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This source of strength and solace for millions of Christian clergy and laypeople throughout the world can be a companion for your own spiritual journey.
For centuries, Christians of different traditions and seekers from various backgrounds have found strength for their spiritual journey in the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). First composed in 1549 by Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, the BCP, alongside Shakespeare's works and the...
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The classic of Russian spirituality-now with facing-page commentary that illuminates and explains the text.
The Way of a Pilgrim is the timeless account of an anonymous wanderer who set out on a journey across nineteenth-century Russia with nothing but a backpack, some bread, and a Bible, with a burning desire to learn the true meaning of the words of St. Paul: "Pray without ceasing." In this completely accessible new abridgment, all the terms and...
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America's bestselling author and inspirational columnist Catherine Galasso-Vigorito brings practical Biblical advice and true, modern-day stories to serve as illuminating encouragement in the face of life's challenges.
Filled with encouraging true stories, rich Biblical passages, and pragmatic words of wisdom, The Open Window provides workable suggestions and concrete ways to help deal with the challenges of life. This unique devotional offers strengthening...
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Your Child's Heart: Building Strong Character and a Lasting Faith”, by Terry Glaspey, is a thoughtful look at how parents can build positive character traits, a lasting faith, and a lifelong love for God in their children. The focus is on helping children learn how to make the right choices in life.”
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Think of an issue that makes your blood boil. Now imagine lunch with a friend who is just as passionate about it-on the other side. How can the two of you even broach the issue, let alone hear each other with curiosity and compassion? The answer begins long before the lunch does, by learning to engage dialogue as a habit of the heart-an inner transformation that the ancient practices of Christian spirituality can address. This highly readable and...
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MAKE LOVE YOUR AIM is a companion piece to the author's last book, THE WIDER PLACE (Zondervan, 1966), which was described by some readers as a "controversial challenge" to try the inner freedom God grants to anyone, who want it enough to assume the responsibilities that come with it.
Freedom and love are two sides of the same coin. And we can only understand them enough to practice them if we know the way God defines them. How does He do this? In...
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Why bother about God? What's right and what's wrong? How can I become a Christian? How can I be sure I am a Christian?
These and many more questions are uniquely answered from the scripture by Eugenia Price. Never a Dull Moment answered youth's questions about God and Christianity frankly and honestly.
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First published with great success in 1979, and now, reissued with an updated Preface, Leave Yourself Alone is a book Eugenia Price's readers will want to add to their personal collection of her writings.
According to Eugenia Price, the emotionally healthy person is the one, who is, focused outside of the self, and whose attention is, directed toward God and other people. In Leave Yourself Alone, she explores specific areas of life, work, prayer,...
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From her own experiences- her struggles and victories on the way to peace- Eugenia Price offers in this book a step-by-step guide for all who seek a new, happy and complete life. This thrilling and inspiring chronicle of spiritual adventure lifts the heart and head of the reader, as the widely respected Christian author and speaka lets Christ speak through her to those who long to follow Him as Lord of their lives. Here is memorable, meaningful testimony...
11) Just As I Am
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In these chaotic times, when many people who claim to be Christian are searching for "relevance" in the secular to justify their worldly aspirations, much of the Christian heritage is being ignored or discarded. But Miss Price turns time back for a moment and in these early Victorian lyrics she finds surprisingly sound, contemporary meaning that stands boldly above the ideas of today's so-called radical thinkers.
Each line of this long-favored song...
12) The Wider Place
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The Wider Place is a book about liberty-not license. Author Eugenia price wrote this book as a product of a distinct change in life pattern after choosing to follow Jesus Christ. In The Wider Place, she attempts to share some of the results of the new freedom she found in making a firm decision to slow down, find time and privacy, in which to learn to listen to God, to learn of him and herself in relation to Him.
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By breaking free from our misperceptions about what it means to be an adult, we can reshape our world and become harbingers of grace.
"In our desire to grow up, mature, become adults, we become enamored with who we are supposed to be. When we have finally 'grown up' we realize much of who we really are has been left behind or buried under various masks and roles we play. But the knowledge of who we truly are never leaves us. To reclaim our selfhood,...
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Challenge our common images of God by blowing the lid off conventional God-descriptors.
"We do not have to let go of one sense of God to take up another. Neither do we need to go about challenging old metaphors. What is crucial is to find a metaphor-or two, or six-that creatively point toward what we believe."
-from Chapter 1
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15) The Rule of Benedict: Christian Monastic Wisdom for Daily Living--Selections Annotated & Explained
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This practical resource for finding peace, meaning and God, from the pen of a sixth-century monk, can help guide your own spiritual journey.
Many people today are realizing that the cultural focus on competition, success, acquisition and constant busyness is ultimately not satisfying. They hunger for a way of life that has more lasting value and deeper meaning. For centuries, people within and outside Christianity have turned to the writings of Benedict...
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Move closer to God one day at a time by reading the Psalms and practicing prayer in ways you may not have imagined before.
This is a prayer book for every day of the year for people who don't usually think about using a prayer book. Drawing on a wide variety of resources-lives of saints and sages from every age, psalms, guides for personal reflection and suggestions for practice-Rev. Larry J. Peacock offers helpful guidance for anyone hungry for a...
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Share My Pleasant Stones offers personal insights and practical guidelines for expanding one's relationship with Jesus Christ through daily reading and meditation. Each page-one for every day of the year-is headed by a quotation from the Bible and followed by notes the author has written in the margins of her own Bible over the years. It is, perhaps, Eugenia Price's most personal book. First published in 1957, and now reissued with a new preface by...
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The Burden Is Light is the author's soul-searching account of her discovery of Jesus Christ. Told in the vibrant, honest prose that has made Eugenia Price a classic religious writer and bestselling novelist, The Burden Is Light offers an intimate account of her conversion to Christianity at the age of thirty-three. Traversing the mountains and valleys of her journey from birth to rebirth in Jesus Christ, Ms. Price examines closely her spiritual, personal,...
19) A Woman's Choice
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First Published in 1962, A Woman's Choice is chock-full of Eugenia Price's practical and wise suggestions on how women can participate with God in the day-to-day business of living through their problems.
Eugenia Price has long been recognized for her ability to understand the modern Christian woman's problems. In A Woman's Choice, Ms. Price shares her responses to the many
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The Eastern Christian "Love of the Beautiful" can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.
A collection of writings by monks from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, the Philokalia more than any other text reflects the Eastern Church's interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Simply translated, the title means "love of the beautiful," which reflects the text's emphasis on mystical and contemplative practices to engage all of our senses in the acts...
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