An inspiring invitation for parents to see how the demands of parenting can enrich their relationship with God by seeing God through their kids.

At each attempt to make a life changing transition, the authors family secrets would scream to come out. Her need to protect those nearest her would keep her life normal, but tormented on the inside. Her poignant portrayal of a God, who is able to bring their secrets to the healing sunlight of His grace, while loving both the victim as well as the perpetrator, is a saga no one who has been touched by sexual abuse can afford to miss. I will recommend this most helpful volume to many of my clients. A counselor in private practice for over twenty years. When I arrived at the prison, I had to pass through numerous locked gates on my way to the hospital. How strange and intimidating it felt to hear yet another door lock behind me as we went into the depths of the prison. I couldnt help but feel a twinge of fear as the guards took us past scummy looking men hanging out in the hallways. Finally, we came to my fathers room and I could see him through the open door. He was lying in his bed gazing at the ceiling and his face was shining! He hadnt noticed that I had come, so I stood enraptured, wondering at the change in my Daddys countenance. While I was at the prison, I had a chance to talk alone with the prison doctor, and was encouraged by his comments as well. Your dads story needs to be told, he said to me. He is truly a changed man. Other people need to know that God can change anybody, even child molesters. There are many people inside these locked doors, and outside in the world, who have lost hope that God would do anything for them. Your fathers changed life is a testimony of Gods faithfulness to any sinner who chooses to repent.

A great quotation can provoke thought, brighten a day, even change a life—and here are more than 6,000 great quotes from the wide world of Christianity. This brand-new compilation of quotations both ancient and modern features nearly 500 categorized topics both biblical and contemporary—from Abiding through Zeal—with cross references and subject and author indexes. Featuring quotations from the early church fathers through the 21st century’s best writers, The Complete Guide to Christian Quotations is ideal for speakers, writers, and book lovers—who can find great leads on worthy volumes.

According to author David E Cooper, God has sent prophets in very generation to help the people in times of trouble. But many dont listen and live the way they desire instead of following Gods desire for them. In The Prophet of God, Cooper calls on everyone to be aware of what is to come and reminds them that now is the time to repent and go back to the Heavenly Father. When we go through life, we want peace and happiness. The only way to live in peace and happiness is in Jesus. To live clean and holy for God, to see that God keeps you and your family and that you trust in God. You either serve God or Satan. There is no neutral ground. You cant live like your friends live. You have to live the Ten Commandments and read the Bible and pray, says the author. The Prophet of God follows Coopers life experiences interspersed with Biblical scriptures that will provide you with insight on what God wants for His people. The Bible tells about demons, how they try to manipulate and calls men to sin. The author warns everyone about how demons can come in disguise and trick people into committing sin. He emphasizes the need to rejuvenate ones faith, and to choose between life and death. If you serve God, your reward is life. If you serve the devil, your reward is death and hell

AS LONG AS WE BOTH SHALL GIVE shares unique and humorous insight into marital conflict, healing, and restoration. Included are: scenarios from the author's counseling experiences, which any marriage can identify with. This book will guide a bad marriage to good and the good marriage to greatness. This book gives the reader insight into God's design and purpose for the marriage relationship. Written from the "counselor's chair" specific needs of men and women are explored while addressing common areas of marital conflict. With the divorce rate soaring, couples are searching for ways to understand where marital conflict originates and how to bring positive change and healing to their relationship. Paul Backlund is the Family Life Pastor at Crossroads Ministries in Broadway, North Carolina. He is an ordained minister with the Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church and a Certified Biblical Counselor, credentialed through the International Board of Christian Counselors and the American Association of Christian Counselors. He is a respected teacher of God's word addressing men's and marriage conferences cross denominationally. For the past ten years he has shared the message of hope and encouragement to couples seeking to grow in their marriages. His desire for strong marriages comes in part from his personal and painful experience with divorce. His testimony of God's healing and restoration serves his passion for restoring troubled marriages well. His counseling wisdom brings hope and healing to struggling marriages. He assists couples in mastering their finances, improving communication in their marriages, and growing in Christ. He and his wife Kathy, live in Sanford, North Carolina.

Phases and Rooms is a book written to help leadership, Ministry of helps and the five fold ministers to complete the full redemptive plan that God has for our life. Brother Hagin used to say that "many ministers never get out of their first phase of ministry" This is a tragedy in todays day and age. It has become ever so important as that time nears Jesus's return for us to be effective and finish the race that God has prepared for us. This book takes a biblical look at the development of the call of God upon our lives. We as ministers have much to accomplish in the ministry God has given us. Whether you are in the Ministry of helps, the five fold ministry and especially if you are just starting out; this book will bring light, illumination, and revelation to the full redemptive plan that God has for our life and ministry. Integrity and character have become punchlines and cliches in the society we live in. However, in these end times never has teaching on the subject been more needed. Effective leadership has to be developed out of the art of following. If you have a deep hunger and are after the perfect will of God concerning your ministry then this book will prove to be an invaluable tool that beckons to be read over and over again gleaning the invaluable nuggets and revelations.

