Profound reflections on the cross that help you to meditate on and marvel at the sacrificial love of Jesus. This book can be used as a devotional, especially during Lent and Easter. These profound reflections on the cross from David Mathis, author of The Christmas We Didn’t Expect, will help you to meditate on and marvel at Jesus’ life, sacrificial death, and spectacular resurrection-enabling you to treasure anew who Jesus is and what he has done. Many of us are so familiar with the Easter story that it becomes easy to miss subtle details and difficult to really enjoy its meaning. This book will help you to pause and marvel at Jesus, whose now-glorified wounds are a sign of his unfailing love and the decisive victory that he has won: “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) This book can be used as a devotional. The chapters on Holy Week make it especially helpful during the Lent season and at Easter.

Central to God’s character is the quality of holiness. Yet, even so, most people are hard-pressed to define what God’s holiness precisely is. Many preachers today avoid the topic altogether because people today don’t quite know what to do with words like “awe” or “fear.” R. C. Sproul, in this classic work, puts the holiness of God in its proper and central place in the Christian life. He paints an awe-inspiring vision of God that encourages Christian to become holy just as God is holy. Once you encounter the holiness of God, your life will never be the same.

Through His Wounds We Are Healed by Catholic Book, Publishing provides a profound spiritual experience by, exploring the importance of the Way of the Cross. In, Through His Wounds We Are Healed, author Vojtech Kodet, O. Carm. leads us on a journey of spiritual awareness, demonstrating how the Way of the Cross can be a great, way to unite ourselves and the difficulties we face, more intimately with Christ in His sufferings. Through, His Wounds We Are Healed awakens us to how we can, in, this new understanding and unity with Christ, experience His healing power. This deeply comforting, book is a tremendous resource for anyone experiencing, challenges, illnesses, or any form of suffering.

Knowable Word offers a foundation on why and how to study the Bible. Through a running study Genesis 1, this new edition illustrates how to Observe, Interpret, and Apply the Scripture-and gives the vision behind each step.

A pastor’s heart is revealed in By His Wounds: Meditations on the Passion. Tom Kingery, a retired United Methodist pastor and the author of several books that have helped Christians ignite their faith, explores the story of Christ’s suffering, death, and burial in this inspiring work. The author examines what it means that our Savior died for our sins, graciously taking our punishment on Himself. With a scholar’s imagination, he also reveals the character of the people around Jesus. He considers questions such as: How can we follow the example of Christ in our daily life? How can we be soldiers of the cross? What does it mean to “keep awake and pray?” When do we need our faith the most? With various meditations, readers are asked to put themselves in the garden of Gethsemane and wonder. How did Jesus feel? Moreover, what did Pilate think as he faced his dilemma, and what could it have been like to watch Jesus die? Deepen your faith, become a better Christian, and get answers to important questions with these meditations.

Balancing sound biblical exposition with sensitive pastoral care, Stephen Seamands shows that because Jesus experienced abuse, shame and rejection, he understands the hurts we experience today. And Jesus' response to pain and suffering gives us hope that we too can experience forgiveness and new life.

Power and Purpose In the Wounds of Jesus explains the significance of each of the injuries suffered by Jesus Christ during His crucifixion, revealing how He truly defeated the devil that day on Calvary. While reading about the tremendous suffering that He endured on our behalf, readers will learn the spiritual significance of each of Christ's wounds, Satan's purpose in inflicting them, and the blessing we receive as a result. By knowing the truth behind Jesus's wounds, readers will know they can overcome anything and prevail over everything because of this power that is within us.

Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling information and high anxiety. Drawing on his years of rural and urban experience, Dr. Hilfiker lets us all know what it really feels like to be a doctor. What do you do when you make a serious medical mistake? Is it enjoyable to play God? What do you say to a patient who wants reassurance when the essence of diagnosis is uncertainty? What about money? What happens when a patient is taking forever, your waiting room is full, and you want to get home? Dr. Hilfiker uses incidents from his own practice to examine many of the kinds of behavior for which doctors are criticized—aloofness, authoritarianism, lack of caring, and money. With compassion for doctor and patient alike, he shows how the stresses of medical practice lead to a climate of misunderstanding and hostility in which the goal of healing is the first casualty. Never before have we heard the voice of the doctor ever American is most likely to meet—the family doctor—telling the often painful truths of medical practice. A book for the medical community and the lay person alike, Healing the Wounds is a powerful exploration of what frustrates doctors (and infuriates patients) and what might be done about it).

A comprehensive study of sacred stigmata augmented with the teachings of the Magisterium, scientific discussion, and biographical stories of authentic stigmatists. -- Dust jacket.