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Choosing Joy: A 52-Week Devotional for Discovering True Happiness
by Angela ThomasA daily devotional to help you find joy and happiness in every circumstance, based on God&’s word.This 52-week devotional helps readers discover the ever-illusive quality of joy. Bestselling author Angela Thomas draws from her vast experience in teaching and speaking to women all over the country. In this four-page per devotion format, Angela shares... * An inspirational message, including personal antecdotes * Biblical teaching * Questions to guide reader into self exploration, with blank lines for personal answers * Encouraging quotes * Bible scriptures for meditation This book is the perfect choice for the many readers who work through a devotional book each year.
Choosing Life
by Joel Osteen Dodie Osteen"I hold fast to God's Word daily. My life depends on it, and yours does too." -- Dodie Osteen In this inspiring daily devotional, Choosing Life -- One Day at a Time, Dodie Osteen shares her personal spiritual insights -- blending Scriptures with godly exhortations and effective prayers -- to exhort, comfort, and edify both men and women. Her personal reflections from the Word of God will help bring healing, restoration, and godly encouragement to you and your loved ones so that you can choose an abundant life all year long. Throughout her book, Dodie endeavors to strengthen your faith as she imparts powerful truths she has learned in her personal relationship with God. Her book will help you see God as your Savior, Healer, Deliverer, and Blesser, as you choose life . . . one day at a time. A wide variety of weekly topics include: Fellowship with God Keys to Living in Victory The Power of God's Word Sharing Jesus with the World And so much more!
Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty
by Antoinette BoscoWhen journalist and mother of a large family Antoinette Bosco's son and daughter-in-law were murdered, she was left with grief that remains to this day. Yet as she sought healing for her deep sorrow she could not accept that taking another life would be the answer to her pain. Her strong Catholic faith and connections with many others who are personally impacted by murder and the death penalty aided her as she struggled with an issue that had become deeply personal. She began to speak out about her convictions in print and in person and work to end the death penalty. Over time she learned more and more about what goes on in our prisons, how our flawed justice system puts to death the poor and convicts the innocent, and the pain that the families of the inmates who are executed suffer which is so often ignored by society. The more she learned, the more passionate and convicted she became about this highly controversial topic. Honest in its portrayal of her experiences, deeply spiritual and compassionate in its portrayal of how murder and the death penalty effect us all, Choosing Mercy is a compelling book that gives a human face to a divisive issue. The stories and quotes from families, victims, clergy, and prisoners are used to help make her points and support her position, but she responds with empathy and sensitivity to those who feel differently about this issue, particularly to other families of murder victims. She references relevant organizations and resources, as well. All these things make Choosing Mercy much more than just a memoir of one woman's journey. It is informative and thought-provoking, as well as packing an emotional punch. Choosing Mercy is a challenging but important piece of nonfiction.
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
by Dara Horn Jeffrey Shandler Jeremy Dauber Josh Lambert Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Kalman Weiser Hasia Diner Ari Y. Kelman Tony Michels Gennady Estraikh Sarah Bunin Benor Anita Norich Rebecca Margolis Zehavit Stern Asya Vaisman Shiri Goren Lara Rabinovitch Gerben Zaagsma Edward Portnoy Jennifer Young Ela Bauer Shachar Pinsker Shayn Smulyan Adriana X. Jacobs Barbara Mann Jordan Finkin Rebecca Kobrin Hannah S. Pressman Anna ShternshisYiddish Hip Hop, a nineteenth-century "Hasidic Slasher," obscure Yiddish writers, and immigrant Jewish newspapers in Buenos Aires, Paris, and New York are just a few of the topics featured in Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. Editors Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, and Hannah S. Pressman have gathered a diverse and richly layered collection of essays that demonstrates the currency of Yiddish scholarship in academia today.Organized into six thematic rubrics, Choosing Yiddish demonstrates that Yiddish, always a border-crossing language, continues to push boundaries with vigorous disciplinary exchange. "Writing on the Edge" focuses on the realm of belles lettres; "Yiddish and the City" spans the urban centers of Paris, Buenos Aires, New York City, and Montreal; "Yiddish Goes Pop" explores the mediating role of Yiddish between artistic vision and popular culture; "Yiddish Comes to America" focuses on the history and growth of Yiddish in the United States; "Yiddish Encounters Hebrew" showcases interactions between Yiddish and Hebrew in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and "Hear and Now" explores the aural dimension of Yiddish in contemporary settings. Along the way, contributors consider famed and lesser-known Yiddish writers, films, and Yiddish hip-hop, as well as historical studies on the Yiddish press, Yiddish film melodrama, Hasidic folkways, and Yiddish culture in Israel. Venerable scholars introduce each rubric, creating additional dialogue between newer and more established voices in the field.The international contributors prove that the language--far from dying--is fostering exciting new directions of academic and popular discourse, rooted in the field's historic focus on interdisciplinary research. Students and teachers of Yiddish studies will enjoy this innovative collection.
