Jacquelin Thomas's new release makes a strong exploration of a highly pertinent issue--sex addiction among believers and church leaders. The story is more told than shown, but the characters are believable and the dialogue is sharp and interesting. This book will especially please readers who enjoy a clear theme and scripture woven throughout.
Book Description:
Samson Taylor has just been installed as assistant pastor at a thriving North Carolina church. He’s a man of God-and most definitely no saint. Handsome and charismatic, Samson is controlled by his lust for beautiful women, a weakness that stirs up trouble, heartache, betrayal, and damaging rumors-and soon costs him his marriage, his best friendship, and even his new job. Samson loves God and tries harder than ever to keep his temptations in check. Then he meets Delinda…Beautiful, irresistibly sexy, and married to a famous NBA star, Delinda has Samson head-over-heels in love . . . in a dangerous affair that leads to a physical confrontation with Delinda’s husband. Now, the disgraced pastor begins a journey he could never have anticipated, where his heart is now his guide-not a heart of lust, but of new wisdom and a new kind of seeing. God will forgive Samson’s past-but will Samson himself be able to let go of bitterness and regret, and find a new light in his life? Inspired by the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah, Jacquelin Thomas powerfully portrays a modern-day pastor’s dance with earthly desires . . . and the faith that made him whole.
AUTHOR BIO
Jacquelin Thomas is an award winning, bestselling author with twenty-nine titles in print. Her books have garnered several awards, including two EMMA awards, the Romance In Color Reviewers Award, Readers Choice Award and the Atlanta Choice Award in the Religious & Spiritual category. Jacquelin was a 2005 honoree at the Houston Black Film Festival for the movie adaptation of her novel, Hidden Blessings. She was the first recipient to receive the Writers Achievement Award at the North Carolina Book Festival in Winston-Salem.
Although Jacquelin initially published in the romance genre, she decided to follow the call on her heart to write Christian fiction because she seeks to write books that will touch your heart and uplift your spirits with tales of characters who yearn to have an intimate relationship with God. Committed to writing books that glorify God and her growing teen audience, Jacquelin published the first of her Young Adult Inspirational Fiction series titled Simply Divine in October 2006. Her second book in the series, Divine Confidential was nominated for a 2008 NAACP Image Award. She has since gone on to publish two more books in the series. When asked why she is so passionate about writing teen novels, Thomas shares that teens are confronted with so much-sex, drugs, violence and abuse, physically and mentally. They need to not only listen to what the world says about these things but also to what the Bible says.
Jacquelin is a member of the National Writers Union, Romance Writers of America and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She is happily married to her best friend and is the proud mother of three children. Jacquelin and her family live in North Carolina.
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1 comment:
Samson, by Jacquelin Thomas is a very relevant and timely read that addresses what most Christians are afraid to admit to, and more afraid, it seems, to seek God for help. Sexual sin is a very serious problem in our churches today, just like it had to be during Samson's (in the book of Judges) time all those many years ago. As Christians, there is always something that we need to seek God for, and sexual sins happen to be one of the strongest that there is truly help for.
I pray readers will get the lesson taught in the pages of Samson, and understand that God's love, His mercy and grace, will sustain us, and His forgiveness and deliverance is at hand, if we ask Him for it.
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