Download or read book Jesus and the Ghetto written by Frederick L Smith, Jr. and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Jesus present in the ghetto? The poetic new book Jesus and the Ghetto answers back that Jesus and his teachings are alive and well in the ghetto. This book could well be about any inner city in the world, since most major cities have ghettoes. Since I am more familiar with the Black person's persona, I am primarily shedding light on the conditions of Black people who live in poverty in America, and how a hope in Christ can lead them from living in poverty. In the first part of his book, author Frederick L. Smith, Jr. believes his poems encourage poor people to find a better way of life. The second part expresses things from the viewpoint of God, while the third part is my own observations and the way to rise above poverty and ghetto life. Set in the late 1980s in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, Jesus and the Ghetto is a hopeful book. It looks toward God and inner strength for us to set goals and find ways to accomplish them. About the Author: Frederick L. Smith, Jr. knew he wanted to be a writer at age thirteen. Now retired, he is a community volunteer, and is inspired by his wife, children and grandchildren. He lives in Cincinnati. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/JesusAndTheGhetto.htm

Download or read book God in the Ghetto written by William Augustus Jones Jr and published by Judson Press. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, the reissue of the classic book by the late, great William ¿Bill¿ Augustus Jones. The original volume featured essays on urban ministry and sermons on social justice, and this new edition has been updated by the late author¿s younger daughter and expanded to add several never-before-published sermons from the preaching giant. The book also features new essays reflecting on the legacy and influence of Dr. Jones and his work, from notable leaders including James Forbes, Frederick Haynes, Otis Moss III, J. Alfred Smith Sr., Al Sharpton, Jacqueline Thompson, and more!

Download or read book Jesus in the Hood written by Charles E. Pender Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a lot lizard and a prostitute who was extremely good looking. Her eyes were dark and soft as a thousand midnights, and so was her hair. Her breast stood up like taillights on a ’59 Cadillac, she was a 34-28-36 brick house. Her lips were round and full, and her tongue tasted like July Jam. She was as fat as a swamp possum with the mumps and looked so good when this soul sister winked at a church deacon. They immediately had to give him artificial respiration. Go on and buy the book and read the rest of it. It’ll blow your mind how her pimp wanted to use a certain thing on her to get rid of her and he got some relatives living today using the same thing. If that wasn’t bad enough, this same pimp mistreated Jesus in the hood. Go ahead and buy this book, and be thrilled, enlightened, informed . . . and very amazed.

Download or read book God in the Ghetto written by William A. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Neutral Ground written by Pete Portal and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - often described as a kind of heaven on earth. Yet for the majority of its inhabitants it is hell. Apartheid-spawned ghettoes are everywhere, and for those living in Manenberg - a coloured township on the Cape Flats, purpose-built by the apartheid government as part of its forced removal plan - life is just as marginal today as it was during apartheid. The main differences now are the rampant drug use and widespread gang presence. No Neutral Ground is a gripping account of Pete Portal's move from London to Manenberg, of addicts and gangsters meeting Jesus and being transformed, and how he went from living with a heroin addict to establishing a church community - and all the heartbreak and failure along the way. This is a story of mighty works of God, as well as relapse, hopelessness and despair; the miraculous and the mundane, heaven and hell, all balanced on a knife edge. Offering searing insight and an inspiring vision of faith, Pete asks why anyone would choose this way of life, if giving up our lives for others is worth it - and what the church could become if we were willing to risk it all to reach the forgotten and the lost.

Download or read book God and Government in the Ghetto written by Michael Leo Owens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods’ poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in New York City, Owens reveals that African American churches can use these newly forged connections with public agencies to influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics. The churches and neighborhoods, Owens argues, can see a real benefit from that influence—but it may come at the expense of less involvement at the grassroots. Anyone with a stake in the changing strategies employed by churches as they fight for social justice will find God and Government in the Ghetto compelling reading.

Download or read book Ghetto Bible written by Jovan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the strong survive, in the land where greed is king. From the highest office in the land, to the bottom of the food chain: The Ghetto. Who will survive the Black Housing Projects, and make it out alive, all in the name of The All Mighty Dollar? In God We Trust.

