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We have all experienced the gut-wrenching feeling of looking up from a season of great difficulty to find we don't recognize ourselves anymore. Perhaps a life-altering decision didn't go as planned. Maybe there were a series of compromises that led to an onslaught of questions ultimately leading to I don't know what happened.We are human, and mistakes are inevitable. Even so, there is hope. We don't have to stay hidden in the shadow of our regret. There is no need to cower in the corner, submitting to unworthiness. Despite the depth or severity of the mistake(s), there is One who loves you. There is One who will still keep you. There is One Who is waiting to help you to your feet, dust you off, and endure the long road to recovery, asking nothing in return.Throughout the pages of this book, there is a hope and encouragement in knowing you are not the only one. You will discover that even those who walk with God are still tempted, but they are also still covered by His sacrifice on Calvary. No matter your story, shortcoming, or hypocrisy, God still wants to use you. You have not fallen too far from grace. Your story is still redeemable, and your calling is still irrevocable.

Heretic: a person who differs in opinion from established religious dogma.Well, this is clearly a convincing look at a subject that, "differs in opinion from established religious dogma".Lust, marriage, sex, prostitution, concubines, a wondering eye, sin, fornication, church history, and other, previously, "lustful" taboo topics are bravely and carefully exposed in the light of Bible passages.This timely work is a scriptural look at long held Christian doctrine that makes good sense. It will stretch your mind and may well bring peace to other wise troubled and tormented souls. It is backed point by point by considerable scriptures without stretching it and it may well leave you saying: "I have always suspected that".The author lays out clear repeated biblical evidence after clear repeated biblical evidence that the Christian world has rarely had the courage to look at and still not "throw the baby out with the bath water", on this topic.Dive into this well presented book and you may well be the recipient of the author's desire to "set men and women free from guilt and bondage" concerning sex and marriage.Father Bernard Hemmingsworth-retiredWorld Wide Anglican Communion2

The lay association called Entrega was originally conceived as a network of prayer groups to promote the Marian-Franciscan spirituality. The name itself is a Spanish word that means a sacrifice or giving of self and is used especially in the context of one's total response to God's Love. The word can also refer to more mundane matters, like the delivery of pizza.The title has an obvious reference to the Portiuncula, the little church where St. Francis founded his three orders. Each topic will hopefully serve as a little portion of nourishment for the soul. They have been used for group discussions but can form a 40-day private retreat as St. Francis was known for keeping several "lents" each year.May the Holy Immaculate Conception bring us all into a deeper union with her Divine Son. God bless you!La asociacion laica Entrega fue concebida originalmente como una red de grupos de oracion para promover la espiritualidad mariana-franciscana. El nombre en si es una palabra espanola que significa sacrificio o abandono de uno mismo y se usa especialmente en el contexto de la respuesta total de uno al Amor de Dios. La palabra tambien puede referirse a asuntos mas mundanos, como la entrega de pizza.El titulo tiene una referencia obvia a la Porciuncula, la pequena iglesia donde San Francisco fundo sus tres ordenes. Es de esperar que cada tema sirva como una pequena porcion de alimento para el alma. Se han utilizado para discusiones grupales, pero pueden formar un retiro privado de 40 dias, ya que San Francisco era conocido por mantener varias "cuaresmas" cada ano.Que la Santa Inmaculada Concepcion nos lleve a todos a una union mas profunda con su Divino Hijo. !Dios te bendiga!

The story of your life matters. It matters to God, to your family and friends, to those who need to hear of the hope that comes from faith in Jesus Christ. Our stories need to be told.Linda Wasson shares her unique journey and struggles to find purpose and meaning in and through the difficult and often unseen moments of life. Her pursuit of God and the desire to know his heart and ways, despite the often painful and confusing circumstances of life, has brought her to a place of unshakable peace.She shares her story with the hope that others will find the purpose and value of their lives through the lens of God's heart, who relentlessly calls them by name and pursues them passionately. Understanding how God uses all things in our lives to intricately weave his story of love, his story of grace and mercy to save us from our sins and shine his light into our darkness is what really matters in life.Linda Wasson is the mother of four adult children and eight grandchildren. She is very happily married to her husband, Warren Wasson, and resides in Minnesota.

