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Stories for Your Soul: Ordinary People. Extraordinary God.
by Max LucadoLife can be hard: grief, loss, busyness, financial hardships, abuse, broken relationships, and illness are just some of the difficulties we all face on a regular basis. It's easy to lose faith in your neighbor and feel like you&’re alone--but Max Lucado assures us that hope is here. Stories for Your Soul: Ordinary People. Extraordinary God. by pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado will reestablish your faith in people and the Lord by sharing the good in the world.Compiled from Max's catalog of treasured stories, this collection of ordinary miracles sheds light on the ways that everyday people are doing God's work while also sharing their gifts with others.Throughout Stories for Your Soul, you'll read about:Nicholas Winton, a twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker, who rescued 669 children during World War IIFavio Chavez and Don Cola Gomez--two men recycling the world&’s trash into musical instrumentsJimmy Wayne and how complete strangers gave him a home and became his familyAnd many more amazing storiesAt the end of each inspiring story, you'll find two reflection questions to help you dig deep into your life and identify ways you can use your own gifts to change the world while deepening your faith in God.
Stories for the Heart the Third Collection: Over 100 Stories Celabrating Friends, Family, and Love (Stories for the Heart)
by Alice Gray Barbara BaumgardnerIn this collection, Alice Gray and Barbara Baumgardner compiled over 100 selections that provide understanding and compassion. These entries comprise stories, poetry, vignettes, and sayings. Some of the entries have characters with disabilities, while other selections do not. Many of the contributing writers to this collection are Christian and provide a Christian perspective on life. The compilers placed the selections under these categories: Encouragement, Love, Inspiration, Family, Memories, Life, and Faith. The final section, Because We Care, is an evangelistic one designed to lead readers to God.
Stories for the Heart: Over 100 Stories to Encourage Your Soul (Stories for the Heart #1)
by Alice GrayIn this original collection, Alice Gray, author and compiler, assembled over 100 selections that provide inspiration and encouragement. These selections comprise stories, poetry, and sayings. Some of the entries have characters with disabilities. Many of the contributing writers to this collection are Christian and provide a Christian perspective on life. The selections cover a variety of topics such as compassion, relationships, faith, and virtue. The last section is evangelistic and is designed to help readers find God.
Stories from Africa
by Kerry LoveringSix exciting stories. In Jabo's Mystery Box, the young Jabo learned why Adam and Eve couldn't resist the devil. In The Girl Who Sang in The Goathouse, we meet a little girl with great courage. In Rescue by Airplane, Rich helps a sick boy and thanks God for His miracles. In Lion in the Path! two missionaries almost get eaten by two lions. In "Thank You, Debbie!" a little girl makes a big difference. In Dija And The House of Medicine, a ten-year-old walks far to find a cure for leprosy.
Stories from Jewish Portland (American Heritage)
by Polina OlsenThese are the stories of Jewish Portland, whose roots stretch back to the Gold Rush, whose heart is 'the old neighborhood' of South Portland and the memories of its residents, whose identity is alive and well in synagogues and community institutions. Portland author Polina Olsen recounts the history of this richly layered community through a collection of letters, interviews, and stories drawn from her series "Looking Back," published in The Jewish Review. In this expanded collection, explore the lives of early settlers brought by opportunity and New York's Industrial Removal Office, walk the streets of the old neighborhood, alive with basketball games and junk peddlers, and learn the proud history of institutions like the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, which continue the cultural traditions of Jewish Portland.
Stories from Jonestown
by Leigh FondakowskiThe saga of Jonestown didn&’t end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown, more than eighty members of Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, were elsewhere in Guyana on that day, and thousands more members of the movement still lived in California. Emmy-nominated writer Leigh Fondakowski, who is best known for her work on the play and HBO film The Laramie Project, spent three years traveling the United States to interview these survivors, many of whom have never talked publicly about the tragedy. Using more than two hundred hours of interview material, Fondakowski creates intimate portraits of these survivors as they tell their unforgettable stories.Collectively this is a record of ordinary people, stigmatized as cultists, who after the Jonestown massacre were left to deal with their grief, reassemble their lives, and try to make sense of how a movement born in a gospel of racial and social justice could have gone so horrifically wrong—taking with it the lives of their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. As these survivors look back, we learn what led them to join the Peoples Temple movement, what life in the church was like, and how the trauma of Jonestown&’s end still affects their lives decades later.What emerges are portrayals both haunting and hopeful—of unimaginable sadness, guilt, and shame but also resilience and redemption. Weaving her own artistic journey of discovery throughout the book in a compelling historical context, Fondakowski delivers, with both empathy and clarity, one of the most gripping, moving, and humanizing accounts of Jonestown ever written.
Stories from Our Living Past
by Francine ProseTwenty-eight Jewish tales with morals, including "Daniel in the Lion's Den," "The King's Garden," and "The Goat that Made the Stars Sing."
