Paul R. Corts

Hope Abounds (eBook, ePUB)

Daily Meditations with Another Sojourner

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Looking for a daily dose of encouragement? A boost to keep you spiritually charged? Hope Abounds is designed for you! Written in an easy-going conversational style, Paul Corts draws the reader into an inviting personal hypothetical dialogue as he transparently shares from a storehouse of life experiences the good and the not so good to help you focus on the bright hope of the future. The authors travels throughout the United States and around the world add a dose of real life to these devotions, drawing on a rich collection of experiences and conversations with people from broadly varied backgrounds and highly diverse cultures. Each one-page daily meditation begins with a specific Bible passage accompanied by a meditational thought to encourage your own thoughtful reflection and spur you on to a life full of hope.

Read the meditations in the morning to help center your thoughts and prepare you for a productive, hopeful day. Or, read the meditations in the evening to bring closure on the days events and point toward the bright hope of a fresh new day on the morrow. Using seasons, holidays, historical events, and biblical topics for themes, the author invites you to walk with him through a yearlong series of widely divergent daily conversations. As Corts shares openly from his own personal experiences, readers are prompted to recall their own personal experiences, ponder on them, and extract meaning for life application. The interplay between author and reader will encourage you to explore how to capture and embrace the joy, hope, and optimism that are at the core of the Christian faith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WestBow Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781512736199
• Artikelnr.: 52580023

Autorenporträt

Paul R. Corts is a "global peripatetic" having traveled in all of the 50 United States and in over 50 countries around the world. Experiences from extensive travel throughout his career in higher education, government, and civic life, his sabbaticals in Cambridge with travel around the United Kingdom, and his numerous mission trips to most of the world's continents provide the grist for many of the biblically based meditations in this daily devotional guide. An optimistic, visionary leader, Corts writes in an easy conversational style to share words of encouragement and hope. He began his writing career with textbooks, and has more recently authored or edited several books including Sabbaticals for Leaders, Caring for the President, Thinking Christianly, and Great Teachers We Have Known.

Corts has had a distinguished career in higher education, government, and civic life in a wide variety of leadership positions. He retired in 2012 from the presidency of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), the leading international association for Christian higher education, and was named President Emeritus. Prior to joining the CCCU, Corts served as Assistant Attorney General for Administration, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2002-2006; he served on the President's Management Council and numerous other federal councils and boards. In 2006 he was awarded the Edmund J. Randolph Award for outstanding service to the Department of Justice.

Prior to his work at DOJ, Corts served as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University (FL) for nearly 12 years and as president of Wingate University (NC) for 8 years. Earlier in his career, he was a faculty member and administrator at Oklahoma Baptist University (5 years) and Western Kentucky University (10 years). He has served in numerous leadership roles on many state, regional and national professional organizations. In semi-retirement he continues to consult widely throughout this country and globally with universities and non-profits.

Born in Indiana, Corts grew up in Northeastern Ohio one of six boys in a family of seven children, led by parents Charles and Hazel Corts who were teachers and in ministry. Corts holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown College, a master's and Ph.D. from Indiana University. He and his wife, Diane Stevens Corts, have four children - Elizabeth Ann (deceased), Kenneth Stevens, Daniel Paul, and Susan Corts Hill.