Bøger af Chuck Thompson

Putting our problem solving energy and attention into cursing ourselves, holding onto bitterness, or quickie justifications are three examples of slipping. We do not get stuck on trials because they are difficult but because our energy and attention "slips" away to something else. This is the subject of Slipping and Sliding Through Trials, a sequel to The James Prescription, which uses the trials of life as opportunities for spiritual formation and personal growth.

The first chapter of the Epistle of James is a wealth of wisdom to be applied to the trials of life. It is wisdom that is to be applied for the purpose of becoming the complete person God intended each of us to be. As THE JAMES PRESCRIPTION unfolds, readers will learn new ways to think, feel, and behave that move systematically from the basic priorities to a new strategy for the development of virtue. These new skills include praying for wisdom and expecting to get it, the attitudes of grace, joy, and hope, simple and complex problem solving formulas, slowing down, and "The Virtue Manual."

Presence and Truth is a comprehensive counseling system originally written to help Christian students connect their faith while studying counseling theories in graduate programs that may not be sympathetic to the integration of psychology and Christianity. It has evolved into a counseling system that is simple enough for novice people-helpers to learn the basic counseling skills of being present and telling the truth but is pervasive and flexible enough for seasoned people-helpers to use as a strategy for incorporating diverse therapeutic techniques and strategies into one over-arching approach.

If you knew your life was about to end, how would you prepare yourself? First-century Jerusalem was always in political turmoil as the seven Jewish sects completed for power under the watchful presence of Roman occupation. But with the death of the Roman procurator and the installation of a new high priest, the danger to James escalated considerably. James, the brother of Jesus, and the leader of the Christian sect known as The Way, knew well that it was a volatile time. Ananas, the new high priest, was seizing this opportune moment to pressure James into denouncing his faith, his Lord, and his brother. Who would guess that the simple answer to Ananas' question would cost James his life...but build an enduring legacy of faith for generations to come? The intriguing story based on the last days of James, the brother of Jesus and writer of the epistle James in the Bible, who was martyred in 62 AD.

Wolves, nature's ecological police, bring balance in nature wherever they go. What would it be like if something similar happened in the world of men? Seventeen year old Jasper Lilla of Boone, NC is about to find out. He's also about to find out who murdered Dr. Dietrich and what it's like to face death himself. But the most unsettling discovery Jasper is about to make is who he and his family really are.

"From Mount Carmel to Mount Horeb" begins by diagnosing the prophet Elijah as depressed; he is preoccupied with morbid thoughts and negative self-attributions, his sleep has increased and he must be forced to eat. From naming Elijah's depression it proceeds to explain his depression as a disintegration of his identity story. It traces the development of the identity story of "I am the only one" through the various high points of his life until it crashes under the broom tree in the desert. A new identity, story, found at Horeb, allows Elijah's story and life to continue.

Jasper Lilla's mother, Vernalisa, returns from Hendersonville with a nasty bite from a Black Mambasnake. Because Vernalisa is who she is the bite does not kill her, but it does put her in a coma. WithVernalisa out of the way, the balance of power in nature is threatened. The threat comes in the form ofa mysterious red-headed woman who uses the opportunity to expand her dominion. If she wins all of nature will be diseased and decay. In her service is a host of crazed vermin and scavengers. The onlything standing between her and the demise of planet earth is 17-year- old Jasper Lilla, his sister, theirnanny and the wolves of Banner Elk.

"As if Kevin Phillips's American Theocracy were being narrated by Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi," Chuck Thompson's "viciously funny and thoroughly tasteless" examination of Southern secession was one of the most controversial books of the year (Washington Monthly).Chuck Thompson—dubbed “savagely funny” by the New York Times and “wickedly entertaining” by the San Francisco Chronicle—spent two years traveling the American South to determine whether, as he’d long suspected but not yet proven, the whole country might be better off letting Dixieland make good on its two-hundred-years-old threat to secede. The result is a long overdue and serious inquiry into national divides that is deliberately provocative and uproariously funny while making a compelling case for “a kind of no-fault divorce for nation-states: no hard feelings, just two adults who can’t quite make the relationship work, shaking hands and walking away” (The Oxford American).