God, Art, and Other Random Thoughts - 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 God, Art, and Other Random Thoughts write by Timothy Ryan. This book was released on 2019-08-22. God, Art, and Other Random Thoughts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Random Thoughts about God
Random Thoughts about God - 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 Random Thoughts about God write by Bishop W. Ralph Mangum. This book was released on 2010-05-06. Random Thoughts about God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mangum provides some thought-provoking answers to some of the many day-to-day, contemporary problems most people, Christian and non-Christian alike, face. This is not a one-size-fits-all compilation of ideas or solutions. The text offers plausible solutions to many problems.
Deep Thoughts
Deep Thoughts - 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 Deep Thoughts write by Jack Handey. This book was released on 1996-09-05. Deep Thoughts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of inspirations for the uninspired, this work offers an antidote to the meaningful muses of the New Age. Designed for the natural born cynic, it contains thoughts on children, literature and losing your keys.
Thought for the Week: Random Thoughts on Pastoral Care
Thought for the Week: Random Thoughts on Pastoral Care - 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 Thought for the Week: Random Thoughts on Pastoral Care write by Rabbi Harry D. Rothstein DMin BCC. This book was released on 2024-04-20. Thought for the Week: Random Thoughts on Pastoral Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Random thoughts on pastoral care. Every person derives the meaning of their lives from relationships with specific people, faith, work, leisure, family, an unfinished task or a discipline such as science, politics, drama or the visual arts to name only a few. These are spiritual resources that give meaning to the patient's life. Meaning usually refers to how the patient made a large or small difference in the life of others or in the world at large. When a person falls ill or is dying, these meaning making relationships or activities are lost or have become distant or strained, creating a crisis in the meaning of the life of the patient. It is the task of a chaplain or a pastoral care giver to encourage the ill or dying patient to discover or rediscover those sources of meaning that have been lost or from which the patient feels distant. These sources may be family relationships, life events, unfinished tasks, spiritual practices, real or unfinished work related tasks, or real objects in the patient's life from which the patient derives meaning. When a pastoral care giver or chaplain enters a patient's room, after following infection control protocols, the chaplain carefully listens to what the patient says about why the patient is in the hospital, what resources of meaning are available or not available and how the patient can reestablish those relationships while in hospital. The chaplain may derive spiritual interventions such as prayer, meditation, ritual objects, encouraging visits by important people in the patient's life, engaging in life review with the patient or simply encouraging hospital staff to be in contact with the patient who may feel left alone. This is the task of pastoral or spiritual care givers.
Rebuilding the Temple
Rebuilding the Temple - 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 Rebuilding the Temple write by Robert P. Vande Kappelle. This book was released on 2022-04-21. Rebuilding the Temple available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the Bible indicates, our lives are a construction zone, for our bodies are temples of the divine Spirit. Formed initially in the image of God, human beings lost intimacy with God through corruption, rebellion, or neglect. In response, the divine Creator loves us back into relationship, providing means of grace to help restore us to wholeness, beginning with our body and continuing through our mind, soul, and spirit. As buildings need cleaning, maintenance, and ongoing care, so our inner temple needs spiritual stimulus, cleaning, and care. Rebuilding the Temple is the fourth book in Vande Kappelle’s series on spirituality and the arts. Books in this series reinforce the essential principle underlying all authentic spirituality: “Go deep in any one place and you will meet the infinite aliveness that is God, for God is everywhere!” Whereas earlier books consider the connection of spirituality with creative arts such as poetry, film, music, theater, drama, dance, and modern literature, this volume takes readers on a journey through classic Christian literature, beginning with the Bible and continuing through inspirational works written by diverse spiritual mentors such as Augustine, Dante, Luther, Calvin, Teresa of Ávila, George Fox, Blaise Pascal, Henri Nouwen, A. W. Tozer, John McLaren, John Shelby Spong, Richard Rohr, and Marcus Borg. Reading their works reminds us that Christian literature is most practical and inspirational when it takes a narrative approach to theology, interpreting the spiritual journey through the ongoing stories of people and communities rather than trying to capture timeless truths analytically or through rational argumentation. Like its companion texts, Wading on Water, Deep Splendor, and Deeper Splendor, this volume is useful for individual or group study. Each chapter concludes with questions suitable for discussion or reflection.