When Evan Cash gets jilted by his longtime sweetheart, the single women of Rose Creek, Wyoming, go into action. Now that Dr. Cash is back on the market, he and his brother Spencer are the town's hottest commodity.The comical way the fair maidens go about making their presences known comes to a screeching halt when a new woman comes to town. Everly Michaels moves into more than Rose Creek. She moves into the Cash brothers' lives.Everly becomes the Cashes' closest neighbor. Needing the brothers' assistance puts Miss Michaels in a vulnerable position. Hidden secrets keep the trio intertwined. Will they find individual strength and the power of God in the face of tragedy?

Cowboy Tex is the story of a weathered old cowboy storyteller who gathers children around him to relate the life of Cowboy Tex, a former rodeo bull rider, and the amazing assortment of critters who live on his Texas s-p-r-e-a-d, called the Busted Butt. This storyteller is known for stretching the truth just a bit. Be prepared to laugh and enjoy a tall Texas tale.

Imagine for the moment the opposite of circumstances in a nursery rhyme already well-known and the outcome of the story to be of a different order.The story The Remarkable Humpty Dumpty is such an outcome. The story begins as Humpty Dumpty takes his place high upon the wall. He is loud. He is boastful and becomes a real annoyance. His oratory is pompous and disgusting. The people want him gone.So they try to find ways to get rid of him. They are not successful. Despite further attempts, they are still not successful. So after a short meeting to see what they could further do, they decide to let the matter rest.It is during this time that things really begin to happen. The people, in their waiting and anticipation, are completely and totally surprised. Unforeseen circumstances well beyond their wildest dreams occur.As a result, this problem, which was once a very annoying situation, now turns out to be a blessing. In the end, the people are happy and gratified. The king who undergoes a total personal transformation creates a better relationship, and Humpty Dumpty who was once a real annoyance is now praised for his change of behavior.All ends well. Life goes on.

Set on a pristine South Carolina beach, this true story is inspirational in its strong message especially for children.Lucy encounters a seagull in distress and prays for God's help for its rescue. The ensuing trial of unbelievable surprises includes a faithful mate, other encouraging seagulls, and the sudden appearance of a strange woman. These all work together in an ending depicting her blessed assurance as she realizes with delight that God has truly heard her prayer.

What's your earliest memory? Did it ever happen?What's the weirdest thing grown-ups do?Do you believe in magic?What scares you the most?What makes you smile, sing and dance?What makes you, you?Tales of Wonder Keepers follows Hayley on her journey from childhood to early adolescence. With a voice both wise and witty, and sometimes emotional but always delightful, Hayley's poetry captures a scene from the daily life of a young child and presents an intriguing puzzle to solve as she navigates the twists and turns of growing up. Each poem is a complete canvas painted in lyrical words that is framed by her own thoughts, memories, experiences and feelings from a complex emotion, such as fear, courage, loss, friendship, family to some of the big questions a pre-teen would ask about body image, self-acceptance, environmental awareness, perseverance and strength. Presented in richly crafted thematic sections with whimsical illustrations, there's an immersive world to explore with each turn of the page. Somewhere along the way, you might find a memory jar that reminds you of the important things--things that should be remembered and celebrated. Tales of Wonder Keepers is a compelling journey that takes a reader through the myriad of ways to look at beauty, uncertainties and imperfections of the world through the lens of wonder. In its own way, each poem invites the reader not only to be a keen observer of this interconnected world in which we live in but also to be a keeper of the wonder that lives in us.

