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| Author | : Pastor Alta Chase-Raper |
| Publisher | : WestBow Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1490804951 |
A collection of ponderings full of wit and wisdom to inspire you, make you smile, and even laugh out loud. Sit down, relax, and take a moment to stroll down a sun-dappled roadway, climb the steps to an old country church, wade in a clear mountain stream, listen to the rushing water as it pours over river rocks, smell the fresh air after a rain, and soak in the beauty and grandeur of God's masterpiece found in the ever-changing panorama of the Great Smoky Mountains. You will enjoy a bit of history as well as introductions to some interesting folks who call this mountain paradise home. You won't want to miss the story of burning the palm fronds for Ash Wednesday they sure smelled sweet, a bit like marijuana and the "noises in the night" among many others, too funny for words. Each one, a feel-good story, intertwined with God's own Word.
| Author | : Keys Natalie |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2012-05-28 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1105811441 |
Book of Ponderings is a book with many parts; its first section is a short story which describes the conflicting emotions of two teenagers who claim to be in love. It takes place in Sacramento, a town in Northern California where nothing much seems to happen but disillusioned youth growing old and bitter, waiting for some sweet escape. A second part within this section is a small group of poems and reflections on the issues this town has brought upon the life of a teen living there. The second section of the book is a group of poems and reflective passages about the city of Los Angeles. The third section is a large collection of miscellaneous poems, or poems with no central theme aside from life's beauties and casualties. Finally, the fourth and last section of this anthology is a collection of poems originally written for musical accompaniment. They tell the story of a doomed relationship between a girl and boy. Book of Ponderings is unafraid to ponder and question life in its beauty, and a rugged reality.
| Author | : Adam Rami Nazzal |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1490712232 |
The book came from thoughts and inspirations that occurred to me when I returned to Canada after separating from my wife and three beloved children. I believe the poems show a progression from utter sadness and despair to acceptance, patience, and hope. Underpinning all the poetry is an unwavering faith in the Almighty Creator, whose designs and miracles cannot always be fully understood. I tried to write, too, about the beauty of nature and humanity and, ultimately, about forgiveness. It is sincerely hoped the reader will derive some inspiration or hope through their own paths.
| Author | : Melvin E. West |
| Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2024-05-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Why did I write this book? Here are some of the reasons: I wrote it to "pay back" for the thousands of stories from others that have enriched my reading life. My mother taught me that "if someone sends you a pie, do not send back an empty plate. Put some cookies on it." This book is the cookies on that plate. I wrote it to teach. Storytelling is, I think, the very best means of conveying a truth. The story "It Was the Names" is a powerful lesson in what it means to be a pastor. The story of the picnic in the black forest of Russia is about building bridges instead of walls. "Two Nickels" speaks of a grandfather's wisdom and love. "The Cat Lady" challenges churches to be in mission where they are. The story of sending 16,500 stuffed animals to the children of Russia is person to person mission at its best. I write it to travel again. I am ninety-seven as I write this, and age and the pandemic have kept me home. But my mind has traveled as I wrote. I've been back to Kromy, Russia, working with those families. I've been to El Roblegal, Dominican Republic, seeing the excitement as a village makes progress. I have again reached out my hand to receive the two nickels from my grandfather, and I have run to the bank with them. I've been in the hot harvest field with Ernie, a neighbor. I have been back on the well platform of my childhood home, pumping water with my brother, Olin. I have written this book because I love to write. Words fascinate me, and it is a thrill to weave them into a word picture that others enjoy. I am a bit sad now that I have decided that this book is long enough and that it is time to dose it out.
| Author | : Sandra Shumate Ramirez |
| Publisher | : WestBow Press |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2015-09-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1512708550 |
Parables and Ponderings is a compilation of years of journal entries, writings, and e-mail ministry articles that share faith in God and growth in family living. It is a book that gives deep spiritual meaning in the occurrences of everyday life events as viewed by the author.
