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Mirrors of the Soul

Mirrors of the Soul

Religion & Spirituality

A well-rounded look at the personal life, poetry, painting, and philosophy of the famous twentieth-century spiritual guide and author of The Prophet.   Kahlil Gibran wrote prolifically and passionately in Arabic as well as English. First published in 1965 with nine works of poetry translated by Joseph Sheban, Mirrors of the Soul includes writings by Gibran that are as poignant today as when first written, such as “The New Frontier” and“The Sea.” These poems illuminate the dual nature of Gibran, who lived in the shadows both of New York skyscrapers and the cedars of his childhood Lebanon. Sheban enriches the new works with an insightful biography, a historical examination of politics and religion in Gibran’s native land, and the inclusion of revolutionary poems such as “My Countrymen” and “My People Died.” 

The Reformed Pastor

The Reformed Pastor

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Richard Baxter, Puritan author of “The Reformed Pastor,” was famous for two things: being a tremendous pastor to a town in England, and getting constantly into trouble for being so blunt that he would make enemies of his friends. This book is about being a tremendous pastor. It is also goes straight to the point. “The Reformed Pastor” is actually an extended lecture that Baxter proposed to present to a local ministerial association in 1656. The book uses as its foundation and framework Acts 20:28: "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood." The book first deals with pastors "taking heed" to their own spiritual state and life, and then turns its attention to taking heed to all the flock. Baxter starts at the beginning, with making sure the reader is truly a Christian, and progresses through disciplines, qualifications, and indwelling sin.

The Saint's Everlasting Rest

The Saint's Everlasting Rest

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Richard Baxter wrote "The Saints' Everlasting Rest" to help prepare him for death during a life-threatening illness. It has inspired Christians for centuries to lift their eyes above this world to the place where they will spend eternity. Born in 1615, Richard Baxter lived and ministered throughout most of the seventeenth century. After being forced from his pulpit with some two thousand other Puritan ministers in the Great Ejection of 1660, he continued his writing ministry, authoring more than 140 books. Originally published in 1649, this work was forty-six chapters long, covering 844 pages. It was abridged in 1758, condensing it to sixteen chapters. Reading Baxter's book will challenge you to rediscover the wonders of the Lord through reflection and meditation. Taking captive our thoughts and making them obedient to Christ will make us strong in the faith and bring victory to our spiritual walks.

The Quimby Manuscripts

The Quimby Manuscripts

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In this volume, Horatio Dresser compiles the writings of Phineas Quimby. whose manuscripts were much sought-after. It was only through his personal friendship with Quimby and his family that Dresser was able to obtain them. Phineas Quimby developed his own religion based on Christianity and following the example of Jesus. He began with healing the mentally and physically ill and offering the healed the chance to read his manuscripts if they desired. In this book Quimby's rules for healing with the mind are revealed. Those interested in the history New Thought, Christian sects, mesmerism, and the power of the mind over the body will want to study these primary sources. American New Thought author Horatio Willis Dresser (1866-1954) wrote a number of books about mental health and spirituality including The Perfect Whole (1896) and In Search of a Soul (1897). Later in life, he left the New Thought movement and went to work at Harvard University, where he wrote about philosophy.

Dumnezeu nu este mare. Cum otrăvește religia totul

Dumnezeu nu este mare. Cum otrăvește religia totul

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Cartea de față nu este o lectură facilă. Dimpotrivă, șochează la fiecare pagină, încercând să ne scoată din conformismul călduț în care ne-am instalat și să ne facă să gândim. La fel ca Bertrand Russell în eseul De ce nu sunt creștin (1927), Hitchens încearcă să demonstreze că religia este o invenție umană, un efect al fricii noastre de moarte și de neant. Mai mult, ea s-a dovedit un adversar al științei și al cercetării, complice cu ignoranța, rasismul și tirania. Autorul vânează contradicțiile „cărților sfinte“, indiferent că aparțin creștinismului, islamului sau iudaismului. Hitchens îmbină argumente științifice și citate din marii filosofi cu descrierea unor evenimente sociale și politice sau chiar cu anecdote savuroase. Inteligența argumentației și stilul plin de vervă, chiar virulent pe alocuri, au transformat cartea într-unul dintre „textele canonice“ ale ateismului contemporan.Christopher Hitchens (13 aprilie 1949‒15 decembrie 2011) a fost un scriitor, critic literar și jurnalist anglo-american. Ateu declarat, a stârnit multe polemici prin articolele și cărțile sale, în care a criticat deseori personalități ca Maica Tereza, Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Mel Gibson etc.

