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Beginning Again
Benedictine Wisdom for Living with Illness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
In 1995 Mary Earle was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis. When she was able to return home, she still faced a long recovery. She had to stay in bed most of the time, and eating was difficult some days. The busy life she had always known was gone, and she had to begin again. Like others who suffer...
Living Well through Lent 2015
Practicing Resilience with All Our Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
From Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday, Living Well through Lent 2015 provides daily readings and suggestions for reflection and action, inviting you to engage fully in your Lenten journey—with heart, soul, strength, and mind. Throughout the year, the Living Compass Faith & Wellness Ministry...
by Urban T. Holmes III
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
“Our goal is the Kingdom, the completion of God’s creative vision, and we are God’s hands in bringing that vision to pass,” wrote Urban Holmes in Spirituality for Ministry, originally published in 1982. But, Holmes warned, ministers who are not rooted in the intimate knowledge of God will...
Do This, Remembering Me
The Spiritual Care of Those with Alzheimer's and Dementia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
• 5 million+ in the U.S. live with Alzheimer's, 5.5 million caregivers provide 17.7 billion hours’ unpaid care (2013) • Key resource of practical tools/real-life applications for spiritual and physical dementia ce “What do I do to help?” Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death...
Joy in Disguise
Meeting Jesus in the Dark Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
How can Paul rejoice when he’s got nothing to rejoice about? How can he talk about joy when he’s in prison? This book follows Paul as he writes to his friends in Philippi, helping us to understand his experience of joy as a totally consuming emotion. Paul highlights four reasons why joy fills...
Walking in Valleys of Darkness
A Benedictine Journey through Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
How do we deal with and attempt to understand God’s presence and overarching love for us when life goes wrong, when we encounter difficulties and tragedies? This noted Benedictine monk and priest shares his personal journeys through troubled times, using the discipline of meditating on single words...
Resurrecting Easter
Meditations for the Great 50 Days
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
American Christians have forgotten the Easter season. We celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on one day and then we return to ordinary time. But Christ appeared over and over again for forty days in resurrected form. We cannot sustain this resurrection season because that kind of sustained joy overwhelms...
Another Brush with God
Further Conversations about Icons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This is the sequel to the author’s previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of the new book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy...
A Brush with God
An Icon Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God’s reality in a visible–and breathtakingly beautiful–way. This ancient art is enjoying a renewed interest in the West, as people of faith create icons and use them to meditate...
by W. H. Vanstone
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
We set great store by activity and busy-ness. We want to be 'in control'. We value what we 'do' more than who we are. So when we become ill, or retire from work, or suffer an enforced period of inactivity, our self-esteem is threatened. We evade, repudiate, or resent experiences of passivity, of waiting....
What Is Your Practice?
Lifelong Growth in the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The goal is to help readers to strengthen their relationship with the Holy. Sixteen chapters present a variety of foundational Christian ascetical practices, translated into contemporary idiom. Instead of relying on imperatives and fixed answers, the intent is to attract readers to experiment with...
Preferring Christ
A Devotional Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The Rule of St. Benedict continues to attract those who seek to live a deeper life, connected to Christ. But with such an ancient text, how can we authentically engage St. Benedict’s Rule in a manner that is true to its profound insights—and to our own spiritual journey? Norvene Vest suggests...
Faithful Generations
Effective Ministry Across Generational Lines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Faithful Generations provides a hopeful and helpful guide to the different adult generations alive today, discussing the events that formed them and the issues important to them. Most importantly, it describes their spiritual distinctions—the particular needs, gifts and concerns that drive these...
God with Skin On
Finding God's Love in Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
You may be the only Jesus some people will ever meet! Suppose that the 2:00 am feeding of your infant daughter was not just meeting a physical need but also was teaching her that God’s provision could be trusted? And suppose her cries for succor were also teaching you to respond to the cries of...