While offering our opinions and philosophies as a defense against anyone trying to convince us there is a God, our attitudes and actions betray us into admitting that He exists, that He is out to get us, and that we need Him to get us. How do I know this? Well, some of it I learned from Calvin and Hobbes. So please, step inside, sit down, and let's learn from them. In this little book, the readers are challenged to reconsider their views on what someone has called the four most important questions: origin, meaning, morality, and destiny. When you are done reading this book, you will have to decide whether the author is just one more person adding his book to the countless others that fill bookstores and library shelves. Or this book has introduced you to Him, Who is both the Source and the destination of your life; and your life will never be the same. But how will you know until you pick it up and read? "Most writers who address the atheist or agnostic try to marshal formidable arguments that demonstrate the wrongheadedness of that worldview. Not so this book. You will enjoy the author's conversational style, his use of the insightful messages of Calvin and Hobbes, the fact that this book is not at all pretentious or stuffy, but one that seeks above all to communicate with people where they are. If you want to understand the Christian message without being preached at, this book will provide that understanding--with a touch of humor. And if readers let down their guard long enough to hear, truly hear, what the author is conveying, they will be richly rewarded." --Dr. Joel Heck, professor, Concordia University, Texas

Who are we? Why are we here now? Where are we going? Human beings have been asking these questions since time immemorial.In the Old Testament, the identity of God is revealed as living existence. In the New Testament, God's identity is love. This book uses theology, philosophy, psychology, and science to analyze these two identities and unite them in the one God. Made in God's image, our identities also involve living existence and love. They determine our purpose in life, as well as our destinies, here and now.

April left home to pursue a successful business career. Her second ambition was to find the type of loving relationship her parents had. The problem is, the men she has dated in the past did not share the same desire. Her recent breakup leaves her alone again. When her parents ask her to return home to Alexandria, Virginia, to help them in ministry, April's guilt of staying away so long leads her to say yes.As an only child, her parents had sacrificed a lot in order for her to have her career. Now they needed her. They had always had a special fondness for her childhood sweetheart, Eli. Seeing him brought back all the good times. But Calvin, who recently moved back home himself, is in pursuit of April. Calvin is the unknown. His grandmother was a faithful member of her parents' church, but they know nothing about him. Will April heed her parents' advice, or will her ambition and impatience cost her?

Billy is a typical middle-grade boy who is excited to be spending his summer vacation with his grandparents in Indiana. He is super excited because this time, he is going alone. He will soon discover though that going by himself isn't the most special part of the trip.One of the things he wanted to be sure to bring is the brand-new camera that he received for his birthday. In the rush to get to the airport, he forgets it. Little did he know how much he will miss it as his vacation turns out to be far more than he could have ever imagined!After getting his seat on the plane, he falls asleep almost immediately. He doesn't wake up until they are about to land. It is then that he happens to look out the window and sees something that would change his vacation and his life. There, in the clouds around the plane, he sees a face, a cloud person. The eyes on the face open and look directly at Billy, Appearing startled that he was seen, the mysterious face abruptly disappears.From that moment, Billy becomes obsessed with trying to figure out what he saw and if it was real. He shares his secret with his best friend, Megan, and together they enter a world they never dreamed existed. Their friendship grows as they try to understand it all. Billy also discovers that his grandfather and uncle have both had similar experiences. His vacation, will take him on an unforgettable adventure, and along the way, he and Megan will learn a lot about life, loyalty, and friendship. Their summer vacation is filled with a lot of surprises and a big one at the end that will leave you guessing.

Join Liar Zar, the world's greatest anthropologist, in her home dimension as she assists humans who have been pulled through the fabric of time and space. From would-be revolutionaries to eldritch abominations, she's seen and hugged most. Armed with her trusty baseball bat or blaster pistol, she faces fear every day and offers it comforting words.When one day the bridge across the divide is broken and leaves the humans in her world stranded with no way home, she finds that her place in the world is much smaller than she had previously believed. Together with friends and family, she finds herself thrust into an insidious plot that threatens the fragile peace of the world.Thankfully she's not alone.A tale of found family, misadventures, realized love, and daring adventures into the unknown.Warning: a science fiction leaning toward the fantastic and the weird, as well as complicated math.

