#jerry b jenkins

[theahole]

New used books!

Gonna do this five books at a time, as typing can hurt and I just brought home more of my stepmother's books. Today I put these in my used book etsy:

Cheaper than kindle!

Gen-you-wine civil defense booklet from the US government, 1961.

This is the last copy of this book I have to sell. Practically new, way lower than amazon, free shipping.

You can buy these books here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/talesresold

[thehopeelias]

Higher Quality on Youtube:

I’ll probably post some of the individual art here without the credits on it. I’ll definitely be posting them ALL on my art insta ( @ hopesartcastle ) including some sketches and concept art type things.

The Japanese lyrics were from Lauren Horii’s original Youtube video. The rest of the Japanese text was me. And I am by no means fluent so apologies if I made any glaring or horrible mistakes 😆

[devotedgossamerreader]

Why is my christian symbolism juvenile novel pulling a star war

I didn't like "the love interest is actually the sibling" the first time

[mygrowingcollection]

Jerry B Jenkins

[picturebookshelf]

The Dallas O'Neil Mysteries: Mystery of the Missing Sister (1988)

Story: Jerry B Jenkins -- Art: Unknown

[magnusbae]

"The best writing is born of humility, the great stuff comes to life in those agonizing and exhilarating moments when writers become acutely aware of the limitations of their skills for it is then that they strain the hardest to make use of the imperfect tools with which they must work." —Jerry B. Jenkins

[friendly-neighbourhood-librarian]

So one of the reasons I believe fiction is important is that it offers readers access to the same sense of wonder I felt as a child. Another reason is that it helps us connect with others on a deeper level. When we read a novel, we in essence contract, or agree, with the author to temporarily suspend disbelief and enter the world and scenarios he or she has created. We connect with fictitious characters viscerally, empathizing with their struggles and feeling their pain and joy. Fiction has the power to build bridges between people, even those vastly different from one another.

—Jerry B. Jenkins

[frombehindthepen]

When a Novel Explodes Into a Frightening Reality

When a Novel Explodes Into a Frightening Reality #MindControl #LeftBehind #Reading #Religious

Image Credit: 1tamara2 Have you ever read a novel, only to discover how frightening it would be should it come to fruition in real life? After reading the novel Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, it scared the living heebie-jeebies out of me. People are suddenly disappearing around the globe leaving their families and friends terror-stricken. Vehicles are left abandoned or careening…

[whoopsyeahokay]

Wally Clark Headcanons

He preferred baseball to football. Not that he dreamed of being a pro athlete after graduation. But if you asked him which he'd want to play more, he'd always choose baseball over football. Fewer risks of getting tackled to death...

He learned to drive when he was 10. His grandfather taught him. Mostly to get the kid to focus his energy on something. Wally had a lot of energy. His grandfather would take Wally to work with him on weekends and school breaks. Taught Wally how to fix things and how to operate a tractor mower. His grandfather died 4 years after the '83 homecoming game.

One summer, Wally and his bff Jerry worked at the youth center as day camp counselors. Another, he was a bus boy at Donna's mom's restaurant in midtown. Then he worked for the local mechanic, Bud Binns. His last summer alive, Wally worked as a gravedigger in the church cemetery.

Wally wanted to be a mechanic. Wanted to travel across the States and work where he was able. Had the whole thing planned with his buddy Rodney. Post-grad road trip. Wally would make money fixing things when they needed the cash, and Rodney would work as a dishwasher in whatever diner would hire him. It was going to be awesome.

He never applied to college or university. Kept procrastinating. Felt that it wasn't really for him. Besides, if his mama had her way (which she usually did), he'd be scouted and it wouldn't matter anyway, so what was the point?

He lost his virginity to Lisa Jenkins when he was 16. In the back of his dad's pickup at the drive-in. It was embarrassing and awkward and kind of funny and he wouldn't change a thing.

Wally was a B student. He excelled in math and science. Was decent enough in English to understand a metaphor. Was naturally talented in phys-ed. He hated history. He took Spanish and French. He fucking slayed home economics.

In his free time, Wally learned to play guitar (because it was cool) and drums (because it was gnarly) and harmonica (because it annoyed the shit out of Jenny McKinnon and she was cute when she got mad).

He rode his bike everywhere he couldn't drive and drove out of town regularly to check out events in Milwaukee: Bands. Food festivals. Themed discos. Comedy shows.

He had a busy social calendar, but always made time for his grandma, spent time with his mama, and went camping with his dad when the weather was nice.

Wally knew he was going to die before he turned 21.