Download or read book The Gospel According to the Ghetto written by Canaan Banana and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tribulation Of A Ghetto Kid written by The Ghost and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be hard to imagine that in the United States of America, the greatest nation on the face of the earth, a young male growing up in the "hood" has a greater chance of survival in the midst of a war zone, rather than within the confines of the inner city ghettos....Meet Jeffrey Owen's, the modern day Job; he's a model student and an inspiring rapper/poet who strives hard to live right and maintain his sanity in an environment filled with gross images of death and despair.Does young Jeffrey has what it takes to prevail, or will he like so many others be consumed by one of the seven devils; Greed, Lust, Fear, Envy, Vanity and Pride?This is not your average ghetto tale. The writer... Writes with a purpose...And the purpose? To kidnap the reader and hold them hostage! So don't confuse this Classic with any of the rest. No disrespect intended. This highly emotional street drama will keep readers flipping pages with unfound fury. Fictions Best Kept Secret.... and author of Cold Blooded: The New Year's Day Massacre.

Download or read book Jesus Was from the Hood written by Donovan Spearman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FOXES HAVE HOLES, THE BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN HAS NO PLACE TO LAY HIS HEAD. IT WAS THOSE WORDS THAT KEPT ME FROM DYING WHEN I WAS A YOUNG, POOR, DESTITUTE MAN WITH NO HOPE OF THE FUTURE. WHETHER YOU CALL IT THE GHETTO, THE SLUMS, THE PROJECTS, THE BARRIOS, THE TRAILER PARK, OR "THE HOOD" GETTING OUT AND GETTING UP IS STILL THE MOST DIFFICULT THING FOR THOSE OF US WHO GREW UP THERE TO DO. YOU'VE BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE STREET, YOU'VE SHAKEN HANDS WITH POVERTY. YOU'VE KNOWN INDIFFERENCE AND HATRED. YOU'VE BEEN PUT DOWN, YELLED AT, AND BEEN A VICTIM OF PREJUDICE AND RACISM. YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO AND DECEIVED. NOT ONLY BY SOCIETY, BUT EVEN BY THOSE YOU THOUGHT WERE IN YOUR CORNER. "JESUS WAS FROM THE HOOD" ILLUSTRATES JUST HOW INTIMATLEY JESUS SPOKE TO ALL OF US WHO GREW UP AND ARE GROWING UP AS A MEMBER OF A MINORITY IN THIS SOCIETY. FORGET ABOUT THE CATHEDRALS IN THE CENTER OF TOWN. DON'T BE PUT OFF BY THE WHITE GLOVES IN THE CHURCH CEREMONY, OR THE 1,000 MEMBER CHOIR, OR THE PREACHER WITH THE GOLD TRIMMED ROBE. DO THOSE THINGS TURN YOU OFF? IT SHOULD! JESUS WAS TURNED OFF TOO! DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE, JESUS WAS FROM THE HOOD. THE SERMON YOU HEAR DOWN THE STREET WITH ALL OF THE LINCOLNS, CADILLACS, AND BENZ'S IN THE PARKING LOT WONT TELL YOU. THE CATHEDRALS CANT TELL YOU. AND THE MINISTERS WHOM SALARY DEPENDS UPON BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT BETTER NOT TELL YOU! BUT, JESUS DID TELL YOU, A LONG TIME AGO. FINALLY, A BOOK THAT EXPLAINS TO US WHAT JESUS REALLY MEANT WHEN HE DISCUSSED THE SAMARITAN WOMAN, THE LEPER, THE MARKETPLACE, AND WHAT THEY MEAN TO YOU NOW!! THAT FAMOUS STATEMENT SO OFTEN MISINTERPRETED BY SO MANY WHEN JESUS SAID TO THE POOR WOMAN "I CANT GIVE THAT WHICH IS HOLY TO THE DOGS" READ THIS BOOK, AND FIND OUT THAT JESUS HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH YOU THAN YOU THAN MOST OF THE FOLKS YOU THINK THAT GO TO CHURCH EVERY WEEK. WHEN YOU IDENTIFY WITH JESUS, THEN JESUS WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY WITH YOU. YOU NEED TO FIND OUT THAT "JESUS, WAS FROM THE HOOD.

