Download or read book Children of Fallen Gods written by Carissa Broadbent and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No war can be fought with clean hands. Not even the ones waged for the right reasons. Not even the ones you win. Tisaanah bargained away her own freedom to save those she left behind in slavery. Now, bound by her blood pact, she must fight the Orders' war -- and Max is determined to protect her at all costs. But when a betrayal tears apart Ara, Max and Tisaanah are pushed into an even bloodier conflict. Tisaanah must gamble with Reshaye's power to claim an impossible victory. And Max, forced into leadership, must confront everything he hoped to forget: his past, and his own mysterious magic. All the while, darker forces loom -- far darker, even, than the Orders' secrets. As Tisaanah and Max are ensnared in a web of ancient magic and twisted secrets, one question remains: what are they willing to sacrifice for victory? For power? For love?
Download or read book Apocalypse Child written by Flor Edwards and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first thirteen years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be thirteen years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her. Apocalypse Child is a cathartic journey through Flor's memories of growing up within a group with unconventional views on education, religion, and sex. Whimsically referring to herself as a real life Kimmy Schmidt, Edwards's clear-eyed memoir is a story of survival in a childhood lived on the fringes.
Download or read book Children of God written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.
Download or read book All God s Children Are Lost But Only a Few Can Play the Piano written by Sheldon B. Kopp and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws on legends, myths, folk tales, and his own experiences to address the problem of finding a personal identity in life that will lead to wholeness and inner peace
Download or read book The God Child written by Nana Oforiatta Ayim and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, mesmerizing, and astoundingly original debut novel by one of the most exciting literary voices to emerge in recent years.
Download or read book How the West Really Lost God written by Mary Eberstadt and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial work, leading cultural critic Mary Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion in the Western world. The conventional wisdom is that the West first experienced religious decline, followed by the decline of the family. Eberstadt turns this standard account on its head. Marshalling an impressive array of research, from fascinating historical data on family decline in pre-Revolutionary France to contemporary popular culture both in the United States and Europe, Eberstadt shows that the reverse has also been true: the undermining of the family has further undermined Christianity itself. Drawing on sociology, history, demography, theology, literature, and many other sources, Eberstadt shows that family decline and religious decline have gone hand in hand in the Western world in a way that has not been understood before—that they are, as she puts it in a striking new image summarizing the book’s thesis, “the double helix of society, each dependent on the strength of the other for successful reproduction.” In sobering final chapters, Eberstadt then lays out the enormous ramifications of the mutual demise of family and faith in the West. While it is fashionable in some circles to applaud the decline both of religion and the nuclear family, there are, as Eberstadt reveals, enormous social, economic, civic, and other costs attendant on both declines. Her conclusion considers this tantalizing question: whether the economic and demographic crisis now roiling Europe and spreading to America will have the inadvertent result of reviving the family as the most viable alternative to the failed welfare state—fallout that could also lay the groundwork for a religious revival as well. How the West Really Lost God is both a startlingly original account of how secularization happens and a sweeping brief about why everyone should care. A book written for agnostics as well as believers, atheists as well as “none of the above,” it will permanently change the way every reader understands the two institutions that have hitherto undergirded Western civilization as we know it—family and faith—and the real nature of the relationship between those two pillars of history.
Download or read book God Help the Child written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” “Powerful.... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Download or read book Children of Another God written by T. C. Southwell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young peasant girl is injured while hunting, she meets a strange, magical man who is a member of a despised race - Mujar. Truemen scorn the shape-shifting unmen for their odd, humble ways, and envy their power over the elements. Mujar do not use their powers for good or evil, they simply exist, immortal and apparently purposeless. Now a scourge is sweeping the land, armies of mounted warriors who cannot be defeated are wiping out Truemankind without mercy. They are known as the Black Riders, but no one knows where they come from or why they seem bent on exterminating every man, woman and child. Talsy traps the Mujar with gold, which has an odd effect on them, to make him help her, but her father intends to throw him in a Pit, from which he will be unable to escape. Talsy does not believe the Mujar deserves such a fate, so she frees him and begs him to take her with him on his journey. He agrees, and they set off across Shamarese, continuing his quest to find an old hermit's lost son. There is far more at stake than Talsy realises, however, and she has innocently stumbled upon the last free Mujar, who has the power to decide the fate of her race.
