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Girls' Ministry 101: Ideas for Retreats, Small Groups, and Everyday Life with Teenage Girls
by Whitney ProsperiFor Girls Only! Fact #1–Chances are that girls make up half or more of your youth group. Fact #2–Ministering to girls presents unique challenges and opportunities. Fact #3–Because of facts #1 and 2, you need Girls’ Ministry 101. This handbook on meeting your girls’ all-important spiritual needs will take you from zero to full speed as you: • Discover secrets of building relationships with teenage girls. • Explore your girls’ worlds. • Recruit and empower volunteers. • Create opportunities for young women to grow. Packed with insights and wisdom from youth ministers experienced in working with teenage girls, Girls’ Ministry 101 also offers ideas for finding and training the right woman for the job, events and retreats, questions to spark conversation, and much, much more. Whether you’re a man or a woman, a vet or a volunteer, Girls’ Ministry 101 will provide you with the tools to make sure that the love of Christ is effectively conveyed to the girls in your group.
Girlz Rock: Devotions for you (Faithgirlz)
by Kristi Holl Jennifer VogtlinIn this ninety-day devotional, devotions like "Who Am I?" help pave the spiritual walk of life, and the "Girl Talk" feature poses questions that really bring each message home. No matter how bad things get, you can always count on God. "Excellent for Homeschool Use"
Gita Press Aur Hindu Bharat Ka Nirman: गीता प्रेस और हिन्दू भारत का निर्माण
by Akshaya Mukulसाल 1920 के आरंभिक दशकों में ही व्यवसायी से आध्यात्मिक गुरु बने जयदयाल गोयन्दका और हनुमानप्रसाद पोद्दार नामक मारवाड़ियों ने गीता प्रेस की स्थापना और कल्याण पत्रिका के प्रकाशन की शुरुआत की। साल 2014 के आरंभ तक गीता प्रेस, गीता की तक़रीबन 7.2 करोड़, तुलसीदास की कृतियों की 7 करोड़ और पुराण तथा उपनिषद जैसे धर्मशास्त्रों की 1.9 करोड़ प्रतियां बेच चुका था। यहाँ तक कि अब जबकि उस जमाने की बाकी सभी धार्मिक, साहित्यिक या राजनैतिक पत्रिकाएं प्रेस अभिलेखागार की धूल खा रही हैं, गीता प्रेस से निकलने वाली पत्रिका कल्याण 2,00000 सर्कुलेशन के साथ बाज़ार में है। वहीं इसके अंग्रेजी समकक्ष कल्याण–कल्पतरु का सर्कुलेशन भी 1,00000 से अधिक है। गीता प्रेस ने कट्टर हिंदू राष्ट्रवाद की आवाज़ को बुलंद करने के लिए एक साम्राज्य स्थापित किया और एक लाभ-आधारित तथा निर्धारणीय धर्मनिष्ठा की कल्पना की। महात्मा गांधी समेत लगभग सभी प्रमुख आवाजों और नेताओं को गो हत्या, राष्ट्रभाषा के तौर पर हिंदी का समर्थन और हिंदुस्तानी का बहिष्कार, हिंदू कोड बिल, पाकिस्तान गठन, भारत के पंथनिरपेक्ष संविधान जैसे मुद्दों पर बोलने-लिखने को बाध्य कर दिया। कल्याण और कल्याण–कल्पतरुइस तरह के सभी मामलों पर हिंदू पक्ष का प्रवक्ता था। गीता प्रेस और इसके प्रकाशन द्वारा तैयार किये जा रहे विचारों ने हिंदू राजनैतिक चेतना और वास्तव में हिंदी जन दायरे को गढ़ने में अहम भूमिका निभाई। यह इतिहास हमें हिंदू दक्षिणपंथ की राजनैतिक सर्वश्रेष्ठता के उभार जैसे विवादित और जटिल विषय पर नई दृष्टि प्रदान करता है।आधुनिक भारत के इतिहास में सबसे प्रभावी प्रकाशन उद्यमों में से एक रहे गीता प्रेस पर किया गया यह शोध गीता प्रेस एंड द मेकिंग ऑफ़ हिंदू इंडिया एक मौलिक, पठनीय, और गहराई से किया गया अध्ययन है। विवेकहीन उद्यमियों, शातिर संपादकों, राष्ट्रवादी विचारकों और धार्मिक कट्टरपंथियों के रूप में असाधारण ढंग से चरित्रों का निरूपण करने वाला यह अध्ययन हमारे समय का अत्यावश्यक अध्ययन है।
Gita Wisdom
by Joshua GreeneThe Bhagavad Gita is one of the most revered texts of all time, but it's often impenetrable to the 21st-century seeker. In Gita Wisdom, Joshua Greene retells this timeless text in a completely new way, revealing that it is, in essence, a heart-to-heart talk between two friends about the meaning of life. As Krishna and his friend Arjuna reminisce on a battlefield known as Kurukshetra, readers learn that the two played together as children, were close as young men, and became family when Arjuna married Krishna's sister. In later life the men shared extraordinary adventures, including a journey to places outside the known universe. Like all great literature, the Gita explores the human condition: who we are, where we came from, and why we're here. With a helpful glossary that lists names, terms, and places, this accessible, enlightening retelling is the perfect introduction to the Gita's venerable wisdom.
