The Cross of Nails

The Cross of Nails
Author: Oliver Schuegraf
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2013-01-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1848254415

The story of The Community of the Cross of Nails, born from the bombing of Coventry Cathedral in 1940. Today, it works in 40 countries to build peace, heal the wounds of history and enable people to grow together in hope. This illustrated guide tells its remarkable story from the beginning, reflecting on the meaning of reconciliation today.

A Berlin Love Song

A Berlin Love Song
Author: Sarah Matthias
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Berlin (Germany)
ISBN: 9781909991408

Max is a German schoolboy, when he first meets Lili, a trapeze artist from a travelling circus that performs every year in Berlin. Lili is a Romani and her life and customs are very different from those of Max and his family. Their friendship turns into love, but love between a German and a Romani is definitely forbidden. As Max is conscripted into the SS and war tears them apart, can their love survive? Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, A Berlin Love Song is a love story of passion, unexpected friendship, despair, loss and hope.

Reconciling All Things

Reconciling All Things
Author: Emmanuel Katongole
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2009-12-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830878300

Conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible? Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice work from their experiences in Uganda and Mississippi to recover distinctively Christian practices that will help the church be both a sign and an agent of God's reconciling love in the fragmented world of the twenty-first century.

Next Door Savior

Next Door Savior
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418516945

We applaud men for doing good things. We enshrine God for doing great things. But what about a man who does God things? One thing is certain. We can't ignore him. If these moments are factual, if the claim of Christ is actual, then he was, at once, man and God. The single most significant person who ever lived. Forget MVP. He is the entire league. The head of the parade? Hardly. No one else shares the street. Who comes close? Humanity's best and brightest fade like dime-store rubies next to him. Dismiss him? We can't. Resist him? Equally difficult. Why would we want to? Don't we need a God-man Savior? A just-God Jesus could make us, but not understand us. A just-man Jesus could love us, but never save us. But a God-man Jesus? Near enough to touch. Strong enough to trust. A next door Savior.

The Hand That Drove the Nails (eBook)

The Hand That Drove the Nails (eBook)
Author: J. Fletcher Ray
Publisher: Christian Art Publishers
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2002-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1432101587

One night in June 1920 he opened old Guiseppe’s box with great excitement. He broke the seals and discovered several scrolls that were still in good condition. He found a long thick nail. This encouraged him to look further. He was horrified when he found the bones of a man’s right hand, together with two more nails and a small piece of papyrus ... THE HAND THAT DROVE THE NAILS tells the story of Scipio Martialis through the experience of a scholar of Greek Aramaic, a man who was shot in 1916 during World War I. He found himself in the strange situation of possibly making the greatest discovery in 2,000 years.

He Chose the Nails

He Chose the Nails
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 084994712X

The wood. The thorns. The nails. Christ's sacrifice has defined the very essence of mankind's faith for the past 2000 years. And now, Max Lucado invites you to examine the cross, contemplate its purpose, and celebrate its significance with He Chose the Nails. With his warm, caring style, Max examines the symbols surrounding Christ's crucifixion, revealing the claims of the cross and asserting that if they are true, then Christianity itself is true. The supporting evidence either makes the cross the single biggest hoax of all time, or the hope of all humanity

Following the Cross of Nails

Following the Cross of Nails
Author: Mike Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781481008495

In August 1964, Coventry Cathedral Choir played a key ambassadorial role in the Cathedral's burgeoning international ministry of reconciliation. Symbolic of this ministry is the Cross of Nails, fashioned from medieval nails which fell with the roof of the old Cathedral during the Blitz which destroyed much of the city on the night of 14 November 1940.The Choir accompanied Provost Bill Williams and Canon Joseph Poole on their mission to present a replica Cross of Nails to the monastery of Ottobeuren in Bavaria, passing en route through Nuremberg and Munich. The climax of the tour was a live broadcast of War Requiem with its composer, Benjamin Britten.One of the choristers on that memorable tour was Mike Smith, who tells the story of the Choir's tour through a commentary on the startlingly fresh photographs of Richard Sadler.

No Atheists in Foxholes

No Atheists in Foxholes
Author: Patrick McLaughlin
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-04-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418574708

Experience gripping wartime stories and honest prayers by this Camp David chaplain now serving in Iraq. When words mean less and less, but money talks more and more; when blasphemy is a best seller, and eternal war has replaced hopeful diplomacy; in times like these is prayer even possible? Patrick J. McLaughlin thinks so. McLaughlin is an active duty Navy Chaplain who has ministered to heads of state and to soldiers living and dying in the heat of Iraq. No Atheists in Foxholes assembles Chaplain McLaughlin's experiences and prayers from e-mails, private notes, and personal conversations that take us real-time into realms of duty and spirit: from the quiet darkness of his infant son's New England bedroom on September 11, 2001, to the bomshelled medical tents and blistered Army Humvees of Anbar Province. Chaplain McLaughlin believes that prayer is not only possible, but critical. "We must all learn to pray for peace," he says, "and then become an answer to that prayer."

The Print of the Nails

The Print of the Nails
Author: Paula Gooder
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2022-02-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1786224240

Each year, the Holy Week and Easter double issue of the Church Times offers a wealth of seasonal reading and resources for worship and preaching. This volume, like its companion Christmas collection, draws together outstanding features from the past twenty years. It includes: * Meditations on the Stations of the Cross by the poet David Scott; * A short story set in Gethsemane by David Hart; * Timothy Radcliffe on the alternative to conflict symbolised by the Last Supper; * Sam Wells on Pilate and what he - and we - could do differently; * Richard Harries on the art of Good Friday; * Peter Stanford on Judas; * Michael Perham on why Easter celebrations should start in the dark; * Stephen Cleobury on the carols of Easter; * Mark Oakley on the poetry of the cross; * Paula Gooder on why the resurrection is central to faith; * Reflections on the season's lectionary readings, and much besides.