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1st presentation: "Ministry as Affecting the Minister": 2nd presentation: "Moral Loneliness within Life" and "Ministry as Affecting the Minister" : Ministry as both a Faith-drama and an Ego-drama. Schools of ministry are good at preparing us in how to do ministry. They are less adept in preparing us in terms of what ministry will do to us. How do we cope with the grandiosity that is triggered by success? How do we deal with the anger and bitterness that besets us when our ministry is going badly? How do we handle our sexuality inside all of this?

There is a divine healing power within you. It is a powerful force on which we all can depend. You can use this power to make wonderful things happen in your life. Not just coincidences, but scenarios in which you desire for something to happen, and it happens. This healing power you have doesn't require you to use any rituals or any formalities. It is a simple power, a manifestation of the divine within you.

Jon Kabat-Zinn makes it clear that the essence of meditative practice lies in how one lives one's life from moment to moment, in all its aspects and relationships, and not merely in formal meditative practices. This program offers an experience of mindfulness that is entirely congruent with our lives in the 21st Century: It is effective, portable, and easily adopted - a perfect antidote to life in the fast lane.

This book uses the playful image of the Universe like a Cosmic Kitchen, just waiting to take and fulfill your orders by means of affirmations and visualizations. The eight principles for placing effective orders with the Cosmic Kitchen are applied to career, prosperity, relationships, health, traveling, and finding your perfect home. It explains how to use the Law of Attraction and why affirmations together with feelings are the most powerful combination for achieving your dreams.

After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are hugely responsible for the mess we're in. But individuals CAN effect real, significant, and lasting change to solve this problem. Nicholas explores finding purpose in a warming world, combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent.

A pioneer in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness investigates modern mysticism. Dr. Caroline Myss examines the roots of mysticism, revealing the deep and rich "madness" that is unique to modern society, yet is also crucial to spiritual evolution.

The Life of Mohammed: The Sira is a condensed version of the biography of Mohammed, a man who became the first ruler of a united Arabia and laid the foundation for the empire of Islam. The Sira is not just a biography but it is also a sacred Islamic text of how devout Muslims should conduct their life. Mohammed's life is an epic story. He was an orphan who rose from poverty to become the first ruler of all of Arabia. He created a new religion, new methods of war, and a new political system, including a legal code, the Sharia.

John Gray, who celebrated gender difference in his groundbreaking work Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, turns to diet and exercise as a source of well-being and harmony. This practical audio guide addresses the unique needs of men and women to reveal how diet, exercise and communication skills combine to affect the production of healthy brain chemicals.

Discover Christianity's own unique tradition for experiencing God directly through meditation with The Beginner's Guide to Contemplative Prayer. Author James Finley, who as a young monk lived and prayed with Thomas Merton for six years at the Abbey of Gethsemani, shares the fruit of this authentic approach to prayer and its role at the center of Christian life.

Dr. Kerry Johnson is an international speaker, a coach, and the best-selling author of seven books, including Peak Performance and Behavioral Investing. In this audiobook he will make your telephone a profit center.

Be Happy! is the follow-up to Robert Holden's best-selling Happiness NOW! In this book, Robert gives you a front-row seat on his 8-week happiness program - famously tested by independent scientists for the BBC-TV documentary called "How to Be Happy". Step-by-step he introduces you to a set of proven techniques, principles, meditations, and insights that will help you be happy now!

If you're wondering how your bright, motivated little kid became such an unmotivated adolescent, you're not alone. Fortunately, help is at hand! Read by the author, this compassionate guide explains that kids who have lost the will to do anything (other than play video games) need more than simple encouragement or the “right” school, teacher, or coach to get back on track. Psychologist and learning expert Ellen Braaten helps you understand the myriad biological, psychological, and social factors that affect motivation.

There is no bigger mystery, nothing more compelling than the desire to know about "life after life". Jon Mundy, the respected longtime teacher and interpreter of A Course in Miracles, now investigates that enigma using insights from the course on mortality, death, and the afterlife. Mundy discusses facing death and learning to let go, the ephemeral nature of the physical body and the eternal reality of the mind, and the reawakening of our Spirit as the one true home.

Before Tererai Trent landed on Oprah's stage as her "favorite guest of all time", she was a woman with a forgotten dream. As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, she dreamed of receiving an education but instead was married young and by 18, without a high school graduation, she was already a mother of three. Tererai encountered a visiting American woman who assured her that anything was possible, reawakening her sacred dream. Tererai planted her dreams deep in the earth and prayed they would grow.

Sometimes we find the solutions to life's deepest mysteries in the most unlikely places. In hindsight, we often find that the most elusive answers were, in fact, right before our eyes. We simply didn't recognize them. Awakening the Power of a Modern God: Unlock the Mystery and Healing of Your Spiritual DNA deciphers the great spiritual mystery of how we interact with the forces of creation.

How do you handle crisis in your life? Where do you seek refuge in troubling times? When great challenges arise and emotional overwhelm sets in, are there spiritual tools and healing techniques you can use to diminish the pain and suffering? In this collection of audio lectures, Dr. David Hawkins teaches us how to recognize our inner power, realize the divinity within ourselves, and live our lives as a prayer.

In this next volume, the second in a series, led by Dr. Margaret Paul, you will join an exclusive members-only community of caring and supportive people who are working together and helping each other heal the cycle of shame and self-abandonment—and emerge as healthier and more joyful loving adults. Here, she expands upon the first audiobook in the series, providing additional inspirational mentoring, guided meditations, and laser coaching so that you can practice Inner Bonding more effectively and apply it to your life.

During times of betrayal, when we most need support, sometimes the ones we would turn to first are the betrayers. Other times, we’re saddled with shame and fear. But it’s during these times that we need to learn to trust again. This book offers support, comfort, and community to those struggling with feelings associated with betrayal and guides them to healing from painful experiences of it. Listeners will learn about and move through five stages from betrayal to breakthrough and will be lovingly guided with tools and strategies along the way.

This book provides recipes, as well as tons of tips, tricks, and tools culled directly from the Bright Line Eating community, the "Bright Lifers" themselves! Because Bright Line Eating is unlike any food program out there, this cookbook will be unlike any seen before. It's broken down by warm bowls, cold bowls, and plates. There will be a large section on salad dressings - because Bright Lifers live and die by their dressing! Note: There will not be any "cheat" foods, because those foods keep addiction alive in the brain, slow weight loss, and leave you vulnerable to old habits.

On the surface, this is a biography of an accomplished seeker who mastered the practices of yoga and brought a system for understanding the mysteries of body, mind, and spirit to students in the West. But, like the life of Swami Rama, this audiobook offers more than a sequence of astonishing events. As you read the stories of authentic guru-disciple relationships Swami Rama had both with his master and with his own students, you will see how the spiritual wisdom is transmitted through generations. This book also serves as a guide to advanced practices of yoga and tantra not commonly understood in modern times.