Turning Aside To See

You walk into a room, determined not to get angry and upset again. And yet you do. You prayed away your guilt from something you did last week, or last year, or a decade ago -- only to have the regret and shame flood in one day out of nowhere. After practicing patience or kindness for years, you lose it all, in a single conversation. Where is the permanency in Christian regeneration? Why are our choices easier to make than to maintain? If these experiences or questions describe your walk as a Christian, this book is for you. Third in a series, Turning Aside to See continues the day-by-day journey that has been established in Driving into the Dawn and Yielding to Wonder. Each two-page chapter begins with a proverb. Sometimes Hofer agrees with its conventional wisdom, applying it in some way to Christian experience. At other times she shows how Christianity contradicts the proverb, freeing us from worldly assumptions and logic. Hofer's first book, Power of Yielding, described her dramatic conversion experience and the lifetime pilgrimage that it initiated. She continues to read widely, journeying on, searching for similar spiritual awakenings and essential Christian truths. Her writing draws you into a relationship with the Lord that has thrived for over twenty years. Are you ready to turn aside to see? About the Author Patricia Hofer ended her high school teaching career in the early 1980s and found her way to Boston for a job in publishing. Besides learning to research and edit, she eventually had several articles published. After returning to Arizona, she taught freshman English and technical writing at Glendale Community College. Hofer is now retired and living in the lovely mountain town of Payson, Arizona. She is currently at work on her fifth book.

This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies. Beginning with father, and continuing through the alphabet, the TDOT volumes present in-depth discussions of the key Hebrew and Aramaic words in the Old Testament. Leading scholars of various religious traditions (including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish) and from many parts of the world (Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) have been carefully selected for each article by editors Botterweck, Ringgren, and Fabry and their consultants, George W. Anderson, Henri Cazelles, David Noel Freedman, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Gerhard Wallis. The intention of the writers is to concentrate on meaning, starting from the more general, everyday senses and building to an understanding of theologically significant concepts. To avoid artificially restricting the focus of the articles, TDOT considers under each keyword the larger groups of words that are related linguistically or semantically. The lexical work includes detailed surveys of a word s occurrences, not only in biblical material but also in other ancient Near Eastern writings. Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ethiopic, Ugaritic, and Northwest Semitic sources are surveyed, among others, as well as the Qumran texts and the Septuagint; and in cultures where no cognate word exists, the authors often consider cognate ideas. TDOT s emphasis, though, is on Hebrew terminology and on biblical usage. The contributors employ philology as well as form-critical and traditio-historical methods, with the aim of understanding the religious statements in the Old Testament. Extensive bibliographical information adds to the value of this reference work. This English edition attempts to serve the needs of Old Testament students without the linguistic background of more advanced scholars; it does so, however, without sacrificing the needs of the latter. Ancient scripts (Hebrew, Greek, etc.) are regularly transliterated in a readable way, and meanings of foreign words are given in many cases where the meanings might be obvious to advanced scholars. Where the Hebrew text versification differs from that of English Bibles, the English verse appears in parentheses. Such features will help all earnest students of the Bible to avail themselves of the manifold theological insights contained in this monumental work.

Linda Fields came from an unlikely past to coach, inspire, and lead people to experience God’s purpose with results that have spread like wildfire. After thousands of hours consulting business owners, corporate leaders, and pastors plus over 30 years teaching business on the university/college level, Linda has compiled a system packed with strategies for you to implement right away rather than spending years, even decades searching for the practical answers to spiritual questions. In God’s Flame Rising, Linda passionately reveals the path to success God’s way with inspiring true stories, action steps of success, and priceless lessons from her own battle to survive a life-threatening fire as a teenager—to live On Fire rather than living Burned. God's Flame Rising teaches you 7 Keys to Live On Fire: 1. Come Through the Fire 2. Embrace Your Purpose and Promise 3. Scope Out the Territory 4. Prepare for Battle 5. Learn the Secret Ingredient of God-made Success 6. Take Action to Perform Great Exploits 7. Transform Yourself and Everything in Your Path – Like a Wildfire! God’s Flame Rising is a comprehensive program to train your mind, awaken your spirit, and formulate your steps on the path to accomplish the things God has called you to do with Him. You will come away with a lifelong process to stay on course with God’s plans —along with a weapon to win, a companion to your Bible, and a teaching resource as you lead others to ignite God’s purposes in every area of their lives. Through this inspirational guide, you will: • Learn how to prevail through your own fiery trials—loaded with victory lessons to leverage in the battle over your calling. • Learn how to dream God-sized dreams, reset your compass, and move out of your comfort zone. • Discover practical applications of the scripture to your life to rightly value your calling without being proud or self-abased in your understanding of it. • See how God sees you and values your progress in life. • Learn how to adjust your plans with the Holy Spirit as things evolve in your life. • Discover the power of focus and direction as tools to galvanize your creativity and follow-through and implement plans and goals to fruition. • Understand that God’s timing is an ongoing factor that you will learn to seek. Listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit as you plan and execute your life goals, working in sync with God’s timing. • Learn how to value training and identify good developmental opportunities to help you move forward. Lifelong learning is a requirement for anyone who wants to succeed in our ever-changing world. • Stop waiting on others for validation of your gifts and callings. Learn how to replace this limiting belief with the knowledge that God has granted you permission to soar in life. • Discover the power of forgiveness. When you have been betrayed or hurt, it is natural to harbor offense, yet this offense is toxic, causing you to see things through a negative filter and miss future opportunities. Whatever your own fiery trial has been, you can emerge victorious, empowered with a view of life that qualifies you to win. My friend, I invite you to move forward and soar into your future, igniting God’s purpose in every area of your life!

Thoughts for the Soul is filled with personal stories and life observations aimed at encouraging all with the knowledge that God can be heard and seen in the seemingly insignificant happenings of day-to-day life. The entertaining tales found within its pages are comfortingly human, and yet they open our eyes to Gods desire to reveal Himself and His astonishing love for us every day. Though written by a pastor to his congregation, these stories are offered to all who have even a whisper of interest in how God relates to us. Each story closes with the encouragement that Pastor David is with you in your pursuit of a meaningful spirituality. He writes not as one who has all the answers but as a fellow explorer, each day trying to see and hear from God concerning the good He has planned for us.

In Everyday God, Paula Gooder explores the hidden depths of richness and the potential of ordinary times. Through the lens of thirty-three biblical passages, which all touch on the theme of ordinariness, you will discover the extraordinary in the most everyday things: in the lives of ordinary people; in a God who defies being put in a gilded palace; in a Kingdom that is best likened to seeds, yeast, and fishing nets; and in everyday decisions which, lived out with God, have extraordinary consequences.