Download or read book The Mystery and Painful Truth about Life Here and After Death written by Christian Uchenna Ngozi and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field, one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill, one will be taken and the other left. Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him (Matthew 24:36-44). This is truly an exposition of spiritual truths hidden and avoided for the ages, exposing us to the surprise that awaits everyone at the boundary between physical life and eternity. This will bring life and spiritual revolution to everyone who can read, irrespective of age. Whoever wishes to evade hell and not be deceived by its perverted concepts should read this book. Born in Nigeria, Christian Uchenna Ngozi now lives in Italy. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/ChristianUchennaNgozi

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 Death written by Joan Tollifson and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening. Beautiful, poignant, at times humorous, transcendent, messy, down to earth, refreshingly honest--the book explores death, and more importantly, being alive, through a rich mix of personal stories and spiritual reflections. Joan writes about her mother's final years and about being with friends and teachers at the end of their lives. She shares her own journey with aging, anal cancer, and other life challenges. She explores what it means to be alive in what may be the collapse of civilization and the possible extinction of life on earth due to climate change. Pointing beyond deficiency stories, future fantasies, and oppressive self-improvement projects, Joan invites an awakening to the immediacy of this moment and the wonder of ordinary life. She demonstrates a pathless path of genuine transformation, seeing all of life as sacred and worthy of devotion, and finding joy in the full range of our human experience.

Download or read book Reasonable Faith written by William Lane Craig and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Download or read book Good Grief written by Theresa Caputo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The star of "Long Island Medium" shares inspiring, spirit-based lessons on how to work through and overcome grief, in a guide that also offers example testimonies about the experiences of her clients

Download or read book Life After Death written by Deepak Chopra and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepak Chopra turns to the most profound mystery confronting humankind: What happens after we die? By marrying science and wisdom, Chopra builds his case for afterlife, in which one's most essential self uses the end of life to "pass over" into the next lifetime.

Download or read book Be Here Now written by Ram Dass and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1971-10-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved guru Ram Dass tells the story of his spiritual awakening and gives you the tools to take control of your life in this “counterculture bible” (The New York Times) featuring powerful guidance on yoga, meditation, and finding your true self. When Be Here Now was first published in 1971, it filled a deep spiritual emptiness, launched the ongoing mindfulness revolution, and established Ram Dass as perhaps the preeminent seeker of the twentieth century. Just ten years earlier, he was known as Professor Richard Alpert. He held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success. . . . And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely. And thus, a spiritual journey commenced. Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass—“servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. If he found himself reminiscing or planning, he was reminded to “Be Here Now.” He started upon the path of enlightenment, and has been journeying along it ever since. Be Here Now is a vehicle for sharing the true message, and a guide to self-determination.

Download or read book The Myth of an Afterlife written by Michael Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know what—if anything—awaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise that the vast majority of books on the topic affirm the reality of life after death without a backward glance. But the evidence of our senses and the ever-gaining strength of scientific evidence strongly suggest otherwise. In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife. Divided into four separate sections, this collection opens with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest evidence of whether or not we survive death—in particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next, contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of “surviving” death—from bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Then essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife—heaven, hell, karmic rebirth—and widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems supporting those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife. Fully interdisciplinary, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death brings together a variety of fields of research to make that case, including cognitiveneuroscience, philosophy of mind, personal identity, philosophy of religion, moralphilosophy, psychical research, and anomalistic psychology. As the definitive casebookof arguments against life after death, this collection is required reading for anyinstructor, researcher, and student of philosophy, religious studies, or theology. It issure to raise provocative issues new to readers, regardless of background, from thosewho believe fervently in the reality of an afterlife to those who do not or are undecidedon the matter.

Download or read book Eastern Wisdom Modern Life written by Alan Watts and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could.

