Winner Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
How Can I Give My Child Hope?
“I’m such a failure.” “No one cares about me.” “I haven’t felt happy for a long time.” “I don’t want to live anymore.”
If you have heard your child utter these words, your fear for their well-being has skyrocketed. But what can you do to help them?
Some experts say that depression and anxiety are the new normal. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young people. As parents, we cannot accept this. Many young people feel helpless and hopeless. Our kids must be equipped with more than resilience and positivity. They need hope. Hope for a future. Along with her daughter Kendra, parent and family educator Lori Wildenberg encourages you to take the practical ways offered in Messy Hope to foster necessary hope growth in your children’s hearts. This is more than a self-help book, this is your lifeline to help them overcome depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation to experience a hope-filled life.
Winner Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
The inspirational true story of God sparing a young girl from being murdered and later transforming her life, as seen on The 700 Club.
By age twelve, Mary Therese Hutchinson had survived not one, not two, but four attempts on her life. Even worse, the assailant and man who had sexually abused her for years was no outsider but a trusted family member. Forced to keep much of what she endured a secret, Mary came to believe everything she'd been taught about God was a fairy tale. After all, what loving God would allow such horrible things to happen to a little girl? Or if he was real, then God had forgotten about her.
By adulthood, Mary was outwardly a successful, beautiful young woman. But unresolved trauma and hate for her abuser led to a downward spiral of despair and self-destructive choices. A stranger's prayers became the catalyst that started Mary on a journey of emotional healing and spiritual transformation. She now knew God was no fairy tale but a loving, merciful heavenly Father who, far from abandoning her, had miraculously intervened to save her young life.
This is a practical guidebook suitable for both beginners as well as more advanced practitioners of Yoga.
PART 1 focuses on the teachings of Self-enquiry as presented by Śri Ramana Maharshi and other luminaries in the field of Advaita Vedānta.
PART 2 summarizes the teachings of Yoga and details how a keen seeker can put into daily practice Patañjali’s eight limbs of yoga to achieve their ultimate aim: Kaivalya or final liberation.
Providing much more than an introduction to Yoga and Vedānta, this book focuses on the higher-level teachings of these two spiritual practices, revealing their underlying unity and complementarity.
Saint Hildegard: Ancient Insights for Modern Seekers is a treasure trove of St. Hildegard’s bracing, rich, and transforming insights. Written for today’s seekers and spiritual directors, it takes us deeper into our own experiences in the company of the mystic visionary St. Hildegard, whose twelfth-century wisdom, still strikingly relevant to our contemporary struggles, enriches our journeys.
Spiritual director and retreat guide Susan Garthwaite knows this journey well—she’s traveled it for years. St. Hildegard has influenced Garthwaite’s spiritual life, as well as her work as a spiritual director, and here she gives concrete examples of spiritual experiences and practices in which St. Hildegard’s insights can draw out our own wisdom. She also gently touches our worst experiences and offers St. Hildegard’s light for our liberation and fullness of life.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
This is the true story of eight children who started off in a normal family but had an abusive father. Eventually, constant marital fights and the father's aggressiveness led to divorce, leaving the children to figure out how to survive on their own, with only a mother suffering from mental health issues left to look out for them. Over a five-year period each child experienced profound neglect, lack of supervision, and the breakdown of the family unit, forcing them to make choices they never would have made otherwise.
But by the grace of God, and through the help of ordinary people along the way, they not only survived but developed a relationship with Christ. He transformed their lives and helped them achieve above and beyond anything they could have imagined. God has a plan for each of us, but it's up to us to choose the right path and seek Him in the midst of our trials.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
The Desperate Housewives of Biblical Proportions chronicles the lives of the seven (7) matriarchs of Genesis as it relates to the promises God gave to Abraham when God separated him to create a nation unto Himself.
Take this literary journey with me as Hagar and Sarah quite literally birth a nation, Rebekah's contribution and role in the destructiveness of favoritism and how comparison kills in the lives of Leah, Bilhah, Zilpah and Rachel. Discover how their leading men played major roles in their Spiritual and/ or physical relationship with barrenness.
While reading, allow the Desperate Housewives of Biblical Proportions’ characters, experiences, lessons, challenges, disobedience and unbelief to challenge you to recognize your own personal and/or Spiritual relationship with barrenness. This riveting and exciting page turner will inspire you to begin reading your Bible while challenging you to begin developing Abraham’s, Hagar’s, Sarah's, Isaac’s, Rebekah’s, Jacob’s, Leah's, Bilhah’s, Zilpah’s and Rachel’s story into a series of lessons for your Sunday School, Small Group Bible Study, Vacation Bible School and/or Women's Ministry to show how their story is actually playing out in each of our lives today. I think Ecclesiastes 1:9 says it best, “…there's nothing new under the sun.”
