Download or read book The Day I Committed Spiritual Suicide written by Cassandra Willis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Willis is a graduate of Kaplan University where she received an Associate in Communication/ Interdisciplinary Studies and later received a BA in Applied Behavioral Science from Ashford University. She is a native of Richmond, VA. There she was raised by her mother and father along with three younger sister and three brothers. Cassandra shared a heartfelt relationship with her three older sisters and three brothers who lived outside the home of her youth. She’s a psalmist, worship- leader, minister and public speaker and author. Cassandra has assisted several pastors and churches in church administration and development during her Christian life. She has worked with countless non-profit organizations from youth programs to women in crisis counseling. She is a member of B.I.B.L.E. Toastmaster of St. Louis, MO and the proud owner of Willis Consulting Firm LLC St Louis, MO where she currently resides with her husband. Cassandra inspires to become a certified mediator in the near future because it is her passion to help others reach applicable agreements in everyday situations. Along with her creativity, leadership, and social intelligence her appreciation of beauty and excellence from others speaks volumes of the humility she shares in helping individuals make positive change in their lives and the life of others.

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 The Purpose Driven Life written by Rick Warren and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and fulfill your God-given purpose by joining the more than thirty-five million others who have embarked on a spiritual journey that started with this #1 New York Times bestselling book by Pastor Rick Warren. Before you were born, God knew what your life had in store for you. His hope for you is to discover the life he created just for you--both here on earth, and forever in eternity. Let Rick Warren guide you as you learn to live out your true purpose. The Purpose Driven Life is more than a book; it's a road map for your spiritual journey. Combining thoughtful verses from Scripture with timely stories and perspectives from Warren's own life, The Purpose Driven Life will help you discover the answer to one of life's most important questions: What on earth am I here for? Throughout The Purpose Driven Life, Warren will teach you to spend time getting to know yourself and your creator in order to live your life to the fullest. Unlocking your true purpose will also reduce your stress, simplify your decisions, increase your satisfaction, and, most importantly, prepare you for eternity. Designed to be read over the course of forty-two days, The Purpose Driven Life will help you see the big picture, giving you a fresh perspective on the way that the pieces of your life fit together. Every chapter of The Purpose Driven Life provides a daily meditation and practical steps to help you uncover and live out your purpose, starting with exploring three essential questions: The Question of Existence: Why am I alive? The Question of Significance: Does my life matter? The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for? Each copy of The Purpose Driven Life also includes thoughtful discussion questions, audio Bible studies that go along with every chapter, and access to a supportive online community, giving you the opportunity to dive even deeper into each life-changing lesson.

Download or read book The Day I Committed Suicide written by Jay Williams and published by @ the Well Wellness Center. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a series of tragic events in Jay's life, she found the courage to trace back to the events that led to such despair. Abuse, lies, addiction, mental illness, and insecurities all played a significant part in her life's journey. After enduring overwhelming trials, she felt hopeless, as if her life was over. Gripped with despair, she decided to give up. Faced with death multiple times, she asked herself a question, "Why didn't I die?" She answered, "I didn't die because my life would give birth to "Her.'" "Her" is a little black girl, brown girl, white girl, yellow, girl. "Her" is a poor girl, rich girl and a multi-talented girl. "Her" is a woman, a Christian, a pastor's wife, a leader's wife, a member of an influential family. "Her" is a preacher, singer, public figure, a fashionista, classy woman, an educated woman, a mother, daughter, and friend. "Her" is You, "Her" is Me. This book was designed to help you unlock, birth, heal, and deliver your own "Her," and it is the author's prayer and belief that it will do just that!

Download or read book Spiritual Suicide written by Dr. George Wilson Khaukha and published by PartridgeIndia. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everybody has had this experience in life. This is to do with figuring out the map instructions somebody has given you to find a place you have never been to before. If you form a different mental map image in your mind from the instructor's you will surely get lost. It is critical that you and the instructor hold the same mental image of the map instructions. This treatise attempts to ensure that we have the same mental image of God's call for our salvation as what God Himself had and still has on His mind. Thus we will never have doubts about our spiritual journey. We can very clearly grade ourselves as "PASS" or "FAIL" without needing a famous preacher's consolation, enlightenment or switching between denominations. This is a very short treatise to capture the attention of everybody during this modern high paced way of survival and challenge the reader to audit himself/herself whether he/she is positively headed for God's call and living according to His will. After grasping the message in this treatise the reader will no longer have doubts about his/her status in relationship with God, using the self-audit spiritual checklist provided at the end of this treatise. I keep having this feeling that the enemy has camouflaged interpretations of God's word to appease the believers that they are on the right track when actually they are headed for destruction.

