Book Description
A rabbi whose faith was challenged by the death of his daughter and who rediscovered his spirituality while gardening discusses the healing benefits of observing nature, citing lessons that can be learned by caring for the land.
Author : Balfour Brickner
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9780316162814
A rabbi whose faith was challenged by the death of his daughter and who rediscovered his spirituality while gardening discusses the healing benefits of observing nature, citing lessons that can be learned by caring for the land.
Author : Laurie Ostby Kehler
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780764223938
It has been said that to love another person is to see the face of God. To see the hand of God, cultivate a garden.
Author : Andrew Peterson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 108773696X
There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re both told to bear fruit. In fact, arboreal language is so often applied to humans that it’s easy to miss, whether we're talking about family trees, passing along our seed, cutting someone off like a branch, being rooted to a place, or bearing the fruit of the Spirit. It’s hard to deny that trees mean something, theologically speaking. This book is in many ways a memoir, but it’s also an attempt to wake up the reader to the glory of God shining through his creation. One of the first commands to Adam and Eve was to “work and keep” the garden. Award-winning author and songwriter Andrew Peterson, being as honest as possible, shares a story of childhood, grief, redemption, and peace, by walking through a forest of memories: “I trust that by telling my story, you’ll encounter yours. Hopefully, like me, you’ll see that the God of the Garden is and has always been present, working and keeping what he loves.” Sometimes he plants, sometimes he prunes, but in his goodness he intends to reap a harvest of righteousness.
Author : Balfour Brickner
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2009-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031607649X
Grieving after the death of a beloved daughter, Rabbi Balfour Brickner struggled with his faith while preparing a flowerbed. One day the rabbi found himself writing down the thoughts that came to him as he turned the soil, and observing nature's abundant examples of order and renewal, miracles and beauty, Rabbi Brickner found his faith returning like a garden in spring. Using the garden as a sanctuary and springboard, Rabbi Brickner considers the lessons to be learned from the tasks of caring for the land, the wonder of a garden in full bloom, and the connections between Biblical teachings and botanical life. Finding God In The Garden is a passionate, witty, and provocative celebration of mature religious faith derived through nature, reason, and the joys of everyday work. Explores rational spirituality, reconciling faith with enlightened thought.
Author : Timothy Johnson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2006-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830833471
An editor of ABC News describes his own spiritual journey that led him, as a man of science, to his own answers about God and Jesus, and encourages others to confront their own questions of faith to further the search for God.
Author : Suzanne Berry
Publisher : Hallmark Gift Books
Page : pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2019-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781630596910
Author : Joni Eareckson Tada
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0736937080
Bestselling author and artist Joni Eareckson Tada invites readers to join her on a deeply personal journey as she explores the presence of a holy God in hidden places. Stories from Joni's life shine in this collection of gathered memories. Readers will recall quiet, out-of-the-way moments in their own lives when God was present--both in happy and sad times. Words of encouragement, comfort, and insight leave the soul satisfied and longing to be closer to a loving Father, who often shows up when least expected. Finding God in Hidden Places is the perfect size for bedtime reading or taking along for daytime moments of rest and reflection.
Author : Randal Rauser
Publisher : IVP Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830856503
What would it be like to lose your youngest child to a serial killer? And then to have God invite you out for a conversation at the very shack where the terrible deed took place? And then imagine that the door to that shack of horrors opened . . . and before you knew it you had been swept up in the motherly embrace of a large African American woman? This most unlikely of stories, as told in William Young's The Shack, has become a runaway bestseller, and now a major motion picture, and it is easy to see why. But even as lives have been transformed through this book, other readers have sternly denounced it as a hodgepodge of serious theological error, even heresy. With one pastor urging his congregation to read it and another forbidding his congregation to, many Christians have simply been left confused. Aware both of the excitement and uncertainty generated by The Shack, theologian Randal Rauser takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the pages of the story. In successive chapters he explores many of the book's complex and controversial issues. Thus he explains why God the Father is revealed as an African American woman, he defends the book's theology of the Trinity against charges of heresy and he considers its provocative denial of a Trinitarian hierarchy. But at its heart The Shack is a response to evil and so Rauser spends the final three chapters considering the book's explanation for why God allows evil, how the atoning work of Christ offers new hope for a suffering world and ultimately how this hope extends to all of creation. Through these chapters Rauser offers an honest and illuminating discussion which opens up a new depth to the conversation while providing the reader with new opportunities for Finding God in The Shack.
Author : Niki Anderson
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781593100131
Includes true stories on a garden-related theme, followed by a spiritual application, a brief prayer, and a practical gardening tip.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1997-06-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780842388702
Daily insights about gardening and related thoughts from Scripture.