Covenant Hearts


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Covenant of the Heart


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Navigate the Journey of the Heart: A Guide for Teen Relationships Rooted in Faith Are you a teen navigating the confusing world of dating and relationships, yearning for wisdom and guidance grounded in faith? Covenant of the Heart: Biblical Wisdom for Dating Teens is your trusted companion on this transformative journey. From the moment you open the introduction, you'll be drawn into a heartfelt exploration of the essence of relationships as designed by God. Discover the true meaning of love through scripture in Chapter 2, delving into how Christ's love provides the ultimate model beyond fleeting emotions. This book isn't just about feelings; it's about making choices that reflect a covenantal heart. Lines get easily blurred in a world that often overlooks the principles of purity. Chapters 3 and 4 equip you with practical measures to uphold purity in thought and deed, setting boundaries that protect your heart and align with your faith. Laser-focused on purposeful dating, you'll learn to identify relationship goals deeply rooted in your Christian beliefs, ensuring each step taken is in line with discerning readiness for such a relationship. Not all dating experiences are the same. The distinction between godly courtship and casual dating is laid out in Chapter 5, encouraging mutual honor with intent and integrity. Effective communication is the bedrock of any relationship, explored in-depth in Chapter 6, alongside practical advice on speaking truth in love and mastering active listening. Every relationship faces challenges, but Chapters 7 and 8 guide you through resolving conflicts biblically and understanding the influence of community and fellowship. As you grow deeper in your relationship, Chapter 9 helps cultivate spiritual growth together, sharing missions, and ministries as a couple. Finally, navigate common pitfalls, understand God's timing, and embrace singleness with purpose in Chapters 10 and 11. And if heartbreak finds you, Chapter 12 offers biblical wisdom for healing and growth. Broaden your understanding through reflective questions and further study with the appended resources. Embrace this journey with a heart full of faith, love, and covenant.




Shadow Hearts


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Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a deep, engaging role-playing game set in a fantastical world filled with ancient magic, mystical lore, and a diabolical plot. The game's story puts players amidst the chaos of World War I over a year after the original Shadow Hearts ended. Yuri and Karin embark on an epic journey testing their power and magic skills to combat terrifying creatures and conquer the evil that Rasputin plans to unleash upon the world. The epic adventure fills two DVDs with over 40 hours of intense gameplay and brings back its innovative combat system, The Judgment Ring. Players must combine split second timing and skillful combat strategy to master the Judgment Ring's powerful and stackable attacks. This improved system allows players to choose which characters to bring to battle and features new team-based combo attacks and defensive formations. Also featured is an inventive magic system where gamers must build skill sets, and more. Not Final Cover.




Covenant Hearts


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Solemn Covenant


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In his famous Manifesto of 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff called for an end to the more than fifty-year practice of polygamy. Fifteen years later, two men were dramatically expelled from the Quorum of Twelve Apostles for having taken post-Manifesto plural wives and encouraged the step by others. Evidence reveals, however, that hundreds of Mormons (including several apostles) were given approval to enter such relationships after they supposedly were banned. Why would Mormon leaders endanger agreements allowing Utah to become a state and risk their church's reputation by engaging in such activities--all the while denying the fact to the world? This book seeks to find the answer through a review of the Mormon polygamous experience from its beginnings. In the course of national debate over polygamy, Americans generally were unbending in their allegiance to monogamy. Solemn Covenant provides the most careful examination ever undertaken of Mormon theological, social, and biological defenses of "the principle". Although polygamy was never a way of life for the majority of Latter-day Saints in the nineteenth century, Carmon Hardy contends that plural marriage enjoyed a more important place in the Saints' restorationist vision than most historians have allowed. Many Mormons considered polygamy a prescription for health, an antidote for immorality, and a key to better government. Despite intense pressure from the nation to end the experiment, because of their belief in its importance and gifts, polygamy endured as an approved arrangement among church members well into the twentieth century. Hardy demonstrates how Woodruff's Manifesto of 1890 evolved from a tactic to preservepolygamy into a revelation now used to prohibit it. Solemn Covenant examines the halting passage followed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it transformed itself into one of America's most vigilant champions of the monogamous way.




