Hell on Church Street

Hell on Church Street
Author: Jake Hinkson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9788283550221

A noir you'd think was written by James M. Cain. Geoffrey Webb--once a con man, always a con man--has talked himself into a cushy job as a youth minster in a small Baptist church in Arkansas. Unfortunately for him he shows the preacher's underage daughter a little too much attention, and when their relationship is discovered by the corrupt local sheriff, Webb's easy life begins to fall apart.

Hell on Church Street

Hell on Church Street
Author: Bill Sizemore
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781498499477

Powerful, heart-pounding, and all true! Chuckie Dudrey is nearly beaten to death at age seven. After he gets out of the hospital, his mother is shot to death in her own kitchen while her children are sleeping. With their mother no longer there to protect them, Chuckie and his brothers and sisters endure years of horrific, sometimes unspeakable abuse, suffering things so awful that a polygraph test is administered to reveal the truth; then the court record is ordered sealed! When police and social workers finally intervene, the stench and squalor is so overpowering that officials gag when they enter the house where the Dudrey children are living. After years in prison and on the run from the law, Chuck becomes a Bounty Hunter and Enforcer. Beating up and assaulting people for pay becomes an occupation. He loves the excitement of life in the fast lane, but finds that drugs and easy money can come with a steep price tag. Author Bill Sizemore shares the entire story in the first person. Seeing events through Chuckie's eyes takes you right to the epicenter of the drama. You sense the fear an abused child feels when he is beaten to within an inch of his life. You feel his confusion and panic when the brain injuries brought on by his dad's abuse result in uncontrollable grand mal seizures. You feel the hopelessness and despair a career criminal feels when the police finally catch up with him and prison doors slam shut behind him. You get an inside look at prison life through the eyes of a real convict. But you also hope with Chuck when he makes two decisions so big that they change his life forever! Hell on Church Street is a powerful, compelling story, and one book you will never forget.

Hell on Church Street

Hell on Church Street
Author: Charles Dudrey
Publisher: Holy Fire Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2011-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781603833622

From an early age Charles suffered horrific abuse. One night at age seven his father slammed his head into a wall repeatedly, almost killing him. Months later his mother was murdered in the family home, and the babysitter became Charles step mother. The beatings and neglect continued at the hand of the stepmother, until one night Charles made a decision that would change the course of his life. The chance he had dreamt of for years, no one would ever know, now was the time, Kill her! Year's later running from the law and assuming another identity he fled to Washington State where he married Diana. Then one evening something happened that changed his life forever. He had an encounter with Jesus!

Hell's Best Kept Secret

Hell's Best Kept Secret
Author: Ray Comfort
Publisher: Whitaker House
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2004-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1603749926

How many souls have you won to Christ? How many are still walking with the Lord? All, some, a few? The facts are: Evangelical success is at an all-time low. We’re producing more backsliders than true converts. The fall-away rate—from large crusades to local churches—is between 80 to 90 percent. Why are so many unbelievers turning away from the message of the gospel? Doesn’t the Bible tell us how to bring sinners to true repentance? If so, where have we missed it? The answer may surprise you. One hundred years ago, Satan buried the crucial key needed to unlock the unbeliever’s heart. Now Ray Comfort boldly breaks away from modern tradition and calls for a return to biblical evangelism. If you’re experiencing evangelical frustration over lost souls, unrepentant sinners, and backslidden “believers,” then look no further. This radical approach could be the missing dimension needed to win our generation to Christ.

The Deepening Shade

The Deepening Shade
Author: Jake Hinkson
Publisher: All Due Respect, an imprint of Down & Out Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

With his debut novel, Hell on Church Street, Jake Hinkson became known for combining religious fundamentalism with dark crime fiction. In his first story collection, The Deepening Shade, desperate characters grasp for moments of grace: A lesbian couple running a homeless shelter try to save a young woman controlled by a self-proclaimed prophet. A stripper commits a terrible crime to protect her sister from going to jail. A Pentecostal snake-handler avenges his daughter’s murder only to find himself tormented by his own unbelief. An alcoholic cop, drunk on duty, attempts to stop Dick Cheney from robbing a gas station. In these stories and more, which range from the heartbreakingly tragic to the bizarrely funny, characters struggle violently with each other, and with themselves. “Jake Hinkson is the kind of storyteller who picks the reader up by the ankles and shakes their heart out through their throat. The Deepening Shade is the best short story collection I’ve read in years.” —Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike and Cry Father “Collectively, these stories are a feat of black magic conjured by a master wordsmith and storyteller intimate with both the dark side and the resiliency of humanity.” —Eric Rickstad, author of Reap and The Silent Girls

23 Minutes in Hell

23 Minutes in Hell
Author: Bill Wiese
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1629994480

New York Times Best Seller and Over 1 million copies sold! Over 750 5-Star reviews Wiese’s visit to the devil’s lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but he returned with vivid details etched in his memory, capturing the attention of national media, including the Christian Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Miracle Channel, Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural!, Sean Hannity’s America, Charisma News, and many others. Awaken to the realities of hell, the afterlife and the urgency to live for Christ in your short time here on earth.. Bill Wiese experienced something so horrifying it continues to captivate the world. He saw the searing flames of hell, felt total isolation, smelled the putrid and rotting stench, heard deafening screams of agony, and experienced terrorizing demons. Finally the strong hand of God lifted him out of the pit. This expanded anniversary edition includes more than 150 Bible verses referencing hell for further study. Also included is the new section, “Wrestling With the Big Questions” where Bill answers these and many others questions: Why do some people who have a near-death experience see a bright light? Will those who never heard about Jesus go to hell? Is hell eternal, or are those in hell simply annihilated?

Meet James Rogers

Meet James Rogers
Author: Robert Roosa
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2000-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595005500

James Rogers lived in a small Midwest Village attending grade school and high school during the depression years. Turning eighteen before he finishes High School, he was drafted to serve in WWII. After serving two years in the Pacific and then eight months in the Army as a occupation, James returns homes and enters college on the GI Bill. These are very endearing times this writer has experienced and will share with others who may have known a "James Rogers"

Asunder

Asunder
Author: Robert Lopez
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459612744

The unforgettable stories in Robert Lopez's Asunder vary in length and style, but all of them devastate, all constantly cross the boundaries between poetry and prose. Here we have characters who are uncertain of themselves, of the people surrounding them. Here people are in trouble and need help. The compressed lyricism of these stories seems driven by the silence of what is not said, what lies beneath the lines and between them. As in his novels Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, this elliptical tension of the language gives way to moments of grace and savage humor, leaving the reader startled, as though the world were a complete surprise.

Hell's Gate

Hell's Gate
Author: Don Guthrie
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-02-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1479785199

Pastor Moses Samuels, a former drug addict turned minister of the gospel, is called by God to Henrick, Texas, a town hes never heard of. In obedience, he makes the move and discovers a town overrun with Satan worshippers. Ninety percent of the population is involved in the satanic cult. His job is to lead the people of Henrick out of their bondage to Satan. In the process of doing so, he is arrested and beaten and faces death when the cult makes preparations to offer him as a sacrifice to Satan. Hells Gate is a book about demons, angels, and the power of Almighty God. It shows how God can work in and through us to accomplish great things if we are willing to obey and follow him. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)

Love Wins

Love Wins
Author: Rob Bell
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 006204964X

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them? What if it is God who wants us to face these questions? Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined. Love wins.