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Reframing the Soul: How Words Transform Our Faith
by Gregory SpencerWhen you frame your life, what’s in the picture? We don’t just remember the past. We remember it as we have framed it. Jesus calls us to reframe life grace instead of law, love instead of retaliation demonstrating that our faith-work is framework. In this book, readers will be awakened to the power of the words they choose. As we begin to change our word choices, we become empowered to reframe our story according to the truth of our lives and the wisdom of the gospel. New circumstances a divorce, a new job, an illness, or a revelation about the past often drive us to reframe. In these times of crisis or change, we realize that the words and labels we have previously accepted are unsatisfying. Reframing the Soul guides readers through remembering the past with gratitude, anticipating the future with hope, dwelling within themselves with peace, and relating to others in love.
Refresh Your Soul: 60 Devotions to Help You Rest in the Lord
by InspiredIt's okay to take a moment. To stop. Disconnect. Close your eyes. Pray. When time and options are running low, when anxiety, fear, or worry are crowding in and stealing your breath, God is just a prayer away. These sixty short devotions help you connect to Jesus and bring a peace of mind and a refreshment of soul that only He can provide. Five minutes is all it takes to feel restored and ready for what the day may bring.
Refresh: Spiritual Nourishment for Parents of Childen with Special Needs
by Jocelyn Green Kimberly M. DrewMore than one-fifth of US households with children have at least one child with special needs. Raising a child with special needs is spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically challenging. Parents of these children have higher rates of depression, anxiety, and divorce. They need encouragement to restore hope and a passion for God in their lives—-but the realities of having to be parent, nurse, therapist, and caregiver make it difficult to find the time or initiative to seek encouragement.Written by two moms who understand this complicated balancing act, Refresh is designed to provide just what these parents need. The 90-day devotional guides parents to spiritual truths that can be applied to the demands they face every day. It offers perspective and hope through the varying stages and phases families experience, from diagnosis to loss and grief. struggle readers face. Their children represent a wide range of special needs, including autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, genetic disorders, chronic illness, and more. Drew and Green show how the truths of God's Word are relevant, regardless of the diagnosis. Their devotional illuminates the unique lessons and perspectives to be gained as a result of raising a child with special needs.Insightful and powerful, Refresh will help weary parents grow spiritual roots and reach the water of life once more.
Refuel: An Uncomplicated Guide to Connecting with God
by Doug FieldsIf you've always struggled with the stereotypical quiet-time, don't give up hope! As a Christian, you know you need to have devotions. You've heard it from your pastor; you've seen the study guides; you may have even made a dent in the One Year Bible. Some of you have valiantly set your alarm clocks back an hour for morning quiet time, only to find that life creeps back in to steal your resolve. It isn't because you don't love God. You quit because you "bought into" someone's unsustainable habit at an unreasonable pace. But you don't have to keep running on empty. Bestselling author Doug Fields offers an uncomplicated, practical plan that you can carry out. This book won't teach you how to "cram God" into your already-full schedule. Instead, Doug will show you a practical, doable way of setting God first, and then letting everything else in your life fall into place. You will experience the fullness God has for you-just take some time to refuel.
Refuge
by Anne Booth Sam UsherEveryone may already know the story of how Jesus was humbly born in a manger, but Refuge is a lyrical depiction of what came next: the new family's travels through the desert, fleeing Herod's soldiers in order to find a safe place to welcome their son into the world. A poetic and refreshing look at the classic Christmas story that's never been more relevant, Refuge asks readers to consider the modern day implications of being forced to flee your home country.
Refuge (Full Circle #1)
by Lisa Tawn BergrenWill the danger that stalks them destroy their life together before it begins? <P> When Rachel Johanssen dared Beth Morgan to answer a personal ad in The Rancher's Journal, she never thought her citified friend would become a bona fide rancher's wife. Now Rachel, too, is falling in love with the glorious valley...as well as with Dirk Tanner, a rugged rancher who makes it his home. Rachel isn't the only San Franciscan newly drawn to the Elk Horn Valley. Jake Rierdon, son of a San Francisco client, has taken a shine to ranch life too--and to beautiful young Emily Walker. But will threats from the present and the past destroy any chance the couples have to build a future?From the Trade Paperback edition.
Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
by Noah LevineRefuge Recovery is a proven practice, a process, a set of tools, a treatment, and a path to healing addiction.Refuge Recovery is a Buddhist-oriented, nontheistic recovery program that does not ask anyone to believe anything, only to trust the process and do the hard work of recovery. In fact, no previous experience or knowledge of Buddhism is required. Recovery is possible, and this book provides a systematic approach to treating and recovering from all forms of addictions. When sincerely practiced, the program will ensure a full recovery from addiction and a lifelong sense of well-being and happiness.ry system is designed for anyone interested in a non-theistic approach to recovery and requires no previous experience or knowledge of Buddhism or meditation.
Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics
by Luke Glanville Mark R. GlanvilleThe global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christians' sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security, economics, and culture. We urgently need a perspective that understands both Scripture and current political realities and that can be applied at the levels of the church, the nation, and the globe. In Refuge Reimagined, Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship. God's people, they argue, are consistently called to extend kinship—a mutual responsibility and solidarity—to those who are marginalized and without a home. Drawing on their respective expertise in Old Testament studies and international relations, the two brothers engage a range of disciplines to demonstrate how this ethic is consistently conveyed throughout the Bible and can be practically embodied today. Glanville and Glanville apply the kinship ethic to issues such as the current mission of the church, national identity and sovereignty, and possibilities for a cooperative global response to the refugee crisis. Challenging the fear-based ethic that often motivates Christian approaches, they envision a more generous, creative, and hopeful way forward. Refuge Reimagined will equip students, activists, and anyone interested in refugee issues to understand the biblical model for communities and how it can transform our world.
Refuge Up in Flames (Mountain Rescue)
by Shirley JumpTheir safe place…Just became a dangerous trap After his daughter breaks her arm and an arsonist stalks their small Colorado town, widower Mike Byrne decides to spend Christmas at their mountain cabin. But when Julia Beaumont, Ginny's reluctant occupational therapist, makes a surprise visit just before a snowstorm hits, Mike is forced to share their refuge. Only, the arsonist is closer than they think and nowhere is safe. Least of all the treacherous, snow-covered Rockies…New York Times Bestselling Author Shirley Jump
Refuge from Danger Complete Collection: Lethal Deception\River of Secrets\Holiday Illusion
by Lynette EasonA thrilling romantic suspense trilogy box set from bestselling author Lynette EasonLethal Deception Having rescued Cassidy McKnight from kidnappers in South America, Gabe Sinclair thought his job was done. But when the danger followed her home, the former NAVY SEAL promised to protect her. River of SecretsThe amnesiac patient in the makeshift Amazon hospital looks familiar to visiting American nurse Amy Graham. When Amy sees his birthmark, she knows exactly who he is: Micah McKnight, the presumed-dead Navy SEAL. The man her own mother set up to die. Holiday IllusionTo save a sick, orphaned boy, Anna Freeman must risk her own life. She must take him to a hospital in a place she fled in fear years ago. Which means telling Dr. Lucas Bennett that she’s not who he thinks she is.
Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care
by Nathan Jishin Michon24 wise and compassionate Buddhist perspectives on crisis care—contemplative practices and spiritual principles to help individuals, families, and communities in crisis and the care providers who support them.Refuge in the Storm presents a wide range of Buddhist perspectives on crisis care. Written by experienced chaplains, spiritual teachers, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, medical providers, and scholars, the essays in this timely anthology explore a spectrum of personal and global crises: climate chaos, COVID, natural disasters, racism, social inequity, illness, and dying.Drawing on Buddhist principles and practices, these essays offer a wealth of insights for supporting individuals and communities in crisis as well as preventing fatigue and burnout in care providers. The 24 essays in this anthology show readers how to: • Provide spiritual companionship to ill, aging, and dying clients• Infuse crisis care with mindfulness, compassion, prayer, and even playfulness• Prevent burnout with self-care practices rooted in Buddhist principles • Develop self-awareness and self-knowledge as a care provider• Pursue the path of Buddhist chaplaincyEdited by Nathan Jishin Michon—Buddhist priest, chaplain, meditation teacher, and editor of A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community—this one-of-a-kind anthology helps care providers develop the compassion, attention, wisdom, and presence needed to support individuals and communities to move through suffering into healing.
Refuge on Crescent Hill: A Novel
by Melanie DobsonMoving home after a recent job loss was supposed to reassure Camden Bristow but what she finds is an empty mansion 150 years old. What happened to the house she played in as a child, the bedtime stories that told of secret passageways and runaway slaves, and all those family memories?When antiques start disappearing and footsteps are heard, Camden wonders what really happened here . . . at Crescent Hill? Who still has access to the house? And for what purpose? As she works to uncover the past and present mysteries harbored in her home, Camden also uncovers secrets about her family that could change the town--and her life--forever.
Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha
by Thanissaro BhikkhuThis book is a short introduction to the basic principles of Buddhism: the Buddha, the Dhamma (his teachings), and Sangha (the community of his noble disciples), also known as the Triple Gem or the Triple Refuge.
