The Lord Will Provide: The Life & Times Of Rev. William H. Copeland Jr.

Reverend William H. Copeland is a fighter. Not in the brutish or violent sense. He is a not a pugilist in the ring. Not a street brawler. But he is a warrior. God's warrior. A fighter for the Kingdom and for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A fighter for Civil Rights. A defender of the powerless, the poor, the hopeless and disenfranchised. He has been a fighter all his life. As the youngest of 14 children born in Dodson, Louisiana, he had to fight with unrelenting and purposeful intent for his life, even from a very early age. He was a sickly child. An answer to his mother's prayers for a son, he teetered between life and death, cradled by the winds of hope and prayers of ancestors who endured the Middle Passage and tortuous American slave plantations with a fervent faith in God and their eyes set on the prize. This book is the story of his American life. A memoir on the Life & Times of Reverend William H. Copeland, as told to his daughter. A pastor's story bathed in the context of the American nightmare known as slavery and also the hope embraced by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream, and African Americans' continue stride toward freedom. This is not a book of spiritual hyperbole but a personal human journey of the sacrifices, struggles, triumphs and even the failings of a good man with a heart for God. It is the story of what it truly means to be a pastor, to love the people of God. It is one man's story-reflective of the journeys of a generation of pastors and other clergy who preceded a new and current dispensation of prosperity doctrine, mega-churches and preacher as celebrity. It is a personal story that, at its heart, calls the church to repentance and to return to its roots of steadfast faith, uncompromised truth, deep spirituality, and social justice. To stand on four words that for Rev. Copeland have shone like diamonds, even in life's darkest hour: "The Lord Will Provide" 9780981485874 0981485871 0 BOOK Biography & Autobiography NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L1RxuAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: William H. Copeland Jr.|Monica Fountain
• | Publisher: Westside Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 06, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 162 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0981485871
• | ISBN-13: 9780981485874