Born a Pastor's daughter Tabitha was brought up to be the model young woman. Reared to wait till marriage , cater to her family and her God she was prime for ministry at a young age. That is until life happened. By age 19 with little to no self-esteem, self-respect or confidence, she found herself contemplating doing things that went against everything she had ever been taught. "How did I get here," she thought, but soon after getting a taste of the fast life, it was too late to turn back. Within months she was so far in and the money was so good that she ran away from her safe life and ended up in a world she could never have prepared herself for. Faced with physical and mental abuse along with finding out she was with child, Tabitha knew something had to change. In the height of the lifestyle she was pushed out by divine destiny. From cover to cover this young lady takes you through the lifestyle of an exotic dancer to the very throne of God's magnificent Grace for her! From The Pole To The Pulpit is the ministry of Tabitha Matthews that God has mandated her to share for the edification of women all over the world.

Three young men, best friends, two black one white, are raised in the Church but take to the streets and become street hustlers. The street hustling doesnt go well so they decide to open three Churches, but only as a front so the Mexican Drug Cartel can launder money through the Churches. They buy their credentials off the Internet and record and use the sermons of TV Evangelist. Their Churches grow faster than anticipated. The flamboyant lifestyles they develop along with the thuggish street mentality they bring into the Church turns out to be more trouble than what the Cartel is willing to deal with. The three Ministers soon find themselves having to contend not only with a cruel Cartel, but the demons they have create within themselves.

The reign of Queen Mary is popularly remembered largely for her re-introduction of Catholicism into England, and especially for the persecution of Protestants, memorably described in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. Mary's brief reign has often been treated as an aberrant interruption of England's march to triumphant Protestantism, a period of political sterility, foreign influence and religious repression rightly eclipsed by the happier reign of her more sympathetic half-sister, Elizabeth. In pursuit of a more balanced assessment of Mary's religious policies, this volume explores the theology, pastoral practice and ecclesiastical administration of the Church in England during her reign. Focusing on the neglected Catholic renaissance which she ushered in, the book traces its influences and emphases, its methods and its rationales - together the role of Philip's Spanish clergy and native English Catholics - in relation to the wider influence of the continental Counter Reformation and Mary's humanist learning. Measuring these issues against the reintroduction of papal authority into England, and the balance between persuasion and coercion used by the authorities to restore Catholic worship, the volume offers a more nuanced and balanced view of Mary's religious policies. Addressing such intriguing and under-researched matters from a variety of literary, political and theological perspectives, the essays in this volume cast new light, not only on Marian Catholicism, but also on the wider European religious picture.

From the Polepit to the Pulpit was birthed from traumatic experiences that guided the life and destiny of a young woman that would inevitably enslave her life to rejection, abuse, emotional and psychological death, but would later be resurrected by the Power of God. From the Polepit to the Pulpit reveals how God transformed a young woman who did not see herself as significant in the lives of others to a woman filled with passion, purpose, and exceeding potential. As a result of her resurrection, Racheemba has become a trailblazer in this generation, advocating for women who suffer from low-self-esteem, low-self-image and mental abuse. This book reveals the different circumstances that took place in her life as she encountered tremendous adversity and was defined by society as another statistic in the foster care system. But God saw in her what she could not see in herself and took what should have been her down fall and turned it into her uprising.In "From the Pole Pit to the Pulpit," you will be empowered to not see your situation as an obstacle, but as the vehicle that will catapult your life to complete wholeness that will supersede what you could have ever imagined for your life, ministry, family and your destiny. This book will prove to you that your life is not a mistake but a miracle that has been ordained to rescue the lives of others through the power of healing, deliverance and restoration. What you thought was "No Way Out," was God's plan of escape for you that took place at Calvary in way of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ from which you have been set free. Finally, you will discover the "You" that God has created and put here on earth to serve as a conduit to bring Glory and Honor to his name.

From its founding in 1877, a series of remarkable preachers have filled the pulpit at the Dexter Avenue (King Memorial) Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Most famous among them, of course, was Martin Luther King, Jr., whose leadership of the civil rights movement began in a meeting in the basement of the Dexter Church at the outset of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. Yet King's was only one of the powerful voices which thundered the social gospel from what has become one of the most significant religious edifices in the world. In this book, editor Michael Thurman--the current pastor of the church-presents sermons from each of the ministers who have led the church since 1947. These pastors are: Vernon Johns, Martin Luther King, Jr., Herbert Eaton, G. Murray Branch, Robert Dickerson, Boykin Sanders, Richard Wills, and Michael Thurman. Their collective sermons reveal the rhetorical and literary talents which are a hallmark of great preaching, the profound faith which has sustained the African American tradition, and the power and persuasiveness which have come to be identified with the Dexter Church pulpit as a force for both spiritual and social change.