Spiritual Care

Are you ready to embrace abundance? The author combines her experiences as an Orthodox Christian, healthcare professional, fitness expert, and grief survivor to guide you to a more balanced life. In this book, she explores the many facets of wellness from mental health and stress management to nutrition and self-care. Her insights are grounded in professional and personal experience and offer a relatable perspective. She provides practical tools to help build resilience in the face of adversity. Her heartfelt reflections on grief offer solace and support.

To be pastoral is to create a sacred space and time for the other person who needs support. The caregiver is fully present, listening critically and attentively to locate the "pastoral pillars" on the way for continued support. In order to provide effective pastoral care ministry and also be able to nail down and address the core issues bothering an individual, the caregiver should look beyond the ordinary and superficial, and companion into the deep ("the shadow") with the counselee, mentee, directee, client, patient, and the like.

When you love intensely, you seek to be heard. You have expectations, true. You have feelings, true. You have erotic ideas you wish to share. This is a compilation of poetry and letters and questions. When you care about someone, sometimes, the best way to reach them, is via the written word. This book shares some common traits, as well as introducing some alternate notions of love.

When you need to analyze what is going on around you, sometimes, taking the thoughts out of your head, where they are all muddled, and scripting them onto a piece of good old fashioned paper, with a pen, can truly help you a) get those ideas visually in front of you b) clear your mind, because having it written down allows you the freedom to step away without worrying you are going to forget the most important elements necessary c) look at things objectively, once you have had some time and space away from the muddle d) keep of record of how you were feeling, what you were thinking, and how...

In this spiritual memoir, a white woman in an interracial marriage and mixed-race family paints a beautiful path from white privilege toward racial healing, from ignorance toward seeing the image of God in everyone she meets.

Bill Johnson es el pastor de una iglesia donde los encuentros sobrenaturales con Dios son la orden del día, los milagros son comunes y la congregación tiene una contagiosa pasión por el crecimiento espiritual. ¿Cómo lo hace? Es sencillo: El hace que el experimentar una profunda e íntima relación con Dios sea una prioridad tanto para sí mismo como para el resto de su congregación.

What if something as simple as listening to song prayers could facilitate personal transformation in ways that bolstered your resilience thereby augmenting your emotional well-being? This is what my doctoral research found by documenting the experiences of four women veterans who listened to song prayers with regularity, repetition, intentionality, and reflection. Listening to song prayers as a private spiritual discipline opens up a liminal space between the physical and spiritual realms where God responds with His interaction.

Proven self-care solutions to ensure your holistic transformation. Imagine how would you like to be your best version. This book is bound to rewire your brain and build your body. Upgrade yourself everyday and transform your life by following the self-care strategies illustrated in this book with action plans, highlighting needs to rely on progress reports. Explore the different ways you can care body, mind and spirit and why no part can be left out. Self-appraisal on your self-care activities can never be ignored. Check your best and worst performance areas and must highlight where you ...

2020 Christian Indie Award-Winning Book in the Mystery & Suspense Category! Hell is about to wage war upon humanity and with it, an evil in which the likes of the world has never seen before. Darkness and destruction rule the land. The only ones who can stop the evil and end the war are a group of extraordinary young kids with special gifts and abilities—youth who overcame trials and tribulations at a young age. They were chosen by God and destined to one day soon become something great with the help of their friends Eziah, Sonya, Gadin, and others like them. Together, they must try to ...

Christine Wagoner, a senior leader with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, invites listeners to be attentive to the movements of the spirit and engage with opportunities God gives them. She shares about her own yes moments as well as those of others. And she offers practical tools for moving toward yes. There is a significant journey that gets us from no to yes. It is a profound journey of heart, soul, and mind. A journey filled with risk, excitement, pain, and joy. A journey of growing our character and knowing God intimately.

How we hold and carry memories—good and bad—is a part of what forms us spiritually. In this way we have a common bond with the people of Scripture who also had a sensory life, gathering shells and trying to make sense of them. Previously titled As I Recall, Casey Tygrett's writing in The Practice of Remembering explores the power of memory and offers biblical texts and practices to guide us in bringing our memories to God for spiritual transformation.