Download or read book Grieving a Suicide written by Albert Y. Hsu and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2003 Finalist in the United Kingdom Christian Book Awards "Albert," the neighbor said, "your mom needs you to come home." That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide experiences tremendous shock and trauma. What follows is a confusing mix of emotions—anger, guilt, grief, and despair. Suicide raises heartrending questions: Why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? Could we have done anything to prevent it? How can we go on? Many also wonder if those who choose suicide are doomed to an eternity separated from God and their loved ones. Some may even start asking whether life is worth living at all. After his father's death, Hsu wrestled with the intense emotional and theological questions surrounding suicide. While acknowledging that there are no easy answers, he draws on the resources of the Christian faith to point suicide survivors to the God who offers comfort in our grief and hope for the future. For those who have lost a loved one to suicide and for their counselors and pastors, this book is an essential companion for the journey toward healing. This revised edition incorporates updated statistics and now includes a discussion guide for suicide survivor groups.

Download or read book Little Steps written by James Ream Adams and published by Ozark Mountain Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often survivors of a loved one’s suicide are left behind, struggling with a loss that fosters stigma, shame, blame, guilt and abandonment. For the survivor, these struggles last long after the funeral is over and friends and relatives have returned to their daily lives. Healing the loss after the suicide of a love one is about restarting your life with nothing firm to stand on. Little Steps is the guided process James Adams recorded in his journal documenting before, during and after his son committed suicide. It starts with conversations where voices of wisdom are guiding him along a spiritual path of discovery, then, as he was confronted with the trauma of his loss, those conversations shifted focus towards coping with and understanding the grief process as it unfolded. Feeling left behind and somehow responsible, James continued to write his guided conversations as he dealt with the questions of: Why did he do this? I should have… I could have… if only I had known or done… what did I do wrong? These real time journaled conversations capture in a loving, spiritual, and supportive way all the drama, trauma, and recovery as they occurred making Little Steps a powerful documentary of healing from a traumatic loss.

Download or read book The Wrath of God written by John MacArthur and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Glorious Weakness written by Alia Joy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a girl, Alia Joy came face to face with weakness, poverty, and loss in ways that made her doubt God was good. There were times when it felt as if God had abandoned her. What she didn't realize then was that God was always there, calling her to abandon herself. In this deeply personal exploration of what it means to be "poor in spirit," Joy challenges our cultural proclivity to "pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps." She calls on readers to embrace true vulnerability and authenticity with God and with one another, showing how weakness does not disqualify us from inclusion in the kingdom of God--instead, it is our very invitation to enter in. Anyone who has struggled with feeling inadequate, disillusioned, or just too broken will find hope. This message is an antidote to despair, helping readers reclaim the ways God is good, even when life is anything but.

Download or read book Sermons on Suicide written by James T. Clemons and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sermons on Suicide offers a variety of biblical texts, interpretations, literary references, medical insights, current statistics, personal illustrations, and practical suggestions by over a dozen preachers to help clergy deal with the challenging and important subject of suicide. This collection of sermons, from a broad spectrum of religious and theological perspectives, demonstrates that suicide, for all its complexity and all its negativism, can be treated in a positive, straight-forward manner. Ministers from all religious groups will gain valuable insight from this informative resource, which serves as an excellent model for those who preach on suicide. It will also benefit anyone wanting to learn more about what religious leaders have thought, preached, and advocated over the centuries.

Download or read book Love You Like the Sky written by Sarah Neustadter and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing from the unique point of view of a suicide survivor who is also a psychologist, Sarah Neustadter presents a selection of the emails she sent to John, her deceased beloved, over a three-year period following his death. Documenting the raw emotions she experienced during this time period—grief, despair, abandonment, confusion, and the seductive feeling of wanting to die—she seeks to answer the hard existential and psychological questions: Why is this happening? What does this mean about mortality? How do I go on with the rest of my life without my beloved? How do I heal my broken heart? Will I ever love again? Love You Like the Sky is a companion guide and roadmap for supporting younger women and men through intense and complicated grief as an access point toward deeper transformation—shifting awareness from despair to beauty.