| Author | : Linda Elmore Teeple |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2011-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 143030183X |
Phillip Yancey says that "every writer has one main theme, a spoor that he or she keeps sniffing around, tracking, following it to its source." My spoor is "grace," states Linda Teeple, author of The Nature of Grace: Ponderings On God's Abundant Grace. "I write about Grace because I want everyone to 'get' grace. There's a life-changing difference between understanding grace at the head level and experiencing grace at the heart level. God continually reminds me of his grace through nature--the nature of the great outdoors, the nature of the human heart, and the nature of relationships." Linda is a marriage and family therapist by vocation and a naturalist by avocation. She resides in Anderson, Indiana with her husband and her canine companions, Panda and Leader Dog puppy, Faith. Linda writes a weekly newspaper column entitled, "The Nature of Grace," which can be viewed at http: //www.heraldbulletin.com.
| Author | : Tom Slattery |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2001-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0595163491 |
Preshrunk Ponderings and Rumpled Rememberings is a collection of folksy essays on low-cost housing and its relationship to homelessness, on public transportation and its relationships to independence of movement and quality of life, on artifice and institutionalism in higher education, and on the tinkering mind and creative science. The author draws from his experiences in living life fully from the low-end of the economic scale and offers uncommon perspectives on what readers may find common all around us. Reasonable analyses of problems are intended less toward offerings of solutions than to provoke thought and stimulate discussion. There are no overt polemics or hard-line politics that might stir the dental profession to action from widespread gnashing of teeth. These are just amiable discourses on a few diverse topics to animate some dimension to the prevailing flat dullness and torpor. They are easy reading for a few lazy hours.
| Author | : Dennis Whitmore |
| Publisher | : Inspiring Voices |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 2015-08-04 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1462411460 |
How often do you see what youre looking at? Imagine yourself relaxing in your favorite caf or sitting in your favorite chair at home. You immerse yourself in a story that only takes five minutes to read, but it stays on your mind all day. You mull over its insights, consider its lessons, and you may even say to yourself, I never thought of it that way before. Ponderings of a Pedaling Pastor is a collection of true stories and short reflections that will inspire you to reconsider many things you may not have thought to think about. Dennis Whitmore is the senior pastor of Hilltop Christian Fellowship in Clear Spring, Maryland. Born and raised in Baltimore, he graduated with a BS in business administration from Towson University. From health club trainer and manager to ordained ministry in 1995, Dennis has journaled and logged a collection of insights on life called Points to Ponder. At first they were among a series of ninety-second messages on a Christian radio station. Then the transcripts became a column in a local Hagerstown paper for fourteen years. Since 2008, they again are on the radio (WJEJ 1240 AM, Hagerstown, Maryland). They take five minutes to read but will keep you thinkingponderingall day. On my bike, in my devotion time, I long to know God. And in my searching He taught me to better understand me. Pastor Dennis P.D. Whitmore
| Author | : Jozef Goethals |
| Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2023-06-23 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1649797850 |
Ponderings of an Old Theologian is a book in which the author reflects on his life as a youngster and a seminarian in the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church, as a priest and missionary in the Philippines, and as a resigned priest and lay teacher at a Catholic school. The Second Vatican Council (1962-5) and Pope John XXIII had a life-shaping effect on him throughout his journey. Early on, he decided to help implement the renewals of Vatican II, and did so as a missionary and a teacher. In simple language, his narrative and reflections cover the development of Catholic thinking through several generations and look at the papacy of Pope Francis as the hope of a real Vatican II Church. The work invites the readers to find how they can make Vatican II relevant in their lives (part memoir, part reflection on Catholic theology).
| Author | : Martin Heidegger |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2016-05-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0253020743 |
Ponderings II–VI begins the much-anticipated English translation of Martin Heidegger's "Black Notebooks." In a series of small notebooks with black covers, Heidegger confided sundry personal observations and ideas over the course of 40 years. The five notebooks in this volume were written between 1931 and 1938 and thus chronicle Heidegger's year as Rector of the University of Freiburg during the Nazi era. Published in German as volume 94 of the Complete Works, these challenging and fascinating journal entries shed light on Heidegger's philosophical development regarding his central question of what it means to be, but also on his relation to National Socialism and the revolutionary atmosphere of the 1930s in Germany. Readers previously familiar only with excerpts taken out of context may now determine for themselves whether the controversy and censure the "Black Notebooks" have received are deserved or not. This faithful translation by Richard Rojcewicz opens the texts in a way that captures their philosophical and political content while disentangling Heidegger's notoriously difficult language.
