Wilderness Wanderings

Author : Bill Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781530144358
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Wanderings written by Bill Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wilderness is God's original temple, the place where He called His leaders and formed His followers. In the Bible nothing but good comes out of the wilderness. The wilderness is an experience to be embraced, not a punishment to be escaped. Much popular thinking sees the wilderness as bad, something to be avoided at all costs, but, when we understand the true meaning of the wilderness, we see it as hard but good. Just as Israel pursued a zigzag line across the wilderness to the Promised Land, so we must pursue a zigzag life toward God's fruitfulness for us. In fact, the zigzag life is the shortest distance to fruitfulness in God's purposes. So let's enter into our wilderness wanderings, not with fear, but with the anticipation of God's good hand on us, purifying us through His holiness while using us for His glory.

Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982682
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Wanderings written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably ?at home? yet oddly fettered and irrelevant in America, Stanley Hauerwas challenges contemporary Christians to reimagine what it might mean to ?break back into Christianity? in a world that is at best semi-Christian. While the myth that America is a Christian nation has long been debunked, a more urgent constructive task remains; namely, discerning what it may mean for Christians approaching the threshold of the twenty-first century to be courageous in their convictions. Ironically, reclaiming the church's identity and mission may require relinquishing its purported ?gains??which often amount to little more than a sense of comfort, the seduction of feeling ?at ease in Zion?? to take up again the risk and adventure of life ?on the way.? Accordingly, this book gives no comfort to the religious right or left, which continues to think Christianity can be made compatible with the sentimentalities of democratic liberalism.Such a re-visioned church will not establish itself through conquest or in a reconstituted Christendom, but rather must develop within its own life the patient, attentive skills of a wayfaring people. At least a church seasoned by a peripatetic life stands a better chance of noticing the changing directions of God's leading. The wilderness, therefore, ought not to appear to contemporary Christians in America as a foreboding and frightening possibility but as an opportunity to rediscover the excitement and spirit, but also the rigorous discipline, of faithful itinerancy. At such a crucial time as this, Hauerwas challenges Christians to eschew the insidious dangers that attend too permanent a habitation in a place called America and to assume instead the holy risks and hazards characteristic of people called out, set apart, and led by God. Wilderness Wanderings is a clarion call for Christians to relinquish the impermanent citizenship of a home that can never be the church's final resting place and confidently take up a course of life the horizons of which are as wide and expansive as the God who promises to lead.The book engages, often quite critically, with major theological and philosophical figures, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Martha Nussbaum, Jeff Stout, Tristram Engelhardt, Iris Murdoch, John Milbank, and Martin Luther King Jr. These interrogations illumine why theology must reclaim its own politics and ethics. Intent on avoiding abstraction, Hauerwas intervenes in current debates around medicine, the culture wars, and race.

Author : Stacy Reaoch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941114520
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Wanderings written by Stacy Reaoch and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 devotionals for women, reflecting on our journey to the Promised Land. Are you wandering in the wilderness of life? Losing your battle for contentment? Come follow the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land, and see the parallel struggles in your own life. Find hope and encouragement for your desert times of want and uncertainty.

Author : J.R. Harris
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680511211
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Way Out There written by J.R. Harris and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The author is a distinguished member of the Explorers Club • The author is an unexpected adventurer, disarmingly positive and companionable • Lively stories of remote treks around the world Way Out There is an account of J. Robert Harris’s extraordinary exploits while backpacking in some of the world’s most tantalizing places―largely alone and unsupported. And after almost fifty years of wilderness travel, “J. R.,” as he’s known, has plenty of tales to tell! His stories are by turns funny, tragic, and uplifting, and are all told in his down‐to‐earth, friendly style. For J. R., it all began in 1966 when, as a young New Yorker, he impulsively drives his VW Beetle across the country to the very end of the northernmost road in Alaska, searching for an answer to a simple question: What is it like to be way out there? How this happened, whom he met, and what he encountered along the way became the foundation for a lifelong attraction to trekking and adventure travel. Subsequent chapters chronologically explore some of his many journeys, revealing an enduring wanderlust honed by his emerging maturity and outdoor skills. Stories of J. R.’s solo treks point to stark contrasts between his urban upbringing and his wilderness wanderings, while tales of adventure with small but diverse groups of friends are enriched by their collective experiences and varying viewpoints about exploration. Way Out There is a lively yet introspective book by a restless soul that will attract countless readers who love to travel, as well as armchair adventurers and communities looking for outdoor role models. The foreword is by the late Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots during World War I

Author : Alfred Edersheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Exodus and the Wanderings in the Wilderness written by Alfred Edersheim and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cory Driver
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506463215
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Unsettled written by Cory Driver and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, many Christians and spiritual seekers feel they are in a sort of wilderness space where the familiar, settled, and normal parts of life have become unsettled, out of balance. More and more people are evaluating their lives and asking, Where to now? In Life Unsettled, Cory Driver uses the metaphor of wilderness journeying (a hallmark of the life of faith across the millennia) and the study of biblical texts, ancient Jewish legends, modern theological insights, and his own personal journeys to provide a guide for moving forward when we feel lost and confused. The biblical book of Numbers takes center stage in the author's creative musings about life in the wilderness. The Hebrew title of Numbers is Bemidbar, which means In the Wilderness. In this oft-overlooked book are stories of God's passionate intimacy and anger, communal formation and struggles, and personal failures and triumphs. The author shows how the wilderness journey in Numbers has a deep relevance for our time and for our personal journeys. The book includes a discussion guide ideal for group use.

Author : Marilyn Brown Oden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835807432
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Wanderings written by Marilyn Brown Oden and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes even the words associated with Lent--atonement, fasting, paschal--seem foreign and intimidating. But in studying them, readers become wanderers and pilgrims who begin to appreciate the meaning of these terms and the Lenten scriptures which serve as guideposts in our larger spiritual journey. This is a user-friendly guide to Lent using the classic spiritual disciplines.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Wanderings written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erica Brown
Publisher : Maggid
ISBN 13 : 9781592643424
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership in the Wilderness written by Erica Brown and published by Maggid. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confidently navigating the ancient wilderness, master educator Erica Brown guides readers through the tumultuous events of the book of Numbers in search of the key to successful leadership. How might a leader overcome unrest? How to contend with external challenges and internal doubts? And how to rekindle the faith of a people who have all but given up? Bringing together Bible and commentary, literature and philosophy, travelogues and corporate manuals, Leadership in the Wilderness presents a guide to good government, as relevant today as it was three thousand years ago.

Author : Marti Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996292498
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Wanderings written by Marti Evans and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the desert. To the oasis. Onto the promised land. A child is seriously ill. A spouse leaves. A job is lost. Dreams shatter. Heartache abounds. Hope disappears. Walking through a desert place, we are left to wonder, "Where is God?"Wilderness Wanderings...devotions from the desert is a collection of stories, telling of God's amazing grace and His wonderful works in the life of Marti Evans as she walked through her wilderness, toward the promised land. Her deepest desire is to know God and make Him known. Through the devotionals in this book, God is revealed by His presence, provision, protection, power, promises, peace and plans. He can and will meet our every need, every moment of every day.Wilderness Wanderings...devotions from the desert is a picture of God's faithful heart and His promise to be our everything as we journey. This devotional book can be used as a seven-week personal or small group study, pausing to ponder the reflective questions following each section.