Opening to God

Opening to God
Author: David G. Benner
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2010-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830835423

Spiritual director Benner invites believers to discover openness to God as the essence of prayer, spirituality, and the Christian life. Using the four movements of "lectio divina," he explores prayer as attending, pondering, responding, and being.

Opening to God

Opening to God
Author: Thomas H. Green
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1594713189

Often, people feel drawn to prayer but are timid and unsure about how to pray. For over thirty years, this book has demystified prayer for countless thousands. Friendly and inviting, Opening to God, now available in a revised, updated edition, explains what prayer is all about, then turns to techniques that ready the soul to encounter God. Mining his rich experiences as a Jesuit missionary and spiritual director, Thomas Green, S.J., shakes away the cobwebs and banishes stodgy assumptions about spiritual life that is fed by the practice of prayer. A must-have resource, both for beginners and practiced 'pray-ers' who want to cultivate a more meaningful prayer experience.

Opening to God

Opening to God
Author: Marilyn McCord Adams
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0664233058

Drawing from Jesus words to the disciples to become like children, Marilyn McCord Adams presents more than two hundred fifty original prayers that serve as powerful and practical examples of how adults can pray in a manner that combines the complexity and richness of their adult experiences with the candor, immediacy, demands, and expectations of a child. The prayers in this collection encourage us to move to a deeper level of intimacy and openness to God, which McCord Adams believes will compel us to bring the pressing problems facing us directly to God. This resource, which can be used by those who lead public worship as well as those who seek to grow closer to God in private, includes prayers that address social and personal concerns such as peace, justice, care of the environment, and responding to Gods call.

Dialogue With God

Dialogue With God
Author: Dr. Mark Virkler
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2001-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1458797821

Find out how prayer—our link to God—is the most powerful and vital activity of our life. This book will lead you into a life-changing dimension of two-way communication with our loving GOD. Dialogue With God has dramatically changed my prayer life. I have found I can dialogue with Christ on a daily basis. I believe this inspired...

You're Made for a God-Sized Dream

You're Made for a God-Sized Dream
Author: Holley Gerth
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441241000

We all long to live with more purpose, passion, and joy. Yet in the middle of our hectic lives, the God-sized dreams that have the potential to lead us into all God has planned for us are the ones that tend to get lost. With her intimate, approachable style and constant encouragement, popular blogger and author Holley Gerth invites women to rediscover the big dreams God has given them--and then dare to pursue them. With the enthusiasm and honesty that we all want from our closest friend, Holley encourages women to overcome excuses--too busy, too late, too far out of my comfort zone--and believe that their God-sized dreams can become reality. She takes readers by the heart and says, "Yes! You can do this! Let's go!" and then guides them forward with a loving hand. A licensed counselor and certified life coach, Holley insightfully combines inspiration with practical application in this positive book.

The Openness of God

The Openness of God
Author: Clark H. Pinnock
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830878826

Voted one of Christianity Today's 1995 Books of the Year! The Openness of God presents a careful and full-orbed argument that the God known through Christ desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures. While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassibility and foreknowledge demand reconsideration. The authors insist that our understanding of God will be more consistently biblical and more true to the actual devotional lives of Christians if we profess that "God, in grace, grants humans significant freedom" and enters into relationship with a genuine "give-and-take dynamic." The Openness of God is remarkable in its comprehensiveness, drawing from the disciplines of biblical, historical, systematic and philosophical theology. Evangelical and other orthodox Christian philosophers have promoted the "relational" or "personalist" perspective on God in recent decades. Now here is the first major attempt to bring the discussion into the evangelical theological arena.

A Reason Open to God

A Reason Open to God
Author: J. Steven Brown
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0813221471

With clarity and wisdom, Pope Benedict XVI sets out his vision for Catholic higher education in this first and only collection of his major addresses on the topic. What is the mission and identity of a Catholic university? What are the responsibilities of administrators, teachers, and students in Catholic institutes of higher learning? Where does the central theme of "love of God and others" fit into academia?

Amazing Encounters with God

Amazing Encounters with God
Author: Clayton King
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736940405

Mac Powell of Third Day called Clayton King’s previous book, Dying to Live, “A must-read.” An evangelist and missionary, Clayton has spoken to millions, including hundreds of thousands in the teen-to-thirties age group in the U.S. Through his firsthand stories in Amazing Encounters with God, believers will see freshly that they can step back and be amazed by God...as Clayton is after poking around in a dark church basement meeting a drunken millionaire on an airplane considering a horse sticking his head through barbed wire having a surprise encounter with the IRS seeing a baby born dead...and God’s credibility in a whole village start to crumble A great reminder that God speaks through ordinary occurrences, using ordinary things to reveal Himself. “He is still close, maybe as close as the next person you meet, the next song you hear, or the next conversation you have.”

Unlocking the Power of God

Unlocking the Power of God
Author: Bill Hume
Publisher: WestBowPress
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013-11-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1490815112

One of the most important facts that Christians could ever know is there is power in the Word of God. Unlocking the Power of God teaches believers how the Word of God can enable them to change their circumstances and approach God in a way that will cause God to act. In this book Bill Hume explains how reading and praying the Word of God aloud is the key to opening the heavens. Learn what the Bible says about Gods Word. As Christians you can release the power of God in amazing ways.

God in an Open Universe

God in an Open Universe
Author: William Hasker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 160899743X

Since its inception, the discussion surrounding Open Theism has been dominated by polemics. On crucial philosophical issues, Openness proponents have largely been devoted to explicating the underlying framework and logical arguments supporting their perspective against competing theological and philosophical perspectives. As a result, very little constructive work has been done on the interconnections between Open Theism and the natural sciences. Given the central place of sciences in today's world, any perspective that hopes to have a broad impact must necessarily address such disciplines in a sustained and constructive manner. To date such engagements from the Openness perspective have been rare. God in an Open Universe addresses this deficiency. This book demonstrates that Open Theism makes a distinctive and highly fruitful contribution to the conversation and constructive work occurring between philosophy, theology, and the sciences. The various essays explore subjects ranging from physics to prayer, from special relativity to divine providence, from metaphysics to evolution, and from space-time to God. All who work at the intersection of theology and the sciences will benefit greatly from these essays that break new ground in this important conversation.