Download or read book Walking Through Fire written by Vaneetha Rendall Risner and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, Job-like story of how an existence filled with loss, suffering, questioning, and anger became a life filled with shocking and incomprehensible peace and joy. Vaneetha Risner contracted polio as an infant, was misdiagnosed, and lived with widespread paralysis. She lived in and out of the hospital for ten years and, after each stay, would return to a life filled with bullying. When she became a Christian, though, she thought things would get easier, and they did: carefree college days, a dream job in Boston, and an MBA from Stanford where she met and married a classmate. But life unraveled. Again. She had four miscarriages. Her son died because of a doctor's mistake. And Vaneetha was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, meaning she would likely become a quadriplegic. And then her husband betrayed her and moved out, leaving her to raise two adolescent daughters alone. This was not the abundant life she thought God had promised her. But, as Vaneetha discovered, everything she experienced was designed to draw her closer to Christ as she discovered "that intimacy with God in suffering can be breathtakingly beautiful."
Download or read book Teaching Your Children About God written by David J. Wolpe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-12-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many parents find it easier to talk to their children about sex and other intimate matters than to answer questions about God, prayer, good, and evil. In fact, parents may feel they don't know the answers to such questions for themselves, much less for their young children. In Teaching Your Children About God, Rabbi David Wolpe shows Jewish parents how to openly explore the idea of God with their children. Through poignant anecdotes and practical exercises, Wolpe teaches how parents can guide children in the practice of prayer and create an atmosphere in which children feel comfortable questioning and wondering about God, life, and death. Wolpe also offers invaluable insights into children's spiritual needs, reveals the powerful effect faith can have on a child's self-esteem, and enables parents to understand their children's fears, dreams, and hopes. Perhaps most important, this wise and potentially life-changing book shows parents who may feel something missing In their own spiritual lives that it is possible to nourish their own souls even as they nurture their children's.
Download or read book God and Children written by Jesus Urteaga and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lost God in a Lost World written by Melvin Tinker and published by EP BOOKS. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword by David F Wells: I welcome this fine book. I appreciate the fact that Melvin Tinker has gone to the heart of the matter, to the very center of our faith. Evangelical faith is never going to be renewed by better marketing techniques, or more cultural accommodations, slicker presentations, or better business acumen. It will be renewed only when our knowledge of God is deepened, our walk with him becomes more genuine, our faith more authentic, and our churches more biblical. This is exactly what this book calls for. It sets up the doctrinal structure of Christian faith and lays out with great clarity the truth that these doctrines declare. And he shows that as pressing, and sometimes as novel as our challenges seem to be today, they are actually the recurring challenges that God's people have faced in every generation. Here, though, he deals with those challenges from within the biblical period and lays out the biblical answers. If we would but listen we might be quite surprised at the results! We would see the gospel making inroads into our Western world, the Church finding new life, and Christians living with greater confidence and more hope. May it indeed be so!
Download or read book The Mysteries of God Revealed written by Roy Dixon and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book of Redemption is God's master plan to redeem his children back from the fall of sin caused by the serpent (Satan) in the beginning. Satan has deceived the whole world with his lies and has caused the people to sin against their creator. This book will reveal that Jesus is both Lord and Christ, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in One PERSON, manifested in flesh, and existed from eternity past to eternity future and that He is Supreme, not God in three persons, blessed trinity, but One God, One Person, who created the heavens and the earth in the beginning with three major titles, with three Dispensations manifesting those titles.
Download or read book Formations Commentary Luke Acts written by Cecil E. Sherman and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add the wit and wisdom on Cecil Sherman to your library. After 15 years of Cecil Sherman expounding scripture in the Formations Commentary, you can now purchase the 5 Volume compilation of the best of his commentary from Genesis to Revelation.
