Divine Power

Campus Crusade for Christ leader turned Orthodox priest, Jon Braun, describes his journey into Orthodoxy and holds out to disenchanted Protestant evangelicals an invitation to rediscover an ancient, apostolic, authoritative Christianity.

COMMANDING DIVINE POWER: We are constantly in a spiritual warfare and the only guarantee for victory is the power of God at your disposal.If you must reign in life, then power is not an option but a must because it takes power to compel submission from the opposition (witches, wizards, occult, warlock, demons, sickness, disease etc.) They all submit to the ultimate power of God."Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee". Psalms 66:3.You can't fully represent the kingdom of God as a spiritual weakling. When you lack the power of God in your life, you become a cheap meat for Satan who the bible describes as a roaring lion. Don't watch your life waste away in the face of challenges. What you don't confront you can't conquer. Until you confront the challenge, it has a right to stay, and what you don't want you don't watch. It takes power to confront the opposition. Therefore take responsibility for your life and seek to be spiritually empowered by my God, so that you'll be decorated with power to be in command."O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Psalms 63:1-2 (KJV)Do you want to see dramatic changes in your life? Do you want to see situations bowing at your feet? Do you want to see the words you speak manifesting in your very eyes? Do you want to see sickness and diseases healed through the power of God in your life? Do you want to see Satan bow at your feet? Do you want to see doors of breakthrough and opportunities opening for you? Then "commanding divine power" is a must read; because it will ignite a hunger and appetite for God's power in your life. Join me as we take a ride on the wings of the Holy Spirit, who is the ultimate power of God.Grab your copy now!

The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

Evil perplexes us all and threatens to undermine the meaningfulness of our existence. How can we reconcile the reality of evil with the notion of a God who is perfectly good and powerful? Process theodicy, whose foremost proponent is David Griffin, suggests one answer: because every being possesses its own power of self-determination in order for God to attain the divine aim of higher goodness for the world, God must take the risk of the possibility of evil. Divine Power and Evil responds to Griffin's criticisms against traditional theodicy, assesses the merits of process theodicy, and points out ways in which traditional theism could incorporate a number of Griffin's valuable insights in progressing toward a philosophically and theologically satisfactory theodicy. It provides a new and important contribution to a long-standing debate within philosophy of religion and theology.

Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.

How To Do All Things is a best-selling metaphysical text for group and individual study. Master your life. Help change the world. Discover a new way to solve your problems and reach your goals. Be all you were created to be: a spiritual being with unlimited resources and talents. You are a child of God, the Source of all power, wisdom, healing and love. El Morya/Mark Age, cofounder of Mark-Age, guides you step by step to experiencing your true Self. No rituals. No complicated teachings or hidden, esoteric formulas. Simple, clear knowledge leads directly to the Source. Mastership is for everyone. How To Do All Things offers a simple, practical approach for daily living. It has been used successfully by those of all religious pathways, helping many to better understand their faith. Countless readers have testified to its impact on their lives. Contents include: I. Your Use Of Divine Power: Seven Steps for Gaining Full Use of Divine Power - The Real Power - The Real You - Divine Power Is Yours According To Your Degree of Spiritual Expressing - Learning To Use Divine Power - Five Degrees Of Initiating Divine Action. II. 100 Spiritual Truths: Basic realities to substitute for limited, man-made ideas that have prevented us from attaining mastership. III. 50 How-To's: How to do specific things using these principles. IV. How To Pray: Making your prayers decisive and effective.

A panel of top scholars presents the first comprehensive collection of primary sources from Unitarian Universalist history. This critical resource covers the long histories of Unitarianism, Universalism, and Unitarian Universalism in the United States and around the world, and offers a wealth of sources from the first fifty-five years of the Unitarian Universalist Association. From Arius and Origen to Peter Morales and Rebecca Parker, this two-volume anthology features leaders, thinkers, and ordinary participants in the ever-changing tradition of liberal religion. Each volume contains more than a hundred distinct selections, with scholarly introductions by leading experts in Unitarian Universalist history. The selections include sermons, theologies, denominational statements, hymns, autobiographies, and manifestos, with special attention to class, cultural, gender, and sexual diversity. Primary sources are the building blocks of history, and A Documentary History of Unitarian Universalism presents the sources we need for understanding this denomination’s past and for shaping its future.

Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. modes of divine activity? How do they manifest? In which way can we apprehend them? Is there a multiplicity of gods whose powers fill the cosmos or is there only one God from whom all power(s) derive(s) and whose power(s) permeate(s) everything? These are questions that become central to philosophical and theological debates in Late Antiquity (roughly corresponding to the period 2nd to the 6th centuries). On the one hand, the Pagan Neoplatonic thinkers of this era postulate a complex hierarchy of gods, whose powers express the unlimited power of the ineffable One. On the other hand, Christians proclaim the existence of only one God, one divine power or one 'Lord of all powers'. Divided into two main sections, the first part of Divine Powers in Late Antiquity examines aspects of the notion of divine power as developed by the four major figures of Neoplatonism: Plotinus (c. 204-270), Porphyry (c. 234-305), Iamblichus (c.245-325), and Proclus (412-485). It focuses on an aspect of the notion of divine power that has been so far relatively neglected in the literature. Part two investigates the notion of divine power in early Christian authors, from the New Testament to the Alexandrian school (Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius the Great) and, further, to the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa), as well as in some of these authors' sources (the Septuagint, Philo of Alexandria). The traditional view tends to overlook the fact that the Bible, particularly the New Testament, was at least as important as Platonic philosophical texts in the shaping of the early Christian thinking about the Church's doctrines. Whilst challenging the received interpretation by redressing the balance between the Bible and Greek philosophical texts, the essays in the second section of this book nevertheless argue for the philosophical value of early Christian reflections on the notion of divine power. The two groups of thinkers that each of the sections deal with (the Platonic-Pagan and the Christian one) share largely the same intellectual and cultural heritage; they are concerned with the same fundamental questions; and they often engage in more or less public philosophical and theological dialogue, directly influencing one another.