Flying home to New York I pictured my boxes of diaries being delivered, driven like a western covered wagon train slowly rolling across America. Back in hometown the collection of stories grew by searching for a church, new jobs, another dog and stumbling in and out of love.

January of 2002 after having major surgery I began reading 240 diaries and shaping events. Honoring God by illuminating my trials and blessings was my motive for writing. Telling the story of God's love became my objective. By 2007 I quit one part time job to carve out quality time as writing matured into a daily labor of love.

In March 2012 I discovered Westbow Press. Prayerfully putting my manuscript into the hands of their editor's, the hard work of rewriting progressed. My hope is to encourage those who think they know Jesus as Savior to be sure and obey Him as Lord. Lord willing many more will come to love Him.

"We're going to storm the gates of heaven until God brings healing. He's going to give us our miracle."

The faith is sincere. The expectation is real. And sometimes God honors our prayers for healing. Sometimes, but not always. Instead of healing, God may choose to put us through grief. When loved ones die, even good Christians struggle to fathom the unfathomable. We count the months by the minute, waiting for the pain to go away. We harbor secret bitterness toward the one who has left us. We become angry toward our family for failing to understand us, angry toward God for ignoring our prayers, and angry toward ourselves for being angry. And all the while we ask, "Why did this have to happen?"

The answers are never easy.

In Faith, Hope, and Grief, Doug Knox recounts his struggle as he grappled with his wife Marie's cancer and premature death. With poignancy and humor, Doug asks the tough questions, shares his struggles and shortcomings, and tells about the deepening relationship with his God that he never could have achieved without the pain.

If you are suffering from a personal loss, please read this book.

Is God there? What is birth, and what is death? What is a soul? Is there life after death? The author explores these questions from the perspective of his own life, starting with his childhood in India, where he was abandoned by his mother and raised by his father and grandmother, to his mother's reentry into his life, to his relocation to the United States when he was 18 years old, and to his mother's unloving behavior which forced him to make his own way in America. Through the ups and downs of becoming an adult, marriage, and children, he asks and answers many questions that people have about life.

In this memoir, author Steve Grizzle recounts the story of his perfect life adventure as a preacher, a pilot, and a police officer--the three Ps of his life. He reveals the details of a life lived as an exciting journey, leading him from preaching in the pulpit to traveling the world as a pilot to serving as a police officer. As a man with a true need for speed, Grizzle's journey has been one of exciting and unforgettable events.

For example, he was almost killed by a pilot who flew Air Force One for a living. He met and worked for the great Sam Walton and encountered numerous celebrities over the course of his various careers. Over the years he has regaled his friends with the stories of his adventures in each of his three careers, who agreed that if they were able to trade places with anyone in the whole world, it would be him.

Sharing stories full of action, inspiration, and adventure, The 3 "P" Man presents a unique and intriguing memoir.

"Giving Birth to God" tells of one woman's journey through yoga ashrams and Sufi training to finding a mystical Christian school with Master Teachers. After 12 years of transformational training, Mother Clare was ordained a Priest, and four years later a Master Teacher. Mother Clare was married, raised four children, and was a practicing midwife and psychotherapist while receiving her mystical and esoteric training. Without being celibate, without going to India and joining a foreign religion, Mother Clare received complete spiritual training, including initiations and ordinations, in the midst of leading the full life of an American woman. Wonderfully moving stories give an in-depth rendering of the Inner Christian Path. Some accounts will induce laughter and some tears, while the stories of women giving birth and the transformations the author experienced as a midwife and mother will move hearts and open minds to the great reality of the spiritual world.

God can take the life of the most insignificant individual or a ministry in a small to moderate-size church and touch the lives of many people for eternity. This is the lesson at the heart of Pastor Bonds' message to the readers of Ain't That Something? Pastor Bonds is retired, having served more than forty-nine years of pastoral ministry in various churches in Nebraska and Texas. He grew up in humble circumstances that some would even call poor during the Great Depression in the 1930's. However, he never thought of himself or his family as being poor. He lived a simple childhood and a rather insignificant adolescence. He takes the reader on the journey of his life from before he was born to the end of his years of pastoral ministry.

Pastor Bonds has written his book to encourage those who feel that they are just ordinary and insignificant; not really able to be useful to God in any meaningful way. He wants to encourage the pastors of the thousands of small and moderate-size churches scattered throughout America to see themselves as successful. His message is that God will use anyone who trusts Him.

Broken vessels can be mended at the hand of a loving God. "Why Must I Cry?" seeks to touch the heart of anyone who has ever experienced abuse or knows someone who has experienced abuse. It offers hope that no matter how many trials, tribulations, and disappointments you've had, giving up is never an option. Author Kayla Johnson has opened her heart and shared her personal experiences to illustrate how to see past the pain and experience great joy. This inspirational memoir also includes the tools needed to fight back. It explains how to find the courage to stand even when your legs are weak and saying "no more" is a struggle. Sometimes it seems like life's decisions can't be reversed, that there's nothing to be done about past mistakes. "Why Must I Cry?" holds the key to the change waiting on the horizon-the ability to escape a hurtful past or escape from an abusive partner-to turn mourning into laughter. Children of God, it is time to fight back. The season of restoration is now. It's time to go boldly into the enemy's camp and take back the life and hope that has been stolen from you.

This collection of essays seeks to redress the negative and marginalizing historiography of Pusey, and to increase current understanding of both Pusey and his culture. The essays take Pusey's contributions to the Oxford Movement and its theological thinking seriously; most significantly, they endeavour to understand Pusey on his own terms, rather than by comparison with Newman or Keble.

Elsie Moses Huck Detweiler is an educator and evangelist with a love for people, God's Word, and the Lord. She is a visionary with the remarkable ability to surround herself with people who make her dreams come true.

Her touching autobiography, "A Life of Faith," begins with her early years in a prosperous Pennsylvania Dutch family hit hard by the Depression. Seemingly happy on the outside, Elsie is terribly lonely and plagued by fears of death. At fifteen, she experiences personal salvation that results in life-long peace and freedom from her oppression.

Moved to share the gospel and minister to the needs of others, she and her husband pioneer alcohol rehabilitation in the days before treatment centers and personally develop two successful programs still in operation today. Tragically widowed at a young age, Elsie soldiers on with a series of remarkable ministries in the home mission field.

In her own words, Elsie shares her amazing story, revealing her courage, strength, and fortitude. Inspiring and powerful, "A Life of Faith" offers a compelling look at how one woman changed the lives of many.

These volumes trace the Presbyterian Pulpit from the earliest days of the country until the early 1860's. This three volume hardcover set is very difficult to find and you can purchase all three volumes for less than you could purchase one volume from antiquarian booksellers. "Sprague's 'Annals of the American Pulpit' was one of the most useful reference works of the nineteenth century. By recording, often from personal acquaintances, key information about a wide range of clergymen in early American history, Sprague made it possible to peer much further into the day-by-day lives of the churches. This reprinting of the volumes dealing with Presbyterian ministers should be welcome to all students of early American history, but especially by those who desire a sense of how religious life 'on the ground' was carried out." Mark A. Noll, Professor of History, Wheaton College (IL)