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| Author | : Sydney Hall Evans |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 21 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 072830144X |
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Fairacres Publications 127 Using the fairground image of a Hall of Mirrors, which distorts our normal appearance, Sydney Evans invites us to walk through a metaphorical Hall of Seven Mirrors to attain a clearer vision of the truth. These mirrors are seven paradoxes of the Christian life enumerated by St Paul in the Second Letter to the Corinthians, such as that we ‘are taken for … people having nothing though we have everything.’ The challenges presented by these paradoxes can shape a lifetime of ministry. This was the last of many memorable addresses given by Sydney Evans to theological students at King’s College, London.
| Author | : James F. Wellington |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 46 |
| Release | : 2020-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728300311 |
Download Journeying with the Jesus Prayer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years more and more Christians in the West have been discovering the many blessings of the Jesus Prayer. This prayer originated among the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the Eastern Mediterranean around fifteen hundred years ago, and for centuries has inspired and enabled Christians of the Orthodox Church to find a deeper relationship with God through the continual rhythmic repetition of the short prayer, ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me’. In this book, James F. Wellington tells the story of his own journey with the prayer, highlighting the graces which he has received on his travels. These include unceasing prayer, inner watchfulness, stillness of heart, and perfect longing. He concludes with a celebration of what the Jesus Prayer has taught him, and is still teaching him, about the inner geography of the human heart.
| Author | : Bruce Batstone |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 46 |
| Release | : 2023-09-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728303639 |
Download Still Listening: Sowing the Seeds of the Jesus Prayer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
I have conversations with people about how they pray the Jesus Prayer as they walk the city streets, as they travel on buses or on the Tube, as they cycle, or as they sit at home. From these experiences I have come more and more to see the Jesus Prayer as a way of praying well suited to urban life; a form of attentiveness practice that can help us to grow in God-experience amid the changes and chances of metropolitan living. This book explains the prayer, its ethos, and how to begin to practise it in daily life.
| Author | : John Townroe |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 53 |
| Release | : 2022-01-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728303221 |
Download Jesus the Undistorted Image of God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fairacres Publication 192 The Eastern Orthodox description of Jesus as ‘the undistorted image of God’ is based on texts such as ‘the Gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God’ (2 Corinthians 4:4). This is the author’s favourite statement of belief about Jesus in relation to God and of the mysterious attractiveness of Jesus who draws everyone without distinction to God. Christ’s image is inescapable, even when rejected. There seems to be no way of avoiding this person who puzzles, yet attracts, the world. Based on a series of retreat talks, this book may be used for personal private reflection, as material for a group or as a foundation for leading a retreat for others. Each chapter discusses a particular aspect of the personhood of Jesus: His attractiveness, energy, gentleness, fierceness, confidence and steadfastness, and concludes with suggestions for applying the theme to our daily lives.
| Author | : Tony Dickinson |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728303272 |
Download Lent With George Herbert Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fairacres Publication 194 The poems of George Herbert (1593–1633) have nurtured the faith of countless Anglican Christians, and others, since their posthumous publication in 1633. Described by the poet as ‘a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus my Master’, Herbert’s poetry weaves together recognition of the glory and diversity of God’s creation and of the ingenuity of human beings in their attempts to map and control that creation, awareness of human frailty and sinfulness, and awed realisation of the infinite love of God. The themes of frailty and forgiveness underlying Herbert’s poetry also mark the season of Lent. In recognition of this, Tony Dickinson takes eight of the poems that tackle these great themes (relevant as much to the twenty-first century as to the seventeenth) and week by week through Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day, unpacks the language in which George Herbert explores them; language that often appears direct and simple, but whose simplicity frequently conceals a depth and density of meaning that few other writers can match.
| Author | : Sister Susan SLG |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : 2022-03-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728303248 |
Download Our Deepest Desire: Prayer, Fasting & Almsgiving in the Writings of Augustine of Hippo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fairacres Publication 193 This is a book about the practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving as we meet them in the teaching of St Augustine of Hippo. He is generally acclaimed as someone who has had enormous influence on Christian theology and much has been written about him by scholars. However, apart from a number of translations of the Confessions, few of his writings are accessible to the ordinary reader, even though, as Bishop of Hippo, he constantly wrote and preached for his people. The first part of this book presents Augustine’s teaching on three central practices of Christian living—prayer, fasting and almsgiving—with reference to his sermons and his commentaries on the Psalms. The second part places it alongside some recent authors who demonstrate how this triad continues to be of value to Christians today. Although it has been conceived as a Lent book, this text provides a reflective introduction to these ways of Christian living in whatever season of the Church’s year a reader picks it up.
| Author | : Kallistos Ware |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728303345 |
Download The Power of the Name Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fairacres Publications 43 Re-printed many times since it was first published, and translated into numerous languages, this book by METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE OF DIOKLEIA, is an invaluable guide at every stage of spiritual pilgrimage. It is a classic exposition of the Jesus Prayer and its use in the Hesychast Orthodox tradition of the prayer of stillness, and the author shows how anyone who prays can apply this teaching to themselves.
| Author | : Andy Lord |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 54 |
| Release | : 2021-05-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728303124 |
Download River of the Spirit: The Spirituality of Simon Barrington-Ward Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fairacres Publications 189 In this study of the spirituality of one of the Anglican Church’s great spiritual leaders the author considers the ways in which spirituality can represent our patterns of life with God that merge experience, prayer, community, theology and mission. Each chapter focuses on aspects of the great Easter and liturgical themes of life, death, resurrection and outpoured Holy Spirit. The image of the river of the Spirit provides a practical way into living with Christ, shaped by His passion, for the transformation of the world. It is a way that draws together different traditions in a world embracing spirituality embodied in, and beyond, the Jesus Prayer.
| Author | : Alexander Ryrie |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728301407 |
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Fairacres Publications 124 Using the words of the Russian Orthodox spiritual teacher, St Theophan, that in prayer we should ‘stand with the mind in the heart’, Sandy Ryrie explains how to use short phrases to still the mind and enable us to rest with our attention set on God. In standing before God, we open ourselves to God’s work in us. The author then explores the particular situation of night prayer. In hours of darkness and sleeplessness, we are vulnerable to the anxieties and fears which daytime activity sometimes holds at bay, but at night the spirit may also become more aware of the reality of God and more ready to pray.
| Author | : Christine North |
| Publisher | : SLG Press |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0728303396 |
Download A Kind of Watershed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fairacres Publications 111 The watershed shown on the front cover is Striding Edge in the Helvellyn area of the Lake District. The shadow on one side of the ridge and light on the other are a striking visual image of the experience of forgiveness and new life which the author has come to associate with repentance. Her personal introduction to this sacrament explains why to go to confession and how to set about it. As Michael Mayne says in his foreword, ‘Those who have known that sense of liberation, even resurrection, within the context of sacramental confession will not need Chris North’s words to confirm their own experience. Others, who are not aware that confession is available or are suspicious of this good Anglican practice, may be reassured and encouraged to explore for themselves this most costly yet rewarding of ways of encountering the grace of God.
