Download or read book Parable of the Sower written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.
Download or read book Parable of the Sower A Graphic Novel Adaptation written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Hugo Award Winner for Best Graphic Story or Comic The follow-up to #1 New York Times Bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, comes Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America’s future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher’s daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
Download or read book Parable of the Talents written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to "make America great again." In an increasingly divided and dangerous nation, Lauren's subversive colony--a minority religious faction led by a young black woman--becomes a target for President Jarret's reign of terror and oppression. Years later, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew, Lauren Olamina. As she searches for answers about her own past, she also struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future.
Download or read book The New Me written by Halle Butler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker “Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind. Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her situation--her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life. Then she watches TV until she falls asleep, and the cycle begins again. When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to bring the better life she's envisioning within reach. But with it also comes the paralyzing realization, lurking just beneath the surface, of how hollow that vision has become. "Wretchedly riveting" (The New Yorker) and "masterfully cringe-inducing" (Chicago Tribune), The New Me is the must-read new novel by National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young American novelist Halle Butler. Named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox, and a Best Book of 2019 by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Mashable, Bustle, and NPR
Download or read book The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed written by Thomas Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1634 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets from the Parable of the Sower written by Matthew Muse and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parable of the Sower reveals the two secret keys to Christian maturity. Such a simple illustration uncovers two grand themes woven through the fabric of the Bible. What is the seed? Who represents the good soil? How do believers mature? What does it mean to fall away? Hidden in this parable are answers to these questions and more.In an easy narrative, the author lays out the ingredients, true seed and rich soil, clarifies what they represent, and explains how they impact lives and eternities.
Download or read book Lilith s Brood written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BROOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evocative, sensual -- and disturbing -- epic of human transformation. Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...
Download or read book Conversations with Octavia Butler written by Octavia E. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild
Download or read book God is Change written by Aparajita Nanda and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Octavia Butler's fictional worlds show the potential of religion to connect, heal, or liberate. Contributors explore the bases of these potentials in the many religious traditions Butler draws on, the forms they take in her stories, and the work they do to heal trauma and violence"--
Download or read book The Parable of the Sower written by Christie Myers and published by Benjamin Bautista. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce your children to timeless biblical lessons with "The Parable of the Sower: Christian Bible Bedtime Stories and Prayers for Kids.” This beautifully crafted children's book brings the parable of the sower to life, making it perfect for bedtime reading. Through the adventures of Samuel, a wise and kind farmer, young readers will learn the importance of nurturing their faith and keeping their hearts open to God's Word. Filled with engaging storytelling and Christian values, this book teaches children about the different types of soil representing different ways people receive God's message. With themes of faith, growth, love, and overcoming life's challenges, "The Parable of the Sower" helps kids understand how to cultivate a strong and fruitful spiritual life. This delightful story is ideal for children and young adults, making it a wonderful addition to any family's collection of Christian children's books. Encourage your little ones to grow in their faith and develop a deeper understanding of Jesus' teachings with this heartwarming and inspiring tale.
Download or read book A Cultivated Heart written by Deborah Judge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultivated Heart explores the Christ's teaching of the Parable of the Sower. This study is for those who have a hunger and thirst for God's Word, but have found it difficult to digest the teaching of the parables. Those that are yet being cultivated by God's Word. While Christ was here on earth He demonstrated His authority, by healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons and performing miracles throughout the land. In order for people to receive the message of the Kingdom, they first have to encounter the authority of the King. His purpose was not just to demonstrate His authority as the son of God, but to activate the authority in us that was given to us in the beginning. We still walk as people without hope. We allow situations to shatter our dreams, visions and promises because we don't know who we are. We have become spiritually insecure, doubtful, fearful and hopeless, because we have not grasped the true gospel of Christ. This book was written as a study tool for the body of Christ. In studying the Kingdom Parable of the Sower we pray that you the reader will be able to plunge into your inherited position as a predestined ruler on earth. I Cor. 4:20 reads: "For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power." We just can't talk the talk we have to walk the walk. (James 1:22) Talking the talk is religion, walking the walk is taking authority. I pray that your mind will be renewed as you study the message of Jesus. "The Sower."
