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James McReynolds
I have never known anyone so obsessed with the subject of joy as my old friend James McReynolds. When I read his books about joy, I have the feeling that…
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James E McReynolds
Longsuffering. We're not good at it, are we? We usually know what we want, and we want it now. Not tomorrow, not the next day, not sometime in the future…
For years now, I have had a gentleman's agreement to write the forewords for my old student and colleague James McReynolds' remarkable books.
I had some misgivings about my own…
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Gentleness is infectious. I could feel the thought of it affecting my very mood and spirit as I read the early, unpublished pages of this book for the first time…
James McReynolds is one incredible human being. It is hard to believe that any human mind could brim so constantly with wonderful thoughts and ideas. Every book that Jim writes…
James McReynolds has been my friend for more than 40 years. He and I first met when we were young staff members for our denominations-he a Southern Baptist, and I…
I know the importance of James McReynolds’ work. If more people noticed all the joys that surround them every day, exploding like fireworks in their dark and glorious skies, there…
If a pastor could dream up and plant the perfect church, what would it be like? Realistically, a minister accepts the church he gets. John Killinger once said, The trouble…
The Great Commission. Neither the words great nor commission are in the biblical text. Every Christian has an opportunity to participate in fulfillment of Jesus last command. From the beginning…
I don’t think I have ever known anyone who experiences joy the way James McReynolds does.
Jim is my friend. I have known him many years. He seems to breathe…
Jim McReynolds has done it again! He has filled another book from cover to cover with sheer, unadulterated joy. This man is a marvel. He truly is. I really believe…
On any given Sunday, you will find pastors speaking passionately from the pulpit, people singing and worshiping unashamed of their love for God. Yet mention the word sex or sexuality…
Richard Niebuhr said of faith: "Faith is the attitude of the self in its existence toward all existences that surround it, as being relied upon or to be suspected. It…
My dear friend James McReynolds knows more about joy than anyone else I have ever known. He became joy’s apostle years ago. He has been absorbed with the subject ever…
Parson’s Porch Books is pleased to present Dr. James E. McReynolds’s The Spirituality of Joy. Taking its cue from the French word, jouissance-an ecstatic or passionate experience of joy-this book…
Grief is done differently by every person. It is personal. My brother had been suffering for many years with cancers. Ignoring grief leads to numbers of coping problems. Grief comes…
Society is changing rapidly. This is a book about men. It is also about women. It’s about crises in human life. Economic and social pressures have never been as vast…
From the Foreword by John Killinger
I have to say it. I’m blown away by this book. I’ve ready many of my friend-and-former- student Jim’s books, but this one, as…
God is glorified...
...in ordinary people. We look on the thankless and monotonous moments as roadblocks. Ordinary days are not an interruption. They are miracles. God places human beings in…
Somewhere in this book so sprawling with fresh ideas and thoughtful images, the author makes the statement that "Kindness is our natural state. The acting of kindness allows us to…
Are you enjoying an intimacy with God? The Westminster Confession of Faith stated, (Humankind’s) chief purpose is to glorify God and enjoy God forever. Prayer is not a remedy. Praying…
Dr. James Evans McReynolds
Passionate Joy connects the psychological and spiritual understanding of our least discusssed human emotion. This book rerlects the dawn of a revolutionary approach to living. Norman Vincent Peale anointed Jim…
James McReynolds and his wife Laurel have been married for 35 years. Four children and six grandchildren are in the family. They now have four great grandchildren. They have conducted…
A unique anthology of Tsarist Russia’s urban popular culture.
Clinical workers, research psychologists, and graduate students in psychology will find this series useful for keeping abreast of the latest issues, instruments, and methods of assessment. This latest volume includes…
This volume is the seventh in an ongoing series addressed to the in psychological assessment.
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