Download or read book Life After Death Part III Mystery of Death written by Nikolaos Vasiliadis and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Table of Contents "The hard-hitting Extortionist of the Human Race" 6 / Question that Amaze Man 6 / Inborn Fear of Death 8 / The Greatest Mystery of the Wisdom of God 10 / Secular Philosophy about Death 15 / The unholy Humiliation of Man 15 / Mythological and Naive Representations 17 / Tombstones of the Ancient Greeks 19 / "Soul-rending Sadness" and "Concern for Death" 21 / Ambiguities and Contradictions 24 / Sorrow and Despondency 26 / Doubt and Limitation 30 / Death Invades the World 37 / Blissful Life of the Primordial 37 / Death is Connected to the Problem of our Freedom 40 / First Rebellion on Earth 42 / Death Sentence 'Confirmed on the same Day' 46 / Spiritual Death 49 / The Natural Consequence of our Crime is Bodily Death. 51 / Universal Phenomenon 55 / Just Us and No one else! 58 / “What a Feat Lies Ahead for the Soul!” 62 / Separation of Soul and Body 64 / Punishment Becomes a Boon 74 / So that We May Not Sin Forever 74 / Death Subdues our Vanity 76 / The Destruction of the Body is a Blessing 78 / Incitement to Sound Wisdom 80 / The Field of Martyrdom Opens up to us 82 / God Gives Hope 84 / God's Love for Mankind Transforms us "For the Better" 87 / The Incarnation of God the Word is the Beginning of the Abolition of Death 92 / “since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead” 92 / The Perfect Sinlessness of the Lord 96 / The Lord Opened up the Way to Heaven for us 98 / The Lord Destroys Death 100 / Omens of the Resurrection 103 / Crucifixion is the Abolition of Death 109 / Christ Died for All 109 / He Gives Life to People and Creation 113 / He is Crucified where Death Reigned 116 / "From Death we have Become Immortal" 118 / The Lord's Descent into Hell 124 / Victory Extends to Hell 124 / The Descent of Christ into Hell 126 “Give the Body, and Reproach God” 131 / Went down to Hell like a Winner 134 / "Bridge to New Life" 137 / [He] Made Hell into Heaven! 139 / Sunday - Ascension – Pentecost 146 / The Victory has been Approved 146 / Perfect and Shining in Eternity 148 / Direct and Visible Results 151 / "God and People United in one Race" 155 / [He] Gave us the Grace of the Holy Spirit 158 / Death Before and After Christ 163 / Death was Terrible before Christ 163 / Death Was "Intolerable and Worthy of Much Lamentation" 165 / Now it "only Bears the Name of Death" 166 / Only the Devil has "Remained Truly Dead"! 168 / Ignorance of the Hour of Death is a Boon! 173 / The Hour of Death is Unknown 173 / Why is the Hour of Death Hidden from us? 175 / Fear of Death 181 / Who is Afraid of Death?. 181 How to Overcome the Fear of Death? 185 / Death is the Door to Eternity 185 / "Cry but Be Quiet" 186 / Godly Behavior Concerning Death 188 / A Christian Thinks Creatively about Death 195 / "Calm down, Take a Look and See" 195 / "Where is the Self-satisfied Man?" 197 / "Look and Cry" 199 / May we Accept it as a Fruit of "Complacency and Constant Joy" 201 / Memory is Mortal 205 / Let's Remember Death 205 / Sin No More 207 / Strengthening Power 210 / The Memory of Death Combines Many Virtues 212 / What do the Tombs Teach us? 216 / "Let's go to the Coffins" 216 / Tombs of the Martyrs 218 / “Pray Often at the Graves” 219 / Death of Martyrs 222 / And death can be Better than Life 222 / "Root, Source and Mother of all Blessings" 224 / How do the Holy Fathers Comfort us? 227 / Death of our Loved Ones 227 / About Grief for a Spouse 229 / "Shall I Not Mourn my Son?" 234 / "Have you Lost your Son? Give Thanks to God" 238 / Blessed is the Death of Babies 241 / Which Death is Good and Which is Bad 249 / Is a Cruel and Unjust Death Bad? 249 / Death of Sinners 250 / Death of the Righteous 254 / Burial Rites (following) 259 / The Most Sorrowful Following of Our Church 259 / "Immaculate" 261 / Troparion according to the Immaculate 263 Tears, Sobs, Doubts, Hopes 265 / Beatitudes and New Testament Readings 268 / Farewell and Last Kissing 272 / “You Gaping Earth, Receive what has been created of You” 276 / Trial of Souls in Ordeals 280 / The Silent Beginning of the Future Life 280 / The Dying [ones] see the "Angelic Powers" 282 / Both Sinful and Righteous Souls are Tested at Ordeals 284 / Uncertain State of Souls 292 / The Soul Exists and Acts Without a Body 292 / Where do Souls Live after Death? 294 / Temporary Awaiting State 297 / How do Souls Live There? 300 / The Departed Know and Pray for us 302 / God Reveals Our Needs to the Righteous 306 / Sacred Commemoration of the Dead 311 / Prayers for the Dead 311 / Memorial Services 313 / Parental Saturdays and Kutya 315 / Are Commemorations of the Dead Beneficial? 317 / Good Deeds in Memory of the Dead 323 / Resurrection of the Dead 329 / The Idea of "Reincarnation" is Meaningless and Naïve 329 / Does Purgatory Exist? 331 / "I Await the Resurrection of the Dead" 333 / The Resurrection of Bodies Requires God's Justice 338 / We Should Rejoice when the Body is Destroyed 340 / [ι] Resurrection of Dead Bodies 342 / What will the Body be like when it is resurrected? 353 / With New Properties: Imperishable, Radiant, Eternal 353 / General Judgment 364 / There Will be Judgment 364 / Who Shall be the Judge? 369 / All Nations will Gather 371 / How will the Judgment Take Place? 376 / Immortal Death 383 / Does Hell Exist? 383 / What are the Punishments of Hell? 388 / Why is Hell Eternal? 393 / Eternal Paradise 409 / Future Kingdom 409 / Unspeakable and Incomprehensible Beauty 411 / The Deification of Man. 413 Bliss of the Righteous 416 / Endless Joy of Paradise 420 / The Longed Life of the Righteous 422 / Joyful Meeting 425 / The Happiness of the Righteous will be Endless 428 / The End of the World 436 / Behold, I Make All Things New (Rev. 21:5) 436 / About the Author 445 / List of abbreviations 445 Get into the timing. Wait for the One who is above time Timeless (achronos), invisible (aoratos), But for us made visible (oratos); Intangible (apselaphetos), of the impassive (apathes), But for us who have suffered (pathetos)