Download or read book Seeding of the Heart written by Frederick L. Cuthbertson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeding the Heart studies Jesus account of The Parable of the Sower and its relationship to the hearts of men. The book provides commentary on Jesus description and interpretation of the various soils mentioned in his parable. Each soil represents a particular condition of mans heart in response to the word of God as typified by the planted seed. The soils of the parable are the wayside, the stony, the thorns and the good ground. The author uses each soil to illustrate both Jesus explanation of the parable and the spiritual condition of the modern Christian. The way side represents the indifferent Christian, the stony the unstable Christian, the thorny as the worldly Christian and the good as the fruitful Christian. Pertinent issues that affect Christians of today are noted in each aspect of given parable. Also included is a related chapter on the sowing and reaping principle with Biblical examples to help understand the consequences of mans actions to Divine truth.
Download or read book The Parable of the Sower written by Nico Baalbergen and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During His time on earth, the Lord Jesus Christ taught many things by way of parables, outstanding among them is The Parable of the Sower. As a parable it stands on its own and seems to be a key to understanding all other parable, for Christ insisted, "You do not understand this parable? How them are you able to understand any parable?" (Mark 4:13). The author gives a thorough and thought provoking treatment of The Parable of the Sower, linking it very much to the kingdom of God which he emphasizes as 'then kingdom of God'. Thus neither the parable nor the kingdom can be understood apart from God's sovereignty intervening in the affairs of man ... for no amount of human effort will bring about His kingdom.
Download or read book The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed Etc written by Thomas TAYLOR (D.D., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.) and published by . This book was released on 1621 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Exposition Explanatory and Practical of the Parable of the Sower written by Robert Brown (of Barton-upon-Humber.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sower Parable written by Rev. Jay Werman and published by Academia Ministerial . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explanation of the Parable of the Sower in its entirety. We will explain the details in their biblical context and extract the truth implicit in each part of this parable. We will also combine the three perspectives of the details in Matthew 13, Mark 4, and Luke 8. Jesus Himself said that the parable of the sower is the key to understanding all the other parables as it is stated in Mark 4:13. Solid biblical knowledge for those who want to learn the truths hidden in the Scriptures. It's impossible to have a complete perspective of the biblical program that God has detailed for believers in the biblical text without understanding this parable. I would venture to say that the reason many believers live in a chaotic spiritual state is because of their lack of knowledge and understanding of the Scriptures, and understanding the parable of the sower is something that every believer should know almost immediately after the experience of being born again. Sadly, most of the teaching in churches today, and even in Christian literature, focuses on material wealth instead of spiritual growth. By no means am I criticizing anyone, for each one of us will be held accountable to God either at the judgment seat of Christ as stated in Romans 14:10; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:10, or at the white throne judgment of the damned in the lake of fire as stated in Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 25:41; Mark 16:16; John 3:36. In this book you will find the answer to every single word used in connection with the parable of the sower, each one explained in its proper context and theme. After many years of teaching the Scriptures, I can tell you that you will find every answer to every question you may have if you search the biblical text and are open to being taught. I have never been motivated by financial gain or fame because I know what my God has said in His divine Word and my reward will come from Him and not from human recognition. I praise my God for allowing me to publish this book and share the wisdom and understanding that comes from Him [Matthew 11:25; Ephesians 1:17].
Download or read book The Parable of the Sower written by C.H. Spurgeon and published by Editora Dracaena. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parable of the Sower is one important bible study about the faith in Jesus Christ. A book that will bring growth and knowledge about faith, and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon,19 June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist , defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. It is estimated that in his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people,Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the denomination. In 1867, he started a charity organisation which is now called Spurgeon's and works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously. Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians have discovered Spurgeon's messages to be among the best in Christian literature.
