Download or read book Seeing Jesus at the Parole Hearing written by Sara Shallenberger and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the powerful story of one woman’s quest to be radically healed from a violent assault that happened in her home at age 20. After the pastors, counselors and experts all said it was impossible to be healed this side of heaven, Jesus said otherwise. Find out what miracle took place after Jesus told her look at His record of what He did every time someone asked Him to heal them. Find that same open door of faith into the supernatural power of God for your situation! Hear how the miracles continued as the Lord gave her an open-eyed encounter with Him as she shared the good news of the gospel and invitation of salvation to the assailant at his parole hearing twenty-five years later. What was the Lord doing at that hearing? You will not want to miss it! This book shares the simple and powerful truth of the gospel that Jesus can deliver us from the most impossible situations and heal us as if the trauma never happened. If your situation is truly impossible – Jesus can do something about it! This book includes gospel principles as well as common pitfalls women face on the road of recovery. It is written for every person who has faced devastation, tragedy, and trauma and who needs the miracle power of Jesus, as well as for all those who are hungry to encounter our soon coming King in whatever situation they are in.
Download or read book Tantrum written by K.R. Eaton and published by KREATON BOOKS. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathew Abernathy had all that life offered. He had wealth, a stunningly beautiful wife, and a healthy, energetic young daughter. Life was good. Everything seemed fine. But things were not what they seemed. Abused as a child, he blocked out the reality of his torment, his shame. He lived life through the lens of fantasy. The nightmares started early and got progressively worse as he approached puberty. After starting his own family, his descent into darkness begins. Slowly, his life fades into a violent world in which he lives out fantasies based on his character in nightmares. The nightmares have become so real he believes the life he’s known since childhood, the life he suppressed, never existed. His personality changes as physical evidence suggests he is acting out in real life his nightmare character role. He kills his first victim while in what he believes to be a nightmare, but news reports force him to realize he may have done it for real. Confused and desperate for answers, he becomes more detached from reality. As time goes on, he is less capable of distinguishing what is real and seeks professional help from a psychiatrist, an old family friend. The doctor misdiagnoses his condition and the treatments make matters worse. Soon, Mathew loses control and gives in to his most primal instincts. Unable to control the transformation, he embraces the idea that he, in fact, is a murderous villain and abandons his real life along with everyone in it. Would Mathew make it back to his real world? Would there be anyone who wanted him to get back? Mathew finds himself king in one of the most vicious neighborhoods of the city. Feared by all, yet respected by none, his list of enemies grow. Driven by a fury he can no longer control, he kills, randomly, brutally, without remorse. Mathew fully embraces his new life, when suddenly his nightmare world slowly unravels and the struggle for reality starts all over again. His enemies notice the change and become emboldened by his waning ability to defend himself. What will happen to Mathew? Will he succumb to his enemies? Will anyone from his past even care? Stuck between two worlds again, Mathew becomes a victim of his own existence. Captured by an unknown enemy, a disguised voice for which there is no face. He is alone, tormented, and held to account for sins he no longer remembers. In the end, Mathew comes face to face with the one enemy he had not accounted for. Can he survive?
Download or read book From the Heart of a Pastor J Alfred Smith Sr written by Martha C. Taylor and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures over three decades of Dr. Smith Sr’s prayers, pastor pens and sermon outlines. First, he demonstrates that the Bible is a lasting and sure foundation for powerful preaching. Secondly, Pastor Smith demonstrates that relevant preaching does not seek to hide God in techniques of popularity and hunger for quick success. Thirdly, Dr. Smith Sr., demonstrates that we cannot lead people to God with godless preaching and teaching. A commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ does not require us to despise, demean and disrespect other faith traditions. When Jesus healed he did not ask for birth certificates, nationality oaths ethnic or racial loyalty oaths. Jesus is an inclusive Redeemer and Liberator. This book is a must read for pastors, professors, parents, students and others who desire to grow in the knowledge of preaching, praying and applying God’s words to the deeper human rights struggle. The section on prayers reflect petitions to God for varying occasions; congregational prayers, public events, church anniversaries baby dedications, bereavements, sickness, intercessory prayers, weddings, funerals and a host of others. Using ordinary words, they reflect sincerity, simplicity and selflessness. Lastly, in the tradition of keeping in touch with the congregation, the Pastor Pen is a weekly bulletin Sunday writing that varies from current events, biblical subjects, and others challenges the church may be experiencing including financial appeals and a reminder that giving is a part of worshiping.
