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The Ancient Pathways of Heaven is more than a book; it's an invitation to heavenly exploration by faith.For those who know that Holy Spirit dwells within them; for those who know the Father and are covenanted to Jesus and willing to enter the heavenly realms through Him as the gate...The Ancient Pathways of Heaven beckons explorers of faith.This captivating book takes us on a spiritual journey with Jeremy Friedman as he explores the heavenly realms by faith. Each chapter recounts Jeremy's personal encounters, painting vivid pictures of Jesus, men and women in white, and other heavenly beings. These encounters bring deep revelation as he discovers ancient doors and paths, gates, dimensions, star gates, Destiny Scrolls, the commissioning of angels, quantum shifts, and more, providing readers with rich insights for contemplation. Each revelation gives the reader something to consider. The Ancient Pathways of Heaven will inspire and encourage you to enter the heavens and access the ancient pathways yourself.

Present Comfort is for those who have experienced loss as well as for those who are at a loss to understand the myriad emotions of grief. It offers compassion and encouragement to those who grieve, and insight for those who desire to share in the heart and language of grief. The hope is that Present Comfort will inspire a deeper sense of the presence of God in every circumstance of life.Includes a Guide for individual and group study.

You might be living in a fragile place after loss, pain, or grief. Is excitement in life and fullness of purpose too hard to imagine embracing right now? You are not meant to go through this alone. With a voice of empathy, wit, and vulnerability, Cindy Brinker Simmons will walk you through practical tools and biblical truths that will reconnect you to God, others, and yourself. Restored's message is for anyone who needs: a fresh infusion of hope a gentle reminder of God's love and goodness a healthy dose of inspiring thought and strength to persevere a helpful roadmap to move forward and experience God's plan and purpose an effective way to reconcile and strengthen relationships Restored will help you choose joy in the midst of heartache and hardship. You will be encouraged! All net proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Wipe Out Kids' Cancer (wokc.org) and the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation (mcbtennis.org). "With her faith at the forefront, and through a touching, in-depth account of her own experience, Cindy models how we can triumph over loss and hardship." SARA O'LEARY, University of Virginia women's tennis head coach "Cindy's journey is a roadmap for purpose and peace." JANE McGARRY, "Good Morning Texas" host; National Gracie Award "Best Local Anchor" "Restored is going to change hearts. In such a masterful way, Cindy's compassionate and powerful words provide hope, joy, and faith to a broken world. I love this book!" BILLY DAWSON, Nashville country artist / songwriter / producer

Prayer Wall: Writeable Scripture Art book is uplifting special book featuring scriptures about the peace of God, and space to write in your own prayers and scripture verses.

This book is written for the thinking person who is struggling to believe. It does this by presenting Christianity as a matter of relationships. Good behavior and correct belief do not build relationships, but grow from them. The Bible tells the unfolding story of a relationship given, lost, and reoffered again and again. This is more clear when we begin here, below, where we are, accentuating God's immanence over his transcendence. In such an approach, optional understandings of church teachings become evident, options that are biblically and theologically sound but are seldom offered. There is more than one way to skin a dogma. These alternatives to many teachings provide hope to those outside the church who wish for something more than competition for material possessions, and for those inside the church and struggling to stay. We are socialized into a scientific world view in which there is little room for spirituality. This tension between science and religion is addressed by the presentation of Christianity that is not anti-intellectual, rigid, or defensive. This book shows that we do not need to choose between our worldview and our faith.

This festschrift honors Aloysius Fitzgerald, F.S.C. The essays largely reflect the honoree's interests in the poetic and prophetic material of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near Eastern context of that material. The volume includes an introduction by Joseph Jensen, O.S.B. and the following articles: Leslie J, Hoppe, O.ftM., "Vengeance and Forgiveness: The Two Faces of Psalm 79" (pp. 1-22); Mark S. Smith, "The Poetics of Exodus 15 and Its Position in the Book" (pp. 23-34); Susan F. Mathews, "The Power to Endure and Be Transformed: Sun and Moon Imagery in Joel and Revelation 6" (pp. 35-49); Gregory J. Polan, O.S.B., "Zion, the Glory of the Holy One of Israel: A Literary Analysis of Isaiah 60" (pp. 50-71); Maribeth Howell, O.P., "A Closer Look: Isaiah 35:110" (pp. 72-80); Mark D. Futato, "Sense Relations in the 'Rain' Domain of the Old Testament" (pp. 81-94); John J. Ferrie, Jr., "Singing in the Rain: A Meteorological Image in Isaiah 42:10-12" (pp. 95-104); Irene Nowell, O.S.B., "Psalm 88: A Lesson in Lament" (pp. 105-18); Dale Launderville, O.S.B., "Anti-monarchical Ideology in Israel in Light of Mesopotamian Parallels" (pp. 119-28); Edward G. Mathews, Jr., "Water in the First Creation Account of Genesis I in the Commentary on Genesis of Ephrem the Syrian" (pp. 129-44); Deirdre Dempsey, "The Verb Syntax of the Idol Passage of Isaiah 44:9-20" (pp. 145-56); Alice Ogden Bellis, "The New Exodus in Jeremiah 50:33-38" (pp. 157-68); Lawrence Boadt, C.S.P., "Re-Examining a Preexilic Redaction of Isaiah 1-39" (pp. 169-90).

