Christianity
166 Articles & Excerpts
Enlarging Your Vision
Your Best Life Now Study Guide: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential by Joel Osteen How do you break out and experience your full potential? The answer lies in a simple yet profound process to change the way you think about your life and help you accomplish what's truly important. In this seven-week companion to his book, Your Best Life
Finding Your Divine Purpose
The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity : A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance by Edwene Gaines At one time or another you've probably asked yourself, 'What is the purpose of my life? What is its meaning? Why am I here on Earth, and what am I supposed to be doing?' Chances are, you work hard, whether you take care of a household or have a job
What About The Scriptural Passages That Preach Against Materialism
The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity : A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance by Edwene Gaines I get this question a lot, especially regarding the passage from the Book of Mark that states that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than it is for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven.
Mastering Money
The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity : A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance by Edwene Gaines We as a human race have managed to build the internal combustion engine, eradicate polio, and make TV dinners you can heat in just minutes in the microwave. But we have not yet learned one of the most important things of all: how to form a healthy
Receiving the Holy Spirit
Contact with God by Anthony De Mello I wish to situate this retreat in the context of the Church and the world today. We have assembled here for a period of silence and prayer and withdrawal at a time when the Church is in crisis and the world in desperate need of peace and development
Chicago - New Year's Day 2003
The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real by Neta Jackson The call of nature—Willie Wonka's, not mine—got me out of bed at the bleary hour of seven thirty, even though the New Year's Eve party upstairs had kept me awake till after three.
How Can I Become More Like Christ?
The Low Road to New Heights: Following the Only Path to True Success by Wellington Boone Jeff is just about ready to give up on trying to live the Christian life. Everywhere he goes he keeps running into the same problem. People can be impossible to live with-forget trying to treat them as Jesus would treat them, in a way that honors God.
I Was A Child
You Shall Not Be Ashamed: Personal Recovery by Denise B. Fair Life-Changing Question. That Is Exactly What Happened To Me. IT TOOK ME twenty-five years before I felt safe enough to utter one word to another living soul concerning the sexual abuse I experienced as a little girl. Denise, were you ever sexually abused?
What Would Jesus do with Harry Potter?
What's a Christian to Do with Harry Potter? by Connie Neal What would Jesus do? This question, posed in the Christian classic In His Steps by Charles Sheldon, has become so familiar as to be reduced to WWJD? But how do we determine what Jesus would do, particularly in the kind of divisive debate where well-versed
The Man Zone
Every Young Man, God's Man : Confident, Courageous, and Completely His by Stephen Arterburn, Kenny Luck, Mike Yorkey The summer before my freshman year at UCLA, I came home one time after midnight to a dark house and sleeping parents. While my home was very quiet, my soul churned in chaos. I needed the safety and comfort of my bedroom to relax me.
What You Need Going In
World Wide Search : The Savvy Christian's Guide to Online Dating by Cheryl Green Let's get real about online dating right from the start. It won't solve all of your dating problems, and it sure isn't the easy way to find a date. In the interest of full disclosure, I feel compelled to bring up two basic caveats.
Looking over Your Shoulder
Who Can You Trust? Overcoming Betrayal and Fear by Howard E. Butt, Jr. Have you ever walked down a dark street at night in an unfamiliar city? You feel apprehensive and uneasy; each footfall behind you seems menacing; you quicken your steps. You tend to look over your shoulder, hyperalert for any danger lurking in the shadow
Part One: The Preparation
The Climb of Your Life : Finding Your Home on the Mountain of the Lord by Mark Atteberry The Climb of Your Life might well be the most uplifting book you'll ever read. Based on King David's famous mountain of the Lord passage in Psalm 24, it offers beleaguered Christians a new way of looking at the life of faith and, more importantly
Who Is Jesus
How to Be Like Jesus: Lessons on Following in His Footsteps by Pat Williams, Jim Denney It was just before dawn in Jerusalem. Inside a stone-walled house, in the pre-dawn darkness, a man and a woman lay together. The man was married, but not to this woman. What they did was a violation of the Law. If anyone caught them together . . .
The Source of My Vocation
Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way by Pope John Paul II I set off in search of the source of my vocation. It is beating there … in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. I thank God that during the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 I was able to pray-precisely there-in the Upper Room (Mark 14:15)
Timing and Trust
When, God, When? : Learning to Trust in God's Timing by Joyce Meyer In this chapter the Psalmist is saying that he trusted God to deliver him, and he trusted Him to do it at the right time. Trust requires us to say, My times are in Your hands (paraphrase). I have learned that trust requires us to accept that some question
Wait On the Lord for the Due Season
Weary Warriors, Fainting Saints: How You Can Outlast Every Attack of the Enemy by Joyce Meyer The King James Version of Galatians 6:9 says, And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. The Lord promises to bring the harvest, the answers we are waiting for, in due season.
God Is Never Late, And He Usually Isn't Early!
Weary Warriors, Fainting Saints: How You Can Outlast Every Attack of the Enemy by Joyce Meyer When we ask people how they are these days, usually the answer is, Tired! or, Busy! When I asked what the lifestyle was like in one city, the answer was, Fast! The word weary means faint, worn out, 1. Tired: fatigued.
Behold Your God
The Secrets of Spiritual Power : Strength for Life's Battles by Joyce Meyer God is a big God; nothing is impossible with Him. We have nothing to fear from our enemies because none of them are as great as our God. God is for us; He is on our side. The devil has one position-he is against us.
Anger
The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word (Meyer, Joyce) by Joyce Meyer I will bridle my anger, trash my wrath, cool my pipes-it only makes things worse. I follow the example of the Lord, who is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy and loving-kindness. I am slow to anger and have great understanding
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