Tag: Disciples

Women of the Gospels Friends and Disciples of Jesus


Free Download Stephen J. Binz, "Women of the Gospels: Friends and Disciples of Jesus (Ancient-Future Bible Study)"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 158743282X | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.0 mb
Ancient-Future Bible Study incorporates contemporary study of the Bible with an experience of the church’s most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina. This time-honored practice consists of five basic movements: biblical study (lectio), reflection (meditatio), prayer (oratio), discernment (contemplatio), and contemplative action (operatio). In six clearly written volumes, bestselling author Stephen Binz helps readers study the Bible in a way that leads to spiritual transformation and brings them closer to God.

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Multiply Disciples Making Disciples


Free Download David Platt, "Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0781408237 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 1.1 mb
Jesus gave his followers a command: "Follow me." And a promise: "And I will equip you to find others to follow me."We were made to make disciples.

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Disciples of Flora Gardens in History and Culture


Free Download Victoria Emma Pagan, "Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture"
English | ISBN: 1443877565 | 2015 | 209 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Disciples of Flora explores, through a variety of approaches, disciplines, and historical periods, the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects, repositories of meaning, and sites for the construction of identity and subjectivity; gardens being an eminent locus where culture and nature meet. This collection of essays contributes to a revision of histories of gardens by broadening the scope of scholarly inquiry to include a long history from ancient Rome to the present, in which contesting memories delineate new apprehensions of topography and space. The contributors draw attention to alternative landscapes or gardening practices, while recalling the ways in which spaces have been invested with an affective dimension that has itself been historicized.

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