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Bill Atwood relates how life lessons he learned as a young boy from his Grandfather, Brigadier General James Arthur Pickering, became the basis for using Scripture, and, more recently, brain science to respond to various emotions we all experience in life. He demonstrates how this knowledge can help us walk in the joy that God intends us to have.

In this small book, Bishop Bill Atwood relates some of the instances when he heard the "voice" of Jesus leading, guiding, and protecting him in different situations, with the hope that the reader will learn, too, how to hear from Jesus.

Most discussions of Revelation focus on the seven letters or the prophecy, or both, with little attention given to the first chapter. In this book, the author looks intently at the first chapter of Revelation, in which John describes his encounter with the risen and glorified Lord Jesus Christ. Using various Scriptures and illustrations from life, she explores how John's salutation and doxology, which include implications about the Triune God, and his narrative, which describes the figure who appeared to him on the isle of Patmos, are relevant to today's Christian.

This book provides an understanding and practical application of the Spiritual Journey as presented by St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila. The author uses his personal experience and insights provided by his spiritual director, who described the spiritual journey as a "spiral whereby we pass through the same spiritual regions several times at different levels while we move closer in union with Christ." He carefully explains elements of the spiritual journey that Christians will recognize in their own pilgrimage. The book examines landmarks in stages described as the pre-purgative way, the purgative way, the illuminative way, and the unitive way, providing explanations for many of the questions that baffle, and often defeat, Christians as they struggle to understand events in their lives that seemingly make no sense but that God is using to conform them to the image of Christ.

The author looks at several significant aspects of the Christian faith that are crucial to understanding one's relationship with Jesus Christ and how the Scriptures testify of Him. Beginning by explaining the work of Christ in the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper, aspects of the Gospels, he next addresses the importance of the Book of Acts in making a transition from Jesus' words to the epistles and in comprehending the birth of the Church. He then provides a glimpse of the biblical covenant in nuptial terms, followed by demonstrating how the Gospel is, ultimately, the message of the Old Testament, and how Jesus is the fulfillment of the priestly office of the long-awaited Messiah. In the last two chapters, he moves on to practical life issues by describing the spirituality of different faith traditions and comparing two major declarations of the Faith . . . once delivered.

This study guide sets forth a means to use the Psalms and Proverbs in a personal or group study on prayer. It has six topics, each of which has explanations for the passages selected, questions to answer, Scriptures to memorize, and an opportunity to compose a prayer for group or personal use. The intent of this guide is to provide a practical introduction into using the Psalms for personal prayers.

This book is an introduction to living in the Kingdom of God here and now, instead of just waiting to inherit it in the future. When Jesus taught, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as in heaven," He intended us to pray, work, and long for things on earth to become like they are in heaven. This book seeks to help people make progress in living that out.

Where are sustainable possibilities of peace with justice to be found in Israel-Palestine, tragically divided as it is between two peoples and three faiths? In the face of continuous, entrenched cycles of conflict can one maintain both a sense of perspective and a stance of realistic hopefulness? This book addresses the key issues embraced by those profound questions in thoughtful, practical ways. Gathering together dispatches and commentary over a period of nearly twenty years from international lawyer, independent diplomat and engaged ecumenist Dr Harry Hagopian, Keeping Faith With Hope blends experience and insight in often-unexpected ways. By interweaving the political, the personal and the spiritual, the author opens up new paths for understanding what is going on in Israel-Palestine and how we might engage more fruitfully with the region in the future. Here is both a testament to hope and a living exemplification of it.

A message that can no longer be ignored…Drawing on the personal experience of survivors of abuse and their allies, Letters to a Broken Church speaks directly into the existential abuse crisis facing the Church of England and other Christian denominations right now.Its powerful message is that the structures, leadership, practices and culture of the Church must change radically to face up to the historic scale of abuse within its institutions at all levels.The clear requirement for transparency and accountability after decades of evasion and denial is also highlighted in these essays, along with the need to make proper recompense to those whose lives have been impacted.Contributors to Letters to a Broken Church include a serving bishop, a well-known newspaper columnist, several theologians and others from public life - but principally people in the shadows whose voices and experience as survivors have frequently been pushed aside, marginalised or silenced within the Church.Here is a searingly honest, multi-voice call for action and redress that can no longer be ignored.

Quietness and conflict, life and death, place and memory, politics and pity, friendship and peace. In Words Out of Silence, Jill Segger weaves a tapestry of poetry and prose that takes us on journeys of personal transformation set against (and responsive to) the backdrop of turmoil in the world around us. The common ground of the words in this book is silence, and specifically the silence of the Quaker Meeting. This is the source of its deep humanity: something that will appeal both to those who see themselves as 'religious' and those who do not.

Among the many causes of anxiety in today's world are global concerns to do with social and economic inequality, the imperative of sustainable development, and the link between the damage we are causing the natural environment and climate change. These raise human - that is, moral and spiritual - questions about who we are, our destiny, how we can be helped to flourish, and what we hope for.Hope Rediscovered is about being re-oriented in the face of such challenges. Bishop David Atkinson, who has an abiding interest in Christian ethics, pastoral theology and science, has put some key questions to the Gospel of John - a text which says much about human flourishing ('life in fullness'), and which draws heavily on Wisdom themes from the Hebrew Bible about understanding our human place in creation, and about practical living.Like his followers, Jesus was beset with conflicts within 'the world'. The first-century Christian community, to which the Gospel was first addressed, discovered how to live hopefully in the way of Wisdom, energized by God's Spirit. The focus of this timely book is deep, practical wisdom for a troubled world.