The Lord's Prayer--or the "Our Father," as it's sometimes referred to--is a prayer that was taught by the Lord Jesus Christ to His disciples after they had asked Him to teach them to pray. This prayer is widely known in all Christian churches, irrespective of the denomination. Many of us know and have memorized this prayer in our lifetime.The question that is answered in this book is, what was indeed in the Lord's mind when He taught them to pray in this manner? In this book, you will discover, as the writer also discovered, that the Lord's Prayer is a guide or a model that was meant to be followed daily, not just to be recited. The author explains how it is like a sketch map or a skeleton that needs tendons, ligaments, muscles, etc. or a scheme of work that has to be developed into detailed daily lessons.Each section in this book details in systematic succession, section by section, what each one of them means to us as we pray the Lord's Prayer. You will find Bible illustrations as well as real-life examples that the author uses to cultivate your desire to know the secret and the power that there is in praying the Lord's Prayer.God is the Father, and His plans are for good and not for evil. As a Father, He can say yes, no, or wait in response to our prayer.In all we do or desire, we should ask ourselves this question: who is going to be glorified after all is said and done. This enables us to search and remain humble in our commitment to the Lord, for God does not share His glory with anyone.In every kingdom, there is a ruler, and there are citizens. God takes the precedence of being King of our life to reign in us. It is the will of the King that gets done. Therefore, you will see in practicality how to let God's will be done in your daily life.Jesus, the bread of life, is our daily bread. You will see that the Lord did not only mean for us to ask for physical bread, but He indeed meant spiritual food as well. The question is, if indeed He meant for us to ask God to give us our daily food, won't that mean that only those who are poor are the ones to pray this portion? How can this portion of the prayer have meaning to a rich man who has no lack with food? Read on and discover.Forgiveness is for you who is forgiving, for it frees you from bondage. With God's help, forgiveness is possible. Jesus demonstrated it at the garden and at the cross.There is power in praying the Lord's Prayer. Read and know that power for yourself.

My mom gave birth to me, but my dad was the one that taught me life, to become the successful woman that I am today.This book is about my dad's survival skills his grandma and my great-grandma taught him to not only survive but also help others. The key here is, by sharing and helping others, you remained blessed. By constantly praying, you keep the devil away for good, you stay positive and focused, and you get to accomplish the things you set your mind on by not letting greed get the best of you. When you give tithes in church, support others, and do good deeds for people less fortunate than you, you never lack. You get to reap what you sowed. You sow nothing, you reap nothing. You sow good, you reap good. You sow bad, you reap bad. It's part of life, plain and simple. Even if people falsely accused you, remain silent, pray, and justice will always prevails. There is no need to waste time. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. Say what you need to do and follow through by taking actions. When there are no actions taken; nothing happens. Give love and receive love. Give respect and get respect. Give money as gift and receive hundred folds from what you put out. My ex-boss from hell accused me of stealing; he shall pay dearly for all his evil doings, and I blessed the devil.Do things for God, not for mankind. You do for mankind you will never do. Find a great mentor, be a great mentor. Show compassion for others and receive it back in return. Live life to the fullest. Time wasted will never return. Nothing forced can never be natural. Nothing fake can never be natural. Nothing natural can ever be faked.Life is what you make of it. Plant seeds in order to harvest them later. Plant nothing and get nothing in return. Who you hang with is who you become. Think before you act. Don't ever judge a book by its cover. Instead, try to read the book and see what you might be missing. Don't hate, appreciates. Hate attracts hate. Love attracts love. It takes more energy to hate than to love. The following are what made me who I am today. I just thought of sharing so they can open your eyes just as they did mine. Do what you love; die doing it; love yourself enough to treat yourself right. Do not allow someone to use and abused you; it's low self-esteem. Be all that you can be. Know your worth, period.

Jack is an inspiring story of commitment, romance, surprising twists, and faith. Jack Douglas is a young man who, like the early Job, just cannot get a break. Time after time, he faces challenges, unfairness, and heartaches. All the while, Jack has an innocent optimism about him. He is resigned to take on a role as a simple cook's helper in the army. While there, his natural leadership skills begin to emerge, although he seems unaware of the respect and loyalty he is inspiring. An incident happens where he saves the life of a friend. This creative and desperate action led him to a vascular surgeon in the army who has a track record of finding talent where no one else is looking. Jack gets selected to take studies and do training leading to the medical field. It turns out he is very good, studies very hard, and progresses well, although not all the staff and surgeons are pleased. He meets a tough ethics professor who has heard of this possible phenom and wants to get a closer look. God gives Jack both challenges and success as he makes his way through the medical training. His confidence, the situations presented to him, and his remarkable leadership ability begin to bring respect. It is his new girlfriend who points out that none of this would have happened if God had not been by his side every step of the way. This leads him to first explore and then to jump into faith and Christianity. It seems that God keeps throwing challenges at him, and he keeps not only being successful but turning each situation into a significant accomplishment. Perhaps you, too, are not aware of how much God is already in your life. Read Jack and see how God supports this naive, optimistic Christian.

