Download or read book Samson the Modern Day America written by Stephen R. Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people are familiar with the story of Samson, the only man to hold incredible strength in the Bible. Born to dedicate a life of service to the Lord, he was ordained by God to be a Nazarite and destined to judge and rule the Philistines. Similar to Samson, America was born to serve God. When settlers arrived, there were rules and requirements to follow, which were God’s rules and laws. Prayer was openly practiced, and God’s commandments were observed and became a part of ordinary life. But now we’re walking away from Jesus and doing things our own way. We are not growing or maturing spiritually, and we are making a rotten mess of our lives and of our nation—just like when Samson made a rotten mess of his life for God and his nation. Many pulpit speakers think that Samson’s big sin or weakness was women, but the author argues it was really the sin of always thinking about himself. It’s not too late to rediscover a godly life and save ourselves by studying and learning from the life of Samson.

Download or read book Samson the Modern Day America written by Stephen Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power is the point of envy of those who are weak, and the pride of those who are not. Although power can hold command over the lives of others, it can very much lead to the destruction of the one controlling it. Author Stephen R. Williams discusses the pitfalls of abused power without repentance and guidance in his latest book, Samson the Modern Day America. Almost everyone is familiar with the story of Samson, the only man to hold incredible strength in the Bible. He was born to dedicate a life of service to the Lord, ordained by God to be a Nazarite, and destined to judge and rule the Philistines. A similar plot leads us to the powerful country of America, which was once a nation of people seeking for a place of worship and service to God. Through time, both Samson and America acquired power that any entity could ever want. However, a common weakness leads them both to destruction. Discover the cause of a great man's fall and its shocking similarity to the struggle of a powerful country. Backed with Biblical scriptures, Samson the Modern Day America is a book that holds nothing but the key to a struggling country's redemption. Book Review: Samson: The Modern Day America attempts a kind of typological reading of the story of Samson. If ancient and medieval typological readers of the Bible sought to find events in the Old Testament that prefigured the birth of Christ in the New, Williams finds in the story of Samson a way of thinking about the present United States. His story provides an allegory for the ways in which our country has strayed from its vital, Christian beginnings and into a way of being that is sexually immoral, prideful and openly wasteful of its natural resources. Just as Samson put his ego before God in his desire for a woman, Williams writes, the United States has ceased to rule in a way deferent to God, and therefore risks destruction. In presenting its argument, Samson is cleanly written, direct about its claims and occasionally amusing in rhetorical style. -Kirkus Discoveries

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Download or read book Bold Conscience written by Joshua R. Held and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Bold Conscience' chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint--what the author labels "cowardly conscience"--to one of bold and forthright self-assertion. Caught at the vortex of public and private concerns, the concept of the conscience played an important role in post-Reformation England, from clerical leaders on down to laymen, not least because of its central place in determining loyalties during the English Civil War and the consequent regicide of King Charles I. Yet within this mix of perspectives, the most sinuous, complex, and ultimately lasting perspectives on bold conscience emerge from deliberately literary, rhetorically artistic voices--Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Joshua Held argues that literary texts by these authors, in re-casting the idea of conscience as a private, interior, shameful state to one of boldness fit for the public realm, parallel a historical development in which the conscience becomes a platform both for royal power and for common dissent in post-Reformation England. With the 1649 regicide of King Charles I as a fulcrum that unites both literary and historical timelines, Held tracks the increasing power of the conscience from William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry VIII to John Donne's court sermons, and finally to Milton's Areopagitica and Charles's defense of his kingship, Eikon Basilike. In a direct attack on Eikon Basilike, Milton destroys the prerogative of the royal conscience in Eikonoklastes, and later in Paradise Lost proposes an alternative basis for inner confidence, rooting it not in divine right but in the 'paradise within,' a metonym for conscience. Applying a fine-grain literary analysis to literary England from about 1601 to 1667, this study looks backward as well to the theological foundations of the concept in Luther of the 1520s and forward to its transformation by Locke into the term 'consciousness' in 1689. Ultimately, Held's study shows how the idea of a conscience in early modern England, long central to the private self and linked to the will, memory, and mind-emerges as a nexus between the private self and the realm of public action, a bulwark against absolute sovereignty, and its attenuation as a means of more limited, personal certainty. Whether in Milton's struggle against King Charles or Hamlet's against King Claudius, the conscience born of the Reformation becomes less a state of inner critique and more a form of outward expression fit for the communal life and commitments demanded by the early modern era"--

Download or read book Samson written by Stephen Ray Williams and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Survival or Defeat as a Nation Depends on if we Repent or Not and Turn Back to God Samson: The Modern Day America Is America Doomed? Repent or Defeat REVIEWS FOR Samson: The Modern-Day America Stephen Williams has written a book just like the prophets of the Old Testament. He has heard the Word of the Lord our God and has obeyed by writing it out for us, to warn us, to help us. Just like the prophet Ezekiel, who foretold the "wrath of God" on his chosen people, the Jews, Stephen proceeds to shine light in the darkness. There are those who are still listening for the voice of God. When we ask ourselves, can one person make a difference? The answer is clear. If that one person has confessed "Yes, Lord," he or she has all authority to confess gratefulness and praise to God Almighty for creating a pathway on which the freedoms we hold dear in America can continue. Only a true friendship with Jesus can satisfy this need on a personal and global level. This is possible for you. Stephen's work is a direct reflection of God's grace in America today. The writing style is simple to comprehend, the appreciation of creation is clear; and the message is repeated throughout the book. Will you choose Jesus, or will you choose yourself? Your blood will not be on Stephen's hands when we all show up at the judgment seat. In what condition will your hands be? --Teri Lerch Tulsa, OK

Download or read book Samson The Modern Day America written by Stephen Ray Williams and published by Regency Publishers, Us. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Survival or Defeat as a Nation Depends on if we Repent or Not and Turn Back to God Samson: The Modern Day America Is America Doomed? Repent or Defeat REVIEWS FOR Samson: The Modern-Day America Stephen Williams has written a book just like the prophets of the Old Testament. He has heard the Word of the Lord our God and has obeyed by writing it out for us, to warn us, to help us. Just like the prophet Ezekiel, who foretold the "wrath of God" on his chosen people, the Jews, Stephen proceeds to shine light in the darkness. There are those who are still listening for the voice of God. When we ask ourselves, can one person make a difference? The answer is clear. If that one person has confessed "Yes, Lord," he or she has all authority to confess gratefulness and praise to God Almighty for creating a pathway on which the freedoms we hold dear in America can continue. Only a true friendship with Jesus can satisfy this need on a personal and global level. This is possible for you. Stephen's work is a direct reflection of God's grace in America today. The writing style is simple to comprehend, the appreciation of creation is clear; and the message is repeated throughout the book. Will you choose Jesus, or will you choose yourself? Your blood will not be on Stephen's hands when we all show up at the judgment seat. In what condition will your hands be? -Teri Lerch Tulsa, OK

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Download or read book Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England 1880 1914 written by Brian Sudlow and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of its kind to explore at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It compares individual and societal secularisation in France and England and examines how French and English Catholic writers understood and contested secular mores, ideologies and praxis, in the individual, societal and religious domains. It also addresses the extent to which some Catholic writers succumbed to the seduction of secular instincts, even paradoxically in themes which are considered to be emblematic of Catholic literature. The breadth of this book will make it a useful guide for students wishing to become familiar with a wide range of such writings in France and England during this period. It will also appeal to researchers interested in Catholic literary and intellectual history in France and England, theologians, philosophers and students of the sociology of religion.