Download or read book Don t Be Too Chicken to Tell Somebody about Jesus written by Cynthia Bell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some books that are considered instructional, some encouraging, and many that would be described as inspirational. There are still others that will challenge you, making you a bit uncomfortable as the Word of God gets to the root of things IN your life that may be delaying what God wants FOR your life. Rarely do you find all of these attributes embodied in one book and delivered with such heartfelt compassion and great power, but this is the one. Cynthia Bell takes you into her world, to share very intimate details of her transformation, from being one of Satan’s victims into a victorious, set free woman of God. As you read each testimony and allow it to penetrate every fiber of your being, you, too, will possess the fortitude necessary to tell yourself and everyone else, “Don’t be too chicken to tell somebody about Jesus.” Discover how to: Find hope to help you cope with your own circumstances Trade hurt for wholeness Forgive and be forgiven Give God the glory as you become strong in broken places

Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Download or read book Let It Go written by T.D. Jakes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

Download or read book Poetic Mixture written by Cynthia Bell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open this “Poetic Mixture;” and see what’s inside, Allow my God given talent to take you for a ride. Don’t judge this book by the very first poem. Please! Dig a wee bit deeper. Once you’ve thumbed through where my mind have gone, I’m for certain you’ll want to keep her. You know sometimes when you hear a song, Or a thought may come to mind. Someone may say something that just sticks, And it ends up being a rhyme. Everything is not just poetry, There is laughter, private thoughts, and plenty of praise. In addition there are some things that I’ve recollected, From way back in the days. With a twist right here and a turn over there, This was written for your delight. But all things are not so amusing, When you have to take a stand and fight. No, I haven’t always been Christ-like, And many struggles I tastefully share. But don’t get so holy and shut this book, Like your mind have never been there. Check it out! You’ll be inspired! Enjoy this hearty treat! The whole shebang was purposely designed, To touch your heart and make you think.

Download or read book Jesus Outside the Lines written by Scott Sauls and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the issue of the day on Twitter, Facebook, or cable news is our sexuality, political divides, or the perceived conflict between faith and science, today’s media pushes each one of us into a frustrating clash between two opposing sides. Polarizing, us-against-them discussions divide us and distract us from thinking clearly and communicating lovingly with others. Scott Sauls, like many of us, is weary of the bickering and is seeking a way of truth and beauty through the conflicts. Jesus Outside the Lines presents Jesus as this way. Scott shows us how the words and actions of Jesus reveal a response that does not perpetuate the destructive fray. Jesus offers us a way forward—away from harshness, caricatures, and stereotypes. In Jesus Outside the Lines, you will experience a fresh perspective of Jesus, who will not (and should not) fit into the sides.

Download or read book The Witness Carol written by George DeTellis and published by Presidents Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have never read a book like this before. Hidden beneath the veil of a fictional story the author reveals the text of a manuscript found in the barn of a Mennonite Farm in the hills of Virginia. The Witness Carol contains a simple message that empowers the reader with the source of their destiny. After reading the message you will begin to affect eternity in your sphere of influence. The story is one of discovery, but is also a guidebook that has the power to change lives forever. Destined to become a Christian classic. Author DeTellis’ heart passion, head knowledge, and life experience make him uniquely qualified to write The Witness Carol. His involvement in both stateside evangelism and cross-cultural missions has produced a perspective well worth hearing.­­­­

Download or read book Your God is Too Glorious written by Chad Bird and published by New Reformation Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

Download or read book Jesus Was a Liberal written by Scotty McLennan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the millions of people who identify as liberal Christians. In McLennan's bold call to reclaim ownership of Christianity, he advocates a sense of religion based not on doctrinal readings of scripture but on the humanity behind Christ's teachings. He addresses such topics as intelligent design, abortion, same sex marriage, war. torture and much, much more. As he says in the Preface, "We liberal Christians know in our hearts that there is much more to life than seems to meet the rational eye of atheists; yet we find it hard to support supernatural claims about religion that fly in the face of scientific evidence."

Download or read book Crying Loud and Sparing Not written by Edgar Meeks and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national and international ministry of John Lawrence had one common theme: adding souls to the Kingdom of God. He was a great soul winner, evangelist, pastor, and marriage counselor. He cried loud against sin, in and outside the church, and no one was spared. The Lord poured upon him a powerful anointing and insight to the important keys for revivals, prison ministry, street evangelism, and God-approved marriages. Due to his obedience and unmovable pursuit to fulfill God's will, many church and individual ministries have blossomed, souls saved, marriages restored, and lives unshackled and delivered from the clutches of the evil one. It didn't matter if he was preaching to a storefront church with only ten in attendance or a church cathedral with a thousand attendees; he preached with a tenacity unlike any other evangelist I have ever seen. When it came to street ministry, John led the charge by being there, providing instruction for those who were serving along with him, going door-to-door from one location to the next. He held annual marriage seminars in various cities across the nation. As a result, many marriages were restored, strengthened, and healed. John Lawrence was on a quest for souls. He was a mighty conqueror indeed, crying loud and sparing not.

