Download or read book Church Boy in the Dark written by Har'rell and published by RoseDog Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Church Boy in the Dark written by ,Har'rell and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will undoubtedly be one of the most controversial books of this new decade! The fact based fiction book begins with the story of a young child coming of age in 1980's New York City, by presenting not only his awareness as a child of his sexuality but of his desire for street life as well, in spite of his middle class upbringing. The author in just (7) seven chapters takes you on a vivid illustration of life and death using real places, real letters, real phone conversations and each character in the book come alive in your mind. Then after the story has captured your attention, you are then released into another realm of life and living with the emergence of the attached magazine: Inside of Insight Magazine Features: "Straight Up" The Homosexual Digest for the Straight World - Is a Q&A fashioned informational designed to answer many questions that straight people have regarding the Gay & Lesbian community. Articles: "Sunday Morning When the Church Shows No Love", "Culture & Racial Divide" Beauty and the Beast of 21st Century", "Atlanta's Black Gay Pride Weekend, Nothing to Be Proud About". "My Very First and Very Last Sermon: The Book of Romans Saves Us All" Revelation of how God thru the entire book of Romans grants Grace over all who obeys His Law of love and faith in Him.
Download or read book Church Boy Love written by Adrian D. Nelson and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you put your life as you knew it on the line for a loved one, or leave them to face their own judgment for a wrong they committed? You pulled it off. But just when you thought it was all over and you were the savior of the day, all hell broke loose as the tables turned, and you were now on the run and being hunted in the worst possible way. Street remained a loyal teenage church boy, but made one drastic decision out of loyalty that led him straight into the most hellish experience and being hunted by everyone and even the unimaginable. A story of survival. A supernatural story of unbelief versus faith. A story of determination. A story of love, and the price he had to pay. This is the sequel to Street's incredible journey with mind-blowing situations and consequences that you pray you will never find yourself in. But he did. This is a story that no one would ever tell because most wouldn't believe. Rule 1: Don't ever fall in love again until your heart can handle it. Rule 2. Don't ever enter a dance competition again. Rule 3. No more street brawls. Rule 4. Spend more time at church. Rule 5. Never travel alone after dark, but if you do, never, ever look her in the eyes, if you should encounter her. Street broke all five rules that came with severe consequences as he became: The Hunted. Based on actual events.
Download or read book Hope in the Dark written by Craig Groeschel and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can God be good when life is not? Rediscover faith in the character, power, and presence of God. Even in the questions. Even in the hurt. "I want to believe, I want to have hope, but . . ." Pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel hears these words often and has asked them himself. We want to know God, feel his presence, and trust that he hears our prayers, but in the midst of great pain, we may wonder if he really cares about us. Even when we have both hope and hurt, sometimes it's the hurt that shouts the loudest. In Hope in the Dark, Groeschel explores the story of the father who brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus, saying, "I believe! Help my unbelief!" In the man's sincere plea, Jesus heard the tension in the man's battle-scarred heart. He healed not only the boy but the father too, driving out the hopelessness that had overtaken him. He can do the same for us today. As Groeschel shares his pain surrounding the health challenges of his daughter, he acknowledges the questions we may ask in our own deepest pain: "Where was God when I was being abused?" "Why was my child born with a disability?" "Why did the cancer come back?" "Why are all my friends married and I'm alone?" He invites us to wrestle with such questions as we ask God to honor our faith and heal our unbelief. Because in the middle of your profound pain, you long for authentic words of understanding and hope. You long to know that even in overwhelming reality, you can still believe that God is good. Hope in the Dark is also available in Spanish, Esperanza en la Oscuridad.
Download or read book Churchboy Should Have Listened written by Herman Fontenette and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Jackson wanted to be a thug. Along with his attitude, he refused to listen to anyone. This included his mother, who sent him to the country to live with his grand father, who was a minister, after being jailed as a teenager. Jason deceived his grandpa to return back home to find more trouble. While serving time, the young man became a member of a hellish gang which caused him to miss the rapture. Finally, after his relatives no longer lived on Earth, Jason "Churchboy" Jackson only knew, he should have listened.
Download or read book Church Boy written by Kirk Franklin and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he fell from a darkened stage in November 1996, Kirk Franklin could easily have been killed. That ten-foot plunge might have ended the career of one of America's most exciting young prodigies. But thanks to his dramatic recovery, the fall added not only a new dimension to his story but it brought Kirk Franklin to the attention of millions who otherwise might never have heard the name. Today Kirk Franklin is bigger than ever. His recordings have topped the charts, selling more copies in less time than any gospel musician in history. He has won every award gospel music has to offer but his own success is the last thing on his mind. This is the story of a young man from the poor side of town. He was taunted and teased as a child, but his faith and his remarkable musical talent helped him overcome the odds. In these pages Kirk Franklin reveals the real source of his strength. "What motivates me," he says, "is the knowledge that God has redeemed me from the pain and the hurts and the sin of my past and given me a new joy I can't even explain. It's not just for show," he says. "It's the truth, and that's what I want to express."
Download or read book God in the Dark written by Os Guinness and published by Crossway. This book was released on 1996 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forthright but compassionate work that examines the problem of doubt thoroughly, in a way that will respond to people's questions, settle their fears and strengthen their faith.
