Madness To Ministry A Spiritual Journey

This book is a compilation of personal journal entries, poetry, academic papers and writings completed over the last four years of my spiritual journey with in the Unity community. They are the personal writings of a Unity truth student actively seeking to understand her divinity and vigorously seeking out what it means to be divine, and where that divinity comes from. A thought-provoking, conversation-starting, question-spawning, new look at our old ways; it is a bi-product of intense and uncomfortable intentional personal expansion.

'With great simplicity and openness, Jossy Chacko describes his journey from a childhood on a nameless street, plagued by his father's madness and ridiculed by teachers and friends, to building an international ministry with an extraordinary goal: the planting of 100,000 churches in one of the world's most unreached regions to bring about social and spiritual transformation. ... It's a tale of wealth and madness, bondage and spiritual power, life-shaping wisdom and God's remarkable love."--Back page.

In previous generations, ministers often enjoyed high job satisfaction. They could be clear about who they were and what they were for. Today, they are increasingly anxious about role confusion, overload and burnout. Drawing on his abundant experience in hands-on ministry and ministry education, Gordon Oliver speaks directly, with faith and with hopefulness to these realities. He explores the covenant that exists between ministers and their churches and provides a clear evaluation of the structures, constraints and freedoms of ministry. With real-life stories and insightful questions for reflection, his thought-provoking guide helps ministers, and those who support them, work together to fulfil ministers' true calling.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to draw ever closer to our Savior. One path to the Way of Love is through seven key actions: Turn. Learn. Pray. Worship. Bless. Go. Rest. Includes questions, journal prompts, a guide for a personal rule of life.

After an intense religious seminar, Nancy Bauer-King became convinced she needed to kill herself to prove her love for God. She was hospitalized and diagnosed psychotic. Madness to Ministry is her story of a breakdown followed by a breakthrough that helped restore her emotional balance and rediscover her sense of humor.

This book is for both the experienced and novices to 'The Path' to enlightenment. It covers a wide range of experiences and problems that many share. It includes relevant exercises and practices for most of the topics as well as actual experiences of the writer and her students. Some preview readers comments: ""It's everything I wanted and needed to know about spirituality but didn't know what to ask?"" and ""This is better than an encyclopedia of spirituality!"" and ""This book has explained things in a way that I really understand."" and ""I thought I knew a lot about this stuff but WOW!"" and ""I wish I had this book when I first started my Spiritual Search. Thanks for filling in the blanks.""

I am so grateful that you have chosen to read my memoir—my story of child abuse, drug addiction, abortions, rapes, domestic abuse, and mental illness. My prayer is that you will feel my pain and understand the generational curses, which, I learned through research, began back during slavery in my family.

This book details how John G. Lake obtained the spiritual power for healing he had, and shows the readers how they can obtain some measure of that same spiritual power. It follows the spiritual journey that Lake took, and lays out in 10 chapters the steps that the reader must also take to receive the same type of power. The ten steps are: Be Desperately Hungry, Be Fully Convinced, Be Dedicated and SingleMinded, Be Filled with the Word of God, Be Patient and Steadfast, Be Full of Faith, the Holy Spirit, and Power, Be Righteous and Holy, Be Bold and Courageous, Be Unafraid to Fail, Be Determined to Succeed. The author states that any reader who takes the same spiritual journey Lake did will begin to successfully minister healing to the sick.