Sacred Friendships

Author : Victoria Atkinson White
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506482385

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Holy Friendships by Victoria Atkinson White Pdf

Pastors and Christian institutional leaders serve more creatively, effectively, and joyfully when they feel supported and part of an intimate community of colleagues and friends who care about their personal and professional wellbeing. So attests Victoria Atkinson White in Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders. And yet, she observes, many leaders sacrifice critical relationships, citing lack of time or competing priorities, and end up isolated, lonely, and burned out. Social media compounds this problem by distorting the meaning of "friend" and reducing it to a relationship in search of clicks, likes, and emoji-ed responses. While we might have lots of "friends," holy friendships are mutual and sacred relationships deeply rooted in God's love. What Christian leaders need is a circle of holy friends to walk alongside them in the challenging and constantly changing work of ministry. White gives readers permission to invest in their own resilience, sustainability, and flourishing by cultivating and nurturing their own holy friendships. By recounting the stories of meaningful holy friendships and revealing the benefits of challenging conversations over time, she offers hope, grace, and humor. She also provides examples of how holy friendships can change institutions and systems, helping pastoral leaders cultivate beloved community.

Author : Robert W. Kellemen,Susan M. Ellis
Publisher : BMH Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christian women
ISBN : 0884692647

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Sacred Friendships by Robert W. Kellemen,Susan M. Ellis Pdf

Celebrate the incredible stories of over fify amazing Christian women whose lives will change forever how you view women and their ministries.Sacred Friendships gives voice to the voiceless as it narrates how godly women have provided soul care and spiritual direction for the past 2,000 years. It enlightens readers to the often neglected legacy of Christian women and then equips women and men to apply that legacy to their lives and ministries today.

Author : Samuel Kimbriel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199363988

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Friendship as Sacred Knowing by Samuel Kimbriel Pdf

We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding and relating to the world. In Friendship as Sacred Knowing, Kimbriel works through the complexities of this disposition to contest its place within contemporary philosophical thought and practice. Stories of isolation amidst the fragmentation of community are familiar in this age, as are tales of alienation provoked by the insistent indifference of the scientific cosmos. This book goes beyond such stories, arguing that the crisis of loneliness in the present age is deeper yet, betokening a more fundamental incoherence within the modern personality itself. Kimbriel engages deeply with the human activity of friendship. Chapters one and two examine friendship to unearth the contours of the habit towards isolation and to reveal certain ills that have long attended it. Chapters three through seven place these isolated ways of relating to the world into critical dialogue with the tradition of late-antique and early-medieval Johannine Christianity, in which intimacy and understanding go hand in hand. This Johannine tradition drew the human activities of friendship and enquiry into such unity that understanding itself became a kind of communion. Kimbriel endorses a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit-"the befriending of wisdom."

Author : Rebecca Todd Peters,Grace Yia-Hei Kao
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567683021

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Encountering the Sacred by Rebecca Todd Peters,Grace Yia-Hei Kao Pdf

Many women of faith are interested in having deep conversations with their friends and families about issues they face in their personal lives. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of feminist and theologically progressive materials for these women to turn to for counsel or advice. Simultaneously, there are a growing number of theologically trained biblical scholars, theologians, and ministers who are experiencing similar life challenges, but who are generally discouraged from writing about these experiences in ways that would be accessible to the general public. This book bridges the chasm between Christian laywomen and feminist theologians. For the last fifty years, feminist theologians have sought to reimagine Christian theology in ways that speak to the realities and complexities of women's lives. They have also sought to use women's experience as the starting point for theological reflection in the same way that men's lives have shaped the history of Christian theology for the past 2000 years. In this book, feminist Christian scholars of theology and religion use the tools of their trade to examine powerful personal life experiences and to search for new and empowering ways of understanding the power of the sacred as they have experienced it.

Author : Adam Mixon
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1726700054

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Sacred Friendship: Building Healthy Friendships by Adam Mixon Pdf

In this series, we will attempt to reclaim the sacredness of friendship. We will begin by developing a sound definition of friendship. Then, we will reflect on some godly wisdom as it relates to friendship. After that, we will examine godly examples of friendship, examine our own motives in the relationships that we pursue, learn the difference between subjects and objects, and, finally, we will talk about the importance of boundaries and how to manage the territory that lies between friendship and romance.

Author : David G. Benner
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830876808

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Sacred Companions by David G. Benner Pdf

We need companions on our spiritual journey. In this inviting guide, David G. Benner introduces readers to the riches of spiritual friendship and direction, explaining what they are and how they are practiced. Through prayerful, guided attunement to God's activity, sacred companions provide care for the soul, and Benner models the kind of traveling companion who can move us toward deeper intimacy with God.

Author : Martha Capps Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Calendars
ISBN : SRLF:A0001102334

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A Year of Sacred Song by Martha Capps Oliver Pdf

Author : Apostleship of prayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555009815

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The Messenger of the sacred heart of Jesus [afterw.] The Messenger by Apostleship of prayer Pdf

Author : David G. Benner
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083083270X

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Sacred Companions by David G. Benner Pdf

We need companions on our spiritual journey. In this inviting guide, David G. Benner introduces readers to the riches of spiritual friendship and direction, explaining what they are and how they are practiced. Through prayerful, guided attunement to God's activity, sacred companions provide care for the soul, and Benner models the kind of traveling companion who can move us toward deeper intimacy with God.

Author : James Russell Miller
Publisher : Darolt Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9786586145540

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The Friendships of Jesus by James Russell Miller Pdf

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you." John 15:13-15 George MacDonald said in an address, "The longer I live, the more I am assured that the business of life, is to understand the Lord Jesus Christ." If this is true, whatever sheds even a little light on the character or life of Christ, is worth while. Nothing reveals a man's heart, better than his friendships. The kind of friend he istells the kind of man he is. The personal friendships of Jesus reveal many tender and beautiful things in his character. They show us also what is possible for us in divine friendship; for the heart of Jesus is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. These chapters are only suggestivenot exhaustive. If they make the way into close personal friendship with Jesus any plainer for those who hunger for such blessed intimacythat will be reward enough.

Author : James Russell Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030806054

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Personal Friendships of Jesus by James Russell Miller Pdf

Author : Francis De Sales
Publisher : Shaw Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780877880004

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Authentic Devotion by Francis De Sales Pdf

This modern-day interpretation of "Introduction to the Devout Life" by Francis de Sales can gently guide readers down the clearest path imaginable into a deeper and more authentic religious life.

Author : Drew Hunter
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433558221

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Made for Friendship by Drew Hunter Pdf

God made you for friendship. Friendship is one of the deepest pleasures of life. But in our busy, fast-paced, mobile world, we've lost this rich view of friendship and instead settled for shallow acquaintances based on little more than similar tastes or shared interests. Helping us recapture a vision of true friendship, pastor Drew Hunter explores God's design for friendship and what it really looks like in practice—giving us practical advice to cultivate the kinds of true friendships that lead to true and life-giving joy.

Author : Dan Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0982580703

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Sacred Unions, Sacred Passions by Dan Brennan Pdf

Sacred Unions, Sacred Passions offers a compelling case for Christian men and women to move beyond the fears of sexuality and open themselves to deeper friendships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6NBE

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Friends' Intelligencer by Anonim Pdf