Search Results
Showing 541 - 550 of 2849 results
PaperbackBecoming an Ordinary Mystic
Spirituality for the Rest of Us
by Albert Haase OFM
I should be further along on the spiritual journey. Why don't I see any progress? What am I doing wrong?
Do you ever feel like you are walking in spiritual circles? While we might think it would be different for aFranciscan priest, Father Albert Haase shares the same struggles. And yet he also affirms that we are all called to be ordinary mystics, who, in the words ...
PaperbackA Spacious Life
Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits
by Ashley Anderson Hales
We're told that freedom and opportunity are our ticket to the good life. Get out there and follow your dreams! Be the hero of your own story! Find your happiness! Live your best life! It seems that limitless possibilities await anyone with vision and willingness to hustle their way through life.
The thing is, instead of resulting in a sense of accomplishment, this ...
PaperbackThe New Friars
The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor
by Scott A. Bessenecker
Finalist, Fourth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year
Vows—exclusive promises or commitments—are almost unheard of these days. They're considered a quaint relic of times past when open options were not such highly regarded virtues. But many people in this commitment-averse culture are begging for someone to set the bar higher, to call them to higher levels ...
PaperbackYearning
Living Between How It Is and How It Ought to Be
by M. Craig Barnes
Does God want us fulfilled?
Popular psychology says we should be fulfilled. Advertisements tease us with dozens of ways we can be fulfilled. Many preachers and book promise Christian fulfillment.
But in this surprising (and surprisingly liberating) book, Craig Barnes suggests we weren't created to be whole or complete. With a fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, he says that ...
PaperbackBoth-And
Living the Christ-Centered Life in an Either-Or World
by Rich Nathan
With Insoo KimIt's an Either-Or world. We find ourselves caught between competing factions, secular or religious, conservative or liberal. We are pulled between extremes on one side or the other. But the Christian faith holds together seemingly contradictory ideas: Jesus is both human and divine; God is both three and one. There is a paradoxical power in the both-and. Rich Nathan and Insoo Kim show how Christians ...
PaperbackMiracle Work
A Down-to-Earth Guide to Supernatural Ministries
by Jordan Seng
We are a supernatural people. Made in the image of God and called to follow a risen Lord through the world God made—we're anything but normal.Given all that, it should not be surprising to us when miraculous things happen in our midst. Still, manyof us are intimidated at the thought of it, and we stop short of trying so we won't disappoint God with our lack of faith, or—if we're being honest—so ...
PaperbackDeep-Rooted in Christ
by Joshua Choonmin Kang
Foreword by Richard J. Foster
Read by Feodor ChinCome. Accept pastor Joshua Choonmin Kang's invitation to walk slowly, paying attention to God's work in you and around you, to walk intentionally, using spiritual disciplines to develop Christlike character, and to walk purposefully, experiencing deeper grace and vision. In this book you'll encounter fifty-two brief readings, ideal for weekly sabbath reflection or daily ...
PaperbackPower and Poverty
Divine and Human Rule in a World of Need
by Dewi Hughes
Foreword by Christopher J. H. WrightAuthor and theologian Dewi Arwel Hughes's conviction is that the suffering, through poverty, of such a vast number of people in our day is overwhelmingly the result of the misuse of power by others. In this wide-ranging, challenging book he unpacks a convicting thesis: that poverty has to do with the way in which we human beings use and abuse the power God gave us when he created us.Hughes challenges ...
PaperbackYour Mind Matters
The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life
IVP Classics
by John Stott
Foreword by Mark A. Noll"Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service," writes John Stott. "If we do not use the mind which God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality."While Christians have had a long heritage of rigorous scholarship and careful thinking, some circles still view the intellect with suspicion or even as contradictory to Christian faith. And many non-Christians are quick ...
PaperbackFasting
Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites
by Lynne M. Baab
"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God." Matthew 5:6 The MessageWe live in hungry times. Ours is a consumer culture, predisposed to quickly fill the cravings of body and mind. The idea of fasting--the voluntary denial of something for a specific time, for a spiritual purpose--sets us immediately on edge. But Lynne Baab makes the case that anyone can fast.Fasting ...
