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Book Synopsis Untangling Religion from Spirituality by : Mike George
Download or read book Untangling Religion from Spirituality written by Mike George and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Would YOU Say? Some people say, "I am spiritual but not religious". Others say, "I am religious and my spirituality is based on my religion". And a few say, "My religion is my spirituality". Then there are those who say, "Religion is spiritual and you can't be spiritual without religion". And a very few say they cannot be compared as both are the same! Phew! So there is an obvious mixing of the two ideas. That's why untangling them can only happen in one's own consciousness when there is clarity about each. Mike sets out to help you discern the difference between religion and spirituality but in a way that engages you to 'see for your self'. In 101 areas of comparison he articulates both the substantial and the subtle differences with simplicity and wisdom. Why is it important? In his words, "Right now religion still dominates our world. For many it provides a comfortable set of beliefs by which to live. But if you want to prepare your self for what is to come, if you want to be ready, willing and able to face the challenges ahead, you will need to cultivate your spirituality. And that, for many, is not so comfortable".
Book Synopsis Attached to God by : Krispin Mayfield
Download or read book Attached to God written by Krispin Mayfield and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does God feel so far away? The reason--and the solution--is in your attachment style. We all experience moments when God's love and presence are tangible. But we also experience feeling utterly abandoned by God. Why? The answer is found when you take a deep look at the other important relationships in your life and understand your attachment style. Through his years working in trauma recovery programs, extensive research into attachment science, and personal experiences with spiritual striving and abuse, licensed therapist Krispin Mayfield has learned to answer the question: Why do I feel so far from God? When you understand your attachment style you gain a whole new paradigm for a secure and loving relationship with God. You'll gain insights about: How you relate to others--both your strengths and weaknesses The practical exercises you can use to grow a secure spiritual attachment to God How to move forward on the spirituality spectrum and experience the Divine connection we all were created for You'll learn to identify and remove mixed messages about closeness with God that you may have heard in church or from well-meaning Christians. With freedom from the past, you can then chart a new path toward intimate connection with the God of the universe.
Book Synopsis Spirituality, Religion, and Aging by : Holly Nelson-Becker
Download or read book Spirituality, Religion, and Aging written by Holly Nelson-Becker and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality, Religion, and Aging: Illuminations for Therapeutic Practice by Holly Nelson-Becker is a highly integrative book written for students, professionals in aging, ministers, and older adults themselves. Readers will gain the knowledge and skills they need to assess, engage, and address the spiritual and religious needs of older persons. Taking a fresh approach that breaks new ground in the field, the author discusses eight major world religions and covers values and ethics, theories, interventions, health and caregiving, depression and anxiety, dementia, and the end of life. Meditations and exercises throughout the book allow readers to expand and explore their personal understanding of spirituality. Referencing the latest research, the book includes assessments and skill-based tools designed to help practitioners enhance the mental health of older people.
Book Synopsis God without Religion by : Andrew Farley
Download or read book God without Religion written by Andrew Farley and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Farley's experience as a Christian was first characterized by self-effort as he tried to please God at any cost. His ruthless religion resulted in spiritual burnout and disillusionment with church. Only then did he discover what relaxing in Jesus means and how enjoying God's intimate presence can transform everyday life. Using a unique story-driven format, God without Religion dismantles common religious misconceptions, revealing the true meaning of being filled with the Spirit the facts about judgment, rewards, and God's discipline the simple truth behind predestination and the divisions it causes the problem with the popular challenge to "live radical" Pulling no punches, Farley shows how the truth about these controversial issues can liberate and unify believers as we discover how to rest in the unconditional love of God.
Book Synopsis Untangling Emotions by : J. Alasdair Groves
Download or read book Untangling Emotions written by J. Alasdair Groves and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you feel about how you feel? Our emotions are complex. Some of us seem able to ignore our feelings, while others feel controlled by them. But most of us would admit that we don't always know what to do with how we feel. The Bible teaches us that our emotions are an indispensable part of what makes us human—and play a crucial role in our relationships with God and others. Exploring how God designed emotions for our good, this book shows us how to properly engage with our emotions—even the more difficult ones like fear, anger, shame, guilt, and sorrow—so we can better understand what they reveal about our hearts and handle them wisely in everyday moments.
Download or read book Real Religion written by Fr Jeffrey Kirby and published by Catholic Answers Press. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When We Were on Fire by : Addie Zierman
Download or read book When We Were on Fire written by Addie Zierman and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person’s faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets she wore and whether he had kissed dating goodbye. Evangelical poster child Addie Zierman wore three bracelets asking what Jesus would do. She also led two Bible studies and listened exclusively to Christian music. She was on fire for God and unaware that the flame was dwindling—until it burned out. Addie chronicles her journey through church culture and first love, and her entrance—unprepared and angry—into marriage. When she drops out of church and very nearly her marriage as well, it is on a sea of tequila and depression. She isn’t sure if she’ll ever go back. When We Were on Fire is a funny, heartbreaking story of untangling oneself from what is expected to arrive at faith that is not bound by tradition or current church fashion. Addie looks for what lasts when nothing else seems worth keeping. It’s a story for doubters, cynics, and anyone who has felt alone in church.