Download or read book Correction written by Ben Austen and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NYT EDITOR'S CHOICE • WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 • FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system–through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy “Correction ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside of prison I have ever read." ―Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted “Correction provides a revelatory lens for examining mass incarceration." –The Washington Post A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: Chicago Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune, The Next Big Idea Club The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world’s incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés—paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time—there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don’t actually know why we punish. Ben Austen’s powerful exploration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of parole. Told through the portraits of two men imprisoned for murder, and the parole board that holds their freedom in the balance, Austen’s unflinching storytelling forces us to reckon with some of the most profound questions underlying the country’s values around crime and punishment. What must someone who commits a terrible act do to get a second chance? What does incarceration seek to accomplish? An illuminating work of narrative nonfiction, Correction challenges us to consider for ourselves why and who we punish–and how we might find a way out of an era of mass imprisonment.
Download or read book Warfare written by Gregory Love and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction By: Rev. Willa Estell "If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14 Gregory is a fifty one year old reborn ex-drug addict and now attends the Zion's Preparatory Institute for Christian Ministry as an Evangelist and works in Street Ministry.
Download or read book Probation and Parole written by Louis P. Carney and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1977 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Am Troy Davis written by Jen Marlowe and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting eyewitness account of the Davis family's courageous struggle against America's flawed criminal justice system.
Download or read book Decades Behind Bars written by Gaye D. Holman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study examines the human costs of keeping the convicted out of sight, out of mind. Beginning in 1994, the author began recording the personal stories of 50 incarcerated felons--17 of them were still in prison 20 years later. The men candidly discuss what it means to commit a serious crime and to be confined for perhaps the remainder of their lives. Their stories are balanced by conversations with correctional officers, prison administrators, chaplains and parole board members. The author identifies circumstances that ruin some prisoners and save others and presents insights for possible improvements in the criminal justice system.
Download or read book Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory written by James R. Chisolm and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was formed for the specific needs of those who may find themselves to be spiritually, mentally, and physically warn out. It's a book of poems, inspired by Holy Spirit to help encourage those who are empty and in need of a new and fresh in filling of inspiration. It's overall purpose is to direct God's people to the one and true Lamb who laid His life down and then picked it back up again, so that we might obtain Salvation through Him; (God's Son) Jesus Christ. This book contains a lot of fruitful thoughts, which can assist those who are lost without a clue, to the answer they need, God's word. There's a verity of poems in this book. I'm sure, if not all, one of the poems were written specifically for you; grab a hold of it, to allow it to help you to get where you need to be spiritually, mentally, and physically. Read, enjoy, and be filled with the fruit that it contains.
Download or read book The Guns of Meeting Street written by T. Felder Dorn and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing investigation into the true crime story of a sixteen-year family feud that ended in murder in early twentieth-century South Carolina. As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina. Featuring a cast of unlikely antagonists—a prominent store owner, an elementary school teacher, and a law enforcement officer—the acts of revenge resulted in five murders and a trio of executions, including that of the first woman to be electrocuted in South Carolina. Through interviews with members of the two families involved, T. Felder Dorn probes the longstanding feud between the Logues and the Timmermans to uncover this chilling plot of resentment, revenge, and violence. Dorn’s careful research weaves together the oral history of family members affected by the shooting with court transcripts, prisoner confessions, and coroners’ reports to produce a truly gripping account of the events. Although most of the deaths took place between 1940 and 1943, the roots of this tragedy can be traced back to killings that occurred in the Meeting Street community in the 1920s. The story climaxes on January 15, 1943, with the execution, within a single hour, of Sue Stidham Logue, George Logue, and Clarence Bagwell for the murder of Davis Timmerman. Dorn’s saga concludes with the 1960 parole and rehabilitation of Joe Frank Logue Jr., the only one of Timmerman’s killers to escape capital punishment. Not for the faint of heart, The Guns of Meeting Street details the circumstances and motivations for the killings, the complexities of the court cases, and the involvement in the proceedings of South Carolina governors Richard Manning Jefferies, Olin D. Johnston, and J. Strom Thurmond. “If you have any interest in history or true crime, The Guns of Meeting Street is a winner.” —Spartanburg Herald Journal “Dorn’s rigorously researched book unfolds in a clear, straightforward style that renders the events all the more disturbing.” —The State “Dorn’s extremely impressive book has all the elements—is fascinating in its entirety. And for every reader who loves a good mystery, The Guns of Meeting Street is available to intrigue, inform, incite and excite. It’ll never get a chance to gather dust on any bookshelf.” —Union (N.J.) Leader
Download or read book Savior Savior Hold My Hand written by Piri Thomas and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people write about the ghetto. Piri Thomas lived there. In this book, the author of Down These Mean Streets tells what he found when he returned from a seven year prison term. Friends dying on heroin, or getting rich selling it. Jobs he couldn’t get, not because he lacked training or ability, but because the union was open only to whites. And an indomitable aunt who brought him into her church, where he met the woman who became his wife, and where he began to take an interest in helping others. Eventually he got a job working with street children—helping them find highs other than drugs, trying to cool rivalries fueled by frustration, persuading gang leaders to surrender weapons originally intended for bloody street battles. But even with success came bitter disappointments. Pervasive discrimination forced Thomas and his family to give up a suburban home. And an appalling hypocritical and selfish boss forced him out of his job—and almost back into prison. Piri Thomas writes of these experiences with unselfish candor and compassion. He pictures the poverty and squalor as well as the spirit and vitality of the ghetto in a dramatic story that is blunt, painful, absorbing and profoundly moving.
Download or read book Jesus Told the U S a Bald Faced Lie I Got Proof Satan Has a Brother written by Freddie L Quinn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Bad Man written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A black market dealer must reconcile his lifetime of sins as he faces hard time in prison A born salesman, Leo Feldman can peddle anything from clothing and appliances to prostitutes, guns, and drugs. Although guilty of myriad crimes, Feldman is sentenced to prison as the result of a clerical error that charged him with a crime he did not commit. Now, completely vulnerable to the inmates who surround him—and to the stern Warden Fisher—Feldman must come to terms with what it means to be jailed not for his crimes, but for his character. Wry and insightful, A Bad Man is an engrossing story of an antihero’s journey through the twisted world of an unforgiving penal system. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
Download or read book Watching You written by Paddy Richardson and published by Brio Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of NZ Noir. It was his eyes. They made me think of glass. Transparent, blue glass. Freelance journalist, Claire Wright, is offered a commission with the kind of fee which would mean financial security for both herself and her daughter, Annie. But the job is to write the story of serial sex offender, Travis Crill, presently serving his term in prison. Entering Crill’s world forces Claire into a winding labyrinth of ruthless pursuit and brutal secrets. Can Claire endure the revelation of the harm he has done to his victims? And while Crill appears to be the model prisoner, Claire senses the skilled manipulator beneath the surface. Why has he chosen her? How does he know so much about her life?
Download or read book The Hidden Hand written by Sophia Eggleston and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were strong enough to die that I might be forced to seek God's hand for my sanity in life and live. Today, I know the richness confessed with our mouths as children is the richness that God has bestowed upon me in His "Great Grace" through my intimate relationship with Him. If all in this life I have is Christ Jesus, our dream has been fulfilled. Thank you, Lord. Deuteronomy 30:14 is the story of my life: "But the word is very much unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart that thou mayest do it." A true story of murder, revenge, and redemption in one woman's life on all levels of the judicial system and her message of deliverance. This book is about the experience of Sophia Eggleston's journey from the underworld into the threshold of the afterworld. It is about how the unseen hand of the Almighty Creator – behind the scenes of a perilous and danger–laden life – led, guided, and protected a non–giver–upper, a determined workhorse type of young woman, through it all to a new life of freedom, hope, peace, and service to help her fellow man.
Download or read book The Last Time She Saw Him written by Jane Haseldine and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter searching for her kidnapped son must untangle the connection to her brother’s long-ago disappearance in this “sharp, breathless thriller” (Lisa Jackson, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Thirty years ago, Julia Gooden’s nine-year-old brother Ben was abducted from their shared room. Though she’s tried to recall any clue about what happened, she has no memory of that terrible night. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she’s never found. Still, she lives in fear that whoever took her brother could come back. Nowhere seems safe—not even the secluded lake town where she plans to raise her children. And then, on the anniversary of Ben’s disappearance, Julia’s worst fears are realized when her two-year-old son, Will, is snatched from his bed. Convinced that the crimes are related, Julia tries to piece together memories from her final day with Ben. Julia knows she has hours at best to find Will alive, but the deeper she digs, the more personal and terrifying the battle becomes. “A gripping story that I read in one night—I could not put it down.” —Debbie Howells, author of The Bones of You
