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Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare
by Abimbola Adunni AdelakunPowerful Devices studies spiritual warfare performances as an apparatus for disestablishing structures of power and knowledge, and establishing righteousness in their stead. Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism. Combining religious studies with ethnography, Powerful Devices explores Nigerian Pentecostals and US Evangelicals’ praxis of transnational spiritual warfare. By closely studying spiritual warfare prayers as a “device,” Powerful Devices shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of politics and authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity’s relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.
Powerful Persuasion
by Margaret Mayo"Will you take the job, Celena?"That was how it all started-when Luciano Segurini persuaded Celena to work for him for triple her current salary. But before she knew it, he had persuaded her to pose as his fiancée-and eventually to become his wife. Yet their marriage was bittersweet-full of passion by night, and misunderstandings by day. Not an easy marriage, by any means-and then, of course, there was Simone!
Powerful Persuasion: Multimedia Witness in Christian Worship
by Prof. Tex SampleWhen it comes to communicating the gospel through new media and technologies, churches are often faced with one of two bad options. Either they can reject these new vehicles for sharing the faith as “not the way we’ve always done it”; or they can uncritically embrace them, failing to see that when not understood properly these media can obscure the gospel message just as much as they can communicate it. If they are going to reach the generations formed by electronic culture, churches must engage in a new evangelism, one that makes use of new technologies and cultural expressions. Sample explains how the electronic generations receive and process the information communicated by new media, and how the ways in which our consumerist culture makes use of those media are not good models for how the church can employ them to spread the message of Jesus Christ.Read the Introduction now!
Powerful Prayers for Supernatural Results: How to Pray as Moses, Elijah, Hannah, and Other Biblical Heroes Did
by Mike ShreveBring a new power and vitality to your prayer life. With these dynamic prayers from biblical heroes Mike Shreve encourages readers to expect the miraculous when they pray. Highlighting specifically those times when a person’s petitions resulted in supernatural breakthrough, each chapter will cover a specific prayer, break it down into its primary components, and show why it touched the heart of God, providing readers with encouragement and proof that prayer really works and can truly change their circumstances and their lives. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He will continue to move in our lives if we dare to believe. Your prayer life will be lifted to the next level. Your walk with God will be altered forever. Miracles are waiting in the wings.
Powerful Prayers for Your Children (Powerful Prayers Series)
by Heather Kopp David KoppFrom Spelling Tests to Future Mates-Learn to Pray for Every Aspect of Your Kids' Lives.AS A PARENT, you want your prayers to have an impact on the lives of your children. But how can you ensure that will happen? What are some of the vital things you should pray for? How can you claim God's glorious promises for your kids? In Powerful Prayers for Your Children, you'll find the answers to these questions, along with rich, Scripture-based prayers that will show you how to communicate more confidently, more fervently, and more effectively with the Lord. Most important, your prayer life will be forever changed as you learn to pray more intimately and wisely to the One who loves your children most of all.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Powerful Prayers for Your Family (Powerful Prayers Series)
by David Kopp Heather KoppBecome the Family That Prays Together. AROUND THE WORLD, married couples, parents, and individuals have learned to pray powerful prayers for their children, their spouses, their babies, their marriages, and their own lives, aided by the spiritual encouragement and guidance of husband-and-wife team David Kopp and Heather Harpham Kopp. Now, praying with power becomes a fun-filled family affair with the help of kid-friendly activities and ideas. Designed to capture the kids’ interest and meet many of mom and dad’s core spiritual needs, this fun, story-oriented devotional tool is perfect for every parent and child who wants to have a vital, Bible-based prayer life. This practical guide includes key scriptures, prayer and devotional text, Bible trivia, prayers for special occasions, “truth to go,” and more for the spiritually growing family.
