Overview
The Fire Lily is a reflection of sixty years of life, with twenty years in business and twenty years as an ordained priest. Much of this experience has been in leadership roles, with all the trials and tribulations that occur alongside such pastoral duties, not to mention a thirty-five year marriage and a joint lifetime of faith in God. The Fire Lily tackles the nature of sharing one's mind with Jesus, how we can bring ourselves closer to God through sacrificial servanthood, and the true nature of loving unconditionally, without judgement or exclusions. Martin Thrower takes a compassionate look at the faults in the modern institutional Church and how it can fail both its members and its clergy in those times that matter the most. It is not about the ideal or model of the perfect Christian life, though there is of course, nothing wrong with striving towards a goal. Instead, it is as much as possible about reality, and how faith really works in times of stress. Still recovering from his own ordeals, Martin's story shows that even through breakdown and burnout, a faith in God can see you through to the other side.
Full Product Details
Author: Martin Thrower
Publisher: The Choir Press
Imprint: The Choir Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.242kg
ISBN: 9781789633382
ISBN 10: 1789633389
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 01 January 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Martin is an experienced leader with over twenty years' working in the horticulture industry and twenty years as an ordained parish priest in the Anglican Church. He has held many senior roles in both areas and has sat on a wide range of groups and committees of governance. He describes himself as an agent for change, relishing the opportunity for 'blue sky thinking' with a passion to communicate the Christian faith in a new way particularly to those who have no faith or who want to explore faith. He has a continually developing Christian faith, based for over fifty years in the institutional church and latterly exercising and exploring what faith means in the culture in which we now live detached from any institution. Unconditional love, acceptance, forgiveness and grace are essential to his belief and practice. Whilst in his last role as a church leader, which included oversight of other parish priests and their churches he was diagnosed with a mental breakdown, particularly because of burnout caused by excessive stress which resulted in disastrous consequences. Following four years of recovery and healing, Martin has currently returned to 'his roots' in horticulture.
