Samson: a Life Well Wasted - Member Book

Samson: a Life Well Wasted - Member Book
Author: Chip Henderson
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781415872390

Chip Henderson offers six ways we can waste our lives if we're not focused on our God-given purpose. Hot-button cultural issues from dishonesty and anger to daddy-issues and sex are discussed.

Chase the Lion

Chase the Lion
Author: Mark Batterson
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601428871

Quit playing it safe and start running toward the roar! Now available for the first time in a convenient paperback edition and featuring a brand new group discussion guide. When the image of a man-eating beast travels through the optic nerve and into the visual cortex, the brain sends the body a simple but urgent message: run away! That’s what normal people do, but not lion chasers. Rather than seeing a five-hundred-pound problem, they see an opportunity for God to show up and show His power. Chase the Lion is more than a catch phrase; it’s a radically different approach to life. It’s only when we stop fearing failure that we can fully seize opportunity by the mane. With grit and gusto, New York Times best-selling author Mark Batterson delivers a bold message to everyone with a big dream. This is a wake-up call to stop living as if the purpose of life was to simply arrive safely at death. Our dreams should scare us. They should be so big that without God they would be impossible to achieve. Quit running away from what you’re afraid of. Chase the lion! Change the world! What is your five-hundred-pound dream? In this highly anticipated sequel to his best-selling In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Mark Batterson invites lion chasers everywhere to chase dreams so impossible that victory demands we face our fears, defy the odds, and hold tight to God. These are the kind of dreams that will make you a bigger person and the world a better place. Based upon 2 Samuel 23, Chase the Lion tells the true story of an ancient warrior named Benaiah who chased a lion into a pit on a snowy day—and then killed it. For most people, that situation wouldn’t just be a problem…it would be the last problem they ever faced. For Benaiah, it was an opportunity to step into his destiny. After defeating the lion, he landed his dream job as King David’s bodyguard and eventually became commander-in-chief of Israel’s army under King Solomon. Written in a way that both challenges and encourages, this revolutionary book will help unleash the faith and courage you need to identify, chase, and catch the five-hundred-pound dreams in your life.

Samson of a Man

Samson of a Man
Author: Kevin McDowell
Publisher: Winepress Pub
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781579218874

If you or someone you can reach out to needs help in relation to drug, alcohol, or sexual addictions, Samson of a Man is a book that offers both warning and hope. The author is a man who struggled for decades with various addictions and has overcome them by God's grace and good counsel. Few writers are as honest and transparent as Kevin McDowell has been in this book.Although the book is autobiographical, the author insists that what he has written is primarily not about himself. It is about God's grace and how far He will go to redeem His children. “This book is not a labor of love; this is an act of obedience,” says McDowell. The book is an encouragement to churches to reach out to those struggling with addictions and help them put these behind them live godly lives. As those in the body of Christ support those who are seeking help, the church becomes the redemptive agency it can and ought to be.

Quaker Summer

Quaker Summer
Author: Lisa Samson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2008-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1418568139

Sometimes you have to go a little bit crazy to discover the life you were meant to live. Heather Curridge is coming unhinged. And people are starting to notice. What's wrong with a woman who has everything--a mansion on a lake, a loving son, a heart-surgeon husband--yet still feels miserable inside? When Heather spends the summer with two ancient Quaker sisters and a crusty nun running a downtown homeless shelter, she finds herself at a crossroads. Life turns upside down for Heather in a Quaker Summer. “One of the most powerful voices in Christian fiction, Samson delivers ...a staggering examination of the Christian conscience.” –Publishers Weekly

Samson and the Pirate Monks

Samson and the Pirate Monks
Author: Nate Larkin
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-02-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418577693

With no-holds-barred honesty and poignant storytelling, Nate Larkin introduces a model of community and friendship that is reinvigorating men's ministry across the country, a model he calls The Samson Society. Too many men see the biblical hero Samson as their model for manhood--a rugged individualist of the highest order. Yet, Samson's solitary successes were eventually overcome by moral weaknesses. Larkin, through the story of his own past and the stories of those in The Samson Society, offers a radical, refreshing alternative.

Overcomer

Overcomer
Author: Aubrey Sampson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Christian women
ISBN: 9780310342588

In Overcomer, author Aubrey Sampson invites women to kick down their walls of shame and embrace freedom and a future in Christ.

The Sellout

The Sellout
Author: Paul Beatty
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374712247

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly Named a "Must-Read" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

Respect Yourself

Respect Yourself
Author: Robert Gordon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1608194167

Traces the rise and fall of the original Stax Records, touching upon the racial politics in Memphis in the 1960s, the personal histories of the sibling founders, and the prominent musicians they featured.

The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness
Author: Radclyffe Hall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473374081

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day
Author: Mark Batterson
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601429290

Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path. In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day is inspired by one of the most obscure yet courageous acts recorded in Scripture, a blessed and audacious act that left no regrets: “Benaiah chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed it” (2 Samuel 23:20 -21). Unleash the lion chaser within! #InAPit “Mark has become one of the most important voices for a new generation. Anything he touches changes lives. Read this book and you’ll see what I mean.” — Craig Groeschel, pastor of Life.Church, author of Chazown and Dare to Drop the Pose “As a leader and teacher, Mark Batterson brings imagination, energy, and insight. I appreciate his willingness to take bold risks and go to extraordinary lengths to reach our culture with a message that is truly relevant.” — Ed Young, senior pastor, Fellowship Church “Don’t settle for a normal life. Conquer your fears, accept His anointing, jump into that pit, chase the lion, and watch God’s Kingdom come in amazing ways.” — Christine Caine, founder of Propel Women, author of Unashamed