Download or read book Alive in God written by Timothy Radcliffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Christianity touch the imagination of our contemporaries when ever fewer people in the West identify as religious? Timothy Radcliffe argues we must show how everything we believe is an invitation to live fully. God says: 'I put before you life and death: choose life'. Anyone who understands the beauty and messiness of human life – novelists, poets, filmmakers and so on – can be our allies, whether they believe or not. The challenge is not today's secularism but its banality. We accompany the disciples as they struggle to understand this strange man who heals, casts out demons and offers endless forgiveness. In the face of death, he teaches them what it means to be alive in God. Then he embraces all that afflicts and crushes humanity. Finally, Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfully. The result is a compelling new understanding of the words of Jesus: 'I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'

Download or read book May God Avenge Their Blood written by Rachmil Bryks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Łódź and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.

Download or read book FROM GHETTO TO GLORY written by Bishop J. Delano Ellis II and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ghetto to Glory is a biographical story of a boy raised in dysfunction, prophesied to be a failure before he could finish school. It's about a boy who suffered beatings for his faith and dismissed from his family because he chose Christ over the religion of his father. The story is somewhat graphic, but the pain in each page culminates in a glory unexpected by the reader. Read the book and walk with Bishop Ellis from "water" to solid ground, and you will appreciate his need to praise God at every circumstance. You may just find yourself praising God along with him.

Download or read book Jesus and the Hip hop Prophets written by Alex Gee and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Teter and Alex Gee invite you to explore the world of Lauryn Hill, Tupac Shakur and the "hip-hop prophets"--following their lyrical messages to ultimate fulfillment at the feet of the Prophet-King Jesus.

Download or read book Armed and Dangerous written by John Ramirez and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic Battle Plan Identifies Enemy Tactics and Equips Believers to Live Victoriously Jesus made it clear that the devil has come to steal, kill, and destroy. Hell is ready to unleash fury against every follower of Jesus. Yet many believers live in denial, letting the enemy steal their blessings, destroy their relationship with Jesus, and kill their hope. But no more. It's time to put the enemy on notice! With passion and insight gained from years on the frontlines of spiritual warfare, John Ramirez equips you with the biblical weapons and practical strategies you need to battle the enemy successfully, including how to · discern and shut down the enemy's tactics and next moves · fight with your God-given authority · break free from destructive patterns and replace them with godly ones · fortify your mind and heart against attacks · take back what the devil has stolen · grow in wisdom and maturity in Christ · and more! Here is everything you need to become armed and dangerous against every adversary that threatens your relationship and growth with Jesus. Through the power of the Holy Spirit you can destroy the power of the enemy and protect all that God has given you. It's time to push back the gates of hell, advance the Kingdom, and live the life God designed you for.

Download or read book When Christians Were Jews written by Paula Fredriksen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.

Download or read book Escape from the Ghetto written by John Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis is a tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure, and the relentless pursuit of freedom in the face of insurmountable challenges. In early 1940 Chaim Herszman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless, and determined, Chaim goes on scavenging missions outside the wire fence—where one day he is forced to kill a Nazi guard to protect his secret. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. Chaim avoids grenade and rifle fire on the Russian border, shelters with a German family in the Rhineland, falls in love in occupied France, is captured on a mountain pass in Spain, gets interrogated as a potential Nazi spy in Britain, and eventually fights for everything he believes in as part of the British Army. He protects his life by posing as an Aryan boy with a crucifix around his neck, and fights for his life through terrible and astonishing circumstances. Escape from the Ghetto is about a normal boy who faced extermination by the Nazis in the ghetto and a Nazi deathcamp, and the extraordinary life he led in avoiding that fate. It's a bittersweet story about epic hope, beauty amidst horror, and the triumph of the human spirit.