Stories from Tagore
by Rabindranath TagoreCollected here are ten wonderful traditional Indian stories as told by Rabindranath Tagore. The language is rich and the narrative compelling. Tagore was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth Century, and that lyrical quality comes through in all of his work.
Stories from the Bible Complete Text
by Elsie E. EgermeierThis collection of biblical stories will help young people appreciate the narratives of the Christian faith. The vivid tales, closely based on Scripture, bring out the adventure, history, and moral wisdom of the Bible. A wonderful way to connect with the great stories of Christianity, this book makes the perfect gift!
Stories from the Bible: New Testament
by Anitha VasanthStories from the New Testament presented in an easy and fun way for young readers.
Stories from the Street: A Theology of Homelessness
by David NixonStories from the Street is a theological exploration of interviews with men and women who had experienced homelessness at some stage in their lives. Framed within a theology of story and a theology of liberation, Nixon suggests that story is not only a vehicle for creating human transformation but it is one of God's chosen means of effecting change. Short biographies of twelve characters are examined under themes including: crises in health and relationships, self-harm and suicide, anger and pain, God and the Bible. Expanding the existing literature of contextual theology, this book provides an alternative focus to a church-shaped mission by advocating with, and for, a very marginal group; suggesting that their experiences have much to teach the church. Churches are perceived as being active in terms of pastoral work, but reluctant to ask more profound questions about why homelessness exists at all. A theology of homelessness suggests not just a God of the homeless, but a homeless God, who shares stories and provides hope. Engaging with contemporary political and cultural debates about poverty, housing and public spending, Nixon presents a unique theological exploration of homeless people, suffering, hope and the human condition.
Stories of Dogs and the Lives They Touch
by Peggy SchaeferStories from Guideposts magazine about special dogs and the lives they touch.
Stories of Faith
by John SheaThe book is spiritually deep, thought-provoking treatise on making Jesus' story our own. It includes sections of beautiful and meditative poetry. From the book introduction: This book is a meditation on the dual drives of Christian faith: toward God and toward Jesus. How do we get to God and, more importantly, how do we get back? How do we contact the vitality of Jesus that generated the Christian movement and what happens to us once contact is made? Faith has the reputation of being a chameleon word. Its meaning changes with the environment. But no matter what transformations occur, God and Jesus are the constant center.
Stories of God: A New Translation
by Rainer Maria RilkeComposed in 1899 when Rilke was only twenty-three, the interconnected tales of Stories of God were inspired by a trip to Russia the young poet had made the year previously. It is said that the vastness of the Russian landscape and the profound spirituality he perceived in the simple people he met led him to an experience of finding God in all things, and to the conviction that God seeks to be known by us as passionately as we might seek to know God.All the great themes of Rilke's later powerful and complex poetry can be found in the Stories of God, yet their charming, folktale-like quality has made them among the most accessible of Rilke's works, beloved by all ages.
Stories of God: Rainer Maria Rilke's Geschichten Vom Lieben Gott
by Rainer Maria RilkeRilke's haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales.
Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport: Journeys to the AFL and NRL
by Richard Light John Robert EvansThis book presents journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of a‘footy’ to the highest levels of Australian football and rugby league, conceptualized as a processof learning. The authors challenge simplistic explanations of Indigenous success in Australianfootball and rugby league, centered on the notion of the ‘natural athlete’. The book tracesthe development of Indigenous sporting expertise as a lifelong process of learning situated inlocal culture and shaped by the challenges of transitioning into professional sport. Individually,the life stories told by the participants provide fascinating insights into experience, cultureand learning. Collectively, they provide deep understanding of the powerful influence thatAboriginal culture exerted on the participants’ journeys to the top of their sports while locatingindividual experience and agency within larger economic, cultural and social considerations.Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport will be of interest to students and scholarsacross a range of disciplines including Indigenous studies, physical education, education, sportmanagement and sociology
Stories of Jewish Dayton (American Heritage)
by Marshall WeissMany stories of Jewish Dayton's past have faded over time. Others, painful to recall, may have been intentionally buried. All are sure to surprise new generations. The Jews of Dayton drank wine during Prohibition, debated Zionism, fought the Klan and joined the battle for civil rights in the trenches. Balancing tradition and modernity across eras, they navigated the American dream and faced challenges often strikingly similar to those we face today. Marshall Weiss--founding editor and publisher of the Dayton Jewish Observer and project director of Miami Valley Jewish Genealogy & History--reaches back nearly two centuries to unearth forgotten episodes of Jewish life in Ohio's Miami Valley.
