An Imperfect Blessing

Author : Nadia Davids
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415205744
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Blessing written by Nadia Davids and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. She watches with fascination and fear as the national drama unfolds, longing to be a part of what she knows to be history in the making. As her revolutionary aspirations strengthen in the months before the elections, her intense, radical Uncle Waleed reappears, forcing her parents and sister Nasreen to confront his subversive and dangerous past. Nadia David’s first novel moves across generations and communities, through the suburbs to the city centre, from the lush gardens of private schools to the dingy bars of Observatory, from landmark mosques and churches to the manic procession of the Cape Carnival, through evictions, rebellions, political assassinations and first loves. The book places one family’s story at the heart of a country’s rebirth and interrogates issues of faith, race, belonging and freedom. An Imperfect Blessing is a vibrant, funny and moving debut

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ISBN 13 : 9781415205754
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Imperfect Blessing written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil's Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. She watches with fascination and fear as the national drama unfolds, longing to be a part of what she knows to be history in the making. As her revolutionary aspirations strengthen in the months before the elections, her intense, radical Uncle Waleed reappears, forcing her parents and sister Nasreen to confront his subversive and dangerous past. Nadia David's first novel moves across generations and communities, through the suburbs to the city centre, from the lush gardens of private schools to the dingy bars of Observatory, from landmark mosques and churches to the manic procession of the Cape Carnival, through evictions, rebellions, political assassinations and first loves. The book places one family's story at the heart of a country's rebirth and interrogates issues of faith, race, belonging and freedom." -- Publisher's website.

Author : Ouellette, R.b.
Publisher : Sword of the Lord Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873985291
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living in an Imperfect World written by Ouellette, R.b. and published by Sword of the Lord Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessica LaGrone
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426778406
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken and Blessed Preview Book written by Jessica LaGrone and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blessed and broken is a six-week Bible study, based on the book of Genesis, that explores the good and the imperfect in Biblical families and in our own. Participants learn how God brings blessings from brokenness.--Container.

Author : Amy Simpson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830892389
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blessed Are the Unsatisfied written by Amy Simpson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians often hear the idea that following Jesus means that we should be living a life of full satisfaction. How many of us actually experience that kind of life? Amy Simpson wants to debunk this satisfaction myth in the church. After forty years of walking with Jesus, she writes, "I am deeply unsatisfied not only with my ability to reflect Jesus, but also with the very quality of my intimacy with him. I strongly suspect that the abyss of my nature has not been entirely satisfied by Jesus." Hers is a freeing confession for us all. Simpson explains that our very unsatisfaction indicates a longing for God, and understanding those longings can bring us closer to relationship with him. And that is where true spiritual health and vitality reside. Read on to discover anew what it truly means to be satisfied in Christ.

Author : Kathleen Montgomery
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 1558967192
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bless the Imperfect written by Kathleen Montgomery and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2014 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 0593193717
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives We Actually Have written by Kate Bowler and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times bestselling authors of Good Enough Blessed are you, the strange duck. You with the very intense hobbies. Or the collection of movies or mugs or sneakers. You with the hometown or home team that makes you very, very proud. You, my dear, in all your intricacies . . . are a marvel. We live in a world that demands relentless perfection. Happy marriages and easy friendships. Bucket list–level adventures and matching family photos. But what if our actual lives don’t feel very #blessed? Might our everyday existence be worthy of a blessing too? Even an average Tuesday? Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie offer creative, faith-based blessings that center gratitude and hope while acknowledging our real, messy lives. Formatted like a prayer book, The Lives We Actually Have is an oasis and a landing spot for weary souls, with blessings that focus on the full range of human moments: garbage days, lovely days, grief-stricken days, and even (especially) completely ordinary days. These heartfelt blessings are a chance to exhale when we feel everything from careworn to restless, devastated to bored. Let’s have a reminder that we don’t need to wait for perfect lives when we can bless the lives we actually have.

Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199985855
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blessed written by Kate Bowler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement that now claims millions of followers in America. Bowler traces the roots of the prosperity gospel: from the touring mesmerists, metaphysical sages, pentecostal healers, business oracles, and princely prophets of the early 20th century; through mid-century positive thinkers like Norman Vincent Peale and revivalists like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagin; to today's hugely successful prosperity preachers. Bowler focuses on such contemporary figures as Creflo Dollar, pastor of Atlanta's 30,000-member World Changers Church International; Joel Osteen, known as "the smiling preacher," with a weekly audience of seven million; T. D. Jakes, named by Time magazine one of America's most influential new religious leaders; Joyce Meyer, evangelist and women's empowerment guru; and many others. At almost any moment, day or night, the American public can tune in to these preachers-on TV, radio, podcasts, and in their megachurches-to hear the message that God desires to bless them with wealth and health. Bowler offers an interpretive framework for scholars and general readers alike to understand the diverse expressions of Christian abundance as a cohesive movement bound by shared understandings and common goals.

Author : Martha Woodroof
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250040523
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Blessings written by Martha Woodroof and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and frigid woman whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom and his formidable mother-in-law, Agnes Tattle. Tom considers his unhappy condition self-inflicted, since Marjory's condition was exacerbated by her discovery of Tom's brief and misguided affair with a visiting poetess. But when Tom and Marjory meet Rose Callahan, the campus bookstore's charming new hire, and Marjory invites Rose to dinner, her first social interaction in a decade, Tom wonders if it's a sign that change is on the horizon. And when Tom returns home that evening to a letter from the poetess telling him that he'd fathered her son, Henry, and that Henry, now ten, will arrive by train in a few days, it's clear change is coming whether Tom's ready or not. For readers of Helen Simonson and Anna Quindlen, Small Blessings is funny, heart-warming and poignant, with a charmingly imperfect cast of cinema-ready characters. Readers will fall in love with the novel's wonderfully optimistic heart that reminds us that sometimes, when it feels like life is veering irrevocably off track, the track changes in ways we never could have imagined"--

Author : Wendy Mogel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416593063
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee written by Wendy Mogel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides parents with advice on using Jewish teachings from the Torah and Talmud to overcome struggles with raising children, nurture strengths and uniqueness, and encourage respectfulness towards their parents and others.