Download or read book Church Boy Love written by Dr Adrian D. Nelson and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been in that chapter of your life where everything that could possibly go wrong does so you just want to curse God and die or you question if God even really exists? What would you do if you simply wanted to live the blessed life of a devoted Christian, to excel in school, to make your family proud, to find true love and live happily ever after yet everything came crashing down when evil interrupted? In the '80s, Street was a lost soul and once a devoted Christian teenage boy living in Jamaica; he backslid after a series of devastating life-changing events over the years led him to doubt and to create this bizarre test game in certain situations to have God or the devil prove their existence to him. The devil constantly did. He lost his faith and resorted to dancing to fill that void by forming a break dance group called the Street Boys. They became popular, and he became content. But it didn't last. With evil and trouble constantly tormenting him, the Street Boys eventually transitioned into a ruthless street gang to defend themselves against their rivals and enemies. But amidst all the street fights and mayhem that consumed him, he one day found solace-love in a Christian girl, which eventually led him back to Christ. Happy ending, you might think, but far from it! The twists, turns, and shockers that accompanied his new relationship with her led to more mayhem, bloodshed, and heartbreak-and even worse, an ending that no one ever saw coming or could have even predicted. This story is based on actual events.
Download or read book Dark of the Moon written by Howard Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the tale unfolds, a witch boy tarries in a mountain community in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. The superstitious townspeople resent their happiness and their subsequent meddling ends in violence and tragedy. This play was proclaimed a Broadway hit.
Download or read book Boy in Darkness written by Mervyn Peake and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Download or read book The Darkness of God written by Denys Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A closely argued book about what the negative tradition in Western theology involves.
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Download or read book Darkness written by Tom Cherrix and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can light and darkness exist together? Darrian is sure the answer is no. What he isnaEUR(tm)t sure of is why. The simple answer is that they are both absolutes, and one must ultimately overtake and destroy the other. But according to his friend Spence, thereaEUR(tm)s more to it than that, something deeper and more complicated. Spence has spent years trying to pull Darrian out of the darkness and into the Light, while forces that can be heard, but not seen, wrestle to keep him where he is. Darrian struggles with the conflict, but finds it easier to remain in the shadows. There, shielded from society, he wrestles with the question: Why is there safety and comfort in the darkness, but anxiety and confusion in the light? On the surface, it seems easier to just let go, to not fight it, but somewhere inside, in a place he tries unsuccessfully to explore, there is a deep-seated longing to at least understand the light. The unrest creates a battle within as he seeks to reconcile what his eyes can see with what his heart can feel. Unfortunately, the answer Darrian is searching for lies in a place beyond his physical vision. There is a darkness that blinds him to the real battle, the one he will eventually have to fight. The one that will truly open his eyes. The one that will help him to finally see that darkness and light have little to do with sight and everything to do with insight. aEURoeThe lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.aEUR (Luke 11:34)
Download or read book Dark Harvest written by Norman Partridge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE, AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING! Norman Partridge's Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Dark Harvest, is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." “A major talent.” —Stephen King Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol' Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. He's willing to risk everything, including his life, to be a winner for once. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror—and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy. “This is contemporary American writing at its finest.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Night Everything Was Found written by Bullseye Armstrong and published by Homemade Unique Cards. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night at church, Joel discovers that his belongings have gone missing. But who could have stolen it? Joel's friend, Bumper, also encounters the same situation. Their answers lie beyond a mysterious door in a dark room, but the boys forget to ask God for help.
Download or read book Amadeus written by Josephine deBois and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest novel of Josephine deBois, is about outstanding human beings and characters intertwined in a stunning series of events: it is about Tiffany Yun, a young, beautiful and stellar female Asian pianist conflicted between culture and love; it is about Ludwig Mann, the greatest conductor ever, his passions, his woes, his love, his deep dark desires, and his endless struggle at the edge of music to always go beyond whatever stellar interpretations he delivered just moments ago, and not least his struggle with what he is; it is about Josephine deBois, an unbelievable beautiful woman driven to the edge of her life by deep, dark, irresistible desires; it is about Duilio Paioni, an outstanding, brilliant, Nobel-Laureate-Ready truth seeking scientist who has revolutionized the technologies to the edge where synthesis of human life is possible; it is about Giovanni Landini, a high ranking, ruthless church official at endless conflict with his faith and deep sexual desires; it is about Marchetto Caccini, a top-ranking church official ruthlessly defending his institution and faith at any price; it is about Sargent Samuel, an honest and truth seeking New York police Sargent sandwiched between power, corruption and pursuit of the truth in a mysterious case leading him to the edge of truth at the epicenter of a case so unbelievable that nobody believes even the truth; it is about Sora, a mysterious woman living at the edge to the world beyond and supernaturally manages the natural; and it is about Chu-jin, shaped in disaster at the edge to the world beyond, who seeks the souls to answer the fundamental question of what makes a human human. At the end of the stunning story, beauty and cruelty stand face-to-face in terrible moments of death and destruction. Love appears extinct but does it survive in disguise?