Huh? What exactly do you mean by that... Harrison Perkins, a senior research fellow for the Craig Centre for the Study of the Westminster Standards, introduces us to some of the main themes of Reformed theology in this addition to the Track series. Starting with its principal foundations - the grace and love of God - Harrison goes on to tackle some of the trickier aspects of Reformed theology, such as predestination. With a clear and comprehendible explanation, he demonstrates how these doctrines apply to the life of the believer. Contents: Why Study Reformed Theology? The Grace of God The Sovereign Love of God The Word of God The People of God The Experience of God's Grace Appendix A: Next Steps Appendix B: Further Reading Appendix C Glossary of Terms Track is a series of books designed to disciple the next generation in the areas of culture, doctrine, and the Christian life. While the topics addressed aren't always simple, they are communicated in a manner that is. With the intention of the content being absorbed, examined and applied, each chapter includes a summary of the main point, and reflection questions that can be used individually, in 1-2-1 mentoring or in a group setting.

Unlike any other time in history, Pastor Rhea Falig believes God is calling the church back into holy alignment. He's cleansing us from mixture and calling His bride to store oil. He's calling the pioneers of His heart to explore a wild, unshakable kingdom, the priests and Levites to be unadulterated and undivided in their affections, and the remnant to return to what He values. Kingdom Pioneers is that mandate.In Kingdom Pioneers, you will receive:Freedom from striving and performance-driven ministry mindsets. Fresh downloads from heaven that will equip, exhort, and edify your life. Healing from trauma and the pain of past rejection. Direction for your unique calling and clarity over your identity. Empowerment to bring Heaven to Earth in your spheres of influence.And much more! Stop striving to build things God never asked for or needed. Jesus really is enough. His yoke is easy, His burden is light, and His banner over you is love. Step into the river as a Kingdom Pioneer and zealously return to the Father's heart.

For some people the idea of enjoying success in life is nothing more than wishful thinking. They believe experiencing success is the fortune of others and erroneously conclude it is far beyond their reach. Some even play "the blame game" to justify their reason for being unsuccessful. They say things like, "I can't get ahead in life because of my ethnicity, pedigree or gender". Others contend, "I can't achieve success because no one will give me a chance".I've got great news for you! Here is your chance. Stop with the excuses. I'm going to help you discover and achieve real success in life through sound, practical principles grounded in Scripture. Once you understand and apply the insights presented in this book, "the good life" will be yours to experience and enjoy. ----A practical, balanced, insightful, and inspirational treatise by one of America's most experienced and successful pastors. A must read for all who are serious about fulfilling kingdom mandates in this unprecedented era of change!-Bishop Harold Calvin Ray

Daily, we are bombarded with messages that our acceptance is earned, our value never exceeds our hustle, and a person's worth never exceeded their net worth. The problem is that these mantras strangle and crush us-in our pursuit of a joy-filled relationship with God.In Enough, Pastors Ben Dailey and Travis Hall dismantle the house of cards of living a performance-driven life to earn God's love. This uplifting narrative will help you:¿Explore and discover the root cause of your striving for God's acceptance.¿Rethink your misperceptions about who God really is and how much He loves you.¿Boldly step into your daily reality . . . that you are enough in Christ!It's time to free yourself from performance-once and for all. Jesus paid that price on the cross so that you wouldn't have to!

Is the armor of God imagery borrowed from a Roman soldier? No-Paul is simply speaking in his mother tongue: the Old Testament. We are a kingdom of priests. To fight, God's priests need a priestly armor.

"This book is an invitation to respond to the prophetic call, stemming from baptism, to promote the dignity of all people based on the belief that each person is created in the image of God, particularly those who suffer racial injustice"--

"This beautifully written memoir is for anyone who has walked a hard road and wondered how to get to the other side. Stephanie Duncan Smith promises that it's not through grit and force that you will find a way forward, but through leaning in to the promises that hold true when all seems lost. Duncan Smith's personal disorientation began when she lost her first pregnancy on the winter solstice's longest night, just as the world readied to celebrate its most historic birth on Christmas. Then a new yet uncertain pregnancy unfolded in parallel to the global pandemic, until one year nearly to the day of her loss, she gave birth to her daughter whose birthday marked the peak of pandemic death in their city. This clash prompted a desperate search for steadiness, in which the liturgical year became an anchoring force. In Even After Everything, Duncan Smith looks to the church's calendar as a way of finding and reorienting ourselves within the sacred story of Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Ordinary Time. The Christian year illuminates a full circle of love, loss, and liminality, holding space for the full spectrum of the human experience. At its heart lives the promise of God-With-Us, inviting us into the spiritual practice of living well by accepting that there is a time for everything, and trusting that in whatever moment we find ourselves, we are never truly alone"--