The Collection of Santa Claus (Illustrated Edition)

The Collection of Santa Claus (Illustrated Edition)

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The Christmas Collection will accompany you throughout this magical Christmas period. more than 400+ illustrated novels, stories, poems, songs and Christmas legends that will delight both children and adult. Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Trollope, Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George Macdonald, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Van Dyke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clement Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Eleanor H. Porter, Jacob A. Riis, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick, Sophie May, Lucas Malet, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Alice Hale Burnett, Ernest Ingersoll, Annie F. Johnston, Amanda M. Douglas, Amy Ella Blanchard, Carolyn Wells, Walter Crane, Thomas Nelson Page, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. Boyd, Edward A. Rand, Max Brand, William John Locke, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Booker T. Washington, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Maud Lindsay, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Phebe A. Curtiss, Florence M. Kingsley, Olive Thorne Miller, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, François Coppée, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Elbridge S. Brooks, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Anton Chekhov, Armando Palacio Valdés, André Theuriet, Alphonse Daudet, Benito Pérez Galdós, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marcel Prévost, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, F. L. Stealey, Kate Upson Clark, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Willis Boyd Allen, Edgar Wallace, Georg Schuster, Harrison S.

Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau

Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau

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The Large Catechism typifies the emphasis which the churches of the Augsburg Confession placed on the importance of knowledge and understanding of the articles of the Christian faith. Primarily intended as instruction to teachers, especially to parents, the Catechism consists of a series of exhortations on the importance of each topic of the Catechism. It is meant for those who have the capacity to understand, and is not meant to be memorized but to be repeatedly reviewed so that the Small Catechism could be taught with understanding.

The Calling of the Ministry

The Calling of the Ministry

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William Perkins (1558-1602) was a powerful Puritan Reformed minister and theologian. Preaching today is in rapid decline. Pulpits all over the planet are filled with ministers who gain a paycheck, but give little else. William Perkins explains what it means to be truly called to the holy office of the minister. He does this from two principle texts: Job chapters 32-33 with emphasis on 33:23, and Isaiah 6:1-13. Perkins says that the words in Job contain, “a valuable description of a true minister,” how he is a messenger and an interpreter, one in a thousand. Then, he explains Isaiah 6:1-13 of Isaiah’s confirmation, showing Isaiah was fearful, stunned, cast down, comforted, and renewed in his commission to go and be sent of God to preach for Christ's glory. This work is not a scan or facsimile, has been carefully transcribed by hand being made easy to read in modern English, and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.

But Don't All Religions Lead to God?

But Don't All Religions Lead to God?

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We've all heard the rationale: "It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere." Or "All religions are pretty much the same." But are they the same? Does it matter which one you follow? In this insightful and compelling book, Michael Green invites readers into a relationship with Jesus Christ, the divine revelation and only pathway to the one true God.  In a conversational style geared toward nonbelievers, Green compares Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and other religions to help spiritual seekers navigate the multi-faith maze. "But Don't All Religions Lead to God?" is an ideal reference and evangelism tool for churches and individual Christians as well. It offers scriptural references, looks at how divergent religious traditions view salvation and eternity, and answers difficult questions such as "What about people who have never heard of Jesus?" and "How should Christians regard other religions?"  In the midst of our pluralistic and tolerant culture, here is an important and convincing argument for faith in Jesus-the only great teacher whose death and resurrection provided grace, forgiveness, and an eternity in the presence of God.

Santificación

Santificación

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¿Qué es “santificación”? ¿Es una cualidad o posición? ¿Es la santificación algo legal o experimental? Es decir: “¿Es algo que el creyente tiene en Cristo o en él mismo? ¿Es absoluta o relativa?”. Con lo que queremos decir: “¿Incluye niveles o no? ¿Es invariable o progresiva?”. “¿Somos santificados en el momento que somos justificados o es la santificación una bendición posterior? ¿Cómo se obtiene esta bendición? ¿Por algo hecho para nosotros o por nosotros, o ambos? ¿Cómo podemos saber que hemos sido santificados o cuáles son las características, las evidencias, los frutos?... ¿Santificación y purificación son la misma cosa? ¿Tiene la santificación relación con el alma, el cuerpo o ambos? ¿Qué posición ocupa la santificación en el orden de las bendiciones divinas? ¿Cuál es el nexo entre regeneración y santificación? ¿Cuál es la relación entre justificación y santificación?... ¿Cuál es, exactamente, el lugar de la santificación con respecto a la salvación?, ¿la precede o le sigue? ¿O es una parte integral de ella? ¿Por qué hay tanta diversidad de opiniones sobre estos puntos, tanto que, si acaso, hay dos escritores que traten este tema de la misma manera? Nuestro propósito aquí no es, simplemente, multiplicar las preguntas, sino indicar las muchas facetas de nuestro tema…

The Cost of Discipleship

The Cost of Discipleship

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One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.

