Me and Jesus Homeless in Burbank!: Are their secrets in the bible? (edit title/settings)

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• Pastor Jack; Mia; Jesus; and The Homies including, Little Joan; Big Mike; Angry Clint; Daryl and Missy; Officer Palmer,: Pastor Jack is an overweight ex-preacher whose entire stratagy in life is to constantly push his new friend Jesus for a miracle in his life so he can get back on track. Mia is a woman Pastor Jack eventually meets and marrys, she is a miracle in his life, not what he had expected, but still a miracle. Jesus, God, the Holy Devine Spirit and Satan all are introduced and make some type of appearances between the pages. Then there are the Homies, who don't know what to make of Pastor Jack or Jesus!

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• ““Romans Chapter 9; verse 13 clearly says; As it is written, (God said) Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. My friend was holding the black book in one hand, while his other hand was pointing directly at me.“THAT’S not in my bible!” I was ready, willing and more than able to argue this point with him. “Isn’t this in your bible?” He spoke slowly and calmly.“No, I mean,… (looking) yes, I guess it is, but, God did not hate him.”“Well let’s take a look in mine, this is in the bible in four different places, what do you think it all means?” I wasn’t sure, but, I knew God did not hate Esau. Or if he did, there had to be a just reason for it! I peeked in his bible, and there it was in black and white!“But Esau have I hated.”“What did Esau do to make God hate him?” I asked him.“Well, let’s see, it says here; … and the child, having done neither good nor evil, was hated by God! …. Hmm, it seems God just choose to hate him!“Well, let me explain something to you, my friend,” I was quite sure he must be wrong, surely I could sort this all out. “This is in the bible, but, it appears to be a misnomer!” “A mis WHAT?” Jesus was honestly surprised at my remark.“A misnomer; you know a mistake of sorts!”“Oh, like a misprint? You mean this is in the bible four times, in four different places; The Books of Genesis, Malachi, and Romans are all in err? But we are not to worry, because it is just a misprint!” He looked at me and looked a bit miffed, I realized I was making him mad, but I still felt sure this scripture must be incorrect. He was getting a little loud now, and I didn’t want to anger him, but I could not accept this bible verse. “I didn’t use the word misprint, I said misnomer!” I explained, trying to calm him down.“And you feel that way, because . . . why, you don’t agree with it? Oh, I see, you don’t agree with God, so now he is wrong, and his word, well, it MUST be a misprint!” He was getting madder by the minute.“A misnomer, look, we all know God loves everyone, God is love and cannot hate!” I was out on a limb here, but I thought that was biblical. Besides, I had felt God’s love twice face to face, twice; God was the complete opposite of hate.“You’d better show me where it says that!” Jesus said very matter of factly. He closed the bible he was holding and pushed it towards me. I thumbed through the black book, glancing at verses I thought might back me up. I found nothing to verify that God loved everyone. But, I was certain a nun had taught me that, when I was about five years old. Finally, I handed it back to him, slowly shaking my head, he said, “Just because you don’t agree with it that does not mean it is a misprint! The bible is not here for you to make changes to so it says what you think it should say; the bible is God’s words, as if written in stone; remember this, you’re not here to change the bible, the bible is here to change you!” He was yelling at me by the time he finished.“I didn’t really mean it was a misprint; what I meant was, perhaps it is the way the words translated that caused an alternate meaning.” I backed off.“That’s it? That is what you’re going to hang your hat on? Pastor Jack, you of all people already know this book was interpreted by scholars, and I assure you, if the word love means love in this book; the word hate means hate in this book! If they can’t interpret the four letter words correctly, the whole book has no meaning, than the whole religion is void.”“Ya, well, maybe there is some other explanation?” I was losing this argument. Then I continued, “So, what you are saying is WHAT? God hated me before I was born? Is that even a real possibility? Like he hated Esau, he hates me? Is it not for me to decide my own destiny?” I looked him dead in his eyes, the same way he looked right through me sometimes!“There is one important difference between the time you live in and the time Esau lived in.”“What difference, God is always God.”“Yes, he is, and . . . he always keeps his word. Esau lived in the time of the chosen. You may not realize it but in those days, people were born one of two ways, either they were born; loved by God as part of his chosen Hebrew Nation, or they were born unloved, sometimes even hated by God. That was the covenant then.”

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• This story takes place primiarly between Burbank Blvd and Olive Streets as the North/South paramaters. Third Street and Reese Street were the east/west extreemes, for the most part.
• California
• Israel
• Michigan
• Texas
• United States
• America

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• A special thank you to the Burbank YMCA, who aided both me as an author and the real life Homies in many ways!: Add a description of this organization.

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• "Homies" a group of homeless people that lived in Burbank.: Short for "Homeless"

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• The Dove representing the Holy Devine Spirit flying over the wash. Jesus in the water symbolizing baptisim.: The face of God appearing in the waterfall, with the flowing water forming his hair; symbolizing the "living" God.

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1. Chase Kennedy (Author)

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1. Aurora Malherbe (Cover Artist)

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This book is sprinkled with the bad habits that sometimes accompy homeless people. But the Book is about God and Jesus and faith. I feel most young adults will be better off if they do read it, in spite of a few questionable paragraphs.

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Ministry & Church Leadership