Part I of this e-book summarizes the state of religion among the Jewish people during the long four hundred year period which elapsed between the time of the prophet Malachi and the beginning of the Christian era. Part II gives the Gospel's presentation of Jesus as the fulfillment of Israel's hopes, their perception of Him and His own claim to be the Messiah.
Technically, there are two types of grief groups. The informative/supportive grief groups’ purpose is to promote grief education and awareness. It covers grief and bereavement in a more didactic fashion.The second type of grief group is therapeutic in nature. It is personal growth oriented groups focusing on facilitating the individual participant’s own personal loss process. Though many commonalities exist between these two types of groups each has its own unique dynamics and concerns. This book focuses on the second type of group, sometimes referred to as Grief Recovery Groups. I prefer the term “Grief Management.†I learned a long time ago that there is no recovery from grief precipitated by the loss of a beloved, but we can overcome.Settling the Storm is particularly designed for all who are currently leading a group, who are thinking about facilitating a grief group in the future or would like to learn some additional skills or ideas in creating a grief group within a small gathering of people. It was created and organized to help Facilitators plan and facilitate grief groups. It takes off by inviting you to self assess readiness to lead grievers on the journey through grief, reviews the typical characteristics of effective Facilitators, and accentuates the vital skills necessary for ensuring positive outcomes.The next chapter moves you on to a refresher glance at the anatomy of grief and bereavement by considering elements that influence grief; explores the categories of grief and discusses issues relative to grief of the elderly.The third section focuses on the essentials for group preparation and helps you organize your thoughts and ideas about groups. The practical aspects of goals and objectives, and other information are included to provide you with an adequate blueprint for the implementation of your first group session.The “Content of the Session†provides you with some thoughts and suggestions on what to do in your grief groups. In addition, setting up group guidelines, structuring cathartic activities and evaluating the group process are also covered.You will be given tried and proven methodologies used to promote the emotional and spiritual well-being of grieving group members and fundamental tools needed for ensuring the best possible results. A grief group curriculum that can be used as a model is integrated into the overall presentation. Optional resources are appended.
In recognizing the limitations of traditional problem solving methods, solution focus has aided many individuals in changing their perception of problems and transforming them into solutions. Regardless of what difficulties one may be tackling, this book offers practical skills for overcoming. Filled with examples and illustrations, it addresses and explains the role of the all important “miracle†questions as well as “exceptions,†“scaling,†and “coping†questions to help identify leverage points for change. Active listening, a key solution focus skill is reviewed extensively.In addition, readers will learn how to establish well-formed goals and understand the truth of the philosophical statement “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.†Solution Focus’ radical simplicity diverts your attention away from the often frustrating search for the causes of problems and directs it to solutions; away from your weaknesses to your strengths; away from what is going wrong, to what is going right in your life. Though it may not be a fix-all, it will certainly give you a viable alternative to outdated problem solving strategies and teaches how to put solution focused knowledge into everyday practical use. If you want to learn a new way of assisting yourself or others to deal more creatively and effectively with problems, then you are encouraged to explore Solution Focus’ simple principles and tools for positive change.
This e-book applies the practical insights of thirty selected biblical passages to our daily lives. Each reflection is adorned with gems of thought to nurture the senses, stimulate the mind, encourage the spirit, invigorate the soul and inspire the heart. You will be reminded of God’s love and power in the life of every Christian and gain renewed strength for the living of these days.
This eBook is composed of over 90 homilies conducive to spiritual growth and peace. You will be strengthened, motivated, inspired, encouraged, and enlightened with God's Word, as you travel the rugged path to the City of God. Each meditation begins with the referenced Bible text and concludes with a prayer. Topics include: Negative Disturbances, God's Reversals, When Goliath Comes.
The important purpose of this marriage preparation e-Book is to help you assess your personal readiness for marriage and to increase your repertoire of tools necessary to grow and maintain a healthy, loving, spiritually satisfying marriage. I will guide you through serious issues to consider about your relationship and alert you to those vital areas that you need to explore with your intended “prior to tying the knot.†Planning for your wedding is a wonderful and exciting adventure. But, it is not nearly as important as planning for your marriage life.In the society in which we live, it is paramount that couples learn as much about each other as possible before tying that “until death do us part†knot. With divorce rates escalating each year, it seems, couples need every advantage to succeed in today’s marriages. Thus, this marriage preparation guide functions as a booster shot that will boost your capacity to predict and handle potential difficulties and to accentuate awareness of the inevitable challenges of a committed relationship.This e-Book further seeks to help prepare you to enter into a long term relationship based upon sacrificial love for one another, and to place the needs of your beloved before the needs of self. The Christian couple is encouraged to invite Jesus Christ to be the third cord in the marital relationship: “Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.†Ecclesiastes 4:12.
