Death Came Knocking But Life Answered The Door

Henry L. Knight was at a loss for words. As a pastor, teacher, he rarely found himself in this condition. But he had just heard the most devastating news of his life?he had colorectal cancer. How could this have happened? He ate right, exercised, and got enough rest. How could his body turn on him like this? Pastor Knight chronicles his struggles to overcome this cancer. He came to terms with the fact that he became ill through no fault of his own, and began simultaneous chemo and radiation treatments. But it is God that he credits for his full healing. No matter what he saw when looking into the mirror, he never entertained death?only life. This book can serve as a blueprint for anyone with cancer who chose life over death.

Outlines a less invasive, more humane approach to end-of-life care, sharing the stories of the author's parents and explaining the political and technological factors that are interfering with patient preferences.

Out of Death Came Life - in personal and often poetic ways - tells the story of six decades of a woman’s life. In describing these events, Nada M Karam offers a story that depicts how she has lived with hope in the face of adversity. Her narrative encourages readers to strive on behalf of their own loved ones, no matter the cost. Answering the call of the Spirit, and searching out the written Word, this story shows that God still speaks to the heart and that it’s important in our world today. These inspiring words open the heart and mind and engages the reader, revealing a wonderful exciting relationship and true intimacy with God. The author displays courage and strength that reveals the unfailing love and faithfulness of God the father. Out of Death Came Life, presents both the events of the author’s life as they occur and the perspective she has grown to achieve through her perseverance in learning to lean on a higher authority as she learned to hear God’s voice along her journey. If you find yourself reflecting upon your own life and wondering whether it has meaning and purpose, you may find in Out of Death Came Life the encouragement of someone who has taken God at His word, and has come to the point of saying, “Yes, God does matter!” By the time you come to the end of Out of Death Came Life, you will have come to appreciate how God worked out His purposes through a life surrended. Perhaps you will discover God’s guiding hand and allow Him to do the same in your life, what have you got to lose? Take the journey through the narrow gate...

In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories—never before published in book form—in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.

The walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal letters. The Penguin Book of the Undead teems with roving hordes of dead warriors, corpses trailed by packs of barking dogs, moaning phantoms haunting deserted ruins, evil spirits emerging from burning carcasses in the form of crows, and zombies with pestilential breath. Spanning from the Hebrew scriptures to the Roman Empire, the Scandinavian sagas to medieval Europe, the Protestant Reformation to the Renaissance, this beguiling array of accounts charts our relationship with spirits and apparitions, wraiths and demons over fifteen hundred years, showing the evolution in our thinking about the ability of dead souls to return to the realm of the living—and to warn us about what awaits us in the afterlife. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.