Get Righteous, Godly Girl is intended for all women and the path each of us long for: Living Righteously in a Worldly Society. All women, regardless of where you are on your journey, embrace the opportunity and challenge Get Righteous, Godly Girl puts before you. Learn about women of the Bible, how they too struggled with the day to day challenges of living righteously in a worldly society, and what we can do to resist falling short of God's command. This guide will allow the reader to: Take a hard look at their own lives Identify areas that need improvement Understand God's word Prepare a practical plan for change. In sharing my own personal secrets with each of you as an example, you too will be empowered to break up with bad habits and fall in love with God, for He is awesome and mighty in all things. Amen.

COURAGE FOR THE JOURNEY assembles a collection of wisdom to ignite courage, hope, and strength in those caught in the inevitable storms of life. In his 1965 masterpiece I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, Dr. Seuss observed, And I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. Adversities arise in all shapes and sizes. The death of a loved one, divorce, business failure, job loss, health issues, and natural disasters are only but a few examples. None of us is immune from the life events that can shake or even obliterate our foundations. Personal disasters leave us dazed and shell-shocked. We find ourselves standing in the rubble of our lives, wondering how to move forward and what to do next. Winston Churchill asserted, If you are going through Hell, keep going This is sage advice for anyone in distress. The question is how, when you have totally lost direction, do you keep going? When fear, discouragement, failure, loss, and regret have taken firm root in the gardens of our heart, mind, and soul, how do you vanquish them? During adversity, attitude will always dictate outcome. The key to overcoming any obstacle is to tune out the negative noise of the storm and society in general. The positive emotions of courage, faith, hope, perseverance, and peace contain far greater power than negative emotions. COURAGE FOR THE JOURNEY explores strategies for: Finding courage and faith in place of fear Finding hope and perseverance in place of discouragement Finding opportunity and choice in place of failure Finding clarity and accepting change in place of loss Finding recovery, reinvention, and peace in place of regret

My intention in writing this book is to share the intimacies of my heart, leading up to a personal, powerful, and life-changing experience of God's unconditional love. First for the clergy and teachers of faith, this book is given to you for the benefit of those who are in your care and second yet foremost, for those who have been surpressing pain within their own and often times repressed experience. My hope is that in sharing my struggle to let God be God, and do what God does best, namely to love those who will come to Him with all of their brokenness and need, that you too may come closer to peace in your own life. Can you find identity in one of these groups? * Those who have been hurt by fear and insecurity based upon a harshly taught understanding of God's law without real knowledge of His love;* Those having sadly experienced divorce and the guilt coming from that failure with its painful confusion, what really happened;* Catholic women practicing what is termed by the Catholic Church as as artificial birth control and its affect on their peace of mind;* Those troubled by the Catholic Church's requirement of integral sacramental confession as the only ordinary means of receiving forgivness for sin;* Protestants and Evangelicals counting on Baptism alone, apart from any growth in personal righteousness, as affecting their eternal reality.Did you find yourself listed above? Today there are many who are under spiritual oppression and needlessly suffering separation from real knowledge of God's unconditional love for them. The question everyone needs to answer is this, can I receive God's mercy and love and can I return that love to Him? This capacity is evidence of and at the very heart of salvation

Today, 1 in 110 children will exhibit signs and receive a diagnosis of autism. Many parents will live in confusion, seeing the early signs but not understanding them. They will experience many varying emotions ranging from denial to panic to desperation. By understanding the early signs and seeing God's hand in the circumstances of dealing with this disability, parents will begin to approach the care of their children with autism from a position of hope. This book chronicles the journey of one mother who has traveled down the path of life with a child with autism. It contains strategies, techniques, and curricular suggestions that proved helpful to her child. In addition, it details a journey of faith and hope that ends in a new way of valuing the lives of our individuals with special needs. May it bring hope and help to others who have entered upon this unique journey.

