This appalling true-life prison writing chronicles the events of years spent in Spanish prisons. It highlights the fact that crime is planned in prison and how prison is the villain's jobcentre.This prison writing in the raw is not for the squeamish or politically correct. The anti-Spanish and anti-French sentiment is solely the author's undiluted emotions at the time of writing in his cell.
What does it mean to be human? Most of us have asked this question at one time or another. At least we have considered this question from the standpoint of our own life-What is the most basic part of me? We don't have to be philosophers or "deep thinkers" to ask these questions. It is normal and natural for us to wonder about the fundamental nature of our being. In The Spiritual You, Bill Landon continues his examination of what our life in this world is truly all about. In his earlier books (My Father and Your Father and The Life that is Real Life) Bill has looked at our relationship with God and the Lord's wishes for us as part of His creation. In The Spiritual You, Bill brings this search to the level of the individual person. What is our real, basic nature? If we are to ever come to a place of harmony with ourselves, each other, our environment and world, we must understand this basic nature. This understanding, as Bill sees it, is not found in the world of formal education, politics or even organized religion. To understand our true nature we must seek for this knowledge from God. This understanding is integral to our finding the place we were meant to hold in God's creation. It is the author's hope that this book will be help and an encouragement to anyone seeking to find the real spiritual you.
There are two areas in which Christians tend to struggle consistently. Most agree that all Christians have to deal with the devil, but do all Christians know they have to deal with themselves— their soul and their body? The Soul: Renew Your Mind To Save Your Soul is an indispensable book that reveals profound truths. It is an enlightening, line-upon-line examination of Biblical Scripture that conveys the significance and responsibility each Christian has to invest their time with God and pore over His WORD on a daily basis that they may be victorious in this life, and not just in Heaven. “This is a message to bring enlightenment and knowledge. If we desire, we’ll come up to it, and we’ll walk in greater victory.” - Rev. Ricky Edwards
This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death. After an introduction that traces the persistence of "living martyrs" as real objects of spiritual devotion and emulation across the span of Christian history and discusses why such martyrs have been overlooked, the book focuses on three significant authors from the late ancient Latin west for whom martyrdom did not require death: the Spanish poet Prudentius (c. 348–413), the senator-turned-ascetic Paulinus of Nola (353–431), and the influential North African bishop Augustine of Hippo (354–430). Through historically and literarily contextualized close readings of their work, this book shows that each of these three authors attempted to create a new paradigm of martyrdom focused on living, rather than dying, for God. By focusing on these living martyrs, we are able to see more clearly the aspirations and agendas of those who promoted them as martyrs and how their martyrological discourse illuminates the variety of ways that martyrdom is and can be mobilized (in any era) to construct new, community-creating worldviews. Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond is an important resource for historians of Christianity, scholars of religious studies, and anyone interested in exploring or understanding martyrological discourse. The Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Of all the disciplines of the Christian life, prayer is perhaps the most neglected. Yet Jesus’ brief earthly life was permeated with it. A Passion for Prayer seeks to help you develop—or deepen—your communion with God. Drawing on personal experience and God’s Word, Pastor Tom Elliff shares principles for daily coming before the throne of grace.
Satan's Womb by Pier-Giorgio Tomatis You can escape everywhere and from everything but not from Humanity ... Satan's Womb Nicholas Marshall suffers a series of attacks from which he barely saves his life. He decides to flee Portland to go to Satan's Womb and find protection there. The structure, a huge building built inside Mount Withney, offers refuge and all sorts of fun. After an initial period of euphoria, the novel's protagonist will realize that he has landed in a place where his life will be worth very little. Love will save him ... while it lasts.
Postcards have a magical pull. They allow us to see the past through charming relics that allow us to travel back in time. Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Baja California Border offers a window into the historical and geographical past of storied Mexican border communities. Once-popular tourist destinations from the 1900s through the 1950s, the border communities explored in Postcards from the Baja California Border used to be filled with revelers, cabarets, curio shops, and more. The postcards in this book show the bright and dynamic past of California’s borderlands while diving deep into the historic and geographic significance of the imagery found on the postcards. This form of place study calls attention to how we can see a past through a serial view of places, by the nature of repetition, and the photographing of the same place over and over again. Arreola draws our focus to townscapes, or built landscapes, of four border towns—Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Algodones—during the first half of the twentieth century. With an emphasis on the tourist’s view of these places, this book creates a vivid picture of what life was like for tourists and residents of these towns in the early and mid-twentieth century. Postcards from the Baja California Border is a rich and fascinating experience, one that takes you on a time-travel journey through border town histories and geographies while celebrating the visual intrigue of postcards.
Why is the city a battleground of hostile principalities and powers? What is the mission of the church in the city? How can the church be supported in accomplishing that mission? These are the questions that Robert Linthicum treats in his comprehensive and probing biblical theology of the city. In the Bible the city is depicted both as a dwelling place of God and his people and as a center of power for Satan and his minions. The city is one primary stage on which the drama of salvation is played out. And that is no less the case at the end of this pivotal century as megacities become the focal point of most human activity and aspirations around the world. This is a timely theology of the city that weaves the theological images of the Bible and the social realities of the contemporary world into a revealing tapestry of truths about the urban experience. Its purpose is to define clearly the mission of the church in the midst of the urban realities and to support well the work of the church in the urban world.
Eons ago a revolt broke out in the throne room of heaven against the King of the universe. To understand the issues involved in this conflict is to have a road map to the future. Expelled from heaven, Lucifer kidnapped earth. This book reveals his dark plans for this planet. It demonstrates the cosmic terrorist's behind-the-scenes strategy from Creation through the cross, the Crusades, and down to the events of September 11, 2001, that changed the world and catapulted America into unprecedented global leadership, where it is poised to fulfill its prophetic role in last-day events. Book jacket.
