The Convict Christ
The Convict Christ

Author: Jens Soering

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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An inmate for life, Jens Soering tells stories of prison life that are shocking and inspiring. He confronts us with Jesus's challenge to love not only the least amongst us but those who are perceived as the worst amongst us. Anyone interested in what goes on behind the walls of our nation's prisons--and in seeing the face of Christ in everyone--will value this authentic, harrowing, and visionary search for redemption. The subject of a recent profile in The New Yorker Jens Soering has been incarcerated in Virginia since 1990. He is the author of The Way of the Prisoner and An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse.

The Convict Manifesto for Christian Living
The Convict Manifesto for Christian Living

Author: Rafael Andrade Maldonado

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1300365471

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The Convict Manifesto for Christian Living is a work produced by a convict for convicts who have received Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. The Convict Manifesto covers issues ranging from drugs, alcohol, sex, violence, responsibility, relationships, and more. It is filled with tools useful for the man who has found salvation and wants to walk in the promise of newness of life. Prison volunteers, chaplains, and administrators can gain further insight into the population they work with. Families of Christian convicts will gain insights into the challenges their loved ones face in prison. The Convict Manifesto is that --- a manifesto. Like any manifesto, it sets the standards, norms, and the philosophy of the Christian convict.

Jesus on Death Row
Jesus on Death Row

Author: Prof. Mark Osler

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1426722893

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What does the most infamous criminal proceeding in history--the trial of Jesus of Nazareth--have to tell us about capital punishment in the United States? Jesus Christ was a prisoner on death row. If that statement surprises you, consider this fact: of all the roles that Jesus played--preacher, teacher, healer, mentor, friend--none features as prominently in the gospels as this one, a criminal indicted and convicted of a capital offense. Now consider another fact: the arrest, trial, and execution of Jesus bear remarkable similarities to the American criminal justice system, especially in capital cases. From the use of paid informants to the conflicting testimony of witnesses to the denial of clemency, the elements in the story of Jesus' trial mirror the most common components in capital cases today. Finally, consider a question: How might we see capital punishment in this country differently if we realized that the system used to condemn the Son of God to death so closely resembles the system we use in capital cases today? Should the experience of Jesus' trial, conviction, and execution give us pause as we take similar steps to place individuals on death row today? These are the questions posed by this surprising, challenging, and enlightening book

Tony Evans' Book of Illustrations
Tony Evans' Book of Illustrations

Author: Tony Evans

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1575673134

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Picture this: it’s Saturday afternoon, and you’re putting the finishing touches on tomorrow’s sermon. You’ve been thinking, researching, and praying about this message all week, and thankfully, feel prepared. That is, except for one small detail—you aren’t sure how to begin. For more than 30 years, Tony Evans has been connecting with audiences around the world. Now his tools are available for you. Don’t leave your listeners to connect the dots. Let Tony Evans’ Book of Illustrations help you illustrate your point in a way they can’t forget.

Rethinking Incarceration
Rethinking Incarceration

Author: Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2018-03-02

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0830887733

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The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Exploring the history and foundations of mass incarceration, Dominique Gilliard examines Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion, assessing justice in light of Scripture, and showing how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles.

Jesus, Who HE is Unbelievably Amazing
Jesus, Who HE is Unbelievably Amazing

Author: Judith Ann Smith

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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The ruling emotion of an addict is hopelessness. I want people to know that there is always hope in Christ, not emotions but facts and faith. The new life God has given to me is being offered to you too. He is waiting for you. He is waiting for you to reach out admitting you need HIS help. An encounter with Christ changed everything and one good thing after another has begun to happen. I dedicated my life to God, and I truly turned it over. Judy and I started fresh but I had a lot of damage to repair. After all, I did clear out our home twice before going to Teen Challenge. I can honestly say amid everything I had gone through with prison and drugs the first few months of Teen Challenge was a dark and trying time. I was clean, but for the first time, I had to truly look in the mirror at myself and find my way through faith to someone I'd never been. I didn't even want to talk to Judy at all and I'm sure the feeling was mutual. This was my time alone with God, it was a time to give up trying to fix me. Focusing on GODs word, He created a new me, with a brand-new identity, literally a new creation. HIS story of my life is truly Unbelievably amazing. II Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate

Author: Roger Caillois

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780813925516

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Roger Caillois, 1913-1978, philosopher, writer, and Académie française laureate, was the author of numerous works of anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, art, and literary criticism, and the cofounder, with Georges Bataille, of France's College of Sociology for the Study of the Sacred. Ivan Strenski is Professor and Holstein Endowed Chairholder in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and the author or editor of several works, including Contesting Sacrifice and Thinking about Religion.

The Innocence of Pontius Pilate
The Innocence of Pontius Pilate

Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-12-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0197644120

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The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem. To this day, Christians of all churches confess that Jesus died 'under Pontius Pilate'. But what exactly does that mean? Within decades of Jesus' death, Christians began suggesting that it was the Judaean authorities who had crucified Jesus--a notion later echoed in the Qur'an. In the third century, one philosopher raised the notion that, although Pilate had condemned Jesus, he'd done so justly; this idea survives in one of the main strands of modern New Testament criticism. So what is the truth of the matter? And what is the history of that truth? David Lloyd Dusenbury reveals Pilate's 'innocence' as not only a neglected theological question, but a recurring theme in the history of European political thought. He argues that Jesus' interrogation by Pilate, and Augustine of Hippo's North African sermon on that trial, led to the concept of secularity and the logic of tolerance emerging in early modern Europe. Without the Roman trial of Jesus, and the arguments over Pilate's innocence, the history of empire--from the first century to the twenty-first--would have been radically different.