Learning To Believe Again

Learning to Believe Again guides people back to healing, hope, and belief by tackling some of the harder topics in the Bible in relation to healing from trauma, including: forgiveness, how to deal with abusive people, God’s unfailing love, and regaining self-worth, among other topics. At some point in their life, most people face a trauma or harrowing loss that leaves them questioning God’s presence, love, and protection. In the US alone, 1 in 3 people have experienced some form of domestic abuse, and an estimated 8 percent of Americans suffer from PTSD. Brittany Bexton takes readers on a 30-day devotional journey through the healing process, beginning with devotionals that address brokenness and loss. She then moves into days that address the challenges of trauma and abuse, providing practical, Biblical tools for healing and changing mindsets, before focusing on breakthroughs experienced through life’s journey. Each day includes a plethora of supporting scriptures, as well as space for readers to journal. Designed to either be an easy, bedside reader with digestible thoughts for the day or a tool for deeper Bible study, Learning to Believe Again offers hope for continued healing, restoration, and growth.

This book was written for those who have left their Christian faith or who have become what Bishop John Shelby Spong calls, believers in exile. It also speaks to those who are questioning their current Christian faith. It describes a mystical view of Christianity that incorporates Gnosticism, quantum physics, shamanism, cognitive psychology, Jungian psychology, and biblical scholarship. At the end of each chapter are prompts, questions, and activities that invite readers to make personal connections with the ideas presented. These are designed to be recorded in a journal. This book can be used with a book club, a study group, or individually. It will be a tool for your spiritual growth and renewal.

God is about to give the strength and courage to be healed at last. How thick is the wall you've built around your heart? Maybe your wall is only one-brick thick because of a hurt you experienced as a teenager. Or maybe your wall is concrete-slab thick because of the pain of a divorce or broken promise. Either way, you have decided not to trust-even God. This book speaks to the heart of your relationships and provides the tools to demolish the wall. Deep down you know that the wall you've built also keeps out the One who can restore you. Through true-life stories and God's Word you will learn: How to regain your emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Steps to rebuild relationships. 5 keys to regaining trust. 3 barriers to completely trusting God. What went wrong and how to fix it. Choose to empower yourself by Learning How to Trust...Again!

A New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country's most prominent anthropologists. Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people—from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society—can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann's book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.

Reinvention strategist Marshawn Evans Daniels delivers a practical and inspirational guide for women ready to reclaim their lives and discover a higher purpose, demonstrating that through disruption, life can become sweeter than you ever imagined—Believe Bigger is “your most inspiring girlfriend in book form” (Booklist). Marshawn Evans Daniels thought she was on the right path. She was an accomplished business woman and high-powered sports attorney ready to marry the man of her dreams—until she learned just days before a fairytale wedding that he was cheating on her. After this betrayal flipped her seemingly perfect world upside down, she found herself craving significance, not just success. Believe Bigger is about resilience, reclaiming your life, and discovering how God uses rejection, hardship, and unexpected circumstances to awaken something greater within...if you’re willing to embrace disruption. You’ll see her go from heartbroken and hitting rock bottom financially, to building a multi-million-dollar faith-centered enterprise and finding something super sweet along the way: a calling. Through Marshawn’s own “very compelling personal story of betrayal, heartbreak, and—in the end—healing” (Faith Jenkins, TV personality and host of Judge Faith) will show you how you too can turn pain into purpose. Believe Bigger is “a great guide to making seemingly impossible dreams a reality” (Michelle McKinney Hammond, bestselling author). Whether you are drowning in self-doubt and regret, feeling stuck, or sensing a shift but unable to discern what’s next, Marshawn’s Purpose Map outlining the 5 Stages of Divine Reinvention will give you insight into your true gifts and calling—and the courage to pursue them. You’ll see that difficulties are not designed to devastate you, but to ignite the bigger dreams, life, love, and abundance you were destined for all along.

Drawing on the Bible's wisdom, counselor Hersh reveals the secret to enduring life's heartaches and still coming up living wholeheartedly, loving with abandon, and daring to hope and believe.

