Need help communicating with God? Maybe you hunger to know God better. Maybe you love color. Maybe you are a visual or kinesthetic learner, a distractable or impatient soul, or a word-weary pray-er. Perhaps you struggle with a short attention span, a restless body, or a tendency to live in your head. This new prayer form can take as little or as much time as you have or want to commit, from 15 minutes to a weekend retreat."A new prayer form gives...

Did you know that you can play a major role in helping to avert the fall of another Christian leader in today’s society? That’s right; you hold a major key that can unlock the great grace and mercies of God and allow them to protectively flow over the lives of our leaders! In the beginning, God spoke, Let there be Through the same powerful exercise of speech, you can have a great, loving, positive, and eternal influence over the lives of our leaders....

This book provides the basic understanding of prayer with over 300 prayers, aiming to encourage and support people to be engaged in prayer, to grow in their prayer life and to develop their Christian character. These prayers are simple, inspired, and real as they are packed with Gods Word, cover Christian themes, and include all needs. The true desire of the author is that each prayer in the book will act like a catalyst to activate ones faith, enabling...

Imagine opening a jewelry box. As you carefully raise the lid, the most beautiful music you have ever heard begins to play. Peering inside, you see precious gemstones surrounding a polished strand of pearls against a black velvet lining. This isnt just any jewelry box. Its your spiritual jewelry box. Pearls are the foundational piece placed in our spiritual jewelry box. When you dont know what to pray, dont know how to pray, and dont even want to...

The Prayer has a litany of intercession for: family, children, finance, healing, binding Satan, leadership, unity, prisoners/captives, bondage, addiction, and salvation. I began to write a prayer for my prayer closet, that prayer evolved into this book. After writing down the prayers, praying them and experiencing great success, it was evident that this prayer was not exclusive for personal use, but for as many who will pray them. These are prayers...

Step-by-step retreat designs, accompanying meditation exercises, and leader's guidelines based on the bestseller Listening Hearts, are presented in this unique resource. Songs, from the Listening Hearts Songbook, specially-planned Eucharists, Scripture readings, meaningful projects, and meditation options are arranged to result in a Spirit-filled community bonding. Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises can be used with other Listening Hearts series...

A new edition of the classic that helped launch the Centering Prayer movement. Centering Prayer is a precious part of the ancient spiritual traditions of the West. When Finding Grace at the Center was first published in 1978, people all over the world welcomed this practical guide to a simple and beautiful form of meditative prayer. Reflections and advice on Centering Prayer's possibilities—and its pitfalls—are presented with clarity and simplicity,...

Beginning with the First Sunday of Advent, Schmidt takes the reader on a journey through the church year as he reflects on the mystery and challenge of our human pilgrimage.

Through our emotional journey of life inside the neonatal intensive care unit, reminisce with us our painful days fighting against doctors' diagnoses and predictions, as we learned to trust even greater in the power of God and His healing miracles. Feel the emotions we felt when we heard the possible fate of our child explained by science, but witnessing firsthand events unexplainable through medicine. To help families in situations like ours, to...

In this beautifully illustrated collection of essays, readers will find surprising connections and much food for thought. Ask the Animals is a wonderful resource for private devotion or group study.