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A Love for Safekeeping
by Gail Gaymer MartinTaunted by a deranged stalker, schoolteacher Jane Conroy turns to her faith when she unexpectedly falls in love with policeman Kyle Manning.
A Love that Heals: Letting God's Love Give You Hope in Times of Grief
by Angie WinansA Love that Heals helps readers connect with Angie's personal journey through grief, while helping them deal with their own loss. Love is a simple but powerful word, and A Love that Heals is written from the heart of a Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter, Angie Winans, after the devastating loss of her brother Ronald. Everyone handles grief differently, but Angie outlines common principles that will help any grieving heart understand that the love of God provides true resolution. The same love that causes so much pain in loss is also the same love that can heal, so long as readers let it. Angie's account of her personal journey provides a voice readers can identify with as they struggle through the difficult aftermath of death. Angie uncovers the many facets of love, including celebration, hope, and healing power. Even for readers who feel like their heart will never beat again, Angie's message provides comfort and hope. A Love that Heals also includes journaling pages so readers can "talk through" their loss, as well as comforting words that show how God's love can lead them to a place of strength once again.
A Love to Cherish
by Janet Lee BartonWhen her policeman fiancé died in her arms, Becca vowed that she would never fall in love again. Desperate to escape the past, she takes a job in Hot Springs, hours away from home. As she begins her new life, Becca meets Luke, who, thankfully, wants only to be her friend. But as they get to know each other better, they find themselves struggling against an attraction neither wants. Will Becca learn to trust in the plans God might have for her and Luke or will the man who killed her fiancé return to kill her, too?
A Love to Treasure
by Irene BrandMARIE BOLDEN MIGHT BE LEARNING MORE THAN SHE’S TEACHINGWealthy, privileged Marie Bolden lives a life of comfort. So her father can’t understand why she’d leave her family in North Carolina to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. After all, there couldn’t possibly be anything to capture her interest in isolated Cades Cove, Tennessee. Except for the mysterious Daniel Watson.Daniel is a jack-of-all-trades. He’s a farmer, a rancher-and possibly a moonshiner. But he is not a believer. And that makes him the wrong man for Marie. Yet their affection for each other cannot be denied. When Marie is suddenly kidnapped, Daniel must turn to God for help before he loses the only love he’s ever known.
A Lover Scorned (Claire Aldington Mystery #3)
by Isabelle Holland[from the back cover] "A Lover Scorned returns to St. Anselm's Episcopal church on Manhattan's expensive Upper East Side, where the Rev. Claire Aldington (A Death at St. Anselm's) is on the defensive when another female priest is brutally murdered in nearby Central Park. Adding to the atmosphere of menace, Claire is convinced that her fiance, banker Brett Cunningham, is concealing information from her, including his temporary whereabouts. A series of threatening phone messages from an androgynous caller and another grisly murder are enough to set Claire in motion to solve the crimes before she becomes the next victim." Look for more of the books in the Claire Aldington series including #1 A Death at St Anselm's, #2 Flight of the Archangel, #4 A Fatal Advent and #5 The Long Search. In addition Isabelle Holland has written forty novels for adults and young people including The Christmas Cat, with more on the way.
A Lover of God: The Ecstatic Sufi Nūrī (SUNY series in Islam)
by Dora ZsomOne of the so-called ecstatic (or intoxicated) Sufis of Baghdad, Abū Ḥusayn al-Nūrī (d. 907/8) was famous for his quasi-blasphemous utterances and shocking public behavior. He was often enraptured by a passionate love of God that led him to eccentric acts that scandalized both ordinary people and the religious authorities. Besides yielding to divine love and beauty, he would occasionally come near succumbing to bodily temptations and carnal passions. Despite Nūrī’s outrageous behavior, Junayd, the moderate or sober Sufi par excellence, held him in high esteem, kept corresponding with him, and commented upon his controversial ecstatic sayings. This book collects Nūrī’s literary legacy by surveying the sources for his life—poems, sayings, and comments on the Quran, including an exchange of letters between him and Junayd preserved in the Cairo Genizah—and by discussing the authorship of the Stations of the Hearts, which has been widely attributed to Nūrī.
