This book urges readers to look again at Jesus' teachings and identify the major priorities in his teachings. It is a call to rethink the essential components of a living and vital Christianity. Purpose and originality of the book. 1.Identifies the ten key components of Jesus' teachings. 2.Calls readers to rediscover the essential values Jesus proclaimed. 3.Calls readers to leave aside secondary issues and return to Jesus' priorities. 4.Offers opportunities to rethink the essential teachings of Jesus when so many believers are immersed in secondary issues. Uses for this book. 1.Can be used...

This book presents ten key steps or strategies to support and express the faith of those individuals who seek to deepen their spirituality through personal commitment and group growth. These ten key components of spirituality enable dedicated adults to bring out the meaning of their faith and to facilitate their spiritual growth. It offers a program of reflection, discussion, planning, journaling, strategizing, and sharing.

The Living Flame of Love describes the goal of the spiritual journey. It is the final part of John of the Cross' vision of the spiritual life. It describes the transformation experienced and the quality of love that becomes more intensified at this time. This is a book for everyone including those who have not reached these later stages of spiritual life, for its vision fills readers with enthusiasm for the goal and with motivation for the journey.

This book has a single focus--how to become a great spiritual leader. It is a book on the spirituality of a leader's personal life. The book proposes ten steps that individuals can take to enable this process of transformation, and a hundred suggestions to make this transformation real and lasting. It is a unique book in the literature on leadership. This book is a challenge to think about leadership in a new way. Individuals who follow these steps would give the world something to think about regarding what leadership ought to be and could be.

Dr. Leonard Doohan is Professor Emeritus at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. He has written twenty-four books and many articles and has given hundreds of workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Far East. Dr. Doohan has written six books on various aspects of the New Testament, and six books on the spirituality and roles of laity in the contemporary church. Doohan's recent books include Spiritual Leadership: The Quest for Integrity (2007), Enjoying Retirement: Living Life to the Fullest (2010), Courageous Hope: The Call of Leadership...

Matthew: A Gospel for a Divided Community is a work of biblical theology with special interest in spirituality. There are very few books available today that approach scripture with the specific interests of spirituality. Generally, Bible commentaries are exegesis of the text without application or interpretation to real-life issues. Matthew is a work of biblical spirituality. In approaching the Gospel of Matthew, the author deals with all the usual questions of books on the Bible--where it was written, by whom, why, when, how. However, in approaching these topics, Dr. Doohan focuses on the...