Bøker av Kevin Powell

A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our time.

In the spirit of Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, writer and activist Kevin Powell's memoir';illuminatingan education for us all' (USA TODAY)vividly recounts the horrific poverty of his youth and his struggles to overcome a legacy of anger, violence, and self-hatred.When Kevin Powell was three, he discovered the volatile nature of his world: a place of pain, poverty, violence, fire, rats, roaches, and a fear that would haunt him for years; but also moments of joy, transcendence, and belonging. By the time he graduated from high school, something his single mother and his grandparents did not do, Powell had survived abuse, abandonment by his father, debilitating low self-esteem, a police beating, and years of constant relocationfrom school to school, neighborhood to neighborhood. He was left feeling isolated, wondering if his life had any value, and doubting that he would survive to see old age. In this unflinchingly honest autobiography, Kevin Powell reflects on his tumultuous, turbulent passage from child to man. He revisits the path that led him to become a successful writer, public speaker, activist, and cast member on the influential first season of MTVs The Real World. He also recalls the terrible lows he endured of depression, thoughts of suicide, alcoholism, bankruptcy, doomed relationships, failed political campaigns, and the soul-shattering murder of Tupac Shakur. Time and again, Powell harks back to lessons his mother taught him as a little boy: never stop learning, never stop telling the truth, always strive to be a better man, do what is right. Written with urgency and insight by one of the most gifted voices of our times, The Education of Kevin Powell is a powerful chronicle of healing and growth, survival and redemption. Ultimately, Kevin Powells journey is our journey, too.

This book is a very real account of how God speaks to his people in a variety of ways through the Holy Spirit in dreams, visions, visitations, prophetic word, and through the Holy Bible, these methods are meant for an impartation to those he has graphed in through his only begotten Son, Jesus revealing to us what is happening (in the spiritual realm, pre-existent knowledge through his all-knowing supreme power) in the world we live in, and other events that will soon come to past.The Lord Jesus Christ is not to be taken in any light sense of his being, for he ever intercedes for our most precious souls. Jesus desires for us to be attentive and aware of that old serpent (the Devil), that still rages in our society, he is on the prowl, searching, and seeking, out for the blood of God''s innocent children (innocent blood), throughout this whole world, the devourer lurks about, that''s what he does, an opportunist ready to move in to kill, steal, and destroy, wherever the circumstances might arise.By advantage, caused by the rejection of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that was slain from the foundation of the world, he will continue to destroy many. The battle rages on, take up the sword of truth, victory is ours. The anti-venom is the blood of Jesus, he is life, and he dissolves the works of the serpent. Don''t get bit!