Gaslighted by God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaslighted by God write by Tiffany Yecke Brooks. This book was released on 2022-05-03. Gaslighted by God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “We have a right to encounter God where we are. We have a sacred responsibility to experience God authentically." What happens when the God we’ve been taught to believe in seems powerless to help us in the struggles of life? What do we do when the God we personally encounter no longer resembles the God we’ve been shown in narrow interpretations of the Bible? Many of those raised in the world of fundamentalist Christianity have been manipulated into accepting a false reality that runs counter to lived experience. The result is confusion, isolation, fear, shame, and trauma, often carried throughout one’s entire life. This book is for the victims of this spiritual abuse—anyone looking to reclaim their faith from legalism, nationalism, sexism, anxiety, intolerance, and other mechanisms of control utilized by God’s self-appointed gatekeepers. It’s for anyone who has learned that the real God is infinitely complex, that authentic faith is perfectly compatible with doubt, and that our suffering is not something we’ve earned. Gaslighted by God is not a book of easy answers—it’s a companion for those mourning the loss of a belief system who need their pain recognized and legitimized. Tiffany Yecke Brooks shows—through stories from her own life, conversations with Christians from a variety of backgrounds, historical anecdotes, and messy episodes from Scripture—that there can be faith after disillusionment. But it will be a different faith—bruised, battered, nuanced, and real, rather than one wrapped in tissue-thin platitudes and three-point sermons. It will be a faith empowered to see beyond who God “should” be to who God is.
Gaslighted
Gaslighted - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaslighted write by David L Brown. This book was released on 2020-09-11. Gaslighted available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Gaslighting" is used to describe abusive behavior, specifically when an abuser manipulates information in such a way as to make a victim question his or her sanity. Gaslighting intentionally makes someone doubt their memories or perception of reality. The term Gaslighting originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton's 1938 stage play Gaslight, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. The wife repeatedly asks her husband to confirm her perceptions about the dimming lights, but in defiance of reality, he keeps insisting that the lights are the same and instead it is she who is going insane.
Scary God
Scary God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scary God write by Mattie Montgomery. This book was released on 2018-09-25. Scary God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Scary God brings you face-to-face with our Warrior-King God.” —John Bevere, bestselling author of The Bait of Satan Discover the great wonder and wild freedom the fear of the Lord can bring. God’s character is like a mighty diamond—a glorious convergence of respect, awe, reverence, adoration, thanksgiving, and yes, fear. Yet why is it so difficult to reconcile the wrath of God with the love of God? As Mattie teaches, it is simply a continual awareness of Jesus, our mighty Warrior King. We should not be afraid to come to God; rather we should be afraid to be against Him. Fans of Jefferson Bethke, John Bevere, and Brian Head Welch, will love the straight-talk in Scary God.
Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God
Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God write by R. Zachary Manis. This book was released on 2019-06-03. Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why would a perfectly good and loving God consign anyone to eternal suffering in hell? In Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God, R. Zachary Manis examines in detail the various facets of the problem of hell, considers the reasons why the usual responses to the problem are unsatisfying, and suggests how an adequate solution to the problem can be constructed. Historically, there are four standard explanations of the nature and purpose of hell: traditionalism, annihilationism, the choice model, and universalism. In Manis's assessment, all are deficient in some crucial respect. The alternative view that he develops and defends, the divine presence model, stands within the tradition that understands hell to be a state of eternal conscious suffering, but, Manis contends, avoids the worst problems of its competitors. The key idea is that the suffering of hell is not the result of a divine act that aims to inflict it, but rather is the way in which a sinful creature necessarily experiences the unmitigated presence of a holy God. Heaven and hell are not two "places" to which the saved and damned are consigned, respectively, but rather are two radically different ways in which different persons will experience the same reality of God's omnipresence once the barrier of divine hiddenness is finally removed.
God Is In the Doubt
God Is In the Doubt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God Is In the Doubt write by David Lloyd. This book was released on 2021-04-27. God Is In the Doubt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "God Is In the Doubt is a reading experience like unto a visit to an Amusement Park. You'll reach your hands toward the heavens as you take the drop with David on the rollercoaster of the human experience. [?] But like any ride, there is the moment you get on and the moment you get off of it. So it is with each chapter and the experiences you'll have. David doesn't leave the reader on a ride spinning out of control, rather he helps to secure a two-fisted grip on the sovereignty of a God who can handle our doubts." - Tony NolanGrowing up in the church and seeing many acts of faith does not shield against doubt. David recounts personal miracles and repeated assaults on his faith leading to a spiritual meltdown.In a desperate attempt to know what is true, David fights for knowledge as his faith crumbles. He takes an honest look at infertility, child loss, and suicide to buck the cultural norms. Thinking God might not be whom we think He is, a familiar face awaits.Computer and math nerd since puberty, David lives and works from his home near Atlanta with his wife of 30 years and daughter. When not there, he is often stargazing while camping and hiking around North Georgia or pondering Einstein's time dilation formula while at the beach.