A Lullaby to Awaken the Heart: The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra and Its Commentaries
by Karl BrunnhölzlA key Dzogchen text—available together with its Tibetan commentaries, including from the fifteenth Karmapa—from a preeminent translator.The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra, one of the most famous and often-recited Dzogchen texts, is at once an entreaty by the primordial buddha, Samantabhadra, that all sentient beings recognize the nature of their minds and thus become buddhas, and also a wake-up call by our own buddha nature itself. This monumental text outlines the profound view of Dzogchen in a nutshell and, at the same time, provides clear instructions on how to discover the wisdom of a buddha in the very midst of afflictions. In this volume, Karl Brunnhölzl offers translations of three versions of the Aspiration Prayer and accompanies them with translations of the commentaries by Jigmé Lingpa, the Fifteenth Karmapa, and Tsültrim Sangpo. He offers further contextualization with his rich annotation and appendices, which include additional translation from Jigmé Lingpa, Longchenpa, and Patrul Rinpoche. This comprehensive, comprehensible book illuminates this profound text and greatly furthers our understanding of Dzogchen—and of our own nature.
A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
by Emily Suzanne ClarkIn the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history. Clark shows that the beliefs and practices of Spiritualism helped Afro-Creoles mediate the political and social changes in New Orleans, as free blacks suffered increasingly restrictive laws and then met with violent resistance to suffrage and racial equality. Drawing on fascinating records of actual seance practices, the lives of the mediums, and larger citywide and national contexts, Clark reveals how the messages that the Cercle received from the spirit world offered its members rich religious experiences as well as a forum for political activism inspired by republican ideals. Messages from departed souls including Francois Rabelais, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Emanuel Swedenborg, and even Confucius discussed government structures, the moral progress of humanity, and equality. The Afro-Creole Spiritualists were encouraged to continue struggling for justice in a new world where "bright" spirits would replace raced bodies.
A Lutheran Looks At Catholics (A Lutheran Looks At...)
by Curtis A JahnWhat is the difference between Lutherans and Catholics?If you've ever asked that question—or know someone who has—this book is for you!A Lutheran Looks at Catholics examines both historic and modern Catholicism from a Lutheran perspective. Author Curtis A. Jahn accurately depicts the teachings and practices of the largest group of Christianity to help you better understand Catholics—many of whom are your neighbors, coworkers, and friends.Through this book, you will gain a clear picture of Catholicism and note the main differences between what Lutherans and Catholics teach. This book will also equip you to ask questions and open up a dialogue with the Catholics in your life.Each volume in the A Lutheran Looks At series gives you a brief look at the teachings of a particular type of Christianity and compares them to confessional Lutheranism. This provides you with an invaluable tool for comparative study and helps you better understand the beliefs of neighbors, coworkers, and friends.
A Lutheran Toolkit
by Ken Sundet JonesThe "Lutheran" in the title doesn't mean The Lutheran Toolkit is just for Lutherans. It's about a Lutheran witness for the whole church and for all sinners with ears to hear. It's a slender book about the big theological ideas the evangelical reformers of the 16th century used as a lens for understanding God's work in Christ. Starting with Philiip Melanchthon's 1530 Augsburg Confession, which was drafted to defend the preaching and teaching of Luther and his colleagues, Ken Sundet Jones sees its primary themes as a set of tools that God uses to build faith in us. He takes the reader beyond scholarly analysis and historical explanations and uses his own experience as a college professor, parish pastor, and sinner looking for mercy, to discover God's handiwork in our lives. Each chapter takes as its starting point one of the foundational ideas presented to the Holy Roman Emperor and representatives of the church, including Sin , God hidden and revealed, justification, ministry, the Christian life, the church, sacraments, and vocation. These are not simply theological categories for scholars to debate or historians to recount. They're the lived experience of the faithful from the first believers, to big thinkers like Augustine and Luther, to people in the pews, at the supper table, in their careers, and at their deathbeds throughout the ages. The tools in this kit continually point to Jesus as the one who promises mercy and abundant life — and who has the power to deliver them. This is a word for those who've not yet heard it and for those who desperately need to hear it again.
A Mad Desire to Dance
by Elie WieselFrom Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man's attempt to reclaim happiness.Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die in an accident, together with his father, soon after. Doriel was a child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies, newsreels, and books--but it is enough. Doriel's parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him filled with longing but unable to experience the most basic joys in life. He plunges into an intense study of Judaism, but instead of finding solace, he comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk.Surrounded by ghosts, spurred on by demons, Doriel finally turns to Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt, a psychoanalyst who finds herself particularly intrigued by her patient. The two enter into an uneasy relationship based on exchange: of dreams, histories, and secrets. Despite Doriel's initial resistance, Dr. Goldschmidt helps to bring him to a crossroads--and to a shocking denouement.In Doriel's journey into the darkest regions of the soul, Elie Wiesel has written one of his most profoundly moving works of fiction, grounded always by his unparalleled moral compass.From the Hardcover edition.
