The Old Man Died, but Now He Lives: Dreams & Visions

The Old Man Died, but Now He Lives: Dreams & Visions
Author: Bill West
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 110581579X

The Old Man Died, but Now He Lives is a collection of dreams and visions compiled by the man who experienced them, Bill West. Together the testimonies provide the heritage of the Hiram, GA, resident as he navigates spiritual re-birth, relationships and Waffle House, all while spreading God's Word. Bill says, "After my life changing encounter with Jesus, my first thought was I will not tell anyone what happened, but I could not hold it in. God lit a fire, and I could not put it out." Bill invites his readers to e-mail comments and prayer requests to [email protected].

Death Is But a Dream

Death Is But a Dream
Author: Christopher Kerr
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 052554285X

The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery.

The Idea of the Canterbury Tales

The Idea of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Donald R. Howard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0520359291

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Telling the Stories Right

Telling the Stories Right
Author: Jack Baker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1532638116

Wendell Berry thinks of himself as a storyteller. It's somewhat ironic then that he is better known as an essayist, a poet, and an advocate for small farmers. The essays in this collection consider the many facets of Berry's life and work, but they focus on his efforts as a novelist and story writer. Indeed, Berry had already published three novels before his seminal work of cultural criticism, The Unsettling of America, established him as an ardent defender of local communities and sustainable agriculture. And over the past fifty years, he has published eight novels and more than forty-eight short stories set in the imagined community of Port William. His exquisite rendering of this small Kentucky town challenges us to see the beauty of our own places and communities and to tend their health, threatened though it inevitably is. The twelve contributors to this collection approach Berry's fiction from a variety of perspectives--literary studies, journalism, theology, history, songwriting--to shed light on its remarkable ability to make a good life imaginable and compelling. The first collection devoted to Berry's fiction, this volume insists that any consideration of Berry's work must begin with his stories.

Speaking in the Name of God

Speaking in the Name of God
Author: Klaus Nürnberger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1984589466

When we preach, we speak in the highest possible authority, the authority of a God who manifests God’s creative power in the reality we experience and God’s benevolent intentions in what happened to Christ. The message of God’s suffering, transforming acceptance of the unacceptable in Christ, is the most critically important message that a suffering, self-serving, and self-destructive humanity needs to hear. Preachers cannot be casual about such a monumental task. Inspired by the spirit of Christ, they will try to develop their gifts to the fullest. This book offers an on-the-job training and self-enhancement course for lay preachers and the ordained clergy. Its interactive approach encourages preachers to discover their own best way of going about their task in a critical dialogue with the author.

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Author: Benjamin Franklin Underwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1883
Genre: Religion
ISBN: