Sowing Stories Deep In The Soul

Some adolescent women struggle to maintain positive self-identity, resilience, and personalized faith development on their journey toward adulthood. It is a contemporary crisis recognized by many, including ministry leaders of faith communities. In today’s fast-paced digital culture, concerns addressing challenges facing adolescent women are evident in research literature. To strengthen their spiritual well-being, emphasis is placed on spiritual formation practices that enhance faith, hope, and personal relationships amid social, peer, and media pressures pulling them into negative, detrimental, and dysfunctional lifestyles. Empirical research reveals a need to transform negative images and self-destruction utilizing stories of holistic well-being. Sowing Stories Deep in the Soul: Biblical Storytelling with Adolescent Women highlights biblical women touched by the holistic healing ministry of Jesus with deep soul-stirring experiences of God’s compassionate love. It meets the need as a spiritual formation ministry model focused on creativity, engaging study, internalized story learning, positive life connections, and performing biblical stories by heart. These expressive aspects form the ancient oral character of Bible stories internalized and voiced in repeated performances for compelling impact and action. Included are replicable results of action research using this model with adolescent women to encourage maintaining Christ-centered lives.

Books One to Three of the Stromateis establish Clement's fundamental theology--a harmony of faith and knowledge that places Greek philosophy at the service of faith, which is, to Clement, more important than knowledge.

This is a true story, which began in 1987, and continues still today. It is a testimony, from the author, regarding her spiritual awakening journey that involved love, honor, strength and courage ... while trying to survive a horrifying and painful telekinetic conflict ... which came close to killing her ... brought about because of what she had in her soul. ** It also includes an intergalactic encounter, heard of only in the movies, that introduced her to some amazing and unique metaphysical mentors who defended and taught her. ** Hardly anyone would believe her then ... but since making her recent videos about what she endured ... many have come forward and shared, with her, nearly the same type story. ** Will they believe her now?

Books One to Three of the Stromateis establish Clement's fundamental theology--a harmony of faith and knowledge that places Greek philosophy at the service of faith, which is, to Clement, more important than knowledge.

Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.

Ellen White continues her controversial interpretation of scripture when she starts to cover the kings from Solomon and ending with Malachi. Although her writings form the basis of belief in the Seventh-Day Adventists, her view of scripture was highly challenging in the day it was written and causes many people to go back and reconsider everything they have been told.