Loving People

Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418537609

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Loving People by John Townsend Pdf

Your personal guide to learning how to love. When you say or hear the words "I love you" it can change your life forever. Love is one of God's most important gifts to anyone, yet there are many misunderstandings about how to make love work in our families, friendships, marriages and dating relationships. In Loving People, best-selling author Dr. John Townsend shows you that love can actually be learned, and gives you the steps and tools to become skilled in love. Using his trademark stories and illustrations to flesh out the important principles, Dr. Townsend covers: receiving love connecting love healing love confronting love romantic love surrendering love Through his teaching, readers will discover - and start enjoying - the words, actions, and experiences of authentic love.

Author : Hank Dunn
Publisher : A & a Publishers
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Artificial feeding
ISBN : 1928560067

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Hard Choices for Loving People by Hank Dunn Pdf

Author : Joshua Fields Millburn,Ryan Nicodemus
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781250236494

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Love People, Use Things by Joshua Fields Millburn,Ryan Nicodemus Pdf

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and use things. This is not a book about how to live with less, but about how to live more deeply and more fully." —Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Like a Monk AS SEEN ON THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES MINIMALISM & LESS IS NOW How might your life be better with less? Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent—a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment—a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you’re imagining is an intentional life. And to get there, you’ll have to let go of some clutter that’s in the way. In Love People, Use Things, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus move past simple decluttering to show how minimalism makes room to reevaluate and heal the seven essential relationships in our lives: stuff, truth, self, money, values, creativity, and people. They use their own experiences—and those of the people they have met along the minimalist journey—to provide a template for how to live a fuller, more meaningful life. Because once you have less, you can make room for the right kind of more.

Author : Dr. Mike Bechtle
Publisher : Revell
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781493428922

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The People Pleaser's Guide to Loving Others without Losing Yourself by Dr. Mike Bechtle Pdf

We all want other people to like us and think well of us. But when we depend on the praise, admiration, or appreciation of others for our sense of self-worth, we become trapped in an exhausting and debilitating cycle of people-pleasing relationships where we always give and rarely receive. The most common advice we hear--Start putting your own needs first!-- doesn't work, because we do love helping other people! Thankfully, the solution to the people pleaser's "problem" isn't to fundamentally change who you are--it's to fundamentally change where you find your worth. In this freeing book, Dr. Mike Bechtle shows you stop letting your fears of rejection, criticism, invisibility, or inadequacy drive your actions and start rebuilding your sense of self-worth from the inside out. When you do, you'll discover that what you once thought of as a struggle is actually a strength.

Author : Joyce Meyer
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781399802185

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Loving People Who Are Hard to Love by Joyce Meyer Pdf

How do you love the people in your life who are hard to love? We're never going to be able to prevent people from saying or doing things that hurt our feelings. We will always have opportunities to get offended. But if we do things God's way, we can choose to save ourselves a lot of misery and hardship. This doesn't mean we allow people to abuse us. No, there is a time for confronting people and dealing with situations. However, the Bible commands us to love our enemies and forgive those who have wronged us, even when it feels impossible. Everything the Lord asks us to do in the Bible is ultimately for our good. In fact, when we choose to love our enemies and forgive those who have hurt us, we are actually helping ourselves more than anyone else. Because whatever the Lord commands us to do, He is going to give us the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it - and that includes loving and being good to difficult people! God's love flowing through us is strong enough to melt even the hardest hearts, so use kindness as a weapon to overcome the meanness in people.

Author : William Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190620141

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Loving Music Till It Hurts by William Cheng Pdf

Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover band made a mockery of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't quite do justice to Mozart's Requiem. Such lively language upholds music as a sentient companion susceptible to injury and in need of fierce protection. There's nothing wrong with the human instinct to safeguard beloved music . . . except, perhaps, when this instinct leads us to hurt or neglect fellow human beings in turn: say, by heaping outsized shame upon those who seem to do music wrong; or by rushing to defend a conductor's beautiful recordings while failing to defend the multiple victims who have accused this maestro of sexual assault. Loving Music Till It Hurts is a capacious exploration of how people's head-over-heels attachments to music can variously align or conflict with agendas of social justice. How do we respond when loving music and loving people appear to clash?

Author : Greg Wander
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781491761939

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Abundant Life and Loving God by Greg Wander Pdf

Abundant Life & Loving God tells how one mans journey of discovery led him to find abundant life in Jesus Christ and a central place in his life for following the most important commandment to love God. Greg Wander tells how he came to love God as passionately as he loves the members of his family. Energized by this change in his lifes priorities, he looks back over his personal history in the church and reveals how loving God was rarely discussed. By telling this story he hopes to help others find renewed love for God. In adopting an approachable tone, Abundant Life and Loving God turns its attention to topics like enjoying real relationships with God, loving God, spending time seeking God, finding transformation in God, and reviewing recommendations for spiritual leaders to encourage others in their searches for a loving God. A concluding list of recommended readings, grouped by topic, provides guidance for ones spiritual search. If you have come to the point in your life where you recognize gaps and holes in your spiritual life, then this text offers support. With its embraceable narrative, it will provide you with scripturally grounded guidance for discovering the blessings that come with showing your love for God and receiving His grace for enjoying an abundant life.

