This week sees the publication of a book called ‘Marry Him: The case for Settling for Mr Good Enough.’
Written by a Lori Gottileb a 40 year old single mother, the book encourages single women in their late 20s to get a move on to find Mr Right or they might spend the rest of their lives on their own if they don’t find him by 30.
Gottileb puts paid to the myth of women finding ‘The One’, stating its a lie fueled by Hollywood and romantic fiction and encourages singletons to settle for and marry men that are OK – men who treat them nice, have a job and want to settle down.
She states she wished that she had settled for any of the perfectly acceptable but uninspiring men she rejected during her search for the perfect man. “We grew up idealising marriage, but we’d had a more realistic understanding of its cold, hard benefits, we might have done things differently, so we walked away from uninspiring relationships that might have made us happy. What make a a good marriage isn’t necessarily what makes a good romantic relationship.”
She also goes on to say that if you were to ask any honest 40+ single woman what she most longs for in life she is likely to say a husband and a family. “Every woman I know – no matter how successful and ambitious, financially and emotionally secure – feels panic coupled with desperation if hits 30 and is not married.”
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
THIS insightful book is the result of a 10-year quest by author Steve Smith to discover the origins and development of gospel music in Britain. Written in first-person, Smith believes this music’s history should be documented and merits the attention already given to calypso, ska and reggae, all of which – like black British gospel – owe their presence in Britain to Afro-Caribbean immigration.
Using interesting illustrations and commentary by gospel artists, Smith pinpoints key movements in the music, beginning with a UK visit in 1873 of the black American Fisk Jubilee singers, and ending with speculations about British gospel music’s future directions.
Author Steve Alexander Smith
STREET PASTORS: Taking Kindness And Love To The Streets
This book is about the birth and growth of the Street Pastors initiative in the UK
Britain’s late-night street stories are familiar to all: binge drinking, loneliness, gang culture, knife and gun crime, violence and fear. Barely a week goes by without another incident breaking on the news. But that’s not the whole story. Since 2003 a new breed of help has been on hand to dispel the tension and bring some desperately needed hope back to our urban communities. These are the Street Pastors, and the brand new book from Les Isaac tells their story from the man at the heart of it all.
It was back in 2003, against a background of sensational headlines and increasing fear, that Les Isaac was part of a group of eighteen concerned individuals who decided to do something about the chaos, setting up the country’s first street pastor’s scheme in Brixton, London. Six years later there are over 125 Street Pastors teams at work around the country, with more than 3,000 Christians involved.
According to the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, this is a significant book: ‘Les Isaac’s story of how he founded and developed Street Pastors is an example of faith in action and emblematic of building up the kingdom of god. ‘Street Pastors’ works because it recognises both our common humanity and common responsibility in bringing hope to the communities we share. This story should serve as a source of inspiration for all who work to restore society, to raise the fallen and to help our young people know the warmth of God’s love and welcome.’
Starting with the events and experiences that shaped Les’s thinking, the book narrates the story in detail, but also introduces the challenge facing the Church throughout the UK: how can we be distinctively Christian at the same time as developing partnerships outside of the Church? Les Isaac is convinced that this is not only possible, but vitally important. Over the past seven years he has witnessed tremendous unity as teams of Christians have put aside theological differences and committed themselves to sacrificial help of our communities.
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CLICK to BUY: Understanding the Purpose and Power of Prayer
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God, God Almighty, God the Creator of man–this same God, in all His power and all His majesty, stops and listens when you pray. All that God is–and all that God has–may be received through prayer. Everything you need to fulfill your purpose on earth is available to you through prayer. The biblically-based, time-tested principles presented by Dr. Myles Munroe will ignite and transform the way you pray. Be prepared to enter into a new dimension of faith, a deeper revelation of God’s love, and a renewed understanding that your prayers can truly move the hand of God.
Your Life Follows Your Words: Releasing the Prayer of Faith
So many people are trapped by negativity because of the words of their mouth. They are trapped by bitterness and unforgiveness because of the words in their mouth. In this book, Darlene will take you on an exciting miraculous journey as she shares candidly about her own life’s experiences:
…how God healed her of breast cancer
…her daughter, Jana, healed of a deformity from birth
…her son healed of severe asthma
…and her brother healed from throat cancer
You will not be able to put this book down as Darlene Bishop uncovers the truths of how your life follows your words. By the time you finish this book, your faith will be so strong, that you will be able to believe God for anything.
God gave Darlene Bishop a word from heaven, “B.E.L.I.E.V.E.” God told her, “Because Emmanuel Lives, I Expect Victory Every time.” She will show you how to have victory, no matter what you are facing today.
Our faith grows with our confession. Whether you feel faith or not, your healing follows your words…your finances follow your words…your realtionships follow your words…your attitude follows your words…even forgiveness follows your words. Get ready for your life to change.