And Now We Rebuild-an action-packed book about a family that flees to high ground from a tsunami headed their way. The family meets new acquaintances, working together to rebuild a whole new community and lifestyle.They live on Prince of Wales Island, the third largest island in the United States, located in Southeast Alaska. Although the book is fictional, it is meant to be more than a fun entertaining novel.Almost everything is lost in the disaster throughout the islands of Southeast Alaska because most critical businesses are just above sea level. This includes the fishing industry, hospitals, airports, fuel docks, barge lines, schools, logging, mining, and many beachfront homes!Learn unique ways people build, hunt, scavenge supplies, raise food, find fuel, and more to survive. The government wants them to relocate, but most want to keep their land and rebuild. Christians are unwanted and go into semihiding for security reasons.A must-read!

When Merry Morehouse, a city girl carrying a life-crushing secret, crashes into Doc Adams in the remote Allegheny Mountains, it initiates an experience that dramatically changes their lives. Betrayed by a trusted friend who backed out of their planned trip, Merry decides to become her big girl self and begins her first-ever camping trip. Lost at night and panic-stricken in sparsely populated mountains, she decides to head home. Turning around on a remote road, Merry crashes into a man who recently lost his beloved wife to cancer. She's now alone with no protection, no car, and not place to stay.Doc Adams, a disabled combat vet in danger of being fired from his job, holds no romantic interest in another woman when he offers Merry an overnight stay at this isolated home. She fearfully accepts, and their personal beliefs become the foundation for initial arguments concerning God, guns, law enforcement, and news media reports. Discover how they quickly turn this into a warm, loving relationship.

This faith-based story tells of a young man, Matthew Larsen, struggling to understand the purpose and meaning of his life and what faith is all about. He's not even sure he believes in God. He has been dealt some tragic events in the recent past, including helping his ailing father live his final days. Because of those events, he has become cynical toward humanity. He holds down a meaningless job. The only bright spot at work is his coworker and friend, Jennifer, a young woman who longs to be more than just a friend.But it's after his father dies that Matthew meets a mysterious visitor, Anna, who tells him he is needed for an important calling. She calls them missions which are necessary to help others, something only he can do. He begins by helping two individuals, Doc, a guidance counselor who is mourning the loss of his wife and son, and Zach, a nineteen-year-old essentially living on the street and struggling with addictions. The final mission takes Matthew, along with his friends, on a dangerous journey to the deep South to help an unlikely family, strangers to them all.Through these missions and relationships, Matthew begins to learn more about his faith and how we all are connected in this journey called life. It's a story about trusting and having faith in what God has planned for all of us as stated in Jeremiah 29:11. It also illustrates how we need to help and love our fellow human beings, be kind, care for them, and assist them whenever help is needed in this broken world, as told by Jesus Christ in Matthew 25:40. May your faith grow as you read this story and be moved to help others in need as he did.

If you have ever wondered what the covenant is about and how we can apply it to our daily lives, this is a good instruction manual. The Invisible Thread will help you understand who you are, who God says you are, and how to apply the promises He gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and to us through the extravagant love-filled covenant of promise through the blood of Yeshua. I am a prophetic dreamer with many illustrations of the covenant in action through my own life.

This book is about how a simply beautiful family's walk in the woods turns into one of the happiest moments of their lives!Experience the wonder and adventure of this family's amazing experience and the lessons they learn along the way.