Becca, now in her thirties, is desperate to find comfort and sleep as she moves to a small town once again. There she hopes to find what has been missing from her life since she left her small home town and moved to the city. Having years without peace and the ability to sleep, her days are filled with emptiness and loneliness. Drained from the struggle of life, and the decision to leave her family and friends years ago, she embarks down a road of memories and voices from her past. In a single night she must re-live all the painful memories and mistakes she has made. Alone, in the dark, in her own bedroom, she is faced with answering the question she has avoided all her life. In the end, after a night that seems as if it will never end, somehow what she had overlooked all along becomes so real that she finds herself yielding to what she knows is the only thing that can bring her peace - and finding grace that brings her restoration she never dreamed possible.

Sand between my toes, the salt air wrapping around me like a warm, summer blanket, the crashing of waves, and the meeting of sky and water. The beach is where I see the handiwork of God. As a young child, it was there that I wished that I could walk on the water as Jesus and Peter had in Matthew 14. It was there that I learned of faith, the faith that requires you to not only step out of the boat but also to focus on Jesus and learn to walk toward Him daily. It is not enough to just get out of our comfort zones, but now we need to learn to grow and walk toward Him constantly. The Faith to Walk on Water takes a look at why standing still in our faith is no longer an option, how doubt and fear are overcome by Jesus. He does not watch from a distance, but He is always there holding out His hand for us to take hold. So what are you waiting for? Take that step, and walk on the water

What is the human heart like? Theologians and philosophers have attempted to address this question, not just in the abstract, but concretely in personal, as well as social and political, dimensions. Patrick Downey explores the biblical writings of Genesis and the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah, the Greek tragedies, Plato, Aristotle, and political philosophers--such as Rousseau, Hobbes, Nietzsche and Rene Girard--to seek answers to this profound question. Recognizing our resistance to know the truth about our own hearts, Downey calls his readers to join with these thinkers in the search for truth and serious self-reflection. Not for the faint of heart, this book courageously addresses the most foundational question of our existence as individuals in community. What is the nature of the human heart and can we, will we, know it?

When the Honeymoon is over Kelly comes home from a trip only to be blindsided by a note left on the coffee table from her husband saying he is no longer interested in being married to her. She fights the emotional roller coaster most relationships experience. Jada loves her life, her husband, and daughter but craves the attention from her man to give her the business like he use to when they first said I do however, her boss Cole don't mind giving her the attention she desires putting everything she believes in at risk. Madison hides behind her I can do bad by myself attitude by pushing the one man she loved out of her life only to do it again while going to school raising her only son and finding herself truly alone and broken. Kobe is a man, who believes in working hard and providing for his family, but his wife is a selfish She Devil that provides him grief on daily basis, his daughter is the only reason he remains in this mess of a marriage. He simply doesn't know how much more he can take. Jalen loves Reagan and couldn't ask for a better woman, she's everything a black man could ever want fine, smart, and supportive but why he didn't want to put a ring on it was something he had to figure out for himself. Cory the super model is finding himself picking up the pieces of his life after starting over from a relationship that went sour and could affect his future dramatically. Honeymoon happy and peacock proud is how this all begin but when the honeymoon is over and the dust settle and reality comes in like a flood will they remain or face the most challenging situations life throws their way.

The word "cancer" is frightening.What happens when a doctor tells you that you have cancer?How do you deal with that?What goes on in the immediate aftermath of that diagnosis?What is chemotherapy like?How will you feel?These are only a few of the questions that proliferate when we face any uncertain turn in the road of life.A Stroll at Leisure with God is a unique perspective of how to walk with the Lord through any crisis or life's daily challenges. Through it all, whatever comes our way, we can learn what it truly means to have faith, even in times of crisis.

When you have been bound by the things of this world for too long, this book will encourage you to believe that a new day has come. Now is the time to follow God and walk out a faith that you didn't even know was possible. Place your worry, doubt, and fear on Him. He has created you for more. Revival is driven by emotion and revolution by action, but transformation is the outcome of those things working together. The power and purpose of all you are meant to be are rising within you as you walk out your unhindered, mountain-moving, white-pant-wearing faith. The movement begins in you today