Discernment doesn’t happen in a vacuum, but in the context of our relationship with God. Discerning God’s will only makes sense if we have or seek a vibrant relationship with God. Whether we …
Writer Dave Evans applies the discipline of design to the search for a meaningful life and discusses the “collaborative process” of following God’s will
God’s Masterpiece Discerning with the Word: A Guided Lectio Divina for Those Discerning Introduction: We know that God’s invitations to us flow from our God-given identity. In this lectio, we…
Dimensions (Overall): 9.04 Inches (H) x 7.37 Inches (W) x .42 Inches (D)Weight: .5 PoundsSuggested Age: 22 Years and UpSub-Genre: Christian LifeGenre: Religion + BeliefsNumber of Pages: 160Publisher: Waterbrook PressTheme: Spiritual GrowthFormat: PaperbackAuthor: Dan B AllenderLanguage: EnglishStreet Date: February 15, 2005TCIN: 13278154UPC: 9781578569496Item Number (DPCI): 248-61-1835Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
“Put Out into the Deep!” Discerning with the Word: A Guided Lectio Divina for Those Discerning Introduction: At certain moments in our discernments, the lack of clarity about the…
\"For those ready and willing to build a new life, here are the tools. Powerful, incisive, extraordinary writing.\" --Neale Donald Walsch, New York Times bestselling author of Conversations with God Transform your life with this bestselling, revolutionary, and accessible seven-step guide--grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics--to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing. Eighteen years ago, health pioneer and \"extraordinary enlightened visionary\" (Anita Moorjani, New York Times bestselling author) Dr. Sue Morter had a remarkable and profound awakening. While meditating, she spontaneously accessed an energy field--a level of consciousness--beyond anything she had ever imagined. This dramatic experience changed her life and set her on a mission to discover how to create such radical transformation for her patients. Through years of advanced study and research in energy healing and medicine, she developed the Energy Codes. This life-altering program has now enabled thousands of people around the world to overcome pain, disease, fatigue, anxiety, and depression, and to awaken their innate creativity, intuition, and inner power. Bridging ancient healing practices with cutting-edge science, The Energy Codes offers a detailed road map to help you experience deep healing in your life. Grounded in practical, accessible exercises, including yoga, breathwork, meditations, and Dr. Morter's proprietary Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (BEST) protocol, The Energy Codes \"offers deep insights...that brilliantly merge the ever-blending worlds of science and spirituality to help reveal the truth of our being and the depths of our greatness,\" (Jack Canfield, coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series).
We all feel weak sometimes. He Is Strong encourages you to rest in God’s help and strength for every one of your inadequacies. Join Emily Jensen, bestselling coauthor of Risen Motherhood, on a devotional journey to find God’s strength amid your weakness. Whether you think of yourself as overwhelmed, overlooked, or just not very good at life (or perhaps you avoid facing your own shortcomings), Emily shares relatable stories about her own feelings of weakness and points you to the gospel for wisdom, hope, and comfort. As the familiar hymn says, “They are weak, but he is strong.” Let these Scripture-filled reflections remind you that Jesus loves you, even in your weakness. You can rely on the strength of God in any challenge you face.
In the last post, I talked about how important it is to choose our creative partner well. The second key to collaborating creatively? Trusting our creative partner. Trusting our Co-Author might be …
Seven Realities for Experiencing God examines seven scriptural realities - those Moses experienced in Exodus 3 - that teach believers how to develop an obedient love relationship with God. This eight-session study overviews the seven realities and then, session by session, explores truths like "God is always at work around you" to introduce a biblical pattern by which God reveals His will so that believers can join His activity in the world. Each reality provides content for personal study, including five short, daily readings with reflection questions to complete before gathering as a group. Optional journaling pages are also provided following the fifth day of study. These extra pages provide space to record any thoughts, questions, or experiences related to the week's study.
