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Book Synopsis Escape From Religiosity by : C. S. Johnson
Download or read book Escape From Religiosity written by C. S. Johnson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the Midwest, being born into a large family and having a nomadic father, caused my life to be one of great adventures. My father was a preacher and a jack of all trades. He was an inventor and entrepreneur. He could not look at an empty building without wanting to start a church or a business in it. Life with him was an education, and growing up as the youngest of twelve children set the stage for lots of fun and experiences. Although I did not set out to write a life story, I suppose this is kind of what it is. It seems I have spent most of my adult life trying to get free from the hypocrisy and man-made rules of organized religion and denominations. I consider myself predenominational. I endeavor to base my beliefs and my life on the teachings of Jesus and the early church. It has been a great struggle to Escape from Religiosity.
Download or read book Escape from God written by Dean Turner and published by Hope Publishing House. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical study on the high price of life, love & happiness which probes the significance of pain & suffering. By looking at the complex, demanding & compassionate Christianity that Jesus lived & died for, this text examines why the human experience inevitability encompasses both joy & suffering, disappointment & success, heartbreak & achievement. It details how philosophy, theology & psychology have been twisted & subverted to draw believers away from, instead of closer to, God.
Book Synopsis Escape from Paganism by : Larry Ball
Download or read book Escape from Paganism written by Larry Ball and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Catholicism is Pagan? What is Paganism anyway? Paganism is man generated religion. "True" religion is God generated. In this book, Romish teachings are compared with scripture. Romish Sacriments, in fact do away with God.
Book Synopsis How to Escape Religion Guilt Free by : Scott R. Stahlecker
Download or read book How to Escape Religion Guilt Free written by Scott R. Stahlecker and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How to Escape Religion Guilt Free" is an insightful guide that examines the relevancy of religion and, specifically, the Christian faith. Why would a person need this guide? Because the unfortunate reality is that many individuals find themselves involved with religions that they no longer support, yet they are fearful to leave. Do you follow a religion whose teachings you no longer believe in? Are you compelled by fear and insecurity over the prospect of leaving your religion? Do you feel guilty or worthless because you do not measure up to the expectations of your religion? "How to Escape Religion Guilt Free" will help you through the process of leaving your religion and will empower you with the desire and courage to continue your spiritual quest. It takes a frank, hard look at the psychological tools that religions use to keep disciples bound to the faith, and it outlines the steps a person will need to go through to retake control of their life.
Download or read book Worldly written by Jason Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced and provocative story told in a humorous voice. Jason is raised in a deeply religious town in Amish country, Pennsylvania. At a young age he finds he is different than the other children at public school and he is to be no part of their world. Despite being isolated from possible friendships he finds himself in precarious situations as he is sent to preach to those same people's doorsteps. As he struggles to come of age under the veil of a enormously strict cult, curiosity pulls him farther away from blind faith in the Jehovah's Witness religion called "The Truth" which creates a turmoil that sends him running away from home before adulthood. Jason loses his family but gains new friends in the forbidden world, along with experiences that lead him across several United States to experience drugs, sex and punk rock. A lifetime of experience in thirty years, this journey will teach a lesson fit for modern times of how truly damaging religion can be... and theorize what it all means.
Download or read book Onward written by Russell Moore and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today "Beautiful Orthodoxy" Book of the Year in 2016. Keep Christianity Strange. As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that we are a Moral Majority. That may be bad news for America, but it can be good news for the church. What's needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place. We seek the kingdom of God, before everything else. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonize opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let's do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down. The signs of the times tell us we are in for days our parents and grandparents never knew. But that's no call for panic or surrender or outrage. Jesus is alive. Let's act like it. Let's follow him, onward to the future.
Download or read book Escape to God written by Jim Hohnberger and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of authentic Christianity, author Jim Hohnberger and his family found the restorative power of God's love. As a result, the Hohnbergers have helped others remove life's draining distractions, and countless lives have been transformed. In Escape to God, readers will be challenged and inspired to put aside the card-punching religion of "Churchianity" and experience the indescribable peace and empowerment God intends for His people.
Download or read book Empty the Pews written by Chrissy Stroop and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daughter of Gloriavale by : Lilia Tarawa
Download or read book Daughter of Gloriavale written by Lilia Tarawa and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned Gloriavale's beliefs and practices. When her parents fled with their children, Lilia was forced to make a desperate choice: to stay or to leave. No matter what she chose, she would lose people she loved. In the outside world, Lilia struggled. Would she be damned to hell for leaving? How would she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And would she ever find out the truth about the criminal convictions against her grandfather? 'A powerful and revealing book...' Kirsty Wynn, New Zealand Herald 'An affecting parable and testament, in the most commendably secular senses.' David Hill, New Zealand Listener
Book Synopsis Losing the Way by : Kristen Skedgell
Download or read book Losing the Way written by Kristen Skedgell and published by Bay Tree Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and finely crafted true story, Losing the Way recounts how the daughter of East Coast intellectuals was recruited into a well-known rightwing Bible cult, The Way International, where she was manipulated, betrayed, and abused, before being rescued by the worldly mother she rejected. Skedgell shows how easily an idealistic young person can be swept away by a spiritual quest and the quiet malevolence lurking beneath the religious exterior of a false leader.
