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One hot July day, on a return trip home from New Orleans, Trish
Dunaway received a call from Mercer University police: "Call your
mother." As the minutes raced by, she learned the tragic news: her
ninety-three-year-old mother had been instantly killed in a traffic
accident.
Her mother's story is a remarkable one: growing up in the 1920s
in the Charleston, South Carolina Orphan House, losing her husband
to cancer as a young married woman, and growing into a much-loved
and honored prayer warrior.
Trish gave herself a year to journal her grief. Through prayer,
the ministry of the saints, journaling and poetry, Scripture, and
memories of her Low Country heritage, she learned to choose God's
comfort He offered through a walk into His mercy and grace.
She shares her journey during the year following her mother's
death as she learns how God teaches us to listen for His comfort in
the face of despair.
Get ready for Revival after reading and apply these 7 Steps to
World Revival. This is not just a Christian prediction book, it is
a revelational book that has the truth of God's Word. Issues that
have tied the hand of God, and remedies that will untie the hand of
God to bring Revival to the land is focused on. This book is
written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit during the
Author's 40-day consecration fast. This is why it is a must-read
for every one. Revival will come when every contamination is
purged. The standard is raised. The standard is maintained. Dwell
in His presence - Revival will come.
A Time to Grow, the third volume of the history of the Racine
Dominican Sisters, tells the congregation's story from 1901 to
1964. After briefly recapturing the tumultuous development of the
community while headed by Mother Hyacintha Oberbrunner from after
the death of Mother Thomasina Ginker until the election of Sister
Emily Acker in 1901, the book chronicles the period leading up to
the Second Vatican Council and the changes already being set in
motion before the congregational elections of 1964. Illustrations
depict the lives of ordinary sisters as they struggled to observe
the many regulations and customs handed down from a previous
monastic era while carrying out their teaching ministry.
Barb Voss had suffered a lifetime of hurt, trauma, and loss, but
that didn't stop veterinarian James A. Kennedy from wooing her and
stealing her heart. In this true love story, Barb recalls how she
searched, prayed, and waited for her "cowboy knight"-and eventually
found him through a Christian website and divine intervention.
Including original e-mail messages, Barb's memoir recalls the
love that developed between two former strangers. How do shields
come down for love to finally take hold? How does a love for God
shine through the most joyful and painful of experiences? How does
someone get through poor health, the death of loved ones, and a
variety of betrayals?
Telling her life story, Barb recounts seeking to answer these
questions while leaving the past behind to find her
once-in-a-lifetime love. She met an extraordinary man, and she
shares all the romantic details in My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz. This
book may contain what could be some of the most beautiful love
letters and prayers ever.
When, in Obergefell v. Hodges, the US Supreme Court held that bans
on same-sex marriage violate the Constitution, Christian
conservative legal organizations (CCLOs) decried the ruling.
Foreseeing an “assault against Christians,” Liberty Counsel
president Mat Staver declared, “We are entering a cultural civil
war.” Many would argue that a cultural war was already well
underway; and yet, as this timely book makes clear, the stakes, the
forces engaged, and the strategies employed have undergone profound
changes in recent years. In Defending Faith, Daniel Bennett shows
how the Christian legal movement (CLM) and its affiliated
organizations arrived at this moment in time. He explains how CCLOs
advocate for issues central to Christian conservatives, highlights
the influence of religious liberty on the CLM’s broader agenda,
and reveals how the Christian Right has become accustomed to the
courts as a field of battle in today’s culture wars. On one level
a book about how the Christian Right mobilized and organized an
effective presence on an unavoidable front in battles over social
policy, the courtroom, Defending Faith is also a case study of
interest groups pursuing common goals while maintaining unique
identities. As different as these proliferating groups might be,
they are alike in increasingly construing their efforts as a
defense of religious freedom against hostile forces throughout
American society—and thus as benefitting society as a whole
rather than limiting the rights of certain groups. The first
holistic, wide-angle picture of the Christian legal movement in the
United States, Bennett’s work tells the story of the growth of a
powerful legal community and of the development of legal advocacy
as a tool of social and political engagement.
"Outstanding success represents all-round success" Linda Nweke
Every woman is born to excel. You were created to have influence of
some sort. You were designed to impact your world. Your pursuit of
excellence will position you for outstanding success. Understand
that influence does not have to be rapid. The influence that
endures is usually a gradual process. In order to genuinely impact
the lives of those around you, patience is required, wisdom is
essential and divine favour is a must. Within the pages of this
book lie some powerful and practical keys that will unlock the
golden potential that resides within you. Together we will embark
on a journey to explore the lives of some outstanding women who
have gone before us. You will learn from both their victories and
their failures. A variety of subjects have been meticulously
discussed in this book and some of them are: Why God made the
woman. Far above rubies. The woman of covenant. Until she arose.
The power of expectation. Qualities of outstanding women. Grace is
enough. Linda Nweke (B.A.), is the co-pastor of the Joyful Assembly
London, a Bible teacher, counselor and motivational speaker. She is
the author of "Empowered by Grace" and "Transformed by a Word."
Linda is the president/founder of Joyful Ladies International
Fellowship. She is married to Uche and their marriage is blessed
with four lovely children.
Suddenly, we awaken. Our experience was merely a dream. We
return to our Earthly life for a second chance, but will we do what
we know we should do? Will we seek the Bible in all its glory? Will
we seek the Son of God, Jesus Christ? Hell taught us how to be
serious. Thanks to a God-given second chance, we will learn to live
dedicated to His purpose.
Each one of us has made choices in our lives that we regret.
Some of these choices have minimal consequences, while other
choices we have made can cause devastating outcomes.
In her book, "Abortion v. God's Amazing Grace," the author
shares just that sort of choice that can have lifelong effects. Her
choice to have an abortion was made at a moment when all she could
hear were lies. Then, after it was too late to undo what she had
done, truth was heard, reality set in, and the pain and
hopelessness became unbearable.
Thankfully, God does not leave us without hope. Through the
author's story, you will see how God, through His Son, Jesus
Christ, takes our sin, pain, and destruction and brings forgiveness
and hope to our lives. You will witness a God who takes our
brokenness and over and over again demonstrates His powerful love,
forgiveness, grace, and healing. The author will share that God is
always there. He is always love, and He waits to make each one of
us whole.
"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we
might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you
have been healed." - 1 Peter 2:24
It's clear that we are the authors of Evil. We are the ones running
with pitchforks. Deity is no more than a cardboard cut-out, barely
paying attention if at all. Yet, so blatant are claims on behalf of
the gods in our time that one is compelled to wonder how
civilization came to be in such a mess. Of course humanity shares
the blame, perhaps most of it, but given the deity's reputation for
miraculous cures, it is surprising, no, astonishing, that human
suffering is still an issue twenty-six centuries after Job made his
complaint. The author remembers the last century as a time of
stupendous brutality and cruelty, from which humanity has yet to
recover. The truth is, he fears, that either we do not know the
gods well enough to banish them, or that banishment could not come
too soon. We would do well to remember Socrates and how to apply
reason in our lives.
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