Gods and Rollercoasters

Gods and Rollercoasters
Author: Crispin Paine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350046299

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This worldwide study examines how religion gets into theme parks – as mission, as an aspect of culture, as fable, and by chance. Gods and Rollercoasters analyses religion in theme parks, looking at how it relates to modernism, popular culture, right-wing politics, nationalism, and the rise of the global middle class. Crispin Paine argues that religion has discovered a major new means of expression through theme parks. From the reconstruction of Biblical Jerusalem at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, through the world of Chinese mythology at Haw Par Villa in Singapore, to the great temple/theme park Akshardham in New Delhi, this book shows how people are encountering and experiencing religion in the context of fun, thrills and leisure time. Drawing on examples from six of the seven continents, and exploring religious traditions including Christianity, Daoism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, Gods and Rollercoasters provides a significant contribution to the study of religion, sociology, anthropology, and popular culture.

The Wild Ride

The Wild Ride
Author: Harold Eickholt
Publisher: Winepress Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2011-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781414107790

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Experience healing and hope from God¿s truths as this unique collection of poems twists and zooms up and down the rollercoaster of life.

My Roller Coaster Ride with God

My Roller Coaster Ride with God
Author: Sandra Burnes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-12-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781662800368

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This book tells of the author's life story, from her childhood in California during a simpler time to her adult life as a military wife and mother. Over the years, Sandra and her family experienced several unfortunate mishaps that led to very serious hardships. Throughout the journey, however, the Lord provided every time and showed His grace toward Sandra and her family. This book is an inspiring read which cause readers to think about their own life stories and how God puts certain people and places in our paths; sometimes we just don't see them or pay attention. But God's faithfulness always weaves through all our lives. Sandra and her family lives in Washington State, where they continually serve their community by helping others in need. Sandra especially, has a big heart for animals, and adventures on animal rescues.

Beauty from Ashes

Beauty from Ashes
Author: Kristen Paris
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1664211209

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Life is variable, messy, and complicated. A single instant can propel us from joyful heights to seemingly endless tunnels of darkness, while between the milestones, time often drags at the pace of a snail on depressants, weighing us down in our inevitable march toward earthly life’s end. But in every moment, setting, and circumstance, God is present. Seen or unseen, His hand works, His eyes watch, and His heart beats a faithful cadence of commitment to those made to bear His image. While doctrinal answers truthfully respond to our mind’s questions, they sometimes miss making the ten-inch journey to the heart where our deeper wondering and need lives. The reflections in Beauty from Ashes were born outside of church walls, where feet meet pavement—where heart, mind, and body seek beauty, truth, and fulfillment in the daily reality of the world surrounding our Monday through Saturday lives. These musings on the incomprehensible God—ponderings on loss, joy, dissatisfaction, growth, need, failure, and strength—are variable and messy, as is life. But in every page, as in every moment, God is there, and that reality is the truth in which fulfilled, abundant life takes root. May the words of this book be herbs to flavor your experience of marinating in God’s love.

Roller Coaster

Roller Coaster
Author: D. L. Marshall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781436367721

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Whatever experiences you have lived and whatever moments you have enjoyed in life always lead you to the fate you are meant to have. Sometimes, you just don't know why you have to feel and experience those things, but you have to believe that you have to face it to prepare you for something bigger and greater. That's how the simple and seemingly ordinary things in life pile up so you can sit and enjoy the Roller Coaster ride. Author D.L. Marshall shares Dan's inspiring story so you will see how God truly works in mysterious and amazing ways. In a story of trust, faith, respect, knowledge, and action, Dan shows you how life may seem so empty but at the same time, makes everything and living worth it. Follow Dan from his birth, his childhood, his student life, his gang days, his teen years, his young life, his war days, and to his adult life in author D.L. Marshall's Roller Coaster. Accompany him as he moves from city to city, from state to state, and from country to country to pursue what he is destined to do and what he is made to be. Witness how he has fared through life, how he has overcome challenges and hardships, how he has struggled through discrimination, and how he has continued living even if things seemed hopeless. See how he has found hope in God in all these experiences. After reading this book of hope, you'll find that this can give you joy when you're suffering. You'll find this as a source of inspiration when you feel down and hopeless. This can give you strength when you feel alone and troubled. You may find yourself relating with Dan having the same experiences he had and you'll see how you, like Dan, has continued to stand firm with God. Let this Roller Coaster show you the choices and second chances of life.

Beauty from Ashes

Beauty from Ashes
Author: Kristen Paris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781664211223

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Life is variable, messy, and complicated. A single instant can propel us from joyful heights to seemingly endless tunnels of darkness, while between the milestones, time often drags at the pace of a snail on depressants, weighing us down in our inevitable march toward earthly life's end. But in every moment, setting, and circumstance, God is present. Seen or unseen, His hand works, His eyes watch, and His heart beats a faithful cadence of commitment to those made to bear His image. While doctrinal answers truthfully respond to our mind's questions, they sometimes miss making the ten-inch journey to the heart where our deeper wondering and need lives. The reflections in Beauty from Ashes were born outside of church walls, where feet meet pavement-where heart, mind, and body seek beauty, truth, and fulfillment in the daily reality of the world surrounding our Monday through Saturday lives. These musings on the incomprehensible God-ponderings on loss, joy, dissatisfaction, growth, need, failure, and strength-are variable and messy, as is life. But in every page, as in every moment, God is there, and that reality is the truth in which fulfilled, abundant life takes root. May the words of this book be herbs to flavor your experience of marinating in God's love.

The Rollercoaster Called Crack

The Rollercoaster Called Crack
Author: Daniel Barnes
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1684560373

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The belief in society will never be a reality when life lived by one has not been lived by another. As these statements being true and experienced, understand that we all fall through the cracks, willingly or unwillingly. Whatever your vice, the roller coaster continues . . .

I Rode the Faith Roller Coaster

I Rode the Faith Roller Coaster
Author: Sharon D Williams
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2021-11-06
Genre:
ISBN:

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I wrote this book to let people know how grief can affect you when it seems you've lost everything and how God will walk you through your recovery and restoration if you just let Him. I was raised in church and had a strong foundation in the LORD, so I believed God could get me through anything. But that's easy to say and not so easy to put into practice when God allows extraordinary trials to come into your life. There was a time when I thought God didn't love me. I thought He hated me. I thought I was cursed. I was so angry with God that I blamed Him for letting terrible things happen to my family. Each day when my feet hit the floor, I suffered in silence, worried about what others would say or think. Driving my car off a cliff looked like the only way out of my trials. But my autistic son saved my life. Read the extraordinary story of how that happened.

Lies Verses God's Truth

Lies Verses God's Truth
Author: Charlotte Viljoen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-07-03
Genre:
ISBN:

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12 years of back and forward trials and tribulations, from psychiatric hospitals to retreat's, and much more Charlotte eventually hit rock bottom no more strength and will to fight what God had for her. She booked herself into a retreat and there God started a transformation in her life by His Grace. Every healing transformation period in her life she overcame she began to write poems. God gave her a vision on the 3rd of January 2019 Poem's of hope and she began to give hope through her poems to hurting souls. A roller coaster ride... Living a double life of self-sabotaging happiness, Co-dependent relationships and wanting to serve God, started at the age of 9 years old and carried well into her 40's. At the age of 3 she was in a horrific car accident with her family and there the enemy placed lies upon her life. Her healing journey at Beulah Christian Retreat, morning star, lie's verses God's truth, and love is a choice she wants to share with other hurting souls, addicts and people searching for the truth giving hope through her poems. It's not how many times she fell but how many times she stood up. Proverbs 24:16 "The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again."