Mountain Religion

When we see a person of great strength and ability but also with a fatal flaw, it’s often said that they have “feet of clay”. Did you know that expression came from the Bible? The heroes of the Bible had great strengths and abilities and were used by the Lord to do wonderful things, but their stories are not preserved for us without including their struggles and failures.

New York Times best-selling author Jeff Benedict has seen both good and bad in his career as a journalist. Some of the best are the extraordinary people he has met who have made deliberate choices to live happier lives despite the extreme hardship that each of them have faced. Although life will knock us down from time to time, this book is an important reminder that we all can make a choice to get back up, brush ourselves off, and keep pressing forward.

Most people don’t often associate Easter with music, but author Michael D. Young has collected a variety of inspirational hymns and songs—some solemn, some jubilant—and his commentary on their meaning can enhance our holiday experience. Each chapter focuses on the rich history of two songs that relate to the events of Holy Week, including the Triumphal Entry, the Last Supper, the crucifixion, and the resurrection.

In this historic recording Eknath Easwaran, who taught meditation and spiritual living for over 40 years, reads his selection of lifeaffirming writings from the saints, sages, and scriptures of the Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Jewish, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions. This collection includes passages from Easwaran’s translations of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and the Dhammapada. Easwaran’s reading is sonorous and deep, slowing down the mind and drawing us into a world of timeless wisdom where our worries and concerns fall back into perspective.

Seeing True: The Way of Spirit by Ronald Chapman promotes an experience of the ways and means by which Spirit weaves in and through our lives. With this unique framework for insight and understanding, we learn to see and to express with a certainty that the Divine is intimately intertwined with us every moment of our lives.

Step into a world of vast deserts, shimmering promises, and a faith that could move mountains in this deeply moving and vividly told story of Abraham and Isaac. It begins with a miracle—the sound of laughter and the cry of a newborn baby in the tent of a loving, elderly couple who had long dreamed of a son. Isaac, the child of promise, becomes the sunshine of his father Abraham's life. Their days are filled with the simple joys of home, the scent of campfire smoke under a blanket of stars, and the strong, unbreakable bond between a father and his beloved boy.

In this brand new audiobook containing fresh prophetic exploration of building strong-rooted foundations in the face of Western culture's decline, Terrance Wilburn gives six practical steps up. You won't want to slip past Terrance's discerning commentary on the prodigal son, and his rediscovery of secret exponential growth planted within challenges now making ordinary Christians' lives more illuminated.

Discover how each figure of the nativity can lead your family closer to Christ this Christmas season. Learn the tradition of the tinkling bell, whip up a batch of French cocoa, create a tender mercy tree, and find ways to make your gift giving more meaningful as Celebrating a Christ-Centered Christmas guides you through seven meaningful traditions inspired by the nativity setting.

Yeshua ben Joseph's famous sermon on the mountain with commentaries.

Every night before going to bed, questions were asked about what was read. One day as we were going merrily along, suddenly, “How biyiyig is God?” rang out from the curious little one. Mother’s answer, peaceful and calm, settled little one. For there is comfort in reminding, years beyond.

Easwaran explains how we can clear our minds of the clutter that prevents us from living our lives the way we want to live.

A line by line commentary on the Twenty-third Psalm.

Controlling the mind is easier said than done. Easwaran uses the metaphor of a house, fine on the outside but internally in disarray, to illustrate the challenges in controlling the mind and the techniques we may use to achieve that control.