Are you experiencing paranormal activity that you believe is spirit contact from the other side? If so, what’s the best way to handle it?
The “show yourself and get out!” approach popularized on many ghost-hunting programs fails to consider that, in this world or the next, “spirits are still people, and they want to be recognized, remembered, understood, and respected” (from the book). If someone’s visitor was your grandmother, how would you want them to treat her?
This short treatise on how to handle hauntings and spiritual contact takes a humane and practical approach to:
- Determining whether the activity is paranormal in origin
- Gauging whether the activity is interactive and increasing
- Deciding if the interaction is malicious
- Contacting the spirit
- Getting the spirit to move on
If you desire to know more about contacting the spirit realm or freeing your home of unwanted spirit visitors, this practical guide is a must.
Includes bonus material: What happens when you die, Where do we go when we die?, Will you know it when you die?, How to help the newly departed, Prayers and meditation.
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Why do some Christians, especially evangelicals and Pentecostals, have trouble with Spiritualists, psychics, and mediums? Because of blind traditions influenced by a certain understanding of the Bible, which they believe forbids practicing mediumship.
In this book, Rev. Lee Allen Howard, Pentecostal Bible teacher and Christian medium, traces his path from conversion through Christian ministry and beyond, to Spiritualism and mediumship. Along the way he examines many Scripture passages, tips a few sacred cows, and answers questions that concern Christian Spiritualists. What’s inside:
- Christianity promotes life after death. But only Spiritualism enables us to contact our departed loves ones on the other side.
- Learn about the Church’s little-known doctrine that allows communication among those in the earthly and heavenly realms.
- Under what conditions does the Old Testament forbid consulting mediums? Discover when consulting a medium is discouraged now.
- Two young men, abducted from their homeland, rose from prison to prominence by serving heathen kings with their prophetic abilities.
- Why are most sorcerers in the New Testament frowned on? Why are some praised?
- Consider a fresh take on how the Apostle Paul set a fortune-teller free from spiritual slavery.
- Witness Jesus proving His master mediumship atop a holy mountain.
- When should you see a psychic? One young man looking for lost donkeys visits a clairvoyant and receives life direction that leads him to the throne.
- Samples of visions, tongues with interpretation, channeling, and more are included.
Can You Be a Christian Medium? will resolve your doubts so that you can enjoy the gifts and abilities God has given you and others.
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FINALIST Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year–Writing
WINNER Best Non-Fiction London Book Festival
WINNER Best Educational/Academic Indie Book Awards
WINNER International Book Awards Best Business: Writing & Publishing
This textbook contains Lee Allen Howard’s writing-craft essay, “Your Very First Editor.”
Award-winning authors Michael A. Arnzen and Heidi Ruby Miller gather the voices of today’s top genre writers and writing instructors alongside their published students. Many Genres, One Craft fosters the writing process in a way that focuses almost exclusively on writing the novel. Using a compilation of instructional articles penned by well-known authors affiliated with Seton Hill University’s acclaimed MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction, the book emphasizes how to write genre novels and commercially appealing fiction. The articles are modeled after actual learning modules that have successfully taught students in the program how to reach a wider audience for over a decade.
Award-winning and best-selling contributors from a spectrum of genres and literary careers offer their sage advice, including Lee Allen Howard, David Morrell, Tess Gerritsen, Victoria Thompson, Nancy Kress, Shelley Bates, Nicole Peeler, Maria V. Snyder, Jason Jack Miller, Susan Mallery, and over fifty other published authors, teachers, and alumni, as well as special guest agents and editors who have visited the program. Divided into three parts—Craft, Genre, and The Writer’s Life—the book provides advice on everything from point-of-view to writing media tie-in novels to marketing romance, all from writers who have actually done it.
Highly recommended for students of writing craft.
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I tried everything over the course of twenty years to rid myself of same-sex attraction. I realized I could no longer deny who I was simply because my spiritual community held narrowly prescribed notions of what was acceptable, moral, and holy. So I decided to be true to myself, to discover who God had really made me to be. I came out of the closet and took Christ with me.
“God loves the sinner but hates the sin,” she said. The only Christian from my former life who maintained contact with me through my early coming out process finally said she was “concerned” with my “lifestyle choice,” implying I had chosen a life of sin. I answered with a long letter sharing my feelings and espousing my hard-earned beliefs. Response to a Concerned Heterosexual Christian is adapted from this reply.
It details my struggle and everything I did to overcome it. With twenty years in the evangelical charismatic church, a masters in biblical studies, years in Christian publishing and missions work, and time spent pastoring, I present this contemporary issue from a personal viewpoint that’s scripturally educated.
Do LGBTQ people need to be fixed, healed? Does the stance of conservative Christianity represent the nature of God and Christ to everyone? Do we have scriptural precedent for accepting LGBTQ people just as they are?
If you’ve struggled with these issues regardless of your orientation, you owe it to yourself and all those inside and outside of Christ’s fold to foster a new understanding, “That they may be one as we are one” (John 17:11,22).
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Have you heard of Lonnie Frisbee? Through his evangelistic ministry, untold thousands were converted, healed, and filled with the Holy Spirit. This great move of God sparked in the 1960s kindled most of North America’s revival since then. Two worldwide movements—Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard—were birthed through Lonnie’s early influence.
Why would God use a 1960s flower child without higher education from a drugged-up, dropped-out generation to build his Kingdom? Because Lonnie loved Jesus. Lonnie loved people, too, and men especially. This is one reason you may never have heard of him.
Gathering published sources (up to 2015) from those who knew or knew of Lonnie, this book recounts Frisbee’s life and provides the context in which he came to faith and entered ministry. It also weighs the church’s reaction to the news of his sexual orientation and the resulting treatment he received.
Lonnie Frisbee was a gay man who loved and served the Lord. In spite of the Church’s rejection of him, God used him to spark revival among the outcasts of his day. What happened with the hippies during the Jesus Movement is happening again. God is sparking revival in the LGBTQI community with an unprecedented outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
From hippies to homosexuals, God is reaching the lost with the message of acceptance in Jesus Christ. The question is: What part will you play in building the Kingdom?
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