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
Nearly 30 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes every day — that night, Jennifer was one of them.
On Shattered Wings is the powerful story of the people left behind and their powerful life lessons for us all, an unforgettable true story of a family’s struggle to survive overwhelming sorrow amidst ongoing unexpected and startling events. Along the way, they discover the value of faith, the insignificance of regrets, and the realization there can be joy again through harnessing pain into healing action for themselves and others.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
Discover how women in the Bible respond to challenges, take bold actions to bring about justice, and triumph through adversity. Explore LEADERSHIP, CHARACTER, PERSEVERANCE, and the ROLE OF WOMEN in God's plan of salvation.
Each chapter presents a fresh perspective and addresses faithfulness, redemption, and friendship. The accompanying study guide to each women's story provides insights and key questions to encourage thoughtful reflection and lively conversation.
Journey through each study INDEPENDENTLY as a devotional or in a SMALL GROUP in 8 or 16 sessions.
Includes: background information, study guide, discussion questions, author reflections, closing prayers. A FREE VIDEO SERIES is available at WomenInTheBible.info
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
Dealing with life's problems both with your usual coping mechanisms and God? Learn techniques to open your imagination and command God's promises into your reality!
Surviving through any means necessary while still going to God simultaneously, hoping something will work? This easy-to-read, uplifting, and enjoyable story entertains while including explained step-by-step self-help encouragement toward a victorious life. It is full of understanding, life lessons, simple applications, and empathy. Engage in a journey that provides choice and superior love when the oppressive narrowness of hardships teaches the very opposite.
Finalist Religion: Christianity 2021 Best Book Awards
A spiritual attack on your life is not an accident. Rather, it is a well-thought-out plan that took time, strategy and teamwork. Much like a pack of wolves, Satan and his demonic cohorts patiently scheme and strike when you are most vulnerable. Their goal is to steal, kill and destroy, and they do not play fair. However, we don't have to be the devil's prey any longer. This booklet will empower you with the tools to stand firm, hold onto courage and renew your strength in the Lord. You may be in a spiritual battle, but you can trust that your victory has already been won.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
Mort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration for Will Ferrell's performance in the movie Anchorman. Crim's memoir takes readers behind the camera to show what life was like when the local anchorman was as revered as the professional athlete, and just as overpaid. It was a glamorous life, working alongside some of journalism's legends, like Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Dan Rather, and Ted Koppel.
The son of an evangelical minister in a conservative church, Crim suffered his first crisis of faith at the age of 15. Despite nagging questions, Crim eventually followed his father's path into ministry. But the more he delved into the Bible, the more his faith was shaken. Unable to defend things he wasn't sure of from the pulpit, Crim left the ministry for a career in journalism, determined to pursue truth. After a four-year stint in the Air Force, he earned his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and by the age of 30, had made it to New York—the epicenter of his profession.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
The thesis of this book is quite simple and intuitive: If you want to look for evidence for the afterlife, observe the dying, to see if there’s any indication that they’re going somewhere. Researchers are finding that several experiences related to death are global and quite common, including:
Primary Deathbed Experiences, where over 80% of the dying in a hospice unit report vivid experiences with deceased relatives and angels
Terminal Lucidity, where people lose brain function over time, only to regain full consciousness to say their goodbyes before dying
Shared Death Experiences, where healthy people experience a part of their loved one’s death experience
Crisis Apparitions, where people otherwise unaware of a person’s death somehow know of the person’s death
After Death Communications, where people claim to receive visits from deceased loved ones.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
A PRECIOUS ETHIOPIAN GIRL IN PERIL...AN AMERICAN ADOPTIVE FAMILY IN PURSUIT OF HER FREEDOM...INTERVENTION FROM AN UNSHAKEABLE GOD
With Hurricane Sandy slamming into the East Coast, an epic spiritual storm ensues for Mark and Missy Worton, who courageously board the last plane to Ethiopia to rescue a six-year-old girl. Although Favor has already been declared their daughter, she is about to be wrongly placed into a foster care system that looks more like child slavery.
