The God of the Garden

The God of the Garden
Author: Andrew Peterson
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 108773696X

There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it’s easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. It’s hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking. This book is in many ways a memoir, but it’s also an attempt to wake up the reader to the glory of God shining through his creation. One of the first commands to Adam and Eve was to “work and keep” the garden. Award-winning author and songwriter Andrew Peterson, being as honest as possible, shares a story of childhood, grief, redemption, and peace, by walking through a forest of memories: “I trust that by telling my story, you’ll encounter yours. Hopefully, like me, you’ll see that the God of the Garden is and has always been present, working and keeping what he loves.” Sometimes he plants, sometimes he prunes, but in his goodness he intends to reap a harvest of righteousness.

What I Learned from God While Gardening

What I Learned from God While Gardening
Author: Niki Anderson
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781593100131

Includes true stories on a garden-related theme, followed by a spiritual application, a brief prayer, and a practical gardening tip.

Niv God's Word for Gardeners Bible

Niv God's Word for Gardeners Bible
Author: Shelley Cramm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre: Gardeners
ISBN: 9780310441137

The NIV God s Word for Gardeners Bible is a hardcover devotional Bible designed to highlight the many ways God speaks to his people using the language of seeds, cultivation, growth and gardens. Put down your roots and let the Ultimate Gardener tend to your soul."

Gardening for God

Gardening for God
Author: Jane Mossendew
Publisher:
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2012
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781860827983

Jane Mossendew's personal experience of gardening and spirituality has been carefully worked out over a number of years in this book of daily meditations based on a plant per day. Each day has a line drawing of the plant, a cultivation note, its history and lore. It includes meditation, suggested readings and places of spiritual retreat, and intercessions. The book is a reflection of a lifetime of reading by the author and it can be read on a variety of levels.

The Love of God

The Love of God
Author: John C. Peckham
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830898808

Theology has constantly wrestled with the nature of God's love and what it means for how God relates to the world. In this comprehensive canonical theology of divine love, John C. Peckham argues for an account that avoids the errors of both voluntarist and experientialist theologies and faithfully represents the full biblical witness.

God Plants a Garden

God Plants a Garden
Author: Buck Elder
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1635687675

What in the world was God thinking when He began creation? Have you ever wondered why God even wanted to create our world in the first place? Have you ever thought about the decisions God had to make each day as He went through the creation process? What did He have to do first? How did God decide where to put His creation, what He was going to include, what each thing would look like, what each thing would be named? For whom did God make His creation? What might it have been like if you had been there looking over God's shoulder and seeing the creation process unfold through His eyes? God Plants a Garden takes a fresh look at the creation story and gives you the opportunity to imagine journeying with God through the creation process each day, exploring some possible answers to these questions and to appreciate all that God must have had to do as He created His garden—and perhaps even discover a different kind of love story along the way.

Finding God in the Garden

Finding God in the Garden
Author: Balfour Brickner
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 9780316162814

A rabbi whose faith was challenged by the death of his daughter and who rediscovered his spirituality while gardening discusses the healing benefits of observing nature, citing lessons that can be learned by caring for the land.

Growing Food God's Way

Growing Food God's Way
Author: David Devine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Christian stewardship
ISBN: 9780990755203

Growing Food God's Way is a compelling biography of veteran gardener Paul Gautschi. Known world-wide for his connection with God's world of nature, this authorized work explores the man and his wildly successful garden and orchard...while applying revealed principles to our daily lives as well. Home gardeners in 208 countries agree that you can grow better produce with much less cost and less work if you do it God's way.CAUTION: this book may rock your worldview!

Cultivating God's Garden Through Lent

Cultivating God's Garden Through Lent
Author: Margaret Rose Realy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781939221094

These daily reflections for Lent offer tranquility and simplicity by finding God through nature. Readers who love gardens and woods and find solace in experiencing the Creator through these environments will enjoy these prayerful reflections, which allow us to regain the balance that Pope Benedict XVI so urgently promotes in order that we may share the faith more fully in a world of new media. The seven chapters represent each week of Lent, beginning with Ash Wednesday and concluding with Holy Saturday. Each week has a theme based on the following Sunday’s gospel message, a theme found running within the combined gospels of Cycles A, B or C, making this a timeless book.

Return to Our Senses

Return to Our Senses
Author: Christine Sine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615709352

"What makes you feel closer to God?" When Christine Sine asked people this question, the answers she received surprised her. It wasn't pipe organs and pulpits that most often opened people to God's presence, but simple things in daily life. In Return to Our Senses, Christine Sine shows you how simple experiences - breathing, drinking a glass of water, walking amongst trees, shooting a photo, picking up a stone - can become "thin places" and pregnant moments in your daily life - helping you awaken to God's presence, savor God's nearness, and translate your experience of God into prayerful, compassionate action. It was written for those who hunger for a deeper, more life encompassing relationship with God. Return to Our Senses explores approaches to prayer that connect our spiritual practices to everyday life, awakening all our senses to a deeper relationship to our loving God. Some of the practices have existed for centuries and only require us to tap into the rich knowledge and practices of ancient followers of Christ to access them. Others will be newly created, springing fresh from our imaginations and creativity, specially designed for intimacy with God in our present culture. This is a great book for group study. A free study guide is available through the Mustard Seed Associates website http: //msaimagine.org