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Does your heart cry out for a deeper understanding of the power of the Holy Spirit and God's great love for all mankind? Have you ever wondered about God's intention for sending the Holy Spirit to dwell in each of us after the Crucifixion of Christ? 40 Days to a Personal Relationship with the Holy Spirit is a study of the ways the Holy Spirit operates through the disciples in the book of Acts. It takes scripture from the Word of God and ties it to a modern world we each face daily. Christ promised to send a helper once he was gone, and He did! That helper is the Holy Spirit, and by better understanding how He operates in each of us, we can stay more aligned with God's plan and begin to operate in Holy Spirit Power. Dedicating this time, you will begin to see ways Holy Spirit would like to work in you, in your life, and through you to share the gospel of love to those around you. Be encouraged to open your heart and mind to the ways of Holy Spirit interaction. Take this forty-day challenge and more deeply dedicate your life to God and Christ through the Power of Holy Spirit!

Have you ever stopped and thought about why you parent your child the way that you do? Where did these practices come from? Why do you expect your children to respond to them in a particular way? Oftentimes, our parenting philosophies are rooted in what we experienced in our own childhoods. Perhaps your parents told you to "stop crying!" when you were upset as a child, so now you do the same with your kids. Now as an adult, do you struggle with expressing and processing your emotions in a healthy way or even in general? Is the continuation of this parenting philosophy preventing your kids from learning how to do so?Using examples from my own childhood and parenting journey, The Parent Trap aims to help you explore some of the parenting philosophies you grew up under, understand their potential impact on you as both a child and adult, and determine if it's the best way to parent your own children. Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't mean it's the best way for you or your children. Taking an honest look at how our parenting style impacts our children can be hard, but it can also lead you down a path that promotes healthy and fruitful family dynamics for generations to come. Join me on this journey and let's start healing together!

Angels were once able to have children with human women, but that ability has since been lost to them...until now. As those fallen from the grace of God have found a new way, they intend on raising an army, not like the giants described in the days of old, but sons and daughters with new kinds of power, ready to make a choice. Which path will each follow? Will they choose to protect the world or lay waste to it? They learn through the trials they face that everything comes with a price, and every decision they make could have dire consequences. And this is only the beginning...A tale of faith and the constant battle of light and darkness within the human soul, this story provokes deep thought and emotion, bringing all who read it to look not only within its pages but within themselves.What is more valuable? Love or power? It's time to decide.

This book is a gritty, often compelling tale that spans thirty years of a rising three-sport star athlete, who through increasing levels of alcohol and drug use, promiscuity, and other damaging behaviors, experiences a total and complete fall from grace. It is filled with the struggle to find meaning and purpose through it all during high school, college, and beyond.Travels range from Washington State to New Jersey, Australia, Southeast Asia, California, to Alabama. The story ultimately culminates in an uplifting message of redemption and recovery. There are a series of traumatic episodes, both on and off the field, which are described with an open, honest, and sometimes humorous use of cultural references, recovery techniques, scripture verses, and theological insights gained by the author since those extreme life events. They are applied at just the right moments to help soften the blows from painful periods of growth, grief and loss, depression and despair, victory and defeat.When all seems lost, God steps in and provides a glimmer of hope for the future and an inspirational ending, which really is a new beginning.

We walked down the steps of the church into the cold December air laughing. Then, I suddenly saw a boy of about fourteen in a cap running past the church, shouting, "The Japs bombed Pearl Harbor! The Japs bombed Pearl Harbor!" For a moment in time, Dad and Mom froze, and my hair stood on end. I didn't even know where Pearl Harbor was located. I only knew it must be somewhere in the United States.The story of my own family has intrigued me ever since I was a little boy. For years, I have sat and listened to my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, besides many aunts, uncles, and other relatives, to hear bits and pieces of our story. Life is made up of stories. It is how we understand the world around us.We need to understand our own lives and choices in light of a historical context. We need to have the ability to identify where we align with and don't align with values and ways of life from the past. In so doing, our lives will feel more grounded. People today talk about how they feel a disconnect between themselves in the twenty-first century and the untouchable past. But the past really holds a lot of the key to the future. The right, proven ways from the past are ours for the taking if we would but take the time to learn about them.And that is what this book is all about. Yes, it will take time to complete. But I don't want it to seem like a homework assignment. Enjoy! Think about it as a stepping stone to your own historical discoveries!May Music Comes in Springtime inspire you as you continue this "odyssey" called life.

