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"In Vom Fischer zum Fels: Leben und Erbe des Apostels Petrus entführt Marcus D. Brack die Leserinnen und Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch das Leben einer der zentralsten Figuren des Christentums. Vom bescheidenen Ufer des Galiläischen Sees, wo er Jesus zum ersten Mal begegnete, bis zu den grundlegenden Momenten, auf denen die frühe Kirche errichtet wurde, taucht dieses Buch tief in die Wandlung Simons, eines einfachen Fischers, in Petrus, den Felsen, auf dem der christliche Glaube fest steht, ein.Durch akribische Forschung und lebendige Erzählweise beleuchtet Brack die Schlüsselrolle Petrus' in der Ausbreitung des Christentums, seine Führung in Zeiten der Prüfung und sein Vermächtnis, das zur Gründung des Papsttums führte. Die Erkundung archäologischer Funde, historischer Dokumente und theologischer Einblicke bietet dieses Buch einen Blick in die Welt des frühen Christentums und den tiefgreifenden Einfluss, den Petrus auf seine Expansion und Lehre hatte.Vom Fischer zum Fels ist nicht nur eine Geschichte von religiöser Bedeutung; es ist ein Zeugnis der anhaltenden Kraft des Glaubens und der außergewöhnlichen Reise eines Mannes, der trotz seiner Fehler dazu auserwählt wurde, Millionen zu führen und zu inspirieren. Begleiten Sie Brack, während er das Leben, die Prüfungen und Triumphe des Apostels Petrus enthüllt, dessen Vermächtnis bis heute den christlichen Glauben prägt."

'Den Mutigen gehört die Welt', besagt ein altes Sprichwort. Wie ist das mit dem Mut heute? Brauchen wir in unserer Gesellschaft mehr davon? Und wie finden wir ihn? Der ehemalige Spitzenpolitiker Peter Tauber schreibt über die Relevanz von Mut und das Bekennen zu einer Gesellschaft, in der Miteinander mehr zählt als Ellenbogen. Ein Buch für alle, die sich angesichts der Krisen und des Schlechten in der Welt ermutigen lassen wollen.Peter Tauber stellt fest: Wer den Fernseher anschaltet, im Internet surft oder in die Zeitung schaut, dem begegnet statt dem Mut viel häufiger die Wut. Obwohl wir wissen, dass Wut selten zu etwas Gutem führt. Wut zerstört.Mut hingegen, so heißt es, Mut wird belohnt. Auch in der Bibel ist der Mut ein Dauerthema.Und auch, wenn sie medial eine untergeordnete Rolle zu spielen scheinen: 'Es gibt sie überall in unserem Land. Menschen, die nicht bloß wütend sind, was alles nicht funktioniert oder ihnen gegen den Strich geht, sondern die etwas tun, damit die Welt besser wird', sagt Tauber und ergänzt: 'Und ich bin mir sicher Sie kennen selbst ganz viele.'In seinem neuen Buch erzählt der ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete die inspirierenden Geschichten von Mutmacherinnen und Mutmachern. Von Menschen, die er allesamt persönlich kennt: Da ist seine an Multiple Sklerose erkrankte Schwester Steffi Tauber, Danny Beuerbach, der Kinder fürs Lesen begeistert, Mechthild Heil, die sich im flutgeplagten Ahrtal engagiert - und Christoph Lübcke, der sich nach dem Mord an seinem Vater noch stärker gegen Rechtsextremismus positioniert.Es geht Tauber um ein mutiges Bekennen zu einer Gesellschaft, in der Miteinander mehr zählt als Ellenbogen, Rücksicht ankommt und aufeinander achten wichtiger ist als 'me, myself and I first'.'Weil ich das Gefühl habe, dass wir in den Medien und der Öffentlichkeit den Lauten, den Wütenden, den Schreihälsen viel zu viel Aufmerksamkeit widmen, ist hier mal nur Platz für die Mutigen, ohne die am Ende nichts in unserem Land gut werden würde.'Peter Tauber