The Power of a Covenant Heart


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Christians today think they are all too familiar with the concept of covenant -- and non-believers have no clue at all what it means -- but in this outstanding book by David Huskins, one of the most thoroughly Bible-based explanations of covenant is presented. Drawing deeply from the lives of David and Jonathan, Huskins carefully explains the critical aspects of covenant that people desperately need to understand and to implement, in order to change their lives and the world around them.




Heart's Cry, Revised Edition


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The human heart cries out for many reasons. But the deepest cry is one of yearning to be filled with God's presence and power. Whether we’re praying “help me to forgive” or “show me Your will,” our hearts long to connect with God. Jennifer Kennedy Dean will help you learn how to listen for God's answer to your heart's cry. In this book, she shares principles of heart-changing prayer. These principles are not easy steps to making God do what you want, but rather they enable you to live fully in God's power, giving Him your heart to change as He sees fit. The book is made up of 12 chapters, each including discussion questions and a meditation and reflection guide. A leader's guide is also included in the back to make the book useful for group study.




The Heart of Spiritual Warfare:


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The subject of Spiritual Warfare must become common place if unsuspecting souls are to avoid major disaster. Presently and at best this subject is designated peripheral and perhaps trivial and at worst it is hardly mentioned or dismissed as irrelevant. This book presents a biblical view of this important subject with the thesis and conclusion that it deserves greater prominence in the life of every living soul. This is because there are other crucial teachings tied so intricately to what affects all people such as those of faith, apostasy and perseverance. While one could argue faith and apostasy are only matters for those who are religious, everyone recognizes the need to persevere through life. And people of faith realize the need to endure to attain life. The emphasis of this author and those who have gone before him see good cause to review this topic of Spiritual Warfare and consider carefully whether it belongs in a daily practical sense with the essentials of the Christian faith. Essentials have always been recognized as beliefs that affect ones salvation or eternal well-being. The Bible from beginning to end addresses a people who must battle to receive a portion and inheritance promised by God. It is to those whom He calls to Himself and who show themselves to be His chosen people that He designates `overcomers'. The Scripture breaks down the whole of the human race into two major groups of people variously defined. The seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent are the children of God and those of the devil. The former are attacked by the latter and their only means of true spiritual defense is to trust the Lord and live out the will of God. This activity not only sifts and seals the destiny of those in the respective categories previously stated but this warfare shapes and distinguishes those worthy of a heavenly inheritance and an everlasting reward. The author endeavors to present a compelling case that Spiritual Warfare is intricately tied to the soul's eternal destiny and thus deserves greater ascendancy in Christian teaching. He claims that because of its practical influence towards integrity and eternal salvation or by its neglect to hypocrisy and Hell's unending fire. Character matters and what one believes about eternity, spiritual battles and the devil's part in the world pertaining to those things will find this book a true help.




The End of the Law


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Commonly understood as the first theologian of the Christian faith, Paul set forth the categories by which we describe our relationship with Christ. Did he understand the new covenant Jesus announced at the Last Supper primarily as a replacement of the old Mosaic covenant God made with Israel, or as a renewal and completion of the old? Jason Meyer surveys the various differences that have been argued between the two covenants in The End of the Law, carefully and inductively perfoming a semantic, grammatical, and contextual analysis of all the Pauline texts dealing with covenant concepts. Book seven of the New American Commentary Studies in Bible & Theology series, an extension of the long-respected New American Commentary.




The Sacred Heart of Jesus


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The traditional devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is solidly rooted in Scripture and offers a rich source of spiritual renewal today. The human heart, the biblical symbol for the human will and passion, can become hardened. But God has promised to change our hearts of stone to hearts of flesh. The heart of Jesus, pierced and flowing with living streams of blood and water, is a threshold inviting us into the experience of divine love. Discover how devotion to the Sacred Heart can be revitalized in our day through a spirituality that is biblical, ecumenical, and oriented toward the contemporary world.