Unconfessed

Author : Yvette Christiansë
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635425000

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Unconfessed by Yvette Christiansë Pdf

PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th-century slave woman in South Africa. Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. A woman moved from master to master, farm to farm, and—driven by the horrors of slavery to commit an unspeakable crime—from prison to prison. A woman fit for hanging . . . condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island. Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town's streets and walls. She remembers the day her childhood ended, when slave catchers came — whipping the air and the ground and we were like deer whipped into the smaller and smaller circle of our fear. Sila remembers her masters, especially Oumiesies ("old Missus"), who in her will granted Sila her freedom, but Theron, Oumiesies' vicious and mercenary son, destroys the will and with it Sila's life. Sila remembers her children, with joy and with pain, and imagines herself a great bird that could sweep them up in her wings and set them safely on a branch above all harm. Unconfessed is an epic novel that connects the reader to the unimaginable through the force of poetry and a far-reaching imagination.

Author : Cindi Wood
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780805440690

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The Frazzled Female by Cindi Wood Pdf

Based on one of today's most popular Bible studies for women, The Frazzled Female reaches out to busy ladies everywhere, guiding them to sanity, peace, and a deeper, more vibrant relationship with the Lord. Cindi Wood's approach isn't "no-nonsense," because she's as hilarious as she is helpful. But in the end, her readers will clearly learn how to become "victoriously frazzled."

Author : Scott W. Gustafson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798385213184

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The Freedom to Choose Life by Scott W. Gustafson Pdf

In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky proposes ministry as the way to resist and overcome the world’s evil. He employs two plotlines to do so. The action plot concerns the events surrounding the murder of Fyodor Karamazov. All evidence points to Dmitri Karamazov. Rational, circumstantial evidence convicts him; yet the reader knows he is innocent. The ministry plot occurs in this dark context where “small acts of love” are performed by The Elder Zosima, Alyosha Karamazov, and many others. These acts of love all answer this unspoken question, “What can be said and done in Jesus’ name that opens the future to new possibilities in contexts heretofore deemed closed and without hope?” Asking and answering this question is the essence of ministry, and since the question can be asked in any context, ministry is possible anywhere. Dostoevsky’s unabashed antisemitism, however, undermines his brilliant analysis. The concluding chapters document how unconfessed sins like antisemitism exert a death-dealing power that undermines our cultures, our communities, and our ministries. The Freedom to Choose Life shows how ministry resists and overcomes evil by these small acts of love and by the global effects of repenting of humanity’s unconfessed sins.

Author : Laura Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009080279

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The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery by Laura Murphy Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted therein. Literary scholars of China, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa provide original scholarly arguments about some of the most trenchant themes that arise in the literatures of slavery – authentication and legitimation, ethnic formation and globalization, displacement, exile, and alienation, representation and metaphorization, and resistance and liberation. This Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery is designed to highlight the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and collectively challenge the reductive notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

Author : Allen M Barber
Publisher : Aletheia Concepts
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1604773480

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Set My People Free by Allen M Barber Pdf

Barber urges reconciliation between believers and church leaders whose lives have been impacted by divorce and remarriage--a reconciliation that will free them to serve the Lord without guilt. (Practical Life)

Author : Exell, Joseph S.
Publisher : Delmarva Publications, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Biblical Illustrator, Volume 2 by Exell, Joseph S. Pdf

Would you like it if one of the greatest preachers could help you prepare your sermons? How about 20+ ministers to assist you with your sermon? Joseph Exell included content from some of the most famous preachers such as Dwight L. Moody, Charles Spurgeon, J. C. Ryle, Charles Hodge, Alexander MacLaren, Adam Clark, Matthew Henry and many more. He compiled this 56 volume Biblical Illustrator Commentary and Delmarva Publications, Inc. is publishing it in a 6 volume digital set with a linked table of contents for ease of studying. This set includes the analysis on entire Bible, Old and New Testament. Complete your resources with this Biblical Illustrator by Joseph Exell.

Author : Prof. Paola Paoloni,Prof. Mauro Paoloni,Prof. Simona Arduini
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912764167

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ICGR 2019 2nd International Conference on Gender Research by Prof. Paola Paoloni,Prof. Mauro Paoloni,Prof. Simona Arduini Pdf

Author : Peter Maiden
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857217608

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Building on the Rock by Peter Maiden Pdf

How should we define our identity, as Christians? And how do we actually define ourselves, usually? In this short but powerful book, Peter Maiden (former International leader for OM) shows how we must find our identity in Christ if we are to have any stability. So many Christians struggle because they find their identity and self worth in things which are ultimately unworthy and utterly unstable. Or they find it in fleeting and vulnerable places - leadership positions, professions and achievements. Even family roles change, and mutate. As the people of God our identity is not to be found in our achievements, appearance, career or even our family. But our place in Christ is eternal, unshakeable. We are sons and daughters of God welcomed into his family through grace, which has been sealed by an eternal covenant. Anything less than this can only lead to disappointment, disillusionment, legalism and even the abuse of others, as we relentlessly seek to prove and assert ourselves rather than relaxing in the security and certainty of family.

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748650897

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Imagining the Cape Colony by David Johnson Pdf

By returning to a pivotal moment in South African history - the Cape Colony in the period 1770-1830 - this book addresses current debates about nationalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and postcolonial/post-apartheid culture.