THE FIRE CAME FROM ABOVEThe Holy Spirit lit the flame in the life of a single mother in her thirties.These stories reflect the difference between a self centred life and a lifelived through the power, presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

"Bruce Kelly can be described with one word: Christlike. If you want a more in-depth description, I would add words like serious, faithful, credible and intense. Serious about keeping the peace, serious about keeping his word, serious about his faith. Intense in that no word you speak to him will fall to the ground - he hears and processes what you are saying. Bruce is faithful to his wife, faithful to his country, faithful to his calling from the Lord. He is an iron-sharpening, credible witness for Christ. I am blessed to say Bruce is my friend."Warren Hardig - Men for Missions Global AmbassadorBorn in a small country 'bush nursing' hospital in the Goulburn Valley district of Victoria, Australia, Bruce Kelly lived his first twenty-five years on a nearby farm, where his parents looked after sheep.The lessons Bruce learned in caring for the flock stood him in good stead for an unexpected twenty-five-year police career looking after sheep with two legs! These skills helped in his career on the raw edge of life in attending murder scenes, suicides, domestic violence, accidents and petty crimes. In all of this, he learned more about others, himself and God.These basic principles also assisted in a fifteen-year church planting career as a home missioner with the Baptist Union of Victoria. He was the first pastor of three churches - two in Victoria and one in the Kimberleys region of Western Australia. He was also involved in interim ministries in New South Wales and with remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. In this he learned how to baptise, marry and bury.Upon returning to Victoria, he shared his story and literature in many languages with thousands of students, tourists and public over the last twenty years.In Front of Them All is not just Bruce's story, but will inspire and encourage you to adopt a lifetime role of Great Commission activities in accord with your giftedness and circumstances of life as Stanley Tam's book, Every Christian a Soul Winner, shares. As you read Bruce's remarkable story, you will be challenged to understand that evangelism is a core component of your life.

Geoffrey Robinson's life was long and eventful. He was there in Rome during the Vatican Council. He witnessed the hope and the spirit of openness - and also the way that this spirit was opposed and stifled. He rose to the rank of bishop and notably spoke out about the scandal of clerical sexual abuse with insights and wisdom that were unwelcome in some sections of the hierarchy. <BR>Here, in his last testament, he writes fearlessly about the problems facing the Catholic Church and presents his guidance about how they might be met. In his last days, he chose to write his truth: hard-hitting, yet compassionate; calling out corruption and stubborn regressiveness yet offering hope-filled solutions to the problem of how to follow Christ authentically. Towards the End of My Days is Bishop Robinson's bequest to the Church's whole people, a searing witness of truth from a faithful Catholic who no longer minces his words.<BR>Loyal to his church to the end, Geoffrey Robinson has left us with the fruits of a lifetime of scholarship, reflection and service to his fellow human beings that invite the reader to consider how the Catholic Church might yet regain its moral status in our world. 'Locked in a prison of its own making' the church desperately needs all its members especially the laity to stand up and reshape it to reveal the face and message of Christ to a humanity burdened by self-interested institutions and leaders. Here is the vade mecum of one courageous bishop rejected by his own church

Pathways: Ancient paths from the pages of the Old Testament is an inspirational tool for Christians to experience God on a daily basis, 365 days a year. Pastor Sam Polson leads you through the Old Testament with encouragement, personal stories, and insightful wisdom in a way that only a seasoned pastor can. By the end of the year, you'll have read through the entire Old Testament of the Christian Bible!<BR>Inspirational author and pastor Sam Polson shares words of wisdom for hope-filled living 365 days a year in his new daily devotional, the sequel to SonLight.<BR>Beloved pastor and respected teacher Sam Polson shares the truth of the gospel as he guides you through the year with his latest book Pathways. This timeless treasure will challenge you to read through the Old Testament within the year. But you won't have to do it alone! Pastor Polson encourages you with poignant stories and refreshing insights into God's Word, while helping you walk more closely with the Lord.<BR>In today's ever-growing dark world, you can abide evermore in God's love and grace, preparing your heart and mind for what lies ahead with Pastor Polson's new daily devotional Pathways.<BR><BR><BR><BR>

