Download or read book Behind Church Doors written by Sylvia Brown-Roberts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolis McQuaige (NikkiMac) is forty years old, single, female, and a Christian. Like many of us, she has a colorful history, but, she knows that her sins were forgiven when she came to Christ ten years ago. Although shes determined to live a faithful Christian life, Nikolis experiences a tug-of-war between the flesh and the spirit. Sometimes, she doesnt measure up to what God expects of her, but, she gets right back up when she falls. Over time, she may realize that faithful Christian living is not achieved by willpower alone, but by a dependence upon God. Along the way, youll meet some of the warm, spirited, and often humorous members of the church where she worships. Its urban neighborhood provides soulsaving challenges to the church, but, the faithful members must press on. Will Nikolis stay out of her own way and let God direct her steps? Her account of what goes on Behind Church Doors is an intriguing look at how imperfect people travel the pathway to a perfect God. Join the journey!
Download or read book Behind Church Doors written by Alaina Holloway-Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church is a place where believers are supposed to assemble to praise and worship our God. From the pressures of life to the disappointments of the week, the church is where we receive our healing, deliverance, direction, and peace. Not only do we worship, but also we fellowship with our brothers and sisters in what should be a loving, nurturing, and caring atmosphere. Sadly, a significant part of my experience has been quite the opposite. The danger of moving prematurely from under our covering made us a target for Satan to do what he does best: steal, kill, and destroy. Journey with me through the valley of the shadow of death, as this book depicts the betrayal, hurt, and humiliation that my family suffered at the hands of God's anointed. This is a story of survival through the trenches of the church world. In spite of everything we have gone through, God is still faithful to his word concerning family and me. He said that he would never leave us nor forsake us, and he has not failed at that yet. The intensity of this story will bring about laughter, tears, frustration, thought provocation, and even repentance. Be blessed, encouraged, and strengthened by my transparency.
Download or read book Behind and Beyond Church Doors written by Sylvia Brown-Roberts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to be happy. For many, that includes a loving relationship with someone. Fortunate ones find that person. Those even more fortunate have friends who want the best for them, too. Behind and Beyond Church Doors: Promises, the third of author Sylvia Brown-Robertss Church Doors series, tells us the story of Nikolis McQuaigecalled NikkiMaca teacher in Trenton, New Jersey. Shes a single woman in her early forties. NikkiMac has been a faithful member of a local church congregation for several years. Her blossoming relationship with assistant minister Adam Greene brightens her days. For the first time in her life, shes dating a man according to Gods boundaries. NikkiMac wonders if marriage is in their future or if some dark issues from the past or present conflicts will stand in their way? Can any relationship withstand her best friend Jacees need to compete for NikkiMacs attention with a new friend or Sister Chloes attempt to destroy her reputation in the church? Or the threat from a dangerous character from her childhood who forces his way back into NikkiMacs life? In Behind and Beyond Church Doors: Promises, NikkiMacs gritty urban community and the local congregation hum with joy and obstacles, but through it all, she relies on Gods grace to love, care for, and forgive others. Its a lesson we all should learn.
Download or read book Behind Church Doors Overcoming Church Hurt written by Alaina Holloway-Carpenter and published by Alaina Holloway-Carpenter. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church is a place where believers are supposed to assemble to praise and worship our God. From the pressures of life to the disappointments of the week, the church is where we receive our healing, deliverance, direction, and peace. Not only do we worship, but also we fellowship with our brothers and sisters in what should be a loving, nurturing, and caring atmosphere. Sadly, a significant part of my experience has been quite the opposite. The danger of moving prematurely from under our covering made us a target for Satan to do what he does best: steal, kill, and destroy. Journey with me through the valley of the shadow of death, as this book depicts the betrayal, hurt, and humiliation that my family suffered at the hands of God's anointed. This is a story of survival through the trenches of the church world. In spite of everything we have gone through, God is still faithful to his word concerning family and me. He said that he would never leave us nor forsake us, and he has not failed at that yet. The intensity of this story will bring about laughter, tears, frustration, thought provocation, and even repentance. Be blessed, encouraged, and strengthened by my transparency.