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
by Anita DiamantMarried to a convert herself, Anita Diamant provides advice and information that can transform the act of conversion into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth. Here you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, a Hebrew name; how to handle the difficulty of putting aside Christmas; what happens at the mikvah (ritual bath) or at a hatafat dam brit (circumcision ritual for those already circumcised); and much more.
Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
by Anita Diamant"As a rabbi and a convert, I appreciate this book deeply for its sensitivity to the complex feelings of those who are exploring paths to becoming Jewish, and for the deep love of Judaism it conveys. I will give it to every interfaith couple, and recommend that they give it to their parents. It is wonderful! "--Rachel Cowan, co-author of Mixed BlessingsIn the same knowledgeable, reassuring, and respectful style that has made her one of the most admired writers of guides to Jewish practices and rituals, Anita Diamant provides advice and information that can transform the act of conversion into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth. Married to a convert herself, Diamant anticipates all the questions, doubts, and concerns, provides a comprehensive explanation of the rules and rituals of conversion, and offers practical guidance toward creating a Jewish identity.Here you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, a Hebrew name; how to handle the difficulty of putting aside Christmas; what happens at the mikvah (the ritual bath) or at a hatafat dam brit (circumcision ritual for those already circumcised); how to find your footing in a new spiritual family that is not always well prepared to receive you; and how not to lose your bonds to your family of origin.Sensitive, sympathetic, and insightful, Choosing a Jewish Life provides everything necessary to make conversion a joyful and spiritually meaningful experience.From the Hardcover edition.
Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World
by Dennis P. HollingerThe following quotation is taken from the back cover of the book: "The vexing complexities of our modern world often generate cynicism or even despair in the face of moral decision making. Choosing the Good proposes a framework for doing ethics with confident humility, despite the cultural context undermining such endeavors." This book accomplishes two goals in that it provides a survey of essential issues salient for reflection on the moral life and Christian ethics and argues for a particular approach to doing ethics. Dennis Hollinger provides a survey of perspectives, suggesting that an effective Christian ethic must have its basis in a Christian worldview. He examines the complexities of our pluralistic and postmodern society, reflects on factors that influence Christian ethical decisions, and surveys the questions of justice, pluralism, and Christian influence in the secular world." The author provides extensive documentation for the material presented in the book.
Choosing the Jesus Way
by Angela TarangoChoosing the Jesus Way uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Focusing on the Assemblies of God denomination, the story begins in 1918, when white missionaries fanned out from the South and Midwest to convert Native Americans in the West and other parts of the country. Drawing on new approaches to the global history of Pentecostalism, Angela Tarango shows how converted indigenous leaders eventually transformed a standard Pentecostal theology of missions in ways that reflected their own religious struggles and advanced their sovereignty within the denomination.Key to the story is the Pentecostal "indigenous principle," which encourages missionaries to train local leadership in hopes of creating an indigenous church rooted in the culture of the missionized. In Tarango's analysis, the indigenous principle itself was appropriated by the first generation of Native American Pentecostals, who transformed it to critique aspects of the missionary project and to argue for greater religious autonomy. More broadly, Tarango scrutinizes simplistic views of religious imperialism and demonstrates how religious forms and practices are often mutually influenced in the American experience.