The Queen of Encouragement has brought a dozen amazing friends to inspire and encourage you! Barbara Johnson's heart-touching, laughter-laced story has given hope to millions of readers worldwide. Now she brings together twelve courageous women who have triumphed over challenges and endured heart-rending losses. With Christlike serventhood, they have reached beyond their own anguish to extend a helping hand to others in need, turning their tears of heartache into jewels of blessing. In their awe-inspiring stories, you will meet women who have faced: a husband's brutal murder the death of a young child poverty and bigotry eating disorders an adult child's homosexuality the death of two sons due to AIDS abusive marriages heartbreaking divorce family members' estrangement clinical depression physical disability a husband's struggle with homosexuality Today these women, like Barbara, spread hope and joy wherever they go. To celebrate their ministry of encouragement, each of their stories concludes with Barbara's trademark collection of wit and laughter. Open this book and find a pathway out of sorrow and into the sunlight of a life warmed by love and filled with meaning. Read these stories and learn how to turn misery into ministry.

The Black Conservative: An American Hero By Richard Jules Valvano Can a powerful piece of fiction undo the negative stereotyping cast on a group of individuals and make them noble and heroic? In this riveting and explosive novel, the author is betting it will. For years, the black left has cast politically conservative African-Americans as insensitive traitors to the Civil Rights Movement. They are seen as unhinged thinkers who dare to question liberal conventional wisdom concerning black matters and issues. They are often depicted as “Uncle Toms” and whites in dark skin who actually want blacks to be passive porters, shoe-shiners and doormats in a white society. The Black Conservative: An American Hero not only challenges these stereotypes, it does it by way of an engaging thriller filled with fascinating characters. The entire effect is meant to give black conservatives a human element, an insight into their thinking, and a culmination of a renewed and invigorating image of them.

Mary Gonzales strolls the streets of Chicago's meatpacking district every evening, keeping a watchful eye over "her" neighborhood kids. Tony Ortiz encourages young men in California state prisons to break free of the brutal gang life he once knew all too well. Joe Hynes, Brooklyn's district attorney, champions women and children, not wanting them to suffer as he suffered. They, and the twenty-one other amazing people interviewed by Jack Calhoun, are reshaping lives and communities across America. They include Christians of every denomination, Muslims, Jews, and others, some who pray five times a day and some who are, frankly, "not that religious." But each tells Calhoun, there's much more to the story. You may have heard of some of these Americans. Several are in the news. The good words of all shine brightly in their communities. What you haven't heard about is the underlying force, the hidden source of their seemingly endless energy and selflessness. It is faith -- a deep and, in some cases, unsuspected spirituality. They have the unshakable sense that they work not only for their organizations -- and each individual they encounter -- but especially for God. Calhoun was once an eager divinity school student, hungry to make a difference. Through the years he rose to national prominence in the field of public policy, spending twenty-plus years as the founding president of the National Crime Prevention Council. However, something wasn't right. Caught up in a parade of committee meetings, speaking engagements, and policy and program initiatives, he had lost touch with the bedrock of his vocation. It took an encounter with an unusually clear-sighted volunteer to reconnect his daily work to his faith in God. Reinvigorated, Calhoun embarked on a two-year cross-country quest to find out how faith motivates some of America's hardest-working public servants. They pursue a range of innovative and ambitious plans to help their communities, and their accomplishments are impressive. But just try telling them so. They have been chosen, they'll explain, to fulfill a larger purpose. Their paths have been rocky, their burdens heavy, and the work hasn't always been fun. Yet they feel blessed, emboldened by their trust in a higher power to live lives of acceptance and unbounded love. Some recent books have laid divisiveness and hostility at faith's door. "Hope Matters" brings to light the togetherness and reconciliation that faith truly engender when good people heed its call to action. You won't hear Mary, Tony, Joe or the rest preaching from the pulpit, or even in the streets. They have no sermon or script to follow. There is a ministry of open arms and second chances, of waking up each morning with new challenges and going to bed each night with renewed faith. Their stories just might inspire you to make your own "place of worship" a little bigger.

“Don’t waste your pain,” says unlikely missionary Avis Goodhart. She didn’t – and neither should you. Despite a background of childhood abuse, dyslexia, and marital infidelity, Avis took her first international mission trip at age fifty. The church, school, and orphanage she later founded in northern Peru, all products of both her pain and her radical obedience to the Lord, have brought thousands of others out of the dust. This compelling story of an ordinary woman who serves God in extraordinary ways will challenge, inspire, and empower you to: * Eliminate excuses from your life * Recognize that in God’s kingdom, availability matters more than ability * Allow your pain to produce – not prevent – your obedience * Serve the Lord with the same abandon shown by one unlikely missionary Note: Proceeds from the sale of this book are sent to the author’s orphanage in Peru.