Meows from the Manse - Blackstone, Barry

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Résumé :
If you are a cat lover and a Christian, then this book is for you. Seventeen years in the making, Meows from the Manse is a collection of remembrances and reflections from a Maine pastor about his cat of a lifetime and the years they lived together at the parsonage (manse) of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ellsworth, Maine. Eddie was a stray tomcat that eventually worked his way into the heart of this reluctant minister, despite the fact that this man of the cloth never liked cats. Surrounded by cats in his younger years on a family farm, and always living with a cat or two because of his wife's love affair with cats (Coleen's last cat would live twenty-two years--sixteen of them with Eddie), and his kid's love of cats, the exploits and experience with Eddie would change this pastor's mind about cats, teaching him the biblical challenge of Job 12:7: But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee! Relive the years with Eddie and the Pearl (Coleen's cat) and the enriching spiritual lessons this preacher learned from his constant companion and friend through the challenging years as a pastor of a small coastal church, the death of a thirty-nine-year-old son, and the passing of his dear wife of forty-eight years. The cat tales begin with Eddie's arrival across from the pastor's church and end with the passing of Eddie from throat cancer. In between are insights you might not believe from the Bible, but for the author were some of the best sermons he heard during that period of his life. Without a doubt for this widower, the messages (meows) from Eddie were some of the best he ever heard, but he will let you be the judge!

Biographie:
Barry Blackstone is 74 years old with 67 of those years as a believer in Jesus...

Sommaire:
Barry Blackstone has been the minister of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Ellsworth, Maine, for thirty-three years and has now reached the fifty-year mark in the pastorate. What a blessing to spend a half century sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with the four flocks that have called him pastor! This will be Blackstone's twenty-second book published by Wipf and Stock publishers through Resource Publications....