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Tommy Turtle doesn't do what he is told. What will happen when Tommy continues to disobey? Will disaster happen, or will Tommy learn to obey in time?

The thoughts you will read in this publication are meant to offer love and support in the quiet moments you may need to feel peace. The author's background, simply put, is a basic ability to write about things that played a direct role in his life experiences.

Finding Hope and Healing: A Christ-Centered Approach to Mental Illness is a book that offers a compassionate and insightful exploration of mental illness through a biblical lens. Written by Dr. Shiloh W. Martin, the book draws on his personal faith and professional expertise to provide guidance and encouragement for individuals struggling with mental health issues and their loved ones. The book explores various mental illnesses--such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder--and uses scriptures to provide comfort, hope, and practical advice. The author emphasizes the importance of seeking professional help while also recognizing the power of faith in the healing process. With its compassionate tone and insightful guidance, Finding Hope and Healing is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand mental illness from a Christian perspective and find hope and healing in the midst of the struggles.He wrote this book to offer a different perspective on mental illness, one that combines the best of his professional expertise and faith. He believes that with the right approach and support, those struggling with mental illness can find hope and healing, and he hopes that his book can be a valuable resource for those seeking to understand and address mental illness from a Christian perspective.

Coping Successfully with Bipolar is a book of encouragement and firsthand knowledge of how to cope and become successful in the bipolar battle over one's mind. In this book, there are keys to coping with this psychological battle. Coping Successfully with Bipolar is told from the perspective of an individual who has coped successfully with this mental battle for over thirty years. This book is the continuation and sequence of Overcoming Bipolar Disorder: Defying the Odds.

There has to be more to leading worship than what I've been doing. That nagging thought drove William Kirkwood to develop this primer on worship for all lead pastors and worship planners who have wondered the same thing. Most pastors come out of seminary with little training in worship yet are ultimately responsible for the worship life of their church. Most worship planners/leaders have musical and leadership skills but little theological background in worship. Kirkwood brings his decades of worship leading experience and education from the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies into the pages of this timely book. He explores the biblical, historical, theological, and cultural foundations of worship and brings them together with practical guidance on how to create vibrant worship services that facilitate a divine-human interaction. The primer is written for leaders in contemporary "free" churches, traditional/liturgical churches, and charismatic/Pentecostal churches. Each chapter includes thoughtful exercises and questions to help in your own church context, as well as recommended resources for further study.

Seeking Hidden Treasures is a book relevant for the tumultuous times of today, a journey filled with personal stories, adventures, challenges, and rewards as you collect the treasures and spoils of war. As you read and study God's Word, you will be given insight into God's answers for your daily challenges. You will be given insight into the invisible realm of the kingdom of God and how it affects your daily life. Do you want to go deeper into the mysteries of God? Journey with the author, investigating the Scriptures, discovering the knowledge and wisdom of God, his spiritual technology and the strategy of his ways. As you are pulled into a reality of the presence and proximity of God, you will dwell in a new spiritual dimension of Christ. You will partner with him on a faith-based journey into greater maturity and victory. Following the clues highlighted by color to learn the character of God and his ways, you will find the treasures of wisdom and knowledge that are hidden in the Father and in Christ. As you journey with the author from mountain to mountain, you will war against darkness and deception to discover truth and light. You will be fortified by the Word and strengthened as you put on the armor of God to pull down strongholds of deception in your mind. Your declarations of truth are rewarded with an illumination of light. Then, giving glory to God, there is a space to journal the "riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God" that you have discovered (Colossians 2:2-3).

This book is written for anyone to be able to read and apply the use of acupuncture points safely and comfortably to relieve pain or increase performance.2

In the beginning, God spoke, and creation raced to life. Since the beginning of time, His words have been the substance that holds the very fabric of life together. God's Word is true, powerful, and eternal. His instruction is the perfect standard.Sin entered God's creation through Satan twisting and bringing confusion to what God's voice has instructed. Satan's lies brought deception among people who walked in the perfection of Eden with God. That same deception is prevalent in believers today.Modern Christianity has become defined by catchy, easy-to-share, and easy-to-remember phrases and ideas that are accepted as true. But do these ideas even line up with God's Word?Do you really know who told you that?

This sequel to Hard Road to Redemption and One Hard Day completes the author's Hard series. Having recently taken a medical retirement from the US Air Force, Cutler Walker and his wife, Baylee Madison, and their two young children move from California to Virginia. Madison accepts a high-level job at the Pentagon while Walker goes into business with an old friend, and they start an aviation services company. They also join an investment team and buy a tract of land in Arizona and build a ski camp on it. Madison soon leaves government service and starts her own law firm. They are living the American dream when tragedy, in the form of an avalanche at their ski camp, strikes. The avalanche and its aftermath test their marriage, their professional lives, and even their faith in God. Friends, family, and the Lord stood by them as they learned how challenging the road to recovery could be.>

This is the true story of an American dreamer, a young man who envisioned at an early age the opportunities that citizenship could offer if applied correctly. His mother and father raised him and his five brothers in a loving, unified home, and with this strong foundation, he believed in the importance of a two-parent upbringing. A phone call from a scheming so-called best friend, and a mother intent on ridding herself of the burden of parenting a rebellious, immature daughter with serious behavioral issues, set off a series of events, that derailed this goal-oriented young man's path. A Teen Marriage Circus is based on the author's unimaginable true experience of being forced into a toxic relationship spanning over forty-seven years. This cautionary tale was written to help others recognize the red flags of manipulative behavior and avoid making the same mistakes.