Download or read book What Really Happens Behind the Church Doors written by Pastor Willie D. Brown and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares a young Pastor's true life story, with dynamic depth and detail of an all-inclusive "tell all" of the joys and jolts of a Joseph journey which precedes Divine ordained destiny. Understanding the total story of what "really" happens behind the Church doors means addressing the reality and spirituality contained in the total package. In your reading of "What Really Happens Behind the Church Doors," you will discover in-depth, those things not seen on the surface and only revealed behind the scenes. This book reveals the whole truth and nothing but the unedited truth. As a Pastor or Senior organizational leader, just as Jesus himself experienced during His own earthly journey, every God ordained destiny is preceded by a dark hour moment. Behind those doors, expect to experience Deliverance but also expect to encounter Delilahs. Our lives must be lined with a prayer path of persistently praying to the point where we flee flesh and become a Joseph example, leaving our shirt, and not a David disappointment, looking and lusting into a devastating dilemma which results in death and doom. Also, in providing leadership which connects responsibility with accountability, prepare for departures from persons who would rather leave than be led and pass on positive participation if not afforded key positions. Ministry is indeed tough but when laced and lined with integrity, you will be rewarded with Favor for your Faithfulness. You'll never find another book that goes INSIDE out and flows from start to finish. Prepare for a Flight you'll never forget as this Pastor/Playwright paints the picture of providence pouring into your Destiny residence unlike anything our Planet has ever witnessed to date.
Download or read book Church Doors Book 4 Won t Quit written by Sylvia Brown-Roberts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Doors Book 4: Won’t Quit! is the fourth novel in Author Sylvia Brown-Roberts’s Church Doors series. It continues the story of Nikolis McQuaige- called NikkiMac- a teacher in Trenton, NJ. She’s a faithful member of a local congregation when she marries Adam Greene, the assistant minister. The couple’s wedding is warm and glorious, and everyone in attendance celebrates their union. All is well, until the day a woman from Adam’s past appears at the church building with a young teen and claims Adam is the girl’s father. At first, NikkiMac and Adam don’t agree about how to handle this, and their blissful new marriage is attacked by the strain. But when they turn to God through faith in Christ, they find the truth and a sound resolution. NikkiMac and friends Jacee and Anna Maria continue to be active in the congregation. Along with other church members, they witness and experience joy, church drama, faithfulness, hypocrisy, patience, immorality, kindness, and love. In Church Doors Book 4: Won’t Quit! NikkiMac’s gritty urban community and the local congregation press on. In spite of obstacles and her occasional missteps, NikkiMac trusts God’s grace and grows in faith. NikkiMac won’t quit.
Download or read book Behind the Lodge Door written by Paul A. Fisher and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probing analysis of Freemasonry in the U.S. in general, but especially relative to religious education, opposition to the Catholic Church, directing national social policy and how Masons attract members. Thoroughly documented. Immensely revealing. Covers the birth and rise of Freemasonry, the Catholic Church's early condemnation of it, etc. Essential to understanding the forces behind the scenes.
Download or read book Behind the Red Doors Volume 1 written by The First Presbyterian Church and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story. Stories act like bridges that connect us to one another. This is a book of stories of how God's amazing grace shaped the hearts and lives of the people connected to the First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, MO. We like to say we're "the church with the red doors and the warm hearts." In reality, we like to say we're a congregation that gathers to experience God's unconditional love, sharing it with others to make a difference in their lives. No doubt you'll find a connection to your own life in these stories. Some of these stories reveal how God works in mysterious ways, often quietly as if God refused to take credit. Other stories share the bold reality that God is still in the business of providing miracles. Join us on this journey as we recount the many ways we've encountered God's love, and how God is still a very present help in times of trouble. Edited by the pastor, Rev. Grant F. C. Gillard.
Download or read book Church Doors Book 4 written by Sylvia Brown-Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Doors Book 4: Won't Quit! the fourth of author Sylvia Brown-Roberts's Church Doors series, continues the story of Nikolis McQuaige-called NikkiMac-a teacher in Trenton, NJ. She's a faithful member of a local congregation when she marries Adam Greene, the assistant minister. The couple's wedding is warm and glorious, and everyone in attendance celebrates their union. All is well, until the day a woman from Adam's past appears at the church building with a young teen and claims Adam is the girl's father. At first, NikkiMac and Adan don't agree about how to handle this, and their blissful new marriage is attacked by the strain. But when they turn to God through faith in Christ, they find the truth and a sound resolution. NikkiMac and friends Jacee and Anna Maria continue to be active in the congregation. Along with other church members, they witness and experience joy, church drama, faithfulness, hypocrisy, patience, immorality, kindness, and love. In Church Doors: Book 4: Won't Quit! NikkiMac's gritty urban community and the local congregation press on. In spite of obstacles and her occasional missteps, NikkiMac trusts God's grace and grows in faith. NikkiMac won't quit.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Robin Blue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS THE DON'T TELL BOOK LEADER'S, PASTOR'S AND THEIR FAMILIES HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!!! A MUST READ......... This book is dedicated to any leader, from the Church-house, to the White House who has been judged for making mistakes that pushed you to the deep end of sin, resentment, rejection or denial. You are not alone, and you will walk into your strengths and understand your weakness through the Power of Forgiveness.In this book there are many doors that are going to be exposed. Some of you are hiding behind those very doors as you read this page. Perhaps you are one of the ones who have locked yourself Behind Closed Doors and either lost the key or simply thrown it away. But as you read this book, you will find the key to all of your hidden crap and you will believe within yourself that things can get better and that you are not alone. So if you are a pastor, pastors wife, a leader,the children of the pastor or the child of any leader, this book is dedicated to you. I have seen both sides of the coin and its time to speak up and speak out.
