We're meant to live in such ongoing satisfaction in Jesus and transformation by Jesus that others are drawn to Him through us-and all without joining a convent, hauling our sleeping bags to church, or barricading ourselves in the bathroom with our Bibles and prayer journals. The truth is that we can invest in all those religious activities and still be God-starved refugees going through the motions unless we learn how to trust Jesus to do i ...
Etwas auf dem Herzen haben, fur ein Anliegen leben, einen echten Unterschied machen – wer wunscht sich das nicht? Ein Leben, in dem es um mehr geht als mich selbst, ist ein gutes Leben! Aber wie finde ich (m)eine Vision? Und wie kann ich sie umsetzen? Was hei?t es, Verantwortung zu ubernehmen? Und welche Rolle spielt Gott in dem Ganzen? Das biblische Buch Nehemia setzt sich mit all diesen Fragen auseinander. Es erzahlt uns eine Geschichte von j ...
Das wichtigste Buch der Menschheitsgeschichte sowie das zentrale Schriftwerk des Christentums, komplett in diesem umfangreichen Werk. Kein anderes Buch wurde so oft gedruckt und hat die Religion und Kultur der westlichen Welt so beeinflusst. Jetzt als Horspiel. Die Bibel erzahlt die Geschichte der altesten Beziehung, die der Mensch je hatte: der Beziehung zu Gott. Das Alte Testament ist der erste Teil dieser dramatischen Schilderung, beginnend m ...
William Langland's «The Vision of Piers the Plowman» has been described as one of the most analytically challenging texts in Middle English textual criticism. Of the fifty plus surviving manuscripts, of which some are only fragments, from this 14th century allegorical narrative poem none of these seem to be in the author's own hand or can clearly be linked to each other. The current scholarship on the work suggests that ultimately ther ...
"Gitanjali", or Song Offerings, is a collection of poems translated by the author, Rabindranath Tagore, from the original Bengali. This collection won the Nobel prize for Tagore in 1913. This volume includes the original introduction by William Butler Yeats that accompanied the 1911 English language version. «Gitanjali» is a collection of over 100 inspirational poems by India's greatest poet. ...
Actually published in 1908, Dowling asserted that he had transcribed this work from Akashic records, which gave a detailed account of the life of Jesus. The title was derived from an age determined by constellations, adding an astrological meaning with an appellation that indicated the Age of Aquarius. «The Aquarian Gospel» has been deemed an apocryphal work, despite the fact that it was written and published recently, noticeably later than most ...
"Sadhana: The Realisation of Life" is Rabindranath Tagore's excellent collection of essays on the subject of Indian spirituality. Tagore's objective in this work was to give the reader an understanding not only of the scripture but as to the practice, as he writes, «So in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touch with the ancient spirit of India as revealed in our sacred texts and ...
Written in 1525 in response to the writings of Erasmus, «The Bondage of the Will» conveys Luther's beliefs on the issue of free will during the Protestant Reformation. Because of the fall of man, he debates with Erasmus on whether or not human beings are free to decide on good or evil. He asserts in this well written and uniquely styled work that we are incapacitated by sin, and human beings must rely on the complete sovereignty of God to r ...
Philo, known also as Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, and Philo the Jew, among other names, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria from 20 BC to 50 CE. Philo's works are most known for being allegorical interpretations of the Scriptures, fusing Jewish thought to Stoic philosophy. Although not widely accepted in his time, his vast collection of works had a powerful influence on early Christian theology and especially ...
