A Plea for Mercy


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At the heart of this book is an attempt to bring to bare that every day we live is an act of Gods mercy. Scripture informs us that we have all sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God (Romans 3:23). In our effort to right the wrong and live a righteous life pleasing to God, the scripture reminds us that all our righteousness are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). We deserve judgement and the inevitable wages of sin, death. Author Michael Odame-Boahene goes ahead to explain how Gods mercy makes Him withhold judgement to grant pardon, making Gods mercy the very source of His peoples life. A Plea for Mercy is not a manifesto to endorse the perpetuation of evil but a campaign to garner votes for Gods desire for mercy. God takes delight in the survival of His people and desires to show us that mercy that we need to survive. Gods desire for mercy stands as an affirmation of His commitment to make provision and protection for you, deliver, proclaim liberty, open doors, heal, work miracles for you etc. In effect, it is a blessed assurance not just to make you survive, but also to thrive in this adulterous and sinful generation. A Plea for Mercy comes as an emergency responsive action tool to accept Gods invitation to His buffer system blueprint as a sure way of living above the line of mediocrity to surviving as Gods choicest instrument of excellence to restore His Glory.




When Should Law Forgive?


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“Martha Minow is a voice of moral clarity: a lawyer arguing for forgiveness, a scholar arguing for evidence, a person arguing for compassion.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths In an age increasingly defined by accusation and resentment, Martha Minow makes an eloquent, deeply-researched argument in favor of strengthening the role of forgiveness in the administration of law. Through three case studies, Minow addresses such foundational issues as: Who has the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what terms? The result is as lucid as it is compassionate: A compelling study of the mechanisms of justice by one of this country’s foremost legal experts.




FonTomFrom


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Includes articles, annotated filmography, interviews, creative writing, and book reviews.




How Great Is His Mercy


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Eric Steele is a promising lawyer with a bright political future, who sets up practice in the beautiful city of Nettys, Mississippi, soon after graduating from law school. He marries Alice Hanover, a beautiful Southern belle and eventually the family includes two boys and a girl, and proud Eric furnishes them with all the amenities a successful career provides. He has no reason to think that anything will ever affect their idyllic lifestyle. The story unfolds during a courtroom drama as Eric's life flashes back and forth in his heart and mind. He was in the courtroom not as an attorney for a client, but as a defendant who compromised his integrity in order to protect his family from losing the lifestyle that was the envy of many. It is the story of the fall from grace of a Christian man brought about by his own pride. It is also the story of a Christian woman coming to terms with the real foundation and construct of marriage. Things had gone well for Eric until the economy went into reverse. With a little creative financing he was able to hang on for a while. Fearing he was losing control, he went against every moral instinct he ever possessed. Eric unwittingly sets into motion twin conspiracies that will have dire consequences on his marriage, his family and ultimately his future. His faith is tested as it has never been tested before. The rich texture of Scripture appears throughout the tapestry of this story. The fall of Jericho, the parable of the rich farmer and the treachery of Jacob and Esau are all brought into modern day relevance. The question is whether the beauty, power and peace of trusting in the Lord will be enough to lead Eric and Alice through a wilderness of hopelessness and despair and into wholeness again




A Mother's Plea


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"This is the ... personal story of a priest in a Chicago parish coming to terms with what the priesthood demands of a man in a great modern city."--Page [3].




A Time for Mercy


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that The New York Times says is "riveting" and "suspenseful." Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line. In what may be the most personal and accomplished legal thriller of John Grisham’s storied career, we deepen our acquaintance with the iconic Southern town of Clanton and the vivid cast of characters that so many readers know and cherish. The result is a richly rewarding novel that is both timely and timeless, full of wit, drama, and—most of all—heart. Bursting with all the courthouse scheming, small-town intrigue, and stunning plot twists that have become the hallmarks of the master of the legal thriller, A Time for Mercy is John Grisham’s most powerful courtroom drama yet. There is a time to kill and a time for justice. Now comes A Time for Mercy. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!




A Plea for the Animals


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Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain as intensely as any of us humans do. In a compelling appeal to reason and human kindness, Matthieu Ricard here takes the arguments from his best-sellers Altruism and Happiness to their logical conclusion: that compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation and the direction toward which any enlightened society must aspire. He chronicles the appalling sufferings of the animals we eat, wear, and use for adornment or "entertainment," and submits every traditional justification for their exploitation to scientific evidence and moral scrutiny. What arises is an unambiguous and powerful ethical imperative for treating all of the animals with whom we share this planet with respect and compassion.




Clarence Darrow


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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age and the progressive era, Clarence Darrow became America’s greatest defense attorney, successfully championing poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts, against big business, fundamentalist religion, Jim Crow, and the US government. His courtroom style—a mixture of passion, improvisation, charm, and tactical genius—won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. In Farrell’s hands, Darrow is a Byronic figure, a renegade whose commitment to liberty led him to heroic courtroom battles and legal trickery alike.




Dominion


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"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." --Genesis 1:24-26 In this crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion. Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong. In Dominion, we witness the annual convention of Safari Club International, an organization whose wealthier members will pay up to $20,000 to hunt an elephant, a lion or another animal, either abroad or in American "safari ranches," where the animals are fenced in pens. We attend the annual International Whaling Commission conference, where the skewed politics of the whaling industry come to light, and the focus is on developing more lethal, but not more merciful, methods of harvesting "living marine resources." And we visit a gargantuan American "factory farm," where animals are treated as mere product and raised in conditions of mass confinement, bred for passivity and bulk, inseminated and fed with machines, kept in tightly confined stalls for the entirety of their lives, and slaughtered in a way that maximizes profits and minimizes decency. Throughout Dominion, Scully counters the hypocritical arguments that attempt to excuse animal abuse: from those who argue that the Bible's message permits mankind to use animals as it pleases, to the hunter's argument that through hunting animal populations are controlled, to the popular and "scientifically proven" notions that animals cannot feel pain, experience no emotions, and are not conscious of their own lives. The result is eye opening, painful and infuriating, insightful and rewarding. Dominion is a plea for human benevolence and mercy, a scathing attack on those who would dismiss animal activists as mere sentimentalists, and a demand for reform from the government down to the individual. Matthew Scully has created a groundbreaking work, a book of lasting power and importance for all of us.




The Merchant of Venice


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