Open Hearts, Open Homes

Open Hearts, Open Homes
Author: Amy Peterson
Publisher: Our Daily Bread Publishing
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1627077863

Hospitality is not about fancy dinners and great impressions . . . it's about humbling your heart and being open to meeting people where they are. It's exactly what Christ did for us, and we have the privilege of following His example. Yes, it might be uncomfortable at first; but when you open the door to your home and heart to others, you open the door to unexpected blessings. Hang the "welcome sign" of Christian hospitality on the door of your life and see what God can do through you.

Open Heart, Open Home

Open Heart, Open Home
Author: Karen Burton Mains
Publisher: IVP Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830823000

In this classic on Christian hospitality, Karen Mains steps far beyond how-to-entertain hints to explore a biblical and spiritual approach to using your home to care for others. This approach to hospitality can literally transform the fabric of your community and your world.

Open Heart, Open Mind

Open Heart, Open Mind
Author: Swami Chetanananda
Publisher: Rudra Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780806935652

Stop listening to the voice of the ego—desire, ambition, greed, selfishness—and instead open your heart, realize your interrelatedness with the world, and surrender to the stillness that exists inside you. Decide what kind of person you want to be and how to arrive at a place of satisfaction and joy.

Open Heart, Open Mind

Open Heart, Open Mind
Author: Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307888207

Offers advice for using meditative practices from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition to achieve a life of openness and freedom from negative emotions by tapping into the essential love that is part of our basic nature.

Hot Coffee In The Morning

Hot Coffee In The Morning
Author: Babette Edwards
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

“Whether you like a steamy, creamy cup of slightly sweet java like me, prefer water, or just come with your cup of gratitude or curiosity--let’s talk about Jesus. He’s our Best Friend—even when we don’t know it!” More Praise for Hot Coffee In The Morning I’ve known Babette for nearly four decades and have always been impressed with her impeccable moral character, integrity and sincere devotion to spiritual principles found in the word of God. Her years of intense study, diligently searching the scriptures, fervent ministry in various settings and overcoming challenging life experiences, make her uniquely qualified to offer such spiritually fresh inspiration and new direction illustrated in this devotional material. If you are looking for a book that will propel you to explore more fully an in-depth knowledge of the word of God coupled with practical examples and challenges to adventures through action plans, you have found it. The material offers clear, concise steps, refreshing examples and hope to assist in the implementation of the word of God to enhance your spiritual journey. A must-read for those who care about creating a better world for themselves and others. Pastor Marilyn Hill Northside Christian Center; Tulsa, OK Babette brings a lifetime of valuable and varied experiences to this devotional --and it shows. This work is applicable and relevant from beginning to end. This devotional is thought-provoking and challenges one to study; it is chockful of encouragement and good advice. Scripture tells us that “all scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:17, NIV). By ingesting and digesting the intended purpose of this workbook, you will be doing exactly what the word of God requires which is to “Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15, AMP) A lot of effort has gone into the preparation of this workbook for your maturation in God’s Word, so one is well advised to put as much effort into using this workbook as the author did in preparing it. We declare much success to everyone who seriously partakes of it. Apostle Dr. Robert, D.D. and Prophet Kitty Holmes God’s Word Christian Ministries

Liturgies from Below

Liturgies from Below
Author: Claudio Carvalhaes
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1791007368

It’s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith. This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer, one that is located amidst the poor and the major issues of violence and destruction around the world today. It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe. Liturgies from Below is the culmination of a project organized by the Council for World Mission (CWM) during 2018-2019. Approximately 100 people from four continents worked with CWM, collaborating to create indigenous prayers and liturgies expressing their own contexts, for sharing with their communities and the rest of the world. The project was called “Re-Imagining Worship as Acts of Defiance and Alternatives in the Context of Empire”. The author and others spent weeks living in each of four communities for several weeks/months, getting to know the people, and then facilitating the people’s own creation of prayers and liturgies. The author, other scholars, pastors, artists, activists and students all came from radically different ethnicities, races, sexualities, churches and Christian theologies. The people in each location were poor, living in very challenging communities, living in oppressive and seemingly hopeless situations. After some time, they wrote prayers and stories of their experience trying to live the Christian faith in utterly abandoned places. What we have here is an immensely rich and varied collection of liturgical sources from various communities dealing with issues of violence, immigration/refugees, drugs, land grabbing, war on the poor, attack on women, militarization, climate change, and so on.