Book Synopsis Escaping from Fundamentalism by : James Barr
Download or read book Escaping from Fundamentalism written by James Barr and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pastoral rather than a controversial book. Its main aim is not to show fundamentalists that they are wrong, but rather to help those who have grown up in the world of fundamentalism or have become committed to it but in the end have come to feel that it is a prison from which they must escape.
Book Synopsis Escape from Codependent Christianity by : James B. Richard
Download or read book Escape from Codependent Christianity written by James B. Richard and published by Treasure House. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christians are painfully codependent, and never get free. A codependent lifestyle is a miserable, fearful life. From never feeling secure, to the need to always be in control, the extremes of codependency fuel the chaos and pain in our lives. In Escape from Codependent Christianity, Dr. James B. Richards examines this common phenomenon in light of the truth of Scripture. Codependency is not complicated. It involves depending upon others for what we have no right to expect from them. Codependents often fall into the trap of living on other people's approval for their own sense of self-worth. They may depend on others for decisions or happiness. No matter what the needs are, the key to codependency involves trying to get from others what people cannot truly give.
Book Synopsis Escape from Reason by : Francis A. Schaeffer
Download or read book Escape from Reason written by Francis A. Schaeffer and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-12-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth is no longer based on reason. What we feel is now the truest reality. Yet despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness. Tracing trends in twentieth century thought, Francis A. Schaeffer shows that Christianity offers meaning where there is purposelessness and hope where there is despair.
Download or read book Shackles of Faith written by Mark Hosler and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hosler followed Elroy Godfrey, a man thought to be anointed by the Holy Spirit. Surrounded by supposed Christians and reeling from a budding romance, Mark felt certain he had found his Garden of Eden at last. Pastor Elroy Godfrey, The charismatic leader of a religious cult, captivated Mark, and he readily accepted his new spirituality. But after thirteen years of living sequestered from the real world, Mark could not ignore the 'red flags' warning him that evil was lurking in his pastor's heart. Shackles of Faith is the self-written, true-life account of Mark Hosler, a middle-aged man excommunicated from a religious cult for questioning his pastor's ways. Mark's story exposes the tragedy of an innocent man who lost his wife and son, his home, job, and all the dreams he had for his future. Shackles of Faith is a story offering hope to those who may have been, or may currently be, a victim of a cult. It is a story that must be told.
Book Synopsis Slavery of Faith by : Leslie Wagner-Wilson
Download or read book Slavery of Faith written by Leslie Wagner-Wilson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery Of Faith...the quietly kept story of a young woman's escape through the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana the morning of the massacre November 18, 1978 and her struggles to live in the aftermath. November 18, 2008 marks 30 years since the Jonestown, Guyana Massacre/Suicides and the death of its founder, the Reverend Jim Jones. Escaping Jonestown, Guyana the morning of November 18,1978 with nine others, Leslie Wagner-Wilson then twenty one years old, trekked thirty seven miles through the jungle with a 40-pound care package strapped to her back with a sheet, her son, later to be known as the youngest survivor of Jonestown. That evening, she would be told that Jonestown was gone along with her plan to escape and return with her father, Richard Wagner who was a part of the Concerned Relatives to free the rest of her family. Amongst the carnage would be her husband, mother, brother, sister, niece, nephew, sister in law, brother in law and the friends she had grown up and loved since 13. Slavery of Faith reveals the life of a thirteen year old coming of age in the heart of People's Temple Disciples of Christ Church where the pastor Jim Jones, exhorted his followers to consider him divine and to call him "Father" while he touted his extra-marital affairs from the pulpit. The world of Jim Jones was one of inverted ideals, isolation and alienation. However, what began as a church that appealed to peoples inner spirit to help others, was turned into a living hell. Yet it was a place she would go, half a continent away, to be with her 2 year old son, who'd been taken to Jonestown by Jim Jones as he made his exodus to Guyana. It shares the horrors of Jonestown - the labor punishment squads, suicide drills, sleep deprivation, drugging, and humiliations. It also takes the reader through the escape that she says was revealed to her in the spirit. Thirty years since Jonestown, Slavery of Faith also chronicles her return to the U.S. under a veil of secrecy in fear of the "death squads", her fight to maintain her faith in her most darkest hours; suffering survivors guilt, drug addiction, a family suicide, and finally redemption. It shares her journey through psychological and spiritual jungles to reach a place of remembrance-- to "live their love and not their deaths." Faith has allowed her the resiliency to as she states "tuck and roll" and discover that through pain, tragedy and joy, her life has found divine order.
Book Synopsis The Great Escape Manual by : Edward M. Hays
Download or read book The Great Escape Manual written by Edward M. Hays and published by Forest of Peace Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents escape plans that will help you break through the walls of anger, fear, impatience, advancing old age, crowded schedules, and work. Each chapter concludes with reflections and a "how to" section of practical techniques for liberation.
Book Synopsis Religion for Atheists by : Alain De Botton
Download or read book Religion for Atheists written by Alain De Botton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the world’s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world. For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.