[jeyneofpoole]

i’m a bookseller so let’s analyze the books that asoiaf characters would probably be into in my expert opinion

sansa: easy answer, mass-market bodice rippers. true answer, horror. she is a vc andrews girly but she hates stephen king. also she probably read a bunch of colleen hoover at a very formative age and it fucked up her idea of healthy relationships.

jon: manga. i do not know jack or shit about manga but i do know he’d probably like that berserk one or whatever the fuck it’s called. he’s emo. nobody understands him. you get it. so on and so forth.

theon: he doesn’t read but he does go back into the kids department and stick gum in the pages of the i survived books. sometimes if he’s feeling really bold he’ll put his number in between the pages of novels that he thinks are for smart people. his concept of high lit is not very developed so it’s sort of a toss-up as to the books he does this to. they’ve found his number in the brothers karamazov and a taylor jenkins reid novel on the same day.

dany: ya dystopia. you KNOW she would have been so into the maze runner and divergent. somebody let this child have a hunger games phase dear lord.

arya: her idol growing up was junie b jones. she was obsessed with the boxcar children and when she was 7 she tried to run away but to her extreme dismay she couldn’t find a boxcar so she settled for an underpass frequented by various delinquents, vagabonds, etc. they unionized to get her back home and cat didn’t let her outside for a year. immediately after she was ungrounded she ran away again to murder pigeons en masse because she had just read wringer by jerry spinelli and took away the wrong message. now she just reads fencing instructional books. also a warrior cats kid.

[theworstofallpossibleworlds]

TWOAPW #171: LEFT BEHIND WORLD AT WAR

The lads dive once more into the apocalyptic mind of Jerry B. Jenkins, as they cover the unintentional finale of the Kirk Cameron Left Behind trilogy: LEFT BEHIND WORLD AT WAR. Topics include the acting bona fides of Lou Gosset Jr., the importance of colons in titles, and how strict adherence to evangelical Christian eschatology will eventually lead you to blowing out the candles of a sad bundt birthday cake in the backroom of a church ministry in Bellflower, California.

[luucypevensie]

🦓 for Freddie?

YES EVEN MORE ASKS FOR MY BOY!! THANK YOU ANNA! Tagging @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @rose-of-oz, @ginevrastilinski-ocs, @thetenthdoctorscompanion, @nikosasaki, @gabbysdawsons, & @aliverse

Their favorite sweet treat: Freddie LOVES maple bars (a rectangular donut filled with either cream or custard, and can be topped with either nuts or bacon [though he prefers nuts])

Their birth flower: Lily of the Valley and Hawthorn (May 1st, 2004)

Their favorite urban legend: Char Man of San Antonia Creek (per the local legend, a father and son were trapped in a horrible fire. Before anyone could save them, the father perished in the fire and the traumatized son lost his mind. As a result, he skinned his father and ran away into the nearby forest. Now, known forever as Char Man, his blackened, burnt body is said to attack motorists on Creek Road in Ojai as he seeks more human skins. It freaks Freddie out every time he hears it, yet it's also incredibly fascinating to him)

Their favorite classical monster: The Phantom of the Opera

Their favorite YA novel: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (as a lover of books, this one really impacted Freddie when he first read it in elementary school)

The number one best-selling fiction book from the day they were born: Glorious Appearing by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (May 1st, 2004)

An irrational fear of theirs: That Julie, Flynn, and Sam will lose interest and not want to be around him anymore like his parents

Their favorite dish: Shepherd's Pie (it was when he really started loving all things related to England, and it was one of the first dishes he tried when he went over there with the Penns)

Their favorite DCOM: Lemonade Mouth, of course! Their journey really reminds him of the band

Their favorite mythical creature: Sirens

[bookwyrminspiration]

What's the series next to divergent (⁠●⁠_⁠_⁠●⁠)

It's the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. I haven't actually read any of it, but I own the first four books (which I do fully intend to read). I actually only learned what they were even about like last month when I had a couple friends over and we discovered a movie by the same name--it apparently had a pretty mediocre/bad adaptation.

The reason I have the first third of a series I didn't recall the premise of was because several years ago on a trip to an event at the zoo, we parked a ways away (I don't remember why), and on the walk there we passed one of those little free libraries. And I, being me, was like wow! Books! I'm going to take all four of those. And so I did

I did read the synopsis at the time, and took them because I was intrigued, but I forgot with time. I'll read them one day I promise 👍

[adverbian]

Twenty years ago (!!), blogger Fred Clark started a detailed sporking of the Left Behind series by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

Along the way, he well and thoroughly roasted the theology of Premillennial Dispensationalism. (And pointed out how it was woven into everything the George W. Bush administration did — and wow, does reading those posts give me some real bad flashbacks).

It’s a whole, detailed, and completely bananas worldview based on Frankensteining together passages from all different books of the Bible. Long story short:

Christians get raptured

Seven years of gruesome revenge-fantasy suffering for everyone left behind

Second Coming

Jesus physically reigns on earth for a thousand years

Final Judgment (including the final boss battle with Satan!)

New Jerusalem (Garden of Eden rebuilt, more or less)

I bring this up, because I feel like this eschatology is absolutely ripe for Good Omens S3 mockery.

I mean, look at this chart. Just look at it. This is what it’s all like.

(Also, not for nothing, but Gaiman was very active in the blogosphere of the same era. I’d be surprised if he hadn’t been reading Fred Clark.)

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Timothy Francis LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins have had an insurmountable impact on modern Christianity, and some of you aren't ready to have this conversation.

For those who aren't aware, these two men are the authors of the Left Behind series of books, which has 16 books, 5 movies, and a children's book series, that follows a group of people from the Rapture, onto the end of the Tribulation period, where Jesus comes back for a mighty war to wipe out the forces of Satan.

