I Refuse To Be...

I Refuse To Be...
Author: Rev. Lacy Green Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781098015183

Our walk with God is a never-ending journey with obstacles, pitfalls, mountains to be moved, walls to be engaged, ups, downs, turnarounds, and many other things that if we walk blindly we may run into troubles, problems, and hardships, which are the schools of hard knocks. I Refuse To Be... is a book of incidents happening in the life of Lacy Green Jr. while growing up in a country town in the South during his early life. Based on true events and experiences with God as well as with people. Life is mixed with a lot of flavors that are the seasonings for God's word. If we seek him, we become truth seekers, for God is not the author of confusion. So taste and see that the Lord is good; nothing missing or lacking. I Refuse To Be... is a humorous, exciting, and dramatic adventure of how the spirit of God worked in the choices that were made in Lacy's life, good and bad, bringing truth to Romans 8:28: "And we know that all thing work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose." You'll find all you need at his table. A real quick moving inspirational work of core belief, family interactions, and personal adventures. Guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, question, and think because real life with God takes place outside of the box that society has placed him in, and when we come to the knowledge that he is greater, you will refuse to be anything less than the best God has ordained in your destiny. God is in you. Don't be placed in a bondage to what or who people say you are. Listen to God and allow him to make a masterpiece out of you.

I Refuse to Condemn

I Refuse to Condemn
Author: Asim Qureshi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526151464

In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more complex stories behind the headlines. But when they raise questions about the government, military and police policy, these individuals are routinely shut down and accused of being terrorist sympathisers or apologists for gang culture. In such environments, there is immense pressure to condemn what society at large fears. This collection explains how the expectation to condemn has emerged, tracking it against the normalisation of racism, and explores how writers manage to subvert expectations as part of their commitment to anti-racism.

I Refuse

I Refuse
Author: Per Petterson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-10-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448181127

From the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses I refuse to compromise. I refuse to forgive. I refuse to forget. Tommy’s mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship. A TLS and Guardian Book of the Year

I Refuse To Be...

I Refuse To Be...
Author: Rev. Lacy Green
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1098015193

Our walk with God is a never-ending journey with obstacles, pitfalls, mountains to be moved, walls to be engaged, ups, downs, turnarounds, and many other things that if we walk blindly we may run into troubles, problems, and hardships, which are the schools of hard knocks. I Refuse To Be... is a book of incidents happening in the life of Lacy Green Jr. while growing up in a country town in the South during his early life. Based on true events and experiences with God as well as with people. Life is mixed with a lot of flavors that are the seasonings for God's word. If we seek him, we become truth seekers, for God is not the author of confusion. So taste and see that the Lord is good; nothing missing or lacking. I Refuse To Be... is a humorous, exciting, and dramatic adventure of how the spirit of God worked in the choices that were made in Lacy's life, good and bad, bringing truth to Romans 8:28: "And we know that all thing work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose." You'll find all you need at his table. A real quick moving inspirational work of core belief, family interactions, and personal adventures. Guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, question, and think because real life with God takes place outside of the box that society has placed him in, and when we come to the knowledge that he is greater, you will refuse to be anything less than the best God has ordained in your destiny. God is in you. Don't be placed in a bondage to what or who people say you are. Listen to God and allow him to make a masterpiece out of you.

Refuse

Refuse
Author: Julian Randall
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2018-08-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0822986175

Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound but the salve, Refuse is a poetry debut that accepts that every song must end before walking confidently into the next music.

I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church

I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church
Author: Paul Nixon
Publisher: The Pilgrim Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0829801057

The COVID-19 pandemic renewed speculation of the Church's demise, and the wake of global catastrophe heightened clergy burnout. Still, Paul Nixon holds onto fierce hope that life and resurrection are choices the Church and its leaders can still make. With new material for the post-quarantine era and an and an included discussion guide, the second edition of I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church! provides excellent stimulation for faith leaders to commit to six critical choices: choosing life over death; choosing community over isolation; choosing fun over drudgery; choosing bold over mild; choosing frontier over fortress; and choosing now rather than later.

WE HEREBY REFUSE

WE HEREBY REFUSE
Author: Frank Abe
Publisher: Chin Music Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2021-07-16
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1634050312

Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.

Refuse to Choose!

Refuse to Choose!
Author: Barbara Sher
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007-03-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1594866260

Identifies seven personality types that share a common quality of having numerous unrelated interests, explaining how to prioritize and pursue multiple goals simultaneously in order to enjoy a successful and varied life.

I Refuse to Kill

I Refuse to Kill
Author: Francesco Da Vinci
Publisher: Sunbury Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-08-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781620069646

At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector to the Vietnam war. While his CO case is on appeal, Da Vinci forms a peace group in San Diego that becomes a national movement and reaches the halls of Congress with the help of Senator George McGovern.

If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk

If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk
Author: John Pavlovitz
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1646982134

Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible. Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people of faith, morality, and conscience actually aspired to this mantra. What if we were fully burdened to create a world that was more loving and equitable than when we arrived? What if we invited one another to share in wide-open, fearless, spiritual communities truly marked by compassion and interdependence? What if we daily challenged ourselves to live a faith that simply made us better humans? John Pavlovitz explores how we can embody this kinder kind of spirituality where we humbly examine our belief system to understand how it might compel us to act in less-than-loving ways toward others. This simple phrase, "Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible," could help us practice what we preach by creating a world where: spiritual community provides a sense of belonging where all people are received as we are; the most important question we ask of a religious belief is not Is it true? but rather, is it helpful? it is morally impossible to pledge complete allegiance to both Jesus and America simultaneously; the way we treat others is the most tangible and meaningful expression of our belief system. In If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk, John Pavlovitz examines the bedrock ideas of our religion: the existence of hell, the utility of prayer, the way we treat LGBTQ people, the value of anger, and other doctrines to help all of us take a good, honest look at how the beliefs we hold can shape our relationships with God and our fellow humans—and to make sure that love has the last, loudest word.