Kirjahaku

Teaches you how to create your own devotional experiences through silence and prayerful visualization.

Over twenty years have passed since Kirk Byron Jones issued a spiritual challenge to slow down from the fast-paced pressures of everyday life. Has the pace of life changed in that time? If anything, the need for speed persists in a culture that prizes productivity, achievement, and wealth above spiritual well-being. As before, this book goes beyond social and psychological analysis to include spiritual perspectives on the dangers of letting hurry become a chronic condition. The chapters include helpful questions that allow readers to identify their current pace of life and assist them in cultivating their own sacred, savoring pace. In addition, this 20th-anniversary edition contains a new chapter with fresh poetry to inspire a calm and reflective spiritual life amid the hustle and bustle.

Leadership can be mentally, emotionally, and spiritually exhausting. The pace is relentless. The expectations are weighty. The challenges are daunting. But it is possible to live and lead a new way, with that deep sense of contentment that all leaders yearn for. It is possible to be fulfilled, even today. Fulfilled articulates a new approach for the exhausted leader. This Christian theology of leadership is based on three inner capacities, which every leader already possesses but which most of us simply ignore or disregard: stillness, awareness, and playfulness. Kirk Byron Jones examines these capacities and shows the reader how to draw upon them in daily life. Vibrant leadership taps into this wellspring of inner capacities, continually available to every leader. It is not the exclusive possession of the gifted, faithful few, but is a grace provided for all. The fulfilled leader lives in wisdom, peace and joy, and is successful in all the most important ways.

This interactive book is designed specifically for church leaders--clergy, staff, and laity. Each week, readers experience three different meditations or exercises. Readers can approach the material in whatever way works best for them--on a regular schedule (Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, for instance) or in whatever way works best in any given week. The three-per-week meditations build upon themes, with an ebb and flow allowing the reader to experience the material more deeply. The fact that this is not a daily exercise is distinctive, as many devotional books are regimented and overwhelming, with an expectation of a daily commitment. Refill's format is designed to be viable, accessible, and nurturing for busy leaders. Each page contains a nugget of wisdom about how leaders can tap into inner capacities they already possess, but which are often overlooked. These capacities include awareness, stillness, and playfulness (as we learned of in Fulfilled) but the author also includes other capacities, such as compassion, empathy, and creativity.

C. Stella 1-14-25 Learn to preach from your soul What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic renderings as Sarah Vaughn was in her virtuosic vocals? As honest about heartache as Billie Holiday every time she sang the blues? As alluringly clear as the voice of Ella Fitzgerald? As tenaciously uninhibited in the action of creating as Duke Ellington? This may be too much ask, even of persons who are "called by God." However, as Kirk Byron Jones demonstrates, preaching can be enhanced by an understanding of the inner dynamics of jazz. The forms, rules, and styles of jazz can inform one's practice of preaching, and its simultaneous structure and spontaneity can help preachers better understand their own art. In his classic text for students and practitioners, Jones explains how preaching is dramatically improved with the application of key elements of jazz, including innovation, improvisation, rhythm, call and response, honesty about heartache, and delight. This 20th Anniversary Edition includes a new element--preaching from your genuine soul. Chapters include instruction and exercises for applying the jazz elements to preaching preparation and performance. This edition also includes an Introduction, in which the author sets the context for the new material and articulates his conviction that this approach to preaching is needed now more than ever. The Jazz of Preaching introduces the rich and rewarding possibilities that arise when preachers tap into their own creativity--and their own soul--when constructing and delivering the sermon. Bio A pastor and seminary professor for over four decades, bestselling author, Kirk Byron Jones, PhD, D.Min, now devotes his "lighter-load labor" to writing and coaching authors and pastors. You may learn more about his inspirational books and webinars at kirkbjones.com.

Approaching 200,000 followers, Yes to Grace is the fastest growing inspirational page on Facebook. Each day, Kirk Byron Jones, D.Min., Ph.D., offers brief but unusually potent expressions of wisdom that restore the soul in comforting, stimulating, and enchanting ways: Just becauseyou're still hurtingdoesn't mean the healing hasn't started.-------A soul set freehas all the reasonit needs to smile and laugh._______________If you can bestill enoughlong enoughthere is a place withinon the other side of silencewhere love lives