The Secret Life of a Pastor

The Secret Life of a Pastor

Author: Michael A. Milton

Publisher: Christian Focus

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781781915967

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Collection of powerful letters Encouraging and uplifting Relevant for students, pastors and the wider church


The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck

The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck

Author: Bethany Turner

Publisher: Revell

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1493411020

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Becoming a Christian is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to Sarah Hollenbeck. Best because, well, that's obvious. Worst because, up to this point, she's made her very comfortable living as a well-known, bestselling author of steamy romance novels that would leave the members of her new church blushing. Now Sarah is trying to reconcile her past with the future she's chosen. She's still under contract with her publisher and on the hook with her enormous fan base for the kind of book she's not sure she can write anymore. She's beginning to think that the church might frown on her tithing on royalties from a "scandalous" book. And the fact that she's falling in love with her pastor doesn't make things any easier. With a powerful voice, penetrating insight, and plenty of wit, Bethany Turner explodes onto the scene with a debut that isn't afraid to deal with the thorny realities of living the Christian life.


The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

Author: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9781884527821

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"Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down -- the idea that Christianity, a religion that she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could."--Back cover.


The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Author: Deesha Philyaw

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1911590707

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The irresistible literary debut about the hidden desires of church-going Black women 'Left me wanting more. Masterfully written' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie 'Joyous... It's a book in love with life' The Times 'Exquisite... delicious' Bolu Babalola, author of Love in Colour The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires, and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who nurses a crush on the preacher's wife; the mother who bakes a sublime peach cobbler every Monday for her date with the married Pastor; and Eula and Caroletta, single childhood friends who seek solace in each other's arms every New Year's Eve. With their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be – and as free as they deserve to be.


The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman

Author: Iris Ruth Pastor

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780965283236

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After 46 years of battling bulimia, Iris Ruth Pastor sheds her secret in this engaging memoir. With honesty and humor, she brings readers on the journey from despair to healing. If you are grappling with anything that prevents you from operating at full throttle, Iris's inspirational story reminds us all that recovery is within our reach.


The Opposite Life

The Opposite Life

Author: Alex Seeley

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0785216138

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What if the path to a life of abundance and blessing isn't what we expected? What if the way forward begins with going backward? In our constant search for a life filled with blessing and abundance, we often follow our human instinct and then wonder why we come up short. But it doesn't have to be that way. Join pastor and author Alex Seeley as she teaches us that God always has a better idea -- we just have to move in a new direction. In?The Opposite Life, Seeley explains that the secret to living a powerful and abundant life lies in the upside-down kingdom of God. Each chapter of The Opposite Life explores the opposite-life principles that can start to shift our mindset for the better, diving deeper into the natural contradictions between: death and life fear and faith hate and love worry and worship impossible and possible Along the way, she offers encouraging and simple challenges to help us align our lives with God's subversive plan. As we learn to exchange our default instincts for the surprising teachings of Jesus -- our pioneer of the unlikely -- we discover a life of transformational power, abundance, and more blessing than we ever thought possible. Praise for The Opposite Life: "Our broken earth longs for just this type of unveiling. It is time for us to remember who we are and respond as sons and daughters of the Most High God. There is a desperate longing for His goodness in the face of overwhelming anger, pain, and confusion. The Opposite Life is a drink of living water in a dry and arid land." --Lisa Bevere, New York Times bestselling author of Without Rival and Girls with Swords


Under the Unpredictable Plant

Under the Unpredictable Plant

Author: Eugene H. Peterson

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1994-06-27

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1467426792

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Like Eugene Peterson's other books on pastoring, Under the Unpredictable Plant is full of stimulating insights, candid observations, and biblically grounded prescriptions. Yet this book emanates with a special poignancy out of Peterson's own crisis experience as a pastor. Peterson tells about the "abyss," the "gaping crevasse," the "chasm" that he experienced, early in his ministry, between his Christian faith and his pastoral vocation. He was astonished and dismayed to find that his personal spirituality, his piety, was inadequate for his vocation -- and he argues that the same is true of pastors in general. In the book of Jonah -- a parable with a prayer at its center -- Peterson finds a subversive, captivating story that can help pastors recover their "vocational holiness." Using the Jonah story as a narrative structure, Peterson probes the spiritual dimensions of the pastoral calling and seeks to reclaim the ground taken over by those who are trying to enlist pastors in religious careers.


A Second Wind

A Second Wind

Author: T. D. Jakes

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-09

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781473652071

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While focusing on his core mission to preach the gospel worldwide, T.D. Jakes has seen many good people not spend enough quality time with family, friends, and God. They have gotten so swept up in the daily grind that they have failed to live the rich life that God desires for each of His people. In his new book, Jakes provides readers with strategies that will help them rejuvenate their life and turn their "busyness" into a "business." All readers-not just entrepreneurs-will benefit from Jakes' insightful advice so that they can use the days God has blessed them with wisely and finish each day strong!


Confessions of a Pastor

Confessions of a Pastor

Author: Craig Groeschel

Publisher: Multnomah

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781590527207

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These refreshing confessions of a pastor will help readers live for an audience of One.