Author : Burrel Lee Wilks
Publisher : Burrel Streetwise Incorporated
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780976873600
The author describes his teenage years as a gang member in Chicago and how he changed his life to become a successful entrepreneur and personal life coach.
Author : Greg Boyle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439153159
How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life. As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio. Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God’s love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s wonderful, hard-earned wisdom. Inspired by faith but applicable to anyone trying to be good, these personal, unflinching stories are full of surprising revelations and observations of the community in which Boyle works and of the many lives he has helped save. Erudite, down-to-earth, and utterly heartening, these essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. With Gregory Boyle’s guidance, we can recognize our own wounds in the broken lives and daunting struggles of the men and women in these parables and learn to find joy in all of the people around us. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.
Author : Samuel Kee
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1434708578
You may not have a single tattoo on your body—or you may have run out of space for new ones. Either way, God offers something far more permanent than ink on skin. In Isaiah 43, God declares eternal promises of His love ... four tattoos for your soul: You Are Mine I Will Be With You I Love You I Created You for My Glory Engraved by the hand of the Master, these soul tattoos will never fade.
Author : Allan Dayhoff, Jr., D.Min.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 138793483X
The souls of men and women have chosen this season in history to speak in a unique and special way. The soul is writing its secrets on the live canvas of the skin with permanent ink... with tattoos. Many see a person covered in tattoos walk by and harbor a snarky and judgmental response, when in fact the tattoos just told a very personal story. The stories of pain, loss, hope, and other sentiments of great importance are revealed on the skin of the wearer. And those without tattoos may very well have missed a loud, yet intimately revealing, message. The first book, God and Tattoos: Why Are People Writing on Themselves? and this new edition, both take a look at the WHY. After 1000 tattoo interviews and several tattoo parlors and conventions across the nation, Dr. Allan Dayhoff shares his research, and his love for his many new tattooed friends.
Author : Michelle Ule
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493406965
Among Christian devotional works, My Utmost for His Highest stands head and shoulders above the rest, with more than 13 million copies sold. But most readers have no idea that Oswald Chambers's most famous work was not published until ten years after his death. The remarkable person behind its compilation and publication was his wife, Biddy. And her story of living her utmost for God's highest is one without parallel. Bestselling novelist Michelle Ule brings Biddy's story to life as she traces her upbringing in Victorian England to her experiences in a WWI YMCA camp in Egypt. Readers will marvel at this young woman's strength as she returns to post-war Britain a destitute widow with a toddler in tow. Refusing personal payment, Biddy proceeds to publish not just My Utmost for His Highest, but also 29 other books with her husband's name on the covers. All the while she raises a child alone, provides hospitality to a never-ending stream of visitors and missionaries, and nearly loses everything in the London Blitz during WWII. The inspiring story of a devoted woman ahead of her times will quickly become a favorite of those who love true stories of overcoming incredible odds, making a life out of nothing, and serving God's kingdom.
Author : Dmin Allan Dayhoff
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781365147890
The souls of men and women have chosen this season in history to speak in a unique and special way. The soul is writing its secrets on the live canvas of the skin with permanent ink... with tattoos. Many see a person covered in tattoos walk by and harbor a snarky and judgmental response, when in fact the tattoos just told a very personal story. The stories of pain, loss, hope, and other sentiments of great importance are revealed on the skin of the wearer. And those without tattoos may very well have missed a loud, yet intimately revealing, message. The bookEGod and Tattoos: Why Are People Writing on Themselves?Etakes a go at the WHY. After 300 tattoo interviews and 12 days in tattoo parlors across the nation, Dr. AL Dayhoff shares his research, and his love for his many new tattooed friends.
Author : Janie Peña Menchaca
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Janie Peña Menchaca is no stranger to homelessness. As a teen, she was forced out of her home and into the hands of unscrupulous characters who falsely promised her love. Entangled in a never-ending cycle of despair and defeat, she invited Jesus Christ into her heart, only to become homeless once again after fleeing an abusive relationship. Although those days were terrifying, she finally began to truly trust Jesus Christ to walk beside her, help her escape her pain, and guide her to seeing her worth and beauty. In a thirty-one day devotional, Menchaca shares scripture, hymns, and meditations that offer comfort and encouragement to those experiencing homelessness and its ever-present companion, hopelessness. Through her spiritual insights, the unhoused will discover how to find a friend in Jesus, heal their broken spirits, and see themselves as God does. My Soul Friend shares thirty-one Christian meditations to comfort and encourage those experiencing homelessness and hopelessness.
Author : Robert Paul
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1644628686
Robert Paul had a best friend... (The boy-girl with the dangling earing), they were truly best friends. They used to live walking distance away and would hang out all the time. But times change as people do and people move as well... geographically. Robert did not see his friend as much as he used to but they stayed in touch. They considered each other brothers. Every time they would meet Robert Paul would have a new story for his "Brother"... One day his "Brother" yelled at him and told him to
Author : David Callahan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030251896
This book presents a collection of academic essays that take a fresh look at content and body transformation in the new media, highlighting how old hierarchies and canons of analysis must be revised. The movement of narratives and characterisations across forms, conventionally understood as adaptation, has commonly involved high-status classical forms (drama, epic, novel) being transformed into recorded and broadcast media (film, radio and television), or from the older recorded media to the newer ones. The advent of convergent digital platforms has further transformed hierarchies, and the formation of global conglomerates has created the commercial conditions for ever more lucrative exchanges between different media. Now source texts can move in any direction and take up any configuration, as emerging interacting fan bases drive innovation and new creative and commercial possibilities are deployed. Moreover, transformation may be not just a technology-driven creative practice and response, but at the very centre of the thematic worlds developed in those forms of story-telling which are currently popular: television series, video games, films and novels. The magic transformation of “your” money into “their” money is paralleled in contemporary media and culture by the centrality of transformation of one product to another as a media industry practice, as well as the transformation of bodies as a major theme both in the ensuing media products and in people’s identity practices in daily life.
Author : Freddy Negrete
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 1609806956
Pioneering black-and-gray tattoo artist Freddy Negrete was twelve years old and confined in the holding cell of a Los Angeles juvenile facility when an older teenager entered—covered in tattoos. Freddy was in awe, not just of the art, but of what it symbolized, and he wanted what this kid had: the potent sense of empowerment and belonging that came from joining a gang. The encounter drove Freddy to join the notorious gang La Sangra, and it didn't take long before he was a regular guest at LA County's juvenile detention facilities. By the age of twenty-one, Freddy had spent almost his whole life as a ward of the state in one form or the other. Enthralled by the black-and-gray tattoo style that in the 1970s was confined to the rebel culture of Chicano gangsters and criminals, Freddy started inking himself with hand-poked tattoos. Everyone wanted a piece of Freddy's black-and-gray style--gangbangers but also Hollywood starlets and film producers. In a riveting narrative that takes the reader from Freddy's days as a cholo gang member to evangelical preacher to Hollywood body art guru to addiction counselor, Smile Now, Cry Later is, ultimately, a testament to that spark within us all, that catalyst which gives us the strength to survive, transform, and transcend all that can destroy us.