Refugee Nuns, the French Revolution, and British Literature and Culture
by Tonya J. MoutrayIn eighteenth-century literature, negative representations of Catholic nuns and convents were pervasive. Yet, during the politico-religious crises initiated by the French Revolution, a striking literary shift took place as British writers championed the cause of nuns, lauded their socially relevant work, and addressed the attraction of the convent for British women. Interactions with Catholic religious, including priests and nuns, Tonya J Moutray argues, motivated writers, including Hester Thrale Piozzi, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to revaluate the historical and contemporary utility of religious refugees. Beyond an analysis of literary texts, Moutray's study also examines nuns’ personal and collective narratives, as well as news coverage of their arrival to England, enabling a nuanced investigation of a range of issues, including nuns' displacement and imprisonment in France, their rhetorical and practical strategies to resist authorities, representations of refugee migration to and resettlement in England, relationships with benefactors and locals, and the legal status of "English" nuns and convents in England, including their work in recruitment and education. Moutray shows how writers and the media negotiated the multivalent figure of the nun during the 1790s, shaping British perceptions of nuns and convents during a time critical to their survival.
Refugee Treasure (Promise of Zion #3)
by Robert ElmerBook 3 of Promise of Zion. Dov and Emily have parted, but soon cross paths when invaluable scrolls are given to Dov and men of every sector in Jerusalem are after them. This time it's Emily who must rescue him-- if she gets there in time.
Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Leah BasselDebates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion neglects other needs and engenders a democratic deficit. In Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture, new theoretical perspectives recast both the story told and who tells the tale. By focusing on the politics underlying how these debates are framed and the experiences of women at the heart of these controversies, women are considered first and foremost as democratic agents rather than actors in the ‘culture versus gender’ script. Crucially, the institutions and processes created to address women’s needs are critically assessed from this perspective. Breaking from scholarship that focuses on whether the accommodation of culture and religion harms women, Bassel argues that this debate ignores the realities of the women at its heart. In these debates, Muslim women are constructed as silent victims. Bassel pleads compellingly for a consideration of women in all their complexity, as active participants in democratic life. The book will appeal to students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly of sociology, political science and women’s studies.
Refugees or Migrants: Pre-Modern Jewish Population Movement
by Robert ChazanA leading historian argues that historically Jews were more often voluntary migrants than involuntary refugees For millennia, Jews and non-Jews alike have viewed forced population movement as a core aspect of the Jewish experience. This involuntary Jewish wandering has been explained by pre-modern Jews and Christians as divine punishment, by some modern non-Jews as the result of Jewish harmfulness, by some modern Jews as fostered by Christian anti-Jewish imagery, and by other modern Jews as caused by misguided Jewish acceptance of minority status. In this absorbing book, Robert Chazan explores these various perspectives and argues that pre-modern Jewish population movement was in most cases voluntary, the result of a sense among Jews that there were alternatives available for making a better life elsewhere.
Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery
by Shayne Moore Kimberly McOwen Yim2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Justice) Slavery didn't end in 1833, when William Wilberforce's decades-long campaign finally resulted in the Slavery Abolition Act. It didn't end in 1863, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It didn't end in 1949, when the United Nations declared trafficking "incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person." The sad truth is, slavery never ended. It just went underground, where it continues to exploit powerless men, women and children in horrific ways throughout the world. Now for the good news: you have power. In Refuse to Do Nothing, "Abolitionist Mamas" Shayne Moore and Kimberly Yim share their stories of coming to terms with the power available to them in their normal, everyday lives to • illuminate the shadows where those who traffic in people hide • compel corporations to fight slavery in how their products are made • motivate politicians to fight for human dignity • mobilize friends and strangers alike to fight slavery at home and throughout the world Slavery doesn't end without a fight. But get to know Shayne and Kimberly and their abolitionist friends, and you'll find the power God grants to all who fight for the powerless, and the joy awaiting those who refuse to do nothing.
Regarding Children: A New Respect For Childhood And Families (Family Living In Pastoral Perspective Series)
by Herbert Anderson Susan B. W. JohnsonTHIS IS THE THIRD in a series of books on Family Living in Pastoral Perspective. The first, Leaving Home, addresses the need for children and parents alike to find ways of leaving and letting go that are liberating and confirming.
