101 Reflections on Faith and Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 101 Reflections on Faith and Life write by Paul F. Soderquist. This book was released on 2008-05-19. 101 Reflections on Faith and Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get ready to slow down, settle into a favorite chair, and spend some time growing closer to God. This book is filled with 101 inspiring, uplifting, and sometimes heart-wrenching reflections on scripture readings and life experiences. Original poetry, prayers, writings, photographs, and lyrics all come together as one soul's expression of faith. Written by a Christian, Presbyterian pastor for anyone on the journey of faith, church members, religious leaders, pastors, seminarians, and spiritual directors. Draws upon the practice of contemplative prayer, the use of lectio divina (holy reading of scripture), and engagement of the imagination when meditating on scripture.
Marriage 101
Marriage 101 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marriage 101 write by Jewell R. Powell. This book was released on 2009-02. Marriage 101 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using biblical examples, reflection questions, and Scripture meditation, Powell challenges those who want strong and healthy marital relationships to lay a spiritual foundation from which to grow.
101 Reflections
101 Reflections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 101 Reflections write by Dennis G. Lynn. This book was released on 2008-10. 101 Reflections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 101 Reflections, Dennis Lynn has adapted his teaching style to the written page. He uses personal experiences and simple illustrations to teach biblical truth dealing with everyday life experiences and challenges. His purpose is to challenge, encourage, comfort, and entertain the reader. For the first twelve years of his professional life, Dennis Lynn worked as a teacher and a coach on a secondary level in the public schools of South Carolina. For six of those years he had the opportunity to work under the leadership of a high school coaching legend in South Carolina, Coach Willie Varner. Coach Varner said, "I do not care how much you know or how well you can draw plays on the board. All I care about is how much you can teach the young men under your direction." This proved to be a valuable lesson Dennis took with him into ministry. From the beginning of his ministry, Dennis realized people in the pew were not interested in how much he had learned in seminary or how vast a theological vocabulary he had. They wanted someone who could take the Word of God and present it in a manner they could understand and apply in their daily lives. For thirty years, Dennis has faithfully provided this type of teaching.
Reflections on Life
Reflections on Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflections on Life write by Richard Elliott. This book was released on 2021-03-16. Reflections on Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 12In Reflections on Life, the author shares a journey, a very personal journey, that includes his struggle with addressing two provocative questions once lifted in prayer by St. Francis of Assisi: "Who are you, oh God, and who am I?" The reader will discover how the author's journey transformed him from a nonpracticing, nominal Christian to a committed follower of Christ whose faith grows stronger with each new day. This book is divided into two sections, each of which provides revealing insights on how the author ultimately found answers to the essential questions posed by St. Francis centuries ago.Section 1 ("Who Am I?") offers a biographical background that focuses on both who and what helped the author deal with life's challenges and influenced him to develop a firmly grounded belief system. This belief system evolved from an "I know all the answers and need no one" perspective to one that acknowledged "I do not have all the answers and am dependent on others to solve life's inevitable problems."Section 2 ("Living a Christian Life is Not Easy: Spiritual Journey") focuses on the author's spiritual journey and how one must learn to give up some of their secular ways. Changing secular ways requires both a willingness to change and hard work. One must learn to forgive oneself and others, stop being judgmental, realize that it is not about them, and put God first in everything and know that God is always with them. This section shares the author's plan and model for success. Our life journeys provide countless challenges and endless opportunities. How we respond to what life brings our way will in large measure determine our ability to be successful in dealing with what we experience. May all who read Reflections on Life find something that supports them with their journey through this life.
Relationships
Relationships - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relationships write by George A. Nye. This book was released on 2003-02. Relationships available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "Relationships" column has run in the Medford Mail Tribune each Wednesday for fourteen years. It started when I received an advertisement in the mail offering to sell the church a series of daily thoughts which we could run in the local newspaper. That gave form to an idea I had been reflecting upon for some time. I did not want to merely advertise the presence of Eastwood Baptist Church; I wanted to give a gift to the community in the name of Eastwood. The result was the weekly "Relationships" column. We could not anticipate how popular it would become. Some people attended the church as a result. Occasionally I would be called to the home of someone who was dying, and had no pastor, but claimed me, through faithful reading of that column. Over the years, that column has hung on many refrigerator doors, has been collected in scrapbooks, and has been mailed around the country to friends and relatives of regular readers. The column was named "Relationships" because that word seems to best describe the Christian Faith. When Jesus was asked which is the greatest commandment, He gave it in terms of three relationships: God, others, and self -- relating us upward, outward, and inward. What He said was, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your of your soul and with all of your mind and with all of your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself'" (Mark 12:30-31 NIV). Occasionally readers have written notes of appreciation, or called on the phone to tell how helpful a thought, or a new twist on an old concept or story, has been. I am appreciative of those who have taken time, through the years, to express their thoughts. Some of those individual columns have been included as devotional meditations in two books on worship that have been published. Now, I have compiled one hundred and one out of more than seven hundred of those devotional thoughts in this book, in the hope that you will find these spiritual observations helpful as a daily devotional and guide for further reflection.