Once they land, the storm is far from over. The couple faces false accusations of illegal actions, fears of imprisonment, and threats to their family's safety. People call them crazy for staying, but in the midst of the turmoil, prayer warriors around the world gather and miracles begin to happen.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
I Had A Secret for Seventeen Years is the redemptive life story of Tori Shaw, centered around her abortion as a teenager. She spent years covered by guilt and shame while enduring continual abandonment and rejection. Childhood experiences taught her to hide hardship, so she silently dealt with depression, fear, anxiety, self-loathing, and addictions. After hiding her dark secret for seventeen years, Tori shares her story with the world. A woman who once walked in fear and self-doubt is now willing to go wherever God wants her to go. Through Tori’s story, God builds a ministry that helps abortion-minded women choose life for their babies and shares God’s forgiveness and love with post-abortive women. I Had a Secret for Seventeen Years enables the reader to see a post-abortive woman come full circle and embrace the world of possibilities God makes available to those who are willing.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
Three years ago, Lynda Rozell sold her house, quit her job, and began living on the road full-time in an Airstream travel trailer that she tows with a RAM 1500 truck. This book chronicles Lynda’s transformation from her previous life to that of a Tin Can Pilgrim, including her ongoing spiritual growth and the practical skills she has acquired to live in and tow her Airstream trailer. Lynda seeks to live out her Christian faith in her ordinary, everyday life as she travels around the country visiting campgrounds, RV resorts, parks, and religious sites. Through engaging stories, she invites others into the communities she has found on the road and shares the beauty of Creation and spiritual signposts that continue to lead her to radical trust in God.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational 2021 Best Book Awards
After doctors told Praed that her MS would be terminal for her, she had a dream about her funeral. In the dream, a minister said, “The book for which Beth is best remembered is her devotional on disease.”
Beth Praed's first book on multiple sclerosis was the #1 book on MS at Amazon for six years. Praed's devotional about disease promises to be just as moving and insightful.“
So You Have a Disease: Devotions and Stories to Restore Hope” helps readers flourish even though they have been diagnosed with a disease. Praed's true life stories are uplifting and are well-matched with relevant bible verses. This book can be read in solitude or can be used by Christian study groups who are seeking a deeper understanding of their difficult circumstances.
As children, it took very little for us to look up to someone; oftentimes, these people were not even real. Following fictional heroes was perhaps a way to cope with a dysfunctional home, maybe even a fatherless one. With adulthood comes an added awareness of the faults, failings and brokenness of people and our world.
Is there anyone to whom we can look as we navigate the various aspects of life? Is there someone who can help us with its challenges, complications and demands?
In "All Man All Amazing," we find the answer to these questions. While Jesus Christ is God, he also lived as a man, wading the waters of life like the rest of us. This book's view of Jesus through the primary lens of humanity will offer a refreshing perspective of the life of Christ, also providing encouragement and inspiration to those who read its pages.
Approximately 80 percent of Americans admit they haven't read the Bible. If they did, they'd be pleasantly surprised by its impressive quantity of sex and poop jokes.
David danced naked. Noah was basically a moonshining hillbilly. Ezekiel baked poop bread. Herod was eaten by worms. Jesus cursed a fig tree, just to prove he could. Mark went streaking. Hosea married a prostitute. Lot was date-raped by his own daughters.
It turns out, there's a lot of weird stuff in the Bible. Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a tongue-in-cheek look at all of it. From Elisha, who loosed homicidal bears on some kids because they called him bald (it's a long story), to the story of Ehud, who gets away with assassinating a tyrannical king because his servants think said king is taking a dump (also a long story), this book examines and casts new light on some of the Bible's stranger moments.
Organized by topic (poop, genitalia, weird violence, prostitution, gratuitous nudity, seemingly pointless miracles, and other fun stuff), Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a thoroughly researched (really!), reverent, and insightful look at the best-selling book in history.
This book is about three death row men and their experiences in living life and trying to avoid hell. Each of the three death row men's experience is viewed through a different moral lesson found in the three parables of the Christian Bible's Book of Matthew, Chapter 25. These moral lessons sound simple. But moral lessons always get a bit tricky when applied to the human endeavor. And there is nothing trickier than the lives of death row men. While taught by Jesus, who believed in hell, the application of the moral lessons are relevant to all readers, not just Christians. Who are these death row men? All three are associated with the death row inside a state prison, Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. Jack Trawick, on death row for 15 years, was executed. Jimmy Davis, Jr., who observed his 25th anniversary on death row a few years ago, still awaits execution. The third death row man, this author, is a free-world volunteer on death row. I do not physically live there but, as you will see, I reside there in substantive ways. Each death row man presents an intimate, sometimes disturbing and even horrifying, story of struggle with God's moral expectations on how to live and, thereby, avoid hell.