Listening to Infinity

Listening to Infinity

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(...) People have a very distorted view of science, religion, and the relationship between them. They immediately put science and faith as antipodes in constant confrontation. My vision is a little more historical and cultural. I see science as a manifestation of human effort to engage in the mystery of existence. And religion is also a manifestation of human effort to engage in the mystery of existence. In a certain way, both come from the same source. Refusing to talk is refusing to look at one side of our life, human existence, which is part of who we are. It's a perfectly natural conversation. Marcelo Gleiser Dossier Courtyard of the Gentiles

The Digital Puritan

The Digital Puritan

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"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly digest of carefully selected Puritan works which have been gently modernised to render the text more readable. Helpful notes and Scripture references are included. Sit down by the fire to enjoy the following articles: 1. The Saint’s Hiding Place in the Evil Day - Richard Sibbes. Though trouble may come into the believer's life, yet he has a quiet hiding place as a retreat. 2. On Christian Cheerfulness and Society - Thomas Watson. Christians have no reason to be of a bitter or dour disposition. 3. Look Out of Your Graves Upon the World - Joseph Alleine. A letter written from prison to his friends. 4. The Glorious Enjoyment of Heavenly Things by Faith - Jeremiah Burroughs. An exposition on Heb. 11:1, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." 5. Chastisements For Sin - Samuel Bolton. Are Christians still punished for their sins, or does the grace of Christ obviate this? Christ’s Sermon on the Mount in Verse by John Bunyan.

Christian Fools

Christian Fools

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Another quality eBook from Chapel Library. “Then he said unto them, O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” —Luke 24:25 Probably some of you think that this is a most unsuitable title for a servant of God to give to his sermon, and yet I make no apology whatever for it. It fits exactly my subject for tonight: it expresses accurately what I am going to speak about: and—what is far more to the point—it epitomizes our text: “Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” Those words were spoken by Christ on the day of His resurrection: spoken not to worldlings but to Christians. That which occasioned them was this. The disciples to whom He was speaking were lopsided in their theology: they believed a certain part of God’s truth and they refused to believe another part of the truth that did not suit them; they believed some Scriptures but they did not believe all that the prophets had spoken…

El espejismo de Dios

El espejismo de Dios

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Uno de los más destacados científicos del mundo afirma en este libro la irracionalidad de la creencia en Dios y el penoso daño que la religión ha infligido a la sociedad.Desde su posición de declarado ateísmo, Dawkins disecciona en este libro la irracionalidad de la creencia en Dios y el daño que la religión, desde sus numerosas perspectivas, ha causado en la sociedad a través de los siglos. Mediante un exhaustivo análisis de todos los argumentos que sustentan la religión, demuestra la improbabilidad de la existencia de un ser supremo y ofrece las múltiples ventajas que, según su criterio, ofrece el ateísmo para el individuo y la sociedad.

Breve storia dell'anima

Breve storia dell'anima

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Breve storia dell’anima è il racconto di come, nel corso dei secoli, ogni civiltà abbia utilizzato questo concetto per esplorare quelli di coscienza, spiritualità, vita oltre la morte e più in generale il rapporto dell’uomo con Dio e con i suoi simili.All’origine di tutte le parole che indicano l’anima c’è il respiro, il fiato, il vento: «anima», dal greco ánemos, «vento», che a sua volta discende dal sanscrito ániti, «egli soffia». Per denotarla Platone usava un’altra parola, psyché, a sua volta figlia del verbo psých., «soffiare». L’ebraico nefesh la rappresenta con il pittogramma di trachea e polmoni stilizzati. Attorno a ognuno di questi termini sono nate riflessioni inesauribili, che hanno coinvolto la religione e la filosofia, la morale e l’etica.Gianfranco Ravasi attraversa le epoche inseguendo questo alito vitale con cui gli uomini hanno cercato di definire loro stessi: da Aristotele a san Tommaso, da Hegel a Leopardi, toccando rimandi biblici e letterari, quello di Ravasi è un viaggio nelle parole e nel pensiero ricco di incontri con scrittori e mistici. Un viaggio che si muove tra terre antiche e nuove, tra la Mesopotamia, l’Egitto e la Grecia, tra il mito e le neuroscienze, inseguendo un orizzonte nitido: «Risvegliare, purificare, ravvivare l’anima genuina che è spirito, coscienza, intelligenza e amore».

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Religion & Spirituality

New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller—whose books have sold millions of copies to both religious and secular readers—explores one of the most difficult questions we must answer in our lives: Why is there pain and suffering? Walking with God through Pain and Suffering is the definitive Christian book on why bad things happen and how we should respond to them. The question of why there is pain and suffering in the world has confounded every generation; yet there has not been a major book from a Christian perspective exploring why they exist for many years. The two classics in this area are When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, which was published more than thirty years ago, and C. S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain, published more than seventy years ago. The great secular book on the subject, Elisabeth Ku¨bler-Ross’s On Death and Dying, was first published in 1969. It’s time for a new understanding and perspective, and who better to tackle this complex subject than Timothy Keller? As the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, Timothy Keller is known for the unique insights he shares, and his series of books has guided countless readers in their spiritual journeys. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering will bring a much-needed, fresh viewpoint on this important issue.