Pastoral Days

Author : André Alexis
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770563711

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Pastoral by André Alexis Pdf

Praise for André Alexis's previous books: "Astonishing . . . an irresistible, one-of-a-kind work."—Quill & Quire "Alexis [has an] astute understanding of the madly shimmering, beautifully weaving patterns created by what we have agreed to call memory."—Ottawa Citizen There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young, for instance, after she had seen him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery. André Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral. For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people, it's very bucolic—too much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. Bu things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fiancé doesn't want to decide between Liz and his more worldly mistress Jane, and for Father Pennant himself, who greets some miracles of nature—mayors walking on water, talking sheep—with a profound crisis of faith. André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His books include Asylum and Ingrid and the Wolf.

Author : Christopher Ash
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784984328

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The Book Your Pastor Wishes You Would Read by Christopher Ash Pdf

Caring for your pastor and the difference it makes. Caring for your pastor and the difference it makes. What do you think about your pastor? Do you chew over his sermons and wonder if they are clear and helpful? Do you feel he spends enough time with you? In fact, do you ever catch yourself wondering what he does all day? The truth is, often we think, "What can my pastor do for me?" Far less often do we think, "What can I do for my pastor?" Seasoned former pastor, Christopher Ash, urges church members to think about pastors not just in terms of what they do €“ how they lead and pray and preach and teach and so on €“ but about who they are. He encourages us to remember that pastors are people and to pray for them as they serve us. Paradoxically, caring for our pastor will be a blessing to us as well as to them, and create a culture of true fellowship in our church family.

Author : Charles Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1946453919

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Every Pastor's First 180 Days by Charles Stone Pdf

180 days--that's the critical time every pastor has to establish their role in a new church position. That first six months can make an enormous difference and give them a powerful foundation to impact the Kingdom of God in a positive way, or it can present them with growing challenges that linger for years to come. Pastor Charles Stone draws on 40 years of ministry service to present an easy-to-read guide for new and seasoned pastors alike who want to make the most of those first 180 days.

Author : Saint Gregory the Great,Aeterna Press
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Book of Pastoral Rule by Saint Gregory the Great,Aeterna Press Pdf

With kind and humble intent thou reprovest me, dearest brother, for having wished by hiding myself to fly from the burdens of pastoral care; as to which, lest to some they should appear light, I express with my pen in the book before you all my own estimate of their heaviness, in order both that he who is free from them may not unwarily seek them, and that he who has so sought them may tremble for having got them. This book is divided into four separate heads of argument, that it may approach the reader’s mind by allegations arranged in order—by certain steps, as it were. For, as the necessity of things requires, we must especially consider after what manner every one should come to supreme rule; and, duly arriving at it, after what manner he should live; and, living well, after what manner he should teach; and, teaching aright, with how great consideration every day he should become aware of his own infirmity; lest either humility fly from the approach, or life be at variance with the arrival, or teaching be wanting to the life, or presumption unduly exalt the teaching.

Author : H. C. G. Moule
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066147167

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To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. Moule Pdf

This book is an interesting account of life as a Christian pastor as written by a man who experienced it firsthand, Handley Moule. He was an evangelical Anglican theologian, writer, poet, and Bishop of Durham from 1901 to 1920.

Author : Blake J. Neff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317786801

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A Pastor's Guide to Interpersonal Communication by Blake J. Neff Pdf

Improving your powers of communication can encourage powerful communication with your parishioners. A Pastor’s Guide to Interpersonal Communication: The Other Six Days provides students preparing for the pastoral ministry with specialized training in communications that focuses on the kind of one-on-one conversations they can expect to have with their parishioners. This comprehensive book examines a variety of essential topics, including perception, self-disclosure, verbal and nonverbal messages, listening, stages of relational development, power assertiveness and dominance, conflict management, forgiveness, persuasion, dual relationships, pastoral family communication, and how to develop a communications model. Each chapter includes “Pastoral Conversations,” real-life dialogues presented for analysis; “Key Concepts” for quick student review; “Meanings Mania,” self-tests on vocabulary; and “Unleashing the Power of Interpersonal Communication,” student exercises that reinforce the practical aspects of key principles. While many pastors have a great love for the people they minister to, they have difficulty demonstrating that love because they lack the skills to develop and maintain relationships. This book explores how communication works and how to make it work for you, applying the best available interpersonal communications techniques to your relationships with the real people of the church—your parishioners. A Pastor’s Guide to Interpersonal Communication: The Other Six Days examines: how self-disclosure works and when it’s appropriate for a pastor stumbling blocks and building blocks for effective listening the differences between power, assertiveness, and dominance and when to use each conflict management styles and negotiation strategies several myths about forgiveness dual relationships and how to avoid them pitfalls to avoid in pastoral family communication and much more A Pastor’s Guide to Interpersonal Communication: The Other Six Days is an essential resource for Bible college students and for students at the pre-ministerial and seminary levels. It’s also a valuable professional tool for clergy practitioners who need help with their communication skills.

