Practical Religion

Practical Spirituality is part of the Loving a Sacred Life series. It's a collection of essays written on topics that support simple and direct ways of living in our overly complicated world. The categories of this book revolve around the functioning of the brain, the mind (not to be confused with the brain), relationships, and spiritual principals in everyday reality. Expanding your knowledge and experiences leads to opening the mind into greater awareness.

Raising Teens in Today’s World with Gospel-Centered Strategies helps parents navigate the often daunting teenage years with grace, wisdom, and unwavering faith. Regardless of whether you're a single parent or co-parent, the tools presented in this book are designed to empower you to build a Christ-centered, loving relationship with your teen.

Wicca is an Earth-centered religion that focuses on the life-giving and sustaining powers of nature. In this book, we are going to look at just what Wicca is, what its core beliefs are, and how you can start practicing Wicca. This extensive volume is meant to educate you and also to explain exactly what Wicca entails. I encourage you to keep an open mind, and also to explore as many resources as you can while you’re gathering the facts about these seeming mystic beliefs.

This comprehensive book, tailored for both the novice and the faithful, extends a hand to all touched by hardship. Whether you're grappling with physical ailments, mental distress, emotional turbulence, spiritual crises, or modern-day challenges, learn to pray and cry out to our Lord, who hears every plea. You will discover His boundless love and compassion, witness His mighty power, and feel His unwavering presence through the deepest trials.

If following Jesus involves a life of sacrifice and suffering, is it wrong for a Christian to seek purpose and joy in this world? Many Christians sense a tension between their desire to enjoy life in this world—the beauty of God’s creation, the rich love of deep relationships with...

The Multiplying Church is a primer for pastors and lay leaders involved in, or wanting to learn about, the church multiplication groundswell in North America. It shows how multiplying churches should be a natural, regular function of every church to reach the 70 percent of Americans who have no...

Mexican witchcraft, or brujeria, has long been an integral part of traditional Mexican culture that permeates all strata of social hierarchy, ethnicity, or level of education. "Brujeria de Rancho" refers to brujeria as it is practiced in the rural areas of Mexico. There, the brujos de Ranch offer their healing and divinatory powers, acting as advisors, and even meting out justice through the use of cursing and hexing for people who are often not able to pay lawyers' fees.

This book is designed for practitioners. Instead of needing more theory about evangelism (as important as that is), one of the pressing needs in the 21st century is to identify and employ practical approaches to evangelism that restores the good news to be good and new once again.

Among the pioneers of the New Thought movement, William Walker Atkinson was one of the most active and most prolific. His many publications include texts on religion, the occult, concentration, memory, and healing. In the words of the author: "All students of Mental Influence have noticed the close resemblance that is manifested between the phenomena of electrical and magnetic energy on the one hand and the phenomena of mental energy on the other."

In this work, we shall regard as the true phenomena of psychomancy all the various phenomena known as psychometry; crystal gazing; perceiving distant scenes; a perception of past events and indication of future events; either in the full waking state; the state of reverie; or the state of dreams.

I wrote this book because of the need I saw in the Body of Christ for simplistic, practical prophetic teaching that could easily be applied. The prophetic ministry is a very powerful ministry when we use it for its God-given purpose. There are also, unfortunately, false prophetic ministries who abuse the ministry. I endeavor in this manual to show the difference between the true and the false. The real and the fake. The authentic and the phony.

Now that you have decided to train your mind and emotions by meditation, it's quite important you get familiar with a practical meditation approach and everything associated with it. This awesome book by Lois Robinson is more than enough to equip you with the appropriate information you need on practical meditation. It offers detailed and clear meditation exercises and also provides answers to the burning questions you have.

For new Christians and longtime followers alike, it can be daunting to even think about diving into the Bible, but it shouldn't. In this book, you hold a three-part guide that will help you on your journey to discovering the depth of love, knowledge, and wisdom that lies within the word of God.

The church in America is getting smaller and smaller. Each year average church attendance decreases, while the number of Americans who identify as no religious affiliation increases. Even traditionally Christian areas, such as the Bible Belt, are seeing the same trends as the rest of the nation. America is not alone in experiencing these trends. Western Europe, once a strong Christian continent, is also going the same way. What is the cause of the decline of Christianity in America as well as Western Europe?

If you are living under demonic oppression, it’s time to rise up and walk in the supernatural deliverance Jesus purchased for you! Prophet and deliverance minister John Veal has experienced the dark side of the supernatural, firsthand. Even from childhood, he has encountered strange phenomena: attacks from unseen entities, visitations from ghostly apparitions, voices from disembodied spirits, and much more. Skeptics call it superstition, the new age calls it paranormal. It’s time to call it what it really is: spiritual warfare.

This book includes Sunrise Meditation and Sunset Meditation, two beautiful guided meditation MP3s that you can download for free.

If life were to come with an owner's manual for creating wealth, health, contentment, and spiritual connection, this would be it! Have you ever felt like you needed to stop the life you're living, make a few adjustments, and start over? Do you ever feel like you are working too hard for the results you are getting? Have you ever had a nagging feeling that there really is something to this "spirituality thing"? If your answer is "yes" to any of these questions, you're going to love this audiobook.

For nearly a decade, Reiki Master Francie Soito saw similar patterns in her clients who struggled to find the source of their problems. Using her high-tech market research skills, Francie began to draw patterns between physical illnesses and the emotional and mental root causes behind them. Join Francie as she illustrates the mind-body connection like never before and learn about your energy body, chakras and most importantly, gain the practical tools on how to be well and whole again.

"Chakra Healing for Beginners" is a clear and accessible guide to understanding and working with your chakras, even if you're a complete beginner. Like you, Callie Parker was curious about the power of chakras... Now, she shares her insights and practical tools in this beginner-friendly guide.

Many desire a life of intimacy with the Lord where they are constantly attuned to His heart, living in vital union with Him at all times. However, this seems to be more of a theory than the reality for many well meaning believers in Christ. To such, intimacy with the Lord is something to be read about in a book or the story of some specially graced people. This should not be so, as the Bible makes it clear that every child of God is meant to live in vital union with the Lord—see John 15, and Psalm 91.