Author : Mark Allan Powell
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413718

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Loving Jesus by Mark Allan Powell Pdf

The essence of spirituality is loving God, says Powell. The Bible, the Talmud, and the Qu'ran all direct their followers not merely to believe in God, to trust God, to obey God, and to serve God but to love God. But how does one do that? Can we learn to love God? In this biblical spirituality for today, Powell's earnest plea is for Christians to revisit their faith not by blazing in religious enthusiasm but by harboring a steadier flame and deeper commitment. Living at the poetic heart of faith, he argues, entails seeing the coordinates of religious life love, understanding, truth, hope and especially devotion in a new way. Powell espouses the old-fashioned idea of piety. Drawing on his wide knowledge of the Bible and Christian tradition, as well as insights from his own journey, he shows how simple religious practices move us beyond the old certitudes of a naove and youthful faith into the less certain but more bracing terrain of a second naovete, a closer walk with Jesus.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving by Milkyway Media by Milkyway Media Pdf

Love can be difficult, but it’s not mysterious. No matter who you are, your capacity to love can be developed in the same way as learning to cook or play the violin: with practice… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712341445

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Joyful Journeying with God/joy in Loving as God's Children 1' 2005 Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jessica Flanigan
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781618688675

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The Loving Diet by Jessica Flanigan Pdf

What is the secret ingredient missing from diets and health care plans? Love. It may sound simple, but it’s the most important component of all. The Loving Diet™ offers a progressive heart-centered approach to healing that will show you why coming into cooperation with your disease—paired with an updated Autoimmune Paleo diet to reduce inflammation—may be the fastest way through it.

Author : Gay Hendricks,Kathlyn Hendricks
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781401949693

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Conscious Loving Ever After by Gay Hendricks,Kathlyn Hendricks Pdf

Are you passionately dedicated to experiencing your full capacity for love? If so, you are in for a thrilling ride on the greatest journey imaginable. If that sounds like a tempting invitation, keep reading, and prepare to take in some life-altering truths: That as you get older, your love life can get better. That instead of fading, your relationships can flourish. That you can have more exquisite love and more passionate sex in the second half of life than you ever had before. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, the pioneering authors of the original best-selling book Conscious Loving, show you how in this guide to creating vibrant and joyful connections from your mid-40s onward. Midlife is a time when we all face a choice: to settle into fixed routines and beliefs or to expand toward new horizons. With candor, compassion, and plenty of humor, drawing on experiments in the "living laboratory" of their own marriage as well as stories from their clients and colleagues, Katie and Gay offer insights and practices to help you: • Expand and enrich love by making your own creative essence your top priority • Take blame and criticism out of your communication with those you love • Attract new love into your life • Enjoy the best sex ever Whether you’re partnered or single, Conscious Loving Ever After can light your way through the layers of unconscious relating that so many of us get caught in. From a Ten-Minute Stuff Talk and a Ten-Minute Heart Talk to a range of whole-body learning processes designed to translate ideas into action, here are the tools you need to transform your romantic life so you can thrive in your full capacity for love.

Author : Alexandra Kuykendall
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493412204

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Loving My Actual Christmas by Alexandra Kuykendall Pdf

The Christmas season is a particularly difficult time for women to slow down and relish what's right in front of them. An annual marker for many, it is a holiday that can often remind us how life is not going as we'd planned. Our family relationships remain strained, our finances stretched, and our schedules stuffed with too much to do in too little time. Following the formula of her successful Loving My Actual Life, Alexandra Kuykendall shares with readers her own personal experiment to be completely present in her life as it is during the holiday season. Addressing the themes of Advent and Christmas, she reflects on hope, love, joy, peace, and relishing the season, with practical pullouts on common Christmas stressors, such as finances, schedules, and extended family. Kuykendall's signature candor helps women go easy on themselves, remember what truly matters, and find joy in their imperfect Christmases.

Author : Deidre Lynch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226183701

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Loving Literature by Deidre Lynch Pdf

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most commonand perhaps the most woundingis that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation ofLoving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but tolove literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private lifethat the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history. While never denying the very real feelings that warm our relationship to books, Loving Literature nonetheless serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase the love of literature” as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Lynch writes, It is as if those on the side of love of literature had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love's edginess and complexities.” With this masterly volume, Lynch restores those edges, and allows us to revel in those complexities.

Author : Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307567680

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The Highly Sensitive Person in Love by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. Pdf

Do you fall in love hard, but fear intimacy? Are you sick of being told that you are “too sensitive”? Do you struggle to respect a less-sensitive partner? Or have you given up on love, afraid of being too sensitive or shy to endure its wounds? Statistics show that 50 percent of what determines divorce is genetic temperament. And, if you are one of the 20 percent of people who are born highly sensitive, the risk of an unhappy relationship is especially high. Your finely tuned nervous system, which picks up on subtleties and reflects deeply, would be a romantic asset if both you and your partner understood you better. But without that understanding, your sensitivity is likely to be making your close relationships painful and complicated. Based on Elaine N. Aron’s groundbreaking research on temperament and intimacy, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love offers practical help for highly sensitive people seeking happier, healthier romantic relationships. From low-stress fighting to sensitive sexuality, the book offers a wealth of practical advice on making the most of all personality combinations. Complete with illuminating self-tests and the results of the first survey ever done on sex and temperament, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love will help you discover a better way of living and loving.