In Prayer journey through the psalms, John Calvin Reid invites you on a inner spiritual journey through the psalms. reflecting on 118 selected psalms verses, he shares a beautifullu written personla prayer based on each chosen passage. Sensitive to every life experience or need, each page focuses on a theme -suach as gratitude, sympsthy. sickness, courage, or understanding- to guide and nourish the spirit. Devotions are also offered for morning and nighttime spiritual meditation. The prayers are sensitively composed by John Calvin Reid and by other spiritual writers, giving insight into the true gift of each unique verse.
These simple meditations are appropiate for personal or group devotions, as daily meditations, or for special occasions. This book is ideal for anyone who is interested in exploring the richness and wisdom of the psalms.
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This book is based on the author´s experiences in his own church and breathes a spirit of urgency that is both refreshing and stimulating. He shows how the minister must recognize that his people, too, are minister of the gospel and that it is only by working together as a determinated fellowship og the redeemed that the church can covert and transform society. This is a book of specific suggestions that have been tested and proved to be effective.
Loss of mission. Necessity begins in awakening. Conversion continues by decision. Conversion matures by growth. Conversion endures in discipline. Conversion takes place in koinonia. Imperative: conversion within the church. Strategy: koinonia groups. New creation in the church: changing lives. New creation in the church: the lay minister emerges. Recovery of mission.
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There are many works on ethics and various phases of christian ethics, but this contribution of Dr. Ramsey´s goes deeper and more thoroughly into the basic ideas than any other book now current.
Because christian ethics cannot be separated from its religious foundation, an understanding of the New Testament and of the great theologians of the past is presented. There is a self-contained initroduction to New Testament ethics and the moral philosophies of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and (less fully) Soren Kierkegaard. This primary source material has been used systematically in the interest of setting forth a constructive theory of christian ethics -not at all with antiquarian concern, since christianity is interested in living, not dead, issues.
Two sources of christian love. Christian liberty: an ethic without rules. Meaning of christian love. Faith´s effectiveness. Christian vocation. Christian virtue. Work of christian love. This human nature. Christian love is search of a social policy. Religious foundation for community life.
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The story of one man´s faith journey into the eighties, The gift of tomorrow is a profound, often poetic vision. But it is also a compellingly worded invitation urging all christians to seek a similar life investment in peace-work and earth-care -inestments that must be the church´s most holy calling in this crucial hour.
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