Stories of Jewish Life: Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985 (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
by Augusto SegreStories of Jewish Life: Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985 is an unconventional memoir—an integrated collection of short stories and personal essays. Author Augusto Segre was a well-known public figure in post–WWII Italy who worked as a journalist, educator, scholar, editor, activist, and rabbi. He begins his book with stories shaped from the oral narratives of his home community as it emerged from the ghetto era, continues with his own experiences under fascism and as a partisan in WWII, and ends with his emigration to Israel. Spanning the years 1876 (one generation after emancipation from the ghetto) to 1985 (one generation after the Shoah), Segre presents this period as an era in which Italian Jewry underwent a long-term internal crisis that challenged its core values and identity. He embeds the major cultural and political trends of the era in small yet telling episodes from the lives of ordinary people. The first half of the book takes place in Casale Monferrato—a small provincial capital in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy. The second half, continuing in Casale in the late 1920s but eventually shifting to Rome then Jerusalem, follows the experiences of a boy named Moshè (Segre’s Jewish name and his stand-in). Moshè relates episodes of Italian Jewry from the 1920s to the 1980s that portray the insidiousness of fascism as well as the contradictions within the Jewish community, especially in its post-ghetto relationship to Italian society. The painful transformation of Italian Jewry manifests itself in universal themes: the seductiveness of modern life, the betrayal of tradition, the attraction of fashionable political movements, the corrosive effects of totalitarianism, and ultimately, on the positive side, national rebirth and renewal in Israel. These themes give the book significance beyond the "small world" from which they arise because they are issues that confront any society, especially those emerging from a traditional way of life and entering the modern world. Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre’s stories.
Stories of Jews for Jesus
by Ruth RosenPresents the testimonies of twenty-three people all identifying themselves as Jewish believers in Jesus. Details the challenges they faced when discussing their faith with family and friends, the fulfillment they found, and their continuing Jewish identities--often enhanced by a decision to explore the New Testament claims of Jesus. Featured writers include Jay Seculow, Lon Solomon, Vera Schlamm, Ceil Rosen, and Carol Joseph. Relatable testimonies from people of various occupations and previous religious observances are presented, as well as an in-depth discussion of the Hebrew and New Testament Scriptures that helped them to form their conclusions about Jesus.
Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam
by Marc S. BernsteinThe last century has seen the demise of age-old Jewish communal life in the Arab world, and there is now a struggle to overcome a mutual lack of understanding between the West and the Arab-Muslim world. Over the course of past centuries, there was a great sharing of creative and scientific knowledge across religious lines. Stories about biblical figures held to be prophets by both Judaism and Islam are one result of this relationship and reflect an environment where not only literary genre and modes of interpretation but particular motifs could be utilized by both religious traditions. Stories of Joseph details this historical interdependence that reveals much about common experiences and concerns of Jews and Muslims. Marc S. Bernstein's rich analysis focuses on the nineteenth-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript The Story of Our Master Joseph--a Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype (itself largely based on midrashic, Hellenistic, and Near Eastern material) extending back to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry, separtism from loved ones, sexual mores, and the struggles for a continued communal existence outside the homeland.
Stories of Krishna
by Vivienne BaumfieldThis book invites you to reflect upon the questions the stories of Krishna raises, and to consider their relevance for us today. The book is organized around two central and devotional texts, the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavata Purana, and the contributions of some Hindus in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, who are devotees of Krishna. It is called Stories of Krishna because any attempt to present one "essential" story of Krishna would be misguided as it is through exploring the diversity of Krishna stories and their apparent contradiction that understanding of the significance of Krishna grows. The author hopes that the reader will formulate what Krishna means to the reader as the book is read, and questions raised.
Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South (American Heritage)
by Tony KailSeparate fact from fiction in this history of African healers, spiritualists, and conjurers in the mid-southern United States.Men and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderstood culture. The same healers and spiritual workers feared by outsiders were embraced and revered by families who survived because of their presence. From Tennessee to Mississippi, ancient formulas and potions were integral parts of the African American community. Follow author Tony Kail as he takes us down the back roads of rural counties, where healers formulated miracles in mojo bags, and into the cities, where conjurers spoke to the spirits of the dead.“If true mystery and fascinating cultures move you, you'll be thunderstruck by this book . . . . Vast numbers of Africans were brought to this region in chains from their native lands, moved cross country from the Atlantic coast, and inland from Jamaica, Haiti, and the Caribbean. They brought with them their religious and faith healing practices. Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, writer and lecturer, brings his nearly three decades of study of ancient faith healing (hoodoo) and herbal beliefs to bear in this remarkable work.” —Decatur Daily
Stories of Shiva
by Rajee RamanStory from Indian mythology. This book narrates the stories (Thiruvilaiyadal) of Lord Shiva in simple English for young readers.
Stories of the Baal Shem Tov Volume 5
by Yisroel Yaakov KlapholzThe most complete collection of Baal Shem Tov stories. Few people have succeeded in positively affecting the lives of world Jewry so profoundly as the Baal Shem Tov. In these volumes, Rabbi Klapholtz brings together the classic amazing stories about the man who gave us Chassidut and changed the spiritual course of modern Jewish history.