Gita Wisdom: An Introduction to India's Essential Yoga Text
by Joshua M. GreeneA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Gitabodh
by M. K. Gandhiઆશ્રમવાસીઓ માટે યરોડા જેલમાંથી ગાંધીજી દર અઠવાડિયે ગીતાના એક એક અધ્યાયનો સાર મોકલતા હતા. તેનો પ્રારંભ તેમણે 12મા અધ્યાયથી કર્યો.
Gitel's Freedom: A Novel
by Iris Mitlin LavFor fans of Georgia Hunter&’s We Were the Lucky Ones and Anita Abriel&’s The Light After the War comes a historical narrative about the lives of Jewish immigrants in the early twentieth century and one woman&’s journey through adversity toward personal freedom.At an early age, Gitel questions the expected roles of women in society and in Judaism. Born in Belorussia and brought to the US in 1911 as a child, she leads a life constrained by her religious Jewish parents. Forbidden from going to college and pushed into finding a husband, she marries Shmuel, an Orthodox Jewish pharmacist whose left-wing politics she admires. They plan to work together in a neighborhood pharmacy in Chicago—but when the Great Depression hits and their bank closes, their hopes are shattered. In the years that follow, Shmuel&’s questionable decisions, his poor health, and his bad luck plague their marriage and leave them constantly in financial distress. Gitel dreams of going back to school to become a teacher once their one daughter reaches high school, but an unexpected pregnancy quashes that aspiration as well. And when, later, a massive stroke leaves Shmuel disabled, Gitel is challenged to combine caring for him, being the breadwinner at a time when women face salary discrimination, and being present for their second daughter. Offering an illuminating look at Jewish immigrant life in early-1900s America, Gitel&’s Freedom is a compelling tale of women&’s resourcefulness and resilience in the face of limiting and often oppressive expectations.
Give Grace: How To Embrace the Beauty of Life's Brokenness
by Megan SmalleyAre you traveling through a difficult season? With journaling pages, discussion and reflection questions, inspiring stories, and colorful design throughout, Give Grace, written by Megan Smalley, provides you with a safe place to process the ups and downs of life and find new inspiration to trust God's plan as you rest in his unfailing love. Through her own journey with loss and hope, Megan is passionate about sharing the message of God's grace for our lives, whatever we are experiencing today. In Give Grace, she shares her painful experience with infertility, as well as heartfelt stories of encouragement and personal growth from her own life, in order to come alongside us in our own times of questioning and waiting.Give Grace will help you:Feel comfortable discussing the challenging timesGrow spiritually and reflect on deeper thoughtsIdentify the purpose behind your painGive Grace is also an ideal gift for anyone going through a challenging time to let them know that they are cared for, loved, and able to handle anything with God's grace. If you are traveling through a difficult season--however big or small--you will find comfort in the Scripture, stories, and reflections in this beautiful book.
Give It All to Him
by Max LucadoThis story, excerpted from Next Door Savior, will become the Easter giveaway book for churches next spring-in the vein of He Did This Just for You. In this story a woman gives her garbage of shame to the trashman; an old man hands over his heavy bag of regrets. Hundreds walk to the landfill and find it filled with trash. "Give it to me. Tomorrow. At the landfill. Will you bring it?" He rubs a moist smudge from her cheek with his thumb and stands. "Friday. The landfill." "You can't live with this," he explains. "You weren't made to." For individuals and churches, here is a beautiful story of a Savior who can take all our garbage on his shoulders-and amazingly, still stand! In addition to this story, Max explains in easy-to-understand language what Christ did for us and how to turn in our old baggage and exchange it for new life in him.
