The Wide Open Spaces Of God

Author : Jim Palmer
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418537543
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide Open Spaces written by Jim Palmer and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-12-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Palmer's critically acclaimed Divine Nobodies was only half the story - the deconstruction and shedding of a religious mentality that hindered his knowing God. In his next book, Jim takes the reader along into the wide open spaces of exploring and experiencing God beyond religion. Jim writes, "It is no secret that God can be lost beneath the waving banner of religion. Divine Nobodies is my story of how this happened to me. Sometimes you have to disentangle God from religion, even Christ from Christianity, to find the truth. With the help of some unsuspecting nobodies, I uncovered a new starting line with God. As I've put one foot in front of another, I've experienced God in ways that are deeply transforming." Each chapter revolves around a central question related to knowing God on fresh terms: Is God a belief system? Is the Bible a landing strip or launching pad? Can what we're feeling inside be God? Are we too religiously minded to be any earthly good? Brian McLaren wrote, "I am tempted to say that Jim Palmer could well be the next Don Miller, but what they have in common, along with an honest spirituality and extraordinary skill as storytellers, is a unique voice." The Library Reviews said of him, "Jim Palmer's casual, yet compelling writing style cuts through the religious rhetoric and gets to the real issues...readers will love this author! His sense of humor is alternately mixed with shocking sentences and poignant moments. Laced throughout is a refreshing honesty that ties his ideas together with a ribbon of reality...each turn of the page strips away a little more of the contrived mystery of Christianity until the simplicity and sincerity of it stands in realistic splendor." More and more people seek a deeper spirituality beyond status-quo religion. Others are left empty and weary from a shallow and narrow pop-Christianity. Palmer says that God's kingdom of love, peace, and freedom can be a present reality in any person's life. He proclaims that God is indeed in the process of birthing something deep and wide among unlikely people in unconventional ways, which is changing the world...one "nobody" at a time.

Author : Beth Booram
Publisher : Dimensions For Living
ISBN 13 : 9780687490967
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wide Open Spaces of God written by Beth Booram and published by Dimensions For Living. This book was released on 2007 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Booram helps us to identify and learn from the landscapes of our lives

Author : Carol Henderson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184694936X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide Open Spaces written by Carol Henderson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does God call us? The answers are as different as we are. Sometimes God summons us through the Church and sometimes in spite of the Church. In the depths of loss and confusion God speaks to us, beckoning us to follow an unexplored path. While we are heading in one direction, God surprises us with an undeniable invitation to go another way. Wide Open Spaces includes essays by women who have experienced and responded to God's call in all of these ways. The ministers and Christian educators whose stories fill this book testify to God's grace in the midst of their lives as single people in family-centered contexts, as women whose callings also include parenthood and marriage, and as those who the Church refuses to fully accept. Discrimination, harassment and homophobia pierce the narratives in this book. Yet this is not a book about defeat.

Author : Roz Denny Fox
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459243633
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide Open Spaces written by Roz Denny Fox and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forked Lightning Ranch, near Callanton, Oregon Summer Marsh wants to hang on to her family's cattle spread. It's the only life she knows…and it's her son's legacy. Summer's ex-husband, Frank, sees the ranch as a cash cow—literally. With the collusion of his new girlfriend, he's trying to sell it to a developer at an inflated price. Summer has to come up with almost four million dollars in order to buy Frank out. Impossible! She might be land rich but she's cash poor. Then there's Coltrane Quinn. He's a broken-down soldier and one-time horse breeder, and like Summer, he was betrayed by his ex. Now he's working for the conservation group Save Open Spaces. He's hoping to buy the Forked Lightning on behalf of SOS, which acquires failing ranches in order to preserve the land. Colt's operating in secrecy, so things get complicated when he falls for Summer. They get even more complicated when she falls for him!

Author : Joanne Heim
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307562182
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Simply written by Joanne Heim and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality Over Quantity Means a Great Life Whew! You can multitask like a pro—you prove it every day. But while you’re used to being pulled in multiple directions, that doesn’t mean you like it. You yearn for something more…not on your to-do list, but in the heart of daily living. Now Living Simply shows you how to make this ideal life your real life today! Joanne Heim’s refreshing perspective and pointed guidance address specific areas you’d like to transform, from family and friendships to meals and celebrations. This book responds to the longings of your heart not with pat answers, but with practical solutions. Never have such simple changes yielded such sweeping results! Errands to run. Friends to meet. Laundry to fold. Dinner to cook. Messages to check. Calls to make. Gas tank to fill. Lists to do. Notes to self. Bills to pay. Dog to walk. Appointments to make. Schedules to keep. Lunches to pack. Party to plan. Enjoy true abundance! “This is the book I wanted to write, but was too busy simplifying my life. I laughed out loud and am provoked to action. Well done, Joanne.” -Lisa Ryan “If you find yourself living a full life rather than simply living life to the fullest, this book is for you.” -Lisa Whelchel Story Behind the Book “Simplicity is not just about cooking a month’s worth of meals in one day or learning how to speed clean your kitchen,” says Joanne Heim. “Women long for a better quality of life, but we wonder just how to get it. In Living Simply , I ponder what it takes to slow down and downsize while living in a culture that supersizes everything from french fries to SUVs. I want more meaning and less stuff, and simplicity is a means to a better quality of life. Choosing this isn’t about turning my back on the world or lowering my expectations, but about making wise choices and finding the abundant life promised by Jesus.”

