An inspirational look at how God works in the life of an ordinary woman who just wants to serve Him. Often funny or thought-provoking, this blog-to-page book is filled with stories that will make you look at God, and the world around you, in a different way.

Choice is a tricky proposal, and every choice, good or bad, has its consequences. In "A Hadassah Story," author Hadassah Grey shares both the choices she's made in her life and the results of those choices.

Beginning with her birth in Akers, South Carolina, in 1951, Grey narrates her story-her childhood and teen years, her marriage at seventeen, her separation and divorce, another relationship and the birth of a second child, her drug and alcohol use, and the pain of the separation from her children. She tells of trying to get her life on track, knowing she needed the help of God.

In "A Hadassah Story," Grey shows how she, a beautiful young woman from a small country town raised in a loving, yet sheltered environment, survived the harsh and heartless lifestyle of the big city. She shares how God divinely orchestrated her steps to achieve his divine plan for her life. This story of strength and faith confirms the saying that all things work together for the good of those who love God are called according to his purpose.

This is the story of Gary Cohen, a Jewish boy who was persecuted bitterly in school, and how he became a Christian. When his family was shocked at his conversion, Gary joined the army. He suffered through basic training, remained in the army reserves, and eventually became an officer and an army chaplain. After graduating from the USAF Air War College, he rose to the rank of colonel.

This is the story of a young man who gave away his clothes to needy missionaries and ended up with more suits than one can count. It is an account of a young man who rarely traveled outside of his home in Philadelphia and went to college only nine blocks from his house, to one who earned a commercial pilot's license and traveled to teach and preach the gospel from Seoul, Korea and Hong Kong to Australia, Israel, and Egypt, and a hundred more places. This is an inspiring story of how the Lord can lift up someone on the ground and then use him to lift others.

My name is Christine I am 46 years of age. I was a Pastors wife. Something I can say I never desired to be, actually just the opposite. When I was a little girl I would sit and dream about what it would be like to be married and just live a normal life. Husband goes to work then he comes home. You love and take care of your children raise them to love Jesus and you live happily ever after. However, in my case this did not happen. When I met my husband he declared to me that he wanted to be a Pastor. For quite sometime I pondered in my mind if I wanted to be a Pastor's wife. I thought I knew the cost of Ministry. You see since I was ten years of age I traveled with my Mother and Father, brother and sisters as evangelist. As a young girl I keep hearing the call on my life, but resisted; because I just wanted to be normal. As time went on I traveled extensively as an evangelist holding revival services, preaching and singing the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And now I realize that the call of God on my life is something I can never run from. So I have chosen to embrace it. My passion is to see Revival come to the church. I believe it is the mission of the church to reach out to not only the lost but those who are hopeless. I have asked myself many times how can I reach the lost and the hopeless and then it dawned on me. Revival will not come through a program but through a true passion to be a part of the change that needs to come to the church. It is with this passion that I have written this book.

When Luke Ford, the youngest son of a heretical Seventh Day Adventist theologian, converted to Judaism in 1992, he burned his pornography collection, but his curiosity about the forbidden did not disappear in the flames. In the fall of 1995, Ford began investigating the San Fernando Valley's hardcore industry. On his website www.lukeford.com, he broke stories about HIV-infection, Mafia control, and pay-for-placement porn journalism.

As his name began showing up in the newspapers and his face on television, Ford received an ultimatum from his rabbi--give up investigating porn or give up the synagogue.

"XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul" explores the tensions between freedom and friends, faith and reason, reality and religion.