Healthy tension: Jesus wants to help you find it and live in it.Tension is tough. We don't like it. We try to avoid it. Whether we feel it in a family relationship, a situation at work, or our online interactions, rarely do any of us walk away feeling like it was a win-win. Pastor Jeremy Yancey would like to change that. In his book Good in Tension, he proposes that tension is actually a good thing. It's what makes a guitar sing and provides stable footing for a tightrope walker. A lack of tension, or tension deficit, is where problems actually occur. Without healthy tension, we swing to extremes. On our own, we're prone to extreme reactions to the storms and chaos of life. Let Jesus speak peace in the midst of your storm as you explore what it looks like to stand your ground and be:Focused yet FlexibleHopeful and RealisticConfident and HumbleCandid yet KindJesus is always inviting us back to a centered, surrendered trust in Him. Lean on Him and not your own understanding, and He'll recalibrate your tension deficit.

Healthy tension: Jesus wants to help you find it and live in it.Tension is tough. We don't like it. We try to avoid it. Whether we feel it in a family relationship, a situation at work, or our online interactions, rarely do any of us walk away feeling like it was a win-win. Pastor Jeremy Yancey would like to change that. In his book Good in Tension, he proposes that tension is actually a good thing. It's what makes a guitar sing and provides stable footing for a tightrope walker. A lack of tension, or tension deficit, is where problems actually occur. Without healthy tension, we swing to extremes. On our own, we're prone to extreme reactions to the storms and chaos of life. Let Jesus speak peace in the midst of your storm as you explore what it looks like to stand your ground and be:Focused yet FlexibleHopeful and RealisticConfident and HumbleCandid yet KindJesus is always inviting us back to a centered, surrendered trust in Him. Lean on Him and not your own understanding, and He'll recalibrate your tension deficit.

"An empowering 60-day devotional guiding readers to experience the bold and confident trust that comes from sitting at the feet of Jesus-from the Grammy Award winner, Billboard Gospel Artist of the Decade, and author of Do It Anyway"--

Reclaim your joy with this beautifully designed and thoughtful playbook from the author of the NAACP Image Award winner Black Joy.We have an ancestral mandate to hold not just the pain and trauma of our experiences as Black people, but to hold the joy and love and peace that is also ours.Joy is a weapon, not only for resistance, but also a means for healing—a powerful tool that is all-encompassing and necessary. Black Joy Playbook helps you mine your memories to discover what joy looks and feels like to you and then guides you to re-create it in your present-day life. Divided into themes of joy in the body, breath, tears, laughter, and every day, each of the thirty entries includes the following: • a short inspiration• questions for reflection• a meditation• space for contemplation • suggestions for how to choose joyIt’s time to chase joy and cultivate it from the inside out!

A guidebook on how to live the Trappist charism outside a monastic enclosure.Endorsements"Michael Downey's theological depth enriches, his poetic prose inspires, his prayer pulses through these pages. Every word, each finely chiseled cameo evokes silence, sobriety, and solidarity in everything."--Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization"This slim volume offers a balm for today's frenetic and disconnected soul. An astute cultural observer, Downey shines a revealing light on the 'magnificent distractions' that can impede the spiritual life even as his poetic sensibility draws us ever more deeply into the art of living prayerfully. We are in the safe hands of a wise and perceptive spiritual master."--Richard R. Gaillardetz, Boston College"A guidebook on how to live the Trappist charism outside a monastic enclosure. It was in many ways Charles de Foucauld's own calling. Sobriety healed his soul, silence opened him to the mystery, and solidarity led him to encounter the God who calls us his brothers and sisters. As Michael Downey points out, the three are not signposts to perfection but to increasing our desire for that in which our hearts can rest."--Little Sister Kathleen of JesusDr. Michael Downey has served as professor of theology and spirituality at universities and seminaries in North America and abroad. Author or editor of more than twenty books over the course of an academic career spanning more than forty years, he has remained active in working with enclosed contemplative monks and nuns. He is recipient of three honorary doctorates and was awarded the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal by Pope John Paul II.+

Discover a rich legacy of audacious women who forged a spirituality that is more inclusive, surprising, and empowering than we ever imagined.“The feminist reading of women mystics I’ve wanted for ages . . . invites us into the hopeful possibility for communal healing that we desperately need right now.”—Sarah Bessey, bestselling author of Field Notes for the Wilderness and Jesus FeministIs there a Christian spirituality that embraces the entire reality of womanhood?The answer, Shannon K. Evans suggests, is an emphatic yes. There is a spirituality that meets us in every part of our lives, developed by the women who came before us. Six mystics—Teresa of Ávila, Margery Kempe, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, and Thérèse of Lisieux—revealed a faith big enough to hold the female experiences of sex and desire, the yearning for bodily autonomy, the challenges of motherhood and identity, as well as life with male authority and—sometimes—violence. These women, self-determining, stubborn, and unapologetically themselves, asked questions in their time that are startlingly prescient today, and fought for women’s experiences to be heard, understood, respected, and recognized as holy.In The Mystics Would Like a Word, readers will discover the story of Christian faith and spirituality as told by these extraordinary and wise women, one that speaks directly to today’s unique experiences, and leads to wholeness, healing, and spiritual vitality.

This book of spiritual thoughts is inspired by my daily devotional time with God. He has been my spiritual alarm clock for years. My Wake time usually starts around 2:30 a.m., sometimes a little later. It's that quiet, alone time I read His Word, and he speaks to me. He says to write it down and pass it on. So here are His Words coupled with my thoughts. Let them bless you as they have blessed me. Barbara Gholston is a mother of one daughter, a grandmother of two, and a great-grandmother of three. She is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant who served her country for 24 years, traveling all over the world. She also recently retired from serving the American people as an employee of the Social Security Administration. She now lives in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where she is a dedicated member of Ekklesia Ministries.

Throughout our lives, we are faced with a barrage of decisions and choices we must make. Hopefully, you have been blessed with the wisdom to discern beforehand what the consequences will be as a direct result of the decisions and choices you have made. They will be either good or bad.We will be looking at:WHAT IS FICTION, and WHAT IS FACT?WHAT IS FALSE, and WHAT IS TRUE?WHAT MATTERS, and WHAT DOES NOT?WHAT WILL LAST and WHAT WILL NOT?WHAT TO CLING TO and WHAT TO TRASH.We will look at important subject matters that you will find helpful in living your daily life for Christ.

Matthew: The Place of Faith in the Life of a Family With an Autistic Child by Fr. Louis Fowoyo is a non-fictional, faith-centred book about Matthew, who suffers form autism. His inspiring story embodies hope in the face of hardship.Matthew was born one month premature. He was diagnosed with autism at the age of four. He was non-verbal, with severe sensory and behavioural problems. Even with a whole team of specialists trying to help him, nothing seemed to be working and I was at my wits end.A friend of mine recommended that I take him to a naturopath doctor, who told us Matthew had severe allergies to gluten, dairy, and a few others confirmed by blood work.The doctor recommended a strict diet and supplements. He told us it would take a year to clean him out.Astonishingly, when the year finished, Matthew began to talk. He had fewer behavioural problems, but still had a ways to go.Matthew is now 20 years old, finishing grade 12 by home schooling.He still needs care in areas, but he's a loving, bright man with a great sense of humour. We all love him very much.I recommend to others prayer, love, patience, naturopathic help, and diet.

Do you ever get distracted when you're trying to pray? Do you ever wonder if you're praying the right way? Bestselling author Albert Haase, OFM, presents a practical and timely book on discovering how to respond to God's relentless invitation to a deeper relationship that goes beyond Sunday Mass attendance. In The Persistent God, you will find answers to many nagging questions you may have, including:- Why does prayer seem so hard?- Am I doing enough? - What should I look for in a spiritual director? - How can I discern what God is saying to me? With decades of experience praying and offering spiritual direction, Albert Haase shares his wisdom on nurturing a vibrant, committed, and mature relationship with God.

Embark on a transformative journey through the enchanting verses of the Song of Solomon with Savor: Interactive Intimacy with the King of Kings. In this soul-stirring exploration, author Val Schnackenberg beckons readers to turn away from the chaos of daily life-the relentless news cycle, the burdensome stress, the divisive politics-and immerse themselves in the soothing embrace of divine love. Savor is a spiritual guide, a respite from the noise, and a sanctuary where hope and love intertwine. Through a meticulous study of the Song of Solomon and the captivating narrative of the Shulamite woman, readers will uncover layers of meaning, discovering a depth of connection with the person of Christ that transcends the mundane. The author weaves insights, reflections, and interactive Spirit-led exercises, providing a roadmap for readers to navigate as they reflect on their own spiritual journeys. As you delve into the pages of this book, prepare to experience "Selah"¿moments of reflection and contemplation that transcend the hustle and bustle of the world. With warmth and grace, Val invites you to pause, to breathe, and to savor the essence of God's boundless affection. Let the wisdom of the ages guide you as you navigate the intimate passages of the sacred text. Savor is an invitation to experience God's love as never before, to feel His presence in the quiet moments, and to emerge refreshed, renewed, and intimately connected to the King of kings.