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  2. My Utmost for His Highest - Wikipedia

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    It relies on the New King James Version of the Bible, and has become a series of Christian devotional journals, calendars, and children's books. [2] The title is taken from one of Chambers's sermons, where he says "Shut out every consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only - My Utmost for His Highest". [2]

  3. List of Christian devotional literature - Wikipedia

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    Upper Room Ministries began emailing the Upper Room daily devotional guide in 1997. In the years following, many Christian organizations began adding a daily devotional to their website. The following is an incomplete list of daily devotional services available through recognized Christian organizations. Campus Crusade for Christ; Crosswalk.com

  4. The Humbling - Wikipedia

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    Simon Axler is a famed sexagenarian stage actor who suddenly and inexplicably loses his gift. His weak attempts at portraying Prospero and Macbeth on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., lead to poor reviews, sending Axler into a profound depression and causing him to give up acting and contemplate suicide with a shotgun he keeps in his attic.

  5. God helps those who help themselves - Wikipedia

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    The French author Jean de La Fontaine also adapted the first of these fables as Le chartier embourbé (Fables VI.18) and draws the moral Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera (Help yourself and Heaven will help you too). [11] A little earlier, George Herbert had included "Help thyself, and God will help thee" in his proverb collection, Jacula Prudentum ...

  6. Christian devotional literature - Wikipedia

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    Judea, Galilee and neighboring areas at the time of Hosea, Micah, Isaiah and Samuel's prophetic ministries. The oldest forms of devotional literature were manifested as prophecies, particularly before Christ; and were provided under the dictation of the Holy Spirit as a direct communication of God's "future plans".

  7. If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the ...

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    In March 2003, If You Want to Walk on Water was the third-best-selling religious book in Britain and the fourth-best-selling religious book in Scotland. [3] In his book God Can't Sleep: Waiting for Daylight On Life's Dark Nights , Palmer Chinchen writes, that If You Want to Walk on Water is an "excellent book on faith". [ 4 ]

  8. Introduction to the Devout Life - Wikipedia

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    The "Introduction" is composed of five parts or "books", each pertaining to a stage in the Christian's spiritual journey. Part I: Attaining a Firm Resolution to the Devout Life; Part II: Prayer and the Sacraments; Part III: The Practice of Virtue (patience, meekness, humility, obedience, chastity, and poverty)

  9. Affective piety - Wikipedia

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    Michael G. Sargent has written likewise of how affective devotional practices have a long history in the reading and meditative practices (the lectio divina) of Western Monasticism, [101] and Nicholas Watson has described the standard narrative as it relates to Middle English mystical literature as "perhaps suspiciously straightforward."