An Invitation To Friendship

Charles Slagle promises in this book to provide a glimple into God's heart, his nature and ways. His literary device is the letter, letters written by God to his beloved children and filled with counsel, encouragement, affection, and sometimes reproof. Our God is a Father whose heart longs for His children to sit and talk with Him in fellowship and oneness. This second volume of intimate letters from the Father to you, His child, reveals His passion, dreams, and love for you, As you read them, you will find yourself drawn ever closer within the circle of His embrace. The touch of His presence will change your life forever!

Your Daily Access to Heavens Wisdom, Creativity, Purpose, and Power When people are in love they dream together. The same is true for your relationship with God. He wants to share the secrets of His heartHis thoughts, plans and purposeswith you. The Maker of Heaven and Earth wants to dream with you! Pastor Bill Johnson shares transformational quotes and profound thoughts that will fuel your day with a greater sense of purpose,vision, and destiny. Take five minutes each day to create a sacred space for you to dream with God, and receive encouragement on how you can bring the love, power, and creativity of Heaven to Earth. ***Material adapted from Dreaming with God

Targeted to young people, this book presents a specific process for forming friendships. The first chapter explores the idea of friendship. The importance of friendship, factors that influence friendships, characteristics and qualities of friendships, and ways to keep friendships are discussed. The second chapter defines invitations and shows how invitations can be used to develop friendships. "Disinvitations" are described, and how they destroy friendships and prevent friendships from developing is explained. This chapter also discusses perceptions, and how peoples' perceptions influence their friendships. The third chapter describes how people "see" themselves. How a person's self develops and changes during a lifetime is discussed. The importance of learning about the self is discussed as a prerequisite for forming friendships with others. The fourth chapter presents the steps for being an inviting friend, and shares ideas about when to invite, why to invite, and whom to invite. The fifth chapter combines the ideas found in the first four chapters and describes the importance of inviting yourself. Included in this chapter are ideas about knowing yourself, wanting to be a friend, being healthy, behaving appropriately, and enjoying life. Throughout each chapter are "treasure chest" ideas that summarize important points about friendship. In addition, each chapter contains friendship activities which provide ideas for forming lasting friendships. (LLL)

Our God is a Father whose heart longs for His children to sit and talk with Him in fellowship and oneness. This second volume of intimate letters from the Father to you, His child, reveals His passion, dreams, and love for you, As you read them, you will find yourself drawn ever closer within the circle of His embrace. The touch of His presence will change your life forever!

Live in the love of a God who desires a relationship with you. Throughout A Friendship Like No Other, renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, explores the premise that God wants to relate to us as a close friend. Barry has contemplated this idea—radical for many Christians—throughout his lifetime, and he explains that it actually traces back to the “developing revelation of God contained in the Bible.” A Friendship Like No Other offers three well-supported and practical sections: prayerful exercises to help lead you to the conviction that God wants your friendship; a close look at objections to this idea; and reflections on experiencing the presence of God and discerning those experiences. Brief, personal meditations are woven throughout. Grounded in biblical tradition and with a clear focus on Ignatian spirituality, this book offers a fresh, heart-changing approach to living joyfully in the freedom of the divine embrace.

Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.

Originally published: Friendship with God. South Africa: Struik Christian Books, 2014.