Ritual Practices category: 1070 books
Piety in Song
Spiritual Themes in Brethren Hymnody
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Hymns are lasting expressions of faith and worship.
Hymns in German piety were written to serve as meditations and to teach individuals how to become better followers of Jesus.
This volume examines the thinking and influences which shaped the hymns which the Brethren chose to write and...
Brim
Creative Overflow in Worship Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Worship Leader Magazine's 2013 Editor's Pick for Service planners category.
BRIM opens your eyes to creative, artistic worship possibilities. Inside you will find ways to engage your team, worship templates to launch the creative process, and encouragement for the solo worship planner.
BRIM combines...
by Joseph M. Staudacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2001
Create An Embargo On Embarrassment With the GuideFew things are more publicly embarrassing than stumbling over a word during the readings at Mass. Avoid a fiasco by learning the correct pronunciation of hundreds of biblical names with Lector's Guide to Biblical Pronunciations, Updated. This...
by Tom Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Tom Gordon introduces us to people who have been helped to live until they die, or to live through bereavement when they felt it was never going to be possible, or to live with illness and suffering and problems which threatened to overwhelm them completely. As well as hearing some of their stories,...
by Ceil Rosen, Moishe Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Bitter herbs, salty water, a sweet apple mixture, the shankbone of a lamb--what is the meaning behind these symbolic elements? Enter the celebration of Passover, rich with history and significance for both Jew and Gentile. God wasn't finished working in the lives of His people after the waters of...
Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy
A Study in the Circulation of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The debate over the Lord's Supper had momentous consequences for the Reformation, causing the division of the evangelical movement, influencing the formation of political alliances, and contributing to cultural differences among the Protestant territories of Germany and Switzerland. Karlstadt and...
Let It Shine!
The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
by Matthew Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
On the Study of Celtic Literature
by Matthew Arnold
The following remarks on the study of Celtic Literature formed the substance of four lectures given by me in the chair of poetry at Oxford. They were first published in the Cornhill Magazine, and are now reprinted from thence. Again and again,...
by Michael O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Come explore the miraculous with "Miracle Hunter" Michael O'Neill!O'Neill, a graduate of Stanford University, member of the Mariological Society of America, and host of the television series "Miracle Hunters", takes you on an amazing tour of miracles large and small, and answers some of our most...
by YOUCAT Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
“It simply does not work any other way: When you want to give Jesus room in your life, you cannot do without reconciliation ("confession").” The YOUCAT Confession book is a practical guide created to take away undue anxiety about the Sacrament, and to show how it works. It came about...
The Worship Mall
Contemporary response to contemporary cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Religion is in competition with the leisure and entertainment industries. The postmodern generation is open to spirituality, but young adults have not been born into faith communities that embrace them fully and command their allegiance over a lifetime. Studies suggest that for the young, belief in...
The Power of Music
God's Call to Change the World One Song at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Music can either Connect You to God or Drive You to the Devil.
God created the human race to enjoy music and to make music, and through music the world has been dramatically changed—for good and for evil. In this fascinating book Michael L. Brown takes the reader on a journey through...
Mary and the Art of Prayer
The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary and the Art of Prayer, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of comprehensive historical scholarship,...
Majesty
Experiencing Authentic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How long ago was your last life-changing experience? This morning? Last week? Can't remember? In these pages are scriptural principles to guide you into a genuine worship experience. Of course you know whom to worship, but what about why, how, and when? And what does the Bible have to say about the...