Powerful Prayers for Your Life (Powerful Prayers Series)
by Heather Kopp David KoppShift Your Prayer Life into High Gear.EACH OF US HUNGERS to experience a fresh and infinitely rich relationship with God. We long to share with Him our deepest hearts-to know that we can "approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need" (Hebrews 4:16). In Powerful Prayers for Your Life, you'll find ways to expand your prayer language and honestly express to God the desires and issues you encounter every day. Not only will this book show you how to use Bible passages and stories to help you express your feelings, worries, requests, and worship, it will reveal how Scripture can speak back to you powerful truths from the heart of God.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Powerful Prayers for Your Marriage (Powerful Prayers Series)
by Heather Kopp David KoppThe Best Marriage-Building Tool Around. NO RELATIONSHIP IS MORE DIFFICULT-or more rewarding-than marriage. Next to our children, we are led to pray most often for the mate we love and to whom we have committed our lives. Yet, we often find ourselves at a loss regarding how to pray. That changes, however, when we draw upon Scripture to help us pray. Within these pages, you'll find Bible-based prayers that will show you how to pray more insightfully, more meaningfully, and more effectively for your mate. You'll also learn how to tap into the power of God's Word on your own, using it to lovingly support and encourage the partner who shares your life.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Powerful Prayers to Protect the Heart of Your Child
by Iris DelgadoFROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF SATAN, YOU CAN'T HAVE MY CHILDREN Expose your child to spiritual blessing, and protect them from spiritual attack. This book will help you protect your children from evil assignments and show you how to tap into the supernatural protection of the Holy Spirit. FEATURES AND BENEFITSScripture-based categories help you target your most important needsCounsel and prayers for parents who are hurting and dismayed because of the adverse situations in their homesDeclarations of faith will build your faith to believe God and to never stop believing for the protection and transformation of your childrenWe are involved in a war—a spiritual war in which Satan and his demons are attempting to break up our families and disrupt our children&’s lives—that can be engaged in and won only with spiritual weapons. We cannot remain passive. In this valuable and effective book Iris Delgado provides an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to win the spiritual battle being fought over their children. You&’ll discover how to:Tap into the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit to protect your childPut a hedge of protection into action through specific and focused prayersEstablish a spiritual security system in your homeBecome free from generational strongholds and cursesFilled with practical counsel and Scripture-based prayers, this powerful guide will give you confidence and faith to stand firm against the influences and attacks of the enemy.
Powerful Thinking
by Joyce MeyerUnleash your can-do attitude and find power in your mindset with renowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.Joyce Meyer has a knack for coining phrases (Joyce-isms) and one of her best loved is "Where the mind goes, the man follows."Meyer provides keys for "powerful thinking," giving the reader an ability to use the mind as a tool to achievement.In Powerful Thinking, a book small and portable enough to fit in a purse, suitcase, backpack, briefcase, or even a pocket, she outlines a flexible program to turn thoughts into habits, and habits into success. Sections include: The Power of a Positive You Keeping Your Attitude at the Right Altitude The Power of PerspectiveMore Power To YouNobody has more of a "can-do" attitude than Joyce Meyer. Now you can, too!
Powerful Women Plan for Retirement: Take Ownership of Your Financial Future
by Debra K. MenkeMake a plan now and manifest a rewarding and abundant retirement: “A book that countless women are waiting for.” ?Marianne WilliamsonCoach and personal finance professional Debra K. Menke spent years watching powerful women not properly plan for retirement. To help this strong tribe of women take ownership of their financial freedom, she offers this love letter as a route to retirement success. In Powerful Women Plan for Retirement, Debra helps women to: Figure out exactly how much money they’ll need in order to retire Quit guessing whether they’ll be ready to retire in ten years Create a solid retirement plan and never stress about it again Ensure their plan doesn’t fall apart, even when life happens Plan their exit strategy and start living the life of their daydreams
Powers Of Imagining: Ignatius De Loyola - A Philosophical Hermeneutic Of Imagining Through The Collected Works Of Ignatius De Loyola
by Antonio T. de NicolasThis book presents a new translation of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, of his Spiritual Diary, of his Autobiography, and some of his letters. These translations are introduced by a hermeneutical commentary laying out the theory and practices of the decision-making power of imagining. Ignatius proposed in his Spiritual Exercises a form of decision-oriented mysticism, and through their use, gathered around him a group of associates who became the firs members of the Jesuit Order. Under the control of later, doctrinally oriented theologians, the practical, decision-oriented mystical character of the original Exercises was gradually replaced by a more theoretical and devotional character. Antonio T. de Nicolas recovers in his translations and through his critical apparatus, the original decision-oriented thrust of Ignatius.
Powers of Distinction: On Religion and Modernity
by Nancy LeveneIn this major new work, philosopher of religion Nancy Levene examines the elemental character of religion and modernity. Deep in their operating systems, she argues, are dualisms of opposition and identity that cannot be reconciled with the forms of life they ostensibly support. These dualisms are dead ends, but they conceal a richer position—another kind of dualism constitutive of mutual relation. This dualism is difficult to distinguish and its concept of relation difficult to commit to. It risks contention and even violence. But it is also the indispensable support for modernity’s most innovative ideals: democracy, criticism, and interpretation. In readings from Abraham to the present, Levene recovers this richer dualism in its difference from the alternatives—other dualisms, nondualism, multiplication. From Abraham we get the biblical call to give up tribal belonging for a promised land of covenantal relation. Yet modernity, inclusive of this call, is also the principle that critiques the promise when it divides self from other, us from them. Drawing on a long tradition of thinkers and scholars even as she breaks new ground, Levene offers here nothing less than a new way of understanding modernity as an ethical claim about our world, a philosophy of the powers of distinction to include rather than to divide.
