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Author: Jerry Bass Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1490819185 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 165
Book Description
What is it going to take to revive the American church and usher in a spiritual awakening in the country? The author was trapped in a downtown hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. From that experience, Jerry Bass believes that God allowed this disaster in order to wake up the church from its spiritual lethargy. This book was written with an overwhelming conviction that revival in the American church is needed. Endorsements "Reading Jerry's book brought about different emotions in me. My first emotion was painful memories of a very difficult time in my life living in a city that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. My second emotion was one of hope as Jerry called for revival in our city, state, and nation. Ladies and gentlemen WE NEED REVIVAL in America, and it MUST start in our churches!" Fred Luter, Jr., pastor, Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, president, Southern Baptist Convention "I've never seen the need for revival in the Church like I see it now. I pray for revival every day. I did not pray for revival before I read this book nor understand the difference between a revival and evangelization. I have also realized that 2 Chronicles 7:14 is directed to God's people (that includes me!) and not to unbelievers. I believe that many American Christians will be touched by God's Spirit as they read this book and glean from it that revival must start first with them." Bob Leaman, LSU Health/Director of Continuing Dental Education
Author: Jerry Bass Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1490819185 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 165
Book Description
What is it going to take to revive the American church and usher in a spiritual awakening in the country? The author was trapped in a downtown hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. From that experience, Jerry Bass believes that God allowed this disaster in order to wake up the church from its spiritual lethargy. This book was written with an overwhelming conviction that revival in the American church is needed. Endorsements "Reading Jerry's book brought about different emotions in me. My first emotion was painful memories of a very difficult time in my life living in a city that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. My second emotion was one of hope as Jerry called for revival in our city, state, and nation. Ladies and gentlemen WE NEED REVIVAL in America, and it MUST start in our churches!" Fred Luter, Jr., pastor, Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, president, Southern Baptist Convention "I've never seen the need for revival in the Church like I see it now. I pray for revival every day. I did not pray for revival before I read this book nor understand the difference between a revival and evangelization. I have also realized that 2 Chronicles 7:14 is directed to God's people (that includes me!) and not to unbelievers. I believe that many American Christians will be touched by God's Spirit as they read this book and glean from it that revival must start first with them." Bob Leaman, LSU Health/Director of Continuing Dental Education
Author: Jerry Bass Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1490819177 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
What is it going to take to revive the American church and usher in a spiritual awakening in the country? The author was trapped in a downtown hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. From that experience, Jerry Bass believes that God allowed this disaster in order to wake up the church from its spiritual lethargy. This book was written with an overwhelming conviction that revival in the American church is needed. Endorsements "Reading Jerry's book brought about different emotions in me. My first emotion was painful memories of a very difficult time in my life living in a city that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. My second emotion was one of hope as Jerry called for revival in our city, state, and nation. Ladies and gentlemen WE NEED REVIVAL in America, and it MUST start in our churches!" Fred Luter, Jr., pastor, Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, president, Southern Baptist Convention Ive never seen the need for revival in the Church like I see it now. I pray for revival every day. I did not pray for revival before I read this book nor understand the difference between a revival and evangelization. I have also realized that 2 Chronicles 7:14 is directed to Gods people (that includes me!) and not to unbelievers. I believe that many American Christians will be touched by Gods Spirit as they read this book and glean from it that revival must start first with them. Bob Leaman, LSU Health/Director of Continuing Dental Education
Author: Ellen Jeffery Blue Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1625641400 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 237
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Since six months after landfall, Ellen Blue has taught "The Church's Response to Katrina." It sidesteps disaster response, where clearly the church should be involved. What was unclear was how leaders in a connectional denomination like United Methodism should decide which churches to merge or decommission after floods destroyed seventy churches and displaced ninety pastors, and no one knew how many members would return. Katrina gave the church a chance to re-make itself without deteriorating structures in no-longer-thriving neighborhoods. Yet as members returned to chaos, they sought solace. Should the church meet needs for Sanctuary and reassurance or use newfound flexibility to seek justice? In Case of Katrina examines leadership strategies and the theological convictions that underlay them during the struggle to decide. The larger United Methodist Church controls real estate, and the hierarchy had the power to choose. Instead they let verdicts spring primarily from congregants and pastors on the ground through a long, controversial process. Recovery has been entwined with issues of race and class. Cooperation among African American and Anglo congregations has birthed vibrant multi-racial worship and ministries. Yet other prophetic ministry was left undone, and it should set the agenda for the next decade. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
Author: Pastor Willie L. Monnet, Sr. Publisher: Author House ISBN: 9781452024165 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 199
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They were told that a hurricane was coming... They were told to pack for three days... They were told to evacuate the city... They thought they would return home... But in a single day, the destiny of one church was changed forever! Hurricane Katrina had already struck south Florida as a mild Category 1 hurricane, but after returning to the Gulf of Mexico and regaining strength, she was back! Only this time, she was predicted to be a dangerous Category 5 hurricane, and her next target was none other than New Orleans, Louisiana. For years, the city was warned that a storm like Katrina could eventually strike, but no one knew exactly when. Yet, in 2005, the time had finally arrived. Hurricane Katrina had her eye on the crescent city. As the city’s residents scrambled to prepare for the worst, thousands hunkered down while countless others evacuated. But one eastern New Orleans church called Smoking for Jesus Ministry made plans to evacuate and weather the storm together! In a 40-car caravan of approximately 200 members, they began a journey that would mark one of the greatest modern-day deliverance stories of our time. This is a story of the utter devastation, tragedy, and losses surrounding Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. More importantly, though, this is a story of how this church experienced the hope of God’s peace, love, provision, and faithfulness through the storms. And as they traveled together throughout the states of Louisiana and Texas, they had no earthly idea of the amazing promises of God that awaited them at the end of the journey. But first, they would need to survive! Mount Up! This is the story of How One Church Survived Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Author: Hilry Thomas Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1600340237 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 106
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Hurricane Katrina brought devastation to many. Thomas offers a guide to weathering the physical and spiritual storms of life and includes his own experiences during and after the hurricane. (Practical Life)
Author: Connie Marie Harris Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1512740047 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 138
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The never before told true story of a group of multi-racial, multi-denominational pastors in a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. Not unlike Old Testament times, odds were stacked against them in such an impossible way that the outcome would seem completely hopeless and utter defeat inevitable were it not for God. With division so deep within Gods church in the Crescent City, it could have easily sunk to its death in the flood waters, but when God appeared inevitable defeat became certain victory. Ordinary people began to accomplish extraordinary things. Miracles became common place and hope was restored. God had not forgotten The City That Care Forgot.
