Sometimes it seems like no matter how hard you try, how often you pray, how many times you repent, how certain you are that God is going to recue you, you still find yourself trapped in a storm. The Bible actually tells us at those times that God is asking us to make a stand. But standing isn't always easy. This book will teach you how to keep your faith while standing with God in the face of trials and tribulations.
Building on years of research and teaching, experienced author and theologian David Wells offers a remedy for evangelicalism’s superficial theology and weightless conception of God: a journey to discover the paradoxical nature of his holiness and love. We all struggle, at times, to hold that paradox together, commonly resulting in problems such as liberalism or legalism. Yet understanding how God’s holiness is inextricably bound to his love is what enables us to live between the two extremes and defines our life of service in this world. In the vein of classics such as Packer’s Knowing God, Wells’s biblical theology is written at an accessible level so that all readers can cultivate a balanced vision of the God who belongs in the center of it all.
In a career that is blossoming, Tamika Reynolds is one of many young American writers celebrating her first published book. Now, she presents a genre of poems on life, love, family and so much more. For her, writing has become something that she truly has a passion for. She wants to share her story with others on how she overcame some of her difficult life experiences. For her most inspiring, motivational poem, Tamika expresses the life of a young girl who endured so much pain but overcame all those hardships and became a success. She does this in two parts. "Doors," tells how the young girl finally received the one thing she wanted most in life, and how she finally was able to move past the discouragement and move forward with her life. "Recovery," shares how this now young woman has accomplished so much in her life after enduring so many hard struggles. This two part poem is a must read for anyone that is going through difficult times in life and is ready to give up. The main message drawn from the poems is don't let what people do to you affect your life. Put your faith and trust in God as this young girl did and God will give you a blessed life and help you get through all those struggles and tough times in your life. In "Love is Finally Here," after so many bad relationships, cheating men, this young woman has finally found her true soul mate, her perfect man. This man she has been waiting for all her life, the one she let God choose for her, the one who will soon be her husband. The first of its kind, Tamika has established herself as a writer who can passionately motivate and inspire through her writing. Each category reflects the changes she has endured as a young, black woman, mother, companion, friend, business owner, and poet. Indulging, bold and sexy A Whirlwind Life: Genres of Poetry will once again establish Tamika Reynolds as one of the nation's upcoming and remarkable poets. Congratulations to the 1st Annual Poetry Contest Winners 1st - The Storm 2nd - A New Beginnings of Friends 3rd - Angel from Above
How Jesus struck a balance between solitude and service, learning the secret of Paul's contentment, discerning when "busy" is too busy, how to rearrange personal priorities.
A woman’s true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: “Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it.”—The New York Times Book Review In the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin’s reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison. With sharp detail and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts her arrest and the eighteen harrowing years she endured in Soviet prisons and labor camps, including two in solitary confinement. Her memoir is “a compelling personal narrative of survival” (The New York Times Book Review)—and one of the most important documents of Stalin’s brutal regime. “Deeply significant…intensely personal and passionately felt.”—Time “Probably the best account that has ever been published of…the prison and camp empire of the Stalin era.”—Book World Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward
"In recounting the rich narratives of key biblical figures - from Adam and Eve to Noah, Cain, Abraham, Moses, Job, and Jesus - In the Whirlwind paints a surprising picture of the ambivalent, mutually dependent relationship between God and his peoples. Taking the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a unified whole, Burt traces God's relationship with humanity as it evolves from complete harmony at the outset to continual struggle. In almost every case, God insists on unconditional obedience, while humanity withholds submission and holds God accountable for his promises.
In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of ecological destruction. With reference to the consequences of our poorly considered and self-centered environmental practices—global warming, ozone degradation, deforestation—McKibben combines modern science and timeless biblical wisdom to make the case that growth and economic progress are not only undesirable but deadly. If we continue to accelerate the pace of development, we will inevitably complete the “decreation” of our planet and everything on it, including ourselves. In his signature lyrical prose, and using Stephen Mitchell’s powerful translation of Job, McKibben calls readers to truly appreciate both the majesty of creation and humanity’s rightful—and responsible—place in it.
When a powerful EF-4 tornado with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour slammed the Union University campus on February 5, 2008, destroying eighteen dormitory buildings and causing $40 million in damage, the immediate assumption was that dozens if not hundreds of lives would have been lost. Miraculously, nobody died, and the next morning major media outlets flocked to Jackson, Tennessee, where Union students and faculty credited God for their survival and got to share their faith with millions worldwide. God in the Whirlwind recounts the entire experience through twenty eye-of-the-storm accounts from those who saw the walls and ceilings crashing down upon them and felt their ears pop as the pressure dropped, from anxious parents who waited for their child’s call, and from Union leaders who marvel at the university’s unbroken spirit in the face of such devastation. This inspiring book also includes eighty photographs that visualize God’s mighty hand upon nature and his gentle hand of grace.
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.