The Life of a Trauma Queen: My Road to Redemption is a book about how a little Black girl, who came from nothing and endured extreme forms of traumatic hardships and abuses throughout her life that stretched into adulthood but overcame it all because of the mercy of God. This book provides a bird's-eye view of how devastating trauma suffered can be and how deeply it can affect someone mentally, emotionally, socially, and psychologically. Yet God had mercy on her, redeemed her, and caused her life to read as a living epistle to help many others recover from complex trauma and to show them how they can recover from the debilitating effects of trauma, move forward, and live a fulfilled life of triumph.

This is a delightful tale involving an owl who has lost his secret. Mr. Owl's search for his secret is helped by many friendly woodland creatures. A surprise awaits them when they finally discover who had the secret.

Seasons of Scripture, Poems, and Praises is a collection of poetry throughout several years. It is written to encourage believers from all walks of life.

The book was designed to help young ministers and laypersons understand expository preaching and the work of preaching or pastoring in God's church. Using our experiences and personalities in expository methods of preaching can help us to transmit and communicate through the Scriptures the writer's historical context as we are led by the Holy Spirit who applies our personality and experiences as we communicate them to the hearers.

This book includes three fictional stories that center around individuals commonly referenced in the nativity events in the Bible. By dramatizing specific characters, the stories show how these individuals exercise faith and perseverance to overcome obstacles and accomplish their own divine purpose.The first story, "A Dove in Darkness," shows how Mary reacts to her divine calling and doubts her ability to raise Jesus. She worries about how Joseph will react when he discovers her condition and if he will understand his role in joining Mary to raise Jesus.The second story, "Honey from the Rock," shows how a shepherd feels betrayed for fathering a daughter with a deformed leg. When he witnesses the angelic announcement, the first thought he has is to take his daughter to the child in hopes she will be healed.The last story, "Star of Destiny," follows one of the wise men, Melchior, who is determined to find and worship the holy child even though his health is fragile, the weather is harsh, and many of his companions leave the caravan to return home. When he does find the Christ-child, he doubts this young boy could be the divine King foretold by scripture, but his doubts are proven wrong when he encounters the child who saves his life.Hopefully, these stories will increase the reader's faith and help them understand the personal sacrifices each person paid to play their part in the divine plan.

Obedience is defined as "compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to authority." It denotes an immediate response in action. This book is an endeavor to free people from the world's definitions of obedience and the bondage it holds us in by defining it through New Testament Grace.With the help of the Holy Spirit, in the pages of this book, we will understand that obedience is a gift of Grace; it is received and it bears fruit. We will also look at how much of what or how you're thinking is involved with New Testament obedience.This book provides many opportunities for your mind to be renewed or to stay where you're at in what you believe. Should you choose to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal what New Testament obedience is, you will never again be bound by guilt and condemnation when you are unable to immediately submit to or comply with anything you see in the Word of God.

Selah moments...are those times when we don't just live our life, we examine it. We read certain events through the contemplative lenses of our God-given reflectacles. Selah moments enable us to slow down and internalize the message of Scripture with our internal eyes. Selah moments provide us with an appropriate place to pause and appropriate God's Word into our lives. In the pages of this book, I have gathered together some of my Selah moments. At first glance, it might look like a random collection of stories, poems, insights, and homilies. However, each of these writings began as an entry in my journal--the place where I write about what I think about. As you read these journal entries, I believe that some of them will remind you of your own journey. The chapters are grouped around the cast of characters who have walked with me in my original road show: my family, people I've encountered along the way, the living words of Scripture, and my Heavenly Father. The personalities in your production will be as unique as you are, just as your story lines will be your own. But I believe there will be moments in the reading of this text where the differences in the details become less and less important as you say to yourself, "I get that," "I've felt the same way," "I've asked myself that very question," "I thought I was the only one who'd ever gone through that." As your emotions are engaged, I hope that your time in this book will become more and more like a conversation with a friend and fellow pilgrim. And I pray that the Selah Stuff in these pages will remind you to stop, look, and listen to what God is saying in the moments of your own life.

Jennifer Davis is well balanced enough to walk on porch rails, and Youth Pastor Eli Adams looks like a superhero. Being together is what they both want, but past decisions force them apart. Their town, Roydan, North Carolina, is again the focus of a drug investigation. Receiving word of a drug shipment, Roydan police chief Dee Taylor and FBI agent Jackson Thomas join forces to track the Investors from Wilmington to Jen and Eli back in Roydan. Jen and Eli face the death of a friend, the loss of the unborn, and faith through tears. With all the chaos, family and friends also wonder why a quick marriage is the new normal

This book is about Mr. Frank Miles, written through the eyes of his son, Gregory Miles.The book is titled Big Frank because that's what people in the community called him. They were aware of the contributions and services he had provided. Even as a US Air Force veteran, he was still called big Frank by his military friends and later by his United Auto Workers buddies. A stint at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law gave the author the confidence to write this biography. It is truly a story that deserves to be told.

