I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

Author: Sarah J. Robinson

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0593193539

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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.


How to Die Alone

How to Die Alone

Author: Mo Welch

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1523504269

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There’s an entire industry built on the idea of helping people to push hard and succeed in love, work, fitness, and finances. But what about those people who would so much rather stay home and eat pizza with the cat while binge-watching Netflix? Who’s telling them that it’s OK to be a couch potato? Blair, that’s who. The creation of cartoonist and stand-up comic Mo Welch, Blair is the awkward, self-deprecating, totally relatable anti-heroine who already has 65,000 followers on Instagram and an animated show on TBS Digital. Now Blair is the face, the voice, and the attitude of How to Die Alone, the perfect self-help book for not helping yourself—and a funny, irreverent gift for millennials struggling to “adult.” Forget winning friends and influencing people—here’s advice on how to win the Worst Friend Award instead, including: Always be late, never offer to drive (anywhere), and treat your friend’s kitchen like an open bar. Plus the ins and outs of terrible dates, permission to eat cookies instead of going to the gym, and how to treat your job like the inconvenience that it is. It’s the genuinely funny, tongue-in-cheek guide to just saying no.


Communication Yearbook 18

Communication Yearbook 18

Author: Brant R. Burleson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 1135152500

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Communication Yearbook 18 originally published in 1995 focuses on cognitive approaches to the study of human communication, examining topics such as the formation of interaction goals, cognitive models of message production, mindfulness and minlessness in message processing and attention to televised messages. Sections two and three concentrate on the communicative management of health and environmental risks, critical analyses of classical approaches to risk communication and the ways in which people are connected through diverse forms of communicative behavior, including supportive relationships, electronic mail systems and ideologies. Commentaries in each section provide alternative perspectives on the state of research, extend issues of significance and help engage the reader with contemporary debates.


Let's Take the Long Way Home

Let's Take the Long Way Home

Author: Gail Caldwell

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0812979117

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Walking the woods of New England and rowing on the Charles River, these two private, self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of the profound transformations that come from intimate connection—and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.


How They Croaked

How They Croaked

Author: Georgia Bragg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1547614536

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This award-winning book for reluctant readers is a fascinating collection of remarkable deaths--and not for the faint of heart. Over the course of history, men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess--especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. From King Tut's ancient autopsy to Albert Einstein's great brain escape, How They Croaked contains all the gory details of the awful ends of nineteen awfully famous people. Don't miss the companion, How They Choked!


LIFE IS MYSTERIOUS A way to live & A way to die

LIFE IS MYSTERIOUS A way to live & A way to die

Author: Dr Rajan Deshpande

Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers

Published: 2022-06-16

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13:

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Life is certainly a mystery. Right from birth to death we pass through uncertainties and mysteries. It is said that it is not important how long one lives, but how well one lives matters. The lives of those, who led life meaningfully, will denitely throw some light on the lives of others. Even the way a person behaves when death approaches him/her could be an enigma. It is unfortunate that many live in their utopia, as if they are eternal. It is thoughtfulness of a person to accept the death in a dignied way & gracefully. The author has narrated these issues effectively, narrating his personal experiences and that of various instances of well known personalities. It is the sincere hope of the author that it opens up the eyes of those who are heading on in their life ercely with a great speed without realizing the purpose of life. Living matters, so also the death matters. It is up to us to make it. Hope, this book will make some difference in the thinking of a reader.


Exodus

Exodus

Author: Chloe T. Sun

Publisher: Langham Publishing

Published: 2024-11-14

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 178641094X

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The poignant narrative of Exodus, which involves leaving one’s homeland, traveling, settling, unsettling, wrestling with identity, seeking a home, and pursuing aspirations, resonates with the present circumstances of the Chinese diaspora. This commentary delves into the concept of exodus, tracing its roots from the biblical exodus to its modern manifestation in the Chinese diaspora – “the new exodus.” This approach forefronts the nuances of otherness, minority status, liminality, and hybridity in a dominant culture while simultaneously accentuating the transnational, global, and multifaceted roots of such an existence. This diasporic reading of Exodus seeks to facilitate transformation in the ongoing quest for identity, meaning, and purpose, all within the framework of God’s redemptive history and diasporans’ journey of becoming. The Asia Bible Commentary Series empowers Christian believers in Asia to read the Bible from within their respective contexts. Holistic in its approach to the text, each exposition of the biblical books combines exegesis and application. The ultimate goal is to strengthen the body of Christ in Asia by providing a pastoral and contextual exposition of every book of the Bible.


The Thing from the Grave

The Thing from the Grave

Author: Joe Orlando

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2017-06-07

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1683960319

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This special collection features more than 30 EC classics from the pages of Tales From the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Shock SuspenStories, Impact, and Crime SuspenStories. Of special note is Orlando’s “The Monkey,” the classic realistic EC story about drug addiction, considered to be one of the most cautionary of “the preachies,” and Orlando’s adaptation of Bradbury’s eerily haunting “The Lake,” about a childhood tragedy. This volume also includes the title story “The Thing From the Grave,” a special Orlando frightfest originally printed in 3-D that hasn’t been seen since its original publication more than 60 years ago (and is presented here for the first time in easy-on-the-eyes 2-D). Plus all of Orlando’s Panic stories, including parodies of Mother Goose, TV commercials, and soap operas. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, The Thing From the Grave And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic American comics.


They Called Him Reb

They Called Him Reb

Author: Otis Morphew

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-01-12

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1440104883

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The year is 1856, only a few days before William Upshur's tenth Birthday, and was the day the Upshur farm was raided and his family brutally murdered. He was sole survivor of a planned massacre that left him with nothing but his memories, and troubled dreams filled with revenge. Convinced he would never find those responsible, he spent the next five years in recuperative torment, then to leave his adopted family in 1861 to enlist in the war,...hoping to satisfy his hatred, and hunger for revenge. Could he learn to survive in a cruel, war-ravaged land? Can a boy really cope with the death and brutality of a man's war? Would it be enough to quell his hatred and desire for vengeance? Could he live long enough to quench that desire?...Who knows? This is the story of Upshur, one of hate, love, intrigue and death, during a time of of war, distrust, schemes, cruelty and revenge. A dark time in the annals of history, and the journey a boy takes to become the man, they called Reb!


The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient

Author: Alex Michaelides

Publisher: Celadon Books

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1250301718

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**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....