Powers of Light and Darkness: Angels, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare
by Daniel C JusterWhen you know what the Bible says about spiritual warfare, angels, and demons, you can pray and act from a solid foundation of truth. By carefully examining Scripture, Dr. Daniel Juster challenges you to go beyond the traditional view of spiritual warfare. He explores the context and the cross-references of each passage to further help you understand what the Bible says. Dr. Juster offers the experiences of Christians who are effectively battling the enemy. In the end, you will learn to seek the Word as your armor. Master this spiritual discipline by reading Powers of Light and Darkness. Be victorious in the war.
Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement
by Simon ColemanFinalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of ReligionA groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimagePious processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we think of religious pilgrimage. Yet while pilgrimage can include journeying to the heart of sacred shrines, it can also occur in apparently mundane places. Indeed, not everyone has the resources or mobility to take part in religiously inspired movement to foreign lands, and some find meaning in religious movement closer to home and outside of officially sanctioned practices. Powers of Pilgrimage argues that we must question the universality of Western assumptions of what religion is and where it should be located, including the notion that “genuine” pilgrimage needs to be associated with discrete, formally recognized forms of religiosity. This necessary volume makes the case for expanding our gaze to reconsider the salience, scope, and scale of contemporary forms of pilgrimage and pilgrimage-related activity. It shows that we need to reflect on how pilgrimage sites, journeys, rituals, stories, and metaphors are entangled with each other and with wider aspects of people’s lives, ranging from an action as trivial as a stroll down the street to the magnitude of forced migration to another country or continent. Offering a new theoretical lexicon and framework for exploring human pilgrimage, Powers of Pilgrimage presents a broad overview of how we can understand pilgrimage activity and proposes that it should be understood not solely as going to, staying at, and leaving a sacred place, but also as occurring in ordinary times, places, and practices.
Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit: Biblical Realism in Africa and the West
by Esther E. AcolatseAmong the many factors that separate churches in the West from those of the global South, there may be no greater difference than their respective attitudes toward supernatural &“powers and principalities.&” In this follow-up to her book For Freedom or Bondage? African theologian Esther Acolatse bridges the enormous hermeneutical gap not only between the West and global Christianity but also between the West and its own biblical-theological heritage.
Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit: Biblical Realism in Africa and the West
by Esther E. AcolatseAmong the many factors that separate churches in the West from those of the global South, there may be no greater difference than their respective attitudes toward supernatural &“powers and principalities.&” In this follow-up to her book For Freedom or Bondage? African theologian Esther Acolatse bridges the enormous hermeneutical gap not only between the West and global Christianity but also between the West and its own biblical-theological heritage.
Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God
by Marva DawnAs we embark on the new millennium, uncharted challenges await the church. This volume by one of today's most valued voices on modern church life offers a wealth of insight into the role of local churches in the twenty-first century. <P><P>Rooted in solid biblical research and extensive experience, Marva Dawn's newest book will help churches and their leaders avoid falling to the temptations of contemporary secular culture, including the popular "success" models of church management. Dawn offers groundbreaking scholarship--from the first significant critique of Walter Wink's work on "the powers" to a relevant new translation of 2 Corinthians 12:9--and challenges readers to rethink the goals and mission of the congregation, to develop practices that follow God's "hidden" way of weakness, and to expand their sense of what it means to be a faithful church. <P><P>Complete with discussion questions, this book provides the trustworthy theological and biblical foundations necessary for building strong churches--and keeping them strong--in today's world.
Poyln: My Life within Jewish Life in Poland, Sketches and Images
by Yehiel Yeshaia TrunkOriginally published between 1944 and 1953, Poyln (Poland) is one of the treasures of Yiddish literature. Despite its reputation, the book has not been fully translated into English until now. Written by Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk, a prominent Polish Jewish writer, Poyln is a colourful epic, a moving testimony, and an important primary historical source that presents a portrait of Polish Jewry against the backdrop of the Nazi genocide. The undisputed hero of the story is the national community of Polish Jews. To portray this community, Trunk creates a rich gallery of characters - Hassidic patricians, timber merchants, rich landowners, brilliant Talmudists, Orthodox rabbis, and Hasidic tsadikim. He also depicts ordinary village and small-town Jews, artisans, shopkeepers, workers, and Luftmenschen, all of them members of one extended family. Particularly valuable aspects of Poyln are its examination of different trends in the Hasidic movement and the author's attempt to bridge the gap between his secular generation and its religious ancestors. In short, Trunk's work aims to show Jewishness as a way of life. This is the first instalment of a multi-volume edition of Poyln, the first English translation to be published. Here begins a story of the beauty and pathos of the world of Polish Jewry, a world that was almost totally destroyed by the Nazis.
