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  Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices

 
Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $17.99
Sale: $11.31
 
Manufacturer: BarnaBooks
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Frank Viola::George Barna
Publisher: BarnaBooks
Dewey Decimal Number: 262.0017
Publication Date: 2008-01
Reading Level: 336
 
Description: Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning? Why do we "dress up" for church? Why does the pastor preach a sermon each week? Why do we have pews, steeples, choirs, and seminaries? This volume reveals the startling truth: most of what Christians do in present-day churches is not rooted in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the apostles. Coauthors Frank Viola and George Barna support their thesis with compelling historical evidence in the first-ever book to document the full story of modern Christian church practices.

 

  Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2009 (Sacred Space)

 
Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2009 (Sacred Space) under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $14.95
Sale: $10.17
 
Manufacturer: Ave Maria Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Ave Maria Press
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 242
Publication Date: 2008-09
Reading Level: 376
 
Description: The simple, time-honored method of prayer based on scripture presented in Sacred Space has become a worldwide phenomenon. This entirely new edition provides readings and prayer starters for every day of the year.

Now in its fifth year, the best-selling Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2009 offers busy Christians an aid to daily prayer and meditation that is both nourishing and well-suited to the fast-paced life of busy people. Offering daily meditations in the Jesuit tradition, Sacred Space is scriptural, down to earth, and filled with solid Ignatian insights. Sacred Space: The Prayer Book 2009 is sure to help anyone with a hectic life make their workplace, school, or home a sacred place to stay in communication―and communion―with God!


 

  The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life

 
The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $24.95
Sale: $15.25
 
Manufacturer: Collins Design
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Joyce Schwarz
Publisher: Collins Design
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.32
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
Reading Level: 208
 
Description:

Find out who you are and achieve what you most want in life with The Vision Board. Through the exercises and inspirational success stories included in this book, you can clarify your true vision and create a personal vision board. Learn the five secrets to living the life of your dreams.


 

  Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow (Complete Works of Forrest Church)

 
Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow (Complete Works of Forrest Church) under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $22.00
Sale: $11.71
 
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Forrest Church
Publisher: Beacon Press
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.1092
Publication Date: 2008-09-17
Reading Level: 145
 
Description: On a February day in 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer; his life would now be measured in months, not years. In that remarkable letter, he wrote: "In more than one respect, I feel very lucky." He went on to promise that he would sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his work—love and death—in a final book.

Church has been justly celebrated as a writer of American history, but his works of spiritual guidance have been especially valued for their insight and inspiration. As a minister, Church defined religion as "our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die." The goal of life, he tells us "is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for." This last book in his impressive oeuvre is imbued with ideas and exemplars for achieving that goal. The stories he offers—drawn from his own experiences and from the lives of his friends, family, and parishioners—are both engrossing and enlightening. Forrest Church's final work may be his most lasting gift to his readers.

"Forrest Church, a deeply spiritual but always practical visionary, is a minister to us all with this moving and instructive book on the lessons of life and death. A lovely, important book."
—Tom Brokaw

"Truly a gift, one that will echo in my own preaching and teaching, and in my own life as well. Like Moses gazing at the Promised Land he would not enter, Forrest Church blesses us with his eloquence, his faith, and, mostly, his love."
—Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"Love & Death is transformative. I was not prepared for the power of this splendid, soaring book. It totally captured me."
—Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Creating a Life

"In the midst of an extremity for which there is no euphemism—the prospect of his own imminent death—Forrest Church has written a book that defies the usual adjectives. It is poignant, moving, candid, and eloquent; but it is also so much more. Love & Death, a meditation on the end of life, is really a book about life—a book that shows us how to love ourselves and others, how to know God, how to live. I read it with inexpressible gratitude."
—James Atlas, author of My Life in the Middle Ages

"Forrest Church is one of our great prophetic intellectuals and compassionate voices. His poignant and wise words on the two ultimate realities of our journey—love and death—reveal his grand courage and vision."
—Cornel West, author of Race Matters

"This beautiful book by a matchless preacher, poet, and author is Forrest Church in his finest hour."
—Senator George McGovern

 

  A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

 
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $15.95
Sale: $4.98
 
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 291.211
Publication Date: 1994-08-09
Reading Level: 496
 
Description: Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for God. Like all beloved historians, Armstrong entertains us with deft storytelling, astounding research, and makes us feel a greater appreciation for the present because we better understand our past. Be warned: A History of God is not a tidy linear history. Rather, we learn that the definition of God is constantly being repeated, altered, discarded, and resurrected through the ages, responding to its followers' practical concerns rather than to mystical mandates. Armstrong also shows us how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have overlapped and influenced one another, gently challenging the secularist history of each of these religions. --Gail Hudson

