The Message Solo Devotions For New Believers

SOLO Devotions for New Believers pairs Scripture with undated devotions to encourage new Christians in their faith.

Transform Your Quiet Time Today’s world is all about now—a fast-moving, high-speed, on-demand lifestyle. But has this pace changed how we study the Bible? Our relationship with God is a journey, a walk where we grow closer to him each day. So it makes sense that reading and understanding scripture is a continual experience, not just a moment. This innovative devotional is designed to change how you interact with God’s Word. The Message: Solo revolves around lectio divina, or “divine reading,” an ancient approach to exploring Scripture updated for today’s readers. Each devotion delivers a unique, contemplative study that will encourage you to: Read: Uncover biblical wisdom and revelations as you learn to read without the typical limitations that often hinder Bible reading. Think: Immerse yourself in the passages as you place yourself in the story or meditate on words and phrases. Pray: Connect with him through listening prayer and praise as you encounter new ways to communicate with God. Live: Rest, reflect, or act as you discover how to take the Word with you throughout the day. Features include: An introduction to the lectio divina style of study Guided devotions with a day for reflection every week A topical index for finding issues that impact your life Numbered devotions so you can start anytime and never fall behind

This devotional journal combines text from The Message Solo New Testament with journaling space that encourages students to use lectio divina, or “divine reading,” an ancient approach to exploring Scripture. One page contains a unique reading, and the other has space to write down your thoughts, impressions, and questions. Two attractive color combinations to choose from make this an ideal gift for students.

Invite God In . . . . . . with The Message: SOLO Women's Devotional. Each reading in The Message: SOLO Women's Devotional opens your heart to hear God's voice. Start anytime, and go at your own pace. Through 180 devotionals, you'll cover topics close to your heart, like trust, hope, forgiveness, patience, and joy, and there's plenty of space for journaling. With The Message: SOLO Women's Devotional, you will begin reading, reflecting on, praying, and living the Scriptures in your everyday life.

A collection of devotions for each day of the year contains brief passage of scripture along with commentary about the nature of God and the best way to live in accordance with Christian principles.

Presents a student edition of the Old and New Testament with commentary in contemporary language containing examples from everyday life.

Todays seedlings are tomorrows giants. A seedling however needs a good first few weeks. Were talking about people of course: new Christians seeking good first weeks with the Lord. The First 100 Days offers guidance and encouragement for new Christians who want their seedling faith to grow strong. Its a devotional approach with long meaning captured in short treatments of scripture, comments, and prayers. In spite of their brevity, these devotions are keys that open doors into great rooms of life truth. Weve printed suggested Bible texts for further study along with each days material. Seedlings reach upward, stretch outward, and grow new limbs and leaves. Were talking about people of course. The First 100 Days provides the kind of fertilizer and cultivation that can help a tender young faith reach upward. As the child of God begins to walk with Him over lifes hills and through the valleys, we claim His promise that the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day (Proverbs 4:18 New American Standard Bible). These pages and thoughts are offered in the prayer that todays seedling Christians will find that promise true in the future, just as todays giants in the faith have found it true in the past.

Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction by Thomas F. Haddox examines the work of six avowedly Christian writers of fiction in the period from World War II to the present. This period is often characterized in western societies by such catchphrases as "postmodernism" and "secularization," with the frequent implication that orthodox belief in the dogmas of Christianity has become untenable among educated readers. How, then, do we account for the continued existence of writers of self-consciously literary fiction who attempt to persuade readers of the truth, desirability, and utility of the dogmas of Christianity? Is it possible to take these writers' efforts on their own terms and to understand and evaluate the rhetorical strategies that this kind of persuasion might entail? Informed by the school of rhetorical narratology that includes such critics as Wayne Booth, James Phelan, and Richard Walsh, Hard Sayings offers fresh new readings of fictive works by Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, John Updike, Walker Percy, Mary Gordon, and Marilynne Robinson. In its argument that orthodox Christianity, as represented in fiction, still has the power to persuade and to trouble, it contributes to ongoing debates about the nature and scope of modernity, postmodernity, and secularization.