The Transformational Power of Forgiveness reveals precious biblical pearls that will unlock the portals to divine healing and inner peace to your body, spirit, and soul. Inside you will discover that forgiveness offers a wealth of mental and physical benefits, while unforgiveness is linked to many health challenges, including the possibility of cancer. You will uncover that the act of forgiveness gives you the power to make a difference in the world. Also, you will find an interactive study guides packed with valuable tools to strengthen, encourage, and empower you through the healing journey.

The hard spiritual work of forgiveness is the conduit to a life-changing transformation into the character of Jesus Christ, for we are never closer to the likeness of Christ than when we forgive one that has sinned against us. Seventy Times Seven: The Transforming Power of Forgiveness seeks to help you understand that forgiveness is an often-lengthy process of letting go—releasing the offender to God—with the end result being you are no longer living life in the shadow of the offense. It presents a clear understanding of what forgiveness is and is not, as well as biblical and scientific evidence of the effects of unforgiveness on one’s life. Along the way, author Robin E. Clifton blends her spiritual and scientific backgrounds with her life experiences to present an authentic, engaging, and enlightening discussion of forgiveness and the remarkable transformation it can bring. You can learn to trust God wholeheartedly and use what He provides to guide you through your life, both giving and receiving forgiveness. Thought-provoking and insightful, this exploration and Bible study examines the transformation that forgiveness can bring into your life

Naturally, as Christians, we are often perplexed and distressed by the many diverse storms, trials, and fires that we encounter on a daily basis, but God is desirous that we comprehend that our trials are preparing and positioning us for our next level of blessings. The lessons that our present storms or fires are teaching now are necessary prerequisites for the new season that is about to come. I strongly believe that how you master your now will ultimately determine how you respond to your tomorrow. There are numerous hidden blessings in your storm, and if you would take the time to appreciate, digest, and evaluate them, you can discover that your storm can easily transition you closer to your purpose and destiny. Transformation In The Midst of Transition teaches you how to: Embrace the benefits and opportunities of your storm by allowing it to transform you and transition you into a new level of spiritual growth and development. Utilize it as a coaching guide to help you navigate effectively through the contemptuous storms and fiery trials of life. Appreciate the lessons of your past and understand that there is more to your life than what you are currently going through, by encouraging you to focus rather on where and what God is taking you to. Manage and cope with the new devils at your new levels. Survive and prosper from the storms that you will encounter. Comprehend that your storms were designed with your maturity in mind. Analyze the storms in your life and how to discover the purpose of each storm. Your trials are designed to mature and refine you, so do not run away from them or allow yourself to get all impulsively before the work that was intended is accomplished. Your trials are meant to bless and reposition you to another level where you learn how to praise God in the midst of your storm, and subsequently for the storm! When you look back you realize that the storms were designed with your maturity in mind! You learn how to give God thanks in all of your circumstances, knowing that you will come out better when you were tempted to be bitter!

This book has arrived on this planet on a Divine time and fashion. Its arrival aligns with the birthing of our New World of light. This is a brilliant and complete guide that supports us in our spiritual work to manifesting this shift to our greater selves. This book is profoundly relevant at such a time as this! Rev.A Peazer There is a global call for the Spiritual transformation of people everywhere. We cannot deny that there is a major shift in the consciousness of the human race. This book is written with love as a tool for transformation one mind, one heart one soul at a time; it is suitable as a counseling tool, Clergy use, and for individual, family and group edification. It offers support through practical wisdom to transform the reader into an empowered being. It offers light for the overcoming of lack, fears, doubt, mediocrity, addictions, relationship and parenting issues, illness, work, self-sabotage and stagnation. It also offers support to those desiring to live their purpose in wholeness and elegance. The Author uses her experience of feeling pain when she mistakenly thought that she was injured. When she realized that she was not injured the pain stopped instantly! This serves to inspire readers to observe how their own thoughts affect their lives and to become aware of the relationship between mind and matter. The reader is lovingly supported through each step while their thought pattern becomes affirmatively reprogramed. I trust that you realize that as your mind is renewed you become transformed. You will also realize that you can heal, prosper, and find peace and joy beyond your fondest imagination. I pray that as you practice these principles you can say with authority, The yoke of Affirmative prayer is easy and its burden is light beloveds, There is Transforming power in Affirmative prayer.It works when You work It!

