Resultados para "Was" en Religión y espiritualidad

How did the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy come about? In fascinating detail, Merlin Stone tells us the story of the Goddess who reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. Under her reign, societal roles differed markedly from those in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures: women bought and sold property, traded in the marketplace, and inherited title and land from their mothers.

Did the historical person Jesus really regard himself as the Son of God? What did Jesus actually stand for? And what are we to make of the early Christian conviction that Jesus physically rose from the dead? In this book, N. T. Wright considers these and many other questions raised by three controversial books about Jesus: Barbara Thiering's Jesus the Man, A. N. Wilson's Jesus: A Life, and John Shelby Spong's Born of a Woman.

In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could?

God took David from the fields where he followed the sheep to become the ruler of Israel. He was overlooked by his father, yet chosen by God. He carried the dream to be king from the day Samuel anointed him, but he did not feel worthy to marry the king's daughter after defeating Goliath. David experienced many amazing moments in his life, yet he also endured many traumas. He was the hero of Israel and then became the hunted villain. He went from leading the armies of Israel to being pursued by the same.

Considered the foundational document of Kabbalah, the Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Foundation) is both esoteric and revolutionary. Its influence on both mystical and traditional thinking in Judaism is inestimable in the commentaries and other writings it's instigated over many centuries. Sefer Yetzirah is no longer the province of mystics only. Today, it holds a pivotal place in Jewish Theology.

“The history of Satan, prince of the demonic world, is the story of one of the weirdest of man’s illusions,” writes McCabe. In this text, McCabe treats the devil essentially as a creature of folklore, originating in prehistoric times. He demonstrates how the influence of belief in the devil has dwindled dramatically with the spread of scientific investigation and rationality.

Der Anschlag vom 7. Oktober und der Gazakrieg haben die Lage im Nahen Osten dramatisch verändert. Aber auch in Deutschland: Plötzlich werden Dinge ausgesprochen, die lange ein Tabu waren, plötzlich radikalisieren sich auch hier die Haltungen. Selbst unter Freunden: Hamed Abdel Samad und Philipp Peyman Engel schreiben sich Briefe zur Lage im Nahen Osten und tauschen sich direkt und kontrovers zur Lage im Nahen Osten: Betreibt Israel in Gaza einen Genozid?

Sara Gapinski’s raw, inspiring journey from victim to victor illuminates God’s redemptive power. Through heart-wrenching experiences of abuse, loss, and paralyzing fear, Sara discovers an unshakable truth: God’s love conquers all. A testament to divine intervention, Sara’s story shows how faith can overcome trauma, Scripture can provide strength, and music can become a powerful tool for healing.

Wie kann mein Predigtdienst Gott am meisten verherrlichen und Sein Wort ehren? Von diesem Anliegen bewegt, legt D.M. Lloyd-Jones fünf Grundprinzipien für die Predigt der Heiligen Schrift dar. Er erklärt, was Predigen bedeutet, was gepredigt werden muss und welch einen Stellenwert das Predigen in der Gemeinde einnehmen sollte, wenn wir eine gesunde und bibeltreue Gemeinde sein wollen.

Der Geist des starken Mannes spiegelt Züge des Charakters Satans wider. Er ist egozentrisch, strebt nach Selbstlob und glaubt, er sei Gott. Der Song "Calling on Jesus", aus dem Album “Gospels & All Sorts“ gesungen von Chey gibt dem Zuhörer Zeit, über die Botschaft von Pastor Philip nachzudenken.

Whether you are in the early stages of divorce or beginning to restore your life, this book points to Christ's faithful presence every step of the way. Helpful check-ins throughout invite you to pause, reflect and take hold of God again and again.

I Was Pronounced Dead by Toom Chanda is a powerful memoir of endurance, faith, and love. From the war-ravaged villages of Laos to the hope and uncertainty of starting anew in America, Toom’s story traces a remarkable journey through loss, survival, and transformation. Her narrative begins in childhood when war tears her homeland apart, forcing her family to flee in search of safety. Through years of displacement and hardship, she witnesses both the cruelty and courage that define human nature.

Kara Tippetts discovered how to find joy in the small moments of life. She learned how to hold tight to hope, even while battling intense physical and emotional pain. And she lived out the truth that God can redeem any story. In her final book, Kara offers gentle reflections on living and dying well. She invites us to cultivate soft hearts, even when we face great disappointment. Her ideas for living are hard-won, wrestled with in the crucible of family, illness, and faith.

One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than 13 million children live in food-insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food..." (Matthew 25:35). However, the problems of hunger and poverty are too large and too complex for any one of us to resolve individually. I Was Hungry offers not only an assessment of the current crisis but also a strategy for addressing it. Jeremy Everett, a noted advocate for the hungry and poor, calls Christians to work across ideological divides....

OM C. Parkin beantwortet in einem Interview Fragen zum Wesen der Meditation als "der natürliche Zustand der Mitte des Menschen". Der Weg von einem veräußerlichten Leben zur Verinnerlichung entspringt letztlich einem tiefen Bedürfnis in jedem Menschen. Die Erfahrung eines stillen Geistes besitzt große Heilkraft – nach OM C. Parkin die höchste, die umfassendste und letzte Heilkraft auf einer geistigen Ebene. Und diese Heilkraft wird mehr und mehr spürbar beim Lauschen der gesprochenen Worte.

John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping listeners see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. This updated edition reports on the many issues that have arisen in recent years concerning religion's place in American society.

By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and entire way of life. Their response was quintessentially Jewish. From a people with a long-history of self-narration, survivors gathered in groups and wrote books, yizkor books, remembering all that had been destroyed. Jane Ziegelman’s Once There Was a Town takes listeners on a journey through this largely uncharted body of writing and the vanished world it depicts.

When we think of Jesus, we usually think of His miracles, His masterful teaching, and His world-changing death and resurrection. But what about the unremarkable moments of Jesus’s life? What about Jesus coming home after a long day at work, navigating a family argument, or going to a friend’s wedding?

Jim Alstott’s spiritual awakening didn’t happen on a mountaintop in Nepal; it happened on a Florida beach at nearly 400 pounds, exhausted, broken, and ready to give up. That night, a voice that wasn’t quite his own told him things would change. And they did. Blending irreverent humor with profound spiritual inquiry, Did I Just Have a Spiritual Awakening, or Was it Something I Ate? traces one man’s magical, mystical journey through Dolores Cannon’s twelve stages of awakening, with each chapter anchored by the song that defined it.

The UFO and UAP phenomenon is real. Governments have known for decades. But the secret they have been keeping is not about spacecraft — it is about the nature of reality itself. This book traces the evidence from classified military programmes to mathematical proof, from ancient wisdom...