Spiritual Seasons

Spiritual Seasons
Author: Evon Horton
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0768446201

Gods supernatural work often follows a seasonal pattern. If youre not careful, you can miss the seasonal processes of the Spirit, and the blessings that accompany them. These seasons impact everything in life: relationships, workplace, and connection with God. If you are to flourish in every season, its vital to recognize and partner with the flow of Gods work. Spiritual Seasons will help you discern Gods unique seasonal movements and align yourself with Him, so that you can receive every promise and provision released by His supernatural grace. In this inspiring message, Dr. Evon Horton helps you to recognize what season youre in, embrace Gods specific path for this time, and flourish in His abundance no matter what circumstances youre encountering. Learn to navigate each spiritual season: Winter: stand fast and prepare for breakthrough. Spring: see the promises of souls. Summer: position yourself for miracles. Fall: anticipate Heavens provision and blessing. God has a good plan for every season of your life. Partner with Heaven and watch His purposes unfold!

In a High Spiritual Season

In a High Spiritual Season
Author: Joan Chittister
Publisher: Liguori Publications
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780892437757

It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

Spiritual Rhythm

Spiritual Rhythm
Author: Mark Buchanan
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031041329X

"Abide in me," Jesus tells us, "and you will bear much fruit." Yet too often we forget that fruit needs different seasons in order to grow. We measure our spiritual maturity by how much we do rather than how we are responding to our current spiritual season. In Spiritual Rhythm, Mark Buchanan replaces our spirituality of busyness with a spirituality of abiding. Sometimes we are busy, sometimes still, sometimes pushing with all we've got, sometimes waiting. This model of the spiritual life measures and produces growth by asking: Are we living in rhythm with the season we are in? With the lyrical writing for which he is known, Mark invites us to respond to every season of the heart, whether we are flourishing and fruitful, stark and dismal, or cool and windy. In comparing spiritual rhythms to the seasons of the year, he shows us what to expect from each season and how embracing the seasons causes our spiritual lives to prosper. As he draws on the powerful words of Scripture, Mark explores what activities are suitable or necessary in each season--and what activities are useless or even harmful in that season. Throughout the book, Mark weaves together stories of young and old, men and women, families, couples, and individuals who are in or have been through a particular season of the heart. As Mark writes, "I pray that this book meets you in whatever season you're in, and prepares you for whatever seasons await. I pray that it helps you find your voice, your stride, your rhythm, in season or out. Mostly, I pray that you, with or without my help, find Christ wherever you are. And that, even more, you discover that wherever you are, he's found you."

Seasons of a Woman's Life

Seasons of a Woman's Life
Author: Lois Evans
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2013-01-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802484204

Are you afraid that . . you'll never reach the end of dirty diapers? You'll never be free of carpool duty? Your teenager's rebellion will never end? The empty nest is just a little too empty? Fear not, seasons change. You blink twice and find yourself in another situation. Maybe longing for the "old days" or maybe grateful for the freshness of a new season. But like it or not, the seasons will come, each in its sequence and each in its own time. Using lively examples from her own life and those of other women - including Esther - Lois Evans challenges you to to discover the purpose of your life and to depend on Him as He teaches the lessons of each season. In this book, you will find helpful priniciples, recognize familiar emotions, and take to heart encouraging promises from the pages of God's Word. In this edition a new chapter on the grandparenting season has been added. And to help you dig deeper - whether alone or with friends - chapter study questions are included.

How God Works

How God Works
Author: David DeSteno
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1982142332

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them—and to anyone, regardless of their faith (or lack thereof). Scientists are beginning to discover what believers have known for a long time: the rewards that a religious life can provide. For millennia, people have turned to priests, rabbis, imams, shamans, and others to help them deal with issues of grief and loss, birth and death, morality and meaning. In this absorbing work, DeSteno reveals how numerous religious practices from around the world improve emotional and physical well-being. With empathy and rigor, DeSteno chronicles religious rites and traditions from cradle to grave. He explains how the Japanese rituals surrounding childbirth help strengthen parental bonds with children. He describes how the Apache Sunrise Ceremony makes teenage girls better able to face the rigors of womanhood. He shows how Buddhist meditation reduces hostility and increases compassion. He demonstrates how the Jewish practice of sitting shiva comforts the bereaved. And much more. DeSteno details how belief itself enhances physical and mental health. But you don’t need to be religious to benefit from the trove of wisdom that religion has to offer. Many items in religion’s “toolbox” can help the body and mind whether or not one believes. How God Works offers advice on how to incorporate many of these practices to help all of us live more meaningful, successful, and satisfying lives.

--This Season's People

--This Season's People
Author: Stephen Gaskin
Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1976
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780913990056

A pocket book of spiritual teachings collected from talks given by Stephen, co-founder of The Farm in Tennessee, explaining the common ground of the great religions and how to follow their teachings in order to change oneself and change the world. Includes photographs of The Farm community life in the '70s.

Sacred Rhythms

Sacred Rhythms
Author: Ruth Haley Barton
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-12-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830878297

Picking up on the monastic tradition of creating a "rule of life" that allows for regular space for the practice of spiritual disciplines, Ruth Haley Barton takes you more deeply into understanding seven key spiritual disciplines along with practical ideas for weaving them into everyday life.

A Season of Mystery

A Season of Mystery
Author: Paula Huston
Publisher: Loyola Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 082943755X

We live in a culture that tells us there are few things worse than aging, that we should avoid aging at all costs, and that we must shun death. And yet, no matter how much money we spend on health supplements, no matter how many gurus we consult, the fact remains unchanged: We will grow old. In A Season of Mystery, 60-year-old Paula Huston—a grandmother, and also a caretaker for her own mother and for her in-laws—shares with readers a far more fulfilling way to approach how we live and how we think about the second half of life. Each chapter offers a spiritual practice that is particularly suited to nurturing us in ways we would never have recognized in our younger lives. For example, the practice of “listening” helps us quit superimposing our own take on every situation before we have a chance to hear and see what is truly there; the practice of “delighting” encourages us to notice and be thankful for what is small and seemingly insignificant. Each of the 10 practices serves as an antidote to the classic afflictions of old age, such as close-mindedness, complaining, and fear of change. A Season of Mystery is not intended to be a selection of self-improvement secrets; the goal of Huston’s work is to encourage people in the second half of life to become “ordinary mystics” who are no longer bound by the world’s false ideas on aging but instead be freed by God’s grace to embrace the riches that come only with growing older.

Spirituality in Season

Spirituality in Season
Author: Ross Thompson
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008-12-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1853118923

We are used to making Lent a special time for renewal, but much less has been written on the other seasons of the year. This resource explores the traditions that have shaped each season, the lectionary readings, and the liturgies observed across the ecumenical spectrum.

The Seven Seasons of a Man's Life

The Seven Seasons of a Man's Life
Author: Patrick M. Morley
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780310220190

Drawing on the lessons of his own life and wisdom from the Bible, Morley presents hard-won perspectives on the seven seasons of Reflection, Building, Crisis, Renewal, Rebuilding, Suffering, and Success--and in so doing, addresses men's deep longing for direction and purpose.