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SummaryThe Choice to Remain in Heaven is about a man named Jared who is in his late sixties lying in a coma in a hospital bed. For three days his sixty-four-year-old wife Priscilla and Matthew, his estranged fifty-year-old son by a previous marriage, sit by his bedside and have conversations about family, life, death, Heaven, hell, faith, trust, church doctrine, abortion, mercy killing, and who makes it into Heaven and who doesn't.Jared is a man who suffered losses early in life that hardened his heart toward God. On his deathbed, while unconscious to the world, Jared incorporates the conversations of his wife and son into his thoughts. With a final shocking encounter, Jared makes the choice to remain in Heaven.The story is set in South Carolina, primarily in Greenville, with references to Gaffney, Western North Carolina, Lake Junaluska, Battle Creek, Michigan, Indianapolis, and Bloomington Indiana.

Serving God and living in His love had been her desire since the day she gave Him her heart. Helping others discover that love had led to a life full of joy and purpose. He had found God's design by placing himself in harm's way to ensure that the innocent were safe. His heart was held firmly in the hand of Jesus, who had set the example by giving His life to make innocent the saved. Can people choose to serve God all their lives? Is fulfillment found in God's purpose for our lives? If we let God transform our perception of the world, will we see it as He does? When we see with God's eyes, can we avoid conforming to the world and experience the fullness of God? God is a romantic. We need the sun to come up in the morning and go down in the evening, but do we need it to be pink and purple, red and green? Science can explain how but not why. God's love gives us the why. God wants us all to experience the fullness His love can offer, not just the light and dark but that awesome moment everything seems to stop as we look up and let the "wow" soak into our souls. In If You Could See..., we follow the story of two children of God choosing to see as God does and discovering the beauty of love that He desires for all of us to experience. Get lost in the "wow" and let your heart believe again!

Designed to be read as a daily devotional, Tiny Gifts is a collection of reflections inspired by a premature baby. When Sandra was asked to care for her newborn granddaughter for a time, she lovingly assumed the task. Little did she realize that in her daily interaction with this fragile child, she would experience a deeper understanding of God's love for all His children. Writing with a delightful combination of humor and spiritual discernment, Sandra sees wondrous revelations in binkies, a stuffed lamb, midnight feedings, and even dirty diapers! Her authentic honest experiences enriched by Scripture will invite you to fall more deeply in love with God who loves all of us like His newborn children.

This book was written to help children in their character development. They would learn the joy of kindness, obedience, honesty, and maintain a healthy self-image. "You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you."

The author believes dysfunctional increasingly defines too many seemingly successful twenty-first-century local churches. The God-ordained culture is presented to root out causes of dysfunction. The author uses the Holy Bible to provide a review of the culture that organically generates, expands, and extends to future generations the beliefs and ministries essential for healthy local church function. The reader is directed toward ministries and structures identified within Psalm 19:7-9 and Ephesians 4:11. Emphasis is given to apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, beliefs, intercession, alignment, culture, proactive strategies, and self-assessments.The author pinpoints Bible-truth and scientific knowledge to highlight leadership, communication, and intellectual skills critical to local church functionality. The scientific knowledge includes eleven life-sustaining characteristics of all living things and beings. The author uniquely combines Bible-truth and scientific knowledge to provide practical instruction and recommend behavior assessments supporting the continual improvement of local church functionality, viability, and sustainability.

Raif was tough. He was the toughest guy on the block and the undisputed leader of the Sixth Street Kerugma Gang. He had a rough upbringing, and well, home was little more than a place to crash for a while before going back into the streets to commit more mayhem. He was well-known to the cops having stolen several cars and newly branching out to become a sidewalk pharmacist. As he was chased by the police, he finds himself trapped in a blind alley. In a panic, he challenges God to save him. Much to his confusion, his challenge is answered. This book is filled with many other stories that may answer some of your challenges and perhaps surprise you as you read!

What do an android, nine student astronauts, their avatars, the moon, and thousands of satellites have in common? Only they can protect the future and only because they are in orbit! Join Commander Roy Sherwin and his team on the Satellite Observation Outpost: Copilot, Cosmonaut Maxim Chernov; Seismologist April Kuboto; Launch Engineer Fergus McClure; his sister, Dr. Claire McClure, MD; Propulsion Engineer Li Ming, Physicist Anya Lande; and their VR instructor, android Professor SID in their final year of training for a mission to Mars. Share their urgent quest to analyze and interpret forces at work on Earth's surface and in orbit around it. Use science, including astronomy, meteorology, physics, biology, geography, and medicine, along with math, theology, social intelligence, mindfulness, and virtual reality to reveal the source of mysterious lunar surface movement. Explore the real-time complex balance of Earth's regenerative powers that ensure it continues to sustain human life. For the first time in history, humankind cannot learn from the past to protect the future! Experience action in orbit on the Satellite Observation Outpost with Roy, Max, Claire, Gus, April, Ming and SID as they work to interpret and improve conditions on Earth while planning for the future and human life on Mars.

What happens as a Christian when your life doesn''t turn out as planned? When tragedy strikes teenager Addison McNeely and her faith is tested, she faces the toughest challenges of her life. If only she had listened to her best friend and not attended that party, a party that changed her life forever. With her faith wavering and struggling to forgive those who have caused her to suffer a devastating personal loss, she wonders where God is in all of this. Where is He when her life is falling apart? Why didn''t He stop the tragedy that has forever changed her life? Why her? These are the questions that have her struggling to forgive and to forgive God, most of all.Her father, a Christian and her hero, died four years earlier. Her mother, who is not a Christian, is busy fighting demons of her own. So who can help her make sense of everything that is happening to her-her best friend, Alayna? Addison wonders if they even have anything in common anymore.To complicate things further, she has fallen in love with the handsome Wyatt Kingsley, who once referred to her as "a friend." As if things couldn''t get any worse, she must also contend with Karlie Adams, her archenemy. Will Addison continue in bitterness and anger or listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, a voice she has ignored so many times? Will she be able to find her way back to God? Will she come to the realization that Jesus really does love her and that He will always be with her and walk with her, even when she walks through the fire?