Kindling Desire for God

Kindling Desire for God
Author: Kay Bessler Northcutt
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780800662639

While searching for a model of preaching that is apt for our postmodern moment, Kay Northcutt respectfully eschews earlier models and suggests the what of preaching should consist in spiritual formation or the practice of spiritual direction. Taking an evocative, rather than how-to, approach, Northcutt notes the gaps created by earlier models and makes a case not only for framing preaching as an attractive art but also for understanding the preachers authority as religious in nature. The author provides readers with a new paradigm for developing their own homiletical discipline.

When I Don't Desire God

When I Don't Desire God
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1581346522

Explaining how to become a Christian hedonist, a bestselling author offers guidance on how to find spiritual joy to readers who are unsure of where to seek it.

Your Heart's Desire

Your Heart's Desire
Author: Sonia Choquette
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2010-04-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0307561380

Nationally known intuitive and spiritual leader Sonia Choquette shares the nine universal principles for creating the reality of your dreams. Step by step, with practical advice, specific exercises, and modern-day parables, she teaches readers to make the changes in thought and behavior that will lead them to the attainment of their most heartfelt desires. 256 pp. National publicity. 30,000 print.

The Fulfillment of All Desire

The Fulfillment of All Desire
Author: Ralph Martin
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2006
Genre: Spiritual life
ISBN: 1931018367

Winner: Honorable Mention from the Catholic Press Association Ralph Martin, drawing upon the teaching of seven acknowledged "Spiritual Doctors" of the Church, presents an indepth study of the journey to God. This book provides encouragement and direction for the pilgrim who desires to know, love, and serve our Lord. Whether the reader is beginning the spiritual journey or has been traveling the road for many years, he will find a treasure of wisdom in The Fulfillment of All Desire. It is destined to be a modern classic on the spiritual life.

Desire's Direction

Desire's Direction
Author: Jayson Sherrod
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2006-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1597819603

Sacred Pace

Sacred Pace
Author: Terry Looper
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 078522338X

How do we hear from God and discern His will when it’s time to make big decisions? Terry Looper shares a four-step process for doing just that - a process he has learned and refined over thirty years as a Christian entrepreneur and founder of a multi-billion dollar company. At just thirty-six years old, Terry Looper was a successful Christian businessman who thought he had it all—until managing all he had led to a devastating burnout. Wealthy beyond his wildest dreams but miserable beyond belief, Terry experienced a radical transformation when he discovered how to align himself with God’s will in the years following his crash and burn. Sacred Pace is a four-step process that helps Christians in all walks of life learn how to slow down their decision-making under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, sift through their surface desires and sinful patterns in order to receive clear, peace-filled answers from the Lord, gain the confident assurance that God’s answers are His way of fulfilling the true desires he has placed in their hearts, and grow closer to the One who loves them most and knows them best. Sacred Pace is not another example of name-it-and-claim-it materialism in disguise. Instead, it walks Christians through the sometimes-painful process of “dying to self” in their decisions, both big and small, so that they desire God’s will more than their own.

The Direction of Desire

The Direction of Desire
Author: Mark Gerard Murphy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2023-10-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3031331079

This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former’s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of spiritual direction become saturated with self-help psycho-pop methodologies, and that desire has therefore been foreclosed in these practices. He suggests that the root of this is a focus on ‘positive affective experientialism’, which means spiritual direction must focus on emotional wholeness, healing and positivity. Finally, he argues that a new dialogue between John of the Cross (a mystic whose writings on spiritual direction formulate part of the core of the Catholic spiritual tradition) and Jacques Lacan can open the way for a spiritual direction beyond the confines of experientialism. The book concludes that we can only escape the experiential commodification of spiritual direction by critiquing the drive to experience in and of itself. This novel work will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy and critical theory.

The Four Desires

The Four Desires
Author: Rod Stryker
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0553803980

Shares inspirational anecdotes to encourage readers to pursue happiness, outlining step-by-step meditations and practical exercises for identifying innermost desires and achieving fulfillment.

Canadian Desires

Canadian Desires
Author: Tina Huller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2005-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462806651

Danger beyond the border . . . Cassie Garrette was running away from one bad relationship when she encountered her new boss. The secretive but seductive charm of the man pushed her into a world of business intrigue. When his father dies unexpectedly, he whisks Cassie across the U.S. border into Canada. In a large town called Canmore, Cassie finds herself pursued by two evils—one, a menacing presence from her past; the other, a dark tunnel of buried treasures. Kelley McGillis, her charming new boss, hires Cassie for her own protection—from what and why, she doesn’t know. Keeping her close, however, proves to be more of a chore than he expected. Once his heart interferes, there is no escape. Through a journey of trials and terror, their attraction will grow and ultimately be tested.