Now what? thought Teresa. Finding herself unexpectedly divorced with two children at college. She would have to get a job; although it was over twenty years since she had worked out of the home. She had graduated from college as a secretary. Did people still need secretaries? she wondered. Following several false starts, she managed to secure employment with a small printing company near her home in Des Moines, Iowa. A month or so later, she, together with the blessing of the aging owner, Sam Nolan, was running his company. During this time, she met Sam's daughter who soon became her best friend or BFF, as she was fond of saying. They shared a passion and sailed together, both in Iowa and Washington state. Then Teressa met and married David and her whole life changed yet again. Like her, he was divorced, yet somehow, she shared a connection with him she had never experienced before, not with her husband nor her children. David seemed to release in her emotions long suppressed. She was becoming the woman she always wanted to be. David said it was God's work, but she didn't believe in "his God"--no, that was nonsense and would never do.

This book was written to increase your faith so that you can receive the answers that you have all been looking for. Personal testimony from the author accompanies advice about the power of prayer. These uplifting anecdotes will fill your spiritual cup. Remember God's word: you have not because you ask not. Follow the guidelines Jesus gave us and experience results.Abram Toews notes that there are a lot of guidelines in the Bible about receiving answers to your prayers. Study them, and you may see a big improvement in your prayer life. May God bless you and be with you always. Amen.

Experience a firsthand journey through one woman's encounter with nature's frames of perception and ultimate peace contentment as she survives her myriad of challenges, isolation, abandonment, and despair.The odyssey is all-encompassing within the woods where the saddened woman first meets Jesus, disguised as a semi-clothed bicycle rider in the peak of the woods on her daily climb on the mountain.Despite the plethora of unfavorable turns of events, her loyalty and devotion to God overrides her anxiety, disbelief, grief, poverty, racism, natural disasters, and pandemics that beset her journey.Within her wanderings, she encounters the Holy Scriptures, which unravels corpuscles of fortune serving to enable her consequential cognizance of Jesus Christ the Lord at work.This collection of scriptures will bring encouragement and tranquility to the reader throughout every moment of their life.The reader will become one with God, as one of his chosen people through her Holy Land experience, and will be filled with joy and spirituality.The descriptions are culturally entertaining upon reading and are designed to explore the words and sentiments of the Lord, bringing a sense of relief, hope, faith, and a vision of blessings, bringing wisdom and destiny to which for generations to come may encounter the Scriptures. A must-read!All men are like grass and all their glory is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of the Lord stands forever. (1 Peter 1:24-25)

These are some scriptures listed by subject to make it somewhat easier to find than searching the Book. You will find some of your favorite scriptures and some that are not. Some may be scriptures you haven't heard in a while or ever. Hopefully it will bring some joy and peace to your life. Hopefully you will learn from this book.

For the first time in history will these facts be known: King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba had a son named Menelik, Michael the Archangel brought back to Ethiopia the real ark that Moses had built. Abel and Cain had twin sisters. Abel's twin was named Kalimath, and Cain's twin was named Lebhudha.Nebuchadnezzar was really a Jew. His father was named Karmin, from the tribe of Judah. The blessed Holy Virgin Mother was named Hanna, and her father was named Joachim. Angels that asked God to come to earth and become men said that they would not sin. God gave the hearts of men to angels, and they sinned, having sex orgies with people They had children with the daughters of Cain, and they became giants in the earth, and God chose Noah to build an ark before he would destroy the earth with a flood. This is taken from Kebra Nagast, the Ethiopian book of kings, which is older than the Bible.This book alone is more exciting than any movie ever made about the Messiah. This book will be a movie someday. I am working on a movie deal for this book. This is a rare jewel.The Messiah: A Man of Color will reveal never-known events that are factual to this day: where the ark really is located in Axum, Ethiopia; the relationship between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba--she had a son with King Solomon. Things that were never mentioned in the Bible, such as Menelik. This book reveals new things but still used the Bible as a fact in history, but this gives more factual events never printed in the Bible.And, behold, a hand touched me.--Daniel 10:10

A Book of Poems is in memory of my wonderful wife, Pat, whom I lost in 2011, after almost fifty-three years of married life. She was a wonderful woman, and it has been a long, lonely life without her. I miss her deeply. I met Pat in 1956 and married her in 1969. Our son was born in 1964 and our daughter in 1968. This book is about a beautiful wife, a beautiful family, and a beautiful life.