Resultados para "Clay" en Vida cristiana

When you signed on for ministry leadership, you didn’t realize there would be a clause. The suffering and sadness, fatigue and feebleness, troubles and trauma, are all a part of a conspiracy. The author calls it The Clay Pot Conspiracy: Our weakness + God’s power = Resilient ministry. It is God’s plan to use what we lack to build perseverance and press us to embody the gospel we preach.

God laughs? Seriously? Folks don't think much, if at all, about God laughing. The paintings generally portray him as stern, even angry. And if you look up "laughs" in your concordance, you'll only find three, as far as God is concerned. But we just couldn't imagine that the God who defines himself as "love" doesn't have an amazing sense of humor…and we were right!

As a parent, your heart's desire is to guide your children to love and follow God. Yet so many voices are offering help and advice. Whose voice should shape your children? Sally and Clay Clarkson suggest the answer is as simple as it is powerful: yours. They will show you how to use your own words to shape your child's life for Christ. The biblical principles and wisdom they offer, drawn from their years of raising four children and mentoring parents worldwide, will equip you as a word-giving parent.

Throughout Scripture, God's leaders built altars where He met them in powerful, miraculous ways. God still longs to pour out His power at those altars. But we've been seduced away by worldly wisdom and man-made distractions and plans, leaving us ineffective against the evil sweeping across our land. With insight and humility, international leader and pastor Rick DuBose shows the path back to five forgotten altars—and ultimately, the path to your place in heaven's throne room.

Man does not know himself. We will consider together something of the truth of being, the most essential and the first of all things. You are not the outward and visible form; this is the feeblest and the most distant likeness of your real self which is the Christ in you. This is what is meant in the saying "Know Thy Self".

Most Christians have heard that God is the potter and we are the clay, but Diana Pavlac Glyer, who has spent countless hours at the potter's wheel, shows in this remarkable book that this saying is far more than a casual metaphor. As God hovers over his creation, centering us or shaping us or even restoring us from collapse, he may transform us in ways we never imagined.

When we see a person of great strength and ability but also with a fatal flaw, it’s often said that they have “feet of clay”. Did you know that expression came from the Bible? The heroes of the Bible had great strengths and abilities and were used by the Lord to do wonderful things, but their stories are not preserved for us without including their struggles and failures.

In this captivating Christian memoir, Tika McCoy shares her deeply personal journey of loss, grief, and divorce, revealing the raw emotions of tears and anger that consumed her. But amidst the chaos, McCoy discovered God’s presence sustaining her during the storm. As the tears dry up and her life is restored, she realizes that it is God who has been steadfastly by her side all along.

The Holy Spirit is a real person. He is not a myth, a figment of one's imagination, a fairy tale, nor a ghostly, shadowy creature. He is the third person of the Holy Trinity sent by God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, to continue the salvation history God initiated through Jesus.

Of all of God's miracles that are recorded in Scripture, the greatest is the miracle of salvation. In this easy to digest volume, Dr. Clay A. Kahler analyzes what God's word has to say in regard to this most important doctrine.

Leadership is not what it used to be and not what it once was. Too many leaders today are calibrated for a world that no longer exists. And people are demanding something so much different in leaders of today. Like a new house outfitted with the greatest VHS system on the planet, too many...

How to replace inner chaos with an emotional awareness that will maximize your influence and result in a calmer, less stressful, and more fulfilling life. While many leaders train themselves on how to tune-out external distractions that keep them from being productive, they remain deaf to the...

*Read by the author. You may not hold a position of leadership or think of yourself as a leader. But if you want to create, change, or impact the world around you—even in a modest way—then you're guided by a leader's impulse and shaped by a leader's principles. You are an aspiring leader...

The purpose of this book is to bring healing to so many in the Christian community and those effected by it. The intent of this book is not to serve as a controlling authority on the topics herein, rather the hope is that this book serves as a launching pad for further discussions and reflection. The hope is for people to be able to express their voice. These devotionals are intended to build up the Body of Christ, including all of those both inside and outside of the physical congregational structure, and to bring healing to moral injury.

In today's culture, is it possible to have a majestic marriage? One definition of majestic is “having or showing impressive beauty or dignity”. Is your marriage an impressively beautiful and dignified thing, or is it far from it? Get in on a big secret: God has a majestic plan for your marriage!

Drawing from many decades of life experiences, Heart to Heart Devotionals contains writings from pastors who have served in the Big Hatchie Baptist Association in Tipton and Lauderdale Counties in Tennessee. You will hear from men of God who continue in the gospel ministry today, as well as some who have gone home to be with the Lord. A treasure to commemorate these servants' work for Christ, and to point us all to the Treasure of all treasures— the Lord Jesus Christ—Heart to Heart Devotionals will be a welcome companion in your journey with God.

The greatest myth of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders aren't paralyzed by not being in a position of recognized authority. Great leaders lead with or without that authority and learn to unleash their positive influence wherever they are. In this...

Are distractions holding you back from living abundantly? Our world is filled with distractions. They take a toll on our work, our parenting, our marriages, and our souls. Constant tugs on our attention have us spinning our wheels, unable to gain momentum to move forward. Much like white noise...

Have you ever wondered how the early church experienced such powerful results, amazing growth, and incredible favor with the Lord? Why did they experience all of this, and what is keeping our generation from producing even greater results, in spite of all the great technology and knowledge that we have? This collection of letters addresses the church, written by a true apostle, and clearly articulates what the church should be, based on ancient patterns clearly visible in the word of God.

En Cómo liderar en un mundo de distracción, Clay Scroggins enseña a los líderes cuatro simples hábitos que crean un espacio para la evaluación y la exploración emocional. Estas prácticas útiles permitirán a los líderes reemplazar el caos de sus días ocupados por la competencia...