This e-Book elucidates the adverse effects the awful “negativitis†has on infected men and women and prescribes potent spiritual medication for its remedy.There are many people suffering with the dreaded “negativitis†which is an inflammation of the spirit. It is a spiritual poison created by excessive negativisms and it affects our physical, emotional, and mental health as well. It corrodes the human spirit. Those infected by it are negative men and women aimlessly plodding along enduring their pain of choice.Are you one of these people? Are you tired of all the negatives in your life? Do you long for peace and more self-control? Then this e-Book is for you. In a world of confusion jam-packed with negativity, what is desperately needed is a double dose of oxygen. This e-Book offers you that “breath of fresh air.†Contained herein is a prescription for curing your negativitis in only ten tasty doses. But, you must be willing to change. Just as no medicine will work if we do not take it as prescribed, this e-Book will not be useful to you if you have not decided that you are really ready to transform a negative existence into a positive, growth enhancing one. Are you ready?
This e-Book contains eighty-four personalized prayers based on scriptural verses that will empower and inspire you in your devotionals as the Holy Spirit works in you. Written in the first person singular pronoun, these prayers can serve as a catalyst for developing or strengthening your relationship with God of the Ages.As you pray the prayers, you will note that inherent in each prayer is the keen awareness of our own need to be changed by God and to be endued with His power to do His divine will. His Holy Writ provides the spiritual direction for each prayer, that is, each prayer is in response to the selected scriptural verses. When we pray, spiritually influenced by the Scriptures, we acknowledge the weakness and sins that it put before us, and we celebrate in praise and thanksgiving as we glorify Him for being our God through Jesus Christ. Our prayers bring us into agreement with God and His power is released to quiet the turbulent soul.Holy Writ (Bible, Scripture) inspired praying is not identical with Scripture praying. Scripture praying personalizes a biblical text. For example, 2 Corinthians 5:1 reads: “Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.†Scripture praying would personalize it thusly:Lord, I know that if the earthly tent I live in is destroyed, I have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.Though similar, Scripture inspired prayers in the context in which I mean it, are prayers inspired by the verse or passage through the work of the Holy Spirit in you. So an inspired prayer from this same verse might be:O God, Whose days are without end and whose mercies cannot be numbered,Keep me deeply aware of the shortness and uncertainty of human life. Grant that Your Holy Spirit lead me in holiness and righteousness and that when I shall have served my allotted time, I be gathered with all the saints of the ages before Your throne at last. This I ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.Notice the difference?Inspired Scripture praying is responding to God in the moment as you are meditating on His Word and being urged by the Holy Spirit to pray, in a contrite spirit, your soul deepest needs in reaction to the Word. It also includes responding to God in praise of who He is as God and what that means to you personally.
This eBook was created to: a) assist Christians desiring to minister to those who have suffered loss due to death in understanding the complex phenomenon of grief; b) increase sensitivity to the bereaved c) offer effective techniques for providing Soft Care support and d) provide spiritual resources to share with the bereaved.
Today we do not experience great manifestations of God as Moses did many years ago. God has not spoken to us out of a burning bush and neither have we heard His voice as He walked in the cool of the day in the Garden of Eden. We have not looked up over our house of worship and seen the Shekinah glory of God in a visible way. But God does reach into our hearts and into our life and speak to us through His holy Word.One of the outstanding characteristics of Jesus while on earth was His keen skills of observation. He possessed what we sometimes refer to as a “homiletic mind†and saw sermon illustrations at every turn. As He lifts up some simple happening and draws insights from it, we feel refreshed by His words and they speak directly to our own condition.The twenty-one tough truths for these troubled times that furnish the content of this book do not originate with the author, but extracted from the storehouse of God’s inexhaustible truth found in both Old and New Testaments. The insights speak to the soul with urgings to rise above the petty to the significant, the secular to the sacred, and the finite to the infinite.
This eBook is comprised of 70 poems of love, friendship, inspiration, grief, humor, life, that are sure to lift your spirits. These poems in narrative rhyme are intended to provoke deep thought, promote enlightened Christian perspective and encourage faithfulness. Titles include: Room Beneath the Snow, Flaw Detectives, Hands, The Game of Life, Losing Turtlehead, It's a Crime and Bad Luck Sue.
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