Practical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God: Using Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy
by Geoff GoodmanPractical Applications of Transforming the Attachment Relationship to God discusses four distinct attachment relationships to the God of personal spiritual experience and considers how each of these relationships has implications for working with clients in psychotherapy.Geoff Goodman uses Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy (AIP) to explore the connection between a relationship to God and a relationship to caregivers during childhood. By analyzing the attachment relationships evident in the lives of four public figures—human rights activist Coretta Scott King, Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank, Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W., and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud—this book demonstrates how their attachment relationships with their caregivers during childhood helped to determine the quality of their attachment relationship (or nonrelationship) to God in later life. Goodman demonstrates how to use AIP to work with these attachment relationships, formulating a psychotherapeutic treatment plan for each one with the goal of restoring wholeness and unity.This book will be a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and marriage and family therapists in practice and in training.
Practical Candle Magic: Witchcraft with Wick & Wax
by Rachel PattersonLight That Flame and Set Your Magic in MotionSharing more than thirty-five spells and exercises, bestselling author Rachel Patterson guides you through every aspect of working with wick and wax, from the fundamentals to creating your own candle magic. She teaches you how to use candle spells for healing, protection, love, luck, inspiration, and much more.This comprehensive book helps you choose a candle, charge it with intention, dress it with oils and herbs, and cast your spell from start to finish. Once you've mastered the basics, Rachel shows you how to amplify your magic with colors, crystals, sigils, grids, tarot cards, and zodiac signs. You'll also learn how to use candle rituals, divination techniques, and wax poppets. No matter your skill level, this book makes it easier than ever to illuminate your practice.
Practical Candleburning Rituals: Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose
by Raymond BucklandThis trusted guidebook by popular author Raymond Buckland has introduced candle magick to more than 300,000 readers. From winning love to conquering fear, obtaining money to improving relationships, Practical Candleburning Rituals is filled with simple candle rites that get real results.Newly updated and re-organized, this edition includes thirty-seven rituals—adapted for Christians and Pagans—that can be performed at home with readily available materials. No prior magickal knowledge is necessary. Diagrams and simple instructions make this candle magick primer an ideal practical guide for beginners.
Practical Essential Christianity: What Christianity Is . . . What It Isn't
by Michael PhillipsThis concise yet thorough analysis of core Christian principles cuts through doctrinal debates to illuminate the essentials of faith.Much of Christendom functions on the basis of formulas, catechisms, recipes of spirituality, and widely varying lists of what is considered “acceptable doctrine.” This brief discussion simplifies the vast scope of Christian truth by identifying eight essential “principles” that can be embraced and practiced by all Christians and churches across the spectrum of belief. Devotional author Michael Phillips uses these universal truths as a springboard for investigating the fundamentals of the Christian faith for both beginner and theologian, simple yet life-changing and profound. He also includes a parallel exploration of several common pitfalls that have infiltrated the church through history as counterfeit indicators of spirituality.
Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness: A Commentary on Nagarjuna's Precious Garland
by Thubten Chodron Khensur Jampa TegchokLet a great Tibetan scholar guide you through one of Nagarjuna’s masterworks.In Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness Khensur Jampa Tegchok walks us carefully through a classic of Indian Buddhist philosophy, explaining the implications of its philosophical arguments and grounding its advice in a recognizable day-to-day world. In Precious Garland, the source text for this commentary, Nagarjuna advises his patron king on how best to take advantage of human life to secure a happy rebirth in the next life while making progress toward the goal of enlightenment. Known primarily for his incisive presentation of emptiness, here Nagarjuna shows his wise understanding of how to navigate the intricacies of worldly life to balance everyday needs with spiritual practice. Loaded with equal measures of penetrating explanations of the highest reality and inspiring encouragement towards the bodhisattva practices, Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness makes the case for living a thoughtful, morally upright life in the world to achieve immediate and ultimate spiritual goals.
Practical Grace
by Robert K. HudnutRobert Hudnut combines depth, grace, and practical faith to bring us one of the most moving devotionals of the decade. Using scripture as a starting point, Hudnut creates engaging readings that bring faith near while carefully mining biblical principles to provide readers with tools for addressing everyday problems, helping them gain insight, and live lives of practical grace. For readers of classic devotionals like Oswald Chamber's My Utmost for His Highest, Hudnut now offers a contemporary counterpart for this generation. In an astonishing dearth of quality day-books, this reader shines with both depth and substance. Rather than the anthology devotionals or treacly clichéd 365s of the past, Hudnut brings scripture to the fore, where each scripture serves, in effect, as the topic sentence, the starting point--and the ending point--for grace to enter our lives.