In How to Believe in God, Clark Strand, an accomplished master of both Eastern and Western mystical practices, takes on the most troublesome and provocative passages from Judeo-Christian scripture, transforming the Bible into a manual of spiritual liberation for the twenty-first-century seeker. Offering a revolutionary new model of approaching the Bible, he frees those sacred scriptures from superstition, dogma, and tribalism, and in the process recovers their universal teaching on salvation and belief. Drawing on his personal experiences, including his Bible Belt upbringing, his years as a Buddhist monk, and his life as a father and husband in a small rural community, Strand makes even the most subtle spiritual teaching heartfelt and accessible. How to Believe in God illuminates a clear path to reclaiming a God that leaves nothing out and leaves no one behind. His open, gentle, pioneering approach to faith allows everyone—from churchgoing Christians to those with no religious affiliation at all—to experience the Bible in new and exciting ways.

“God, if you’re real, make yourself real to me.” Each of us spends our lives on a journey toward God. Yet often our most deeply felt longings—for meaning, for love, for significance—end up leading us away from, instead of toward, our Creator and the person he made us to be. Finding Your Way Back to God shows you how to understand and listen to your longings in a whole new way. It’s about waking up to who you really are, and daring to believe that God wants to be found even more than you want to find him. It’s about making the biggest wager of your life as you ask God to make himself known to you. And it’s about watching what happens next.

Believe Again, The North Pole Chronicles - is more than a Christmas story, it is an inspirational journey into a magical world of wonder and faith. This is the first in The Santa Claus Trilogy. It begins with the history before Santa's first delivery in 1799, and covers the time up to modern day, including handing the reins to his son, Nicholas XI. Learn how Santa came to use reindeer and make them fly and how he visits the entire Christian loving world on Christmas Eve. Explore how the elves of the North Pole came to exist and how so many gifts are produced for the most celebrated gift-giver in history. Santa can stop time, appear, and disappear in your home, and achieve many other miracles. This book explains how. Whether a child, teen, or senior, the whole family will know the truth, understand how it all happens, and Believe Again. Discussions with the Author What is The Santa Claus Trilogy? This is a three-part series that is a family read for everyone from preteen kids reading chapter books to the eldest great grand-parent. It answers a great many mysteries and legends about Santa Claus while entertaining the reader with imaginative fantasies and real events of the world. Is it only about Christmas? The books revolve around Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus and the goings-on at the North Pole. But the time frame involves the full year. Only one book (Faith, Hope & Reindeer) takes place solely at Christmastime. Believe Again takes place from the late 1700's until modern day and involves many historical events and how they affect Santa and the entire North Pole. What is the order of the books? Believe Again, The North Pole Chronicles is the first book in the series. Faith, Hope & Reindeer is the second in the series. Glaciers Melt and Mountains Smoke is the third in the series. Also related: The Faces of Krampus, which is the story of Black Peter, the assistant to St. Nicholas. Aeon Millennium, The Time-Traveling Elf, is set to be released in Fall, 2018. Can readers get the whole series in one bundle? You may purchase The Santa Claus Trilogy as a collection containing all three books in the box set. So, why should readers give these books a try? Many of the mysteries and misbeliefs about Santa and his helpers are explained in very logical terms, but with a very entertaining storyline. With the adventures Santa has, it honestly will have the whole family believing in Santa Claus and the North Pole like never before. And if you are a teacher, or are homeschooling, the history in Believe Again makes it a delightful way to teach actual events of the world. -- Joe Moore

What happens when a ‘father’ appears to take his ‘daughter’ home from the orphanage one day? What happens when a blind Hindu girl falls in love with a Muslim man? What happens when a little girl in Delhi reads the diary of another young girl in Germany and decides that she will make sure that every person lives with dignity and rights? What if a woman discovers that the coveted job in a foreign land actually had her trafficked? What if a Dalit woman has to choose between making a personal sacrifice and remaining an inspiration to the girls in her little village? What if a woman refuses to be rescued? This book tells us stories of 108 women from the heart of Delhi – stories of courage, rebellion, survival, resilience, resistance, and victories. Stories of women you may have met or passed by in your home, neighborhood, workplace, or in your city. In the 108th year of Delhi as the nation’s capital, this book is a big shout-out to all women who inspire.