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"My story is not about my past, but about your future," says Marie
Roberts Monville. In the startling tragedy of the Amish schoolhouse
shooting at Nickel Mines, one story has never been told; Marie
Roberts Monville, the wife of the man who created such horror,
tells her story for the very first time. It is a story of sorrow
and destruction, but also one of majestic deliverance, unending
compassion, breathtaking forgiveness, and grace-filled redemption.
Within a solitary moment, Marie Monville realized that life, as she
knew it, was over. What she never anticipated was a tangible
encounter with God reaching into her circumstances, through them
rewriting all she believed about herself, her faith, and the God
she thought she knew. One Light Still Shines reveals three love
stories: the innocent love of a devoted wife for a husband in pain,
the incomprehensible love of God in the aftermath of massacre and
destruction, and the redemptive love of Christ, waiting to unfold
in the life of every person who reads this book. Marie's journey
since that darkest of days has been invaded with light which shines
through these pages into the darkest questions we all
face--questions about our past, our value, our identity, and own
powerlessness in this fallen world. Come face to face with the
Power behind every answer--a love that begs to be received.
Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm-today. Newspaper
columnist Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full
view in this collection of musings-picking blueberries while
watching for bears, hoping for angels while driving off the
freeway, moving into the "thousand-story house," and enduring
lectures from teenage children about the virtue of respect. Three
books in one, this collection includes Smucker's Ordinary Days:
Family Life in a Farmhouse, Upstairs the Peasants are Revolting:
More Family Life in a Farmhouse, and Downstairs the Queen Is
Knitting. Often slightly off-stride and with disarming humility,
Dorcas finds endless materials for stories and life lessons in
everyday happenings. As she says, "I, like my mother, feed my
children mashed potatoes and stories. I repeat the ones I heard
from Mom and turn our family escapades into tales to be repeated
while washing dishes or snapping buckets of green beans on the
front porch. A story is much more than just a story, of course. It
is entertainment, identity, interpretation, and lessons. This is
who we are, this is why we do what we do, this is important, that
is not, and don't ever whack your brother's finger with a hatchet
like your dad did to Uncle Philip." This delightful trilogy
includes some of Smucker's best writing. She covers topics and
dilemmas everyone can relate to while also inviting readers to
explore her Mennonite family's more personal experiences. Her voice
is humorous, encouraging, and at times, doubting, but she never
takes herself too seriously. As you read, her stories will
entertain you and ultimately soothe your soul.
This collection of insights about The Book of Mormon adds to and
complements the author's legal publications about freedom of
conscience, evidence and comparative constitutional law. The book
includes insights distilled from contemporary anthropology, careful
analysis of the doctrine of resurrection taught in The Book of
Mormon, philosophical questions about the rule of law which inform
life in contemporary society, and how reflection on the pervasive
New Testament intertexuality in The Book of Mormon should increase
the knowledge of modern readers. Important reading for scholars of
religion and faith, and particularly those interested in
understanding the beliefs and practices of members of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world.
A tale of survival and freedom, Stolen Innocence is the story of
one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her
life. In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah,
sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect
leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced
her to marry her first cousin at the age of fourteen. This
harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling
evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of the lengths
to which Jeffs went in order to control the sect's women. Now, in
this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells the incredible and
inspirational story of how she emerged from the confines of the
Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and helped bring
one of America's most notorious criminals to justice. Offering a
child's perspective on life in the FLDS, Wall discusses her
tumultuous youth, and explains how Warren Jeffs's influence over
the church twisted its already rigid beliefs in dangerous new
directions. Once she was married, Wall's childhood shattered as she
was obligated to follow Jeffs's directives and submit to her
husband in "mind, body, and soul." With little money and no
knowledge of the outside world, she was trapped and forced to
endure the pain and abuse of her loveless relationship, which
eventually pushed her to spend nights sleeping in her truck rather
than face the tormentor in her bed.
In 1976, Jesus took Mary K. Baxter on a spiritual journey for thirty nights to witness the torments of hell, charging her to reveal the terrible reality of God’s judgment and to relate the urgent message of salvation through Jesus Christ. Mary wrote about her journey to hell in her best-selling book A Divine Revelation of Hell, which has sold nearly 1.4 million copies. After those thirty nights, Jesus told Mary, “I will close up your mind, and you will not remember some of the things I have shown and told you. But I will reopen your mind and bring back your understanding in the latter days.” Recently, God brought back to Mary’s remembrance many of those experiences because these revelations are particularly for our day. A Divine Revelation of Satan’s Deceptions contains new images of hell that Mary has not related in her other books, as well as crucial insights into the deceptions Satan uses to destroy people and the tactics he employs to defeat believers. Our choice is between allowing Satan to deceive and rob us—or claiming our spiritual inheritance and conquering the enemy in the power of God.
In A Divine Revelation of Spiritual Warfare, you will learn more about how to receive divine protection and use the spiritual weapons that are rightfully yours so you can take back what Satan has stolen, break free from generational curses, know what spiritual warfare is and is not, conquer entrenched sins and habits, see healings, and release others from spiritual bondage. The enemy seeks to conquer and destroy your spirit, soul, and body, but the devil has far less power than God has made available to us. Learn the enemy's strategies and be equipped to engage in spiritual battles—and win!
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