Modern Spirituality

God wants to transform your thoughts and your actions so you will bear good fruit, impact the world, and experience joy in your life. But for this to happen, you must remain in community with Christ so he can instill his life-giving spiritual virtues within you. As you do this on an ongoing basis abiding in the presence of Jesus on a daily basis - the more spiritual fruit you will produce.

In today's fast-paced world, many women are searching for ways to find greater peace, balance, and fulfilment in their daily lives. Practical Buddhism for Modern Life offers a comprehensive guide to the key teachings and practices of Buddhism, tailored specifically to the needs and challenges for the women of today.

This collection of essays draws from The Imitation of Christ, one of the most widely read Christian books after the Bible, and updates it for a more modern, general, and spiritual audience. This audio gives you practical wisdom on humility, relationships, suffering, and more!

"All desires are a disguise covering up one real desire: the desire to be free." In this conversation, the biggest misconceptions about enlightenment are exposed. OM talks about the distinction between awakening experiences and enlightenment, which are often lumped together. The essential focus is to distinguish whether something is a fleeting, short-lived experience, or an enduring, permanent state. He shares from his wealth of experience about his own awakening process. He names various pitfalls that spiritual seekers repeatedly fall into on their quest.

Fun is a word that is rarely associated with missionary work, but that is exactly what teenagers are looking for. The goal for this book is to provide teenagers and other preparing missionaries with a vision for who great modern-day missionaries are and the skills they possess. Obtaining that vision is made tangible through specific challenges associated with each chapter's theme. Not only will preparing missionaries be enlightened by a vision of who they can become but they will also be inspired through the personal experiences we will challenge them to have.

Be blessed and welcome to the world of the Wicca. Do you want to learn about the history of Wicca and discover all there is to know about casting spells and conducting rituals? This practical guide will ensure that you learn the fundamental basics in no time. Get ready to enter a magical world of spells, rituals, and enchantments. Delve deeper into the history of the witches. Find out what it means to be a witch as you look at some of the lighter - and darker - times in witchcraft's past.

The Shaman's Last Apprentice is the true story of an English woman's apprenticeship with an Ayahuasquero shaman. A vision summons Rebekah from the mountains of Machu Picchu and leads her to a little village tucked away on a tributary of the Amazon River. There, she learns the ancient wisdom of the powerful plant Ayahuasca, discovers the truth about herself, and brings back a message of hope from this sacred place, for these times of instability and change.

Was bringt die Zukunft? Wie kann ich mit der Natur in Einklang leben? Was stärkt meine weibliche Kraft? Birgit Jankovic-Steiner ist das, was wir eine moderne Hexe nennen: feminin, magisch und stark. In der "Hexen-Schule" gibt sie einen umfassenden Einblick in die Grundlagen der weißen Magie. Die Gründerin der Hexen-Schule in Wien erklärt, wie magische Kräfte entfesselt werden können. Mit der Inspiration aus uraltem Hexenwissen zeigt sie, was man beim Tarot-, Hand- und Kaffeesatzlesen über sich und seine Persönlichkeit erfahren kann und welche Rolle Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft dabei spielen.

Has God withdrawn his special blessing from the United States? Americans ponder that painful question in troubled times, as we did during the devastation of the Civil War and after the assassinations of the '60s, and as we do in our present polarization. Yet, somehow - on battlefields, across western wilderness, and in raucous convention halls - astounding events have reliably advanced America, restoring faith in the Republic’s providential protection. In this provocative historical narrative, Michael Medved brings to life 10 haunting tales that reveal this purposeful pattern.

It is no wonder that we are all drawn to the world of the paranormal. The need to research and delve deeper into the unexplained is a tendency which unites and joins humanity as a culture. This has always been the case, from the earliest ghost stories to tales of dragons and sea monsters. Since the turn of the 20th century, modern technology and science have pushed back the boundaries of explanation and shed new light on old secrets.

Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887-1943) was a chemist and founding member of the Alchemical Society in London. The most important alchemical theories are discussed in the first part, while the second deals with notable alchemists.

En este libro te mostrare como utilizar la magia que llevas dentro esa magia que todos tenemos escondida. La magia es una de las artes mas antiguas que existen por eso a traves de las paginas de este libro te enseñare desde cero para que adquieras todos los conocimientos sin errores para que la magia blanca o magia de la naturaleza se haga parte de tu vida con ingredientes sencillos, ingredientes magicos que utilizamos en nuestro dia a dia, realizaras hechizos y rituales faciles, aprenderas a preparar tu altar, tu barita magica e incluso tu escoba de bruja todo ello de mi mano.

During the last three decades of the 20th century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. The family values agenda created a bond between evangelicalism and political conservatism. Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right chronicles how the family values agenda became so powerful in American political life and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians.

In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of witch prosecutions in the Puritan colonies that discusses how their English inhabitants understood the crime of witchcraft, why some people ran a greater risk of being accused of occult misdeeds, and how gender intersected with witch-hunting.

I've had enough, I just want to die! This heart-wrenching cry from nearly 3000 years ago still echoes in the hearts and minds of those battling with depression in today's modern world. But could the answers that brought peace to that troubled soul all those years ago really help anyone now? A Christian Psychiatrist looks with modern eyes at Elijah's mental breakdown and treatment and finds surprising correlation to modern understanding and treatment.

How do you know what is real? In his new book The Reality Myth: Unlocking the Secrets of Modern Physics & the Power of Intention While Redefining Your Place in the Universe, best-selling author Ishan Rami takes the listener on a mind-bending journey through time and space to answer that question and much more.

A practical guide for the modern-day minstrel, and for all worshippers.

Ever since the publication of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, vampires have been a part of the popular consciousness. Now, with the release of the phenomenally popular Twilight novel and the subsequent films, it seems that we can't get enough of these bloodsucking creatures of the night. But we might not sleep quite so soundly if we knew that vampires aren't confirmed to the page and the screen. There is a thriving UK vampire scene that has its roots deep in our history.

Ouça a mensagem "As Sete Mentiras da Igreja Moderna" ministrada pelo Pr. Hernane Santos na Comunidade Alcance em Curitiba, Paraná.

According to polls, less than half of all Americans can even name more than four of them. For most of us, agnostics and faithful alike, they have been relegated to the level of a symbol, their teachings all but forgotten. In Western life today, the Ten Commandments are everywhere - except where we need them most. In The Ten Commandments, David Hazony offers a powerful new look at our most venerable moral text.