Author : Steven J. Lawson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780805494716

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Psalms 1-75 by Steven J. Lawson Pdf

No other book in the Bible compares with the wonder of the sacred collection of inspired worship songs known as the Psalms. Considered by many to be the most loved portion of Scripture, the Psalms have been a bedrock of comfort and a tower of strength for believers in every experience of life. This is the second of two volumes in the Holman Old Testament Commentary given to the Psalms, that provide commentary on Psalms chapters 76-150. Some of the key Psalms receive an added in-depth treatment that includes exposition, illustrations, and teaching plans. - http://www.christianbook.com

Author : Dr. Betty F. Minus-Murrell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781504969765

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Unbogus by Dr. Betty F. Minus-Murrell Pdf

“Who you see is who I am, and what you see is what you get!” How many of us can say these words and mean it? Too many people hide behind masks of pretense, whether it is socially, emotionally, spiritually, or physically simply to gain the approval or acceptance of others. One of the greatest challenges many people face today, especially Christians, is trying to live an authentic (unbogus) life in a world full of fake (bogus) people. Thus, this book is a real eye-opener on the subject of bogusness versus unbogusness. The author gives valuable insight into how to avoid living a bogus life and how to pursue an unbogus life. Having your outer man match your inner man is the goal of this book. This powerfully written book will also challenge you to rise above your unbogus behavior and find true contentment, peace, and self-worth. Finally, this book will give you a game plan to cast out areas of unbogusness in your life that have kept you from living your best life.

Author : Nate Millican,Jonathan Woodyard
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781535959285

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Before We Forget by Nate Millican,Jonathan Woodyard Pdf

How can pastors endure in ministry? How can they finish well? The pastors who have contributed to Before We Forget—some early in their ministries, some with decades of experience—believe remembering is the key to endurance. Remembering their first love. Remembering God’s call to ministry. Remembering the lessons God taught them in the early days of their service. The premise of the book is simple. We too often and too quickly forget the lessons God is teaching us. This whole book, then, is an exercise in remembrance. The authors want to remind themselves of God’s work in their lives as he has conformed them into the image of Jesus and molded them into more faithful followers and more careful shepherds. As they remember and recount what God has done for them and in them, their reflections will encourage pastors as they too run their race with endurance. Before We Forget includes chapters from the following leading pastors and more: Jimmy Scroggins, lead pastor of Family Church in South Florida Hershael York, senior pastor of Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky, dean of the Southern Seminary School of Theology Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Jason Meyer, pastor for preaching and vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Author : Stephen R. Williams
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449794941

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Samson—The Modern-Day America by Stephen R. Williams Pdf

Power is the point of envy of those who are weak and the pride of those who are not. Although power can hold command over the lives of others, it can very much lead to the destruction of the one controlling it. Author Stephen R. Williams discusses the pitfalls of abused power without repentance and guidance in his latest book, SamsonThe Modern-Day America. Most people are familiar with the story of Samson, the only man to hold incredible strength in the Bible. He was born to dedicate a life of service to the Lord, ordained by God to be a Nazarite, and destined to judge and rule the Philistines. A similar plot leads us to the powerful country of America, which was once a nation of people seeking for a place of worship and service to God. Through time, both Samson and America acquired power that any entity could ever want. However, a common weakness leads them both to destruction. Discover the cause of a great mans fall and its shocking similarity to the struggle of a powerful country. Backed with biblical Scriptures, SamsonThe Modern-Day America is a book that holds nothing but the key to a struggling countrys redemption.

Author : Joanne J. Jung
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830859122

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Knowing Grace by Joanne J. Jung Pdf

Why is it that our spiritual disciplines feel so dutiful and routine most of the time? We are called to delight in Him, to draw near and enjoy Him and yet that seems far from most of our realities. There are many fine written works describing the need, purpose, and methods of spiritual disciplines. Knowing Grace complements these by fostering and deepening the reader's engagement with God through various means of grace. By using this terminology, "means of grace" a rightful emphasis is placed on God's initiation, invitation, and empowering to engage with Him in ways that foster a greater sensitivity to His movements, stirrings, nudges and voice. By growing more familiar with being in His presence, one experiences more of His grace, moving us from duty to delight.

Author : Stormie Omartian
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781404110465

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Praying God's Will for Your Life by Stormie Omartian Pdf

Now with bonus journaling space! A twenty-day prayerful walk to spiritual well-being from the author of the bestsellers The Power of a Praying Wife and The Power of a Praying Parent. Praying God’s Will for Your Life is not a book about finding the right person to marry or deciding on a career. It is a book about a way of life and a heart attitude that are God’s will for everyone who knows Him. That way of life encompasses three important components: An intimate relationship with God A solid foundation in God’s truth A commitment to obedience As she has in previous bestselling books—The Power of a Praying Wife and The Power of a Praying Parent—Stormie invites you to discover the power of prayer, this time encouraging you to pray for yourself as you deepen your walk with God. Accept her challenge to pray for yourself in these areas every day for twenty days, and watch how God changes your life as you move into the center of His will. As you experience the power of God's will in your daily faith journey, take advantage of the bonus Prayer Journal, which offers Stormie's own words of encouragement and plenty of space for reflection and listing prayer requests and answered prayers.