Practical Religion

Persecution in Missions: A Practical Theology presents a scriptural view of suffering, including its role in the Christian life and in the missionary task. Rhodes tackles challenging topics, such as when to flee or face risk, how to minister to those suffering for Christ, and the dangers of downplaying or romanticizing persecution. Reassuring listeners with God's promises of redemption, this compelling study equips missionaries to face suffering and endure with joy.

This audiobook reveals the glorious weaknesses of today's new breed of leader, as well as the Bible's most famous ones. It supplies practical direction to anyone who aspires to be a more effective leader, showing that a "limping" leader can be the person God uses to accomplish amazing things.

Any Christian mother and father, or grandmother and grandfather, desires what is spiritually best for their children. However, knowing how to pray for them can often be as challenging as knowing what to pray. Without proper guidance, our prayers are prone to become dry, repetitive lists of requests. With the help of Dr. Erwin Lutzer, you can learn how your best, loving intentions can become enriching, effective intercessions for your children or grandchildren. Trade your lists of requests for Scripturally-based prayers that will immerse you in God’s promises and will.

A plain language beginner’s guide to the practical basics of Buddhism and a transition to a Vegan diet/lifestyle. A personal journey and interpretation. Buddhism has been around for over 2,500 years. It has been practiced by monks in monasteries, emperors in palaces, and, more recently, stressed-out office workers trying to stay calm while their inbox explodes. It has inspired everything from deep philosophical debates to fortune cookie wisdom. But let’s be honest—Buddhism can also feel intimidating when you first encounter it.

Arthur Wallis offers this balanced study on fasting, and seeks to give to the subject the weight that Scripture gives it while also avoiding exaggeration and over-emphasis.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga brings spirituality back to yoga. It shows how the Seven Spiritual Laws play a crucial role in yoga's path to enlightenment while providing listeners with a wealth of meditation techniques, mantras, breathing exercises, and yoga poses. Whether a newcomer to yoga or an experienced practitioner, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga is a portal to yoga's deeper spiritual dimension and a beautiful step to a happier, more harmonious, and more abundant life.

A Course In Miracles (ACIM) can answer those nagging questions. Yet because of its esoteric writing style and hidden messages, most people find the Course difficult to decode and harder to believe.

For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In this revolutionary book, Carlos Castaneda offers listeners the key to this energetic conditioning for the first time, revealing a series of body positions and physical movements that enabled various sorcerers to navigate their own sorceric journeys. By sharing this wisdom, Carlos Castaneda makes it possible for listeners to travel to some of these other realms, which are as real, unique, absolute, and engulfing as our own world.

In Manifesting Wealth: Practical Magic for Prosperity, Love, and Health, Taylor Ellwood shares a holistic approach to wealth magic that focuses on all areas of your life. True wealth, while involving finances, also includes your health and your relationships. In this audiobook, you'll learn how to manifest wealth by exploring what wealth really means to you, as well as as how you manifest it in your life.

In this concise series of lectures, famed Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda answers the important question: How can Vedanta be made practical in our daily lives? Though intended for Western audiences, Vivekananda's idea of sacralizing every moment has transformed the lives of generations of spiritual seekers.

Energy protection is the art of being energetically authentic. It is about managing your energy interactions with the surrounding world to ensure that your thoughts, emotions, and behavior are aligned with your purpose and authenticity, rather than being influenced by external energy sources. Essentially, energy protection ensures that what's ours is ours and what's theirs is theirs.

Have you ever wondered if you are psychic? Have you been told you are deeply intuitive? Have you ever had a strong feeling or dream that someone you care about needed your help and it turned out to be true? If so, you may be psychically gifted. So, how can you further deepen your intuition and open your psychic senses? From Reiki master Lisa Campion, this transformative and practical guide will help you understand, develop, and harness your own psychic ability, so you can live your life with a greater sense of meaning and purpose.

Many people feel a growing disenchantment with modern life; that something fundamental is missing or ‘wrong’. Our increased material wealth is making us less happy, not more. Mental health issues are on the rise, and we face an environmental crisis. Somehow, we have lost our way. People long for a deeper sense of connection, a greater purpose, and a more sustainable and natural way of living. Yet people are often unsure as to what they can do to find this. If you are ready, the practice of shamanism holds many answers.

Approaching our spiritual development as one would any experimental science, Bahram Elahi, MD, describes the nature of the human soul, or self, through a series of original diagrams and functional analogies to medicine, psychology, and physics. In so doing, he introduces a new medicine of the soul that not only establishes how to nourish and develop the soul through the practice of correct divine and ethical principles, but also how to diagnose and treat its various ailments.

We're too tired to think, too wired to focus, less efficient than we want to be, and guilty about not getting enough time with our loved ones. We all know that we feel starved for time, but what are we actually doing about it? Precious little. In The Art of Stopping Time, New York Times best-selling author Pedram Shojai guides us towards success with what he calls time prosperity - having the time to accomplish what you want in life without feeling compressed, stressed, overburdened, or hurried.

The Five Principles was written to provide tools for daily living and suggests answers to the great questions of existence that humans have been asking since the dawn of conscious awareness. Questions such as What is this greater Presence that we sense around us? Who and what are we? Why do things happen in our lives the way they do? How can we communicate with this Presence? and What are we here to do?

In A Beginner’s Guide to Fasting, Pastor Vladimir Savchuk shares simple, practical, and (most importantly) biblical in- sights on what you need to know, why you need to know it, and how to cultivate this powerful spiritual discipline in your life. It’s concise enough to listen to in one siting, and valuable enough to refer back to time and again.

From Ben Peterson, the combat veteran and founder of the non-profit Engage Your Destiny comes a bold debut forged from Peterson’s own story of spiritual resilience and hard-earned wisdom. Engage Your Destiny invites listeners to walk with God and uncover practical action steps to fulfill their own God-given purpose. Daring and vulnerable, Engage Your Destiny connects to the unseen aches and desires of the human heart to overcome our struggles and live out our dreams.

En Las siete leyes espirituales del éxito, Deepak Chopra ofrece una perspectiva transformadora sobre el logro del éxito: una vez que entendamos nuestra verdadera naturaleza y aprendamos a vivir en armonía con las leyes naturales, brotará fácilmente y sin esfuerzo una sensación de bienestar, buena salud, relaciones satisfactorias, energía y entusiasmo por la vida.

Youth ministry is an essential part of most evangelical churches. And yet, there is a surprising lack of resources written specifically for youth workers focused on viewing all aspects of youth ministry through a gospel-focused lens. Featuring contributions from a host of experienced youth workers from a wide variety of churches, this how-to manual offers guidance related to every facet of youth ministry, from planning short-term mission trips to working with parents.