Befriend

Author : Scott Sauls
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496418333

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2017 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist (Faith and Culture category) Is real friendship too risky? We live in a world where real friendship is hard to find. Suspicious of others and insecure about ourselves, we retreat into the safety of our small, self-made worlds. Now more than ever, it’s easy to avoid people with whom we disagree or whose life experiences don’t mirror our own. Safe among like-minded peers and digital “friends,” we really don’t have to engage with those who can challenge and enhance our limited perspectives. Tragically, even the church can become a place that minimizes diversity and reinforces isolation. Jesus models a much richer vision of friendship. Scott Sauls, pastor and teacher, invites you to see the breadth of Christ’s love in this book, BeFriend. Join Scott on this journey through twenty-one meditations to inspire actively pursuing God’s love through expanding your circle of friends. Scott has met too many people whose first impulse is to fence off their lives with relational barriers that only end up starving their own souls. Yes, it’s true: Real friendship is costly. Love does make us vulnerable. But without risk, our lives will remain impoverished. Join Scott in BeFriend as he summons you toward diverse friendship that can enrich your life and, in the process, reveal a better version of yourself.

Author : 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn 'Ali
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300225280

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Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs by 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn 'Ali Pdf

This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotiate with powerful secular officials, judges, and treasurers, or emirs. Translated into English for the first time, it is a unique account of the relationship between spiritual and political authority in late medieval / early modern Islamic society.

Author : Faith G. Harper
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781648410390

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Befriend Your Brain by Faith G. Harper Pdf

Do you freak out at small things? Do you yell at people when you don't mean to? Do you cry or get scared and you aren't sure why? Does it feel like your feelings control you? All of these feelings are a normal part of life for everybody, but sometimes they're just too much and it seems like you're the only one on the planet that feels them. Our brains are doing their best to help us out, but sometimes we get hurt instead. And sometimes we hurt people we love, too, because we just don't know what to do with all of our feelings. With humor and patience, Dr. Faith G. Harper shows you the science behind why your brain is acting up and ideas for new ways to respond when you're feeling scared, sad, anxious, or angry. You can train your brain to be your friend and help you live a happy, calm, and healthy life. If you have experienced trauma or if you have a hard time feeling good and getting along with other people, this book can help. This is an adaptation of Dr. Faith's bestselling book (which has an R-rated title), written for tweens, teens, and the adults trying to help them navigate it all.

Author : Alex Caine
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371645

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Befriend and Betray by Alex Caine Pdf

The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day’s work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all. Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought he’d end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or “kite”: infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanour, Caine could fit into whatever unsavoury situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, he’d slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys. Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served.

Author : Joseph A. Payne
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0809133547

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Befriending by Joseph A. Payne Pdf

A user-friendly volume that will allow busy people to squeeze in some time for a self-guided retreat on a much needed topic: befriending God, yourself and others.

Author : Judith Ruskay Rabinor
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781608822799

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Befriending Your Ex after Divorce by Judith Ruskay Rabinor Pdf

If you are divorced, or are contemplating divorce, you’ve probably heard the diatribe: Divorce is messy. Divorce is a tragedy. Divorce will scar your children for life. Befriending Your Ex challenges many of these destructive myths about divorce, and sets out to change the way we think about the process of divorce and its ultimate outcome. While divorce certainly can have negative effects upon children, when they occur, these effects are likely to result from a hostile and combative relationship between ex-spouses. This uplifting book reminds the reader that all divorces need not follow this unhappy script, and that ex-spouses can collaboratively co-parent and be a source of support, not only to their children, but to one another as well. Author Judy Rabinor’s ability to write as both a divorcee and a psychologist gives her a unique perspective on the subject, and in the book she artfully and thoughtfully combines research, clinical practice, and the everyday reality faced by a divorced parent. As a guide for parents, this book is filled with practical exercises, suggestions and strategies for coping with anger, grief, and loss, as well as the myriad of day to day issues involved in co-parenting after divorce. Story after story—including Judy’s own story—reminds the reader that once the emotional tsunami of divorce settles back down, exes can be connected and supportive to one another as they share a major joy: loving and raising children and grandchildren, enjoying the family they have created, and creating a new family unit to evolve in the wake of divorce.

