This varied and vast collection captures more than 160 sermons developed and delivered by John Coburn — prominent church leader, educator, and rector at St. James Church in New York City. Powerful, yet readily accessible, the sermons reflect Coburn’s refined understanding of personal spirituality, Christian responsibility, congregational life, and the Christian journey. The collection also includes significant meditations for Lent and Easter, plus Coburn’s personal and professional observations on life, church, culture, politics, and the nation at large.
As a painter, James Coburn has refined and intensified a unique personal language of symbols for his work. Within his immediately recognizable and highly individual form of abstract expressionism he has developed a compressed emotional power reminiscent of Mark Rothko. Acknowledged as a leading painter and an elder statesman in the Australian arts, Queensland-born John Coburn is represented in all Australian State galleries and many overseas collections, including the Vatican Museum. He has also achieved international recognition for his magnificent Sydney Opera House Curtains of the Sun and Moon and his Seven Days of Creation tapestries hanging in the Kennedy Centre, Washington.
A great artist may be enabled, late in life, to discover and reveal to himself and to us, the deepest secrets of his art. For over three decades from the late 1950s onwards, John Coburn's art impressed the widest public, both in Australia and overseas. His prolific output of paintings, prints and tapestries expressed an apparently endless artistic imagination. Over much of the same period he was a highly effective art educator. But that brilliant career was abruptly broken into, at the height of success, by personal tragedy and life-threatening illness resulting in serious physical disability. The artist's life and work up to that rupture has been the subject of several studies, but his subsequent deepening maturity and the stream of subtle masterpieces of the 'master of colour' call for new recognition and appreciation. To penetrate into Coburn's development in these years, the author proceeds through an investigation of the mysterious nature of colour itself; the determining events and influences of the artist's life including the early impact of the Australian landscape and his fascination with the work of painters such as Miro, Matisse and Rothko; the culmination of his refined technique and colour experience in the ground-breaking tapestries - and the impact of crisis in the mid-1980s. Returning, now, to the theme of colour and the artist, we are shown how unremitting artistic striving and the impacts of life, coalesce in the creative impulses which release the magnificent 'late works'. The book admits us to the artist's private studio, to join as onlookers in the production of these haunting works. The book contains 147 colour plates as well as documentary photographs and comprehensive biographical notes and exhibition lists.
“The purpose of this volume,” says John Coburn, “is to help you pray and grow in your personal religious life. It is a book about your inner life and your relationship with God. Although this relationship is unique for each person, there is a general way in which God deals with us and through which we respond. This book is concerned with this general pattern.” Chapters include: • Prayer is Response to God • Be Yourself and Begin with Where You Are • Clearing the Ground: When, Where, and How to Pray • The Foundation Stones of Prayer: Adoration, Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Petition • The House that Prayer Builds: Prayers that You Think, that You Feel, that You Will • Progress in Prayer: Practicing the Presence of God; Reading, Prayer Groups, Retreats; a Rule of Life; On Beginning Again • Mature Personal Religion: Action and Worship • On Suffering and Joy
What is your first step in moving forward from a tragedy? How is that process affected when you're confronted with another tragic event... and another... and another? How resilient can one person be? U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer John Coburn has patrolled the Coronado National Forest in southern Arizona for over eight years. In one of the most inherently dangerous law enforcement jobs in the world, Officer Coburn has had his fair share of dangerous encounters; but he has never faced anything like this... Follow John Coburn as he navigates through a series of unfortunate events, witness his internal struggles, and watch where his journey takes him.
Based on twenty plus years of selling enterprise software solutions, "Selling High Value Software" is about winning deals at the highest attainable value. It covers first-hand tips and techniques that you can use to boost value recognition and sustain it through the most demanding sales cycle. These are ideas and suggestions that will help you through the sales negotiations, due diligence processes and commercial situations that are typical of high value software contracts. Aimed at small and medium sized software companies who develop original intellectual content, the book is a street-fighter's guide to value creation and is beautifully paced throughout it's high-octane 200+ pages.
When Julie Miller began writing her successful developmental math series, one of her primary goals was to bridge the gap between preparatory courses and college algebra. For thousands of students, the Miller/OËNeill/Hyde (or M/O/H) series has provided a solid foundation in developmental mathematics. With the Miller College Algebra series, Julie has carried forward her clear, concise writing style; highly effective pedagogical features; and complete author-created technological package to students in this course area. The main objectives of the college algebra series are three-fold: Ë Provide students with a clear and logical presentation of the basic concepts that will prepare them for continued study in mathematics. Ë Help students develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills that will benefit them in all aspects of life. Ë Motivate students by demonstrating the significance of mathematics in their lives through practical applications.
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