Download or read book Life of the Beloved written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nouwen was asked by a secular Jewish friend to explain his faith in simple language, he responded with "Life of the Beloved, " which shows that all people, believers and nonbelievers, are beloved by God unconditionally.

Download or read book Let Your Life Speak written by Parker J. Palmer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLEASE NOTE: Some recent copies of Let Your Life Speak included printing errors. These issues have been corrected, but if you purchased a defective copy between September and December 2019, please send proof of purchase to [email protected] to receive a replacement copy. Dear Friends: I'm sorry that after 20 years of happy traveling, Let Your Life Speak hit a big pothole involving printing errors that resulted in an unreadable book. But I'm very grateful to my publisher for moving quickly to see that people who received a defective copy have a way to receive a good copy without going through the return process. We're all doing everything we can to make things right, and I'm grateful for your patience. Thank you, Parker J. Palmer With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives.

Download or read book Led Into Mystery written by John De Gruchy and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Led into Mystery is an unanticipated sequel to John de Gruchy's book Being Human: Confessions of a Christian Humanist. It was prompted by the untimely and tragic death of his eldest son, Steve, in February 2010, and the questions this posed about the meaning of life and death from the perspective of Christian faith. A further prompt came as a result of a multi-disciplinary research project on "the humanist imperative in South Africa" (2009-2010). This raised critical questions about being human from the perspective of science, especially neuroscience, as well as other faith and secular perspectives. All these inform the discussion which is an exploration of mystery on the boundaries of human knowledge and experience, engagement with the world and the evolution of consciousness from a specifically Christian theological perspective. The title derives from Karl Rahner's comment that theology is about being led back into mystery -- the ultimate mystery of God disclosed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and the creative presence of the Spirit in the life of the world. This mystery is an open secret waiting to be explored, expressed and entered into by faith. In doing so, we discern the fragmentary mystery of being human alone and in relationship within the constraints of our time and space. We are rudely encountered by the perplexing mysteries of evil and death, but embraced by the mysteries of goodness and beauty, hope and love. We draw on memory and imagination to develop a language that enables us to explore mystery through the genre of myth, parable, poetry, the novel, music and art, we participate in the mysteries of faith that communicate grace, forgiveness, and freedom which enable us to be more fully human in the life of the world in the struggles for justice and peace.

Download or read book Why I Love the Apostle Paul written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Besides Jesus, no one has kept me from despair, or taken me deeper into the mysteries of the gospel, than the apostle Paul." —John Piper No one has had a greater impact on the world for eternal good than the apostle Paul—except Jesus himself. For John Piper, this impact is very personal. He does not just admire and trust Paul. He loves him. Piper gives us thirty glimpses into why his heart and mind respond this way. Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man's description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? If we know this man—if we see what Piper sees—we too will love him. Paul's testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.

Download or read book Heaven and Hell written by Bart D. Ehrman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over half of Americans believe in a literal heaven, in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. Ehrman shows that eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament, and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. He recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket

Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson

Download or read book Cop Doc written by Daniel M Rudofossi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cop Doc delivers a unique map of police psychology. Retired NYPD sergeant Daniel Rudofossi delivers compelling inside scoops: the first-grade detective who nailed the Times Square bomber, intelligence enigmas unraveled by the DEA intelligence chief, wisdom culled from a best-selling novelist, a NYPD detective captain’s narrative of the Palm Sunday Massacre, and much more. The book also includes an interview with a captain of hostage negotiations and a preface by the founder of the NYPD department of psychological services. Both students and seasoned professionals can find insights into policing and forensic psychology in these pages.