Book originally published in 1998 under title Standing on the Promises.
Author: Lewis B. Smedes
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
ISBN: 0785268804
Category: Religion
Page: 183
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Helping readers move beyond worry and fear, this easy-to-understand book helps them embrace the future with hope.For a Tomorrow We Cannot Control Lewis Smedes. hoping, you die. Inside. I do not hope because I am a Christian2 any more than a Jew hopes because she is a Jew. I hope because I am an anxious, struggling, suffering, longing, ...
Author: Lewis Smedes
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 9781418556655
Category: Religion
Page: 192
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In this fearful and cynical age, when doom-and-gloomers forecast catastrophe and fearmongers try to get us to hedge our bets on the future with insurance policies and safety nets, we need to rediscover real hope. Lewis Smedes says, "Hope is as native to our spirits as thinking is to our brain. Keep hoping, and you keep living. Stop hoping, and you start dying." He shows how hope powers every good thing we accomplish and helps us overcome every bad thing we encounter. He talks about how to keep hope alive in difficult times, discern false hope from true hope, and move beyond worry to trust in God.LEWIS SMEDES chose a provocative subtitle for his book Standing on the Promises: “Keeping Hope Alive for a Tomorrow We Cannot Control.” The seeds for the book were sown after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, when Smedes was led “from ...
Author: Harold Myra
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9781414346908
Category: Religion
Page: 375
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The One Year Book of Encouragement is a collection of insights from assorted Christian authors, past and present—from Oswald Chambers and Philip Yancey to John Calvin and John Wesley. Draw encouragement every day from the wisdom of the ages with this One Year book—it’s bound to be a classic!148 24 Smedes, Lewis, Keeping Hope Alive For a Tomorrow We Cannot Control, pub. by Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998, p. 18 25 The aspects of a wedding ceremony in the time of Moses are an educated guess, for sure. We do see this general ...
Author: David J. Lynden
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 9781512739459
Category: Religion
Page: 324
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The relationship with God is not a clich, but it does present its challenges. What if the struggle to connect with God has less to do with His invisibility and more to do with our spiritual autism- our confusion with God and subsequent retreat to religious routines? What if God is trying to connect with us much like a parent works to connect with their autistic child? Through the cover-to-cover story of the Bible, practical aids and his own experiences with his son, Micah, the author offers a pathway towards genuine eye contact with God.You can hope only for something you want, and if you really want it, you will long for it. ... Smedes, Standing on the Promises: Keeping Hope Alive for a Tomorrow We Cannot Control (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 11-25. voice of ...
Author: Cornelius Plantinga
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9781467427661
Category: Religion
Page: 171
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The Bible admonishes Christians to love God with the mind as well as with the heart. Engaging God's World clearly links this scriptural mandate with the pursuit of academic life, extolling the crucial role of Christian higher education in the intellectual and spiritual formation of believers. Chiefly intended to serve as a primer for students beginning college careers but valuable to thoughtful Christians at every stage of life, this volume spells out the central themes of the Christian faith from a Reformed perspective. More important, however, the book shows how Christian higher education fits inside a view of the world and of human life that is formed by these ideas. "Learning," Cornelius Plantinga writes, "is a spiritual calling; properly done, it attaches us to God." Approaching the topic of education from a variety of angles, Plantinga shows that Christ-centered learning teaches people to correctly see the world as God's creation, to see providence in history, to handle secular knowledge critically, to develop good judgment and, ultimately, to use faith-filled learning in the service of God's kingdom.Standing on the Promises: Keeping Hope Alive for a Tomorrow We Cannot Control. Nashville: Nelson, 1998. Smith, James K. A. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. ———.
Author: Steven Bouma-Prediger
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9781493410743
Category: Religion
Page: 208
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Addressing a topic of growing and vital concern, this book asks us to reconsider how we think about the natural world and our place in it. Steven Bouma-Prediger brings ecotheology into conversation with the emerging field of environmental virtue ethics, exploring the character traits and virtues required for Christians to be responsible keepers of the earth and to flourish in the challenging decades to come. He shows how virtue ethics can enrich Christian environmentalism, helping readers think and act in ways that rightly value creation.Standing on the Promises: Keeping Hope Alive for a Tomorrow We Cannot Control. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998. Smith, James K. A. Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church.
Author: Steven Bouma-Prediger
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9780801036958
Category: Nature
Page: 256
View: 218
This substantially revised and updated edition provides the most thorough evangelical treatment available on a theology of creation care.On a communitarian faith . " The Responsive Community , 12 ( 3 ) , 67-74 . Smedes , L. ( 1998 ) . Standing on the Promises : Keeping Hope Alive for a Tomorrow We Cannot Control . Nashville , TN : Thomas Nelson .
Author: Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412936993
Category: Education
Page: 200
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Publisher Description... on the Promises: Keeping Hope Alive for a Tomorrow We Cannot Control. Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson, 1998. Snyder, C. R., and others. “The Will and the Ways: Development and Validation of an Individual-Differences Measure of Hope.
Author: Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781119133223
Category: Education
Page: 224
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Study after study has concluded that no matter how competently managed a school may be, it is the bringing together of leadership and learning that makes the difference between ordinary and extraordinary performance. Strengthening the Heartbeat offers leaders a clear and compelling way to help their schools achieve extraordinary results. The proven principles outlined in this book can help any school build a culture of leadership and learning. Thomas J. Sergiovanni?a leading thinker in the educational leadership arena?shows how a strong heartbeat is a school's best defense against the obstacles leaders face as they work to change schools for the better. But strengthening the heartbeat of schools requires that we rethink what leadership is, how leadership works, what leadership's relationship is to learning, and why we need to practice both leadership and learning together. Filled with illustrative examples, Strengthening the Heartbeat shows how to build trust that leads to the creation of a vision and the building of a covenant that brings together principals, teachers, parents, and students to honor shared values, goals, and beliefs. When leaders are able to strengthen the heartbeat, their schools become stronger and more resilient. These qualities help leaders to share the burdens of leadership with others, to create collaborative cultures, and to be continuous learners. Leadership inevitably involves change and change inevitably involves learning. Using this book, school leaders will have the tools they need to make their schools the best they can be.Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Smedes, Lewis B. Standing on the promises : keeping hope alive for a tomorrow we cannot control / Lewis Smedes. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0785270086(hc) 1.
Author: Lewis Smedes
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 9781418559526
Category: Religion
Page: 192
View: 434
In this fearful and cynical age, when doom and gloomers forecast catastrophe and fear mongers try to get us to hedge our bets on the future with insurance policies and safety nets, we need to re-discover real hope. Lewis Smedes says, "Hope is as native to our spirits as thinking is to our brain. Keep hoping, you keep living. Stop hoping, you start dying". He shows how hope powers every good thing we accomplish and helps us overcome every bad thing we encounter. He talks about how to keep hope alive in difficult times, discern false hope from true hope, and move beyond worry to trust in God.