Give It Back!: God's Weapons for Turning Evil to Good
by Kimberly DanielsIt is time to understand spiritual warfare…from God’s vantage point. Many believers have become insensitive, numb, and virtually powerless to deal with the occult in the world today. But this is not going to stop demon-busting pastor Kim Daniels. In her loving yet confrontational style, she exposes the enemy’s infiltration and strategies to keep us spiritually “dumbeddown.” This primer on spiritual warfare is written with a military flare. Using her military training, she delivers a message that teaches believers to confront the devil and his demons in a great spiritual battle and come out victorious in God.
Give It Up!: A Lenten Study for Adults
by Dottie Escobedo-FrankThis Lenten study reflects on all the things that hold our attention, occupy our minds and monopolize our time, yet still isolate us from God and the world around us. Things like social media, phones, the noise of life, and focus on the external. Imagine taking on the challenge of giving up each of these for a week. During this seven-week study, Dottie Escobedo Frank takes the reader on a journey of self discovery, where he or she learns that the power of release brings great gain. The biggest gain is a stronger relationship with Christ. In the release, each person is freed to "give it up" in applause and praise for a life deeply lived in Christ.This thematic Bible study is designed to be used by individuals and small groups during the Lent 2015 season. In addition to the main content, each chapter offers questions for reflection and discussion, a brief prayer, and a focus for the week. The focus emerges from the chapter content and encourages readers to engage in a spiritual practice or do something specific that will help them grow in faith. On the whole, this thematic seasonal Bible study series is designed for transformation and application of Bible study to everyday, practical life experience.
Give It a Try, Yasmin! (Yasmin #17)
by Saadia FaruqiIn this fun collection of four new Yasmin stories, Yasmin tackles every challenge she faces with her head and her heart! Whether she’s helping to solve a recycling problem at school, trying to avoid a science fair fiasco, searching for a favorite lost book, or gathering her courage to join in the fun, Yasmin is always willing to give it a try!
Give Thanks
by Karla DornacherEvery moment invites opportunity to have a thankful heart. Beloved artist Karla Dornacher is at it again with fresh, new inspiration for recognizing all that we have to be thankful for, no matter the circumstance. Page after beautiful page, her warm, home-style artwork graced with gentle words of inspiration and vignettes about her life take on you a journey of faith and hope, and radiate new reasons to give thanks every day. Included are recipes, crafts, family traditions, journaling pages, Scriptures, and prayers. Give Thanks is a beautiful and unique way to stop and celebrate the art of being grateful for the simple treasures of life.
Give Them Jesus: Raising Our Children on the Core Truths of the Christian Faith
by Dillon T. ThorntonA fresh, clear, joyful guide for parents on how to teach their children to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.GIVE THEM JESUS aims to help parents not simply add to their children's stockpile of knowledge, but to cultivate children-disciples who are able to display Christ-likeness in every situation. Parents are the ones primarily responsible for opening up the Scriptures to help their children understand God, the world, and themselves. The family is the divinely appointed discipleship program; the home is first and foremost a place of worship. The introduction of the book discusses the four vital components of family worship: teach, treasure, sing, and pray, and offers practical suggestions for beginning and prioritizing family worship in the rough and tumble of life. Subsequent chapters guide parents to a deeper understanding of the core truths of the historic Christian faith, as summarized in the Apostles' Creed, arming them with appropriate language, helpful illustrations, and relevant object lessons, so that in the end they will be better prepared to pass these truths on to their children. Each chapter concludes with a family worship guide, which includes: 1) family memory verses, 2) nuggets of truth from the chapter, 3) questions for family discussion, 4) songs that celebrate the truths of the Creed, and 5) prayer prompts. GIVE THEM JESUS equips parents to prepare their children to leave home and go out into the world as faithful participants in the great gospel story. "Never stop telling the gospel story to your kids," Thornton says. "Give your children Jesus. Again. And again. And again. And you'll see them walk in the truth."