For those of you who have sent in questions, thank you for your patience! For now, Friday will be a Q & A day. Feel free to email me your questions, or contact me through the blog’s conta…
Our loving Creator has revealed himself as Father. God has created a world that is exquisitely designed, beautiful, astonishing, powerful, and full of mysteries. This amazing and mysterious univers…
My response to the second part of a question from a reader who is preparing to enter a religious community: 2. What does discernment look like once you’re in the convent? I’m sure it…
God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours by Regina Brett New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2010 Regina Brett long-believed that "at the moment she was born, God must have blinked. he missed the occasion and never knew she had arrived." The fifth of eleven children, she got lost in the mix. She was "a lost soul who drank too much at 16, an unwed mother at 21, a college graduate at 30, a single mother for 18 years, and finally, a wife at 40, married to a man who treated me like a queen." Then, at 41, she got breast cancer. It took two years for her to recover. At age 45, Brett wrote down 45 lessons life had taught her. At age 50, she added five more. Her newspaper, "The Plain Dealer" in Cleveland, ran the column. People all over the country began to forward the column. At some point in time, you have probably read these lessons and nodded knowingly. Consider the book version of "50 Life Lessons" the expanded version of that well-traveled list. Brett writes from a place of faith. She sees God at work in her own life and the lives of others. In essays such as "Life Isn't Fair, but It's Still Good," "Life is Too Short to Waste Time Hating Anyone," "It's Okay to Get Angry with God. He Can Take It," and "Always Choose Life," Brett shares her wisdom and outlook on life. I dare anyone to read this book and keep dry eyes. These essays will speak to your heart and make you rethink your life. This is one of those books, like the original column, that will be shared among friends. A portion of the royalties of this book will support The Gathering Place which offers free services for anyone touched by cancer.
What makes a novel or movie fascinating for me is when the protagonist is flawed and must overcome inner obstacles to achieve his goal, or to choose (and find) her happiness. If all the characters—…
Bible Study Book for the eight-session study by Henry and Richard Blackaby examines seven realities Moses experienced when he encountered God in Exodus and offers
As we conclude the Year for Consecrated Life tomorrow (February 2, 2016), I wanted to share a few things about my community, the Daughters of Saint Paul, for those of you reading this blog and disc…
God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future. It Starts with Reading Your Past. In this companion workbook to Dr. Dan Allender's groundbreaking book To Be Told, you will find practical, easy-to-follow exercises to help you explore and embrace the stories of your life. The exercises inside will equip you to: -recall past experiences and find the meaning God has written there -understand how individual events fit into the bigger themes of your life -write down your stories in a way that reflects God's authorship of your life -identify the passions that drive you, and see how God uses them to guide you into the future -tell your story in a way that brings glory to God and reveals him to others Learn how to read and study your story, and then start telling it to others. God invites you to co-author with him the rest of your life's story-a story that opens up your future and glorifies God.
As we’ve been reflecting in the past few posts, discernment begins—and makes sense—only in the light of God’s point of view: God’s unconditional love for us. From God’s storyview flow the “key prin…
When a Kingdom Woman retires for the evening, a frustrated and worn out devil ought to be saying, “We messed with the wrong woman today.†This study guide is a companion resource to the video small-group study (9781624052095) based on the book Kingdom Woman (9781589977433), which instructs every Christ-following woman on how to tap into the power of God as she finds and fulfills the purpose for which God has fashioned her.A Kingdom Woman embraces a simple premise: unless a Kingdom rests firmly under the authority of the ruler, anarchy reigns. That’s why a Kingdom Woman always seeks to align herself and operate under the authority of God—in every area of life. With practical insights and applications from coauthor Chrystal Evans Hurst, Tony Evans explains how that process can unleash new purpose, power, and possibilities—in both the lives of Kingdom Women and those they love. This curriculum can be covered in about six weeks.There are three different products, each sold separately: The hardcover book, Kingdom Woman (9781589977433) The video small-group study, Kingdom Woman Group Video Experience (9781624052095) This study guide (9781624052101). This study guide is to be used in conjunction with the Kingdom Woman Group Video Experience. For more information on the hardcover book or the video small-group study, see the product description for each.