Who are you when things don't go right? When the plan doesn't work out the way it's supposed to? Most of us have been in situations where we aren't moving at the speed we want to move, and we are facing circumstances we don't want to face. While these situations are never easy, they present an opportunity to grow in the face of adversity and flourish even if our life seems to be on hold.In this perspective changing book, MLB draft pick and motivational speaker Lance Thonvold shares his struggles with identity and self-worth as his baseball dreams came crashing down at the peak of his career. Following an exceptional first season of professional baseball with the Seattle Mariners, Thonvold experienced heartbreaking injuries to his pitching elbow for three straight seasons.In You Are Being Planted, Not Buried, Thonvold discusses what he learned while rehabbing those gruesome injuries in Peoria, Arizona, developing the mindset that we are so much more than what we do in life. This life-altering book will shake your own identity constructs, help you to embrace failure instead of run from it, and truly be planted for growth wherever you are at in your life.Although growth takes time and effort, being planted is so much more than an action, it's a way of life.

Hello, friends, greetings, God has been so gracious to me to allow me to write this fantastic book of spiritual poems to encourage, edified, uplift, inspire, and to enlighten you even more than you are already. I am so thankful and grateful to God that words literally escape me from being able to describe what I'm feeling at this time in my life. God is an extraordinary God indeed. I never could have imagined again doing anything like this in my wildest of dreams, but God knew that He had a plan for me, and I thank God for His plan. Kingdom Business Spiritual Poetry Volume #2 is a continuation of the first book. It is my prayer and hope that these selected poems will fill you with great joy, enthusiasm, hope, strength, and power to help you reach your purpose driven dreams and aspirations. But most importantly, my prayer is that these poems will allow you to have an even more personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. God is not a traditional God; He is and will forever be a diversified God that will use all manners of communication to compel people to follow Him. Nothing is too hard for the God that I serve and worship. Amen! To God be the glory, honor, and praise; let the church say amen! Amen!God bless you and enjoy!

Stephen Williams is your typical adolescent. He enjoys playing games, spending time with friends, and eating. Life seems to be going according to plan for the youth until he receives news that has serious implications for him and his friends. An adventure in the summer results in Steve and his friends finding courage, hope, peace, and purpose where it once was lacking.

This book does not go into the volumes of rules, discourses, and teachings set out in the Buddhist canon but addresses directly the essential doctrines of the Buddhist faith shared by all the different sects of Buddhism. It is essentially written for easy reading while capturing the essence of the Buddhist faith and that of Christianity. More importantly, it dicusses the major doctrine of self-denial, meditation methods, enlightenment, and the Samsara cycles, etc., came from.The book will compare the beginnings and the basic tenets of the Buddhist faith with that of Christianity. It briefly describes the basics of both faiths and the different definitions of what happiness and blessings are. It addresses fundamental doctrines of the Buddhist faith regarding the Samsara cycle, self-denial meditation, Nirvana, and hell, as compared to the Christian beliefs in salvation, resurrections, eternal life, and hell. This second edition cites from the ancient sacred Vedic Hindu texts, from whence the Buddhist's major doctrines were derived. You can compare it for yourself and draw your own conclusions.It also explores the Gautama Siddhartha's famous Path to Enlightenment with the Four Noble Truths and the Golden Rule of the Noble Eightfold Path. It delves into Buddhist meditation of chanting and mantras versus Christian meditation. The basic doctrine of Buddhism is that only man can save himself, and that is compared with the Christian doctrine of salvation and eternal life. And finally, a comparison is made between Buddha (Gautama Siddhartha) with Jesus Christ of the Bible. Theravada Buddhism does not have any gods or deities, but all the other forms of Buddhism gave common gods with the Hittite, Matanni, Hurrian, Canaanite, and Sumerian civilizations.

When you open this book, you will find and discover that you aren't just reading, but you're on a lifetime journey with God, through his Son Jesus Christ! You are walking out your Christian faith through the eyes of an everyday believer. You will discover how he responded to the various trials of everyday life, which affect us all. You will also discover how through the Bible, applied to everyday struggles, can change how you perceive a situation and also change your situation.The Bible declares in John chapter 1 verses 1-5, "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made. In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it." This scripture simply means that when you apply scripture to your everyday problems, through prayer, then you're putting God in your situation because he is his word. Hopefully, while reading this book, you will be inspired to walk with faith and not by sight.