THE JOURNEY OF FORGIVENESS: Fulfilling The Healing Process, first and foremost, emphasizes the process nature of forgiveness. The author, a former psychotherapist, has come to believe that forgiveness is not an event willed by an ego which desires to be free of guilt, which may long for connection with those who have harmed oneself, or which hopes to comply with the admonitions modern awareness gurus. Rather, forgiveness, the author insists, is a conscious journey requiring a thorough knowledge of the offense(s) and its effects, as well as the most essential pre-requisite, self-forgiveness. The book offers a compassionate yet courageous challenge to look deeply into the wounds inflicted, the emotional and spiritual effects of the wounds, and the psyche of the offender(s) in order to enter and complete what is nothing less than a daunting rite of passage. The author's style, poignant, poetic, and frequently disturbing, relentlessly dispels all illusions of quick-fix forgiveness but offers supportive, no-nonsense exercises for embarking on a life-changing, transformative journey.

Jocelyn Bryan provides a psychological perspective on key aspects of human nature and behaviour drawing on recent research and reflect on the issues this raises for theology and ministry. The aim is to introduce theology students, those studying practical theology and those engaged in ministerial formation or ministry to the significant current research in psychology which will deepen understanding of some of the core aspects of human nature. The interdisciplinary nature of the exercise aims to model the benefits of such an approach for both theology and ministerial practice and as such the book aims to cross traditional boundaries. The objective is to introduce the reader to new fields of academic psychology beyond those of counselling and psychoanalysis, dated personality psychology and the popular psychology which is often referred to in publications in the area of ministerial practice and enable the reader to engage with recent psychological research and developments.

In this outstanding Christian Education resource, the entire Bible Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 is divided into teachable units. There are many link-to-life ideas to help teach each unity to any age group.

While forgiveness has historically been regarded as a religious concern, it has also become a popular topic in contemporary psychology. Unfortunately, there has been little effort to combine a Christian understanding of forgiveness with psychology. The Faces of Forgiveness, winner of the Narramore Award from the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, steps in to fill this void. The authors fuse Christian forgiveness and psychology with the unifying motif of the face; thereby building on the considerable psychological research linking emotions related to forgiveness with the human face. At a deeper level, the face can serve as a metaphor for integrating forgiveness, wholeness, and salvation. The authors argue that forgiveness should take a central role in our understanding of salvation because it is warranted by the Bible and engages our postmodern context. Pastors, psychologists, family counselors, and students of psychology and theology will find The Faces of Forgiveness a helpful resource.

This is the final volume in a unique new commentary series that helps the preacher identify and reflect on the social implications of the biblical readings in the Revised Common Lectionary. The essays concentrate on the themes of social justice in the weekly texts and how those themes can be teachable moments for preaching social justice in the church. In addition to the lectionary days, there are essays for twenty-two "Holy Days of Justice," including Martin Luther King Day, Earth Day, World AIDS Day, and Children's Sabbath. These days are intended to enlarge the church's awareness of God's call for justice and of the many ways that call comes to the church and world today.

Walter Wink's widely acclaimed trilogy from Fortress Press - Naming the Powers 0-8006-1786-X (1984), Unmasking the Powers 0-8006-1902-1 (1993), and Engaging the Powers 0-8006-2646-X (1992) - has sold over 80,000 copies. The Powers are good; the Powers are fallen; the Powers must be redeemed, says Wink; and the illustrious theologians and ethicists in this volume apply this suggestive analysis to economics, politics and government, war and peace, personal ethics and ecological and social justice.Contributors include: Ray Gingerich, Eastern Mennonite University Ted Grimsrud, Eastern Mennonite University Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary Daniel Liechty, Illinois State University Walter Wink, Auburn Theological Seminary Willard M. Swartley, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary