Peace is an Offering

Peace is an Offering
Author: Annette LeBox
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0698408845

A warm, comforting poem about finding peace in a community of neighbors Peace is an offering. A muffin or a peach. A birthday invitation. A trip to the beach. Join this group of neighborhood children as they find love in everyday things—in sunlight shining through the leaves and cookies shared with friends—and learn that peace is all around, if you just look for it. With rhyming verse and soft illustrations, this book will help families and teachers look for the light moments when tragedy strikes and remind readers of the calm and happiness they find in their own community every day.

The Arena

The Arena
Author: Ignatius Brianchaninov
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2021-03-19
Genre:
ISBN:

The Arena is one of the Saint Ignatius' most famous books. It functions as guidelines for the monastic life but in it, are valuable lessons for the average person trying to improve their spiritual life. The saint teaches about sins that we didn't even know exist for example curiosity and also other valuable lessons like the dangers of interpreting dreams. It is a must read for all Christians to learn the straight and narrow path.

An Offering Made by Fire

An Offering Made by Fire
Author: Dave Dungan
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1607918145

Prophecy pages are turning! As each page rests upon the other, events begin to unfold all around us. Fear is replacing the peace that has kept our borders and it's amazing at what freedoms we are willing to give up, just to feel safe. With the ever-growing economic uncertainties, we as believers are supposed to be at peace so that an unbelieving world might ask concerning the hope that is within us. Yet today, we find more than ever that the church is hurting and is just as uncertain about the future as everyone else. Our joy has been replaced by anxiety and what was once so clear has now become a cloudy gray. We struggle to remain true to the convictions of those who shed their blood defending them. The body of Christ is at a crossroads. The syncretism of religion declares that there are many faces to God but only one voice, and these falsehoods are pushing the believer to make a stand! Resistance to this path labels one as a fanatic and a radical. What are we as followers of Christ supposed to be doing and what is our hope? Dave Dungan answers some of these questions scripturally as we see that we were created to minister to God His Glory and not our own. We are to be a living sacrifice so that we might be prepared "An Offering Made by Fire," a sweet smell to a most Holy God.

Beyond the Offering Plate

Beyond the Offering Plate
Author: Adam J. Copeland
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611648114

Everyone knows that stewardship is more than money and finances. Nevertheless, seldom do we give time to explore the profound concept of stewardship in its many dimensions, including stewardship of time, work, body, mind, spirit, community, technology, and more. Beyond the Offering Plate does just that. Written by ten engaging pastors, seminary professors, and church leaders, this unique resource offers a diverse and holistic approach to stewardship. In ten accessible chapters, readers will learn how they can faithfully and practically discuss and engage with stewardship on a regular basis. Ideal for church leaders, seminary students, and pastors, this book includes questions for reflection and applications for life together at the end of each chapter. Copeland adds a special section with biblical references and preaching themes at the end of the book. Featured contributors include: Margaret P. Aymer, Associate Professor of New Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas Kathleen A. Cahalan, Professor of Theology at Saint John's University School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota MaryAnn McKibben Dana, author of Sabbath in the Suburbs David Gambrell, Associate for Worship in the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) David P. King, Karen Lake Buttrey Director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving and Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana Neal D. Presa, pastor and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Ellie Roscher, Director of Youth and Story Development at Bethlehem Lutheran Church Twin Cities in Minneapolis and author of How Coffee Saved My Life Mary Hinkle Shore, pastor of Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brevard, North Carolina John W. Vest, Visiting Assistant Professor of Evangelism at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia

The Offering

The Offering
Author: Angela Hunt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439182086

One innocent mistake… a lifetime of consequences. After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child, she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . . . Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy is about to conclude, unexpected tragedy enters Mandy’s world and leaves her reeling. Devastated by grief, she surrenders the child she was carrying and struggles to regain her emotional equilibrium. Two years later she studies a photograph of the baby she bore and wonders if the unthinkable has happened—could she have inadvertently given away her own biological child? Over the next few months Mandy struggles to decide between the desires of her grief-stricken heart and what’s best for the little boy she has never known.

An Offering of Leaves

An Offering of Leaves
Author: Ruth Lauer Manenti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781590561508

For many years at the Jivamukti Yoga School in New York City and throughout the country, popular and highly regarded yoga teacher Ruth Lauer-Mancnti (affectionately known as "Lady Ruth") has been offering her students "dharma talks"---stories from her life that accompany her classes and represent the yogic commitments to ahimsa (nonviolence), compassion, and service. Some of these talks have now been collected in a book, many of them accompanied by a reading from classic Hindu texts. Composed with humor and sensitivity, An Offering of Leaves is the perfect gift for the aspiring yogin and any spiritual seeker wanting to live with thoughtfulness and integrity. "Ruth sces not only beauty and wonder in the world around her, but receives profound guidance from observing everyday activities like an old woman getting her hands dirty changing a flat tire or ants carrying carrots. This is because to Ruth all of life pulsates with the wisdom teachings of the guru---the enlightenment principle that surrounds and permeates through all of us at all times."---Sharon Gannon, co-founder of Jivamukti Yoga School "Ruth gives readers an understanding of the philosophy of yoga through all that she has experienced in her many dedicated years of practice under the guidance of my grandfather, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois."---Sharath Rangaswamy "Ruth is an able teacher of yoga and a serious student of Sanskrit. Her deep knowledge of the Indian heritage and tradition makes her views very interesting. Her incisive mind finds various hidden meanings in the words of ancient scers. Needless to say, her students are sure to gain true knowledge if they pay attention to her, even when she speaks casually."---Prof. H. V. Nagaraja Rao, Sanskritist

A Musical Offering

A Musical Offering
Author: Luis Sagasti
Publisher: Charco Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1916277810

A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music. Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach’s Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti’s second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.

The Morning Offering

The Morning Offering
Author: David M. Parsons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-12-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781936270989

Thousands of readers and listeners have benefited from the fatherly wisdom and insight of The Morning Offering, the blog and podcast of Abbot Tryphon of All-Merciful Saviour Monastery, Vashon Island, Washington. Now Abbot Tryphon's reflections on faith and contemporary life have been collected in book form, with one entry for each day of the year. Start your day with The Morning Offering and keep yourself oriented toward Christ all through the day.

Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate

Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate
Author: J. Clif Christopher
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426723385

Hearing a young attorney speak of the faith-based reasons for which he had just made a substantial monetary gift to a community youth center, Clif Christopher asked the speaker if he would consider making a similar contribution to the congregation of which he was an active member. "Lord no, they wouldn't know what to do with it" was the answer. That, in a nutshell, describes the problem churches are facing in their stewardship efforts, says Christopher. Unlike leading nonprofit agencies and institutions, we too often fail to convince potential givers that their gifts will have impact and significance. In this book, Christopher lays out the main reasons for this failure to capture the imagination of potential givers, including our frequent failure simply to ask. Written with the needs of pastors and stewardship teams in mind, Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate provides immediate, practical guidance to all who seek to help God’s people be better stewards of their resources.

The Offering

The Offering
Author: Grace McCleen
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1444770012

It was the year when Madeline's family moved to an island her father believed God had guided him to. It was a place where she revelled in the natural beauty of their surroundings. It was a time of euphoria, but also of successive disasters. It was the night Madeline turned fourteen, when she did something she thought would save her beloved mother. Something so traumatic that she cannot now recall it, but her suave new psychiatrist thinks he knows how to unlock her memory. He is treading on very dangerous ground.