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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives 21 reviews
Jim Sheeler
Penguin Audio, 2008
Lasting Impression
This is truly a book that stays with you. Has even prompted me to get the flag from my grandmother's military funeral (World War I Wave)out of the cedar chest and put it on display. Incidentally, the only paper book I have read since getting my Kindle. Additionally, I am totally against the war, but this book gives a clear picture of those who have gone and not returned. Beautifully done!!
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Introduction to the Devout Life29 reviews
De Sales, Saint Francis
Alba House, 1992
Truly a useful introduction!
I sought out this book on the advice of a priest and was not expecting the book to as useful as it was! I was immediately drawn into the book as it explained how a devotional life can be integrated into any state of life. I especially was thankful of the effort de Sales puts into explaining what is proper for one to do according to their vocation in life. Though I am Catholic, a Pentecostal ...
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LOVING GOD23 reviews
Charles Colson
Zondervan*@ Publishing House, 1987
Loving God
This is a wonderful book whether you are Christian or not. It really depicts what Loving God really is. This book has helped me make my decision for Christ. There are many stories inside that really depicts the foundations for loving God. Chuck Colson has incorporated many wonderful testimonies that truly depicts how wonderful this God is.
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For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy22 reviews
Alexander Schmemann
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1997
Profound Sacramental Theology. A Must Read.
I am Catholic. I began reading Orthodox theology about five years ago, after experiencing the Orthodox liturgy in the most dramatic and sublime manner possible: at Pascha vigil. It simply blew me away. In thirty years of weekly mass attendance I had never seen anything remotely approaching what I encountered that night.
That unknown beauty both crushed and liberated me. It revolutionized ...
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The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives37 reviews
Dallas Willard
Harpercollins, 1988
Challenging
This book is an awakening. It is a call to return to the kinds of disciplines all but lost in history and lost to the modern world. It challenges us to take seriously the deepening that comes from spiritual practices that focus our lives on God.
If I can skip to the middle, the highlights of the book come after some preface and preparation. The strongest points begin in chapter seven, when ...
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A Grief Observed131 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Bantam, 1983
Profound and moving
Lewis, a confirmed intellectual bachelor, almost comically stumbled into a deeply romantic and erotic marriage late in life. An American poet, Joy Davidman, while visiting him in England was stricken with breast cancer. Her visa expired and she faced a mindlessly bureaucratic forced expulsion which probably would have killed her. Lewis agreed to what he expected to be a marriage of ...
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This One and Magic Life: a Novel of a Southern Family31 reviews
Anne George
Center Point Large Print, 2004
Laden with Happiness and Tears
Spaces and overlaps and the time space continuum. Family, heart, soul, southern fiction at its very richest. Voices from the grave and a meeting of the generations as a family icon passes through this world. Mortality, as seen through a veil of overlaps and spaces, quirks and characters. Sunrise, Sunset - flows through the chapters like the water of Mobile Bay. Bittersweet beauty woven ...
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The Wedding Ceremony Planner: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Part of Your Wedding Day32 reviews
Judith Johnson
Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2005
Great advice for many types of weddings
My Mom, our officiant, found this book and recommended I pick up a copy. The ceremony was one of the last things we nailed down but I was able to use her structure and some of what she wrote, add our own stuff, and the end result was wonderful. Neither the groom nor I are religious or spiritual, but I still wanted an emotional and meaningful celebration of our relationship. This was the first ...
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New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies52 reviews
Najmieh Batmanglij
Mage Publishers, 1992
New Food of Life ANcient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies
This book is written by the same author of "Persian Cooking for a Healthy Kitchen", and shares with this one the simple way in description of different recipes. This book has a more wide content of dishes, a chapter devoted to ceremonies and a lot of pictures, many with food and many devoted to Persian culture. It is not generally known that Persian Cooking was and is rather modern, previewing ...
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Healing (Hodder Christian Paperbacks)20 reviews
Francis MacNutt
Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1997
The Definitive Work
MacNutt has compiled the definitive work in Christian healing. Any church with or without a healing ministry would profit from a study of this book
Part one walks us through the usually explanations and rationale that a lot of people need as preparation for healing if they've grown up in naturalistic, materialistic educational systems. We need to be reminded of the plausibility that the ...
