A daily devotional/study for Lent on the subject and the experience of temptation. Daily reflections on the hard school of temptation, based on Scriptures, inspired by the Lenten experience of a Benedictine monastic community. Each day’s reflection includes a quotation taken from two works of the German pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945): a series of lectures given on the creation and fall of Adam and Eve; and a six-day Bible study on the theme of temptation, given by Bonhoeffer during a retreat with former students of his “underground” seminary in Nazi Germany.
It was also on May 7 that a Boston television station , WBZ , aired portions of a taped telephone conversation in which Frank Fitzpatrick , an insurance adjuster and private detective , confronted James R. Porter who years earlier ...
The apostles and elders , your brothers , To the Gentile believers in Antioch , Syria and Cilicia : Greetings . We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you , troubling your minds by what they ...
New York Times-bestselling author Platt takes readers on a heart-wrenching, soul-searching journey through impoverished villages in the Himalayan mountains.
These questions and more will be examined as we look at what Jesus taught about prayer, as well as what Jesus modeled in prayer. This book will be biblical, practical, and easy to read so that it is accessible to a broad audience.
" Why? Because increasingly, store-bought objects are what hold us together as a society, doing the work of "birth, patina, pews, coats of arms, house, and social rank"—previously done by religion and bloodline.
Lead Me Not into Temptation, I Can Find it On My Own is the story of Michael Surreal, a troubled thirty-three-year-old husband and father who, up until the day he dies and is condemned to hell, aspires to become the worlds greatest poet.
Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests: Issued by Order of Pope Pius V
It's really quite simple and very doable." She encourages. "Society has tainted so many words of great value like: submit, obey, abstinence, virtue, and purity. These are the very things the Bible speaks so clearly of.
In this little volume of 200 pages we have a series of dissertations on spiritual subjects, addressed especially to Christians, including thoughts on the Mountain Sermon, the Beatitudes, the Spirituality of the Law, the True Motive in ...
The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is a treasured resource for traditional Anglicans and others who appreciate the majesty of King James-style language.