Healing for a Broken World

Healing for a Broken World
Author: Steve Monsma
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008-02-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433521245

Do today's believers know how to be not simply good citizens but good Christian citizens? Are they ready to respond to contemporary public policy issues such as genocide, global AIDS, global warming, and human trafficking according to Scripture rather than any particular political agenda? A growing segment of them are, even if they aren't quite sure how to accomplish it. This book is for them. With American evangelicals having more political influence today than ever before, this book is especially important. The opening chapters establish the foundational biblical principles that are relevant to our lives as Christian citizens no matter the topic. Author Steve Monsma next highlights crucial global issues in which believers are called to live out their faith. Forgoing ready-made answers, Monsma encourages a reflective, thoroughly biblical response via a lively writing style. His book will equip all believers to make godly, humanitarian choices rather than purely political ones. A DVD featuring a 10 minute introduction to each chapter of this book is available from Crossway at www.crossway.org or from the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at www.calvin.edu/henry. It is ideal for use in classes and discussion groups.

Healing a Broken World

Healing a Broken World
Author: Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002-08-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451405477

Moe-Lobeda shows how the advent of globalization places a new horizon on the spiritual quest for religious experience. "Healing a Broken World" places spirituality and contemplative experience in relation to today's most-pressing problems.

Generation Transformed

Generation Transformed
Author: Blaine St. Germain
Publisher: Lucid Books
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2011-09-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1935909290

Many Christian churches, homes, and student ministries are left feeling helpless against the pull of secularism that is bombarding this generation. "Generation Transformed" will help pastors, youth pastors, volunteers, and parents to understand the immense pull that culture has on teens, and the text takes a biblical approach to rectifying the problems.

The Journey Begins

The Journey Begins
Author: Riaan Engelbrecht
Publisher: Riaan Engelbrecht
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2023-01-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Our walk with God is a journey, and such a journey begins with a step - to follow Jesus. This volume of work explains in simple terms the journey of following, and how this journey is wonderful, glorious and blessed as we seek to embrace the Lord's gift of salvation, redemption and hope. We are all at a crossroads in our lives and we need to decide if we are either following Jesus or following the world. So let us take this journey together to the glory of the Lord, for in Him there is love, salvation, joy and peace.

Healing Liturgies for the Seasons of Life

Healing Liturgies for the Seasons of Life
Author: Abigail Rian Evans
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664224820

Are you looking for a new way to renew your worship, respond to the needs of the church and community, and connect with people in their passage of life--both chronological and crisis? This book offers a rich resource to you, both as a tool for worship and also devotionally as you face the deepest questions of life. Here you will find one way that the church can renew and rediscover its healing ministry. Abigail Evans, a leading specialist in bioethics and health ministries, explores how God's gift of healing is available during all seasons of a person's life and how the power of hope and healing are affirmed and redirected through liturgical services, sacraments, and rites. This distinctive resource features specific healing liturgies for injury, illness, death, separation, retirement, and a host of other major life events, from a wide variety of religious traditions.

Contemplative Healing

Contemplative Healing
Author: Francis Geddes
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1450283446

Jesus introduced healing into the Judaism of his day, and for the Church's first three hundred years, healing was an important spiritual practice. In Contemplative Healing, author Francis Geddes describes healing prayer's importance and recommends congregations renew this ancient Christian practice. Geddes presents an overview of Christian healing for the church and beyond. It addresses society's need for loving connection with one another and the source of our being within a broad Christian context. Contemplative Healing demonstrates the following essential points: Everyone can be a healer Science and healing need not be at odds. Jesus introduced healing as a transforming spiritual practice. Healing is grounded in love. Contemplative Healing communicates how the loving spirit of God and Christ function in a community by alleviating pain and bringing wholeness. Praise for CONTEMPLATIVE HEALING "This book's treatment of healing as a spiritual and Christian practice is important for Christians and the church in our time. It creates a framework for seeing healing within the practice of Jesus and early Christianity, attends to the relationship between healing and contemporary medical science, and describes how to introduce the practice of healing into local congregations." -MARCUS J. BORG, AUTHOR, THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY

My Daily Discoverment

My Daily Discoverment
Author: Andrew Hyde
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-11-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1039117597

My Daily Discoverment is a resource for young adults in the Christian tradition who want to explore vocational discernment. Utilizing forty daily reflections from the author, reflection prompts with space to journal, and additional commentary from diverse contributors, this resource equips readers to engage questions of calling, purpose, and decision-making. My Daily Discoverment is structured to ask important questions, such as: Who is God? Who am I? What does God do? What am I called to do? How do I make decisions? How do I live into the decisions I make? This is a great resource for individual study or as a launchpad for further discussion with a mentor or in a group setting. Although directed at young adults, My Daily Discoverment will inspire readers of all ages to refocus, reimagine, and renew their lives as they seek God’s call and fulfil their purpose.

The Community of the Weak

The Community of the Weak
Author: Hans-Peter Geiser
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610976347

Social postmodernism and systematic theology can be considered the new pair in some of the most creative discussions on the future of theological method on a global scale. Both in the academy and in the public square, as well as in the manifold local and pastoral moments of ministry and community social activism, the social, the postmodern, and the theological intermingle in engaging and border-crossing ways. The Community of the Weak presents a new kind of jazzy fundamental theology with a postmodern touch, using jazz as a metaphor, writing ethnographically messy texts out of the personal windows of lived experiences, combining fragments of autobiography with theological reconstruction. A comparative perspective on North American and European developments in contemporary systematic theology serves as a hermeneutical horizon to juxtapose two continents in their very different contexts. The author proposes a systematic and fundamental theology that is more jazzy, global, and narrative, deeply embedded in pastoral ministry to tell its postmodern story.

Christ-Centered Therapy

Christ-Centered Therapy
Author: Harold G Koenig
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317788893

Help your clients gain access to the transformative grace of God through Christ! All too often, psychology and spirituality are kept in separate boxes, lessening the power of each to work effective changes. Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self brings together Christian faith with the Internal Family System (IFS) model. This widely accepted paradigm facilitates psychological healing by showing how the self can become the change agent for the dysfunctional internal system. Christ-centered IFS (CCIFS) combines the power of internal system therapy with the healing power of God for lasting change. Therapists with Christian clients, faith-based clients, or clients who need foundational grounding will benefit from the psychological and spiritual dimensions of Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self. This powerful therapeutic model posits a self surrounded by subpersonalities who carry anger, fear, distrust, and other negative responses. When the client’s self takes the leadership role, the self becomes the channel for Christ’s grace for all the subpersonalities. One by one they become empowered, center around self and God, and contribute their resources to the functioning of the whole personality. Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self provides exercises and visual aids to help both client and counselor, including: four tools to teach the self to lead effectively worksheets to serve as a structural and visual guide to understanding, developing, and using each tool a parts map for client and counselor to use collaboratively cartoons, structural diagrams, and dialogues to illustrate new concepts and procedures Each chapter of Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self provides specific help for the counselor, including: case studies showing step-by-step clinical interventions a content summary a clinical outline listing the interventions in sequence an exercise to help counselors discover their own inner and spiritual dynamics Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self brings together the diagnostic and restorative power of IFS with the transforming power of Christian spirituality. It is essential for Christian counselors and for non-Christian counselors who are seeking more effective ways to treat Christian clients.

Unmuting the Bible

Unmuting the Bible
Author: Naveen Alapati
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1638732949

We live in a world where God and the Bible do not make much sense, at least beyond the religious circles. Even in the places in which they make sense, they are suppressed and silenced to satisfy the traditionalist and conservative views. Popular Christianity is much concerned about 'how to get into heaven' and least concerned about the vision of God that the Bible offers. Bible presents a vision of God because of which the world can become a better place with all the brokenness healed. This cannot be realized as long as the Bible is silenced with the Church's own definitions of religion and spirituality. This book, Unmuting the Bible, calls the readers to listen to what the Bible has to say for the readers and society. It calls to look at the Bible beyond the conventional thought patterns so that the Bible can speak on its own terms and in its own worldview.