You Found Me. Finding Me here was no accident, My child. You heard the sound of Spirit Calling to you, and you responded by coming to this webpage. I am almost in your hands now; you can place Me in your heart and soul each day by entering the sacred space prepared in this inspirational devotional. I am eager to be with you. Let us journey through this year together.
Yes, God still speaks to us today. Unfortunately, we sometimes forget to listen to that still small voice of God within each of us. Spirit Calling completes the trinity trilogy of God Calling and Jesus Calling of the first-person voice of God daily devotional readings. Spirit Calling is devoted to helping you find a deeper spiritual meaning in your everyday life. Nothing is closer to you than the Spirit of God.
Have you ever wanted to read the Bible, but found it intimidating?
Have you ever read parts or all of the Bible, but come away more confused than ever?
Does it seem like there are contradictions in the Bible?
Why is there an Old Testament and a New Testament?
Does the Old Testament even matter to Christians today?
How do the sixty-six books of the Bible fit together?
Is there an overarching theme?
If you have asked yourself any of these questions, or others, you are not alone. The Bible Blueprint divides the entire Bible chronologically into six easy to read parts. It provides a basic understanding of Scripture as a complete story that links all the various books together. It gives an overview of each book, touching on highlights and some of the amazing and significant events in each, without the reader getting bogged down in the more difficult sections.
The translation of Rumi's Mathnawi became the best-selling book of poetry in the USA. Now, the time has come for the world to introduce a new Rumi who calls himself a disciple of Sir Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal who called himself a disciple of Rumi. Aadil Farook from Pakistan is the first person who can be rightly called the English Poet of Islam. This is not just a work of literature but a book of wisdom, spirituality and philosophy. It is a major original contribution to Islamic Thought & Civilization which resonates perfectly well with the Western audience whether Muslims, Non-Muslims and even disbelievers. It is the fruit of pure genius. A must-read for lovers of Iqbal and Rumi, it is a treat for intellectuals, thinkers and spiritualists who believe in both the revolution without and revolution within. If you are seeking the truth and reality of life, look no further and buy this epic title.
Do you have difficulty trusting some people? How about God? Can you really trust Him? Have you ever asked yourself why it is so hard to TRUST? There are many of us who struggle with trusting others. One of the reasons for this is that often, the people we trusted to watch over and care for us; failed us. Their abandonment left deep wounds and scars in our souls. As a result, some of us believe that just like these people,God cannot be trusted.
You Can Trust Him is an in-depth journey into inspirational, personal, and Biblical stories that will help you find trust truths in the midst of pain, difficulties, or hardships. You will discover that God is with you, and you can trust Him in the storms.In the pages of this book, you will find answers to help you navigate through the painful seasons of life. Using these powerful stories, Joan reveals deep truths about God’s love, compassion, and care for each of His children.
Through these inspirational, personal, and Biblical stories, Joan takes you deep into the lives of many people who were unsure they could survive their painful struggles. They learned to trust God, and were victorious. You will be too. These stories will inspire and encourage you as you make the decision to trust God completely, because He can be TRUSTED.
Living a Parable: Finding Lessons in Unlikely Experiences is a testimony to how God uses our lives to teach us. Composed of several short and entertaining stories, Living a Parable is a compilation of real-world experiences from the author's life, that will undoubtedly make you laugh and take you down your own memory lane.
The author interweaves childhood experiences of life with her parents and four younger siblings with her experiences as as adult, wife and mother, to extract valuable Christian lessons that apply to us all. Each chapter ends with A Call to Action to give you ideas on how to apply the lesson learned and each chapter includes blank pages for note-taking and reflection.
Not only will you be able to relate to the stories within the book but the bigger hope is that the lessons and the messages shared will inspire you to draw even nearer to our Heavenly Father.
