfortunately, the writings of many modern scholars fail to indicate these distinctions. This well-argued book elucidates the distinctive nature of vow-making in the Old Testament milieu, setting it in proper relief against the background of other declaratory statements. The first chapter provides a general introduction to the subject and clarifies the often confused practices of oath-taking and vow making as commonly found in the Hebrew Bible. The remainder of the study refines and defends these distinctions, exploring similar means of assertion in the ancient Near East, and suggesting such theological and literary implications as may result.