Into Abba S Arms

Drawing on her personal experiences, counseling skills, and theological insights, the author of "Released from Shame" and "Hurt People Hurt People" leads readers to the only source of true belonging: Jesus Christ.

How different would your life be now, if every day of your childhood your dad would have taken time to affectionately hold you? Maybe you would not be so busy. Maybe memories would bring a smile instead of tears from shame and regret. Maybe you would feel compassion instead of bitterness. Maybe fear would be from a roller coaster ride instead of by simply waking up. Maybe you would feel like you matter, instead of being on the outside of life, looking in. It is not too late! Daily in Abba's Arms will help you replace what was, with what should have been. Maybe the father you had did not know how to love you intimately, but the Father you have, does. After meditating on the simple writings and powerful Scriptures within this book, you will feel different. You will realize and accept the fact that you matter and you-without conditions, demands or expectations-are loved. Your confidence will grow, as you experience the truth that you are totally adequate, fully loved, continually comforted, and worthy to be Abba's Beloved Child. The strangle hold past hurts have on your life will weaken-yielding to love, joy, and peace-as you rest daily in Abba's arms. At the core of the Father's heart is the enfolding love that comforts all human suffering. David A. Snow is a husband, father, author, licensed professional counselor, and teacher. He earned graduate and post-graduate degrees in psychology, counseling, and theology. The understanding he acquired after experiencing the love of the Father, coupled with the knowledge of formal education and over 30 years of experience, provide the wisdom necessary to help you: feel the love of a Father, understand your identity as Abba's Beloved Child, and live your Belovedness.

This work begins with a transformative idea: human existence is fundamentally relational. Relational Christianity explores how the nature of the Trinity must define the Church and the Christian spiritual life. Utilizing Scripture, Christian spiritual tradition, and philosophy, Pinkham and Gruenberg paint the picture of a Trinitarian, Jesus-centered Christianity, led by the Father and explored in interpersonal oneness. In this view, God’s intimate, unifying love is the theological river that runs through the landscape of biblical revelation and through God’s movement in history. This work of Trinitarian practical theology suggests that the relation between Father, Son, and Spirit should shape and guide all Christian interactions—with God, with others, and with self. In the paradigm of relational Christianity, the formation of genuine personhood and identity are based upon relational connections—first with the Trinity, and second with God’s family. The shape of the new covenant community must reflect the Father’s nature. Church culture must prioritize relationship in the same way the Trinity does.

A spiritual self help book to enable you to gain the peace that passes all understanding.

Christian Psychotherapy in Context combines theology with the latest research in clinical psychology to equip mental health practitioners to meet the unique psychological and spiritual needs of Christian clients. Encouraging therapists to operate from within a Christian framework, the authors explore the intersection between a Christian worldview and clients’ emotional struggles, drawing from sources including both foundational theological texts and the “common factors” psychotherapy literature. Written collaboratively by two clinical psychologists, an academic psychologist, and a theologian, this book paves the way for psychotherapeutic practice that builds on Christian principles as the foundation, rather than merely adding them to treatment as an afterthought.

Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan’s so-called Christian century? Far from being a relic of the past – something brought to Japan by sixteenth-century missionaries such as Francis Xavier and then forgotten – Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic way for Japanese believers to shape their cultural identities. This volume documents the appeal of Catholicism, not only among farmers and fishers but also among scientists, diplomats, novelists, and members of the imperial household who have found in Catholicism an alternative way to keep “tradition” and negotiate modernity since the late nineteenth century.

What was it really like to be one of the original disciples of Jesus? Who was the man we know only as Matthew? How did he become one of the most despised of Jews, a tax collector? What happened after his life was transformed by a single encounter with Jesus?This is the story of Levi who later became Matthew, one of the twelve. A powerful and inspirational mixture of fiction and Biblical fact that will take you into his heart, loves, losses, a descent into a personal hell and finally the total transformation of his life through his relationship with his Master Jesus.

The fruit of the Spirit, 'the image of God,' is the great enigma vitae, the solution of which is exposed herein. For Maximus Confessor+, the hermetical vendor of anagogical ideograms, opens the door to the reader and says, "You, too, can be as God."