From the Bottom of the Pond

Author: Simon Small
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780992076
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
This is a book about knowing God. It is for those for whom just believing (or not believing) is no longer enough. Through personal experience, anecdote and story, a priest shares an ancient, but neglected aspect of Christian prayer. Contemplation takes us into the depths of the present moment, the only reality there has ever been and so the only place where God can be found. It takes us at different times into mystical oneness with the All, into profound self-knowledge and reveals love in the midst of the world.

A God Beyond Belief

Author: Lance Moore
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1789042550
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong… We face a spiritual crisis, but the extremes of religious fundamentalism on one hand, and scientific atheism on the other, offer no cure. Scepticism is soaring, especially among Millennials. Daily, we read of scandals among our politicians, priests and Hollywood stars. Mass shootings are epidemic, yet entertainment media glorifies violence. Drugs, not “religion” as Karl Marx claimed, are now the “opiate of the masses". “Christian” TV preachers use donations to purchase private jets and mansions - while children starve. The White House has claimed that “Truth is not the truth.” Our leaders and institutions have lost all moral authority. A common religious response to crisis is to thump the Bible harder and louder. This book challenges us to go beyond a simple, childish belief. Dr Lance Moore offers an intelligent faith rooted in a respect for Scripture, while taking a fresh look at calcified orthodoxies. He invites readers to embrace paradox - in Spirituality and in Science - to rediscover God for our Quantum Age.

Thoughts of God

Author: Andy Colebrooke
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178535972X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
Thoughts of God explores the life of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan by bringing the film The Man Who Knew Infinity into meaningful conversation with biblical themes of faith and exile, friendship with God, the longing for home, and the nature of truth. This five-week course offers a thought-provoking engagement with the fundamental issues of life, love and faith while providing background information, discussion starters, liturgies and questions for personal reflection.

The Primacy of Loving

Author: David John Torkington
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 180341121X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
When love is lost within a family, catastrophic consequences follow. That is not just for the parents, but for the children, too, and society at large. When the God-given love that Jesus Christ introduced into the first Christian family was lost, similar consequences ensued. Loveless men and women not only do damage to themselves, but to others, too - inside and outside of the Church. This last spiritual and supreme masterpiece of a great spiritual master explains and details how the love that was lost can be put back and flourish where it once flourished before. This book is the long-awaited watershed that can slake the thirst of the dry weary land that has been yearning to receive it.

God Inspired Life

Author: Godfrey Kesari
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785359444
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Many live a self-inspired life. Many others live an others-inspired life. If we live a self-inspired or others-inspired life, we could underdo things. It is equally possible that we overdo things and get burnt out. A God-inspired life is not only the best way to live, but it is also the only way to live as God intends us to live. Life is a struggle. We can get confused about our purpose, passion and perception. There is so much distraction in this world. We can get muddled up. Life can become messy. Well, nothing can revitalise our life than a renewed vision -- a vision to live for God in Christ. If you feel you are not living the life you are meant to live, this book is for you.

Pathway to the Stable

Author: Ivor Thomas Rees
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785358618
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
Ideal for individuals or groups seeking a deeper understanding of the Christmas story and its links with the Hebrew Bible, Pathway to the Stable offers a twenty-first century introduction to the people and places central to the story of the birth of Jesus, with reference to the promises of the Old Testament and its setting in the contemporary Jewish and Roman worlds. 'In this rich and rewarding series of studies, Ivor Rees has taken us deep into the biblical world in order to show us once more the glory of the coming of Our Lord, the nativity and childhood of Jesus Christ.' Revd. D. Densil Morgan, Professor of Theology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Since We Saw You Last

Author: Ben Clowes
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178904328X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Methodist Minister, Rev Ben Clowes has produced a series of Bible studies which relates scripture to living in the 21st Century. Using the music of Gary Barlow’s highly emotional 2013 solo album, Since I Saw You Last as a backdrop, the studies look at how as a Church we connect with people most often at times of rites of passage. Since We Saw You Last offers a clear creative way to run a study or fellowship group to deepen discipleship. If people are searching for meaning in their lives, we need to speak into this as Christians and Ben believes this is at the heart of the links between the ‘I am’ sayings, rites of passage and the words we hear so eloquently put by Gary Barlow. Christians must be a people who reach out and share the good news of Jesus’ love with the world.

WanderLOST

Author: Jacob Sims
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785359789
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
“WanderLOST is a beautiful story, a tremendous global-adventure kind of story...Sims asks all the right questions. He gently invites you to ask them with him. He travels the world and brings you along. He offers the hope he has found with a humility that invites you to ponder with him where you have found hope”. – Shane Claiborne, Author, Activist This exuberant coming of age story charts one millennial’s decades-long globetrotting adventure in pursuit of meaning, significance, and belonging. With each intriguing anecdote, harrowing encounter, and entertaining mishap the author challenges readers to reckon with accepted notions of freedom and identity. Sims expertly melds memoir with moral philosophy as he weighs the costs of a life in pursuit of liberty and happiness. In the void left from this path, WanderLOST offers readers glimpses of wholeness in the deeper journey of learning to love.

Liberating Privilege

Author: David O. Woodyard
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785354639
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
With uninterrogated legitimacy, a number of straight, white, males have authored contributions to liberation theology. No “Pedagogy of the Privileged” exists to problematize their initiatives. Conveniently ignored is the condition of liberation theology that its matrix is singularity oppression. Does the setting of privilege disqualify their initiatives? Straight, white, males are seldom victims of oppressive forces: more often they are the perpetrators. Privilege, like radon, permeates their context. Is privilege fatal? Is it possible to dislocate? Is there precedence for an authentic contribution? Liberating Privilege addresses the liability of context and develops a response from Scripture. Ultimately, it hinges on “The breakthrough of God” and aligns with it.

The Persuasion of Love

Author: John Blakely
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1789040019
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
The Persuasion of Love examines the implications of believing that ‘the meaning of the universe is love’. It is axiomatic that the Christian faith is about the love of God, but John Blakely seeks to delve behind this easy assertion by proposing that all human love has God as its source, even if marred by human failings, and by exploring what it might mean for God to have created out of love. Viewing theodicy through the lens of love, the book finishes with a lyrical reflection on the fact that suffering is built into the universe because of its source in the love of God, and that we live in the ‘now and not yet’ - in tension between the glory of creation and the agony of the cross, before the future glory of the new creation.