Author : Alison Cook, PhD,Kimberly Miller, MTh, LMFT
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400201624

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Boundaries for Your Soul by Alison Cook, PhD,Kimberly Miller, MTh, LMFT Pdf

Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion. Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Boundaries for Your Soul, written by bestselling authors and licensed counselors Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller, shows you how to calm the chaos within. This groundbreaking approach will give you the tools you need to: Know what to do when you feel overwhelmed Understand your guilt, anxiety, sadness, and fear Move from doubt and conflict to confidence and peace Find balance and emotional stability Gathering the wisdom from the authors' twenty-five years of combined advanced education, biblical studies, and clinical practice, this book will set you on a journey to become the loving, authentic, joyful person you were created to be. Praise for Boundaries for Your Soul: "Personal growth requires that we create healthy boundaries for our internal world, just as we are to do in our interpersonal relationships. When the various parts of our soul are connected and integrated, the result is that we heal, relate, and function at the highest levels. Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller have written a very helpful, engaging, and practical book on how to accomplish this process." --Dr. John Townsend, New York Times bestselling author of Boundaries and founder of the Townsend Institute "Boundaries for Your Soul spoke to me in echoes of already-known, yet-not-fully-applied truths, as well as with sweet new understandings. For both those familiar with Jesus' inner healing and those new to the process, there is real help here." --Elisa Morgan, author of The Beauty of Broken and The Prayer Coin, cohost of Discover the Word, and president emerita of MOPS International

Author : Man Chung Han, M.D., Ph.D.,William Ahnn, M.D.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781644245224

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Befriending Cancer by Man Chung Han, M.D., Ph.D.,William Ahnn, M.D. Pdf

Why despair? Not everybody dies from cancer. Never give up! Anything is possible in the biological world. Cancer cells are cells in our body which one day went awry and took a different path called mutation. Nobody knows what these cancer cells are going to do. Cancer cells are like a football with an unpredictable bounce. And so, this brings hope. This is the obvious reason why we should never give up no matter how tough the treatment is. Remember, if you understand your cancer, you can be a survivor even if doctors only give you a 1 percent chance of living.

Author : Ayesha Syahira
Publisher : IMAN Publication Sdn Bhd
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789672459408

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Befriending the Quran by Ayesha Syahira Pdf

In life, we always have that one friend whom we turn to in times of happy and sad, good or bad. As Muslims, can that ‘friend’ be our Quran? Can the Quran be the one that you turn to when you need to be uplifted, comforted and are in need of answers? *** In this book, author Ayesha Syahira shares the journey she took when she decided to make the Quran the companion she loves and trusts. Building a relationship with the Quran cannot happen in one day. It will take years. It will require patience, and persistence. Each of us will have our own personal journey of connecting with the Quran and nurturing love towards the Quran. The steps and stories might vary from one person to another but the goal is the same —to always be close to your Quran.

Author : Jean Vanier
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809146908

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Befriending the Stranger by Jean Vanier Pdf

In Befriending the Stranger, Jean Vanier reflects on who we are and how we build our communities, and in particular asks, can we be truly compassionate towards others if we are not compassionate towards ourselves? In a series of six meditative pieces, he opens up God's invitation to us today, in the midst of all the violence and corruption of the world, to create new places of belonging and sharing, of peace and kindness, where each one is loved and accepted with one's own fragility, abilities, and disabilities. +

Author : Brya Hanan
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646803057

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Befriending Your Inner Child by Brya Hanan Pdf