 

  The Seven Storey Mountain

 
The Seven Storey Mountain under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $16.00
Sale: $6.98
 
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Harvest Books
Edition: Anv
Dewey Decimal Number: 271.12502
Publication Date: 1999-10-04
Reading Level: 496
 
Description: In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton's autobiographical reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. The best reason to read The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be the one Merton provided in his introduction to its Japanese translation: "I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both." --Michael Joseph Gross

 

  Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

 
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $15.00
Sale: $8.08
 
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Jim Marrs
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
Reading Level: 480
 
Description:

In this astonishing book, celebrated reporter and New York Times -; bestselling author Jim Marrs painstakingly explores the world's most closely guarded secrets, exposing clandestine cabals and the power they have wielded throughout time.  Defiantly rooting out the truth, he unearths starting evidence that the real movers and shakers covertly collude to start and stop wars, manipulate stock markets and interest rates, maintain class distinctions, and even censor the six o'clock news.  And they do all this under the mindful auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, the CIA, and even the Vatican.

Drawing on historical evidence and his own impeccable research, Mars carefully traces the mysteries that connect these modern-day conspiracies to humankind's prehistory.  The eye-opening result is an extraordinary synthesis of historical information -; much of it long hidden from the public -; that sheds light on the people and organizations that rule our lives.

Disturbing, provocative, and utterly compelling, Rule by Secrecy offers a singular worldview that may explain who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.


 

  The How-To Book of the Mass: Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You

 
The How-To Book of the Mass: Everything You Need to Know but No One Ever Taught You under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $13.95
Sale: $8.26
 
Manufacturer: Our Sunday Visitor
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Michael Dubruiel
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Edition: Revised and Expanded
Dewey Decimal Number: 264.0203
Publication Date: 2007-03-19
Reading Level: 272
 
Description: Maybe you are a recent convert, or perhaps you've attended Mass your whole life, but there are still things that puzzle you, like: when you should genuflect and when you should bow; what the different books used at Mass are and what they contain; the meaning of words like "Amen," "Alleluia," or "Hosanna"; what to do during the sign of peace.

You aren't alone.

The How-to Book of the Mass not only provides the who, what, where, when, and why of the most time-honored traditions of the Catholic Church, but also the how. All in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand format.

In this complete guide to the celebration of the Eucharist you get:

  • Step-by-step guidelines to walk you through the Mass
  • Biblical background of the prayers of the Mass
  • Insights from the Tradition and teaching of the Church
  • Practical aid to overcoming distractions
  • Concrete ways to grow in your relationship with Jesus Christ at every Mass
  • A handy study guide for individual or group use


 

  The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth

 
The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $21.95
Sale: $11.00
 
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Scott Hahn
Publisher: Doubleday
Dewey Decimal Number: 264.02036
Publication Date: 1999-11-09
Reading Level: 174
 
Description: The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth reawakens a surprising ancient view of the Eucharist, as the harbinger of the supernatural drama described by the New Testament book of Revelation. Catholic theologian Scott Hahn thinks that many worshippers receive the sacrament of communion without ever considering its links to the end of the world, the Apocalypse, and the Second Coming. Hahn wants to change our minds; he wants us to know that "The Mass--and I mean every single Mass--is heaven on earth." Literally. So, Hahn declares, "Now heaven has been unveiled for us with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ ... Jesus Christ Himself says to you: 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with Me' (Rv. 3:20)." Hahn's enthusiasm, as evident even from these short quotes, is considerable--and infectious. Furthermore, he delivers his arguments with great levity (demonstrated in chapter titles such as "Oath Meal"), which makes The Lamb's Supper quite a tasty read. --Michael Joseph Gross

 

  Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day

 
Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day under Other Practices in The Books Store
Price: $18.95
Sale: $11.87
 
Manufacturer: Ave Maria Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Macrina Wiederkehr
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 242
Publication Date: 2008-04
Reading Level: 224
 
Description: Author and retreat leader Macrina Wiederkehr opens the monastery door and invites readers to come in and learn how the practice of consciously pausing for prayer at the seven sacred moments of each day can make their daily passage through time a more sacred pilgrimage.

Using scripture, poetry, reflections. personal stories, and quotes from a rich array of spiritual teachers, Wiederkehr helps readers become more attuned to living in the present moment and develop a kindred spirit with the rich tradition of the sacred hours. Seven Sacred Pauses is a wonderful gift to those who seek to find balance in their busy days and to bring the practice of the Divine Hours home to their own hearts.


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