Deal with it: You Cannot Conquer What You Will Not Confront
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Paula White co-pastors the 18,000-member Without Walls International Church, based in Tampla. She also runs Paula White Ministries and hosts the nationally syndicated television program, “Paula White Today.” Her new book, “Deal With It!” (Thomas Nelson) explains how 10 women of the Bible–some well known, some more obscure–can help women confront their emotional, sexual, and professional issues. White spoke with Beliefnet about the own issues she has confronted, how women of the Bible have helped her, and her ministry work.
What was your inspiration for writing this book?
Mainly it was to equip people to manifest the greatness that is inside of them. I believe there are seeds of potential greatness in all of us. There were some defining moments that happened in my life that enabled me to identify, conquer, and confront the issues of my life. Every one of us has to answer, “Who am I? What am I? Why am I?” And then, “How do I get there? How do I do it? How do I become it?”
I know some of those moments in your own life are of a very personal nature, but can you explain briefly what your background was like?
Oh, absolutely. It’s all out to hang. Many people know my testimony. When I was five years old, my father committed suicide. From age six to 13 I was sexually and physically abused. I had never heard the gospel until I was 18 years old, and I had not been in church. Then I was at a friend’s house, and his uncle said, “I can give you the answer to the love you’re looking for and for the hope you need.” He led me to Christ–I heard the gospel for the first time my life was radically changed. But I found out it’s a process with many defining moments. God gave a vision, and I didn’t even know what a vision was, and I have not read the word of God. I just knew my life was suddenly radically changed.
Author Jesse Rice
A revolution is taking place, one profile at a time. Online social networks like Facebook and MySpace are connecting people like never before. With hundreds of millions of users, they’re creating almost limitless potential to redefine our personal worlds. It’s a movement that’s changing how we form relationships, perceive others, and shape our identity.
In his new book, The Church of Facebook (David C Cook, October 2009) author Jesse Rice takes a deeper look at the movement which, at its core, reflects our need for community. “Our longing for intimacy, connection, and a place to belong has never been a secret, but social networking offers us a new perspective on the way we engage our community,” Rice states. This new perspective raises new questions: How do these networks impact our relationships? In what ways are they shaping the way we think of ourselves? And how might this phenomenon subtly reflect a God who longs to connect with each one of us?
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God calls us to be the very best stewards of all the gifts, talents, and opportunities entrusted to us in this lifetime. When we work with Him, the result is full prosperity and real success regardless of title or status.
Reposition Yourself: Living Life without Limits is a culmination of what God has taught Bishop T.D. Jakes through life, business, family, books, people, and more…. God has made him a communicator and a motivator. Now he passes this on to you in his new book.
CLICK to BUY: The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English
The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of English literature has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print.
This version is carefully revised in modern English, this modern classic includes Bunyan’s original scripture references plus hundreds of additional references, chapter end-notes to help clarify scriptural and historical references, and an Index of words, meanings, titles, characters, and places. 50+ illustrations.
CASTING CALL AND AUDITION
For the Play ‘God’s Trombones’
God’s Trombones, famous American text from the 1920s by James Weldon Johnson, recalling the moving early church times and the moving sermons in a style fast disappearing. This is the material that inspired Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jnr.
James Weldon Johnson
One actress singer and one male with singing required. All dates are in London and it is an ensemble piece in revue style.
Dates for rehearsal 16, 17, 19, 20 and 21 October 2009 all day and possibly evenings. You must be a professional actor
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Contact with CV jasperiantheatre@mac.com or tony.jasper@blueyonder.co.uk
Auditions take place in North London in the Hampstead area.
Brian “Head” Welch, former lead-guitarist for Korn, a controversial nu-metal band, is now a Christian and no longer does drugs (meth) and alcohol. He says in this interview on Fox News that he has found God.
Amazon.com says this in an Editorial Review of his book, “Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story”:
In February 2005, more than 10,000 people in Bakersfield, California, watched as Brian “Head” Welch–the former lead guitarist of the controversial Nu–metal band Korn–was saved by Jesus Christ. The event set off a media frenzy as observers from around the world sought to understand what led this rock star out of the darkness and into the light.
Now, in this courageous memoir, Head talks for the first time about his shocking embrace of God and the tumultuous decade that led him into the arms of Jesus Christ. Taking the reader backstage with Korn, Head tells the inside story of life in the band and how his rock star lifestyle resulted in an all–consuming addiction to methamphetamines. Head writes openly about the tour bus mayhem of Ozzfest and The Family Values tour, while providing a candid look at how the routine of recording and traveling placed him in a cycle of addiction that he could not break on his own.
