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Find a place of rest and reflection amid the busyness of life. Daily life, even with so many modern conveniences, keeps us in a constant state of busyness. Never ending to-do lists, family, work, church, and social activities fill our minds and schedules leaving little energy or time for the reflection, prayer, and rest we need to be our best selves and accomplish all our tasks and activities.  Finding Calm in a Busy Day: Daily Reflections on Rest, Hope, and Love offers readers a place of rest in the busyness of life. These 100 devotionals offer thoughtful insights, scripture, and prayer with a message that all are deserving of calm, peace, and hope, and are accepted and loved by God. Encouraged by these devotionals, readers will grow in their love for the Lord and will be equipped to face the challenges they encounter in their busy days through scripture, prayer, and reflection. Features one hundred inspirational devotions. Encourages women to rest and reflect in order be their best self and grow in their love for the Lord. Makes a great women’s gift. Third title in a popular devotional series. Padded hardcover with a ribbon.

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Wie werden zentrale Personalentscheidungen in der katholischen Kirche getroffen? Die Antwort auf diese Frage bleibt meist hinter den Mauern des Vatikans verborgen. Mithilfe von umfangreichem Quellenmaterial aus den vatikanischen Archiven bietet diese kirchenhistorische Studie erstmals einen detaillierten Blick auf die 31 Besetzungsverfahren für die deutschen Bischofsstühle in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik und des „Dritten Reiches“. Als maßgeblicher Akteur steht dabei Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958) im Fokus, der zunächst Nuntius in Deutschland und dann Kardinalstaatssekretär war, bevor er 1939 zum Papst gewählt wurde und den Namen Pius XII. annahm. Die Untersuchung leistet einen Beitrag zu seiner Biografie und bietet Anknüpfungspunkte für rechts-, institutionen- und diözesangeschichtliche Studien.

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Wie werden zentrale Personalentscheidungen in der katholischen Kirche getroffen? Die Antwort auf diese Frage bleibt meist hinter den Mauern des Vatikans verborgen. Mithilfe von umfangreichem Quellenmaterial aus den vatikanischen Archiven bietet diese kirchenhistorische Studie erstmals einen detaillierten Blick auf die 31 Besetzungsverfahren für die deutschen Bischofsstühle in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik und des „Dritten Reiches“. Als maßgeblicher Akteur steht dabei Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958) im Fokus, der zunächst Nuntius in Deutschland und dann Kardinalstaatssekretär war, bevor er 1939 zum Papst gewählt wurde und den Namen Pius XII. annahm. Die Untersuchung leistet einen Beitrag zu seiner Biografie und bietet Anknüpfungspunkte für rechts-, institutionen- und diözesangeschichtliche Studien.

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Wie werden zentrale Personalentscheidungen in der katholischen Kirche getroffen? Die Antwort auf diese Frage bleibt meist hinter den Mauern des Vatikans verborgen. Mithilfe von umfangreichem Quellenmaterial aus den vatikanischen Archiven bietet diese kirchenhistorische Studie erstmals einen detaillierten Blick auf die 31 Besetzungsverfahren für die deutschen Bischofsstühle in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik und des „Dritten Reiches“. Als maßgeblicher Akteur steht dabei Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958) im Fokus, der zunächst Nuntius in Deutschland und dann Kardinalstaatssekretär war, bevor er 1939 zum Papst gewählt wurde und den Namen Pius XII. annahm. Die Untersuchung leistet einen Beitrag zu seiner Biografie und bietet Anknüpfungspunkte für rechts-, institutionen- und diözesangeschichtliche Studien.

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Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau, and others—each one contributing significantly to his moral and spiritual development. Yet only a few people know the most consequential person to have played a pivotal role in the making of the Mahatma: Shrimad Rajchandra. About the unparalleled influence of this person, Gandhi himself wrote: “I have met many a religious leader or teacher… and I must say that no one else ever made on me the impression that Raychandbhai did.” Uma Majmudar, digging deep into the original Gujarati writings of both Gandhi and Rajchandra, explores this important relationship and unfolds the unique impact of Rajchandra’s teachings and contributions upon Gandhi. The volume examines the contents and significance of their intimate spiritual discussions, letters, questions and answers. In this book, Dr. Majmudar brings to the forefront the scarcely known but critically important facts of how Rajchandra “molded Gandhi’s inner self, his character, his life, thoughts and actions.” This Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker became Gandhi’s most trusted friend, as well as an exemplary mentor and “refuge in spiritual crisis.”