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Jewish Meditation17 reviews
Aryeh Kaplan
Schocken, 1985
A Classic Work in Jewish Meditation
Rabbi Kaplan, did not live long enough in his short life, to enable all of his knowledge to be shared with us all. But during those short years of his life, he was a most prolific writer. He was an Orthodox Jew who was able to straddle and live in both the secular and Orthodox Jewish worlds with relative ease. He was on the "Who is Who" in Physics, as well as, being a respected Rabbi and teacher ...
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The Sickness Unto Death : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 1915 reviews
Soren Kierkegaard
Princeton University Press, 1980
Great insights for Christian counseling
Based on Kierkegaard's book, it is clear that despair is essential for a person to realize he is not a "self," and thereby turn to God; but many people choose to create a self on their own-they become a carbon copy of everyone else in the world. I was intrigued by Kierkegaard's insights. From what I understood, there are two possibilities a person can have: (1) There is the possibility of ...
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With Christ in the School of Prayer13 reviews
Andrew Murray
Marshall Pickering, 1983
It will absolutely change your prayer life!!
Second to the bible, this is my favorite book of all time. I believe it will open your eyes to what prayer and intimacy with God can and should actually be like (as well as how far we've fallen/ how distorted our view of prayer tends to be!). Other than the Word, there are few books (at least of those that are not so sophisticated as to be beyond comprehension) that I can read over and over and ...
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The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology16 reviews
Igumen Chariton
Faber & Faber, 1997
Simplicity Itself
in as few words as possible i would like to say that this is like a bible for me - i have just started reading it and already i can feel the sheer power in its utter humility - the way in which the use of prayer is explained to be the essence of any method or practice is unique in it's directness - i have not read a book on Christian Prayer or any Christian book for that matter which covers ...
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A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah17 reviews
Joy Levitt, Michael Strassfeld
Reconstructionist Press, 1999
This will get you out of a rut
Seders too often fall into a routine, with everyone slogging through the Hagaddah by rote. This is a lively, thought-provoking Hagaddah that will broaden and deepen your appreciation of Passover. It certainly has for my family.
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Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today13 reviews
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Ignatius Press, 1996
You too are called to communion
Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today starts off with three theology lectures for a course on universal vs. particular Churches for bishops in Brazil, followed by an address to the Synod of Bishops on the priesthood, a talk on ecclesial reform to conclude an annual meeting in Rimini, and finally a homily preached at a seminary in Philadelphia which is added to "clarify once more the ...
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Apache: The Sacred Path to Womanhood13 reviews
Marlowe & Company, 1998
Graphic & well-told. LIFE Magazine
Apache is graphic & well-told as a photo story, which is rare indeed.
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Your Heart Knows the Answer: How to Trust Yourself and Make the Choices That Are Right for You: Ceremonies, ...16 reviews
Gail Harris
New World Library, 2005
Inspiring!!
Reviewed by Michelle Cox-Lomas Ph.D. for Reader Views (5/06)
Making the right choices for your life isn't very hard to do, once you know how. The problem is that we don't know how! Finally, this great book has come our way giving us just the right guidance on how we can get out of the negative "voices in our head" and start learning how to really listen to the "voices in our heart." The ...
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The Feasts Of The Lord God's Prophetic Calendar From Calvary To The Kingdom15 reviews
Kevin Howard, Marvin Rosenthal
Thomas Nelson, 1997
Beautifully done, beautifully written!
This book is one of my absolute favorites! Not only is the information within EXTREMELY well written, there are many photographs and the artwork is among the best I've ever seen.
There are overviews of the Spring Feasts and the Fall Feasts and an explanation of Jewish Time, broken down into the Jewish Day,Week and Month. There are chapters on The Feasts Of Leviticus 23 (the 7 feasts) as well ...
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Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges13 reviews
Cheryl A. Lieberman, Rhea K. Bufferd
Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, 1998
Title does not do this book justice
I bought this book because a friend suggested it. It sounded like a lot of fluff.
It turned out to be a lifesaver!
There were times I was at the end of my rope and I found a way to turn a rough situation around because of this book.
During calm periods I used other ideas to teach or enhance self-esteem in my two children.
Do yourself a favor and buy this sooner rather than later. I ...
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