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Faithful
Christmas Through the Eyes of Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
From his beginnings as a humble carpenter to his all-important role as the earthly father of Jesus Christ, Joseph's place in the nativity story is sometimes overlooked but contains valuable lessons for all of us. Join Adam Hamilton as he examines Christmas through the eyes of Joseph. Absent from much...
Sacred Journey
Daily Reflections for Lent 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Sacred Journey is an ideal Lenten companion. Designed for daily use, this booklet offers the details of each day’s Scripture readings along with a related reflection and brief prayer. This Lent, let Sacred Journey guide you as you travel the road to Jerusalem and to the celebration of new life at Easter!
by Warren J. Savage, Mary Ann McSweeny
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Helps identify the barriers in our lives that block the peace and healing of Jesus. Prayers and reflections for the weekdays of Lent complement Sunday prayers and reflections for all three liturgical cycles. Concludes with several suggested practices for the Easter season.
This deluxe pamphlet...
The Real Story of Christmas
Compiled from the Scriptures and Authoritative Historical Sources
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Has the real meaning of Christmas become lost? How do you bring the true meaning of the holiday back to the season?
In an era when Christmas has become little more than a frenzy of exhausting and expensive consumerism, many Christians are searching for a way to reclaim the deeper meaning of...
Christmas Is Not Your Birthday
Experience the Joy of Living and Giving like Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Every year, we say we’re going to cut back, simplify, and have a family Christmas that focuses on the real reason for the season—Jesus. But every year, advertisements beckon, the children plead, and it seems easier just to indulge our wants and whims. Overspending, overeating, materialism, and...
The Real Picture
A Collection of Advent Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Christmas is a paradox. We are bombarded with many reminders to be jolly yet for many it is the most depressing time of the year as another year end reminds us of unresolved problems and unfulfilled dreams. And if you are a Christian you are just jaded from the many Christmas seasons you have gone...
Love Came Down
Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
“Easter Day is the center and crown of the Christian year, but no season of that year provides us with richer material for meditation than Advent and the twelve days of Christmas.” So writes Christopher Webber in this thoughtful and inspiring collection of meditations from the most gifted Anglican...
Advent Awakenings
Daily Devotions for the Season of Advent, Year B
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book is a gift to help us step off the frenetic treadmill that the Advent season too often becomes. Its help comes by enabling us to listen deeply each day to the Advent scripture readings and John the Baptist's repeated Advent call to "prepare the way" for the holy babe who is coming.
by Mark Fredericksen
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
"He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves." (Col. 1:13, HCSB)
During the forty-seven days between Lent and Easter, Christians are called to walk along the path of faith with Jesus Christ, experiencing challenge and triumph...
This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith.
The...
Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room
Daily Family Devotions for Advent
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
How many Christmas mornings have you found your family gathered around the tree with presents beautifully wrapped and a scrumptious feast on the table, but with hearts that have not been prepared to truly take in the wonder of God become human? Not this year. Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room, a family...
by Brofsky, David
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The dynamic Jewish calendar provides constant religious challenges and spiritual opportunities. It allows us to focus on the birth of our nation, our travels in the desert, our relationship to God, and the giving of the Torah. Through the in-depth study of the Torah and the halakhot of the moadim,...
by Ely Roque Sagansay
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Thanksgiving Every Day will help you look at life in a different way, take you to Gods pathway, and compel you to celebrate Thanksgiving Day in the right way. This book will lead you to live a life with gratefulness in the midst of the complicated world we live in. Thanksgiving Every Day will help...
by Sheen, Fulton J.
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2001
Analyzes the relation between the seven recorded words that Mary spoke in the Gospels and seven last words of her Son as He hung on the cross. Offers solace for the fears and dilemmas of today's Christian by interpreting the Gospel from the intertwined perspective of Mother and Son.