Give Up Something Bad for Lent: A Lenten Study for Adults
by James W. MooreWrap your arms around the Good News for Lent.During Lent each year, Christians give up something as an act of sacrifice and spiritual discipline. Often it is something like chocolate, knowing that after Easter Sunday they can once again enjoy what they have given up. James Moore challenges readers to take it further—to give up something spiritually that they would be better off not doing. He invites all to seek God's help to focus on eliminating one habit or attitude that is destructive. Imagine giving up envy, jealousy, self-pity, apathy, procrastination, gossip, resentment, or negative thinking, how much better life would be.The forty days of Lent are ideal to use this study and prepare to give up something bad while preparing to fully embrace the Good News of Easter. Study includes seven sessions, one for each Sunday in Lent and Easter Sunday. Each session features a Scripture reference, a personal reading, questions for personal reflection or group study, and closing prayer.
Give Up Worry for Lent: 40 Days to Finding Peace in Christ
by Gary ZimakCatholic author and self-described “recovering worrier” Gary Zimak combines practical spirituality, daily scripture readings, and simple action steps to help you kick the worry habit as part of your Lenten renewal. He shows you how to let go of the anxiety-producing areas of life in order to find the lasting peace that comes from trusting God. During the season of Lent, Catholics and other Christians frequently give up something they enjoy as a measure of penance or self-discipline—and often fall back into old habits at the first “Alleluia!” In Give Up Worry for Lent!, Zimak offers fellow worriers practical, scripture-centered advice on how to relinquish the need to control the uncontrollable—not just for Lent but for good—and how to find peace in Christ. From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, Zimak guides you to ponder a scripture passage and to apply it to your own life by following four simple steps: read, reflect, respond, pray. As you continue to meditate on scripture and practice the simple action steps at the end of each reflection, you will find it easier to replace old worries with new messages of hope and to change your life forever.
Give Your Child the World: Raising Globally Minded Kids One Book at a Time
by Jamie C. MartinYoung children live with awe and wonder as their daily companions. But as they grow, worries often crowd out wonder. Knowing this, how can parents strengthen their kids' love for the world so it sticks around for the long haul?Thankfully, parents have at their fingertips a miracle vaccine--one that can boost their kids' immunity to the world's distractions. Well-chosen stories connect us with others, even those on the other side of the globe. Build your kids' lives on a story-solid foundation and you'll give them armor to shield themselves from the world&’s cynicism. You'll give them confidence to persevere in the face of life's conflicts. You'll give them a reservoir of compassion that spills over into a lifetime of love in action.Give Your Child the World features inspiring stories, practical suggestions, and carefully curated reading lists of the best children's literature for each area of the globe. Reading lists are organized by region, country, and age range (ages 4-12). Each listing includes a brief description of the book, its themes, and any content of which parents should be aware.Parents can introduce their children to the world from the comfort of home by simply opening a book together. Give Your Child the World is poised to become a bestselling family reading treasury that promotes literacy, develops a global perspective, and strengthens family bonds while increasing faith and compassion.
Give the Gift of Healing: A Concise Guide to Spiritual Healing
by Rosemary AlteaFrom The New York Times bestselling author of The Eagle and the Rose and Proud Spirit comes a book on spiritual healing.Rosemary Altea, the internationally renowned medium known to millions worldwide as "The Voice of the Spirit World," is also the founder of the Rosemary Altea Association of Healers, a charitable organization with patients worldwide. In this book package, Rosemary offers an introduction to spiritual healing, beginning with a personal account of how she embraced her role as a healer sixteen years ago. Sharing her belief that sickness and pain can cause the soul to live in a dark place, Rosemary presents healing techniques designed to give light - the Seven Steps to Self-Healing. We meet two inspiring patients who have been treated by Rosemary and her team of healers, and we learn how we can harness the power of our own thoughts and use color energy visualizations to achieve inner peace. Also included is a color chart explaining how each of eight vibrant hues can give us the gift of healing.
Given For You: Reclaiming Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper
by Keith A. Mathison“The primary purpose of this book is to introduce, explain, and defend a particular doctrine of the Lord’s Supper―the doctrine taught by John Calvin and most of the sixteenth-century Reformed confessions. It is the thesis of this book that Calvin’s doctrine of the Lord’s Supper is the biblical doctrine, the basic doctrine of the sixteenth century Reformed churches, and the doctrine that should be reclaimed and proclaimed in the Reformed church today.”
Given Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
by Erin O. WhiteIn this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin O. White shares her hunger for both romantic and divine love, and how these desires transformed her life. In the late 1990s, she spent Saturday nights with her girlfriend and Sunday mornings in Catholic confirmation classes. But when the Church closed its doors to her, she was faced with a question: What does a lesbian believer do with her longing for God? Given Up for You explores these yearnings with bittersweet conviction, plumbing the depths of heart and soul.
Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
by Lucinda RambergWho and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations--between and among humans and deities--that exceed such categories.
Giver of Life: The Holy Spirit in Orthodox Tradition
by John OliverPresents the Orthodox perspective on who the Holy Spirit is, where the mystery of God comes alive. Delving deep and subtly into Orthodox tradition and theology, Giver of Life articulates the identity of the Holy Spirit as the third Person of the Trinity as well as the role of the Holy Spirit in the salvation of the world. Written with a poetic sensibility, Fr. Oliver begins with Pentecost, an event uniquely celebrated in Orthodoxy as a time when greenery of all kinds is brought into churches. "The splash of green foliage calls to mind not just life, but a special kind of life. It is the life that transcends biological existence and flows from the very Godhead Itself; it is life that's a state of being—immortal, everlasting, changeless. Ferns and flowers fade and die, but souls filled with this 'life from above' flourish forever."Reflecting on the relationship of the Holy Spirit to the Church, to the world, and to the human person, Giver of Life looks to the impressive biblical and liturgical tradition of Orthodox Christianity. This is a book weighty in content but accessible in tone, not an academic study of the mind, but a lived experience of the heart.
Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania
by Elliot R. WolfsonThis book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers—Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of these thinkers were keenly aware of the pitfalls of scriptural theism, to differing degrees they each succumbed to the temptation to personify transcendence, even as they tried either to circumvent or to restrain it by apophatically purging kataphatic descriptions of the deity. Derrida and Wyschogrod, by contrast, carried the project of denegation one step further, embarking on a path that culminated in the aporetic suspension of belief and the consequent removal of all images from God, a move that seriously compromises the viability of devotional piety.The inquiry into apophasis, transcendence, and immanence in these Jewish thinkers is symptomatic of a larger question. Recent attempts to harness the apophatic tradition to construct a viable postmodern negative theology, a religion without religion, are not radical enough. Not only are these philosophies of transcendence guilty of a turn to theology that defies the phenomenological presupposition of an immanent phenomenality, but they fall short on their own terms, inasmuch as they persist in employing metaphorical language that personalizes transcendence and thereby runs the risk of undermining the irreducible alterity and invisibility attributed to the transcendent other.The logic of apophasis, if permitted to run its course fully, would exceed the need to posit some form of transcendence that is not ultimately a facet of immanence. Apophatic theologies, accordingly, must be supplanted by a more far-reaching apophasis that surpasses the theolatrous impulse lying coiled at the crux of theism, an apophasis of apophasis, based on accepting an absolute nothingness—to be distinguished from the nothingness of an absolute—that does not signify the unknowable One but rather the manifold that is the pleromatic abyss at being’s core. Hence, the much-celebrated metaphor of the gift must give way to the more neutral and less theologically charged notion of an unconditional givenness in which the distinction between giver and given collapses. To think givenness in its most elemental, phenomenological sense is to allow the apparent to appear as given without presuming a causal agency that would turn that given into a gift.
Giving Blood: A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching
by Leonard SweetA Groundbreaking Resource for Preaching If the church wishes to converse effectively with a culture, it must learn the culture’s language. Today, shifts in technology mean that language is increasingly one of symbols and metaphors, stories and images—not words. So what does this mean for the sermon, that long-standing, word-based tradition of Christianity? In this ground-breaking resource, bestselling author Leonard Sweet offers an alternative to traditional models of preaching, one that is fitting to a new culture and a new mode of thinking. The first book of its kind to move preaching beyond its pulpit-centric fixation and toward more interactive, participatory modes of communication, Sweet presents both a challenge and a path forward for a church struggling to maintain its relevance in a post-modern, media-saturated culture.
Giving Church Another Chance: Finding New Meaning in Spiritual Practices
by Todd D. HunterEverybody wants to be spiritual. But nobody wants to be religious. Everybody is looking for a rich spiritual life. But nobody is looking to church. As a pastor, Todd Hunter found himself disillusioned, burned out and needing to drop out of traditional forms of church. He experimented with house churches and other options but was still dissatisfied. Eventually he found himself sneaking off to worship services on Sunday mornings with surprising results. What did the historic spiritual practices of church do for him? How did they lead to a life of centered peace, chart a path to simplicity and cause him to reach out to others while focusing on the glory of God? Walk with Hunter on this journey to find spiritual riches in a surprising place. You might just give church another chance.