Overview
Embracing the World is your guide to finding a deeper relationship with God through prayer and to seeing how your prayers can contribute to healing the world. Author Jane E. Vennard helps you understand how to best use your spiritual gifts and graces to serve God as well as the cause of peace and social justice here on earth. Embracing the World reveals the twofold nature of prayer: as both contemplation and action. Vennard explains that prayer is a cycle where prayer leads to service and service leads to reflection and back to God. Throughout the book, she explores many different forms of outward-reaching prayer and includes a wealth of vivid descriptions, helpful explanations, captivating stories, and biblical and theological reflections.
- | Author: Jane Vennard
- | Publisher: Jossey-Bass
- | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2002
- | Number of Pages: 172 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 047039076X
- | ISBN-13: 9780470390764
