Have you ever found yourself distracted while praying? Do you find work easier than prayer? Do you find praying to be too mechanical? Do you want to have a deeper relationship with God? If you answer yes to any of these questions, this book will help you find your way towards a deeper intimacy with God in prayer. Praying is more than just an activity. It is a meeting between friends. Learn about the two phases of the prayer life, what to do when your prayer seems dry, and how to effectively pray and prepare yourself to discover God more in the context of a growing and mature prayer life. This book will help you build and deepen your relationship with God. It’s time you invested in your number one relationship for eternity.
40 Leadership Nuggets of Wisdom To Live By is a collection of lessons learned by the author in his pursuit of becoming a wise and great leader. The book is divided into forty (40) days. Each day focuses on a particular nugget of wisdom and a few Points to Ponder so that the reader tries to live by the nugget of wisdom for that day. Why not 21 days? Why not 30 days? Yes, many authors have proven that it takes 21 days to create a habit. But the author believes that it will take more than 21 days for a person to be truly wise. 30 days make you practice the habits even more, but 40 days propel you ahead of others.
Have you ever found yourself distracted while praying? Do you find work easier than prayer? Do you find praying to be too mechanical? Do you want to have a deeper relationship with God? If you answer yes to any of these questions, this book will help you find your way towards a deeper intimacy with God in prayer. Praying is more than just an activity. It is a meeting between friends. Learn about the two phases of the prayer life, what to do when your prayer seems dry, and how to effectively pray and prepare yourself to discover God more in the context of a growing and mature prayer life. This book will help you build and deepen your relationship with God. It’s time you invested in your number one relationship for eternity.
40 Leadership Nuggets of Wisdom To Live By is a collection of lessons learned by the author in his pursuit of becoming a wise and great leader. The book is divided into forty (40) days. Each day focuses on a particular nugget of wisdom and a few Points to Ponder so that the reader tries to live by the nugget of wisdom for that day. Why not 21 days? Why not 30 days? Yes, many authors have proven that it takes 21 days to create a habit. But the author believes that it will take more than 21 days for a person to be truly wise. 30 days make you practice the habits even more, but 40 days propel you ahead of others.
Drawing on modern physics and ancient metaphysics, Stephen H. Webb constructs a philosophy of Christian materialism based on the unity of matter and spirit in the incarnation.
This book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity
What could Roman Catholicism and Mormonism possibly have to learn from each other? On the surface, they seem to diverge on nearly every point, from their liturgical forms to their understanding of history. With its ancient roots, Catholicism is a continuous tradition, committed to the conservation of the creeds, while Mormonism teaches that the landscape of Christian history is riddled with errors and apostasy and in need of radical revision and spiritual healing. Additionally, successful proselyting efforts by Mormons in formerly Catholic strongholds have increased opportunities for misunderstanding, polemic, and prejudice between the two faiths. However, as demonstrated in this unique and spirited dialogue between two theologians, one a convert to Catholicism and the other a convert to Mormonism, these two traditions are much closer to each other than many assume, including in their treatment of central doctrines such as authority, grace, Jesus, Mary, and revelation. Both Catholicism and Mormonism have ambitiously universal views of the Christian faith, and readers will be surprised by how close Catholics and Mormons are on a number of topics and how these traditions, probed to their depths, shed light on each other in fascinating and unexpected ways. Catholic and Mormon is an invitation to the reader to engage in a discussion that makes understanding the goal, and marks a beginning for a dialogue that will become increasingly important in the years to come.
This book constitutes a major reappraisal of the late Anglo-Saxon state on the eve of its demise. Its principal focus is the family of Ealdorman Leofwine, which obtained power in Mercia and retained it throughout an extraordinary period of political upheaval between 994 and 1071. In doing so it explores a paradox: that earls were extraordinarily wealthy and powerful yet distinctly insecure. The book contains the first extended treatment of earls' powers in late Anglo-Saxon England and shows that although they wielded considerable military, administrative and political powers, they remained vulnerable to exile and other forms of political punishment including loss of territory. The book also offers a path-breaking analysis of land tenure and the mechanics of royal patronage, and argues that the majority of earls' estates were held from the king on a revocable basis for the duration of their period in office. In order to compensate for such insecurities, earls used lordship and religious patronage to construct local networks of power. The book uses innovative methods for interpreting the representation of lordship in Domesday Book to reconstruct the affinity of the earls of Mercia. It also examines how the house of Leofwine made strategic use of religious patronage to cement local power structures. All this created intense competition between the earls of Mercia and their rivals for power, both at court and in the localities, and the book explores how factional rivalry determined the course of politics, and ultimately the fate of the late Anglo-Saxon state.
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