Jesus and Jim Jones - 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 Jesus and Jim Jones write by Stephen C. Rose. This book was released on 1979. Jesus and Jim Jones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Salvation and Suicide
Salvation and Suicide - 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 Salvation and Suicide write by David Chidester. This book was released on 2003-10-16. Salvation and Suicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by which questions about the meaningful history of the Peoples Temple may be measured." —Journal of the American Academy of Religion Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a new prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. For Chidester, Jonestown recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. "Jonestown is ancient history," writes Chidester, but it does provide us with an opportunity "to reflect upon the strangeness of familiar . . . promises of redemption through sacrifice."
Show Me the Scripture: Because Jim Jones Was a Helluva Preacher Too
Show Me the Scripture: Because Jim Jones Was a Helluva Preacher Too - 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 Show Me the Scripture: Because Jim Jones Was a Helluva Preacher Too write by Brother James. This book was released on 2014-05-06. Show Me the Scripture: Because Jim Jones Was a Helluva Preacher Too available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brother James's, "Show Me The Scripture, Because Jim Jones Was a Helluva Preacher Too," is a nonfiction follow-up book to his novel, Pimping God's Word: The Rise and Fall of Pastor N. O. Goode. Brother James addresses the numerous doctrinal myths perpetrated from the pulpits across this country by minister's intent on distorting God's Word for their own selfish gain. Brother James espouses that all preachers should model themselves after Jesus Christ who never sought fame and fortune but chose to do His Father's will by teaching the basic messages of the Bible which are to love God first and foremost, never putting anything or anyone before Him. One can easily conclude that the author feels that too many preachers today want to be and are considered little "g" gods by their congregations while relegating and subjugating Almighty God as a benevolent father figure in the sky who is only called upon when one is in dire straits! The second basic part of Jesus's lessons is to love others as much as we love ourselves. This unique book also suggests one cannot separate love from giving so if we truly love God then we must reciprocate His love for us by showing sincere love to others and we must all show our love and devotion for Him by studying to show ourselves approved so we might not consciously be spiritually led astray. Brother James's disdain for preachers who like the Judaizes of the New Testament era who were leading God's people astray with false doctrines is beyond obvious. You may not agree with everything Brother James promulgates in this noteworthy work but will admit after reading it that it will truly make you rethink some of the things you have and are currently being taught by those who profess to be called by God to preach!
The Road to Jonestown
The Road to Jonestown - 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 The Road to Jonestown write by Jeff Guinn. This book was released on 2017-04-11. The Road to Jonestown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A portrait of the cult leader behind the Jonestown Massacre examines his personal life, from his extramarital affairs and drug use to his fraudulent faith healing practices and his decision to move his followers to Guyana, sharing new details about the events leading to the 1978 tragedy.
A Thousand Lives
A Thousand Lives - 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 A Thousand Lives write by Julia Scheeres. This book was released on 2011-10-11. A Thousand Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jonesopened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic beliefs, and he quickly filled his pews with an audience eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As Jones’s behavior became erratic and his message more ominous, his followers leaned on each other to recapture the sense of equality that had drawn them to his church. But even as the congregation thrived, Jones made it increasingly difficult for members to leave. By the time Jones moved his congregation to a remote jungle in Guyana and the US government began to investigate allegations of abuse and false imprisonment in Jonestown, it was too late. A Thousand Lives is the story of Jonestown as it has never been told. New York Times bestselling author Julia Scheeres drew from tens of thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together an unprecedented and compelling history of the doomed camp, focusing on the people who lived there. The people who built Jonestown wanted to forge a better life for themselves and their children. In South America, however, they found themselves trapped in Jonestown and cut off from the outside world as their leader goaded them toward committing “revolutionary suicide” and deprived them of food, sleep, and hope. Vividly written and impossible to forget, A Thousand Lives is a story of blind loyalty and daring escapes, of corrupted ideals and senseless, haunting loss.
