Download or read book The Pastor s Inferno written by Joseph Langen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We first meet John Spador as he settles into an easy chair, musing about his aging body and reflecting on the duties he had completed that day, from Mass at 6 A.M. to a dinner with fellow priests. There are hints of his darker side when his thoughts are interrupted by a deputy sheriff and a social worker at his door. What follows is Spador's fall from grace over his recent abuse of a young parishioner. While he and the young man are spared the public humiliation of a trial, the circumstances cause Spador to lose his parish and his status, forcing him to admit his failings to his sister and her family on whom he now depends for the basic necessities of life. He must also face his accuser and the young man's parents. The fall from grace is an all too common story in the aftermath of the many abuse cases within the Catholic Church. The sordid headlines both fascinate and repulse us. However, once the perpetrator is convicted or perhaps given alternative punishment, the headlines go away. Langen's story goes further. How does Spador learn to confront his demons? How does he put his life back together? How does he reconcile God's justice with God's love? Spador is not necessarily a sympathetic character. He has become accustomed to the privilege that goes with his position. We have little indication that he was held in overly high regard by his parishioners. We learn that he is estranged from his brother and that his relations with his fellow priests lack any real depth, except possibly with the priest who becomes his spiritual advisor, Father Samuels. Spador also lacks introspection, perhaps because it would force him to examine his sexuality. His counselor, Dr. Barbara Phelan, guides him through this self discovery. At times he seems to flounder in his attempts, but Phelan's skills keep him on track. Solitary walks along the canal help Spador focus and give him a certain solace. At the book's conclusion, John is ready for his community service, helping ex-prisoners reintegrate into society. It is also John's reintegration from his hellish experience to the light of a new dawn with the insight to make the best of the remaining days allotted him by God. -- Beth Cahaney, Professor, Humanities Division, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College

Download or read book Preacher s Inferno written by William W. Johnstone and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary national bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with the blazing new installment in their long-running series featuring Preacher, the First Mountain Man, a pioneering hero who embodies the Johnstone brand – and the American Frontier. A village is destroyed. A vengeance is born. And one man blazes a trail to hell and back to pay the devils their due—in bullets and blood. They call him Preacher… JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. It starts as a happy reunion between Preacher and his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village. But it ends swiftly in death and destruction when a rival tribe attacks the village, slaughters some of Preacher’s Crow and mountain man friends, and carries off the women and children as prisoners. Preacher was off hunting when it happened. Now he’s teaming up with old friend Lorenzo and half-breed Tall Dog, to get the prisoners back—and get revenge. But the road to justice is paved with some very dark omens. And the trail leads to the baddest place on God’s good earth: the bubbling quicksand pits, hot springs, and geysers of the Wyoming wild country known as Colter’s Hell . . . Here—where earthquakes shake the land and no man is safe—Preacher and his friends must wage a three-man war against one of the fiercest tribes this side of the devil’s inferno. And once the shooting starts, it’s going to get a hell of a lot hotter… Oh, and there’s also a question of 100 missing rifles . . .

Download or read book 23 Minutes in Hell written by Bill Wiese and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Best Seller and Over 1 million copies sold! Over 750 5-Star reviews Wiese’s visit to the devil’s lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but he returned with vivid details etched in his memory, capturing the attention of national media, including the Christian Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Miracle Channel, Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural!, Sean Hannity’s America, Charisma News, and many others. Awaken to the realities of hell, the afterlife and the urgency to live for Christ in your short time here on earth.. Bill Wiese experienced something so horrifying it continues to captivate the world. He saw the searing flames of hell, felt total isolation, smelled the putrid and rotting stench, heard deafening screams of agony, and experienced terrorizing demons. Finally the strong hand of God lifted him out of the pit. This expanded anniversary edition includes more than 150 Bible verses referencing hell for further study. Also included is the new section, “Wrestling With the Big Questions” where Bill answers these and many others questions: Why do some people who have a near-death experience see a bright light? Will those who never heard about Jesus go to hell? Is hell eternal, or are those in hell simply annihilated?

Download or read book Dante and the Franciscans written by N. R. Havely and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Havely examines the connections between Dante, the Franciscans and the Papacy as they appear in the Commedia, and presents the poem as one concerned with an often dramatic confrontation between authority and idealism in the church. Havely draws on a wide range of literary, historical and art historical sources relating to the controversy about Franciscan poverty during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. He argues that the Spiritual Franciscans' strict interpretations of evangelical poverty provided the poet with a means of addressing the state of the contemporary Papacy and of imagining the renewal of the church. He also explores the origins and afterlife of the debate about this form of poverty and Dante's contribution to it. This study will appeal to scholars interested in medieval religious and intellectual history, as well as to readers of Dante's poem and other medieval visionary and political writing.

