Mostrando resultados por título "Of Gods and Men" en Biografías y Memorias

Dr. Philip Eyster has been in Christian ministry since 1976. He made his first international trip in 1981, and since then, has ministered in over 40 countries around the world. In addition to bringing humanitarian aid and disaster relief to many places around the globe, he has brought the gospel to jungle villages, desert tribes, schools, factories, hospitals, AIDS clinics, leper colonies, open-air markets, and countless transportation hubs.

What does it mean when God is presented as male? What does it mean when - from our internal assumptions to our shared cultural imaginings - God is presented as white? These are the urgent questions Chine McDonald asks in a searing look at her experience of being a Black woman in the white-majority space that is the UK church - a church that is being abandoned by Black women no longer able to grin and bear its casual racism, colonialist narratives and lack of urgency on issues of racial justice.

What we all want is to increase our faith and strengthen our ability to hear and obey God. This Ordinary Man’s testimony and stories will help you. It’s a quick easy listen. You will enjoy the stories of adventure, answered prayers, miracles, and hearing the voice of God. You will laugh, and you will cry. It’s a book you will want to share with your friends. Buy it now, you will be glad you did.

In A Flawed Man’s Plans in God’s Hands, Dr. Harry Hobbs and his wife, Erica, demonstrate that God is real and available to help you overcome obstacles and be all you can be! They share stories from their childhoods, how they met and fell in love, life in the United States Army, and their challenges in raising children as they confronted racism and prejudice, found their faith in Christ, succeeded in corporate America, and overcame their human weaknesses and failures.

Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Iran on February 25, 1894, was a beloved Indian spiritual master who asserted he was the Avatar, or God in human form. When he was just 19, he contacted five spiritual teachers before beginning his mission and gathering his own disciples in early 1922, at the age of just 27. From July 1925 to the end of his life, Baba maintained silence, communicating by means of an alphabet board or unique hand gestures.

We're made to look passive, dissociated, and defeated. If we're not pot-bellied beer drinkers or egoistic morons, no one wants to watch the broadcast. What happened to John Wayne, Matt Dillon, and G.I. Joe? Men who knew their strengths, understood their roles, believed in hard-nosed Christian values. Well, they're not dead; in fact, they're alive and well buried inside each one of us, waiting to emerge like the heroes they are. All they need is a reminder of what our God-given nature is. It's time for us to go back to the very beginning and dissect exactly who we are as men.

On the February night her husband left, Myrna Smith felt the old demons of abandonment stir her soul. In God and Other Men, she takes us on an earnest but circuitous walk toward enlightenment, from adventures at a Japanese zendo and with Indian saints, to a backwoods medium and a new lover. Eventually she glimpses the holy grail of self-acceptance, but not at all in the way she had expected.

Threshold of Faith is the story of Vern Anderson’s lifelong journey of discovery and blessing. From his family’s farm in Western Minnesota where he was rooted in the hardworking values of his immigrant Scandinavian heritage, Vern’s journey took him to the high-stakes world of American business. Along the way, Vern learned he could not confine God to traditional Sunday-morning religion. As Vern poured himself into the company he helped start, he came to see God at work daily.

Why Me? is filled with experiences from successful businessman Mike Mountz's life when he felt the presence of God. These Godly experiences, as Mike calls them, helped him to strengthen his faith, make changes in his life, and act when otherwise he might have been paralyzed by uncertainty. Mike describes how God guided him so that he gained the courage, strength, wisdom, and ability to make difficult decisions. The book also shares a critical lesson Mike learned - the importance of following your spiritual compass.

Many of us want to see Jesus, to hear his voice. We want a tangible experience of God. As a Christian doctor and follower of Jesus, Ernest Crocker has been a witness to many interventions of God during his life. In The Man in White, he brings together an inspiring selection of testimonies from around the world of people who have seen God do extraordinary things in and through their lives. They include professionals, academics, a train robber, a surgeon facing decapitation for his faith, and those who have escaped the ravages of war.

Being a man of Faith in this actual generation and culture.

From incarceration, to a devastating tornado, and to a tragic mass shooting, author Dion Green narrates the story of his life and the challenges he faced. Beginning with his youth and growing up in Springfield, Ohio, he shares his memories and recaps the significant and life-changing events he experienced. This memoir, Untitled, chronicles how Green and his family faced adversity, how he learned to forgive, and how he kept his faith while living through defeat after defeat.

The gun was never supposed to go off. When a drug dealer assured twenty-nine-year-old Ron Hammer and his brother-in-law that they could make some quick easy money, they were intrigued. He promised them that when a local grocer delivered a bag of money to his store to cash Friday paychecks, they only needed to show him a gun and he’d hand over the bag. But high on meth and dulled by liquor, they ended up in a scuffle with their target, and the gun accidentally fired. And when Phillip Robinson rushed from the shelves he’d been stocking to investigate the commotion at the front of the ...

How God delivered one man from demonic depression, epilepsy, and death.

Written and narrated by his longtime friend and collaborator, Sripad Jagannatha Das (Geoffrey Giuliano), this biography provides an in-depth look at Max's journey from a young artist in Nazi Germany to becoming a prominent figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s and beyond. Das's firsthand knowledge and personal anecdotes make this audiobook a must-listen for fans of Peter Max and anyone interested in the art world of the 20th century.

Una visione cosmogonica della follia attraverso una serie di biografie magnifiche e terribili, solari e allucinate di dèi, eroi, tiranni, filosofi, uomini, arricchite da emozionanti ed evocativi brani musicali. Le biografie del secondo volume: Perillo e Falaride, Eraclito, Erostrato, Democrito, Diogene di Sinope, Archimede.

Una visione cosmogonica della follia attraverso una serie di biografie magnifiche e terribili, solari e allucinate di dèi, eroi, tiranni, filosofi, uomini, arricchite da emozionanti ed evocativi brani musicali. Le biografie del primo volume: Dioniso, Orfeo, Eracle, Era, Soma, Aiace, Icaro."Il mito riporta questa catena di azioni: dalla solitudine il desiderio, dal desiderio l'attaccamento, dall'attaccamento l'amore, dall'amore la gelosia, dalla gelosia l'odio, dall'odio la follia, dalla follia la poesia, dalla poesia la conoscenza."