Jujitsu For Christ

Author : Jack Butler
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037389
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jujitsu for Christ written by Jack Butler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable and hilarious coming-of-age story of a Black Belt in the Bible Belt. Roger Wing is pledging his martial skills to the service of the Lord, but it isn't helping him win over the prettiest girl in the Youth for Christ Mission.

Author : Jack Butler
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469293
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jujitsu for Christ written by Jack Butler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ—originally published in 1986—follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white, born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the civil rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African American family—parents A. L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T. J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus—who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children. As the political heat rises, Roger and the Gandys find their lives intersecting in unexpected ways. Their often-hilarious interactions are told against the backdrop of Mississippi's racial trauma—Governor Ross Barnett's “I Love Mississippi” speech at the 1962 Ole Miss–Kentucky football game in Jackson; the riots at the University of Mississippi over James Meredith's admission; the fieldwork of Medgar Evers, the NAACP, and various activist organizations; and the lingering aura of Emmett Till's lynching. Drawing not only on William Faulkner's gothic-modernist Yoknapatawpha County but also on Edgar Rice Burroughs's high-adventure Martian pulps, Jujitsu for Christ powerfully illuminates vexed questions of racial identity and American history, revealing complexities and subtleties too often overlooked. It is a remarkable novel about the civil rights era, and how our memories of that era continue to shape our political landscape and to resonate in contemporary conversations about southern identity. But, mostly, it's very funny, in a mode that's experimental, playful, sexy, and disturbing all at once. Butler offers a new foreword to the novel. Brannon Costello, a scholar of contemporary southern literature and fan of Butler's work, writes an afterword that situates the novel in its historical context and in the southern literary canon.

Author : Jack Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874730159
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jujitsu for Christ written by Jack Butler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raiza Garcia
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781545667330
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus and JiuJitsu: The Rise of a Warrior of God written by Raiza Garcia and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even now, God's ways still remain mysterious to me..." Raiza Garcia, author of Jesus and Jiu Jitsu: The Rise of a Warrior of God, believes the Christian walk is the most exciting adventure one can embark on; read on to discover why. This Christian memoir reveals God's presence in all life's events. Inside, readers discover God in the midst of the storm... "I found my life shattered into pieces. I was 8 weeks pregnant with a baby and tumor fighting for space in my uterus, a broken marriage on the brink of divorce, jobless, and sinking quickly into a dark suicidal depression. Jesus came to my rescue. Through the journey of faith, professional counseling, and the gift of jiu jitsu, God has helped me rise from the ashes into a blessed season of co-parenting and walking in recovered virtue as a single mom on fire for the Lord." Through Raiza's fledgling, then growing Christian faith, God was there. Finally today, it is evident that God is there, through Raiza's love of jiu jitsu and teaching at-risk children, which led her to use her platform to speak out against the horrors of sex trafficking, neglect, and other types of abuse that happen to children in the child welfare system. God is there, and He brings life to Raiza's ministry endeavors as she uses her voice and community to help others. Readers will love this transparent memoir of a worldly, turbulent existence turned Christ-rooted life that beautifully weaves God moments into a transformed life. Raiza's journey is a powerful testimony of grace and redemption.

Author : Rebecca Dana
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101609176
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde written by Rebecca Dana and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For a generation of women who grew up watching Sex and the City, Manhattan is the Promised Land—or as Rebecca Dana puts it in her hilarious, self-deprecating new memoir, it’s ‘my Jerusalem—the shining city off in the distance, the only place to go’…[An] insightful tale of two fish out of water.”—O Magazine Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of moving to New York. After college, life in the city turned out just as she’d planned: glamorous parties; beautiful people; the perfect job, apartment and man. But when it all comes crashing down, she is catapulted into another world. She moves into Brooklyn’s Lubavitch community, and lives with Cosmo, a young Russian rabbi and jujitsu enthusiast. While Cosmo faces his disenchantment with Orthodoxy, Rebecca finds that her religion—the books and films that made New York seem like salvation—has also failed her. Shuttling between the worlds of religious extremism and secular excess, faith and fashion, Rebecca goes on a search for meaning. A mix of Shalom Auslander and The Odd Couple, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde is a thought-provoking tale for the twenty-first century. Includes a Readers Guide

Author : Caleb Hegg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737848165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warrior of God written by Caleb Hegg and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This jiu jitsu journal is designed to help you keep a log of your progress and help solidify the various techniques and moves you learn throughout the week while giving a short verse/passage from Scripture that highlights some of the warrior culture found within the Bible. These small passages of Scripture are meant to encourage believers while at the same time connecting the two things that take up the most time and focus in our lives, faith, and jiu jitsu. This journal includes:? Three months of training logs? Rest day pages to reflect on the past training cycle? Logs to note rolling partners? A section where you can log three competitions and the matches you rolled in.? Passages from Old and New Testament Scriptures with a focus on Joshua and Judges.

