Intensely personal confession of a spiritual awakening.
One woman’s personal encounters with the Holy Spirit.
When Delgado first felt a presence physically and gently moving her head back and forth during prayer, she was thrilled but also mystified. Only after much waiting did she explore this phenomenon with others, and eventually attempt to communicate with the presence itself. Through careful discernment she realized that the Holy Spirit was communicating with her, and she began a long-term relationship with the Spirit through its chosen mode of communication. Delgado explains that the Holy Spirit communicates with people through “vibrations.” She admits that “interpreting the vibrations can be extremely complicated,” but also makes clear that “when we are able to understand the vibrations of the Holy Spirit, we feel it is absolutely imperative and necessary to accept the will of God.” Delgado mourns the fact that “Some clergy…have the assumption that their parishes are not prepared to hear that God actually talks to people.” Consequently, “keeping us ignorant of this supernatural fact truly leaves us unprepared for such an unnerving powerful experience.” Through this book, Delgado shares her own personal experience in part to let other Christians know that the Holy Spirit does communicate with people, and in part to share what the Spirit has said to her in particular. Delgado’s second-person narrative is lucidly written and displays not only sincerity but also the marks of further study. She quotes such diverse writers and thinkers as Martin Luther, Gregory of Nyssa and Georgia Harkness, to name only a few. Delgado shares her lessons from the Spirit on a variety of overarching topics, such as sin, worship, suffering and the church. She often came to the Spirit with a particular question and received—through interpreted vibrations—wise and even astounding answers. Despite her perceived limitations, she found the ability and assistance to craft this book as a vehicle for the lessons she had learned. The result is a readable and touching work.
Intensely personal confession of a spiritual awakening.Pub Date: June 29, 2010
ISBN: 978-1425181635
Page Count: 202
Publisher: Trafford
Review Posted Online: Sept. 22, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.
A compendium of charts, time lines, lists and illustrations to accompany study of the Bible.
This visually appealing resource provides a wide array of illustrative and textually concise references, beginning with three sets of charts covering the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament and the New Testament. These charts cover such topics as biblical weights and measures, feasts and holidays and the 12 disciples. Most of the charts use a variety of illustrative techniques to convey lessons and provide visual interest. A worthwhile example is “How We Got the Bible,” which provides a time line of translation history, comparisons of canons among faiths and portraits of important figures in biblical translation, such as Jerome and John Wycliffe. The book then presents a section of maps, followed by diagrams to conceptualize such structures as Noah’s Ark and Solomon’s Temple. Finally, a section on Christianity, cults and other religions describes key aspects of history and doctrine for certain Christian sects and other faith traditions. Overall, the authors take a traditionalist, conservative approach. For instance, they list Moses as the author of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) without making mention of claims to the contrary. When comparing various Christian sects and world religions, the emphasis is on doctrine and orthodox theology. Some chapters, however, may not completely align with the needs of Catholic and Orthodox churches. But the authors’ leanings are muted enough and do not detract from the work’s usefulness. As a resource, it’s well organized, inviting and visually stimulating. Even the most seasoned reader will learn something while browsing.
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-5963-6022-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This a book of earlier, philosophical essays concerned with the essential "absurdity" of life and the concept that- to overcome the strong tendency to suicide in every thoughtful man-one must accept life on its own terms with its values of revolt, liberty and passion. A dreary thesis- derived from and distorting the beliefs of the founders of existentialism, Jaspers, Heldegger and Kierkegaard, etc., the point of view seems peculiarly outmoded. It is based on the experience of war and the resistance, liberally laced with Andre Gide's excessive intellectualism. The younger existentialists such as Sartre and Camus, with their gift for the terse novel or intense drama, seem to have omitted from their philosophy all the deep religiosity which permeates the work of the great existentialist thinkers. This contributes to a basic lack of vitality in themselves, in these essays, and ten years after the war Camus seems unaware that the life force has healed old wounds... Largely for avant garde aesthetes and his special coterie.
Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1955
ISBN: 0679733736
Page Count: 228
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
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