Speaking honestly about his addiction, Head details his struggles with the drug that ultimately led him to seek a higher power. Despite his numerous attempts to free himself from his addiction, nothing–not even the birth of his daughter–could spur him to kick meth for good. Here he addresses how, with the help of God, he emerged from his dangerous lifestyle and found a path that was not only right for his daughter, it was right for him. In addition, he discusses the chaotic end to his time in Korn, and how his newfound faith has changed his perspective on his past.
Save ME from Myself:
How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story
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ABOUT THE BOOK
No More Excuses is a collection of 16 powerful, funny, and inspiring real life stories of 16 positive black role models in Britain, who according to statistics and other people’s opinions should not have made it.
Being an ex-offender, a young mother, a female and an ethnic minority were all excuses that these 16 role models could have used but they all said ‘NO’, I’m going to make it, I’m going to be successful and today in 2009, they have done just that!!!!
Bishop John Francis’ new book entitled Talit ha Cumi
The Secrets of the Prayer Shawl
Bishop Francis takes you to overlooked passages in God’s Word -
Key Scriptures that link the prayer shawl/tallit, with the Power of God
Talit Ha Cumi: The Secrets of the Prayer Shawl
Review by Richard R. Blake Amazon Top 500 Reviewer
John Francis opens his book “Talit ha Cumi” with the story of one man’s disobedience as an introduction to the historical and scriptural origins of the Jewish prayer shawl, the tallit. The garment itself is not what makes the tallit special. The significance is the tzitzit, the fringes on the four corners which are to remind us of God’s commandments.
The tallit is described as a religious symbol, a garment, a shroud, a canopy, a cloak. In Jewish tradition it becomes a cloak which envelopes the both physically and spiritually in prayer and celebration. When used in prayer it signifies being wrapped in the Word. The tallit is used in all Jewish life events from circumcision to burial. I found the traditional use of the tallit in Middle Eastern wedding ceremonies of particular interest.
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GOD AND GUINNESS: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World
Stephen Mansfield explores the groundbreaking business acumen of this prolific company, and uncovers a deeply held faith running throughout the family’s history.
The story begins with Arthur Guinness
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Arthur Guinness was a great man of faith. Born on the estate of an Archbishop and raised a loyal son of the Irish church, Arthur lived by the words that were his personal motto: Spes Mea in Deo — “My Hope is in God.”
He was deeply inspired by the revivalist John Wesley to use his wealth and talents to make the world better. Taking scripture as his guide, Arthur served the needy of his time and worked to use his gifts in honor of his God. One favorite project of his that seems confirmation of both the purity of his faith and his concern for social good: Guinness was the founder of the first Sunday Schools in Ireland.
THE BOOK
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THE STORY
After years of disagreeing about what true happiness, success, and love really is, Dave and Clarice Johnson finally face the breaking point of their marriage. When Clarice’s leg is crushed in a car wreck, the obvious truth that more than just her injuries need immediate attention is finally exposed.
Clarice and Dave have differing opinions on what it means to be successful and to live a meaningful life. Dave is satisfied coaching little league and running a janitorial service; Clarice is driven by her quest to climb the social ladder. Dave is satisfied coaching little league and running a janitorial service. Dave feels at home in his blue jeans and pick-up truck. Clarice is a designer label-luxury car kind of woman.
After Clarice sustains injuries in a car accident, the constant presence of her physical therapist, Julie, and the mentoring relationship between Dave and Julie’s son create strife that quickly moves the Johnson’s marriage to crisis.
Clarice and Dave struggle to find restoration as they learn the importance of promises made and kept – and the truth that help sometimes comes from unlikely places.
THE AUTHOR
T. D. Jakes, one of the world’s most widely recognized pastors, is the bestselling author of Woman Thou Art Loosed and sixteen other popular books. He has inspired millions through his speaking tours, and his television show, The Potters Touch, airs weekly on Trinity Broadcast Network. The senior pastor of The Potter’s House, a multiracial, nondenominational church, Bishop Jakes lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife and five children.
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A new resource is available to those who want to look more closely at the Christian book they’re reading. “Clear as a Bell” is a new e-book that holds the first chapter of “Jesus Wants to Save Christians,” by Rob Bell and Don Golden, up to the light of Scripture. Carefully written by experienced teacher Chris Jensen, the e-book offers Christians a new way to read the faith-based materials they consume.
The E-book by Jensen critiques this book 'Jesus Wants to Save Christians' by Rob Bell
Jesus Wants to Save Christians
Last February, he started posting his observations on his blog, “the red pen” (www.redpen.org), and has received very favorable feedback from visitors, to the content of his analysis and to the manner in which he shared his observations with Bell and Golden.
“Jesus said that I am to love my neighbor as myself,” says Jensen. “If I am going to be critical of the work of others, I must attend to the matter with loving prayer and the utmost care, lest my intended readers, the authors to whom I’m writing, stop reading and listening altogether.”
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