A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age
by Kimberley C. Patton Benjamin C. RayThe first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary.A Magic Still Dwells brings together leading historians of religions from a wide range of backgrounds and vantage points, and draws from traditions as diverse as Indo-European mythology, ancient Greek religion, Judaism, Buddhism, Ndembu ritual, and the spectrum of religions practiced in America. The contributors take seriously the postmodern critique, explain its impact on their work, uphold or reject various premises, and in several cases demonstrate new comparative approaches. Together, the essays represent a state-of-the-art assessment of current issues in the comparative study of religion.
A Maimonides Reader (Library of Jewish Studies)
by Isadore TwerskyRABBI MOSES BEN MAIMON, known in Hebrew literature as the Rambam and in Western culture since the Renaissance as Maimonides, is unquestionably one of the outstanding figures of Jewish history--a figure, moreover, whose commanding influence has been widely recognized by non-Jews as well as Jews. As early as the fourteenth century, a rabbinic scholar applied to Maimonides the phrase (adapted from Mai. 1:11), "his name is great among the nations." And the seventeenth-century English humanist Jeremy Taylor called him, in a simple, suggestive phrase, that "famous Jew" par excellence. As a result, even those generally unacquainted with or uninterested in the basic phenomena and major trends of Jewish history react to the name of this "famous Jew."
A Make-Believe Match: A Western Historical Romance (Charity House #7)
by Renee RyanSecond chance with the runaway bride...Seven years and two broken engagements haven't erased Garrett Mitchell from Molly Scott's mind. Her employer insists Molly and Garrett belong together. To appease the well-meaning matchmaker, the pair agrees to a pretend courtship. But too late, Molly finds herself falling for a man who might never trust her. Garrett is a prominent Denver attorney now, not the naive seventeen-year-old who always felt second-best. Surely the string of suitors Molly's left behind only proves her fickleness. Does Garrett dare believe that she has only ever been waiting for him? The third engagement could be the charm, for his first—and only—love. Charity House: Offering an oasis of hope, faith and love on the rugged Colorado frontierFrom Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
A Make-Believe Match: A Western Historical Romance (Charity House #7)
by Renee RyanComing soon! A Make-Believe Match by Renee Ryan will be available Jun 04, 2024.
A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels
by J. R. KirkThought-provoking alternative perspective on the full humanity of Jesus Christ In A Man Attested by God J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure. Counterbalancing the recent trend toward early high Christology in such scholars as Richard Bauckham, Simon Gathercole, and Richard Hays, Kirk here thoroughly unpacks the humanity of Jesus as understood by Gospel writers whose language is rooted in the religious and literary context of early Judaism. Without dismissing divine Christologies out of hand, Kirk argues that idealized human Christology is the best way to read the Synoptic Gospels, and he explores Jesus as exorcist and miracle worker within the framework of his humanity. With wide-ranging exegetical and theological insight that sheds startling new light on familiar Gospel texts, A Man Attested by God offers up-to-date, provocative scholarship that will have to be reckoned with.
A Man Born Again: Saint Thomas More
by John E. BeahnStatus and wealth, power and fame, St. Thomas More had them all. As a wise and popular statesman, internationally recognized scholar and lord chancelor of England. It was perhaps the most highly respected Englishman of his day until his conscience required that he lay down his life for his Catholic faith. In this book makes ample use of the rich historical record of 16th century England.
A Man Called Blessed (Caleb #2)
by Ted Dekker Bill BrightOne man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant—but he’s hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy.<P> In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Jewish soldier-turned-archaeologist Rebecca Soloman leads a team deep into the Ethiopian desert to find the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. Such a discovery would bring hope back to her people. Her search brings excitement and danger—including unexpected love and a discovery far more powerful than even the holy artifact.<P> Meanwhile, Islamic fundamentalists dispatch Ismael, their most accomplished assassin, to pursue Rebecca and the man she’s searching for. These men fear that the Ark’s discovery will compel Israel to rebuild Solomon’s temple—on the very site of their holy mosque in Jerusalem. But the man they seek is no ordinary man.<P> His name is Caleb, and he too is on a mission—to find again the love he embraced as a child and to share that love with the world.
A Man Called Norman
by Mike AdkinsThis is the moving story of two men, an eccentric old man and a Christian musician, whose lives intertwine in a way that neither would have expected and only God could have planned.
