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Live the Gift
Scott Thomas
其他書名
Stories
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010-02-20
主題Fiction / Religious
ISBN14505414969781450541497
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LgaLRAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The life of faith is the life of story. "Live the Gift" leads the reader more deeply into the faith story by engaging both the imagination and the heart. In 16 meticulously crafted, sermon-length fictions, the author - a local-church pastor in the United Church of Christ tradition - sketches ordinary people in extraordinary moments of their lives. A young couple comes to terms with an unplanned pregnancy; a young hitchhiker opens the eyes of a jaded trucker; a cop finds unlikely solace in a homeless street person; a rich entrepreneur discovers her longing for human connection; a soldier returns from war to find his life fragmented and reassembled in surprising ways. Seven other stories take the reader more deeply into the biblical narrative, adding depth and dimension to such familiar characters as Joseph and his brothers, the young warrior David, the couple on the road to Emmaus, and of course Jesus in all his brilliantly divine humanity. A longer bonus story is historical fiction, imagining life in the Oneida Community of upstate New York in the 1860s. The Oneida Community, led by the charismatic John Humphrey Noyes, was one of several faith-based experiments in communal living of the mid-19th century. What holds continuing fascination for historians is Noyes' free-love sexual philosophy and its intersection with the agape love of a faith community. Clergy seeking sermon inspiration, Christians wanting a tool for reflection or Bible study, and anyone who admits the possibility of the divine intruding into human life - all will find here a richly rewarding experience of faith and fiction.