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In this book, Wendy E. S. North investigates whether or not the author of John could have crafted his Gospel with knowledge of the Synoptics. Unlike previous approaches, which have usually treated the Gospel according to John purely as a piece of literature, this book undertakes a fresh approach by examining how John’s author reworks material that can be identified within his own text and also in the Jewish Scriptures. An assessment of these techniques allows North then to compare the Gospel of John with its Synoptic equivalents, and to conclude at last that John indeed worked with the knowledge of the Synoptic texts at certain points.

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This study offers a creative combination of methodologies to provide grounded intertextual procedure for the apocalyptic genre with impact on understanding Revelation 15. Along with the analysis on narrative elements (to prove the similarity in the scenery background) and examinations of the designation and context of the songs, this research reveals thematic parallels in the contents of the songs in Exodus 15:1-18 and Revelation 15:3-4, not argued fully to this point in studies of the Apocalypse. These diverse analyses of the intertextuality between Exodus 15 and Revelation 15 strengthen the argument that Exodus 15 should be considered as the OT source of Revelation 15:3-4. John's elaborate, deliberate skills interweaving the Exodus theme with his eschatological vision can be observed in the whole book of Revelation, in the vision of the bowl judgments (Revelation 15-16), in the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb (Revelation 15:3-4), and even in the duality of the song's title. John offers a glimpse of the readers' ultimate victory in their present time and at the eschaton by reminding them of their almighty God, who saved the Israelites in the Exodus journey, especially at the Red Sea.

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Emptiness is a strange phenomenon that haunts us in many ways. Most of us have felt empty at one time or another, though we don't often talk about it. We have a sense that something is missing in life. This absence extends beyond human experience to the physical world. As contemporary science has revealed to us on both a macroscopic and subatomic level, curiously, the vast majority of the universe is composed mostly of nothing but empty space. Emptiness is «abundant» and beckons for our attention. Drawing on the Judeo-Christian wisdom of the Bible, in conversation with Eastern and Celtic thought, David Arthur Auten offers us an eye-opening and profoundly practical examination of the much neglected gift of absence. Nothing, ironically, turns out to be endlessly fascinating and significant.

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These days it seems like heroes fight each other more often than they fight villains. The hero-vs-hero trope so common in comic books and in superhero movies these days can provide us with a means of thinking about the deeply polarized state of modern politics and public opinion about civic life, morality, and even God. There is a real divide in our public life that nobody seems to be able to cross. It's easy to complain that people should be more willing to meet each other half-way, that politicians should be more willing to compromise in order to get things done, but there are plenty of important issues on which compromise really isn't possible. We see this problem dramatized in comics like Marvel's Civil War and Avengers vs X-Men; in DC's Kingdom Come and The Dark Knight Returns; and in film media like Daredevil, Batman v Superman, and Captain America: Civil War. The consequences of the conflicts that arise in these stories can serve as warnings about our current political environment. They're safe places in which we can see the logic of our political dysfunction carried to frightening (but perhaps inevitable?) conclusions.

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Early Genesis is like a table of contents for the rest of the book, a seed from which the rest of Scripture and history unfolds: so many ideas, images, and events can be traced back to it. Like the seeds that are so often our staple for life, Genesis also provides food for the soul, true wisdom, and the big picture we need to live in this world. But its message can be hindered by misunderstanding its purpose.
Making Sense of Genesis looks at what works and what doesn't work when interpreting Genesis. It's not a commentary, so it doesn't interact with all of Genesis or much that has been written about it. Rather, it observes how the ideas and images in early Genesis unfold and are fulfilled, and how they are just as true and fresh for us now as they were in the beginning.

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