This colorful volume is exhilarating, eclectic, and elegant. It is like a diamond in the rough waiting to be discovered. Wisdom flows from one chapter to another. And the motif of love is the nuance that brings this flavorful gift to you. Sheryl is an educator, author, poetess, motivational speaker, and hobby painter of ballerinas. Her warmest passion is to empower, educate, and encourage people whenever the opportunity arises. Sheryl is also the author of Leaving My SHOES Behind.

Adopting the Father's Heart is a vulnerable and challenging look into God's call to orphan care through one couple's experience with adoption. Kenneth and Danielle were on a path to return overseas as missionaries when God redirected them--at least, temporarily. Both felt God leading them to foster children with the possibility of adopting. How did they start the process? What were the challenges and the rewards? Their story informs, convicts, and inspires others to care for the orphans in our communities. "As a pastor who is trying to lead my church into ministry in the foster/adopt world, I am thrilled to have Kenny Camp's book "Adopting the Father's Heart" as a resource...I'll make it required reading for both staff and volunteers who work in our foster/adopt ministry." Dr. Will Davis Jr., Senior Pastor, Austin Christian Fellowship

"Filled with uncertainty and triumph, this book will encourage you to consider those overlooked in our society. With its practical advice and heart-stirring truths, I strongly recommend this book..." Lance Bane, Senior Associate Pastor, Church of the Hills

"Adopting the Father's Heart is an essential read not only for families wanting to foster children, but for anyone who knows a family fostering children...this book will compel you to re-evaluate your priorities so that you will be more focused on others and how you can change lives each and every day." Kelly Gottschalk, Preschool Pastor, The Church at Canyon Creek

The bible is full of mysterious ideas and metaphysical concepts that are complex enough to turn our ways upside down . Though, some schools of thoughts put their heads on the block to defend the accuracy of the holy book; but influenced, at the same time by the spiritual presence of God and the traditional effigy of idolatry, that accuracy is flooded by a stream of doctrines, dogma, norms and traditions . So the author of this book has developed an elaborate rationalization which hold that the code of ethics embodied in the bible produced the humorous theories of nations and peoples that are designed to retard men's understanding of the scriptures . In keeping with the views of religious leaders, and through investigative observations of the scanty knowledge of many teachers of the scriptures, the author has found evidence of a combination of logic and legend .

My book is a book for people that are seeking the TRUTH concerning their Salvation which comes to man through redemption, BASED on a LIVING relationship with the Lord Jesus founded in a LIFE giving process which comes forth out of death to SELF, and a Life that comes forth from a SEED of Life sown in the Natural Life of the Natural Man born in Adam, which produces a Man in the Image of the Lord Jesus, free from INIQUITY and full of the fullness of Christ. A SEED from the TREE of Life, sown in Man, which TRANSFORMS Man into the Image of His creator through redemption, which is a God CREATION process from the Alter of sacrifice and the Cross Jesus died upon applied to the heart of Man redeeming man out of sin called INIQUITY

The greatest need of professing Christians today is a better, deeper, and fuller knowledge of Christ. The Christian life can be described as getting to know God better every day. Every Christian should regularly?daily?read the Word of God. We should find time for quiet time or personal devotion. For over 20 years I have been using commentaries in my devotions. The blessings derived from the commentaries is overwhelming. I am writing this commentary to share some of those blessings and lessons I have learned over the years.

Experience the sweet fragrance of God's presence throughout these anointed pages. . Simplistic expression of the love and power of God. . Great bible study tool. . Scripturally based.

The position of women in Islam remains deeply contentious. While conservative elements both within Islam and among its Western critics continue to claim that Islamic law and values are fundamentally incompatible with modern notions of gender equality, since the 1980s there has been a growing body of scholarship which seeks to make the case for feminism and gender justice within a distinctly Islamic paradigm. In Islamic Feminism, Mulki Al-Sharmani examines the goals, approaches and methodologies which key scholars have adopted in their efforts at crafting an Islamic feminist discourse. Encompassing scholars from both the Islamic world and the Muslim diaspora, ranging from the pioneering scholar activist Amina Wadud to Egypt's Omaima Abou Bakr, the book also looks at how these scholars have translated their work into meaningful political action through groups such as the global Musawah movement and the Egyptian Women and Memory Forum. Crucially, Al-Sharmani also shows that Islamic feminism is a phenomenon which extends far beyond academia. Drawing on the author's own extensive research and interviews with women in Egypt, the UK, Malaysia, Finland and elsewhere, the book explores how ordinary Muslim women in both the West and the Islamic world are increasingly asserting their autonomy and challenging patriarchal interpretations of their religion, as well as exploring the linkages between Islamic feminist scholarship and the realities of these women's lived experiences. In the process, Islamic Feminism not only uncovers new directions for Islamic feminist scholarship, but upends many of our preconceptions about Islam and the role of women within it.

