Download or read book The Intimate Confession of a Church Girl written by Tizna Antonia Sadie Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Church Girl written by Gooden, Beverly T. and published by Patmos Island Publishing Company Llc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a devout Christian home, Beverly enters an unfamiliar environment when she begins high school in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio. Faced with drugs and violence, she makes the decision to follow the crowd against the teachings of her faith, and give up her virginity to a drug dealer she barely knew. Little did she realize this one decision would spark a series of events leading to inconceivable pain. Confessions of a Church Girl outlines the true story of a young woman's secret five-year struggle with sexual addiction. Faced with infection and rape, she races to uncover the truth about her faith, and hear the voice of the God. This emotional, yet empowering story is an autobiographic journey entailing love, lies, sex, and drugs, teaching one young woman the true meaning of love and forgiveness.
Download or read book Confessions of a Fornicating Church Girl written by Leesa A McFall and published by Truevine Marketing and Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many other children who grew up in church, Leesa McFall learned from a tender age that sex outside of marriage was a sin. She knew it was something she should not do. As a church girl spending most of her time in church or at church activities, Leesa learned how to serve her church community well. She also learned how to mimic how the typical church girl should speak, walk, and look. She was also always reminded of the importance of remaining a virgin until marriage. However, after a traumatic life experience that brought about severe emotional trauma, Leesa quickly found herself in a state of promiscuity. Not long after, daughter of a preacher and a Sunday School teacher, praise and worship leader and praise dancer found herself pregnant and unmarried at age eighteen. As she grappled through life, navigating the shame and disgrace that was placed upon her, her emotional state deteriorated. She found herself in and out of toxic relationships for much of her teen and adult life. When she had finally learned to manage her life and suppress her emotions, she found herself pregnant, unmarried, depressed and suicidal again in her mid-twenties. This time, she learned to look for God in the midst of her mess. And she sought the Lord, He made Himself known and embraced her with His love, grace and strength. Leesa's encounter with the grace and mercy of a perfect God saved her life and is the foundation on which she now stands. In this memoir, Leesa discusses how the love of Jesus Christ turned her life around and gave her the hope she needed to begin a new life.
Download or read book Confessions of a Church Lady written by Juanita a Walker and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Broken Church Girl written by Charmaine Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Broken Church Girl is a journey through the life of a Preacher's Daughter, who through pain and brokenness learns how beautiful life can be when you are willing to live beyond the pews. You will... Be moved to laugh, cry and at times question if you are truly living a life of freedom. Be encouraged to seek healing in healthy and meaningful ways. Be provoked to pursue God unconventionally and understand Him beyond lessons learned in Church. By the end of Confessions of a Broken Church Girl, you will be empowered to live a more liberated and honest life while navigating through your faith journey.
Download or read book Stumbling into Grace written by Lisa Harper and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lisa’s fine grasp of Scripture and love for the Lord make her a trustworthy teacher, yet we learn from her own hard-earned lessons as well. She speaks and writes from a place of understanding, as she clings to God’s hand, giving us the privilege of stumbling into grace with her.” —LIZ CURTIS HIGGS, best-selling author of Bad Girls of the Bible “So, today I’ve been thinking about...things that bind us. The thought flitted around my mind and then landed for a while, likely because I was wearing a pair of too-tight jeans.” Women of Faith® speaker and author Lisa Harper relates from experience — life can be uncertain, sometimes even scary. But with a witty twinkle in her eye and a Bible in her hand, she describes what it’s like to find real security in the arms of a Savior who doesn’t just notice us but who moves heaven and earth on our behalf. Part diary, part devotional, Stumbling Into Grace weaves hilarious and poignant stories from Lisa’s own life with intimate and transformational encounters from the life of Christ. Prayers, reflection questions, and journal prompts help women dig deep into biblical truths to better understand how our Redeemer’s compassion, affection, and constancy make every single moment of life not only more enjoyable but well worth living!
Download or read book The Priest the Woman and the Confessional written by Charles Chiniquy and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confessions of X written by Suzanne M. Wolfe and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christianity Today 2017 Book Award! Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story. She met Augustine in Carthage when she was seventeen. She was the poor daughter of a mosaic-layer; he was a promising student and heir to a fortune. His brilliance and passion intoxicated her, but his social class would be forever beyond her reach. She became his concubine, and by the time he was forced to leave her, she was thirty years old and the mother of his son. And his Confessions show us that he never forgot her. She was the only woman he ever loved. In a society in which classes rarely mingle on equal terms, and an unwed mother can lose her son to the burgeoning career of her ambitious lover, this anonymous woman was a first-hand witness to Augustine’s anguished spiritual journey from secretive religious cultist to the celebrated Bishop of Hippo. Giving voice to one of history’s most mysterious women, The Confessions of X tells the story of Augustine of Hippo’s nameless lover, their relationship before his famous conversion, and her life after his rise to fame. A tale of womanhood, faith, and class at the end of antiquity, The Confessions of X is more than historical fiction . . . it is a timeless story of love and loss in the shadow of a theological giant.