Author: R. Kennedy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
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Will the church have a Revival, a Reformation, or will it have a Revolution--perhaps all three are needed? Churches all over America casually pray for revival. They sing about it, talk about it, blog about it, write books about it, preach sermons about it, yet, the air of the church seems helplessly thin. For a good deal of western Christendom, revival is a novel idea but not a perceivable reality. The cry for revival has never been greater--the demand for its powerful effects has never been more needed. Yet, the requirements for revival have never been so neglected. Every Spirit-filled believer knows in their gut something is coming, that things cannot remain as they are for the American Church. That we have somehow missed what we are supposed to be and do. If there is an ounce of prophetic nature left in the American church, she will anticipate and prepare for what is ahead. We picture times of revival as a time of refreshing, and of course, there are those times. However, a true sign that revival is on its way is when all we can see is a barren wasteland peppered with many crosses. It looks as all hope is lost, and in the natural, it is. Many of us want Revival our way. But revival God's way means there will be a tearing down of the old to bring to life again the things that have died. The Prophet's anguish will soon become his hope. When we recognize our churches seem to be spinning out of control, it is because we are on the potter's wheel. It is there the church is being formed in the image of Christ. How do we know such a revival will come? Because they have come in the past! God, time and time again has revived His church. As well, we have seen great awakenings in our land. We are due, no, overdue, for a great world-shaking, nation-awakening, revival!
Author: Dr. Stan Mars Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1973672251 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 303
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The majority of churches in America are either dying or dead. This is due to the sin of disobedience by man through the rejection and refusal to obey the commandments of God especially in John 13: 34-35 and Matthew 28: 19-20. Jesus commands us to GO into all nations and make disciples and this is an act of love for God and others. You will learn that most churches are not in this business so they do not make any disciples, and importantly, they don’t make leaders of disciples. Awake and Arise calls for the reformation of the American Church to begin to do God’s church - God’s way. If the church will adhere and obey, they will find revival offered by God. If the church continues to refuse, they will find the same experience that the Church of Laodicea found in the spewing out by Jesus Christ. To the glory of God - let us be humble and pray for forgiveness and move to God for His blessings to begin this journey!
Author: D. Penner Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230619614 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Their oral histories offer first-hand experiences: three days on a roof with Navy veteran Leonard Smith; at the convention center with waitress Eleanor Thornton; and with Willie Pitford, an elevator man, as he rescued 150 people in New Orleans East. Overcoming approaches the question of why New Orleans matters, from perspectives of the individuals who lived, loved, worked, and celebrated life and death there prior to being scattered across the country by Hurricane Katrina. This book's twenty-seven narrators range from Mack Slan, a conservative businessman who disparages the younger generation for not sharing his ability to make "good, rational decisions," to Kalamu ya Salaam, who was followed by the New Orleans Police Department for several years as a militant defender of Black Power in the late 1960s and '70s. These narratives are memorials to the corner stores, the Baptist churches, the community health clinics, and those streets where the aunties stood on the corner, and whose physical traces have now all been washed away. They conclude with visions of a safer, equitably rebuilt New Orleans. *Scroll down for more audio excerpts from Overcoming Katrina*.
Author: Katherine E. Browne Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM ISBN: 1477307389 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 350
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“The vivid story of one family’s ordeal in Hurricane Katrina . . . offers completely new and highly relevant insights into disaster response.” —Susanna Hoffman, disaster anthropologist and director, Hoffman Consulting Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s experience after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this family of one hundred fifty members lived in the bayou communities of St. Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans. Rooted there like the wild red iris of the coastal wetlands, the family had gathered for generations to cook and share homemade seafood meals, savor conversation, and refresh their interconnected lives. In this lively narrative, Katherine Browne weaves together voices and experiences from eight years of post-Katrina research. Her story documents the heartbreaking struggles to remake life after everyone in the family faced ruin. Cast against a recovery landscape managed by outsiders, the efforts of family members to help themselves could get no traction; outsiders undermined any sense of their control over the process. In the end, the insights of the story offer hope. Written for a broad audience and supported by an array of photographs and graphics, Standing in the Need offers readers an inside view of life at its most vulnerable. “Standing in the Need delivers an epic story about disaster and the haunting problems imposed by our ‘recovery culture.’ The lesson in these pages is of urgent concern as the world moves into weather we have never seen before.” —Mindy Fullilove, MD, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University “Browne suggests that recovery agencies could reduce suffering and speed healing by learning about the history, culture, and distinctive customs and needs of disaster-impacted communities.” —Contemporary Sociology
Author: Jerry Bass
Author: Jerry Bass
Author: Jerry Bass
Author: Ellen Jeffery Blue
Author: Pastor Willie L. Monnet, Sr.
Author: Hilry Thomas
Author: Connie Marie Harris
Author: R. Kennedy
Author: Dr. Stan Mars
Author: D. Penner
Author: Katherine E. Browne