When Rose Philippine Duchesne was born in Grenoble, the beautiful gateway to the French Alps, in 1769, no one knew she'd eventually be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. When she went to the Sisters of the Visitation convent, Ste. Marie d' en Haut, to study for her First Holy Communion at age twelve, she consecrated herself to God. That was the happiest day of her life.At age eighteen, she asked to join the sisters, and while her father did not approve at first, he eventually began to realize how happy Philippine was. During the French Revolution, the government outlawed any and all religious congregations, so all convents, monasteries, and Catholic schools were closed. Philippine kept busy teaching her cousins, visiting the sick, and teaching catechism to the poor children she met in the streets. Finally, after twelve years of praying and hoping to go to the New World, in 1817, Bishop William Valentine DuBourg, bishop of Louisiana, came to visit the convent to ask for help for his American missions. Philippine threw herself at Mother Barat's feet and begged to be invited, and against all odds, she established religious communities in the United States to spread the word of the Lord.About the AuthorTheresa Riley Shaw has always been enthralled with the audacity and perseverance of the earliest missionaries of the Religious of the Sacred Heart. She wrote this book to honor and celebrate the French religious sister and educator Mademoiselle Duchesne, who was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church on July 3, 1988.

Discover how to engage in a faith-filled life in the era of social media from a group of young, consecrated Catholic sisters.<BR><BR>Friend. Artist. Writer. Businesswomen. Advocate. Scholar. The women whose pieces are included in this book hold many different titles. But they all share two important characteristics. First, they are all young women. Second, they are all consecrated religious of the Catholic order the Daughters of Saint Paul. They are millennial nuns.<BR> <BR>More and more people—especially millennials—are turning to religion as a source of comfort and solace in our increasingly chaotic world. But rather than live a cloistered life of seclusion, the Daughters of Saint Paul actively embrace social media, using platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to evangelize, collectively calling themselves the #MediaNuns.<BR> <BR>In this “funny and poignant” (Colleen Carroll Campbell, award-winning author of The Heart of Perfection) memoir, eight of these Sisters share their own discernment journeys, struggles, and crises of faith that they’ve overcome, and episodes from their daily lives. Through these reflections, the Sisters also offer practical takeaways and tips for living a more spiritually-fulfilled life, no matter your religious affiliation.<BR> <BR>In a collection as diverse and varied as the Daughters of Saint Paul themselves, Millennial Nuns will appeal to anyone looking to discover more about balancing faith with the modern age.

What a crazy world we live in! Between the covers you'll read about defining faith amidst the storms of life and how our perspectives can change as our circumstances change. It's about perserverance and the deception of the world. It's about defining words and how we contradict ourselves in so many aspects of our conscious mind. You'll read about humility, love, narcissism, religion, conspiracy, sex, Satan and God. They all might be in the same paragraph! Ultimately, it's a book written to express in words what's taken place in the heart of a broken man. A book to help find refuge for those struggling for answers to the world's contention and to the emptiness within the soul.

Andrew Jenson undertook a lifelong quest to render the LDS historical record complete and comprehensive. As Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jenson tirelessly carried out his office's archival mission and advocated for fixed recordkeeping to become a duty for Latter-day Saints. Reid L. Neilson and Scott D. Marianno offer a new in-depth study of Jenson's long life and career. Their account follows Jenson from his arrival as a Danish immigrant to 1860s Utah through trips around the world to secure documents from far-flung missions, and on to his public life as a newspaper columnist and interpreter of LDS history. Throughout, Jenson emerges as a figure dedicated to the belief that recorded history united past and present Latter-day Saints in heaven and on earth--and for all eternity. Engaging and informed, Restless Pilgrim is a groundbreaking study of an important figure in Latter-day Saint intellectual life during a transformative era in Church history.