This book series was arguably the next most popular book, next to the Bible, and still is, for many Christians. Enter any thrift shop, and you're guaranteed to find at least a few of these books in the used books section.

These books are essentially AO3 fan-fiction where the authors took vague symbolism from AD 81–96, and applied it to modern geo-politics, and invented a whole storyline to fit the two author's views on things such as Judaism, Catholicism, the United Nations, Liberal Secularism, and other concepts that are either not in the Bible, or are completely different from our modern understanding of it (Judaism has evolved from the times of Jesus for example).

This book series took what was essentially a fringe view from the 1800s, that's not even held by a lot of denominations today, and made it mainstream and easy to market through average level prose.

So, how has one series that is really only known for shitty Nick Cage films, and books that aren't really seen outside of church libraries affected non-Christians globally?

Well, global warming for example. Many, many, people think that because "Jesus is coming back soon" that we don't need to do anything to prevent the destruction of the world we live in, because it's all going to be gone in a few years anyways, so why should I care?

They often cite the book of Genesis, where God pledges to never kill the world again with water, and by their logic, the ice caps can't be melting because God promised to never flood the world again.

Many policy decisions also center around this, such as global support for Israel by Conservative and Liberal (yes, even Liberals, who are often Christian too) parties, as there's this ongoing belief that one must support Israel, as they're a vital part in "End Time's Prophecy", and that any day now, the Anti-Christ will arise in the Middle East, preform miracles, and be declared the Messiah (falsely), which then starts the war of Gog and Magog, with Russia, Syria, and other countries around the globe partaking in it.

Name any modern shitty policy, and it can be traced back to the concept of the Rapture. Abortion? Anti-Trans/Gay laws? Gun control? All of these have links to Pre-Millennial Dispensationalism.

Some scholars have written on this, such as Bart Ehrman when he wrote the book Armageddon, but I have yet to see any scholar write about the more nitty gritty stuff that you see from pastors and random schmucks on YouTube, that I've seen growing up in a family that believes in this stuff.

Hard to believe that a letter written about a conspiracy theory back ~1950 years ago, is being used to backslide human rights and throw gas on the extinction of life on the planet.

Thanks John Nelson Darby!

[hbhughes]

Barbara A. Neary

Barbara A. Neary formerly of Kingston died peacefully Friday afternoon Feb. 28, 2025, at home in Dallas.  She was ninety-three.

Born and raised in Wyoming, she was the daughter of the late Anna J. Pollack and George A. Pollack. She was an honor student at Saint Cecelia’s and the Wilkes Barre business college.  She was a crackerjack speller and passed along all credit to the dedicated nuns.

She met her late husband Robert when she was sixteen. Robert was a close friend of Barb’s cousin Donald Jenkins.  Barbara and Robert married on Dec. 4, 1952, in the Kingston Presbyterian Church.

Before retirement Barbara was a local institution serving customers with great compassion at the Kingston Monument Company.  She took pride in her work, was a wealth of knowledge and experience, and she made a lot of friends along the way.  She was a former member of the Monument Builders of Pennsylvania and a current board member of the Huntsville Cemetery Association.

When Barb was physically able to get around, if you asked her what was happening, usually the conversation turned to her church.  She loved participating in all aspects of church life at the Church of Christ Uniting in Kingston.  She served on multiple task forces, roasted turkeys for shut-ins, drove folks for dial-a-driver and was a past moderator of Parish Council.  Most recently she served as a link on the prayer chain.

Barbara was a devoted and beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her family was her greatest joy.  She was their biggest fan always encouraging and supporting their education and interests.  And with the birth of the great-grands, Barb announced a name change.  She wanted the babies to call her Oma.  And Oma loved our annual family vacations either at the outer banks in N.C. or Islesboro Maine.  We are grateful to have been able to have made so many wonderful memories together with family and friends.

Barbara’s entire family thanks Nita Sarnak, caregiver extraordinaire, … Dr. Arthur Mitchell, Donna, Mary Erwine Home Health and Hospice, Mary, Karen, Kim, Eden, Sue and Powerback’s gal Robin…thank you all for your kind and compassionate care.

Barbara was preceded in death by her husband Robert Neary, her sister Virginia Stevens, and brother-in-law Frank Stevens.

Surviving are Barbara’s daughter; Nancy Neary Baird and her husband Howard Jr. Dallas; beloved grandchildren Howard III and his wife Ciera, Virginia Leschak and her husband Chris Leschak; great-grandchildren, Finn, Eli and Kai; brother Jerome D Pollack; nieces, Susanna Crosser and Beverly Spittle; nephews, Frank Stevens Jr, David Stevens, Jerry Pollack Jr., and Brian Pollack.

A memorial service will be held Friday March 14th at 11 am at Church of Christ Uniting, Market Street and Sprague Avenue, Kingston, with the Rev. Jane Pykus officiating. 

Friends may call Thursday March 13th 4 to 6 pm at Hugh B. Hughes & Son Funeral Home 1044 Wyoming Avenue, Forty Fort.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Church of Christ Uniting, 190 south Sprague Avenue, Kingston, Pa 18704.