I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

Author: Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

The World Book Encyclopedia

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554

Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Thrilling Tom the Dancing Bug Stories

Author: Ruben Bolling
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740747373
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling's oddball strip, Tom the Dancing Bug, makes waves on a weekly basis. Recognized the past two years by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) as Best Cartoon, Tom the Dancing Bug is consistently funny, pointed without being dogmatic, and takes on subjects that no one else does . . . an oasis of keen intelligence in the comics page, according to the 2003 AAN judges. Here are just a couple headlines from the quirky strip's News of the Times: o?= Computer Loses to Human Candy Land Champion: Despite progress made in developing a computer program that can defeat a human chess champion, computer scientists confess that they have been unable to launch a significant challenge to human supremacy in the game of Candy Land.o?= Scientists Discover Media Has Quantum Effect on Reality: A team of physicists discovers that an electron is in an uncertain state until the media report on it. For example, once an electron was measured and reported upon by Mary Hart on the Celebrity Corner segment of Entertainment Tonight, it instantly assumed its nature as a particle.Tom the Dancing Bug's client list is diverse, representing the breadth of contemporary journalism: alternative newspapers, such as Dallas Observer and the Village Voice; prestigious daily newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times; Salon.com, an acclaimed online magazine; and the New Yorker magazine.

Awakening Avery

Author: Carolyn Moring Lowes
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452538344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Avery was there to pick up the pieces of her best friends heart when Hannahs innocence was pillaged. To gain back their independence, the girls go on a forbidden adventure to the big city. Then, as if by coincidence, Avery meets another, far-from-creepy individual., tall, dark, and handsome, who sweeps her off her sensibly shoed feet at first sight. He turns out to be incredibly romantic, sensitive, and richalmost too perfect. Their relationship flourishes quickly, and it feels so right to Avery: true, undying, passionate love. This normally sensible, average teenager has unwittingly embarked on a mystical journey with her newfound love. She finds herself learning many strange, unimaginable but somehow familiar things With good comes bad. To know the light, there must be dark; To know extreme love, you must also feel pain. And with truth comes secretsdangerous, dark secrets. To Avery, the world seems to be spiraling into a deep chasm of despair and fear. A fearful shroud of deception bewilders society. With Kaysens help, Avery learns what is on the other side of this unapparent cloak. These young lovers are an intrinsic part of a bigger, lighter picture and must awaken their supernatural gifts to save themselves and the others.

The Comics Journal

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Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description

Leafy Tom

Author: Robin Buckallew
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387937960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Phoebe is just a nine-year-old girl, not extraordinary, even if she is a bit too smart for her own good. When she decides to ask the witch how to bring her cat home, the spell she casts has some unexpected consequences. The hole she opened in the sky will lead her on a remarkable journey, through the land where the living cannot go, through forests she has been forbidden to enter, and across a dangerous land where everyone and everything appears to want to destroy her. Her companions are among the most suspicious of the strange beings she encounters, as she is traveling with a talking tree and a group of witches and not-quite witches that have a mission she is expected to fulfill. The problem is, she does not know what they expect of her, and she's worried it may be evil. She has little choice but to trust them once they carry her past the point where she can find her own way home, but by the time she returns, she will not be the same child that began the journey.

Earth Awakens

Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765329069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
The alien invasion of Earth seems unstoppable in this prequel to Ender's Game

Artemis Awakening

Author: Jane Lindskold
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076533710X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Living on a war-decimated world where humanity has lost the advanced technology of earlier times, young archaeologist Griffin Dane follows leads to a centuries-old pleasure planet where he encounters a huntress and her psychically linked animal companion.

Poeternitry

Author: Karen Davies
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059522475X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Poeternitry is a comet's ride through the human mind to the spiritual world beyond. You'll be taken on a journey through love and darkness to the shores of faith and fantasy. This collection of poems by Karen Davies shows her ability to write across a wide range of subjects from the "Gates of Heaven" to the darkest parts of the human mind. Her ability to write multiple forms, such as, the simple and thought provoking "haiku" to the rhythmic flow of the "Shakespearean Sonnet." She'll take you on a muse's journey through imagination to all that is eternal.

Punch

Author: Mark Lemon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 938

Book Description