Author, speaker, and contemplative Richard Francis Xavier Manning, better known to his readers as Brennan Manning, completed his earthly journey on Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:10AM.
Brennan studied at St. John's University, the University of Missouri, Columbia University, and Saint Francis Catholic Seminary, to be ordained a Franciscan priest in 1963. He later taught theology at the University of Stuebenville in Ohio, and served as spiritual director of St. Francis Seminary in Pennsylvania. Then, veering off the seemingly charted course of his life, he fell into the mire of alcoholism. After six months of treatment, he was on the road to recovery.
Out of his personal pain and turmoil came a powerful ministry that testifies to God's boundless grace and mercy. When he wasn't speaking at Christian colleges across the country or directing spiritual retreats, Brennan was working with the poor, and writing. Of his works, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Embracing the Unconditional Love of God is perhaps the most highly regarded. All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir was his last published work.
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 All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
Brennan Manning
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"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor. 12:9)
How many of us struggle to truly accept the love and forgiveness of God? But it is through struggle that grace compels us to hold fast to hope in the cross of Christ and the power of God to reconcile all things. Brennan Manning has held many roles during his life--Franciscan priest, husband, recovering alcoholic, best-selling author, sinner, soldier and saint saved by grace. Born of his own struggles to embrace the love and grace of God, Manning is best known for The Ragamuffin Gospel. Brennan opens his heart to readers, sharing gritty details about his life behind the public eye in All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir. Moving and honest, All Is Grace trumpets the true magnitude of God's love-available to us in spite of our brokenness.
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 Patched Together: A Story of My Story
Brennan Manning
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For everybody who's stumbled, fallen, or turned away from God, here's a touching story of grace and forgiveness. Follow Willie Juan as he moves from orphaned boy to prodigal adult to ragamuffin friend of Abba---and experience the joy of our heavenly Father's unconditional love. A moving parable by a master storyteller! Foreword by Amy Grant. 144 pages, hardcover from Cook.
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 Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace
Brennan Manning
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Setting aside time to be alone with God is not easy---but it is central to our spiritual growth. Best-selling author Manning shares memories of his own "solitude and silence" experiences that will inspire you to remember---and make---your own reflective journeys. Includes a guide for an 8-day personal retreat and end-of-chapter prayer/poems from Sue Garmon. 176 pages, hardcover from NavPress.
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 The Furious Longing of God
Brennan Manning
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Author of the best-selling Ragamuffin Gospel, Manning here
illumines the most powerful force in the universe---God's intense love
for his children. Just as there is no place you can hide from God,
there are also no limits or boundaries to where his love will go to
find, embrace, and carry you home!
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 Reflections for Ragamuffins
Brennan Manning
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When it comes to God's love, we are all ragamuffins---bedraggled
sinners yearning for our Father's acceptance. Drawn from the powerful
writings of best-selling author Manning, this contemplative collection
of 365 daily meditations and uplifting monthly essays encourages you to
open your heart to the gift of God's grace and bask in the joy of his
unconditional love.
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 The Ragamuffin Gospel, Visual Edition
Brennan Manning
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Would you rather watch a movie than read? Do magazines and the Internet draw you in with their brilliant images? Then you'll love The Ragamuffin Gospel, Visual Edition. With thought-provoking photographs and stimulating illustrations, Brennan Manning's original best-selling message of Gods grace leaps to life! Easy to flip through, toss in a backpack, and share with others! 160 pages, softcover, Multnomah.
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 Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
Brennan Manning
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His major work---The Ragamuffin Gospel---reminded us how
furiously God loves us. Now Manning examines the major obstacle to
living in that unconditional love and grace---our inability to trust
God ruthlessly. A life-changing discussion of how the whole of
Christian practice can be summed up in a single 5-letter word---trust.
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 The Signature of Jesus
Brennan Manning
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In his best-selling book The Ragamuffin Gospel Brennan Manning invited us to receive the overwhelming grace of God. Now, with The Signature of Jesus
Brennan encourages us to respond to God's grace by embarking upon the
journey of discipleship. Brennan is a fellow ragamuffin and trustworthy
friend who will help you develop the qualities of a disciple and will
inspire you as you continue upon the narrow path.
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 The Importance of Being Foolish: How to Think Like Jesus
Brennan Manning
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In life, you make thousands of decisions, big and small. You want these
decisions grounded in "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"
and you lift your petitions to God in prayer, but communication with
God is a two-way street. Are you listening to Him? In Hearing God,
you'll learn how the other half of the conversation works in practice.
At its end, you'll have a biblically-based portrait of what intimacy
with God looks like and a vision of life enriched by hearing God's
voice.
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The Importance of Being Foolish - Hardcover Edition
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 The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus
Brennan Manning
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Discover two very different sides of God! Peruse the pages of this book
of insightful meditations and you'll encounter Christ's explosive power
and his incredible tenderness. You will be forever changed as Manning
calls you to "adopt the astonishing life of a committed disciple."
Perceptive writing flavored with tough-love honesty. (Originally
published in 1986.)
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 A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
Brennan Manning
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Following his work on the unconditional love of God in The Wisdom of Tenderness,
best-selling Christian writer Brennan Manning now turns to the life and
work of Jesus to find an answer to the most pressing spiritual problem
of our age: self-hatred. Manning shows how this problem is rooted in "a
script" founded in a faulty understanding of the nature of divine love
and a lack of clear understanding of the person and message of Jesus.
Power, moving, and inspiring, this book helps rewrite the script of
self-hatred by gaining a clearer glimpse of the nature of Jesus: his
healing work, stories of deliverance, liberating prayer, integrity of
self-acceptance, and all-encompassing compassion.
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 The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives
Brennan Manning
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Rooted in the author's compelling grasp of God as a loving parent, The Wisdom of Tenderness
gently invites us to embrace the unfathomable mercy, grace, and love of
God. By relating to God as a loving parent with the heart of
tenderness, we can develop a spiritual life that allows us to let go of
worry, stop organizing everything as a means to an end, and begin to
live fully in the awareness of God's infinite grace and mercy in each
moment. As we come to accept the tenderness of God, our hearts will
begin to open, our minds can discern truth, and we can more readily see
the divine in others. A profound exploration of the challenges of
Christian living, The Wisdom of Tenderness will lead you to a greater experience of compassion, forgiveness, reconciliation, and reverence.
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