Developing Intimacy with God

Developing Intimacy with God

Aronis, Alexander Basile. 2003. Developing intimacy with God : an eight-week prayer guide based on Ignatius' "Spiritual exercises". 1st ed. Makati City, Philippines: Union Church of Manila. (book review) The book has developed out of the author’s dissertation about Ignatius’... Weiterlesen
Share Immanuel – Book Review

Share Immanuel – Book Review

Share Immanuel - Book Review. Wilder, E. James, and Coursey Chris M. 2010. Share Immanuel - The Healing Lifestyle. Pasadena, CA: Shepherd's House. "Share Immanuel" is the latest publication from Shepherd's House in Pasadena, CA. It was written in collaboration... Weiterlesen

Practicing God’s presence

Practicing God's presence The term Practicing the Presence of God goes back to Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, a Carmelite brother, who was born as Nicolas Herman in French Lorrain in 1611 (or 1614?) and died in February 1691. Some... Weiterlesen

The Celtic Way of Evangelism – Book Review

The Celtic Way of Evangelism Hunter, George G. 2000. The Celtic way of evangelism : how Christianity can reach the West -- again. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. I have already quoted once from this book (here). As many people celebrated... Weiterlesen

Boundaries Face to Face – Book Review

Boundaries Face to Face Cloud, Henry, and John Sims Townsend. 2003. Boundaries face to face: how to have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. I found this book very helpful and wanted to share a little... Weiterlesen

Through Her Eyes – Book Review

Through Her Eyes I read a very good book about two years ago. Some time last year I discovered the blog Telling Secrets and started reading it on and off before realizing that the blog author is the same person... Weiterlesen

Does God still speak today?

In one of our last Bible studies we discussed another chapter of Tozer’s “The Pursuit of God.“ It was on the spoken word of God. We read a whole series of verses about God's word and suddenly I realized that... Weiterlesen

Transforming Worldviews – Book Review

Transforming Worldviews I wrote the following book review for the The Cultural Mandate blog: Paul G. Hiebert (1933-2007) was a pastor and missionary in India, and later professor of missiology and anthropology at Fuller and Trinity, authored many articles and... Weiterlesen

Research Software Comparison

For several weeks now I have made an effort to finally come to a decision concerning which software to use for my research. In 2004 in a class on research methodology I heard about CAQDAS - Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis... Weiterlesen

Doing or being

This week's topic on Coffeegirl confessions was on "Being vs. doing." Coffeegirl quoted Thomas Merton saying: We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not... Weiterlesen

Eyes to See

Eyes to See An African proverb says: "The eyes of the foreigner are big but he does not see a thing." It's so true - you have to learn to see things in another culture. Otherwise you can look straight... Weiterlesen