Witness to Passion
Witness to Passion

Author: Naima Simone

Publisher: Entangled: Ignite

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 163375278X

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Under his protection and in his bed... For Fallon Wayland, birthdays are just another reminder of her looming spinsterhood. This year is shaping up to be no different. Fired from her job, dumped by her boyfriend, and oh yes, witnessing the murder of a high-ranking lieutenant in the local crime family... Yeah, birthdays suck. Ever since a disastrous, hot-as-hell kiss years ago, soldier-turned-security specialist Shane Roarke has avoided his baby sister's reckless—and gorgeous—best friend. Yet when her life is threatened after she witnesses a gang hit, he insists on protecting her. The two are forced to hole up in a safe house. Alone. Passion long denied erupts between them, burning away their inhibitions. But even as layers—and clothes—are peeled away, danger closes in. Shane and Fallon might finally have a chance at love...if they survive long enough to see it. Each book in the Guarding Her Body series is STANDALONE: *Witness to Passion *Killer Curves

Witness the Passion
Witness the Passion

Author: Richard Exley

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781593790219

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You've Read the Gospel Stories about Jesus. You've heard plenty of sermons about His life, His death, and His resurrection. And you're sure you know the story inside and out. But you've never heard it like this! In a dozen riveting vignettes, Richard Exley sketches a revealing and intimate portrait of Jesus as he was seen through the eyes of the people he touched during his final days. Drawing from the canvases of Scripture, history, and tradition, Exley carefully paints these real-life eyewitness accounts in colors so vivid you'll feel you're right there with them. You'll see Jesus changing the lives of ordinary people. More importantly, you'll see how He can change you. Book jacket.

Witnesses of God’s Redemptive Passion
Witnesses of God’s Redemptive Passion

Author: Stephen J. Schafers

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2024-10-08

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13:

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The Bible is God’s revelation of man’s past, present, and future. It includes man’s creation, his fall into sin, and the hope of his ultimate reconciliation with God. In Witnesses of God’s Redemptive Passion, author Stephen J. Schafers explores man’s journey of faith by examining the lives of Old Testament characters and highlighting the Messiah’s redemptive mission. Schafers employs an imaginative narration of Old Testament relationships and offers a reflective response to a chapter specific discussion question. Through their life struggles, these biblical characters encountered God’s redemptive love and responded in faith and obedience. Witnesses of God’s Redemptive Passion features elements and speakers that highlight the characters’ spiritual struggles while remaining faithful to biblical themes. The narrative presents a greater character identification and promotes a deeper appreciation of the biblical message. Each chapter’s question and commentary section further develops important narrative points, stimulates spiritual reflection, and explores life applications. The final three chapters focus on the culmination of Jesus Christ’s prophetic and messianic mission. He alone can transform the human heart and usher in the full reality of God’s redemptive love to a sinful world.

Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers

Author: Sam Tanenhaus

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 661

ISBN-13: 0307789268

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Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism. This biography is rich in startling new information about Chambers's days as New York's "hottest literary Bolshevik"; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at Time magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that changed America. Whittaker Chambers goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbably twists and turns, and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions. A rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, Whittaker Chambers is a vivid tapestry of 20th century history.

St. Matthew Passion
St. Matthew Passion

Author: Hans Blumenberg

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 150175906X

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St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Why did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has reverberated, from early Christian apologetics and heretics to twentieth-century literature and philosophy. Blumenberg's guide through this unending story of divine abandonment is Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental Matthäuspassion, the parabolic mirror that bundled eighteen hundred years of reflection on the fate of the crucified and the only available medium that allows us post-Christian listeners to feel the anguish of those who witnessed the events of the Passion. With interspersed references to writers such as Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Freud, and Benjamin, Blumenberg gathers evidence to raise the singular question that, in his view, Christian theology has not been able to answer: How can an omnipotent God be so offended by his creatures that he must sacrifice and abandon his own Son?

Witness at the Cross
Witness at the Cross

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1791021131

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Place yourself as a witness of the cross and determine what your own testimony will be! Experience Holy Friday from the perspective of those who watched Jesus die: Mary his mother; the Beloved Disciple from the Gospel of John; Mary Magdalene and the other women from Galilee; the two men, usually identified as thieves, crucified with Jesus; the centurion and the soldiers; Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. Jews and Romans, friends and strangers, the powerful and the powerless, the hopeful and the despairing. The story of Jesus’s death is not something we just read: we think about it, and we experience it; we hear the taunts of the soldiers, the priests, and the passersby even as we hear the famous “seven last words” from the cross. In Witness at the Cross, Amy-Jill Levine shows how the people at the cross each have distinct roles to play. Each Evangelist presents a distinct picture of the death of Jesus. Each portrays different individuals and groups of people at the cross, each offers different images and dialogues, and so from each, we learn how those meanings and messages cross the centuries to any who would come to the cross today. Each Gospel has its own story to tell, all the witnesses have their own memories, and every reader comes away with a new insight. The witnesses at the Crucifixion watch Jesus die, and we watch with them, and we watch them. And we come away transformed. Additional components are available for a six-week study include a DVD featuring Dr. Levine and a comprehensive Leader Guide.

Evidence of Love
Evidence of Love

Author: John Bloom

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-12-20

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1504042646

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The “fascinating” true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real. Based on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery families, Edgar Award finalist Evidence of Love is the “superbly written” account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Adapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning television movie A Killing in a Small Town—as well as the new limited series Candy on Hulu and Love and Death on HBO Max—this chilling tale of sin and savagery will “fascinate true crime aficionados” (Kirkus Reviews).

Passion's Price
Passion's Price

Author: Gwynne Forster

Publisher: Kimani Press

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1426888163

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Determined to prove herself to her siblings and her boss, Darlene Cunningham has made a name in the exciting, sometimes dangerous world of criminal law. When Darlene travels to Memphis in pursuit of a witness, the Maryland attorney doesn't expect to be under the surveillance of the rugged Tennessee cop who sets off sensual sparks from the moment they meet. It's a one-two punch straight to his heart when the sultry beauty walks into the house Mike Raines is staking out. He can't let Darlene compromise his investigation. And he can't let her go. His desire is tempting the detective to break a few laws of his own—like the one that says never mix business with pleasure. But how can he resist the passionate woman who has changed his life? And whose love he'll risk any danger to claim?

Practicing Passion
Practicing Passion

Author: Kenda Creasy Dean

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2004-04-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780802847126

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Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church.