Grasping the Heel of Heaven

Grasping the Heel of Heaven
Author: Nicholas Holtam
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2018-02-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1786220024

Grasping the Heel of Heaven honours the immense legacy to the church of Michael Perham. A skilled and imaginative liturgist, a passionate advocate of women’s ministry, an inspirational dean and bishop, a wise and patient administrator, he was above all a faithful priest who loved the Church as the body of Christ. In all his ministry he sought to nourish that body by encouraging its worship and prayer and shaping its governance in the light of gospel ideals. In this volume, friends and colleagues bring their own expertise to reflect on some of the topics and themes that were most important to him, including: • Being transported and transformed by liturgy • The making of Common Worship • The full inclusion of the ministry of women • How structures and decision-making express an understanding of God • Unity despite differences in and through God • The gospel as good news for all Together, the contributors reflect the numerous ways that Michael Perham saw heaven touching earth and earth glimpsing heaven.

When Heaven is Silent

When Heaven is Silent
Author: Ron Dunn
Publisher: CLC Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1619580748

Gradually gaining new perspectives on suffering as he journeyed toward healing, Dunn shares insights found along the way. Moving from darkness into light, he encourages us to believe that our pain and sorrow are carried in the nail-scarred hands of a sovereign God who purposes to bless us, even when heaven is silent.

Rush of Heaven

Rush of Heaven
Author: Ema McKinley
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310339030

"Ema, give me your hand." These were the words Jesus spoke to Ema on Christmas Eve--the night He straightened her crooked foot, hand, neck, and spine, and restored her mobility. Easter weekend, eighteen years earlier, an ordinary workday turned into a nightmare when Ema McKinley passed out and was left hanging upside down in the storage room. Rather than improving, Ema's body became progressively bent and disfigured. Doctors diagnosed Ema with reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), an extremely painful trauma-induced disease which led to Ema's hand and foot deformities, painful sores, insomnia, gastrological distress, curvature of the neck and spine, heart and lung failure, and permanent confinement to a wheelchair. Once an athletic, powerhouse woman with multiple jobs and volunteer positions, Ema became a modern-day Job who lost everything except her faith and desire to trust God more fully. Ema wrestled with pain, anger, and unforgiveness, but now takes the reader on a healing miracle encounter of Biblical proportions. Rush of Heaven will ignite readers' passion for Jesus and help them walk hand-in-hand with Him through life's darkness. It will open hearts to embrace the impossible. "Jesus gave me this miracle for you too!" -- Ema McKinley

To Tell Afresh

To Tell Afresh
Author: Michael Perham
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281065748

The faith of the Church, although unchanging, must be told afresh for each new generation. In this volume, Michael Perham, Bishop of Gloucester, does exactly that by exploring key Christian beliefs. His approach is readable and accessible yet with the depth of his pastoral experience and theological insight. This is a book that, whilst encouraging and affirming, offers no easy solutions but takes us on a shared faith journey that is firmly rooted in the real world.

Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans

Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1284
Release: 1998-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521468435

The first new rendition for a generation of one of the classic texts of Western civilisation.

Genesis - A Theological Commentary - Volume 2

Genesis - A Theological Commentary - Volume 2
Author: Charles Vogan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2019-09-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0359933254

Genesis started out with God creating "the heavens and the earth." When he was done, he "saw that it was very good." God loved his Creation. But man, the key player in the picture, refused to cooperate and turned away from God. He was supposed to rule the earth under the Father. Instead what ensued was ruin and disaster. So God pronounced doom upon man and crippled him in four key areas. Their Family relationship came to an end. God, however went back to that original idea. He has in mind to create "a new heavens and a new earth", something on a higher level than the first Creation, something that cannot be ruined. To prevent another disaster, God is creating a "new Man" in his own Son to live in that new Creation. Genesis is showing us the process of making that "new Man". The New Creation will be perfect, never to fail - because God's own Son will rule over it.

Discipleship Lessons from the Life of Jacob

Discipleship Lessons from the Life of Jacob
Author: Ralph F. Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780981972145

You'll Learn from Jacob, Who Moved from Manipulation to Trust in God. Jacob is a troubling character in the Old Testament. He is conniving and he is spiritual too. He has moments of strong faith as well as of fear. His family is sometimes in disarray, and yet at the end he is the one who sets it straight. Jacob the Patriarch is a bit too much like us -- with very human strengths and weaknesses, but a man with a striving for spiritual things. From this imperfect man we learn important lessons of faith. especially, about God's grace. The events described in Jacob's story comprise most of Genesis chapters 25-49. If you haven't read the Old Testament much, you'll be pleased to find that God will speak to you here -- loud and clear. Each of the seven detailed lessons include probing discussion questions and can be used for personal enrichment, by small groups and classes, and by teachers and preachers.

Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans

Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans
Author: Augustine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1284
Release: 1998-09-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107650992

This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilisation. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative, and fluent translation of De civitate dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography, and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is one of the most important single contributions to the Cambridge Texts series yet published, of interest to students of ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought, theology, philosophy, and late antiquity.

The Riddle of Grace

The Riddle of Grace
Author: Scott Hoezee
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802841292

The author reminds us of what it means to be saved by grace, but in this work he is more concerned to explore what it means to live graciously as a result of that salvation. With this emphasis, he breaks new ground in the literature of grace.