If I Can Help Somebody is spiritual fuel for the traveler on this Christian journey. These God-inspired messages are reminders that every answer to any situation can be found in the Word of God and His promise is still true--His Word shall not return void. To return, the Word must first go out. To go out, there must be a messenger. This messenger, Sheila Dene' Lawrence, shares from personal experiences, how to: Enjoy a closer relationship with God Seek in earnest God's purpose Satisfy the spiritual urging to do more for the Kingdom If these messages help only one, then Lawrence has successfully began her own walk in her predestined, foreordained purpose. "IF I can help somebody...then my purpose shall be fulfilled." Foreword written by Pastor Ed Carroll, the anointed Shepherd of Rising Star Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama where "growth is not an option for Kingdom-building."
Join me as I share extraordinary encounters with strangers and loved ones. Hope with me for the one who lost her childhood before she understood womanhood. Sit with me while I wonder what to say to an aging parent, who no longer views the world through the lens we once shared. Reach out beyond your comfort level to listen to a young person who has lost her parents but found herself. Smile with me as you share my journey with my beloved. These are just a few of the stories you will find in this book. I hope that these stories will fill you with a sense of wonder and open you to the possibilities of a world of relationships and chance encounters that will enrich your life.
Everybody can help somebody—even you! "I used to spend a lotta time worryin' that I was different from other people . . . But I found out everybody’s different—the same kind of different as me.” Little Denver grew up very poor, and he didn’t get to go to school. As time passed, Denver decided to hop a train to the big city for a different life. But that life was difficult, and Denver spent many years as a homeless man. But God showed His love through two people who were very different from Denver. Based on Same Kind of Different As Me, the emotional tale of Denver Moore’s life story, this unique children’s book includes Denver’s original art. Parents and children alike will be moved by this powerful story and will never forget the unexpected and life-changing things that can happen when we help somebody. "Nobody can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody.” Meets national education standards.
Pamela Couture chronicles the peacebuilding activities of the community led by Bishop Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda, his lay leaders, and ecumenical colleagues. This community responds to the conditions created by the wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1996-2003, organizing relief, building social capacities, engaging in conflict transformation, and often risking their lives for peace. These rural Luba people in the town of Kamina and surrounding villages negotiate their understanding of Christian mandates and local tradition and practice, demonstrating that their appropriation of Christianity and local indigenous tradition can motivate practices of peace. (Series: ?International Practical Theology, Vol. 18) [Subject: African Studies, Peace Studies, Christianity, Religious Studies
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such as religion or reason--but to identity. The rescuers' perceptions of themselves in relation to others made their extraordinary acts spontaneous and left the rescuers no choice but to act. To turn away Jews was, for them, literally unimaginable. In the words of one German Czech rescuer, "The hand of compassion was faster than the calculus of reason." At the heart of this unusual book are interviews with the rescuers, complex human beings from all parts of the Third Reich and all walks of life: Margot, a wealthy German who saved Jews while in exile in Holland; Otto, a German living in Prague who saved more than 100 Jews and provides surprising information about the plot to kill Hitler; John, a Dutchman on the Gestapo's "Most Wanted List"; Irene, a Polish student who hid eighteen Jews in the home of the German major for whom she was keeping house; and Knud, a Danish wartime policeman who took part in the extraordinary rescue of 85 percent of his country's Jews. We listen as the rescuers themselves tell the stories of their lives and their efforts to save Jews. Monroe's analysis of these stories draws on philosophy, ethics, and political psychology to suggest why and how identity constrains our choices, both cognitively and ethically. Her work offers a powerful counterpoint to conventional arguments about rational choice and a valuable addition to the literature on ethics and moral psychology. It is a dramatic illumination of the power of identity to shape our most basic political acts, including our treatment of others. But always Monroe returns us to the rescuers, to their strong voices, reminding us that the Holocaust need not have happened and revealing the minds of the ethically exemplary as they negotiated the moral quicksand that was the Holocaust.
Have the grace to live righteously. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10) When you answer the calling to step out of the traditional role of church membership to serve beyond the walls of a physical structure, it is because you understand that church is not the only way to serve people directly. As God sends you out to minister to His people, He will equip you with what you need on the journey to live as Christ Jesus and His disciples did. Don’t let fear hold you in bondage from answering His call. He has already prepared you.
The speeches and sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resound deeply, delivering the inspiring message of a great leader and teacher. These timeless gems leave the reader with renewed understanding of the man and the urgency of the civil rights movement, which still ring true today.
