Deeper Grace

Into Deeper Grace Into Deeper Grace is a collection of inspirational stories and poems that highlight the need for each of us to launch out from the shore of salvation into the deeper things of our walk with the Savior. This devotional volume is intended to provide you with spiritual insights as you enjoy the journey. The Wounded Sparrow At that moment a little hand squeezed her father's hand for the last time as she signaled to him, "I'm ok." Within one minute of that squeeze a little wounded sparrow flew like an eagle, higher than ever before, all the way to Jesus. She now knows from personal experience that He truly did have His eye on her all the time. Roger Allen Cook is an educator, minister, and author of a book of devotional poetry entitled "Sailing by Grace." He has been the administrator of Baptist Park School for thirty-six years. He is happily married and has four children and eight grandchildren. His writing has been published widely across the internet and in several collections of writers.

Deeper Grace is the kind of book that can sweep through an entire congregation and bring new growth. It will re-awaken a desire to dive deeper again into the mystery of God's grace. Churches spend money on sound systems and coffee bars. Good sound and good coffee are great, but what the world is desperately seeking is a people full of grace. Deeper Grace helps you discover the source of all growth in Jesus, and the foundations of life with Christ. God's grace is the wellspring of spiritual formation, but we have shortened "Grace" to mean only forgiveness. We need a greater grace. Deeper Grace reminds us again of the wealth of Heaven available to every student of Jesus.

GOD WANTS TO BE IN YOUR EVERY SEASON The rituals and traditions that complement our faith can be overwhelming. Or they may seem archaic to others that their response is to become indifferent to these practices and celebrations. That’s why this book is a breath of fresh air to those who want to enliven their faith. Through this soul-kindling collection of homilies, Fr. Bob McConaghy invites us to take God’s hand and experience His love and presence in every season of the liturgical year. Father Bob gives light to theological truths by presenting them in easy-to-digest stories and insights. He gives practical ways to live out your faith during Lent, Easter, Advent, Christmas, and the Ordinary Time. Let your spirit soak in love and grace at every season of the year as you deepen your relationship with the Lord.

We applaud men for doing good things. We enshrine God for doing great things. But what about a man who does God things? One thing is certain. We can't ignore him. If these moments are factual, if the claim of Christ is actual, then he was, at once, man and God. The single most significant person who ever lived. Forget MVP. He is the entire league. The head of the parade? Hardly. No one else shares the street. Who comes close? Humanity's best and brightest fade like dime-store rubies next to him. Dismiss him? We can't. Resist him? Equally difficult. Why would we want to? Don't we need a God-man Savior? A just-God Jesus could make us, but not understand us. A just-man Jesus could love us, but never save us. But a God-man Jesus? Near enough to touch. Strong enough to trust. A next door Savior.

Summary of reformed theology Written for all Christians - reformed or not Popular and well known author

Lament is how you live between the poles of a hard life and trusting God’s goodness. Lament is how we bring our sorrow to God—but it is a neglected dimension of the Christian life for many Christians today. We need to recover the practice of honest spiritual struggle that gives us permission to vocalize our pain and wrestle with our sorrow. Lament avoids trite answers and quick solutions, progressively moving us toward deeper worship and trust. Exploring how the Bible—through the psalms of lament and the book of Lamentations—gives voice to our pain, this book invites us to grieve, struggle, and tap into the rich reservoir of grace and mercy God offers in the darkest moments of our lives.

Our spirit and tone have the ability to determine the climate around us, whether at home, at work, at the gym, or at church. This makes kindness indispensable-in our relationships with others and for our gospel witness in the world.In A Deeper Kind of Kindness, adapted from Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth's award-winning book Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together, Nancy explores the theme of biblical kindness, then encourages you to put it into practice with 100 different ways to be kind to those around you.The world is increasingly angry and unkind; let your life shine a spotlight on Jesus, and then watch the ripple effect of a deeper kind of kindness impact the world around you.

In this wide-ranging and ambitious volume, Robert Royal, a prominent participant for many years in debates about religion and contemporary life, offers a comprehensive and balanced appraisal of the Catholic intellectual tradition in the twentieth century. The Catholic Church values both Faith and Reason, and Catholicism has given rise to extraordinary ideas and whole schools of remarkable thought, not just in the distant past but throughout the troubled decades of the twentieth century. Royal presents in a single volume a sweeping but readable account of how Catholic thinking developed in philosophy, theology, Scripture studies, culture, literature, and much more in the twentieth century. This involves great figures, recognized as such both inside and outside the Church, such as Jacques Maritain, Bernard Lonergan, Joseph Pieper, Edith Stein, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Romano Guardini, Karl Rahner, Henri du Lubac, Karol Wojtyla, Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs von Balthasar,Charles Peguy, Paul Claudel, George Bernanos, Francois Mauriac, G. K. Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christopher Dawson, Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset, J. R. R. Tolkien, Czeslaw Milosz, and many more. Royal argues that without rigorous thought, Catholicism - however welcoming and nourishing it might be - would become something like a doctor with a good bedside manner, but who knows little medicine. It has always been the aspiration of the Catholic tradition to unite emotion and intellect, action and contemplation. But unless we know what the tradition has already produced - especially in the work of the great figures of the recent past - we will not be able to answer the challenges that the modern world poses, or even properly recognize the true questions we face. This is a reflective, non-polemical work that brings together various strands of Catholic thought in the twentieth century. A comprehensive guide to the recent past - and the future.