Women are resilient leaders driven to achieve but can often feel stressed out. They are being adversely impacted by the Covid-19 “she-cession” with less and less women returning to the workforce due to the multi-faceted responsibilities they face inside and outside of their homes. And in a world where heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, they can’t afford to wait to relax. Author Angela D. Coleman’s prescription in The Art of Chilling Out for Women teaches women the value of chilling out.

Who Do Deacons Need to Be? What Do Deacons Need to Know? What Do Deacons Need to Do? These three questions form the basis for Exemplars: Deacons as Servant and Spiritual Leaders. They are designed to encourage robust conversation within diaconates as well as between deacons, clergy, and other laity. All of us grow spiritually as we listen and speak to one another with open minds and loving hearts. For deacons to reach their full potential as spiritual leaders, thoughtful and prayerful conversation must happen. This workbook was born from years of pastoral experience and a growing conviction...

¿Estás consciente de que Dios se te revela durante los momentos sencillos de la vida? En esta cautivante secuela de Momentos De Dios, el exitoso autor cristiano, el pastor Gale Kragt, cuenta historias apasionantes de su trabajo misionero en las montañas de Honduras y sobre el terreno en Costa Rica. Vive el profundo impacto de la intervención divina que no solo cambió su vida, sino que también tocó la vida de quienes lo rodearon. “¡Habiendo acompañado al pastor Gale en viajes misioneros, he sido testigo de los innegables relatos de provisión sobrenatural, sanidad, favor y ...

Descubrirás a un Jesús diferente, uno que cambiará radicalmente tu forma de ver a Dios, a ti mismo y a los demás; un Jesús que nunca se dará por vencido contigo y que jamás dejará de amarte. Él quiere que lo conozcas, que lo ames y que seas amado por Él. Esta es una perspectiva que cambia la vida, lo mucho que Jesús anhela ser tu amigo, y una garantía de que cuando comprendes a fondo el poder de este mensaje, tu vida se verá diferente. Todo cambiará, y entrarás en la experiencia más satisfactoria que puedas imaginar.

Amanda always had a thirst for adventure. Perhaps it stemmed from growing up without electricity and running water, in the middle of a natural wonderland. Along came Cocoa, her family’s new dog, and the two became the best of friends as they shared a love of the wild surroundings. But Amanda felt like there was something missing, something “more” she had to discover, and gets the push necessary to find it in Australia.

This unique spiritual and emotional healing guidebook for self-discovery contains over 120 inspirational writings to help the readers explore, pursue and recognize the immense power of their potential. Your Spiritual Purpose is abundant with motivational and engaging chapters of wisdom and enlightenment that is fitting for anyone at any point of their life. You are invited to participate in an intimate, personal self-exploratory conversation that helps you find your own answers, after clearly recognizing your true needs, deepest wishes and life-long desires. 1.You will find deep self-...

Dogs – truly a gift from Heaven. Dogs can teach you a thing or two about how to take a proper nap. They can also touch your heart with life-long lessons about love, loss, and loyalty. Twisty and True Tails of a Shelter Dog Matchmaker is about displaced dogs that took the winding road instead of the straight path to happiness. It provides spiritual perspective and encouragement – plus it’s a fun and easy listen.

Does failure, or feelings of failure, affect you to the point where you find it hard to move on? Do you avoid situations where you might fail or find it difficult to confront failure? Caris Grimes takes a frank, no-nonsense look at different aspects of failure and what we can learn from them. Using examples from the apparent failures within the ministry of Jesus and other Biblical stories together with academic research, Caris helps us to understand how God uses failure and what we can learn from failure in our personal lives and workplaces.

Stephen B. Kellough explores 10 critical truths and the habits that typically make or break a student’s spiritual life in college. Whether you are heading off to college, ministering to college students, or are the parent of a college-aged kid, Walking with Jesus on Campus will help you better understand how to tackle what lies ahead.