Morning Altars


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Return to the earth with beautiful photographs and inspirational text. “Morning altars” are colorful mandalas that combine nature, art, and meditation. Incorporating the natural world into the everyday encourages positive well- being, even with the simplest of the earth’s gifts, such as leaves, flowers, berries, feathers, and stones. These stunning pieces of art are a peaceful and creative avenue to express gratitude for nature, to practice mindfulness, and to add meaning to daily life. In this book, Day Schildkret guides readers through the creation of morning altars, a seven- step process that includes wondering and wandering, place meditation, clearing space, creating, gifting, walking away, and sharing his art with others. Since his first morning altar, Schildkret has built hundreds more. His work has been warmly received on social media and he teaches workshops on altar building, all with the intention of sharing the positivity and beauty they have brought to his life.




American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow


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In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as steeped in inflexible traditions, come to welcome this modernist trend? Catherine R. Osborne’s innovative new book finds the answer: the alignment between postwar advancements in technology and design and evolutionary thought within the burgeoning American Catholic community. A new, visibly contemporary approach to design, church leaders thought, could lead to the rebirth of the church community of the future. As Osborne explains, the engineering breakthroughs that made modernist churches feasible themselves raised questions that were, for many Catholics, fundamentally theological. Couldn’t technological improvements engender worship spaces that better reflected God's presence in the contemporary world? Detailing the social, architectural, and theological movements that made modern churches possible, American Catholics and the Churches of Tomorrow breaks important new ground in the history of American Catholicism, and also presents new lines of thought for scholars attracted to modern architectural and urban history.




Rebuilding the Altar


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The Holy Spirit has become a stranger. Many long for a closer walk with God, but He seems far away. They go to church. They read the Bible. But they don't experience His presence. Why? Because many have forsaken the altar--the place where God is found. When we truly encounter Him again, the light and power of God will flow to our homes, then to our houses of worship, then to the nation, and we will never be the same. In Rebuilding the Altar authors Pat and Karen Schatzline passionately challenge you to return to the altar. You see, the altar is not just a physical location or an instrument in a church or synagogue. Through Christ we can experience a daily encounter with Jesus, who became our altar. We must declare this truth to the deceived. We must raise a standard of holiness and no compromise. We must bring hope to the hurting. It's time for change. It's time to return to the altar...and encounter God.




Pathway


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In Pathway Chosen For Destiny, Chandler takes you through lifes journeys its ups and downs, focused to motivate, inspire, encourage through lifes situations leading the way to spiritual growth a closer walk with Thee. You wouldnt have to meet her to know her personality, or spiritual growth; its shown in her poetry. In Spiritual Coma you can feel a cry to God for help; In Season of the heart she speaks of a time for healing her spiritual growth and desires, showing the stages of being perfected. Pathways Chosen for Destiny is an extension of Chandlers earlier literary works Forever Changing Through Her Eyes. Her poetry reminds readers that though life can engulf you there is light at the end of the tunnel. You can and will make it against all obstacles and odds




Tomorrow's Faith


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The Burning Altar


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Welcome to the chilling, hair-raising world of Sarah Rayne, the master of British contemporary gothic horror with this standalone modern horror novel – perfect for fans of eerie and skin-crawling reads with supernatural elements! “Rayne spins eerie yarns within yarns like a latter-day Isak Dinesen or Wilkie Collins” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Equal parts Daphne du Maurier, Josephine Tey and Ruth Rendell . . . Rayne possesses superb story-telling skills” US MYSTERY GUILD “Highly enjoyable mainstream horror fare from a genre veteran” BOOKLIST “Rayne writes with panache and imagination” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Rayne is a fine writer, a sure-handed plotter and skillful character builder” BOOKLIST “Colorful characters and a mastery of slow-burning suspense” KIRKUS REVIEWS “Rayne perfects the craft of deftly chosen details, simmering suspense and chilling surprises” KIRKUS REVIEWS _______________________ Ancient demonic laws, macabre rituals, and a secret the Vatican has striven to hide for nearly two thousand years . . . Danger and supernatural misdeeds await you in this bone-chilling contemporary gothic horror novel. Patrick Chance was a notorious Victorian rake whose memoirs of his travels through Tibet caused a sensation in the nineteenth century. For he stumbled on a strange, secret tribe who guard the sinister Stone Tablets of their people. A group whose macabre beliefs, blood rituals and horrific customs have torturous, hellish consequences. But, having retraced his ancestor’s footsteps, Sir Lewis Chance – an eccentric philanthropist – is the only one who knows the truth today. Following in the steps of his forefather, he is the only living being who knows about the ominous machinations in the remote region. Now the group of dissidents are about to make public something that the Vatican has kept secret for almost two thousand years. Something that will result in a fight for survival as the terrors of the past come to haunt the present . . . Fans of H. P. LOVECRAFT’s At the Mountains of Madness, SCOTT SMITH’s The Ruins and STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES’s Jade Daniels trilogy shouldn’t miss The Burning Altar by Sarah Rayne. READERS ARE HOOKED ON THE BURNING ALTAR: “Compelling . . . gripping and terrifying and covering all human emotions” Newcastle upon Tyne Journal “Fabulous story, great suspense” A. Vallis, 5* Amazon review “A well-crafted tale which held my interest to the very end – fascinating, absorbing and well characterised . . . I can't believe Sarah Rayne's books aren't more widely known, because they deserve to be!” 5* Amazon review MORE STUNNING SARAH RAYNE HORROR STANDALONES: 1. Blood Ritual 2. The Devil’s Piper 3. Thorn 4. Changeling 5. Wildwood




Hebridean Altars


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This book is a beautiful and dramatic collection of Celtic praise, compiled by Church of Scotland minister and Gaelic scholar Alistair Maclean, which was first published in 1937. It comprises over one hundred prayers, poems, sayings, and praises from the Christian tradition of the author's native Hebrides.




Voices


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This is a study of the St. Peter's Fiesta celebrated annually by the Italian, or better, Sicilian-American community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. The study deals specifically with the fiesta that took place 25-28 June 1970.




How To Lay On The Altar Without Wiggling


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How to Lay on the Altar Without Wiggling contains inspirational, instructive, liberating principles and insights into the mind of God and moving of the Holy Spirit within human lives.




The Original Holy Peshitta Bible Translated (The Former Prophets and The Holy Writings) Joshua to Esther


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The Aramaic Peshitta Old Testament (The Former Prophets and The Holy Writings) Joshua to Esther (12 historical books) is translated from the world's oldest complete Semitic Bible - Codex Ambrosianus (6th century AD). The Peshitta Old Testament Bible is written in Aramaic and was translated from early Hebrew manuscripts in the 1st century A.D., before the Massoretic Hebrew text edition became the standard. The Massoretic edition is that used today in Jewish synagogues and temples worldwide and is the text translated to produce most Bible translations of the Old Testament. The Peshitta's Aramaic (Aramaic is a sister Semitic language to Hebrew) gives us a clear look at what the Hebrew Bible text was before the corrupt Scribes of Jesus' time and earlier had altered many of its readings for theological and political reasons. This is English only. 6x9" hardback; 308 pages with notes.