Hurts experienced in our youth, be they traumas or trials, might get stowed away, yet our inner child remembers. It doesn’t matter how much time passes or how mature we become; such hurts can eventually cause friction in our daily lives, casting a long shadow over our relationships with ourselves, our loved ones, and our God. Written in a compassionate and pastoral tone by licensed marriage and family therapist Brya Hanan, Befriending Your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Inner Healing invites you to venture deep into your heart and befriend your hurts, emotional wounds, and childish behavior—or in the world of psychotherapy, your “inner child”—to reclaim your truest self, experience inner wholeness and healing, and strengthen your relationship with God and others. Part one of the book explains why it is essential to befriend your inner child as well as the wounds and self-protections that this “child within” holds. Through this discovery, you will learn how to transform your deepest hurts into opportunities for healing and integration. Part two of the book offers practical tools to tend to your inner child compassionately. Through Hanan’s practical “5 A’s,” you will learn how to anchor yourself in God and in your God-given body; acknowledge your feelings and where you notice them showing up in your body; attune to your deepest wounds, core beliefs, and distressing feelings; ask God to show you what you need and how to participate in his healing work; and act consistently with loving compassion toward yourself. Hanan vulnerably shares her own journey of “reparenting” her inner child with God and offers additional case studies from her clinical practice that highlight how different life stories and life stages can respond to befriending their inner child. Each chapter includes charts, lists, and “Befriend Work” exercises that challenge readers to reflect further on the content. If you long to experience more fulfillment and wholeness, this book is for you.

Author : Adele Reinhartz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441125224

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Befriending The Beloved Disciple by Adele Reinhartz Pdf

Adele Reinhartz has been studying and teaching the Gospel of John for many years. Earlier, she chose to ignore the love/hate relationship that the book provokes in her, a Jew, and took refuge in an "objective" historical-critical approach. At this stage her relationship to the Gospel was not so much a friendship as a business relationship. No longer willing to ignore the negative portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the text, nor the insight that her own Jewish identity inevitably does play a role in her work as an exegete, Reinhartz here explores the Fourth Gospel through the approach known as "ethical criticism," which is based on the metaphorical notion of the book as "friend"--not "an easy, unquestioning companionship," but the kind of honest relationship in which ethical considerations are addressed, not avoided. In a book as multilayered as the Gospel itself, Reinhartz engages in 4 different "readings" of the Fourth Gospel: compliant, resistant, sympathetic, and engaged. Each approach views the Beloved Disciple differently: as mentor, opponent, colleague, and as "other." In the course of each of these readings, she elucidates the three narrative levels that interpenetrate the Gospel: the historical, the cosmological, and the ecclesiological. In the latter, Reinhartz deals at length with the so-called expulsion theory, the dominant scholarly notion that the Johannine community, which included believers of Jewish, Gentile, and Samaritan origins, engaged in a prolonged and violent controversy with the local Jewish community, culminating in a "traumatic expulsion from the synagogue."

Author : Michael Borgstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000299625

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Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century by Michael Borgstrom Pdf

Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects? In response, this book examines how readers "befriend" works of literature, overtures that are based in a curiosity about the world that help those readers to appreciate the world anew. As an instance of this dynamic, it examines how the contemporary social interest in queerness can be contextualized through encounters with texts produced during an earlier era of queer flux: the U.S. nineteenth century. The book offers first-hand accounts of such meetings, weaving within its analysis reports on readers' engagements with literature and the consequences of those connections. It frames such dynamics as central to a new politics, or to finding a vocabulary for a familiar politics that has not received its due.

Author : Luke Norsworthy
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493423415

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Befriending Your Monsters by Luke Norsworthy Pdf

Monsters aren't real. As reasonable adults, we know this. But we also know that, while fake, the monsters of fairy tales, movies, and Netflix series embody our very real fears. Large, powerful beings that hunt us in the dark make us feel small, weak, vulnerable. When characters in these stories run away, they temporarily feel safe, but it's not until the monster is faced head-on that the story can have a happy ending--and, more importantly, the hero can become all he or she was created to be. The same is true of the monsters of the spiritual life. The monsters of comparison (I am what others say about me), more (I am what I have), and success (I am what I do) are powerful enemies of a healthy spiritual life. But ignoring them solves nothing. Pastor and speaker Luke Norsworthy wants you to face your monsters, get to know them, and discover how they are inviting you into a deeper understanding of yourself and a more intimate connection with God. You'll never completely eradicate your fears, but if you befriend them, they can lead you into becoming God's intention for you.

Author : Howard Storm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1079290923

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Befriend God by Howard Storm Pdf