Trishna Singh OBE was born in Glasgow in the 1950s, a first generation Scottish Bhat Sikh. Her father came to the UK in the late 1930s and her mother followed after the Partition of India by the British in 1947. Trishna left school, at the age of 13, with no qualifications. She had an arranged marriage, aged 21 and moved to Edinburgh to live with her husband. As a young girl, she questioned the cultural requirements of her community which stated that married women were subservient to their mothers-in-law and their husbands, and existed solely to have children and look after their families, in direct opposition to the teachings of the Sikh religion which states man and woman are equal. And although Trishna's marriage was a marriage of equals, she was still expected to adhere to the social and cultural restrictions placed upon her by the wider Scottish Bhat Sikh community. Trishna's life has been challenging, in part. She has battled against her community's traditions which she rightly saw as archaic customs, begun in India, and designed to 'keep women in their place' and has lived her adult life in a city she did not grow up in but which is now her home. In 1989 she founded Leith Sikh Community Group, now Sikh Sanjog. Its aim was to provide support for women in the Sikh community who had been settling in Edinburgh since the 1950s. Thirty-plus years later Trishna remains a director of Sikh Sanjog, along the way having studied and attained a BA in Community Learning and Development. A Silent Voice Speaks is her story.

In October 2003, I became a victim of traumatic brain injury. That's when I was hit and dragged by a pickup truck while riding a Big Wheel trike at a friend's party. Emergency brain surgery saved my life, but I lost a portion of the back part of my brain. At the age of ten, I had to learn how to breathe, swallow, talk, eat, stand, sit, walk-everything- all over again.

Traumatic brain injury is one of the leading causes of disability among children, yet, because of the complexity of the brain, experts still have much to learn about how to treat TBI. In When the Lights Go Out, I describe my therapies-what's worked, what hasn't, and why-and share how I learned to cope with the emotional and psychological challenges. In the process, I have discovered the critical roles that faith in God, love of family, the healing power of friends, and the inherent goodness of people all played in my ability to triumph over overwhelming odds. I have also learned that a horrific accident has given me an amazing gift. When the Lights Go Out is an expression of that gift.

From the moment Mathell Givens was born in 1952 in Illinois, God began sending angels. In this heartfelt autobiography, Givens narrates her life story and describes the angels who rescued her during her times of need. Beginning at birth, Givens' path was not an easy one, but she credits both her faith in God and the angels in her life for her blessed existence today. In Angels in My Life, Givens details the many painful hurdles she's overcome-from being preyed upon by a pedophile as a young girl, to experiencing a teen pregnancy, dealing with an unfaithful spouse, raising three boys as a single mother, and coping with an array of health problems. But through all of her trials and tests, Givens has remained steadfast and true in her devotion to God. A personal testament to God's saving grace, Angels in My Life tells an inspirational story of faith and love.

Thoughts on the BibleSince so much of this work involves what the Bible says, I obviously have some strongconvictions about it, believing it to be the greatest of all books ever written.The Bible is: The revealed word of God;The truth, as revealed in the absolute truth of God in Jesus Christ;Revealed by divine inspiration;Documented and preserved according to God's purpose;Spiritually instructional;Originally historically true and spiritually reliable;Valid for every age throughout all ages;Documentation of the past, present and future of all God's creation;Certification of the complete logic of the universe in regard to the sciences Hecreated, including math, natural science, medical science, and the sciences of ourearth and environment, as well as the science of our entire universe;Finally, and most importantly, the Bible is the revelation of our way to establish aneternal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, who came as God's newcovenant with mankind, so that all who believe by faith can obtain grace for thecomplete and eternal forgiveness of our sins.

In October of 1968, an eighteen-year-old girl was on her way to work in Watts, California, when she was struck by a Southern Pacific train as she crossed an intersection. After the train dragged her body thirty feet, amputated her right leg, and severed her left thumb, the teenager called out for Jesus and promised that, if allowed to live, she would be a witness for Him. That teenage girl would eventually become Barbara Ann Smith-Hookfin-Franklin-Stephen-Sterrett. Sharing the story of her life, Barbara describes how she faced life's greatest challenges head-on as she learned how to be a disabled mother, created a center for the handicapped, traveled to Japan to sing in a concert, and graduated from college with honors. As she details how she somehow managed to survive two subsequent strokes, live through Hurricane Katrina, and handle a divorce, Barbara illustrates how she persevered through each challenge by putting one foot in front of the other and always believing God would show her the way. Through poems and anecdotes, Follow Your Vision and Never Give Up recalls one woman's journey through life as she keeps a promise to God and achieves much more than she ever imagined.