Regarding Muslims: From slavery to post-apartheid
by Gabeba BaderoonAn analysis of the role of Muslims from South Africa’s founding to the present and points to the resonance of these discussions beyond South Africa. How do Muslims fit into South Africa's well-known narrative of colonialism, apartheid and post-apartheid? South Africa is infamous for apartheid, but the country's foundation was laid by 176 years of slavery from 1658 to 1834, which formed a crucible of war, genocide and systemic sexual violence that continues to haunt the country today. Enslaved people from East Africa, India and South East Asia, many of whom were Muslim, would eventually constitute the majority of the population of the Cape Colony, the first of the colonial territories that would eventually form South Africa. Drawing on an extensive popular and official archive, Regarding Muslims analyses the role of Muslims from South Africa?s founding moments to the contemporary period and points to the resonance of these discussions beyond South Africa. It argues that the 350-year archive of images documenting the presence of Muslims in South Africa is central to understanding the formation of concepts of race, sexuality and belonging. In contrast to the themes of extremism and alienation that dominate Western portrayals of Muslims, Regarding Muslims explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, which oscillates with more disquieting images that occasionally burst into prominence during moments of crisis. This pattern is illustrated through analyses of etymology, popular culture, visual art, jokes, bodily practices, oral narratives and literature. The book ends with the complex vision of Islam conveyed in the post-apartheid period.
Regency Christmas Wishes
by Barbara Metzger Edith Layton Sandra Heath Emma Jensen Carla KellyCelebrate the joys of Christmas in Regency England where five master storytellers ring in the season with warmth, cheer and love.
Regency Romance Collection
by Christina CourtenayFrom an award-winning author—three fabulous Regency romance novellas that will enchant readers with every passion-drenched page. Included in this Regency collection from a winner of multiple awards for her historical romance are: MARRY IN HASTE When James, Viscount Demarr, seeks a convenient bride for immediate marriage, Amelia Ravenscroft—desperate to escape a life of drudgery—is more than willing to oblige. But will their business arrangement turn into something far more personal? ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY After a disastrous first marriage, Jason Warwycke, Marquess of Wyckeham, has vowed never to wed again . . . until he sets eyes on Ianthe Templeton, who has her own reasons for wanting a husband. And they have little to do with love—or so she thinks . . . DESPERATE REMEDIES Denied the hand of her first love—the devastatingly handsome Earl of Synley—Lexie Holloway resolves to remain a spinster. But when she learns that the earl has become available once more, can she summon the passion she once felt for him again?
Regenerating Cultural Religious Heritage: Intercultural Dialogue on Places of Religion and Rituals
by Olimpia NiglioThis book introduces important reflections on understanding the meaning of cultural-religious heritage in an international context and their relationship with issues of sustainability at the local community level. Through a holistic approach, the book charts new courses in analyzing different cultural policies and methods for preserving and enhancing cultural heritage. Stemming from an intercultural seminar promoted by the International Scientific Committee Places of Religion and Ritual (ICOMOS PRERICO) under the theme of “Reuse and regenerations of cultural-religious heritage in the world: Comparison among cultures,” the book examines the scientific diplomacy and cultural strategies promoted by countries in dialogue with the UN 2030 Agenda, as well as Agenda 21 for Culture. The book seeks to reinforce the value of local cultural policies for supporting and enhancing cultural-religious heritage through specific programs and collaborations in dialogue with government policies. This collection is relevant to scholars working in areas relating to cultural heritage, religious heritage, architectural restoration, protection of the local inheritances, law, and management of the cultural sites.
Regenerative Dialogues for Sustainable Futures: Integrating Science, Arts, Spirituality and Ancestral Knowledge for Planetary Wellbeing (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Fabio ScaranoThis book is about sustainability in its broadest sense. It argues that the ongoing science-policy dialogue on sustainable development (as framed by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals) is insufficient to drive the planet to desired sustainable futures. This conversation, followed by transformative action, must be inclusive of other forms of interpretation of reality (arts, spirituality, and ancestral knowledge) and non-modern cosmovisions. This is more a book about dialogues than about the common dualism problem/solution, and such dialogues are approached as an essential trigger of regeneration. The book takes the reader from a historical perspective of the human-nature relationship through to a discussion on sustainable futures as utopias. The optimism conveyed by the book is justified by a plethora of global examples of such regenerative dialogues.
Regesso ao Essencial
by Farhad PourgolafshanO mundo como o conhecíamos parou durante a noite, com o medo de um vírus mortal se espalhar rapidamente, causando uma pandemia. As pessoas foram forçadas a ficar confinadas em casas por um número imprevisto de semanas. Empresas foram fechadas. As consequências econômicas ainda não foram sentidas, mas as perspectivas eram mais mortais do que as do vírus. Todos começaram a aprender e a se preocupar com a higiene física. Essa reclusão forçada fez com que muitos repensassem suas vidas e o que consideravam normal, e tudo o que consideravam natural. Para muitos, o significado de suas vidas ficou em questão, e o foco começou a mudar para como poderíamos nos preparar para um evento como este ou pior. Tornou-se evidente para muitos que a fraqueza crucial tinha sido uma desnutrição espiritual e negligência; e a higiene espiritual? Este trabalho se concentra em como nos reviver espiritualmente para realizar e cumprir o verdadeiro significado de nossas vidas.