Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas
10 best books like Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas (Thomas Aquinas): Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter, The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found, Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer (Madonna House Classics Vol.1), Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace, The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things, The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God, Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd, It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier, Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0874869269 |
Though Easter is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it.
A time for self-denial, soul-searching, and spiritual...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0062516396 |
From critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize runner-up Frederick Buechner comes another powerfully honest memoir, The Eyes of the Heart. Full of poinant insights into his most personal relationships, this moving account traces how the author was shaped as much by his family's secrets as...
Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer (Madonna House Classics Vol.1)
| Author | Catherine de Hueck Doherty |
| ISBN | 0921440545 |
Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer The renowned modern spiritual classic! Catherine Doherty brings readers the profound traditions of Christian spirituality surrounding the Russian word poustinia, which means desert. Catherine combines her insights into the great...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0375705635 |
In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim...
| Author | Leighton Ford |
| ISBN | 0830835164 |
Your attention, please. That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ. Distractions, fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with paying...
| Author | Leslie Leyland Fields |
| ISBN | 1608995925 |
Description: You are invited to a feast for the senses and the spirit! Thirty-four adventurous writers open their kitchens, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation. All bring a keen eye and palette to...
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| ISBN | 0824947061 |
This book was the breath of fresh air I've been needing for a long time. I love SMK's writing, especially her spiritual writings. This book is a compilation of all the short narratives she wrote for Guideposts when she was just starting out as a writer. I usually write down quotes that I love from books I'm...
It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God
| Author | Ned Bustard |
| ISBN | 0978509714 |
This book is a collection of over twenty essays on issues relating to making art from a Christian perspective. The volume is filled with color artwork from Michelangelo to Makoto Fujimura and from Rembrandt to Tim Hawkinson.
From the back cover:
What does it mean to be a creative individual...
| Author | Tony Jones |
| ISBN | 0787994715 |
What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about...
| Author | David Steindl-Rast |
| ISBN | 1569752974 |
Read this little book in preparation for and on a Quiet Retreat. It was a helpful overview of the monastic hours of the day and the gifts each hour brings. A great book to read to help re-cover a sense of the rhythms of our days and years.
I particularly like the chapter on the hour of Prime in that it...
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0664234291 |
"There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ."
"No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian...
| Author | Kimberlee Conway Ireton |
The seasons tell a story. Are you listening? The church year is a uniquely Christian way of marking time. When Kimberlee Conway Ireton began to understand this, even the most ordinary incidents of her life began to resonate with the stories of Scripture. In this book, Kimberlee follows the structure...
| Author | Adam Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0687649692 |
Everyone agrees that America is polarized, with ever-hardening positions held by people less and less willing to listen to one another. No one agrees on what to do about it.
One solution that hasn't yet been tried, says Adam Hamilton, is for thinking persons of faith to model for the rest of the...
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060836970 |
Too often, our study of the Bible focuses on searching for specific information or some formula that will solve our pressing needs of the moment. But what if we approached the Bible differently, and instead of transforming the text to meet our needs, allowed it to transform us?
That's exactly...
| Author | The Northumbria Community |
| ISBN | 0060013249 |
The Ancient Paths of Northumbria in northeastern England have been trod by generations of men and women who loved God and followed Jesus, bringing faith, hope, and love to vast numbers of people. Today, the Northumbria Community remains a living expression of this monastic, contemplative stream...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 0849901197 |
A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
This book sets out to open what may at first...
| Author | Benedict XVI |
| ISBN | 1592764401 |
I've just finished this and already I am ready to begin it again ... except for the fact that now I have so many other excellent and learned men I want to read. Where to begin?
Pope Benedict's book is a fine introduction to the Church Fathers, but it is only that, an introduction. He barely scratches...
The Ascent of Mount Carmel
| Author | Juan de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 1428614001 |
Written between 1578 and 1579 in Granada, Spain, after John's escape from prison, the Ascent is illustrated by a diagram of the process outlined in the text of the Soul's progress to the summit of the metaphorical Mount Carmel where God is encountered. The work is divided into three sections and is set...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 1561011576 |
"Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching--not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God." In these 1997 Lyman...
With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 1570751161 |
Excellent book to read during lent. ☺️.
The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0877887268 |
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes… –Madeleine L’Engle, from The Rock That Is...
