Author: Bill Belknap
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 9781490884950
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Bill Belknap's book is about unconditional love and Faith in and for our Lord God and Jesus Christ and how these same emotions also relate to all our relationships with people, especially those we love. Bill writes about many of his own experiences of receiving instructions from God and of how God has answered his prayers. He very honestly and succinctly describes how God directed his earlier life without his acknowledgment. Now in his later life, he has, with the help of his wife, Donna, and study of the Bible, learned how important unconditional love and Faith are to each of us in our relationship with God, with our loved ones, and with all the people around us.
Author: Bill Belknap
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490884947
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Many Christian believers experienced a time in their lives when their faith was not strong or perhaps did not exist at all. Those who are lucky will discover their faith for the first time or have it revitalized. They will see and understand true unconditional love. Author Bill Belknap’s Unconditional Love and Faith Observed is about unconditional love and faith in and for our Lord God and Jesus Christ. He shows us how these same emotions relate to all our relationships with people, especially those we love. Belknap shares how he received instructions from God and how God answered his prayers. He honestly and succinctly describes how God directed his earlier life without his acknowledgment. With the study of the Bible and the encouragement, help, and enlightenment of his wife, Donna, before her death, Belknap has learned how important unconditional love and faith are to each of us in our relationships with God, with our loved ones, and with all the people around us. Now in his later years, Belknap wants to help you find a deep, God-filled life regardless of your age. Unconditional Love and Faith Observed will help you along your faith journey.
Author: Mary C. Lindberg
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506434169
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Companionship and strategies for job seekers Millions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid. No one knows how to comfort us when we lose our job. Unlike other griefs--when someone can say, "I'm sorry for your loss"--joblessness leaves family, friends, and acquaintances awkwardly searching for words. Jobs Lost, Faith Found is for those who feel alone due to job loss. It is also for those who offer respect, companionship, guidance, and resources to the unemployed. Mary C. Lindberg, pastor, chaplain, and spiritual director, draws on her family's experience of unemployment and the wisdom of many others, including sages from Scripture and the Christian tradition, to help readers discover a sense of worth and purpose on their way to a new job. She offers prayers, insights, Bible stories, and reflections to light the way during this time of uncertainty and wandering. The path toward hope will be your own, but the ideas, reflections, and strategies in this book will get you started on your journey.
Author: Ben Stroup
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433679760
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Inspired by the film Unconditional and Papa Joe Bradford's outreach to at-risk children, Unconditional Love gathers real-life stories celebrating the best in ordinary people who have found extraordinary ways to act as the hands and feet of Jesus in their time and place. Through them we see what matters most in this life, we stir our God-made desire to help others in need, and the world becomes a better place. Papa Joe writes the collection's foreword, starting the conversation about how God's love compels us to show unconditional love for others in ways simple and profound, selfless and yet so rewarding. We meet a band whose trip to Africa resulted in an effort that has so far provided life-saving water and health care to more than 600,000 people. In Tennessee, an 80-year-old woman works a plan to feed 2,000 homeless each week. Others give from their own struggles: a teenager who lost his leg raises money to provide other children with prosthetics; a woman whose brother was killed on 9/11 helps Afghani refugees who fled the Taliban feel at home in the United States; a human rights agency rescues victimes of slavery and sexual exploitation. A host of other stories bringing our lives into clearer social and spiritual focus are combined with inspirational quotes, a Bible reading plan, and other tools to encourage further self-discovery and greater personal outreach.
Author: William C. Taggart III PhD
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489712054
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2 Corinthians 11:14 (KJV)
Author: Valerie Porr, M.A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199752508
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, dangerous impulsivity, and tumultuous relationships. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing erratic, self-destructive, and sometimes violent behavior only to those with whom they are intimate. Others have trouble simply holding down a job or staying in school. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is a compassionate and informative guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling--and widely misunderstood--mental illness, believed to affect approximately 6% of the general population. Rather than viewing people with BPD as manipulative opponents in a bitter struggle, or pitying them as emotional invalids, Valerie Porr cites cutting-edge science to show that BPD is a true neurobiological disorder and not, as many come to believe, a character flaw or the result of bad parenting. Porr then clearly and accessibly explains what BPD is, which therapies have proven effective, and how to rise above the weighty stigma associated with the disorder. Offering families and loved ones supportive guidance that both acknowledges the difficulties they face and shows how they can be overcome, Porr teaches empirically-supported and effective coping behaviors and interpersonal skills, such as new ways of talking about emotions, how to be aware of nonverbal communication, and validating difficult experiences. These skills are derived from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mentalization-based Therapy, two evidence-based treatments that have proven highly successful in reducing family conflict while increasing trust. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is an empowering and hopeful resource for those who wish to gain better understanding of the BPD experience--and to make use of these insights in day-to-day family interactions. Winner of the ABCT Self Help Book Seal of Merit Award 2011
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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498591264
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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Author: Rafael Domingo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004546189
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 743
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Across four decades, John Witte, Jr. has advanced the study of law and religion by retrieving religious sources of law, renewing timeless teachings of religion for today, and reengaging with the difficult issues confronting society. Interdisciplinary, international, and interfaith in scope, Witte’s work has generated an enormous body of scholarship. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines his impact and maps new directions for future exploration.
Author: John E. Biersdorf
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498238661
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Infinite Reach: Spirituality in a Scientific World connects and integrates the great spiritual insights with science and mathematics for the increasing numbers of Americans who consider themselves spiritual but not religious, or spiritual and religious, or "none of the above," and who no longer find traditional religious doctrines and institutions credible or matching their experience. In nontechnical language it precisely and clearly traces how current brain-mind research informs and enhances inner spiritual and religious experience, and how scientific cosmology confirms spiritual intuitions. From hunting-gathering prehistory, through city-states, empires, and the great religions, scientific methods advance exponentially faster into the future, while the great spiritual insights have never been surpassed, though often ignored or denied. But scientific knowing and spiritual knowing share infinite reach. Brain-mind research contributes to understanding and living meditation and spiritual practices in silence, ritual, and vision. Modern physics and mathematics demonstrate how humans observe and participate in the actual evolution of the universe. Fractals in chaos theory are spiritual images of ultimate reality. In creating, loving, and undifferentiated presence we find our own unique voice in the mystery of ultimate reality, touching down here and now in the specifics of this present moment.
Author: Paul W. Diener
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664257651
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Some people see religion and morality as undeniably connected; others see them as irreconcilably separate. Paul Diener's accessible new book looks at the connection between these two concepts and examines how various religious and philosophical systems understand morality.
