The Dog Walker's Guide to God
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The Dog Walker's Guide to God contains 52 five-minute-reads to inspire dog walkers to ponder the mysteries of faith and the wonders of God.
In each chapter, Henry Martin offers a simple reflection and an illustration to be read just before setting out and then chewed over while you and your dog walk together.
He invites you to consider: the everyday (house-training, basic obedience, toys and instructions), the profound (crime, punishment, rejection, adoption, ageing, death and the afterlife), the theological (salvation, the Scriptures and prayer), the psychological (and physiological) differences between humans and dogs, the disgusting (including why your dog might scoot its rear across your new carpet!) and, underlying all of these, love (human, Divine and canine).
These are universal themes, and the reflections are just as valuable as resources for anyone who is housebound, or those without a dog in their lives.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Some Big Differences Between Humans and Dogs and God
- 1. Do you see what I see?
- 2. If I could talk to the animals.
- 3. The amazing multi-tool
- Part 2: Exploring 'The Zone'
- 4. 'The Zone' part 1 - getting lost
- 5. 'The Zone' part 2 - being found
- 6. 'The Zone' part 3 - home, the antidote to the Zone
- 7. 'The Zone' part 4 - being at home wherever we are
- Part 3: Humans and Dogs Living Together
- 8. The Wolf Pact
- 9. Being Useful
- 10. Over-breeding and under-breathing
- 11. Alphas and Equals
- 12. Underdogs
- 13. Submission
- 14. Dependence
- 15. Reliance
- 16. Toys
- 17. Dogtopia
- Part 4: Instructions
- 18. How many times do I need to tell you?
- 19. Hanging on every word
- 20. Rewards
- 21. Housetraining
- 22. Fetch!
- 23. Be still!
- 24. Drop it!
- 25. Unquestioning obedience
- 26. Restrictions, leads and muzzles
- 27. In the Dog House: Crime and Punishment
- 28. Don't leave me this way
- Part 5: Annoyances
- 29. In or out?
- 30. Barking
- 31. Howling
- 32. Peeing
- 33. Begging and dignity
- 34. Biting and healing
- 35. Muddy paws
- 36. Other 'disgusting' things that dogs do
- Part 6: A Dog'S Life
- 37. Perpetual Puppies
- 38. Adoption - how it usually begins for us
- 39. Growing older - the journey from pup-P to OA-P
- 40. At the end
- Part 7: Dogs and Prayer
- 41. Talking Nonsense and Crinkling Ears
- 42. What if our dogs could talk back. ?
- 43. Do Dogs Pray?
- 44. Pavlov's Dogs - our need of ritual
- Part 8: God, Dogs and Us
- 45. Imago Dei and imago humanitatis (in the image of God and in the image of humans)
- 46. Imago dog
- 47. Dogs in the Bible
- 48. More from the Bible - pets and playtime
- 49. How a small dog illuminated a Bible story
- 50. Salvation
- 51. Reunions in Heaven?
- 52. Haddie's Psalm
- Conclusion: '.And The Greatest of These is Love'
- Acknowledgements
