A Journey Of Repentance Renewal And Return

Lent is about repentance, change, and starting over. It’s about second chances. In A Journey of Repentance, Renewal, and Return author R. E. Hasselbach offers a guide for those seeking spiritual growth during Lent. Beginning on Ash Wednesday and continuing each day through Resurrection Sunday, Hasselbach offers special scripture readings, a reflection, a prayer, actionable and practical activities, and a space for a prayer journal and notes to help Christians prepare for Easter. Rooted in the word of God, A Journey of Repentance, Renewal, and Return seeks to bring you closer to God, encouraging you to change the way you live. Day by day through Lent, it invites you to live more faithfully as disciples of Christ, trusting in his love and radiating it toward others.

In the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the encounter of the penitent with the mercy of God is one of the most transforming moments in the spiritual life of a Catholic. The ritual itself has changed throughout history, but the purpose of the sacrament has remained the same: to seek the forgiveness of the Lord and to renew one’s efforts to live as a faithful and loving disciple of Jesus Christ. This resource provides pastoral insights for celebrating individual confession, communal Reconciliation services, and non-sacramental penance services with attention given to liturgical ministries, liturgical environment, and evangelization.

Dr. Liesch highlights the various models of Christian worship. This one-of-a-kind book for many kinds of readers in all kinds of churches presents the various biblical models and offers a wealth of suggestions. He takes up some of the major concerns such as the role of music, uses of symbolism, the appropriateness of dance, modes of celebration, expressions of reverence, and many others. *Lightning Print On Demand Title

Jesus calls for those who have a relationship with Him to be on a journey of faith. This thought provoking book uses the seven last words from the cross as a starting point for a journey of engaging with God's Word and seeking how one's life aligns with the ways and will of God.

Addressing faith as it is lived, rather than as a system of doctrine, F. Gerrit Immink emphasizes that having faith means more than assenting to certain opinions about God; it involves a dynamic relationship, or dialogue, with God. As he investigates the practice of faith, Immink holds together the poles of divine activity and human experience, external Word and indwelling Spirit. At its heart, this book is about God. How can faithful people speak about God and understand God's presence? Well versed in both philosophical analysis and the theological tradition, the author argues for an understanding of God as a speaking, acting person, genuinely experienced in faith. In so doing, he issues a compelling plea to reevaluate the theoretical foundations of practical theology. Applying his work particularly to the theories of preaching and pastoral care, Immink brings to bear insights garnered from years as an academic theologian, as the dean of a theological seminary, and as a minister. Scholars, ministers, and seminary students alike will benefit from his careful reflections on the Christian life of faith.

Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (Pauline Studies) Ever since E. P. Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism in 1977, students of Paul have been probing, weighing and debating the similarities and dissimilarities between the understandings of salvation in Judaism and in Paul. Do they really share a common notion of divine and human agency? Or do they differ at a deep level? And if so, how? Broadly speaking, the answers have lined up on either side of the old perspective and new perspective divide. But can we move beyond this impasse? Preston Sprinkle reviews the state of the question and then tackles the problem. Buried in the Old Testament's Deuteronomic and prophetic perspectives on divine and human agency, he finds a key that starts to turn the rusted lock on Paul's critique of Judaism. Here is a proposal that offers a new line of investigation and thinking about a crucial issue in Pauline theology.

Ralph Reed is a perennial commentator on CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News, who has a support database of 18 million voters. He has advised presidential candidates for the last six election cycles. Highly respected by conservatives and liberals alike, Reed outlines why and how our country will awaken from its current destructive path and return to a new age of blessing.