Oswald Chambers approaches the teachings in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on the Mount with the same tender and compassionate voice that all of his books convey. Many describe this book as awe-inspiring, and even though this work has also been described as a challenging, insightful, profound and edifying read, his ability to “translate” the passage in a relatable way is commendable. Born in 1874 to a devout family in Aberdeen, Scotland ...
Originally published in 1913, This treatise on how to connect and communicate with God includes Father Rene’s thoughts on how to pray, prayers and meditations, public prayer, even some instructions for children’s first prayers. It’s an excellent guide to practice, and reflects on the importance of beginning and ending each day in communion with God, as well as reflections on finding the beauty of God through our daily interactions with the secul ...
How do you feel when you see a yellow caution sign that reads “Church Ahead?” Is it a place of potential answers and guidance, or a stumbling block, holding you back? In Church Ahead , Bruce Epperly, pastor, professor, and adventurous pilgrim looks about what this sign could mean. He looks at the kinds of spiritual practice that a congregation can embrace in order to be renewed themselves, and restore their mission to those around them who a ...
This handy book contains a guide to constructing a sermon. With many priceless tips on the development, relevance and structuring of a message, this book will be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of any preacher. Everything about sermon construction is examined with perception and insight: the beginning the conclusion, and how to prepare for preaching. No one can preach without preparing their own inner life. Sangter preached his most mov ...
The author of this volume Is one of the pioneers of the new historic era and the changing social order in the Nearer East. He is entitled to this distinction not because of direct political activity, or of any strenuous role as a social reformer, but because of those fifty-three years of missionary service in the interests of religious uplift,, educational progress, social morality, and all those civilizing influences which now by general consen ...
Art Greco is discovering that God kills and the devil gives life — that Christ is in the business of destroying and Satan is in the business of sustaining. While God seeks to kill that which should not be allowed to live in us, Satan tries to breathe life into it. Perhaps that’s why he finds himself addressing God in a rather strange way when he prays lately, using a much less common title, his dominant title in a dying man&am ...
Author Howard Barry Schatz, a computer specialist, classically trained composer, and music theorist, has spent the last 40 years deciphering the riddles within monotheism’s oldest and most mysterious sacred text, the Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation). These are the only writings attributed to the great patriarch Abraham by the Orthodox Jewish community, and within that community they are the seminal writings on monotheism and Kabbalah. In his ne ...
In Koch's Solitude, both solitude and engagement emerge as primary modes of human experience, equally essential for human completion. This work draws upon the vast corpus of literary reflections on solitude, especially Lao Tze, Sappho, Plotinus, Augustine, Petrarch, Montaigne, Goethe, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Proust."Koch uses the work of philosophers, historians, and writers, as well as texts such as the Bible, to show what s ...
In this provocative volume two important scholars of religion, Huston Smith and Henry Rosemont, Jr., put forth their viewpoints and share a probing conversation. Though the two diverge considerably in their accounts of religious faith and practice, they also agree on fundamental points. Huston Smith, author of the important work The World’s Religions, has long argued for the fundamental equality of the world’s religions. Desc ...