Download or read book Still Wild written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier. Featuring a veritable Who's Who of the century's most distinctive writers, this collection effectively departs from the standard superstars of the Western genre. McMurtry has chosen a refreshing range of work that, when taken as a whole, depicts the evolution and maturation of Western writing over several decades. The featured tales are not so concerned with the American West of history and geography as they are with the American West of the imagination—one that is alternately comic, gritty, individual, searing, and complex. Including authors such as Jack Kerouac, Wallace Stegner, Raymond Carver, Annie Proulx, and Diana Ossana, this collection captures the real Western canon like no other.

Download or read book The Reason for God written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek). Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. To true believers he offers a solid platform on which to stand their ground against the backlash to religion created by the Age of Skepticism. And to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, he provides a challenging argument for pursuing the reason for God.

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Download or read book At Night He Remembers written by James Cunneen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Night He Remembers traces the life of Jacob from his coming to Christ as a young lieutenant in Vietnam, through his years as a college professor, campus minister, and, at last, an old man agonizing over whether his life was fruitful for God. This book will encourage and challenge all believers who desire to serve the Lord and say at the end of their lives, "Father, I have accomplished the work you sent me to do!"

Download or read book Nina the Bandit Queen written by Joey Slinger and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Dolgoy leads her neighbours on a campaign to renovate the community pool, but the only way she can think to raise money is to rob a bank. Unfortunately, she isn’t very good at it. In a part of town so beaten down that even prostitutes and drug dealers have written if off, Nina Dolgoy imagines that if the local pool wasn’t boarded up, her little daughters could use it to burn off their wayward energy and avoid falling into utter degradation. So the bitterly self-proclaimed "welfare queen" leads her neighbours on a fundraising, pool-fixing community-improvement campaign that proves the sad old adage that no good deed ever goes unpunished. The only way Nina can think to raise money herself is by robbing a bank. Unfortunately, she isn’t very good at it. Coincidentally, her brother, Frank, gets out of jail and robs one. The explosive events that are unleashed force Nina and the girls to flee for their lives, but their escape turns into a sublimely bizarre chase during which Nina somehow needs to pull the wool over everybody’s eyes.

Download or read book Left Behind and Loving It written by D. Mark Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left Behind and Loving It is a cheeky critique of popular writings about the end times. Rather than presenting a steroid-buffed Jesus wrapped in an American flag and "coming again in clouds of gunfire," Left Behind and Loving It invites readers to approach some of the most controversial and scary portions of the Scriptures with the utter confidence that "God's steadfast love endures forever." Rather than asserting a hope premised on a few chosen ones escaping the world, Left Behind and Loving It argues that if it is Jesus who is to return (and not his evil twin), then the second coming has redemption written all over it. Many today cannot accept the escapist, violent, end-of-the-world scenario envisioned by "Left Behind" theology. Left Behind and Loving It invites readers not to fear but to trust in God's steadfast love and look at the finitude of the world with hope in an infinitely loving God.

Download or read book Where to Today Lord written by James W. Price and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was designed to be an inspiration to all who read it. It illustrates, through the stories of failure and triumph of one man, how everyday people, who feel like there’s no way that they could be forgiven for the things they’ve done, can find a fresh start at life with the blessing and hand of God upon them; a God who will forgive and love them unconditionally. He’ll put it all in the past and give them a wonderful future because He cares for them, in spite of what they’ve done. This is James W. Price’s miraculous story, a story of a dead-end life that God breathed new life into. Although bullied, neglected, homeless, and eventually given over to crime for an early portion of his life, over time God gave him a new and wonderful life in spite of all the times he had fallen. Once captive to his abusive, apathetic, hopeless outlook, he gained new insight and joy by the work of the Holy Spirit. These incredible, colorful stories illustrate richly how God did a 180 on Price’s life in a miraculous way, and how he never failed to provide for his needs. In Where to Today, Lord? Price takes the reader on a very emotional, exhilarating, rewarding journey as he shares all of the wondrous and unlikely places God has led him to and the incredible situations God has brought him to and through. God didn’t promise Price that bad things wouldn’t happen, but he did promise that he would be with him when they did; even if Price was the cause of his own troubles. His story will challenge the reader to take God out of the box they’ve put him into and to trust him so He can enrich their lives. Jesus said in John 10:10, “The thief comes not, but to steal, kill, and to destroy. I have come that you may have life and that you may have it more abundantly.”

Download or read book The Other Side of Paradise written by Staceyann Chin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio discussing issues of race and sexuality, but it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist—here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir. No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Lottery, Jamaica on Christmas Day. Staceyann's mother did not want her and her father was not present—no one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early years. But when the three were separated, Staceyann was thrust, alone, into an unfamiliar and dysfunctional home in Paradise, Jamaica. There, she faced far greater troubles than absent parents. So, armed with a fierce determination and exceptional intelligence, she discovered a way to break out of this harshly unforgiving world. Staceyann Chin, acclaimed and iconic performance artist, now brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a brave, lyrical, and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jamaica. She plumbs tender and unsettling memories as she writes about drifting from one home to the next, coming out as a lesbian, and finding the man she believes to be her father and ultimately her voice. Hers is an unforgettable story told with grace, humor, and courage.