The eighteenth century is called an age of "Enlightenment", which is to say a skeptical, godless and libertine age where men turned from God to labor upon founding the city of man. God, however, had long prepared His apostle for this age, St. Alphonsus Liguori. St. Alphonsus turned his back on the law courts, worldly privilege, and put Christ at the center of his heart. Alphonsus aimed at bringing the love of the holy redeemer to all men, and set them afire with divine love. Yet, God prepared the saint for his mission through a woman, Blessed Mary Celeste Crostarosa, who gave the character and inspiration to the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer. Having entered as a Carmelite, she transferred to another community where God revealed to her the rule of the Most Holy Redeemer, which became the foundation of St. Alphonsus' institute. As the biography unfolds, the reader will not only discover the closeness between her and St. Alphonsus, St. Gerard and other early Redemptorists, but her deep contemplative and mystical life. Blessed Mary Celeste abounded in miracles, and in trials, living her life under the shadow of the cross. She suffered persecution and setbacks, but always, again and again, lowered her head in prayer. "The contemplative and mystic life of Sister Mary Celeste is a true drama. At each step the supernatural direction of Providence is manifest. God chose to use her as His chief instrument in revealing to St. Alphonsus his life's work-the foundation of the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer. -The American Ecclesiastical Review

Turn your wounds into victorious scars. The North American bull elk is a spirited animal known for its strength and stamina and its ability to run for many miles, even after having been shot and wounded by a hunter. Known as blood trailing, the hunter tracks the elk, finds it and kills it. In her breakthrough book, Wounded and On the Run, Wendy draws on the uncanny parallels between wounded Christians and the elk. Sharing her deeply personal story with courage and vulnerability, she reveals how the hunter, Satan inflicted decades of wounds involving shame, trauma and hurt within the church. This kept her running for years, until she found the power of the redemptive blood trail of Jesus, turning her worst pain into her greatest calling. Do you keep on running? Or are you ready to surrender and let grace pave the way? If you want to turn the worst pain into your greatest calling, this book is for you.

The letters of Monsignor Firmin M. Schmidt are a firsthand account of the experiences of an administrator of a Capuchin Franciscan mission in the early 1960s. Written almost sixty years ago to Mary C. Schmidt, his sister, the letters offer a singular perspective regarding missionary work in the New Guinea Highlands. Letters to Mary: A Missionary Writes Home from New Guinea, 1959-1963 presents a selection of fifty-five of the many letters he wrote to Mary. Having served as a priest of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), Capuchin, Fr. Firmin M. Schmidt was ordained a Monsignor and appointed the head of the Capuchin Franciscan Mission in Papua New Guinea in 1959, spending thirty-six years administering the Mission. The Papuan Highlands were among the last places on earth to be subject to the influences of Europeans, with parts opened up by Australians only after World War II. The letters provide information about the numerous challenges facing the head of a Catholic mission in the Highlands, including staffing, travel in mountainous terrain to outstations, being accessible only by air, etc. The letters also tell about his new experiences with the Papuans, including details about their culture. In addition to the letters, the book provides an introduction that tells of Msgr. Firmin's family background and education. In addition, three appendices follow the letters: an account of the founding of the Capuchin Franciscan Mission in Papua, anthropological information about the culture of the Papuans, and a brief history of European contact/colonization in Papua.

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Growing into his teenage years, James Moody was wrestling with his doubt for whether God was real or questioning if his faith was enough to believe. He started battling through mysterious health issues that showed no improvements and was eventually diagnosed with cancer as a teenager.At the footsteps of all this, James laid it before God and asked Him to do what only God can do in his life. This is the story of his fight with cancer and how God worked out the details through it all; as God can do in your own personal battles and crisis of faith.This is the life-inspiring story that will lift your faith to new heights.