Download or read book Preacher written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He will Become a Legend... Before the legend of Preacher there was a man, and before the man there was a boy. In this thrilling new novel, William W. Johnstone tells the story of a young man filled with wanderlust and raw courage—who will someday become a hero. ...If He Survives On nothing more than a lark, he leaves his family and begins a journey from Ohio westward. Along the way, he runs up against badlands and bad men, loses his freedom, gains his freedom, and learns the first rule of the frontier: do whatever it takes to survive. Preacher With ruthless enemies after him—both white men and Indians—he’ll head for a place as brutal as it is beautiful—the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Two years later, he will come back down from the mountaintop with new skills, and a new future as one of the most feared and admired men of his time...a man called Preacher.

Download or read book Preacher s Inferno written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A village is destroyed. A vengeance is born. And one man blazes a trail to hell and back to pay the devils their due—in bullets and blood. They call him Preacher . . . JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. It starts as a happy reunion between Preacher and his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village. But it ends swiftly in death and destruction when a rival tribe attacks the village, slaughters some of Preacher’s Crow and mountain man friends, and carries off the women and children as prisoners. Preacher was off hunting when it happened. Now he’s teaming up with old friend Lorenzo and half-breed Tall Dog, to get the prisoners back—and get revenge. But the road to justice is paved with some very dark omens. And the trail leads to the baddest place on God’s good earth: the bubbling quicksand pits, hot springs, and geysers of the Wyoming wild country known as Colter’s Hell . . . Here—where earthquakes shake the land and no man is safe—Preacher and his friends must wage a three-man war against one of the fiercest tribes this side of the devil’s inferno. And once the shooting starts, it’s going to get a hell of a lot hotter . . . Oh, and there’s also a question of 100 missing rifles . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Download or read book Handbook to the Works of Dante written by Frederick John Snell and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book PASTORS AND THE RED LIGHT DISTRICTS HARDCOPY written by JEREMIAH B. MENYONGAI, JR. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals With The Pitfalls That Pastors Face In Today's World. The Author Speaks From Personal Experience To Under-Shepherds And Believers That The "Red Light Districts" Identified In This Book Will Definitely Help Pastors Avoid Habits And Choices That Are Leading To The Fall And Disgrace Of Many Men And Women Of God. More Than Ever Before, The Church Needs Pastors Or Shepherds Who Must Be Examples Of Christ To The Flock And The Unbelieving World. Rev. Menyongai, A Pastor For Many Years Now, Asserts That The "Red Light Districts" Should Be A No-Flight Zones For All Pastors And Christians.

Download or read book People Pleasing Pastors written by Charles Stone and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Stone?s research on thousands of pastors and ministry leaders demonstrates the dangers of approval-motivated leadership. Bringing together biblical insights and neuroscience findings, Stone shows why we fall into people-pleasing patterns and what we can do to overcome these tendencies and have more effective ministry.

Download or read book The Pastor as Minor Poet written by M. Craig Barnes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today s pastors often expected to be multitasking marvels who can make their churches "successful" are understandably confused about their role. Craig Barnes contends that the true calling of a pastor is to assist others in becoming fully alive in Christ to be a "minor poet." The pastor absorbs the wisdom of major poets the biblical poets as well as the church s theological poets and distills its essence for parishioners. / The Pastor as Minor Poet calls pastors to continually search for a deeper, truer understanding of what they see both in the text of Scripture and in the text of their parishioners' lives. Discerning the subtexts beneath these texts reveals the core truths that allow pastors to preach the heart of the Word and to understand the hearts of the people to whom they minister. Written with a seasoned pastor s depth of understanding and a poet's sensibility and sensitivity, this book will minister to and inspire pastors everywhere.

Download or read book Bible Study for Busy Pastors and Ministers written by Reginald F. Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors and ministers have one of the most challenging jobs on Earth. Of all their tasks, one responsibility they cannot neglect is teaching the word of God. Unfortunately, church leaders seldom have enough time to prepare Bible studies for their congregation. This book is a quick resource to help fill that gap. These thematically arranged Bible studies each contain an introduction to a topic and a list of relevant Scripture readings for that topic. Pastors can use the introduction to spark discussion within small groups or to focus on the specific themes during sermon writing. This book will prove to be an invaluable resource for years to come.

Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying

Download or read book The First Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one man can mete out justice on the unforgiving frontier. First in the Preacher series from the New York Times bestselling western author. He’s known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he’s as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never stopped. Figuring he was as crazy as a lizard, his captors turned him loose. Now with years of survival under his belt, Preacher is the only man who can lead a wagon train through the last leg of the Oregon Trail. He knows they’re headed into renegade outlaws and bloodthirsty Indians, yet somehow he has to get these pilgrims through safely—if he doesn’t want to be buried along the trail with the rest of them . . . Praise for the novels of William W. Johnstone “[A] rousing, two-fisted saga of the growing American frontier.”—Publishers Weekly on Eyes of Eagles “There’s plenty of gunplay and fast-paced action as this old-time hero proves again that a steady eye and quick reflexes are the keys to survival on the Western frontier.”—Curled Up with a Good Book on Dead Before Sundown

Download or read book The Practical Works of the Rev Richard Baxter with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Imperfect Pastor written by Zack Eswine and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors aren’t superheroes—they have fears and limitations just like everyone else. Zack Eswine knows this from personal experience and has a wealth of wisdom to offer those who feel like they don’t measure up. Written in a compelling memoir style, The Imperfect Pastor is full of insightful stories and theological truths that show how God works unexpectedly through flawed people. By talking honestly about the failure, burnout, pain, and complexities that come along with church ministry, Eswine helps pastors accept their human limitations and experience the freedom of trusting God’s plan for their church and life.