Easter Beans is fun to read and will help parents and grandparents explain the true meaning of Easter to those they love so much. Children will learn more about colors and numbers, as well as the gospel story, as you read about a selected group of jelly beans.As a child growing up, Dr. Dave was a visual learner. One of his favorite memories from early childhood was a teacher who used to close his Sunday school class with a story from a Wordless Book shaped like a heart. The color of each page told an important part of what Jesus did for us.Realizing that Easter has become more about bunnies and chocolate than about Jesus, Dr. Dave has set out to use Easter Beans the way his teacher used that Wordless Book. The jelly beans found in most Easter baskets become object lessons in the story of Jesus and His resurrection. It's a sweet story indeed!

The Tender Herb is based on Deuteronomy 32:2-3. It speaks of the Lord dropping words of his doctrine "as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass." This scripture has such a beautiful connotation upon all our senses. Visually, we can imagine the lightness of a spring shower as the tender buds begin to grow. Concurrently, it's the Lord's message of love to our hearts with gentleness, taking care not to break or bruise our faith in him. The verse "distill as the dew" also presents an image of cleansing and refreshing through his word as our love for him begins and continually grows.The Tender Herb is dedicated "to the glory of God." As Deuteronomy 32:3 mentions, the writer will publish the name of the Lord and ascribe greatness unto our God. It is my hope that the poetry you will encounter as you read The Tender Herb will point you to his grace, love, kindness, and mercy. It is my hope that the Lord will be glorified and readers will be brought into a closer love relationship with our heavenly Father through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

As people, we all struggle with stress, moments of panic, times of confusion, and other times that we feel overwhelmed and we can't sleep. And if it was up to the devil, he would be more than happy to medicate all of us with his fake remedies of alcohol and drugs. He is an opportunist, experienced in using our problems, our vulnerability, our wounding, our pain, our traumatic past experiences to get us where he wants. He is good at offering temporary relief for deeper crises of the soul.This is my true story of God stepping into my messy, shattered, and broken family life and rescuing me. You see, freedom, according to Satan, is being away from God. I don't think my son had any idea of who the devil was or how cunning he could be. He befriends to destroy, he gives to take away.As a mother of an adult struggling with addiction, my life was paralyzed. Every breath increased my pain of hopelessness and despair. I felt afraid, alone, and abandoned by God. God seemed distant, absent, silent, and unconcerned. I felt like running, but there was no place to hide. Was God punishing me? Where and how did I go wrong?Sharing my painful journey was not an easy step. I tried at all costs to hide this painful part of my life. It took years in my classroom of pain for my mind to be unshackled by the Teacher, the Holy Spirit. I no longer need to hide nor be ashamed of my challenges with my prodigal son. Nevertheless, breaking free from shame, stigma, and judgment is a process that took years.When we only let others see the beautiful parts of our stories, avoiding our broken painful chapters, we mislead people, and perhaps they envy us for what they falsely think are perfect lives. Worse, we misrepresent the power of the good news that reaches down into our broken souls, hearts, and lives to provide peace from our broken pieces.Dear waiting, praying, and expecting parents of struggling children, I believe God wants to usher you to your own breakthrough, healing, and freedom. You can learn to relinquish your child(ren) to God. Do not lose hope. Have faith. In his time, he will make all things beautiful for us! God wastes nothing, even our pain.

In their second adventure book, Savanna and Tybee depart snowy Indiana to travel in the RV to the sunshine state of Florida. They leave Nanny behind to visit Florida Granny.Day trips include going to the beach and discovering sea creatures they've never seen before. They will find that Florida's state parks have slithering snakes and alligators. Look at their different reactions when they see manatees gliding through a spring at a state park.Savanna enjoys viewing the lighthouse, whereas Tybee likes the day the family went to see skydivers falling from the sky one after another.There are so many new adventures on this trip. They can't wait to go back to see where their noses will lead them.Follow more of the beagles' adventures through the author's Instagram account, trinastuller.

As the title suggests, Wedding Angels talks about weddings that were literally saved by angels, earthly angels. Follow author Nancy Richards as she builds a wedding business from the ground up and was successful for twenty years of unique and often humorous challenges faced as a wedding coordinator. Potential catastrophes become opportunities for creative solutions often with the help of heavenly intercession. If you are a bride or part of the bridal entourage or just curious about the behind-the-scenes challenges and how Nancy made a successful business as a wedding coordinator, you will love how her prayers and Love for God, coupled with an unexpected team of angels delivered wedding hacks that avoid bridal nightmares. The term bridezilla is not in Nancy's vocabulary as she guides her brides through the perfect day despite unexpected wedding day roadblocks.