Choosing the Joy of Obedience
by Judith CouchmanModel Your Life on the Great Women of the Bible Who Trusted God and Found Him Faithful. Studies of 6 women from the Bible-each with 6 sessions-for personal reflection or group study. Through intriguing stories of biblical women, the Women of the Bible study series helps readers see how God wants to work in their lives. Questions and activities are designed to encourage personal application, understanding, and prayer, and to foster interaction within study groups. Each chapter includes 8 sections: Opening Narrative, Discussing the Story, Sharing Your Story, After Hours, Setting the Stage, Behind the Scenes, Prayer Meetings, and Words to Remember. The leader's guide makes it easy to facilitate weekly Bible studies to nurture knowledge of Scripture and a sense of God's presence in life. Esther: a Jewish orphan who became queen of Persia and saved her people-Choose to be a woman God delights to use no matter what the circumstancesMary: a young woman who said yes to God's incredible plan for her life-Obedience can be a joyous choice that is blessed by GodDeborah: a leader of Israel when God's people were in a period of great decline-Faith, courage, and devotion toward God have a powerful impact in a woman's lifeHannah: a woman who poured out her heart to God and received a miracle-Understand the wisdom and importance of committing dreams to GodSarah: a woman of faith whose insecurities sometimes got the better of her-Face life's uncertainties, move beyond fear, and enjoy a faith-filled relationship with GodRuth: a daughter-in-law who left her own people out of loyalty to Naomi-Trust the Lord through faith and action in difficult times
Choosing the Right Thing to Do: In Life, at Work, in Relationships, and for the Planet
by David A. ShapiroWe all want to do the right thing. But determining the right thing to do isn't always easy. Everytime we pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV, someone tells us how we ought to behave. Rarely, however, do we get much assistance in deciding what to do for ourselves. Meanwhile, technological developments and rapid social changes make the right decisions-especially about the BIG issues-life, death, sex, justice, and so on-harder and harder to identify.Choosing the Right Thing to Do responds to the growing need that people of all ages have for moral guidance-without moralizing. It contains a rich palette of principles and strategies, stories and examples, ideas and insights that offer real-world help for intelligently addressing the often quite troubling choices we face every day in our personal relationships, jobs, and lifestyles.
Choosing to Be
by Kat TanseyDrawn from the deeply personal reflections of a formerly depressed person, this uplifting story shows how a cat taught meditation and allowed the mind to heal. This lively, magical, and enlightening book revolves around a wise Maine Coon cat, his kitten muse, and the author Kat Tansey as they take the reader on a challenging and often amusing journey from the disorienting haze of depression to the freedom and clarity of the Buddha mind. The narrative is both inspiring and essential for gaining an understanding of the inner self, reducing stress, finding inner peace, and knowing the joys and comforts of answering to a cat master.
Choosing to Be Well
by Haven Logan"...Yet many of us with good intentions still struggle to adopt healthier lifestyles...Author Haven Logan, a psychotherapist in private practice, has found that unhealthy habits are almost always rooted in a lack of self knowledge about negative patterns and beliefs. These are usually expressed in internal dialogues between warring parts of ourselves. Logan employs the Hawaiian Huna tradition of basic, conscious, and High selves to explore these divisions. Dr. Logan's four-step program and the book's extensive exercises help us to integrate these misalignments, to listen to our bodies' cues, to identify and heal self-destructive patterns, and finally to consciously choose a healthy lifestyle. The goal is to support our natural inclinations instead of someone else's model of a "perfectly fit person." This is an original approach to the root cause of poor health, and a guide to living a healthier, happier life."