Download or read book Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors Volume 4 written by Rob Westbrook and published by Rob Westbrook. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Sermon Outlines for One Full Year! Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 4 gives the busy pastor a head start on sermon preparation. With 52 complete sermon outlines, pastors can save hundreds of hours a year, with the base research and layout for a year's worth of sermons already in place. Here's some advantages Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 4 provides:These are complete sermon outlines. Each sermon outline is much more than a basic three point outline requiring a lot of time and research to flesh out. These outlines go much deeper, with each main point completely developed with sub-points and more.Each sermon outline is rooted in God's Word and is expository, with a wealth of detail, great for spurring your own thoughts and allowing you to take the sermon in another direction as you feel led.Every sermon outline is solidly based in the Bible and conservative theology. Sermon illustrations include enough detail to suggest your own personal or applicable illustrations.4 complete sermon series, providing a map for the next several Sundays, saving many hours of advance planning and preparation.Volume 4 Sermons and the ScripturesBoldly Into the New Year - Joshua 1:1-9The Choice is Yours - Psalm 1:1-6Too Busy for Jesus - Luke 10:38-42Perform and Impress? - Proverbs 29:25Lessons from the Thorn - 2 Corinthians 12:7-10Proud or Humble? - Isaiah 66:1-2The Atoning Blood - Leviticus 16:1-9; Hebrews 9:7-14Blindness - 2 Corinthians 4:1-6The Road to the Cross: Who Then Can Be Saved? - Luke 18:18-30The Road to the Cross: He's Coming Back - Matthew 24:36-44The Road to the Cross: The Haves and the Have-Nots - Luke 18:9-14The Road to the Cross: The Big Picture - Isaiah 53:1-10The Road to the Cross: It Is Finished - John 19:16-30Second Chances - 2 Timothy 4:11Taking a Risk - Luke 8:43-48The Book Will Bring Revival - 2 Chron. 34:14-21; 29-33The Woman God Blesses - 1 Samuel 1:1-2:2What it Takes to do the Work of the Lord - Judges 7:1-15Men on Fire - Colossians 1:3-8; 4:12-13Identity Confusion - Luke 22:54-62At the Crossroads - Jeremiah 6:16A Building Dedication - 2 Kings 6:1-7Thanksgiving - Psalm 73:1-28Thanksgiving - Psalm 100:1-5Thanksgiving - Psalm 96:1-13Christmas - The Big Picture - Luke 2:1-14; John 1Christmas - The Incarnation - Luke 2:1-14Christmas - This Baby's Life - Isaiah 53:1-12Following God into the New Year - Genesis 12:1-4Life: What's the Point? - What's the Point of a Church in My Life? - Acts 2:42-47Life: What's the Point? - What's the Point of a New Life? - John 3:1-3Life: What's the Point? - What's the Point of a Right Life? - Romans 12:1-2Life: What's the Point? - What's the Point of My Life? - Jeremiah 1:540 Days of Prayer - Week 1 - Acts 1:1-1340 Days of Prayer - Week 2 - Exodus 34:1-940 Days of Prayer - Week 3 - Acts 4:23-3240 Days of Prayer - Week 4 - Matthew 5:13-1640 Days of Prayer - Week 5 - Acts 18:1-1140 Days of Prayer - Week 6 - 2 Chron. 7:14-1540 Days of Prayer - Week 7 - 2 Chron. 7:1-10Questions from Corinth - Reminders - 1 Cor. 1:1-9Questions from Corinth - What About Divisions in the Church? - 1 Cor. 1:10-11Questions from Corinth - Flee Immorality - 1 Cor. 6:13-20Questions from Corinth - What About the Lord's Supper? - 1 Cor. 11:17-30Questions from Corinth - Who's The Most Important? - 1 Cor. 12:12-27Questions from Corinth - What About Temptation? - 1 Cor. 10:6-13Questions from Corinth - What about Gray Areas? - 1 Cor. 8:1-13Questions from Corinth - Is Marriage Important? - 1 Cor. 7:1-16Questions from Corinth - The Do's and Don'ts of Love - 1 Cor. 13:4-8Questions from Corinth - What About the Cross? - 1 Cor. 1:17-25Questions from Corinth - What is the Gospel? - 1 Cor. 15:1-4Questions from Corinth - What About the Resurrection? - 1 Cor. 15:12-19Keywords: bible,expository,outlines,pastor,sermon,sermon helps,sermon outlines,sermon prep,old testament,new testament,preach,preaching

Download or read book The Undivine Comedy written by Teodolinda Barolini and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.