#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

[quotesfrommyreading]

Books and songs about Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott circulated widely — especially among teenagers in suburban churches, as I and many others can personally attest. They prompted not just teenage soul searching but also that other teenage phenomenon: aspiration. Rosin described a “kind of teenage hysteria, a Christian-sanctified death wish” that the Columbine martyrdom mythology had inspired.

A teenager named Tina Leonard, Rosin reported, told a Southern Baptist news service that “God has laid it on my heart that I'm going to be martyred. When I told one of my friends, he said, 'That's awesome. I wish it could happen to me.’”

That might sound horrifying. But for many Christian teenagers in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it made a strange kind of sense. If you were a Christian teenager during the period of time following the era of the grunge-and-flannel dropout Gen-Xers, following your faith was preached to you as a radical act. “Extreme” and “radical” and “fully sold out” were common terms in Sunday school curriculums, at youth rallies, and in teen-focused devotionals and study Bibles. Teens were supposed to be “sold out for Jesus.” Anything less and you were a bad Christian.

Those who guided Christian culture in the ’90s were on the hunt for teen-specific ways to inspire young people to stay true to their faith. Conferences, teen-focused books and publications, music that sounded like mainstream music but had Christian lyrics, and T-shirts and other cheap commercial products splashed with sayings like “WWJD” (What Would Jesus Do) and “FROG” (Fully Rely on God) abounded. Though youth groups had been around for decades, they exploded as centers of not just spiritual growth but also social life for teenagers across the country.

An enormous part of Christian teen culture in the years before Columbine was standing up for what you believed — the power of prayer, the existence of God, the wrongness of premarital sex — in the face of people who might make fun of you for it. You might be ostracized, but by standing up for your beliefs, your faith would only grow stronger.

One of 1995’s most popular Christian albums was from the musical group DC Talk (whose styles have ranged from rap to alt-rock to, today, something like stadium rock). It was called Jesus Freak — a phrase gleefully borrowed from a derogatory term used for hippie Christians in the 1970s — and its title track, which contains some echoes of Nirvana, was about not caring if people made fun of you for your faith. The (extremely catchy) chorus mused, “What will people think / When they hear that I'm a Jesus freak / What will people do when they find that it's true / I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak / There ain't no disguising the truth.” The song won three Dove Awards.

The album was followed in 1999 — the year of the Columbine massacre — by Jesus Freaks: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus, the Ultimate Jesus Freaks, a book co-authored by DC Talk and the advocacy group the Voice of the Martyrs (which supported Christians in closed and oppressive religious regimes around the world).

The book built on one of the most revered texts in the Christian faith: Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, published in 1563. It told the story of people who died for their faith, all the way from Stephen (whose stoning in the Book of Acts led to the conversion of the Apostle Paul) to contemporary teenagers in religiously oppressive regimes who had chosen death rather than conversion to a faith other than Christianity. Several companion volumes have been released since then, including one tellingly titled Live Like a Jesus Freak: Spend Today As If It Were Your Last.

And it’s no accident that the late 1990s and early 2000s were the heyday of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’smega-best-selling Left Behind novels, which mix elements of thrillers, adventure stories, horror tales, and conspiracy theories to dramatize the end of days, in which millions of people from around the world suddenly disappear in an event called “the rapture” and the events foretold in the Bible are set in motion, including the rise of the Antichrist. (Left Behind depends on one way of interpreting the Bible known as dispensationalism, which has its roots in the 19th century and is particularly popular among evangelicals.)

The first installment of the Left Behind series, also titled Left Behind, was published in 1995. Fifteen more books followed. Book 10 debuted at the top of the New York Times best-seller list in 2002, and seven other novels in the series reached the top of the charts.

The books follow a core group of characters who were “left behind” after all the Christians on Earth vanish. Some of them quickly become Christians and start an evangelization movement. Some also become involved with plots to protect believers and resist the globalist one-world government, which eventually requires citizens to take the “mark of the beast” in order to be able to participate in trade and obtain food. The believers are largely forced to operate underground, working to convert as many people as possible until time runs out, always in the face of danger and death.

Reading Left Behind, revering martyrs throughout history and around the world, rocking out to “Jesus Freak,” weeping to “This Is Your Time” — alone, none of these activities necessarily lead to the martyrdom hysteria Rosin reported and many people who were teenagers then remember.

But combined with the potency of real (or real enough) homegrown martyrs like Rachel Scott and Cassie Bernall — ordinary teenagers who thought about boys and struggled with their faith and were “sold out” for Jesus — it’s easy to see how a teenager like Tina Leonard might feel like God laid it on her heart that she’d be martyred. Maybe not at school. Maybe not on the mission field. Maybe it would only be during the dark days before the rapture takes Christians away from the days of tribulation. But it would happen, Leonard believed. And it was going to be “awesome.”

  —  After Columbine, martyrdom became a powerful fantasy for Christian teenagers

[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…

[screen1ne]

Review: Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ

"Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ is to date the most complete and best of Left Behind movies that have been released to date." Read the Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ review here #LeftBehind #Review #KevinSorbo @101FilmsUK

Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ trailer Back in 1995, writers Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins wrote Left Behind. It was a start of an original 12 book series that spanned 9 years. There was later a series of 3 prequel books and 1 follow on novel (Kingdom Come). It became the jumping off point for a series of fast paced Christian fiction novels that went on to become worldwide best sellers…

[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.

[whoopsyeahokay]

Wally Clark's Pre-Exuent 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. He 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.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Footnotes, 201-213

[201] Ibid., 265.

[202] Ibid., 197.

[203] Stephen D. O’Leary, quoted in James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 108.

[204] Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days, 286.

[205] Ibid., 273.

[206] Katherine Yurica, “Tim LaHaye, the Richest Divinator in the World,” The Yurica Report, www.yuricareport.com.

[207] Ibid.

[208] See Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Harper’s, November 1964, 77–86.

[209] Cited in Davidson Loehr, America, Fascism and God, 81–82.

[210] James Luther Adams, The Essential James Luther Adams: Selected Essays and Addresses, ed. George Kimmich Beach (Boston: Skinner House, 1998), 25–26.

[211] Quoted by Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming, 187.

[212] Samuel Clemens, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885), 270–272.

[213] Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, trans. Robert Chandler (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), 410.

[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.

[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.)