"Dan Allender calls us to recognize that our lives, which often seem random, have a brilliant, divine coherence. Under his expert tutelage we discover how to discern God's hand on our lives and how to tell the story to ourselves and others." -Tremper Longman III, author of How to Read the Psalms and coauthor of The Cry of the Soul and Bold Love. According to Allender, your life is full of stories. Some are joyful, others painful; some take place over years, others in a moment. These stories and your response to them add color, shape, and texture to "you." If you're looking to make sense of who you are, the stories of your life need examining. Rather than passively allowing your stories to define you, this companion workbook for To Be Told will help you engage your stories honestly and open the door for God to transform and redeem them. The exercises in this workbook encourage you to write your stories, wrestle with them, and find God behind them.
Could Your Love Language Guide You to a Meaningful Life? In a world of varying beliefs and endless opportunities, determining how to spend our lives can seem impossible. And even more difficult than finding direction can be finding meaning. Perhaps we know what we’re most interested in, but how do we know if it has purpose? These longings are rooted in our desire to feel God’s presence in our lives, which begins when we know how He communicates with us. Seen. Known. Loved. examines how God—the Creator of the universe—intimately communicates with each of His people. Relationships expert Gary Chapman and coauthor R. York Moore offer practical insights for how to know your own love language and how God uses it to communicate with you. When we come to understand our own unique love language, we discover how God both speaks and listens. And, therefore, how He is intimately involved in our lives in ways we have never before identified. The first step to living with meaning is living in union with our God—the source of meaning.
To understand God’s call for us, we need to also understand how God sees us; we have to understand our “backstory” (to put it in storytelling terms) or where we come from. How does God see us? Most…
The primary purpose for observing Christmas is remembering Jesus’s birth.
Free in Christ Discerning with the Word: A Guided Lectio Divina for Discerners Introduction: Freedom is essential to making a good discernment. But it is often misunderstood, seen solely as the eli…
Break the cycle of doubting yourself, take God at His word, and talk back with truth - a new message of freedom from bestselling coauthor of Wild and Free Hayley Morgan.We know Christ came to speak life, but then how come our inner critic keeps showing up and stealing the mic? If we're honest, she's a harsh one, saying things we'd never dream of saying to others: You'll never measure up, you'll fail again tomorrow, you just can't get it right. It has been said that the eighteen inches from head to heart is the soul's longest journey. Our head knows the good news is true, but our heart struggles to believe it, and it is in this gap that we battle to believe the promises of God.Hayley Morgan, coauthor of bestselling book Wild and Free, has wrestled with this tension her whole life. In Preach to Yourself, she tackles it head-on to discover how we can renew our minds to renew our lives. For every woman who struggles with repetitive, negative self-talk, this book will show you how to identify the toxic loops where you get stuck and replace them with the truth of God we can believe with our whole selves.This is not a \"try harder\" reprimand, it's a \"believe better\" invitation: to take God at His word when He tells you who you are. Come along and learn a simple practice to break free from the lies holding you back, and step forward into the fullness of life God has planned.
They say that all writers come in two flavors only: planners and pantsers. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, a “pantser” is a writer who writes from the “seat of his or her pants.” In ot…
As looked at in the last post, we know that the Bible reveals to us God’s basic story premise: Our all-good God loves us and always wants what is good and best for us. What does this mean for us? U…
If God wants us to begin our discernment where we are, then another helpful thing we can do is to reflect a bit about the “setting” of our lives, our particular world—the concrete circumstances in …
As we grow in the spiritual life, it’s important to find a community of people who can support us on our journey towards holiness. St. Paul’s image of the Church as the Body of Christ is relevant h…