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Rita Grice and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares how you can recover from abuse by those you trusted within the church. It speaks to those who are wounded and feel they have no one to turn to for help. It also speaks to those that have been the cause of deep wounds inflected on the people of God. Behind Closed Doors was inspired by God through the pain of one of his daughters. She has been given the assignment to tear down the devils kingdom through prayer and exposure. I say to each of you take your rightful place in the kingdom. You are a citizen of the kingdom of God and with your citizenship you have certain rights. It is time to walk in the authority that has been given to you by the king.
Download or read book Behind Locked Doors written by F. Baumgartner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1600, whenever a Pope dies, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church convene in Rome to elect a successor. The Papal Conclave is an event like no other. Highly secret and conducted behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, it happens about eight times every century. It is an event that has evolved over the centuries and is always filled with high drama: cardinals meeting en masse in their scarlet robes, throngs of the faithful standing watch in St. Peter's Square, the black or white smoke billowing from the chimney signalling the election of a new Pontiff Since secrecy was not heavily invoked until the twentieth century, there is a vast store of rich material to work from and Fred Baumgartner uses it to its utmost detailing the bickering and blatant politicking that goes on behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel in this important and timely book.
Download or read book No Man Left Behind written by Patrick Morley and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Murrow's book, Why Men Hate Going to Church, has heightened awareness of an epidemic--Patrick Morley offers the solution. No Man Left Behind is the blueprint for growing a thriving men's ministry that has the power to rebuild the church as we know it, pulling men off the couch and into active involvement as part of the body of Christ.
Download or read book Sticky Church written by Larry Osborne and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider. In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups that dig deeper into the weekend message and tightly velcro members to the ministry. It's a strategy that enabled Osborne's congregation to grow from a handful of people to one of the larger churches in the nation—without any marketing or special programming. Sticky Church tells the inspiring story of North Coast Church's phenomenal growth and offers practical tips for launching your own sermon-based small group ministry. Topics include: Why stickiness is so important Why most of our discipleship models don't work very well Why small groups always make a church more honest and transparent What makes groups grow deeper and sticker over time Sticky Church is an ideal book for church leaders who want to start or retool their small group ministry—and velcro their congregation to the Bible and each other.
Download or read book The Sunday Wife written by Cassandra King and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change in ways she never could have imagined.
Download or read book Sacred Mission Worldly Ambition written by Adele Oltman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Savannah, Georgia, as a case study, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition tells the story of the rise and decline of Black Christian Nationalism. This nationalism emerged from the experiences of segregation, as an intersection between the sacred world of religion and church and the secular world of business. The premise of Black Christian Nationalism was a belief in a dual understanding of redemption, at the same time earthly and otherworldly, and the conviction that black Christians, once delivered from psychic, spiritual, and material want, would release all of America from the suffering that prevented it from achieving its noble ideals. The study's use of local sources in Savannah, especially behind-the-scenes church records, provides a rare glimpse into church life and ritual, depicting scenes never before described. Blending history, ethnography, and Geertzian dramaturgy, it traces the evolution of black southern society from a communitarian, nationalist system of hierarchy, patriarchy, and interclass fellowship to an individualistic one that accompanied the appearance of a new black civil society. Although not a study of the civil rights movement, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition advances a bold, revisionist interpretation of black religion at the eve of the movement. It shows that the institutional primacy of the churches had to give way to a more diversified secular sphere before an overtly politicized struggle for freedom could take place. The unambiguously political movement of the 1950s and 1960s that drew on black Christianity and radiated from many black churches was possible only when the churches came to exert less control over members' quotidian lives. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.
Download or read book Behind These Red Doors written by Paul Chapman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of devotional and inspirational stories about life in the Church. The Church witnesses everything in our lives. Think of the stories she could tell if she had a voice.