Download or read book Spiritual Suicide written by Markia Ashley and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you really know yourself and your true purpose? Do you believe that there is greatness within you just waiting to be discovered? Would you like to release it and fulfil your potential in life? Many of us allow our lives to stagnate. We stay in jobs we hate, bored and unfulfilled, without ever releasing the potential that each of us has in abundance. Many of us remain like this for years, even decades, before escaping and living the life that we were meant to, while some never discover their talents. This is a waste that does not need to happen, if you just open your heart to what God has for you. Inside the pages of this book, Spiritual Suicide - The Dangers of Not Knowing Who You Are, you will find the way to discover the greatness that exists deep inside us all, and allow yourself to: Discover your purpose Recognise that you were created for a reason Find your true self Do what you are meant to do Tap into the resources within you Understand that God has a plan just for you Live the life you are destined for If you are someone who has always believed that there is greatness within you that is just waiting to be set free, then Spiritual Suicide is the book that will help you to uncover it and tap into the gifts that God Himself has bestowed upon you. With it you will be able to stop merely existing and start living a life that is filled with happiness, contentment and success. Scroll up and get your copy now!

Download or read book Reaching God Speed written by Joe Kovacs and published by Fidelis Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The answer is surprising, and what we’re about to learn will wake us up to a reality most of us never knew existed. The reason we’re so oblivious is because we’ve all been operating at human speed, relying on our own physical power and our five senses. But there is something extremely important we’ve all been missing. It holds the key to everything good—the key to life, success, happiness, peace of mind, and understanding beyond our wildest imagination. It’s perhaps the best-kept secret in the history of mankind and it packs a staggering, invigorating message that can change your life for the better—improving understanding, eliminating anxiety, and helping to extend your living years indefinitely. All we have to do is open our eyes and ears. We’re all inundated with this secret at all times. It’s present in our favorite songs and movies, the stories we tell our children, and even in every commercial campaign! The secret is broadcast in famous news stories including the coronavirus pandemic, the sinking of the Titanic, or the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11. It’s in ordinary life activities such as breathing, sleeping, waking up, traveling, sex, and getting married and changing one’s name. Now, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Joe Kovacs reveals the solution—cracking the divine code that shifts our minds from operating at slow, human speed and making the jump to the incredibly quick “God speed.” Hundreds of ancient mysteries and prophecies are instantly unsealed as the master key that unlocks the mystery of everything is now in your hands.

Download or read book Spiritual Suicide written by Robert Driskell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many Christians live as if their relationship with God is simply an add-on to their busy everyday existence. However, the Bible says that a person's relationship with God should be the basis, the foundation, for life. With this book, I hope to inspire, challenge, anger, or otherwise motivate believers to surrender everything to God.

Download or read book The Gospel According to Job written by Mike Mason and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has suffered knows that there is no such thing as "getting a grip on oneself" or "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. The only bootstrap in the Christian life is the Cross," says Mason. "Sometimes laying hold of the cross can be comforting, but other times it is like picking up a snake." Job knew this firsthand. From him we learn that there are no easy answers to suffering. That the mark of true faith is not happiness, but rather, having one's deepest passions be engaged by the enormity of God. And through Job we learn the secret of the gospel: that "mercy is the permission to be human." The Lord never gave Job an explanation for all he had been through. His only answer was Himself. But as Job discovered, that was enough. The Gospel According to Job sensitively brings the reader to this realization, using a devotional commentary format that reminds them that it's all right to doubt, to be confused, to wonder–in short, to be completely human. But what will heal us and help us endure is a direct, transforming encounter with the living God.

Download or read book Depression written by Edward T. Welch and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking away from despair towards hope can feel risky. What if God doesn't come through for you? What if you don't feel instantly better? Instead of offering simple platitudes or unrealistic cure-all formulas, Edward T. Welch addresses the complex nature of depression with compassion and insight, applying the rich treasures of the gospel, and ...

Download or read book Life by Suicide written by Michael F. Clark and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life By Suicide is about killing all the negative things in your life. Things that have kept you from being happy and seeking your salvation. This is the story of one man's journey. His depression and his addictions to both alcohol and drugs left him feeling suicidal. However, because of his love for God and his daughter suicide was not an option. While in this dark and vile place in his life God revealed to him the secret of life. It was at this point that Life By Suicide was revealed to him. Because of his love for others he has released his personal experiences in this extraordinary book. It is his hope that you to can find your happiness and salvation through Life By Suicide.