Author : André Alexis
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770565791

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Days by Moonlight by André Alexis Pdf

Gulliver’s Travels meets The Underground Railroad: a road trip through the countryside – and the psyche – by the author of Fifteen Dogs. Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that hold Indigenous Parades; it is a land of house burnings, werewolves, and witches. Complete with Alfred’s drawings of plants both real and implausible, Days by Moonlight is a Dantesque journey taken during the “hour of the wolf,” that time of day when the sun is setting and the traveller can’t tell the difference between dog and wolf. And it asks that perpetual question: how do we know the things we know are real, and what is real anyway? “A mash-up that is part fabulism, part faux biography, and part satire, Days by Moonlight conveys the experience of grief, managing to transform its inarticulable and symbolic weight into a finely wrought literary work.” —Quill and Quire

Author : George Azar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578913348

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Coming to Jesus: My Gay Church Days: Memoir of a Closeted Evangelical Pastor who Eventually Had Enough by George Azar Pdf

George was your average American kid born to traditional Middle Eastern immigrants. Curious about life but tortured by vicious bullying in middle school, he found what seemed like a solution: evangelical Christianity. It appeared to have the cure for his most "shameful sin." Believing his homosexual feelings were an abomination before God, he committed his life to a church community who accepted him ... conditionally. While hiding the scariest truths about him for fear of losing their love, he went from Bible study to Bible college, committing every aspect of his life to his faith - even forsaking important relationships "for the sake of the Gospel." Little did he know that the steady trickle of relinquished identity would create a psychological dysmorphia that allowed his oppressors to keep him in a dangerous isolation. Coming to Jesus: My Gay Church Days is the true story of a deeply insecure evangelical pastor who eventually decided enough was enough. After failed relationships, crippling anxiety, and cult-like codependency, George broke away from rigid Christianity to pursue the thing he once found most dreadful and fearful about himself. This book is a crusade of revealing, an exploration of conformity, oppression, awakening, and self-discovery unlike any other. Ultimately, it is also a quest to save other "lost souls" by example, calling others to rise above the expectations of others and accept themselves as they are.

Author : Andre Alexis
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008016

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Childhood by Andre Alexis Pdf

Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, André Alexis’s prize-winning novel chronicles the childhood – or perhaps the loss of childhood – of Thomas MacMillan, who sets out to piece together the early years of his life. Raised in a Southern Ontario town in the ’50s and ’60s, Thomas is abandoned to the care of his eccentric Trinidadian grandmother. Then, at ten, his mother, Katarina, reclaims him, taking him to Ottawa and to the once-splendid Victorian home of Henry Wing, a gentle conjurer whose love of science and the imagination becomes an important legacy. But is he Thomas’s father? Moving and wryly humorous, Childhood tells the story of a man’s quest for what is lost, bringing him closer to the truth about himself.

Author : Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Meditations
ISBN : PRNC:32101065101741

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Notes for Meditation Upon the Collects for the Sundays and Holy Days by Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385339361

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The Pastoral of the Third Presbyterian Church by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Samuel G. May
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973618034

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From the Pastor's Pen by Samuel G. May Pdf

In the midst of an ever-changing world, there is one thing that never changesthe Word of God. As you travel on this journey called life, its good to have that constant from day to day. But even still, many of us could use a way to keep the constant and loving message of God ever closer to our hearts. From the Pastors Pen is a daily companion for you on your journey. This devotional journal includes not only a daily devotional but also a space for you to write down your thoughts. For each day, you will find a passage of scripture along with author and pastor Samuel G. Mays commentary and reflections related to those verses, and while the devotionals do not follow any particular pattern, you will discover how they reflect the variations in the tapestry of life. So whether you are dealing with hardships or just need daily spiritual bread and nourishment, you can chronicle your walk in faith no matter the circumstances. Once completed, your own copy of From the Pastors Pen will stand as a unique volume that reflects this chapter in your life. There will not be another one like it in the entire world!

Author : Westminster province
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600014975

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Pastoral letter of the archbishop and bishops of the province of Westminster assembled by Westminster province Pdf

Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : UVA:X000672867

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The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft Pdf

Author : John Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600087503

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Day, a pastoral by John Cunningham Pdf