My Personal Journey With Jesus Revealed Through Poetry


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"My Personal Journey With Jesus Revealed Through Poetry" includes my personal testimony along with poems I have written since 1999. My personal testimony is about how Jesus walked with me and carried me through the trials and tribulations of the past seventeen years. This includes my salvation experience, my personal encounters with Satan, my time spent in mental hospitals, two times when I could have died, the loss of family and friends, and also how God provided me with a new Christian family and friends who are helping me rebuild my life and showing me how to minister to others. The three sections of poems include personal journey poems, praise and worship poems, and poems about the end times. The reason I am telling my story and being so open and honest is because I want you to know that Jesus is real and that He will save you and walk with you for eternity if you only open up your heart to Him. My name is Brian Whitacre. I was born in 1973. As a child I enjoyed school and played sports, however I didn't know Jesus. My spiritual journey started in 1993. At the age of twenty I began attending a Pentecostal Church where I was drawn to Jesus by the power of love. On April 24, 1994, I got saved as God spoke these words to me "are you willing to give up your secular music for me?" I said yes and God also delivered me from my bad temper and cursing. However, right after I got saved, I came face to face with Satan. This encounter changed the course of my life forever. Because of this encounter I ended up in a maximum security mental hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Since 1994 I have spent many long hours in mental hospitals where Jesus proved He would never leave me.




Breathing Eden


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Engaging in conversation with God is life changing. When we pursue Him and expect Him to answer back, we are never, not ever, the same. Do you desire more of God? Are you intrigued by Him? Do you want to run deeper into His arms and receive His light, fresh air, and new things? This book is for the joy-hungry and hope-thirsty. For women who want to be challenged and inspired, encouraged and energized. In Breathing Eden, Jennifer J. Camp shares the extraordinary conversations between forty women and God and then guides readers into experiencing God's voice for themselves. Each conversation is followed by practical tools that help us hear God's voice in our lives right now.




Weight of Glory


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Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity.




Poems from the Heart, Conversations with God


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Poems from the Heart, Conversations with God is one man's walk with a loving God that began on January 6, 1987 and continues to this day. Poems from the Heart, Conversations with God not only contains God's wonderful love in words, but also His love for us as shown through incredible images. Now all can say that they have seen God and the door to His kingdom with their own blessed eyes. We all have a path in life that God has given us; may Poems from the Heart, Conversations with God be an inspiration during your own personal journey. Jim DeStefano lives in Monroe Township, NJ, with his wife. He is currently a Christian counselor with a Masters in Social Work. Please contact Jim at Poemsfromtheheartbook.com. You may also order books through this website. For more information, email: [email protected].




Poetic Rhyme Divine


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MY BOOK IS BASED ON HOPE & THE INVITATION THE INVITATION...COME TO CHRIST (Rev.3:20,21) HOPE... COME AS YOU ARE; BROKEN BUT NOT FORSAKEN Each poem you are about to read reveal struggles I dealt with throughout my journey, but what visions of Glory I was shown in between the stepping stones of life as my mind continued to be renewed. (Eph. 4:23, 24). We become a New Creature in Christ but we make many mistakes along the way. Do not be discouraged. We are all imperfect in the fl esh, but look to His Holy Spirit to guide you to a higher place in your spirit, where you will begin to see a New You! Once youre Born Again in Christ you become Born of His Spirit. (John 3:3) Through His Amazing Grace, your sins are covered by His blood He shed for All Mankind. (John 3:16-18) Jesus Loves You! YOU ARE NOT ALONE YOU ARE FORGIVEN; YOU ARE SET FREE




The Christian Literary Imagination


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What is the Christian literary imagination? That question was put to the writers who have contributed to this collection of essays. They were asked, in answering it, to choose and write about a work of literature that seemed to them to illustrate one of the varied ways in which the Christian imagination sees the world, to define by example the meaning of the term. A variety of beliefs (or indeed unbeliefs) are expressed by the contributors and authors they selected to discuss. But what the essays have in common is an inquiry into the nature of belief and the means by which the reader’s imagination can itself be stirred through the work of the author under discussion. The book is structured chronologically, with essays on literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon England to 21st-Century America, but the contributors show a freedom of movement and reference across the centuries in their essays, sometimes deliberately juxtaposing the historical with the contemporary. What emerges from the collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God’s engagement with the world.




Tranquility Teetering on Tears


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Tranquility Teetering on Tears is an insightful observation of a nontraditional society and written by a nontraditional student formed and scripted in a traditional Lutheran University that is currently presided over by a Roman Catholic. The poems are interesting to be sure and question the Christian communities worldwide. This questioning was not the intention of the poet gpb but means of therapy in a world being turned upside down by children of an unknown God. Upsetting at times, yet true to form, in a world population at war rather than love. Just poems, yes, fulfilling the poet's call to discover and teach the meaning of faith, hope, and love.




After Prayer


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This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions. Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.




Why I Love the Apostle Paul


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"Besides Jesus, no one has kept me from despair, or taken me deeper into the mysteries of the gospel, than the apostle Paul." —John Piper No one has had a greater impact on the world for eternal good than the apostle Paul—except Jesus himself. For John Piper, this impact is very personal. He does not just admire and trust Paul. He loves him. Piper gives us thirty glimpses into why his heart and mind respond this way. Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man's description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? If we know this man—if we see what Piper sees—we too will love him. Paul's testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.




The Bittersweet Journey


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The journey from darkness to light has many different meanings for individuals. This book documents poetic sketches of feelings of myself from a very young age and portrays the human journey of finding light, truth, and peace through Jesus Christ. Although you may not have the same beliefs, Jesus Christ Himself is not a religion. He offers miracles and peace beyond imagination. This book is not intended to be an invitation to religion but rather a view of how the darkest of lives can be transformed into happiness and tranquility through Jesus. The transformation from darkness to light is obvious throughout the struggle described, and every poem has a scripture from the Holy Bible that provides insight and answers. If you read this book, you will see the transformation from deep despair to walking in the light of Christ.