How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the DivineLoyola Press, 29/09/2011 - 184 páginas Do you have a real relationship with God, or do you just have a religion? Do you know God, or do you just know about God? In How Big Is Your God? Paul Coutinho, SJ, challenges us to grow stronger and deeper in our faith and in our relationship with God—a God whose love knows no bounds. To help us on our way, Coutinho introduces us to people in various world religions—from Hindu friends to Buddhist teachers to St. Ignatius of Loyola—who have shaped his spiritual life and made possible his deep, personal relationship with God. |
Índice
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| 3 | |
| 8 | |
The River of Life Is Free | 12 |
Godan Experience Not a Theology | 14 |
Seeking Truth and Freedom | 17 |
Can You Be Religious without Knowing God? | 20 |
Moving from Charity to Compassion | 26 |
Lightening Our Load along the Journey | 87 |
28 | 95 |
Confession Celebration of Divine Presence | 105 |
33 | 111 |
What Do You Want on Your Tombstone? | 120 |
Life Does Not Owe Us PleasureIt Offers Us Meaning | 122 |
Do You React or Respond to Life? | 124 |
So What Is a Belief? | 127 |
Do You Have a Living Relationship with God or Are You Just Practicing Religion? | 29 |
Do You Want Peace without Batting an Eye? | 31 |
Four Ways of Relating with God | 34 |
Our Stolen Search for Meaning 117 CONTENTS | 35 |
Pleasing God the Priestly Experience | 36 |
The God of Brokenness the Yahwistic Experience | 38 |
The God of Perfectionthe Elohistic Experience | 42 |
CONTENTS | 45 |
Transcending Your Images of God | 51 |
19 | 60 |
21 | 67 |
22 | 73 |
24 | 79 |
Bible and Land | 130 |
Need the Love and Approval of Everyone a Damaging Root Belief | 132 |
Others Must Be Fair and Kind to MeAnother Root Belief | 135 |
Life Must Make Things Easy for Mea Third Harmful Root Belief | 139 |
The Man and the Caterpillar | 144 |
God Does Not Interfere | 146 |
When Are You Going to Die? | 148 |
The Breath of God | 152 |
Are You Running for Fun or for Your Life? | 154 |
Hope You Make It Kid | 157 |
Acknowledgments | 159 |
About the Author | 161 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine Paul Coutinho Pré-visualização limitada - 2010 |
How Big is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine Paul Coutinho Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abraham alligator Anthony de Mello asked beautiful become beginner's mind believe blazer blessed breath celebrate child chocolate church clay compassion confession death deeper Deuteronomy Elohistic tradition ence ENSLAVED BY THINGS ENSLAVING ILLUSION Esau everything experience the Divine favor rests feel freedom FULLY ENJOY gifts give God's love happy heart heaven Hindu holy honeymoon human Ignatian Ignatius ILLUSION OF LOVE India Jacob Jesuit Jesus died live fully look love and approval Marilyn Monroe material things meaning mother mystics never original sin pain Passion person pray prayer priest priestly rela relationship with God religion religious respond retreat rience ROOT BELIEF Saint Louis University scapular sinful sister small God someone spiritual story suffering talk tattooed tell tiger tionship told TRANSCENDING YOUR IMAGES truth understand Viktor Frankl wife woman wonderful Yahweh
Passagens conhecidas
Página 10 - Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
Página xiii - No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
Página 5 - When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.
Página 10 - You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.