Download or read book Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume Forty written by John Nelson Darby and published by Irving Risch. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canaan and the Armour of God Colossians 1 Notes of a Private Conversation. The Epistle to the Philippians 1 2 Philippians 2 Philippians 3 Thoughts on 2 Timothy for the Closing Days The Eternal Sonship of Christ The Rest, the Word, and the Priesthood A Call to Gilgal Miscellaneous Notes on the Epistles Justification and Righteousness Romans 6 Christ Dwelling in the Heart. To Live - Christ. Notes of the Meeting of Brethren at Guelph, Ontario Notes on Revelation A Letter On Atonement Luke 15 (Notes of Readings) John 14 (Notes of Readings) The Father's House An Address on John 14 The Acts of the Apostles The Epistle to the Ephesians Notes of the Cheltenham meeting. Ephesians 1:15-23; Ephesians 2:1-10 Fragments. Fragment on 2 Cor. 4, 5:1-5 Fragments on Matthew 27:17- [?] Psalm 51, 2 Cor. 3 and 4. Lecture - May 1872. Titus 1:3. [2?] 2 Corinthians 8 - 10. The Aaronic and Melchisedec Priesthood. God's Delight in Blessing His People. Imitators of God Articles probably by J. N. Darby. The Lord's Host "Love is of God," and "God is love." Magazine Fragments On the Coming of the Lord. "Raised and seated together." Rest for the Weary. Risen with Christ The Thoughtfulness of Divine Love Unselfishness. "The Word became flesh." Notes of a Lecture. A Letter on "The Praise of Men" A Few Helpful Remarks For the Present Times The Vail. Letter, 1 Timothy 4:8 Two Brief Quotes Notes of Addresses On the Baptism of Households Beloved Children The Cross. The Character of the Ministry of the Gospel. Christianity Mysterious The Closing Days of Christendom The Coming of the Lord. The Full Import of Conversion. The Costliness and Blessed Self-hiding of the Love of Christ. "Thou shalt surely rejoice." Forgivenesss and Salvation. Fragments A Reading on Galatians 2:19-21. Genesis 12 The Gospel without the Church. The Heavenly One and the Heavenly Ones. Faith, Hope, and Charity for an Evil Day. How the Lost Sheep was Found Like Christ in Glory. Luke 12:32. The Mission of the Comforter. The Name of the Lord. A note on the Parables of the Treasure and the Net. The Patriarch Jacob Philippians 3. Principles of Faithful Bible Translation Letters on certain points in Romanism Notes of a lecture on Revelation 3:7-13. Time and Space The Unity of the Spirit and the Word of God. Righteousness without Grace. Waiting and Watching Worship - Notes of a Reading. Mr Darby's footnote to 1 Cor. 8:1 in the New Translation on ginosko & oida. Are the Newman Street teachers (Catholic Apostolic) sent of God?
Download or read book The Complete Works of C H Spurgeon Volume 1 written by Spurgeon, Charles and published by Delmarva Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 Sermons 1-53 Charles Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) is one of the church’s most famous preachers and Christianity’s foremost prolific writers. Called the “Prince of Preachers,” he was one of England's most notable ministers for most of the second half of the nineteenth century, and he still remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations today. His sermons have spread all over the world, and his many printed works have been cherished classics for decades. In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to more than 10 million people, often up to ten times each week. He was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was an inexhaustible author of various kinds of works including sermons, commentaries, an autobiography, as well as books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more. Spurgeon was known to produce powerful sermons of penetrating thought and divine inspiration, and his oratory and writing skills held his audiences spellbound. Many Christians have discovered Spurgeon's messages to be among the best in Christian literature. Edward Walford wrote in Old and New London: Volume 6 (1878) quoting an article from the Times regarding one of Spurgeon’s meetings at Surrey: “Fancy a congregation consisting of 10,000 souls, streaming into the hall, mounting the galleries, humming, buzzing, and swarming—a mighty hive of bees—eager to secure at first the best places, and, at last, any place at all. After waiting more than half an hour—for if you wish to have a seat you must be there at least that space of time in advance—Mr. Spurgeon ascended his tribune. To the hum, and rush, and trampling of men, succeeded a low, concentrated thrill and murmur of devotion, which seemed to run at once, like an electric current, through the breast of every one present, and by this magnetic chain the preacher held us fast bound for about two hours. It is not my purpose to give a summary of his discourse. It is enough to say of his voice, that its power and volume are sufficient to reach everyone in that vast assembly; of his language, that it is neither high-flown nor homely; of his style, that it is at times familiar, at times declamatory, but always happy, and often eloquent; of his doctrine, that neither the 'Calvinist' nor the 'Baptist' appears in the forefront of the battle which is waged by Mr. Spurgeon with relentless animosity, and with Gospel weapons, against irreligion, cant, hypocrisy, pride, and those secret bosom-sins which so easily beset a man in daily life; and to sum up all in a word, it is enough to say of the man himself, that he impresses you with a perfect conviction of his sincerity.” More than a hundred years after his death, Charles Spurgeon’s legacy continues to effectively inspire the church around the world. For this reason, Delmarva Publications has chosen to publish the complete works of Charles Spurgeon.
Download or read book When Your Child Breaks Your Heart written by Barbara Johnson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved author Barbara Johnson offers hope to families facing difficulty coming to terms with a child's decisions in life, sharing how God brought her through the deep waters--and how he will do the same for them.