There is a surprise visit from someone who has kidnapped the puppies of royalty, and no one knows who it is.

New York City, 1941. Susan Wilcox lives a fairly comfortable life. She has a wonderful family and her nursing position at a local hospital, and then comes the war. With the world turned upside down, Susan chooses to join the newly formed Army Nurse Corps and do what she can to bring the boys home.While stationed at a hospital camp in England, she nurses Captain Ricky Murphy back to health. Can it be love at first sight? Soon called to the front lines, she is faced with the horrors of war and being caught in between enemy lines. Will she and her loved ones make it home alive to bask in the song of the morning?

Braelynn and Jennifer graduated high school. Both of them got accepted to the same college in New York. It was called the Academy of Arts. Braelynn wanted to be a fashion designer, and Jennifer would like to become a professional photographer. Braelynn came from a large family while Jennifer was an only child and lived with her mother until she passed away from cancer during their senior year of high school. They were related through their mothers. They were cousins and very close like sisters. Jennifer's mother passed away a few weeks before graduation.No one knew what happened to Jennifer's father. Braelynn's family took in Jennifer when her mother died. She wanted to sell everything except the important things that she cared about. Jennifer didn't want any reminders of what happened to her growing up.Braelynn's parents divorced when she was fifteen. Her father was cheating on her mother, and he got caught by her oldest brother.Braelynn and Jennifer drove down to college and got settled into the dorm room and their classes. They passed each other from time to time, but that was it during the day. They did have different classes after all.They were studying hard, going to a few parties, meeting new people, and seeing some familiar faces from their classes. They thought about pledging to some sororities, but later, they saw that they were not their cup of tea. They made a lot of friends, which was always good. That was how Jennifer met her girlfriend Leigh-Ann. They went home for the holidays and summer breaks as well.During their junior year in college, they found out that they were related to one of their friends named Olivia. Her mother got Olivia's mother's phone number so they could talk and meet for the first time. They planned for everyone to meet over Thanksgiving break and help them get to Maine from Ohio.John stalked her for a while because he wanted to date her, and she nicely refused him. She let him know that she was in college to study her profession, and she was not interested in starting any kind of relationships for the time being. He didn't take no for an answer and started following them around campus. She asked him politely to leave them alone, and he still followed them.It got so bad that they had to change their schedule on the weekends to run errands. They even changed where they would go out to eat and get their breakfast if that was what they wanted to do. She was not letting him scare her off though. She was still living her life. They went to the same places, just different times. He finally took the hint and left them alone for the time being. He saw them at a few parties and tried to dance with her. Their guy friends put a barrier around them girls, which she was very thankful for.During their last year of college, he asked her out. She said as friends, and that was the start. They went out together with other couples because she didn't know John and didn't want to be alone with him. After a while, they started dating. They went to a few parties together with her friends. Jennifer and Leigh-Ann went too. She lost her virginity to him, and later in their senior year, she became pregnant by him. He didn't use protection, and she was inexperienced, so she had no clue what to do. She had the talk with her mother but really didn't know about that sort of thing.John told her that he couldn't be the father because he had a childhood accident. She told him that she never cheated on him, and the baby was his. He left her standing in the middle of campus, crying in Jennifer's arms.She let her family know during Thanksgiving break. Her brothers wanted to kick his butt because as a young man, he should have taken precautions.Her family let her know that they were behind her no matter what she decided!Did John try to get back with her?

Leadership That Makes an IMPACT presents a practical leadership model that is easy to understand, remember, and apply. The model was developed by the author's personal experiences and his recognition of the key factors that contribute to the making of great leaders, whether in the workplace or at home. The book provides support for the various components of the model and is chock-full of examples, many of them humorous, that underscore the importance of the values presented. The author utilizes a common-sense approach to leadership that is designed to benefit someone stepping into a leadership role for the first time or an experienced leader who is still open to learning.I've had the privilege of knowing Carl for many years. I've worked side by side with him and witnessed his effectiveness. He's the kind of leader we all aspire to be like and would love for our children to emulate. His leadership model doesn't go out of style.--Darrell G. Cooper, Vice President of Security at UnifiWorking with Carl over the years at BellSouth and then ATandT showed me that he lives the IMPACT leadership model regardless of the environment. It is who he is! It has been my honor and pleasure to know Carl as a person, work with and learn from him professionally, and have the privilege of calling him my friend. Thank you for the impact you have had on me personally and professionally, Carl!--Mike Hargrove, PE, Vice President of Network Engineering and Operations at ATandTCarl Basden's passion for developing young talent is unmistakable in this lucid guide to his proven leadership approach. Packed with real-world stories and advice that can be modeled immediately, this book will benefit anyone desiring to become a better leader.--Jeffrey C. Schmidt, PE, Executive Vice President at MasTec Utility Services