Hell’s Shadow in Heaven is a young girls journey through poetry that gives her a voice to release her inner feelings. Tobika becomes this girl. As she ages she finds her way out of the shadows. The message is we can survive with understanding and acceptance to who we are regardless to the darkness that tries to take control. Life is not an easy street. It can be hard and it can be daunting. Maybe this journey can help others to navigate pass their own shadows.
Those who know Lewis's work will enjoy Martindale's thorough examination of the powerful images of Heaven and Hell found in Lewis's fiction, and all readers can appreciate Martindale's scholarly yet accessible tone. Read this book, and you will see afresh the wonder of what lies beyond the Shadowlands.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS Balanced teaching on heaven and hell, good and evil, and the effect our lives have on both realms Insights to help readers access God’s purpose and plan so they can live truly meaningful lives Would you risk your reputation to find out what is pleasing to God? The greatest thing that can ever be said about a person is that he or she pleased God. But while pleasing God makes you popular in heaven, it may not make you popular on earth. Do you have the temptation to be well received here on earth? Do you make spiritual decisions based upon what people will think of you? Going a step further, have you considered whether you have any reputation in hell? Are you living the kind of life that causes a threat to Satan’s interests? That’s how you become famous in hell. It’s time to stop valuing your reputation with people more than your reputation with God. Start living your life with eternity in mind. Respected theologian and author R. T. Kendall has written this book to help you discover the keys to living a life that truly pleases God, making you not only popular in heaven, but also famous in hell.
Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in God’s judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and freedom never shed their theistic structure.
In his acclaimed books, renowned writer, speaker, and philosophy professor Dallas Willard explored the nature of Christian life in God's Kingdom. Yet one topic remained undisclosed: Willard's understanding of heaven and eternal life. In the months before his death, Willard engaged in moving and insightful conversations about the meaning of life and the life to come with close friend and theologian Gary Black Jr. These inspiring dialogues were steeped in biblical theology as well as practical wisdom grounded in the here-and-now. In Preparing for Heaven Black reveals not only Willard's profound and liberating vision of life after death, he also deftly unpacks the implications these realities hold for our lives today. Black shows how Willard understood our mortal lives as preparation for what comes next—that death is not the end of one life and the beginning of another, but rather a transition through which we continue the transformational work begun on Earth. Informative, challenging, and poignant, Willard and Black's conversations and insights challenge us to reconsider our beliefs—that perhaps the line separating the afterlife from this life is not as absolute as we think, and that there is work to be done both now and in the glorious life to come. As a result we will find that our faith is more vibrant—and eternal—than we have dared to imagine.
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America. “Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth. An eBook short.
(The perfect club) Where there was once inscrutable love, now, there isn't a thing left, anymore... Not one single thing that you could associate with being human, with being useful in any imaginable capacity. I had given up. Death itself could scoop me off the floor, but I'd just run through its fingers like dirty water, I knew it, id felt its shadow pass over me so many times before that the neglect had started to feel insulting, I guess there was nothing left worth taking? Looking up from the cold puddle of urine that had amassed about my prostrate frame, gravity pressed on my yellow eyes like a heavy mist, as a single thought danced through the swaying light of my contemptuous squalor, eating the silence like a brass parade, a thought that was honest, that was inescapably anguished - 'My heart had been broken'. (The ladder between two hells) Michael sat, patiently, drowsy within the dry heat that had accumulated from the rattling dashboard grills, radio silent, listening only to the freezing cold sleet that bounced off his windscreen in relentless torrents as he watched the minutes of his watch painfully ascend tick by tick - 16:47, 16:48... There was a moment where he felt an insatiable urge to leave the car, walk through the harsh February bite directly into the bank and cut this man's throat in front of everyone in the building, smiling in fulfilment as his gruesome life gushed from a severed artery that was only ever part of an unused heart. But for now, that dark fantasy would have to suffice, the feeling of his blade opening the flesh, the euphoric satisfaction that would intoxicate his reason the moment that warm blood was spilt from his slaughtered body, his heart twitched in anticipation, his thumb teased along the knifes edge that was concealed in his coat, pushing it harder against the sharpened tip with every recalled provocation. But for now, he would wait, with menacing fortitude he would bide his time until 17:00. (The house of turpitude) The year of my incarceration was 1981. Vague recollections of that crazy experience never fail to put a chill in my spine, whenever I'm inebriated enough to recollect the pungent smell of blood and urine that often poured through the cold hospital hallways, all the way up to the foot of my cell. I thought the place was a madhouse ran by professional lunatics. Dressed in stained white overcoats, concealing syringes that held the kind of juice to take a full week off your life, circling their prey delivering the line that they are assistants of rehabilitation, working towards the assimilation of anyone unfortunate enough to have found themselves consumed by the horror of its screaming walls. They would watch me through the peep hole of my steel chamber door, as analysts they would observe me in solitude, wrapped up by my attempts to piece together the fragmented chaos of the pervading insanity that called from within the structure that held me. They were our gods. Visions of the Shadow - Pictures of Heaven & Hell. A collection of Short stories and poems.
Visions of Hell... In A Divine Revelation of Hell, over a period of thirty nights, God gave Mary K. Baxter visions of hell and commissioned her to tell people still alive on earth to reject sin and evil, and to choose life in Christ. Here is an account of the place and beings of hell contrasted with the glories of heaven. Follow Mary in her supernatural journey as she enters with Jesus into a gateway to hell and encounters the sights, sounds, and smells of that dark place of torment, including its evil spirits, cells, pits, jaws, and heart. Be an eyewitness to the various punishments of lost souls and hear their shocking stories. This book is a reminder that each of us needs to accept the miracle of salvation before it is too late—and to intercede for those who do not yet know Christ. Time is running out.
As I, John C. Colyer, was inspired by a simple poem, it is my hope that I can inspire a young mind to write; to have a dream and see it through, no matter what; because dreams can come true. Like all authors, I like knowing that my work has been read and enjoyed by the readers; that I have in some way touched their emotions. However, I personally feel that my greatest reward, my greatest accomplishment would be, to know that I have inspired a young mind to write.