Choosing to Be a Medium: Experience & Share the Healing Wonder of Spirit Communication
by Sharon FarberDiscover How to Become a Medium When You're Not Born That Way...Or Are You?Experience the wonder of spirit communication first hand—even if you don't think you were born a medium. Sharon Farber shares her amazing story of becoming a medium through study, not birthright, and she reveals how you can become one, too.This easy-to-use, empowering book provides everything needed to lay your foundation for connecting with loved ones in spirit. Build your skills through practical techniques and hands-on exercises. Explore the different types of mediumship, what it is and isn't, and its roots in Spiritualism. Learn how to gather information from those you connect with in spirit and how to overcome common fears and challenges.Featuring insights from Q & A sessions with various mediums, along with many ways to enhance your abilities—including setting intention, raising your vibration, trance work, meditation, and grounding—Choosing to Be a Medium demonstrates that anyone can connect with spirits on the other side.
Choosing to Cheat: Who Wins When Family and Work Collide?
by Andy StanleyWork. Family. Church. Hobbies. Fitness. Housekeeping. Socializing. Sleep. With only 24 hours in each day, we simply can't fit everything in. And what we choose to cheat is a clear announcement of our values. When you come home an hour earlier, miss a round of golf, or let the dishes sit while you play with your child, you make your family feel valued and secure. Bestselling author Andy Stanley helps you restore your vision of what really matters - and guides you in making courageous decisions about your time. Who are you cheating? You love your family. You love the challenges of your job. But there's not enough of you to go around. Somebody isn't getting as much of your attention as they want or deserve. This little book presents a strategic plan for resolving the tension between work and home-reversing the destructive pattern of giving to your company and career what belongs to your family. But be forewarned. . . you will have to cheat. Story Behind the Book Andy has spent hundreds of hours with men and women who have cheated their families for the sake of their career goals. They all admitted knowing there was a problem. This is not a struggle relegated to some diminutive segment of society. We all wrestle with the tension between work and family. Regardless of which side of the equation you are on, you know what it is like to deal with the endless cycle of guilt, anger, jealousy, and rejection. But there is a solution. Strangely enough, the solution is similar to the problem. Both involve cheating. Simply put, you must choose to cheat at work rather than at home. From the Hardcover edition.
Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures
by Kenton C. AndersonToday, traditional forms of preaching are being scrutinized and challenged. The biblical sermon is not immune to the pressure to evolve or even fall by the wayside, leaving pastors and seminary students confused over how best to communicate to today's lis
Choosing to See: A Journey of Struggle and Hope
by Ellen Vaughn Mary Beth ChapmanFrom the beginning, Mary Beth Chapman's life was not how she planned. All she wanted was a calm, peaceful life of stability and control. Instead, God gave her an award-winning singer/songwriter husband, crazy schedules, and a houseful of creatively rambunctious children. Most difficult of all, God's plans for her also included tragedy. In Choosing to See, Mary Beth unveils her struggle to allow God to write the story of her life, both the happy chapters and the tragic ones. And as the story unfolds, she's been forced to wrestle with some of life's biggest questions: Where is God when things fall apart? Why does God allow terrible things to happen? How can I survive hard times? No matter where you find yourself in your own life story, you will treasure the way Mary Beth shows that even in the hard times, there is hope if you choose to SEE.
Chopstick (Friends for a Season Book #2)
by Sandra ByrdTold in the alternating voices of two thirteen-year-old girls who learn real lessons about faith while competing against one another in a worship music contest offering a four-hundred-dollar prize.
Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites
by Karen Barkey Elazar BarkanElazar Barkan is professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, director of School of International and Public Affair's Human Rights Concentration, and director of Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He is the coauthor of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. Karen Barkey is professor of sociology and history at Columbia University and director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Her latest work, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, was awarded the Barrington Moore Award in the Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the J. Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association.
Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites: Religion and Conflict Resolution
by Karen Barkey Elazar BarkanElazar Barkan is professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, director of School of International and Public Affair's Human Rights Concentration, and director of Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He is the coauthor of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. Karen Barkey is professor of sociology and history at Columbia University and director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Her latest work, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, was awarded the Barrington Moore Award in the Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the J. Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association.
Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites: Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution
by Karen Barkey Elazar BarkanElazar Barkan is professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, director of School of International and Public Affair's Human Rights Concentration, and director of Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He is the coauthor of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. Karen Barkey is professor of sociology and history at Columbia University and director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Her latest work, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, was awarded the Barrington Moore Award in the Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the J. Greenstone Award in the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association.
Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites: Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution (Religion, Culture, and Public Life #22)
by Karen Barkey Elazar BarkanThis anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted—or not—by conflict, and the policy consequences. These essays map the choreographies of shared sacred spaces within the framework of state-society relations, juxtaposing a site's political and religious features and exploring whether sharing or contestation is primarily religious or politically motivated. Although religion and politics are intertwined phenomena, the contributors to this volume understand the category of "religion" and the "political" as devices meant to distinguish between the theological and confessional aspects of religion and the political goals of groups. Their comparative approach better represents the transition in some cases of sites into places of hatred and violence, while in other instances they remain noncontroversial. The essays clearly delineate the religious and political factors that contribute to the context and causality of conflict at these sites and draw on history and anthropology to shed light on the often rapid switch from relative tolerance to distress to peace and calm.
Chosen
by Ginger GarrettWrenched from a simple life for her beauty, Esther finds herself at the mercy of King Xerxes. Leaving behind her only relative, her cousin Mordecai, and her first true love, Cyrus, she is thrown headlong into the unrestrained extravagance of palace living.Quick of mind and strong in spirit, Esther refuses to suffer the fate of her harem sisters and boldly challenges Xerxes to give of his heart before taking his pleasure, thus sealing her place beside him as queen. While conspiracy spins its diabolical web, Esther's mind and spirit waver, and she is forced to confront the past in order to save her future-and thus an entire nation.
Chosen (Full Circle #5)
by Lisa Tawn BergrenBook 5 of the Best-selling Full Circle Series<P> Alexana is willing to risk her life to make history. And nothing--not even love--will stand in her way.<P> As supervisor of the historically significant Solomon's Stables dig, archaeologist Alexana Rourke--grad school friend of Dr. Christina Alvarez (Treasure)--knows she is in serious danger. Yet she is determined that nothing will impede her excavation under the Temple Mount, not even the concern of handsome, world-renowned news correspondent Ridge McIntyre. Her stubbornness, however, could well cost Alexana a future with the man she loves--and possibly even her life.
Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era
by Benjamin W. GoossenDuring the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen Nation is a sweeping history of this encounter and the debates it sparked among parliaments, dictatorships, and congregations across Eurasia and the Americas.Offering a multifaceted perspective on nationalism's emergence in Europe and around the world, Benjamin Goossen demonstrates how Mennonites' nationalization reflected and reshaped their faith convictions. While some church leaders modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, Goossen shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous "Mennonite State" in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising.The first book to place Christianity and diaspora at the heart of nationality studies, Chosen Nation illuminates the rising religious nationalism of our own age.
Chosen People: Chosen People And Promised Land (A\chosen People Novel Ser. #2)
by Robert WhitlowBestselling author Robert Whitlow returns with an international legal drama that speaks to critical issues of our day.“Compelling, realistic, and inspiring.” —Randy Singer, bestselling author of Rule of Law“You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation . . .”During a terrorist attack near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a courageous mother sacrifices her life to save her four-year-old daughter, leaving behind a grieving husband and a motherless child.Hana Abboud, a Christian Arab Israeli lawyer trained at Hebrew University, typically uses her language skills to represent international clients for an Atlanta law firm. When her boss is contacted by Jakob Brodsky, a young Jewish lawyer pursuing a lawsuit on behalf of the woman’s family under the US Anti-Terrorism laws, he calls on Hana’s expertise to take point on the case. After careful prayer, she joins forces with Jakob, and they quickly realize the need to bring in a third member for their team, an Arab investigator named Daud Hasan, based in Israel.To unravel the case, this team of investigators travels from the streets of Atlanta to the alleys of Jerusalem, a world where hidden motives thrive, the risk of death is real, and the search for truth has many faces. What they uncover will forever change their understanding of justice, heritage, and what it means to be chosen for a greater purpose.