Who's to Blame? is an autobiography focusing on the author's life, his misfortunes, his quest to seek and make sense of those misfortunes, and who caused them: God, Satan, or himself? Resolutions are found once man accounts and takes responsibility for his faults, understanding Satan's role and God's permissible will in all that happened. This book challenges Christians to focus on grace, mercy, and faithfulness of God, have fellowship with him, account for their sins, know Satan's tactics, and understand God's discipline and blessing. He further encourages believers to study God's word on a daily basis in order to know the will of God, grow spiritually, and know how to recover when backsliding. The book wishes unbelievers to come to Christ and accept him as their only hope and savior.

Words on High is a written inspiration that transcends the level of just another poetry book. Containing thirty-five poems in chronological order of creation, it will encourage readers spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally. With Bible verses and concordance from three different versions: the New Living Translation (NLT), New International Version (NIV), and King James Version (KJV), Words on High also does what few other poetry books do, providing the inspired moments leading up to the works that are read. It is a journey through the eyes of the author, whose goal is to allow readers to be inspired, informed, and entertained by the emotion brought out in each and every poem.

Gracie is an average 16 year old girl that's just like you and me except the fact that her best friend in the world is a famous dancer and actor. Shh! Don't tell anyone though. When her parents died when she was just 4 years old due to a drunk driver, her godmother Melissa, and her parents best friends Jason and Rebecca Baylor take it upon themselves to raise her. Through the years the relationship between Gracie and Jason continues to grow stronger and stronger from the moment he taught her to dance. But will Gracie continue to dance when tragedy strikes?

Why Journey... Because you TRUST God...accept His VISION Because you BELIEVE the Holy Spirit is leading you...there is PROVISION Because KNOW Christ is calling you...He is the WAY Because you WANT a change...this is the TIME Because you CAN'T do it alone..."Jesus said "Come follow Me" Matthew 4:19 (NCV)

As a leading movement in contemporary Turkey with a universal educational and inter-faith agenda, the Gulen movement aims to promote creative and positive relations between the West and the Muslim world and to articulate a critically constructive position on such issues as democracy, multi-culturalism, globalisation, and interfaith dialogue in the context of secular modernity. Many countries in the predominantly Muslim world are in a time of transition and of opening to democratic development of which the so-called "Arab Spring" has seen only the most recent and dramatic developments. Particularly against that background, there has been a developing interest in "the Turkish model" of transition from authoritarianism to democracy. The Muslim World and Politics in Transition includes chapters written by international scholars with expertise in relation to the contexts that it addresses. It discusses how the Gulen movement has positioned itself and has sought to contribute within societies - including the movement's home country of Turkey - in which Muslims are in the majority and Islam forms a major part of the cultural, religious and historical inheritance. The movement and initiatives inspired by the Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gulen began in Turkey, but can now be found throughout the world, including in both Europe and in the 'Muslim world'. Bloomsbury has a companion volume edited by Paul Weller and Ihsan Yilmaz on European Muslims, Civility and Public Life: Perspectives on and From the Gulen Movement.

God has blessed my life with so many miracles it is hard to recall them all.

It is my hope that as you read this book you can relate to similar situations in your past and begin to see God at work in your life.

Who knows maybe you will begin to see and understand the miracles that He has done both large and small every day of your life.

Raymond F. Banks Jr

The amazing and true story of a fan making it into the NFL....

The story begins on January 15, 1982, when the Washington Redskins were playing the hometown Minnesota Vikings on an old RCA television in the corner of his parents' living room. It was love at first sight. The game captivated the young boy's heart and his imagination.

The years continued to go by and his passion continued growing. Then on his seventeenth birthday, he was given a book that forever changed his life. It was a book about scouting. This was it This is what he wanted to be He wanted to be an NFL scout

Despite the many obstacles he faced along the way, from the volatile house he grew up in to never fitting in, he never lost sight of his dream. He barely finished high school and soon after failed out of a small community college, but that did not matter to him. His dream was football....

More adversities kept coming at him, but no matter how trying the situations, he believed he could make it into the National Football League. Even when his life was on the brink of being shattered, he believed deep down he could make it.

One day while working as a loan officer, he was sitting in a meeting and had this thought go through his mind, "What am I doing here?" Right then and there in the midst of that meeting, ideas began popping into his head and he began putting together a plan that would prove to cost him nearly everything, but he had to go for it. He just had to go for it.

After seven months of working relentlessly on something that had never been done before, the call came and Daniel was hired by the New York Jets to work in Pro Scouting. Out of nowhere and against all the odds he found himself working on one of the best staffs in league history.

Through the eyes of a fan, is an unprecedented look of what it's like to work in the day-to-day operations of an NFL team and what it is like to be around many of the biggest names in the game. Woven in, is life itself.

Whatever it Takes is beyond words; it's an experience.