Throughout life, we’re always confronted with difficulty, but the deftness is learning how to name it, include it, and elevate from it. Studying the story of Judas, I realized it was at the proper time when Jesus rushed Judas away, the betrayal. Though He had the inside scoop on Judas, He didn’t dismiss him to be rude, exclude him from the twelve, was frustrated, angry, or done with him. Jesus gave Judas the same anointing to heal the sick and to go out and teach. Judas watched Jesus preach, teach, and perform first-hand miracles even though Jesus knew the outcome of their relationship. No one is exempt from what in this book I will name as a Judas. Jesus wasn’t the only One with a Judas. Moses had Pharaoh, David had Saul, Samson had Delilah, Naomi had grief and famine, Esther had Hamon, and the Woman with the issue of blood were all Judases. Know your Judas, an inspirational testament of the author is birthed from life encounters and learning how to overcome them. In this book, while reading the pages, it is important to be able to decipher your Judas, so your God given destiny is fulfilled and your purpose is no longer prolonged.
Life seemed close to perfect approaching the summer of 2005. Every parent's nightmare began for us one evening when Zack came home earlier than expected. Of course, we never imagined that he would sneak out after midnight when he was certain we were asleep. Or that we would be awakened to the news that a car accident had placed him precariously on the edge of death. It shattered our idyllic world and changed the course of our lives.
In this profoundly moving book, readers will experience the emotional faith of a mother and witness the amazing recovery from traumatic brain injury. Faced with the daunting news that her son may never walk or talk again and forced to consider the rest of his life in a nursing home, she turned to the only person that had the power to restore him. Within the desolate walls of the ICU she cried out to God for healing and saw prayers answered in miraculous ways. God was in control and through the power of prayer they would discover his perfect plan was more than they could hope or imagine.
Was it a chance meeting in the Daisy Cafe that brought Tyler Jemison and his boys into August Kibler’s life, or was it the mysterious workings of Tyler’s grandmother, Momma Daisy? In this companion book to the novel As the Daisies Bloom, August shares with Tyler a life’s thoughts on what he would call his tiny systematic theology.What might Eve say after millennia of being the first scapegoat? What might the first and last wives of the great king say to us if we read between the lines? How can we walk a bit with Joseph as he rides with Mary into Bethlehem? And what does Philip have to say to the black Eunuch, and to us about church membership?Journey with the author as he imagines what we might have overlooked in the Bible stories that we teach our children. He shows how reimagining these people in voices for our time can bring to life each of these important guides, who could never have imagined how they would shape 2,000 years of Christianity, and how they can still transform us.
God's Part in Our Art explores the intersection of creativity and spirituality from an author who is both a practicing artist and a theologian. Dr. Linda Seger has studied and experienced the nuances and intricacies of the creative process and also how the Holy Creative Spirit moves us and guides us in our lives and in our art.
This book is both reflective and practical. Each chapter begins with a Bible verse about the process of creation and creating, analyzes the connotations and meanings of the verse, then discusses how it can be applied to the reader’s own creativity. The book slants Christian and Jewish, but Linda believes the concepts are universal.
When his oldest son was born, Tom had stopped drinking completely. Now with two children and his wife, he had closed the chapter on that part of his story.
Life was never simple or easy for Tom, but he had all he needed to get him through it. Until he didn't.
In the blink of an eye, he lost the person he loved more than anything... the one thing that always made him a better man, and his reason for everything that he did in life. His wife and soulmate, Emily. Along with her went his faith in a caring God.
The pain of losing Emily was too much to bear, and he found himself consumed by more darkness than he could handle on his own. He became unrecognizable as a father and a man, and each day continued down a path that there was no coming back from, or so he thought.
Revelation through Science is written for the educated non-scientist who may be troubled by apparent conflicts between science and religion. Are science and faith incompatible? Astronomers, physicists, and biologists have now shown that the more deeply science probes nature, the more it reveals evidence pointing us to God. After reviewing concepts from those fields, Revelation through Science adds new material from chemistry. It describes organic structures that are profoundly vital for life, yet too complex for self-assembly without some guiding principle. It should lift the burden from believers and seekers to realize that science is not the enemy of faith.
The Prophetess speaks about her life growing up with Deaf parents in a hearing world. While growing up, she encounters many oppositions such as: the spirit of rejection; physical and mental abuse; sexual abuse; depression and Cancer.These obstacles in her life kept her under an ugly mask and in bondage for years. However, knowing the hand of God was always in her life-He protected her under the shadow of His wings. After years of seeking an intimate relationship with the Lord, it is now time for the ugly mask to come off. The truth will be exposed in order to set her free of the chains that kept her bound for years. The Prophetess exposes the lies, deceit and deception of the enemy. Her soul now walks with the mask off and dwells in the marvelous light. Her powerful testimony can help others understand that the enemy wants to keep the hidden, dark secrets unexposed and buried inside in order to keep you in bondage forever.
