Bücher von Debbie Vanderslice

Dressing Up Death (God's Unbecoming Fit of Grief) is a ten chapter book that provides a parallel metaphoric portrait of how death is all about life. By taking the ultimate person, God the Father, and His view on death through characters, not pat answers, serve as much needed refuge for those who have traveled grief's rocky terrain. Healing comes from not dressing up death, but rather from the honest and intimate comparison that we, as humans, not deny the nature of who God created us to be: life givers and receivers. It is the goal of this book to have readers come away feeling overwhelmingly normal that their emotions toward death, an abnormal event, do indeed reflect the very essence and heart of God Himself.

The Altar is a ten-chapter non-fiction book that examines the parallel relationship between abuse that goes on in the church today and likens it to the act of rape. By taking a metaphoric look at why God despises authoritative leadership abuse within the church, the author will compare this abuse to the key Biblical text where Jesus drove out the moneylenders and priests for raping, or abusing, those trying to get to the altar, or God. By taking the reader through the actual example of rape itself, part one is entitled, The Intruder Within. Part one of the book metaphorically uses the rapist as the intruder within the church who has unlimited and unquestionable position, power, and authority Part two of the book, The Exposer Without, brings into focus how Jesus is on the outside looking in. Whereas part one of the book concentrated on how the intruder within, the rapist, gains unlimited positional authority, part two reveals that Jesus seeks to bring healing to His church by exposing truth wherever necessary. Readers will be comforted by the fact they are not alone and that God truly feels the pain, as well as the rage, when His children are raped at the altar. God was close to the broken hearted during Jesus' time on earth and continues to be today.

And The House Was Filled; The radicalness of God''s Grace is a 10 chapter book that looks at Mary of Bethany and compares her sacrifice of pure nard to a modern day Mary who went through chemo while pregnant and radiation and delivers a 4.0 lb baby girl. Watch as her prayer partner soaks up all God has in store for her. It is life changing for the author. It parallels Mary of Bethany and her sacrifice. Both gave what they had, not what they didn''t.

The Treasures of Darkness is an eight chapter nonfiction book that examines the various aspects of suffering and asks the question 'can anything good come from it?' Because we live in a tarnished world full of muck and mire, readers are more than familiar with different kinds of suffering and pain. The question is not if we will suffer in this life, but rather, to what degree. Instead of focusing believers and nonbelievers who will see firsthand that there really are benefits to our pain. There are truly treasures of darkness.