“Where you find joy, there is the sacred around the corner.” —Leonard Sweet, SpiritVenture Ministries, author, professor, and teacher, one of Time Magazine’s twenty-five most influential evangelicals in America in 2005

Prayer to God the Father I appeal to you, Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob and Israel, You the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Infinitely merciful as You are, it is Your will that we should learn to know You. You made heaven and earth, You rule supreme over all that is. You are the …

Unwrapping the Gift of Communication: Theoretical Applications and Biblical Wisdom for Relationships that Thrive Available, May 2024 Author: Kevin T. Jones Foreword: Diane M. Badzinski Total Pages: 168 Price: $20.00     [Return to Integratio Press] DESCRIPTION Unwrapping the Gift of Communication provides readers with theoretically sound principles and guidelines for relational communication. God created human beings with the gift …

Just Words: Lessons of Ancient Education, Classical Rhetoric, and Pagan Religion for a Post-Christian World Available May 2024 Author: Mark A. E. Williams Foreword: J. Matthew Melton ISBN paperback: 978-1-959685-11-1 ISBN ebook: 978-1-959685-12-8 LCCN TBA Total Pages: 330 Price: $30.00 [Return to Integratio Press] DESCRIPTION What do we expect from our words? And what if those very expectations were not …

“There are Christians whose lives seem like Lent without Easter. I realize of course that joy is not expressed the same way at all times in life, especially at moments of great difficulty. Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of life born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we …

“Prayer for Good Humor” Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest. Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it. Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil, but rather finds the means to put things back …

All good things must come to an end. All lives must come to an end. All good lives must come to an end. But the legacies, and memories, of those good things and good lives can last forever. –reflections after reading Ann Wroe, The Economist Book of Obituaries (2008).