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Friends, Foes and Families

Biblical Meditations on Developing Our Relationships

  • Paperback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: SPCK Publishing
  • 12.9 x 19.9 x 0.9 cm

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For those seeking guidance on complex relationships

Helps you navigate emotional challenges in relationships

You will find healing and insight through biblical stories

Explore biblical meditations on relationships to deepen your understanding and connections.

This Lent book will explore biblical stories and characters that exemplify a whole range of relationships, in good times and bad. Relationships will be defined very widely, to include even people who don't see themselves in 'relationship'. The stories will be related to common emotions - love, friendship, rivalry, conflict, trust, hatred, fear - and linked with 21st-century attitudes, culture and moral dilemmas. The book will cover OT stories as well as NT, and explore dysfunctional as well as functional relationships to make clear how experiences of loss and failure - which culminated, for Jesus, in the Cross - are inevitably part of our relationships, but can be healed by the Resurrection. The making of choices is pivotal in our life journey and these meditations will focus on key moments of decision, and their consequences. This will often involve reflection on the power of temptation: the ways in which biblical characters respond to it, and their varying success in withstanding it. The reflections will range widely, but will start with Jesus' temptations and conclude with stories from Holy Week and Easter, so that the relevance to Lent is maintained.
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  • Title

    Friends, Foes and Families

  • Author

    Judith Dimond

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    SPCK Publishing

  • Published

    October 2012

  • Weight

    164g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    12.9 x 19.9 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780281064564

  • ISBN-10

    0281064563

  • Eden Code

    4039684

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