Author : Robert J. Higgs
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185041
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God In The Stadium written by Robert J. Higgs and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image. He provides a thoughtful history and analysis of how sports and religion have become intertwined and offers a stinging indictment of the sports-religion-media-education complex. Beginning with the place of sports in Puritan life, Higgs traces the contributions of various individuals and institutions to the present circumstances in which sports and religion are joined. He discusses the transfer of the Puritan ideal to the New World and then moves to the revolutionary period of the national hero and manifest destiny, through the classic period of education for a sound mind in a sound body, to the imperial phase of American supremacy. In the process of tracing this history Higgs makes clear the growing influence of "muscular" Christianity, from circuit-riding evangelists to pulpit-pounding televangelists, from Billy Sunday to Billy Graham, from the YMCA to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Finally he arrives at our present Low Roman or "bread and circuses" period in which sports simultaneously serve the purposes of entertainment, religious proselytism, distraction of the masses, and political propaganda, all under the colorful banner of Christian knighthood as seen in the stadium revivals of Billy Graham and the sporting enthusiasm of Jerry Falwell. In brief, sports and Christianity have followed similar paths. In the beginning they were nationalized, then Hellenized, then Romanized, and, in our own time, televised. The result is that spectator sports have become the reigning American religion, one sharply at odds with a traditional shepherd ethos. This well-written and innovative book makes clear the dangerous power wielded by the sports-religion-media-education complex over the minds and energies of the American people. It is a call for recognition and reevaluation of our present situation that will concern anyone interested in the future of American culture.

Author : Jeff Vanderstelt
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 143354606X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gospel Fluency written by Jeff Vanderstelt and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: flu·en·cy / noun :the ability to speak a language easily and effectively Even if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we're trying to speak a language we haven't actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way—after believing it, we have to intentionally rehearse it (to ourselves and to others) and immerse ourselves in its truths. Only then will we start to see how everything in our lives, from the mundane to the magnificent, is transformed by the hope of the gospel.

Author : Samuel Wells
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493415956
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvisation written by Samuel Wells and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory textbook establishes theatrical improvisation as a model for Christian ethics, helping Christians embody their faith in the practices of discipleship. Clearly, accessibly, and creatively written, it has been well received as a text for courses in Christian ethics. The repackaged edition has updated language and recent relevant resources, and it includes a new afterword by Wesley Vander Lugt and Benjamin D. Wayman that explores the reception and ongoing significance of the text.

Author : Rachel Nelson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724303424
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifesting the New Being in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu written by Rachel Nelson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grappling art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is often seen as a spiritual practice for those that regularly train. Practitioners claim to undergo a personal transformation that enables growth towards greater harmony within themselves and among humanity. The experience of growth within oneself and towards humanity corresponds to Paul Tillich's theological concepts of the Kingdom of God and the New Being. The Kingdom of God is characterized by individuals whom possess a harmony within themselves, and in turn, successfully live in harmony among a diversity of others. Jesus the Christ, known as the New Being, is conceived as the ultimate symbol of the human potential. Jesus was the Christ through his actualized inner disposition of harmony within the time and space of existence; Jesus the Christ's inner disposition corresponds to characteristics of the symbol of God as self-surrender to the other. Jesus the Christ's inner disposition is reflected by outward actions, titled agape. While Tillich's theology of the New Being and the Kingdom of God is a fair response to philosophy's questions of anxiety and angst found in the human condition, it is limited to explain how an individual manifests the New Being for her or himself; how is an individual to become like Jesus the Christ and also reflect agape? Through a critical analysis of Tillich's theology in relation to personal transformation experienced in the practice of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a trinitarian perspective explicit in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu will be presented to provide guidance towards manifestation of the New Being in the time and space of existence.