Download or read book Confessions of a Girl written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Latter day Virgin written by Nicole Hardy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nicole Hardy's eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy's essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of thirty-five, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nicole had held absolute conviction in her Mormon faith during her childhood and throughout her twenties. But as she aged out of the Church's "singles ward" and entered her thirties, she struggled to merge the life she envisioned for herself with the one the Church prescribed, wherein all women are called to be mothers and the role of homemaker is the emphatic ideal. Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin chronicles the extraordinary lengths Nicole went to in an attempt to reconcile her human needs with her spiritual life--flying across the country for dates with LDS men, taking up salsa dancing as a source for physical contact, even moving to Grand Cayman, where the ocean and scuba diving provided some solace. But neither secular pursuits nor LDS guidance could help Nicole prepare for the dilemma she would eventually face: a crisis of faith that caused her to question everything she'd grown up believing. In the tradition of the memoirs Devotion and Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin is a mesmerizing and wholly relatable account of one woman's hard-won mission to find love, acceptance, and happiness--on her own terms.
Download or read book The Real Life of a Church Girl The Untold Story written by T. J. Callahan and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being born into my mother's side of the family I was expected to live one way, that was Holy. I was surrounded by Pastors, Elders, Ministers and the saints of God that were my village. A real life church girl. From the time I can remember, my life was Sunday all day church, Wednesday night bible study, Friday night service and Saturday church activities. My way of life, my routine. All I knew and heard were the words Holy Ghost, Holiness; choir members in their black and white; "Church women don't wear pants;" you had to wear a lace head covering; no fornication or committing adultery were allowed. If you did, you would be silenced and treated differently by the saints of God. All I knew was that the Pastor had control of the saints in their church. If you were a pastor you had a pretty wife, a nice car, houses and dressed the best. These were my realities with contradictions thrown in the mix. There are so many broken people possessing and infecting other people with their brokenness all while shouting loud "I'm Christian, I'm saved, a Baptized believer." This type of demonic behavior must be addressed, exposed and cast out so that people can live and not just exist.
Download or read book UsToo written by Keren R. McGinity and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities examines the relationship between sexual harassment, gender, and multiple religions, highlighting the voices of women of different faiths who found their voices and used them for the betterment of their communities. Through personal interviews and other research, this book explores the actions of American Jewish, Muslim, and Christian women who broke the silence about sexual misconduct and abuse of power by male co-religionists. Using a three-dimensional, ethnoreligious approach that examines gender, ethnicity, and religion, it addresses the relationship between religion and women’s experiences and examines both historical contexts and present-day experiences of sexual misconduct within faith communities. This book will be of key interest to students within Gender Studies, History, Religion, and Sociology, clergy and lay religious leaders, and human rights advocates.
Download or read book The Works of Saint Augustine written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by New City Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this work, traditionally translated as On Christian Doctrine, Augustine combines the pedagogical methods he learned from Greek and Roman writings with the content of the Christian faith to help preachers present biblical teachings in an effective manner. This new translation is lively and accessible." Library Journal
Download or read book Confessions of a Prayer Wimp written by Mary Pierce and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your spiritual life more like a fast-food run than an intimate dinner for two?Whether it’s the busy mother’s wish to be Wonder Woman—minus the metal bra—or battles with an exploding hot water heater, or fighting the “Resolutionary War” of New Year’s Day, Mary Pierce understands the dilemmas of being a woman in today’s 24/7 world. From disorganized misery to extreme organizational mania (she used to refer to her children by their household chores: Cat Box Boy, Dishwasher Girl, and Garbage Can Baby), Pierce deals with our fumbling attempts to grow closer to God, encouraging us as she invites us to laugh, cry, love, embrace life, and pray!In her humorous, conversational style, Pierce laughs at her mistakes and her prayers that seem more like advertising jingles (Lord, I need a break today, and Can you hear me now, Lord?). In Confessions of a Prayer Wimp, you’ll come to understand that faith is less about what you are or do or say, and more about who God is—someone who loves you no matter what you do.
Download or read book By the Breath of Their Mouths written by Mary Jo Bona and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its influences on generations of assimilated Italian American writers. Probing and wide-ranging, Bona's analysis reveals the lasting importance of storytelling and folk narrative, their impact on ethnic, working-class, and women's literatures, and their importance in shaping multiethnic literature. Drawing on a wide range of material from several genres, including oral biographies, fiction, film, poetry, and memoir, and grounded in recent theories of narrative and autobiography, postcolonial theory, and critical multiculturalism, By the Breath of Their Mouths is must reading for students in Italian American studies in particular and ethnic studies and multiethnic literature more generally.
Download or read book A Whispered Dream written by Mary Theisen and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s seventeenth century Europe and the House of Hapsburg, the all-powerful aristocratic family, rules over all. During the Thirty Years’ War in Czechoslovakia, the fires of persecution rage. Through rampant disease, mistreatment, hunger and death, Josef and Marie Pudig must put faith in their love and do whatever they can to survive. While the aristocracy takes what it wants, the two strive to reclaim the lives they once embraced. Based on fact and spanning from 1624 to 1663, A Whispered Dream tells the story of three generations of the Pudig family in their search for freedom – taking them across Europe and ocean to America.
Download or read book The Confession of Ursula Trent written by Walter Lionel George and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