Book Synopsis Twisted Scripture by : Andrew Farley
Download or read book Twisted Scripture written by Andrew Farley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's face it—the Bible contains passages that are challenging to interpret and can even incite fear. Sure, we want to believe God's grace applies to our unique troubles: addiction, divorce, habitual sins, or a feeling of distance from God because we don't measure up. Still, perplexing Bible passages eat at us. Bestselling author and radio host Dr. Andrew Farley is known to blitzkrieg legalistic and lifeless interpretations with his discerning take on controversial Scriptures. In Twisted Scripture, Andrew skewers sacred cows and shatters destructive lies, bringing the undiluted truth about God's love and grace in a colorful and conversational look at the most controversial passages in the New Testament. This book offers more than just encouragement and freedom. It may change everything about the way you see yourself and God.
Book Synopsis Untangling the Mess by : Pam Northrup
Download or read book Untangling the Mess written by Pam Northrup and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurtful messages. Manipulative tactics. Shame. Guilt. Sadly, these have all been used by people of faith to exclude others from faith communities and from God's love. You may be one of them or know someone who is. We've made a mess of God's love, a love that is intended to be warm and comforting like a quilt. In Untangling the Mess: Revealing the Certainty of God's Love, Pam Northrup unties the knots that we've created by?Believing the Bible is infallible?Believing God's love is dependent on what we say or do?Holding a narrow view of God ?Overemphasizing brokenness and disobedience?Creating obstacles to God's love through theological understandings and religious practices.Once the knots are untangled, God's abundant love for you is revealed. Pam uses the untangled threads to create a quilt using different pieces of God's love:?the three-fold nature of God's love: extravagant, encompassing, and empowering? the attributes of God's love: acceptance, compassion, inclusion, and peace?the blessings of God's love: joy, strength, comfort, interconnectedness, and courageThis quilt wraps you in the gift of God's love. Like every giver of gifts, God longs for you to experience the benefits and blessings that are yours because of God's love for you.As this quilt is made, you will encounter a different way of thinking about God and God's relationship with you-regardless of your religious affiliation or lack thereof. So get ready to reframe some of those long-held views of God and be open to understanding the true nature and certainty of God's love.
Book Synopsis Surrender to Love by : David G. Benner
Download or read book Surrender to Love written by David G. Benner and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expanded edition of a spiritual formation classic, David G. Benner explores the twin themes of love and surrender as the heart of Christian spirituality. God doesn't want his people to respond to him out of fear or obligation, but invites us to enter into an authentic relationship of intimacy and devotion—by surrendering to love.
Book Synopsis Is Christianity the White Man's Religion? by : Antipas L. Harris
Download or read book Is Christianity the White Man's Religion? written by Antipas L. Harris and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical Christianity is not just for white Westerners—it's good news for all of us. Theologian and community activist Antipas L. Harris responds to young Americans who struggle with the perception that Christianity is detached from matters of justice, identity, and culture, affirming that the Bible promotes equality for all people.
Book Synopsis Water from a Deep Well by : Gerald L. Sittser
Download or read book Water from a Deep Well written by Gerald L. Sittser and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald L. Sittser carves out a new discipline that blends spirituality and Christian history--spiritual history. He overviews Christian history through the lens of spirituality, looking at what we can learn about the spiritual life from various figures and eras.
Book Synopsis Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality by : Carolyn McNamara Barry
Download or read book Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality written by Carolyn McNamara Barry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Adults' Religiousness and Spirituality seeks to understand how the developmental process of meaning-making encompasses American emerging adults' religiousness and spirituality. This volume does not focus on disentangling religion and spirituality conceptually, but rather emphasizes their centrality in the psychology of human development.
Book Synopsis Invitation to a Journey by : Mulholland Jr., M. Robert
Download or read book Invitation to a Journey written by Mulholland Jr., M. Robert and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. Robert Mulholland Jr. fleshes out a carefully worded definition of spiritual formation that encompasses the dynamics of a vital Christian life and counters our culture's tendency to trivialize, methodize and privatize spirituality. Now revised and expanded by Ruth Haley Barton with a new foreword, practices and study guide.
Book Synopsis The Science of Children's Religious and Spiritual Development by : Annette Mahoney
Download or read book The Science of Children's Religious and Spiritual Development written by Annette Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element provides a comprehensive yet concise account of scientific research on children's religious and spiritual (RS) development. After providing a historical sketch of definitional issues in the science of RS, the first section reviews basic descriptive information on children's RS development as well as wholistic theoretical models and measures of children's RS development. The second section covers evidence about links of child and parental RS to children's psychosocial adjustment, and highlights the need for more research that discriminates specific positive and negative manifestations of RS for children's development. The third section summarizes evidence about the robust influence of parents on their children's RS development and parents' perceptions of their role in this process. The fourth section focuses on cognitive-developmental research on children's cognitions about God/deities and prayer. The Element concludes with a synopsis of key themes and challenges that researchers face to advance the science of children's RS development.
Book Synopsis Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine by : Christopher C. H. Cook
Download or read book Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine written by Christopher C. H. Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.
Book Synopsis Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging by : James W. Ellor
Download or read book Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging written by James W. Ellor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1971 White House Conference on Aging in the United States, the need to move from religiosity into new areas such as Spiritual Assessment and Spirituality has emerged. This movement has picked up momentum among scholars, particularly in terms of research in the area of Spirituality. While spirituality as a term is employed in many new studies, this term continues to defy the quest for a single definition and method. This book is divided into three sections. In the first the authors reflect on the philosophical and theological issues presented by these terms from a variety of both cognate and practical methodological approaches. The second section offers insights from the major professions of sociology, psychology, public health, nursing and social work. The final section offers insight and assistance to researchers and authors on specific religious traditions. This book will be important for anyone working to develop such practical tools as spiritual assessment forms to those who engage in more formal scholarly investigation.
