Out of the Fowler's Snare is an inspiring and honest memoir revealing the pain and devastation of high school bullying and its impact on an adult life. Damaged emotions, low self-esteem, and the author's poor choices collide to form a trapped, unhappy existence. This Christian author candidly reveals her long personal struggle for freedom and wholeness. After years on a winding path to find healing, she realizes that it is an enemy fowler that holds her captive. Her rescue finally does come in a most unexpected way bringing her redemption and heartfelt joy! Out of the Fowler's Snare is a Christian, real-life story of restoration written in two parts. You will sense the deep pain of The Capture, but also the joy and hope of The Rescue. Once you learn the secret of the rescue, you can begin to imagine and find new hope for your own scarred life.

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Bruce Hughes is the founder of Broken Snares Unlimited, a ministry for those who have found themselves trapped in one of Satan's snares and therefore deprived of the joy that God had intended for them. He speaks from personal experience and enjoys a new life of freedom after claiming the victory found in Psalms 124:7, "Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken and we are escaped." Bruce retired after thirty-six years in the education and human service field. He and his wife Peggy have been married forty-three years and have two adult sons and five grandchildren. Hoping for insight and relief from the lingering effects of abuse, Bruce Hughes watched his world fall apart after being accused of engaging in unlawful online activity. With his pure motives appearing wrongful, Bruce was arrested in a sting operation and charged with possession of child pornography. Overnight, Bruce found himself living in Job's house, suffering loss, terrible heartache, and unfair consequences. His total dependence on God for healing and restoration packs the pages of this book with a powerful testimony. It is certainly evidence of God's loving heart and His mighty ability to break the painful bondages caused by sexual abuse and pornography. Thanks to this author for his enormous service to the Christian and counseling communities working to heal and restore victims of male childhood sexual abuse. It is greatly hoped that God will use this remarkable resource to bring victims out of hiding and into the light of His healing power.

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In any commentary on a portion of the Old Testament by a writer unacquainted with Hebrew, exact criticism, and freedom from mistake, must not be expected. But the Psalms have been so in the mouth and in the heart of God's people in all languages, that it has been necessary often to find an explanation suitable to imperfect translations. And no doubt it is intended that we should use such explanations for the purpose of edification, when we are unable to be more accurate, though in proving doctrine it is necessary always to remember and allow for any want of acquaintance with the original, or uncertainty with respect to its actual meaning. However, the main scope and bearing of the text is rarely affected by such points as vary in different translations, and the analogy of the faith is sufficient to prevent a Catholic mind from adopting any error in consequence of a text seeming to bear a heterodox meaning. Perhaps the errors of translation in the existing versions may have led the Fathers to adopt rules of interpretation ranging too far from the simple and literal; but having such translations, they could hardly use them otherwise. Meanwhile St. Augustin will be found to excel in the intense apprehension of those great truths which pervade the whole of Sacred Writ, and in the vivid and powerful exposition of what bears upon them. It is hardly possible to read his practical and forcible applications of Holy Scripture, without feeling those truths by the faith of which we ought to live brought home to the heart in a wonderful manner. His was a mind that strove earnestly to solve the great problems of human life, and after exhausting the resources, and discovering the emptiness, of erroneous systems, found truth and rest at last in Catholic Christianity, in the religion of the Bible as expounded by St. Ambrose. This is volume two out of two, covering the Psalms LXXIV through CL.

C.H. Spurgeon, the "Prince of Preachers," first published in weekly installments over a twenty-year period in the periodical The Sword and the Trowel. Originally published in seven volumes all of which are included here.