A Brush With God

Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product. For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God’s reality in a visible–and breathtakingly beautiful–way. This ancient art is enjoying a renewed interest in the West, as people of faith create icons and use them to meditate on mysteries for which there are no words. A Brush with God is a guide to painting icons and using them in prayer. Written with warmth and energy, it describes the history of icons and examines why they’ve been a spiritual tool for so many centuries. Written from a uniquely Western perspective, the book guides artists–from novices to professionals–through the process of icon painting, using traditional techniques but employing contemporary materials. Included are eight full-color plates of the artist’s icons.

A one-stop guide to icon painting, including the history and spirituality of icons as well as simplified, step-by-step icon-painting technique.

This is the sequel to the author’s previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of the new book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy and use as the basis of their own icons, providing a unique and much-requested resource. Chapters and topics include: 1. Introduction and contemporary reflections on iconography, spirituality, and technique. 2. Highlighting folds on full-length figures, including black and white renderings of draped legs, arms, and torsos. 3. Architectural and landscape renderings in Byzantine iconography, including background shadow and highlighting techniques, plus inverse perspective. 4. Festal icons, involving multiple figures, landscapes, architecture, furniture, vegetation, and animals. 5. Construction of heads, figures, and analysis of whole compositions, sacred geometry and proportion.

"Blackbird Comes Calling" brings faith, science, and the world of mental illness together, providing a refreshing, inspirational look into the need for faith and medicine to work together for the benefit of mental health. The author, who has lived in, through, with, and beside depression her entire life, has a deep insight into the struggles, accomplishments, challenges, and disappointments accompanying mental health concerns. Through short devotions, personal stories, homilies, informational sections, and biblical quotes, Jackie Swanson brings the reader to the understanding and appreciation of how faith and medicine working together can bring a fabulous balance to life.

Share the Joy If difficult days have ever left you discouraged, this interactive 11-week journey will help you engage creatively with God’s Word and establish habits that lead to greater joy and peace. Refresh your delight in the Lord through: Daily Lessons with an introduction and key questions for each chapter to help you dive deeper into the heart of Scripture and incorporate it into your life with joy builder activities Choosing Joy Devotions and inspirational quotes to stir hope even in difficult times as you learn to trust God’s faithfulness and rest in his strength no matter what circumstance you find yourself in Creative Connections including bookmarks and coloring pages that provide an outlet to knit your heart to God and explore your faith through artistic expression “…that your joy may be full.” John 15:11 This unique discovery book includes ideas for group studies, verse-inspired artwork to color, fascinating details about the Bible, and online connections and communities so you can build up your joy and build up others! To find out more about the complete series, explore many creative resources, and connect with the authors and other readers, visit DiscoveringTheBibleSeries.com.

During the Tang dynasty, master painter Wu Daozi creates an extraordinary mural for the emperor.

Learn to Hand Letter as You Draw Nearer to God You are gifted, and now is the time to unleash your giftedness. This interactive book provides a step-by-step guide to the art of hand lettering. The best part: no experience needed. Your friends Margaret and Jessica will guide you every brush stroke of the way. You'll learn techniques to create your own word art through easy-to-follow projects, prompts, and exercises. And you'll do it all while reflecting on the beauty of Scripture and inspiring devotions. This is a fun, delightful way to reawaken to God's love for you. In this book you'll discover: · training on how to craft each letter of the alphabet in lower and upper cases · strategies for connecting letters, adding flourishes, and developing your personal style · specific instruction on how to create beautiful, framed word art · devotionals to ground you in the fierce love of God · guidance to complete 12 stunning projects May Hand Lettering God's Love encourage you, inspire you, and spark joy in your journey of faith.

In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, sacred spelunker and sociologist Meredith Gould, combines practical wisdom with lived experience to explain why and when traditional practices don’t work for today’s seeker and then how to choose ones that will. In short, easy-to-read chapters and with characteristic wit, Gould provides counsel for reframing perception to discover the sacred in everyday life. This guide is for self-identified seekers who have tried some, many, or even all the classic spiritual practices and then, given up on them when they stop working. In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, Gould invites readers to embrace a broader definition of practice that shifts focus from doing to being.

Women all around the world have beauty routines to keep their skin in check but are you as diligent about your relationship with God? This Bible Study will allow for you to have a routine to help fight the blemishes that maybe hindering your relationship with God as you continue to grown into the woman God created you to be!

Discusses God's place in the universe and how God touches our world.

This book describes my familys life, which is full of historical experiences going through the Hitler era, the Stalin regime, and communism, to the current decade in the United States. The accounts of our experiences reflect the time from the 1940s, when my mothers family had no electricity or water in their home in a village in Poland, to my successful career as an award winning chef and comfortable married life in the United States. Brush with the Edge of Time and Profession is a deeply personal book that details the joys and sorrows of a mother and son. Their stories are equally inspiring and celebrate the human heart and demonstrates how one can survive even in the most difficult of circumstances. These lifelong memories are about wonder and about kindness, they are about being open to the gifts of both the light and the shadows of our experience." - The US Review of Books

Adam Swann is hungry for success. He is one of the new breed of entrepreneurs thrown up by the Industrial Revolution, determined to take advantage of current economic conditions to build an unrivalled business empire. And he is determined to win the beautiful, strong-minded Henrietta, and persuade her to share in his struggles and triumphs.

Reproduction of the original: God ́s Country: The Trail to Happiness by James Oliver Curwood

Stories of sweet second chances from bestselling author Dee Henderson The Marriage Wish A birthday wish leads lonely bachelor Scott Williams to Jennifer St. James…but love is the last thing on Jennifer's mind. Weighed down with sadness and regret, she's certain happiness is out of reach. Only patience, faith and everlasting love can make their marriage wishes come true. God's Gift Mission work in Africa is James Graham's life. So when an injury exiles him home, he's left adrift. Can he find new purpose with Rachel Ashcroft? The lovely volunteer's care packages always cheered him while he was in Africa. Now it's James's turn to make her happy…for the rest of his life.

The basic subject is Renaissance--the Salvation Experience of Christ the Holy Spirit of God in human life. New Christian guidance examples in essays and poetry testifying to the truth of life with God: the reality of his Word, his presence as the Holy Spirit, and Jesus as Lord guiding my life, described in non-fiction life with Christ. This is the first, of this author’s 7-Logos Work of ten-volumes, each volume of which is able to stand alone as God’s Book of Life, portraying Life with the Holy Spirit by belief in the Christ of Jesus as Savior to eternal life with God. The author here continues his Story of Writing God's Book of Life, using nonfiction essays and poetry with the help of divine intervention in producing his seven Logos work of ten volumes, followed by four more, seeking to fully understand, explain, and publish this work inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Christ of Jesus. This work relates the action of God in fulfilling for him in seven years all of Rodger Crafton's dreams of becoming a writer of poetry and prose, an armchair philosopher, and an artist working in his new, upstairs garage atelier.