A Man Inspired
by Derek JacksonAfter a failed attempt to commit suicide, a motivational speaker who doesn't practice what he preaches has a revelation through an unlikely mentor, and undergoes a fortuitous transformation.
A Man Most Worthy
by Ruth Axtell MorrenHe was her father's poor bank clerk. She was a wealthy young lady. Though they were worlds apart, their innocent friendship bloomed into a mutual admiration. Then suddenly Nicholas Tennant was wrenched from Alice Shepard's life. Now, years later, he has returned to London society wealthy and influential, determined to seek revenge on Alice's father--and Alice herself. But she is no longer the spoiled schoolgirl Nicholas remembers. She is a beautiful young widow of conviction and faith, raising a son on her own. Now Nicholas must look deep into his heart. For only in abandoning his thirst for revenge can he finally become the man most worthy of her love.
A Man Worth Waiting For: How to Avoid a Bozo
by Jackie KendallSo many men, but which one is worth the effort? And how do I know that waiting around for the "best" will actually pay off--that I'm not just letting the already shallow dating pool evaporate? Jackie Kendall believes that waiting will bring greater satisfaction. When you find the right man--a man like Boaz, found in the biblical book of Ruth--you'll be incredibly glad you didn't settle for one of your earlier options. But what will he be like, and how does a gal know that he is the right man, not just another bozo?Drawing on real-life stories that will have women laughing and crying in empathy, Jackie Kendall tells about the Mr. Wrongs she dates on her way to Mr. Right, what told her that her husband was "the one," and what she learned along the way. Women will learn how to avoid common dating pitfalls and how to know when they've met A MAN WORTH WAITING FOR.
A Man for Honor
by Emma MillerSecond-Chance MatchWith four children and a dilapidated farmhouse, Amish widow Honor King asks Seven Poplars’s matchmaker to find her a secure and reliable new husband. Someone the opposite of her first love—who left her at the altar nine years ago, yet whom she’s never been able to forget. Luke’s back in town, and also looking for a new partner. For him, there’s only one candidate to be his wife—the woman he let get away. But when Honor won’t let him into her life, he works his way into her house. Hammer in hand, he’ll fix her home…but it’ll take more than brawn and nails to mend her heart.
A Man for Honor and Plain Jeopardy: An Anthology
by Emma Miller Alison StoneTwo Amish Stories of Love and HealingA Man for Honor by Emma MillerWith four children and a dilapidated farmhouse, Amish widow Honor King asks a matchmaker to find her a new husband. But when Luke Weaver, her first love who left her at the altar, returns to town hoping to win her back, Honor’s determined not to let him into her life. Hammer in hand, he’ll fix her home…but it’ll take more than brawn and nails to mend her heart.Plain Jeopardy by Alison StoneReporter Grace Miller’s Amish hometown seems the perfect place to recuperate from surgery—until a tragedy puts her on the trail of her mother’s long-unsolved murder. Now, with someone’s lethal sights set on Grace, police captain Conner Gates drops everything to protect her. But as they delve into the past, can they face down the dangerous foe threatening to turn their blossoming love into a deadly trap?
A Man in Christ: The Vital Elements Of St. Paul's Religion
by James S StewartDive deep into the transformative teachings of one of Christianity's most influential figures with James S. Stewart's profound work, "A Man in Christ: The Vital Elements of St. Paul's Religion." This insightful and scholarly book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Apostle Paul's spiritual journey, his theological insights, and the enduring impact of his teachings on the Christian faith.James S. Stewart, a distinguished theologian and preacher, meticulously examines the key elements of St. Paul's religion, providing readers with a clear understanding of his profound spiritual convictions and their practical implications. Stewart's eloquent writing brings to life Paul's experiences, from his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus to his tireless missionary work and his deep theological reflections."A Man in Christ" delves into the core themes of Paul's letters, including justification by faith, the transformative power of grace, the nature of the Church, and the hope of eternal life. Stewart expertly unpacks these concepts, showing how they form a cohesive and compelling vision of Christian life centered on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.Through careful analysis and thoughtful interpretation, Stewart highlights the relevance of Paul's teachings for contemporary readers, emphasizing the timeless truths that continue to inspire and challenge believers today. His work bridges the historical and cultural gap between the first century and the modern world, making Paul's message accessible and meaningful for all.This book is an essential read for theologians, pastors, students of biblical studies, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the foundations of Christian faith. James S. Stewart's "A Man in Christ" is not only a scholarly achievement but also a source of spiritual enrichment, inviting readers to experience the vitality and depth of St. Paul's religion.