Author : Elizabeth F. Caldwell
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 1646983718
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pause written by Elizabeth F. Caldwell and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lent is an ideal time to step back and reflect on the deeper movements of the spirit, and Elizabeth Caldwell helps readers do this through a simple but profound approach. Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms invites us to take up the spiritual practice of encountering, sinking into, and deeply engaging with one psalm each week during Lent and Holy Week. The season of Lent encourages Christians to consider a different pace—one of slowing down, noticing, pausing—than what our dominant culture values. The invitation to pause with the Psalms begins on Ash Wednesday, starting with a mark of ashes on our foreheads that reminds us that in spite of our failures—things we have done or failed to do—we belong to God. Readers are then guided into an exploration of Psalm 51 and the theme of a clean heart. Each chapter helps readers to connect an image drawn from that psalm, such as paths, faces, blessing, tables, waiting, thanksgiving, listening, being alone or abandoned, and hands, with their own lives. At the close of each chapter, readers are invited to try a different prayer practice to help them continue to reflect on the theme and psalm each day. This intentional engagement—without feeling burdensome—opens just enough space and time for a creative spiritual practice to flourish, sustaining the life of faith during the Lenten season in ways that can make a difference in God’s world. Reflection and discussion questions are included with each chapter The book includes a leader's guide at the end for study groups. Download more resources for group study, sermon series, and worship services, including illustrated visual aids, at www.wjkbooks.com/Pause.

Author : Judah Smith
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1400204755
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus is written by Judah Smith and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best-Seller Jesus is ____. How would you finish thatsentence? The subjectis there, and so is the verb, but what comes next? Your answer could shed lighton the path to becoming who you were made to be. In thesepages, Judah Smith fills out that sentence again and again, each time furtherrevealing the character of Jesus. He writes as if to a friend, illustrating theimportance of Christ's message to modern men and women. This is a book for newbelievers, for lifelong followers, and for the merely curious. Judah Smith shows us the Jesus that somber paintingsand hymns fail to capture. With passion, humor, and conviction, he shows thatJesus is life. Jesus is grace. Jesus is your friend. Jesus is a new and betterway to be human.

Author : Jen Wise
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 031035112X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bright Life written by Jen Wise and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life takes it out of you. But the reset you’ve been desperate for is within reach. Writer and Bible teacher Jen Wise knew that holistic faith—that reaches into every facet of life—is what brings grace and renewal. But she didn’t begin to live this truth until her world fractured. So as she searched Scripture for a better way, she discovered Jesus’ invitation for just that: small steps able to lead us into a bright new beginning. So to the woman who feels her all is never enough, The Bright Life is your invitation to a new start. You were created to be healthy, strong, vibrant, and to rest in the unforced rhythms of grace Jesus so lovingly makes available to us all. Come along and learn how to avoid habits that seem smart but are deceptively self-sabotaging, pick up habits of wholeness that actually stick, and try surprising ways to practice kindness toward yourself and generosity toward loved ones. The Bright Life extends a daily invitation with striking insights, tips to reclaim your energy, and a three-part practice of looking inward, upward, and outward as you step into a brighter way. This 40-day reset weaves story and Scripture together to cultivate a peaceful place where, through the attentive love of Jesus, you can experience the unforced rhythms of grace.

Author : Kristen Strong
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 144124851X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Meets Change written by Kristen Strong and published by Revell. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether chosen and celebrated--like going off to college or welcoming your first baby--or unexpected and anxiety-inducing--like losing a job or grappling with a broken trust--all change brings stress. Kristen Strong knows about change--especially the kind you didn't choose or expect. What she's fought hard to learn over the years is that change is not something to be feared but something to be received as a blessing from a God who, more often than not, works through change, not in spite of it. Strong has learned to see change not as a grievance but as a grace. In this hope-filled book, she shows women how when we follow God's will, we receive blessings of contentment, purpose, and renewed strength. She encourages women to see change not as the end of their story but as the scenery for this part of life's journey. And she offers practical advice for coping with change in every part of life. Anyone who has struggled to adjust to life's transitions will welcome this warm and personal perspective.

Author : Roxanne E. Barnes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300915749
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Splinter of the Tree written by Roxanne E. Barnes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What began as a memoir of a friend's journey through a thirty-month battle with brain cancer became the blueprint of the author's personal transformation.As the author wrote in the book's prologue, "How do I capture the reality of (my friend's) impending death yet celebrate the life that bloomed in the quickly changing terrain of her terminal illness? I value the splinter wedged in my heart that compelled me to go places I would not willingly choose. It is part of the artistic beauty residing in each of us, and sometimes this art emerges through intense pressure and heat, not unlike what wood undergoes in the hands of a master carver."