In the late 19th century, Carmelite priests and nuns came to a largely uncivilized, remote area of West Texas to establish a religious, educational, and agricultural center among the mesquite and scrub oak. Their vision and dedication evolved into a monastery, convent and boarding school complex that survived over 40 years. The most consequential, far-reaching impact of the Monastery of the Most Pure Heart of Mary and Our Lady of Mercy Academy and Convent is the humanity and altruism shown by those who served there.During the years since the closing of the Academy in 1938, the building has been mostly deserted, and much has been written about the tumbleweeds stacked against the gate, the boards covering the windows, and the thick dust and cobwebs inside. Some recounted tales of ghosts haunting the second floor. During those desolate years, it may have been difficult to recall the strength of mind and spirit that once filled this religious center. And, it was just as challenging to imagine the many children, laughing and learning within those thick adobe walls. Children who later took the precepts of the academy into the world.Preservation of the surviving adobe monastery building that served as the heart of the convent compound is significant. The structure provides a lasting, tangible repository for the memories of those who worked, learned, and worshipped there. This remains holy ground and recalls for us the dignity and determination that created a lasting foundation of values that continues to influence life in Martin County today.

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This delayed coming-of-age story intimately recounts Gordon Postill's life from 1970-1980, a decade that pivotally shapes how the rest of his life will unfold. Initially a story of failure, self-loathing, addiction, and deceit, it's ultimately a story of grace, faith, hope, and transformation. After a three-year debauched romp of sensual delights, he flunks out of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1970, and over the next several years becomes increasingly dispirited, feeling irreversibly mired in existential despair, promiscuous sex, ignominy, and jobs ranging from nickel miner to security guard.But in October 1976, he receives an astonishing call to ministry. Jaw-dropping serendipity subsequently enables this long-time non-churchgoer to enter seminary eleven months later as a candidate for the ordained ministry. Trusting his call to ministry, even in times of immense self-doubt and debilitating anxiety, sets in motion an unexpected restorative process. A wide array of blessings along with his significant personal growth wondrously culminate with this longshot's ordination by the United Church of Canada in May 1980. After thirty-five years of fulfilling ministry, primarily as a hospice chaplain, he retires in November 2015 to care for his beloved wife, Robin, diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Personal, transparent, and engaging, Called! A Longshot's Story will inspire and warm hearts, evocatively prompting readers to truthfully examine their lives through their own spiritual lenses, and hence might come to realize some additional faith and hope, courage and clarity, gratitude and generosity which had previously eluded them. Game on!

St. Paschal Baylon was born on the feast of Pentecost in 1540 in Terre Hermosa, Spain. His parents were poor and grew up tending animals. He was endowed with great piety, and soon gained the respect of the other boys. After receiving a vision, he was inspired to become a Franciscan, and though he was offered a great fortune as an inheritance, nevertheless at 24, begged to be received by the Friars minor at Monteforte. He could always be found with a rosary and had great devotion to the Blessed Virgin. His heart glowed so much with the love of the Holy Eucharist that he received a vision of the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance, supported by angels. In de Porrentruy's flowing prose, based upon the canonization documents, you'll learn: - The depths of holiness of Blessed Paschal, -His great devotion to Our Lady -His journeys to France to battle the Huguenots -The flood of miracles which took place after his death. St. Paschal is the patron of the Eucharist and Eucharistic Congresses. "Now, in the glorious ranks of those, the ardor of whose piety towards the great Mystery of the faith was more evident and overflowing, Paschal Baylon holds a most prominent place; for, being gifted with a soul which aspired above all things to Heaven, he embraced a severer mode of life, entering the Order of Minors of the Strict Observance, and from the contemplation of the Holy Eucharist he derived that science and wisdom which placed him, though formerly an unpolished and illiterate man, in a position to solve the most difficult questions of the faith." -Pope Leo XIII