Astonishing Tales of Spiritual Truth features Jesus’ parables that are also retold for a 21st century teen audience. Questions for reflection and suggestions for sharing your thoughts with God included.

How to Smell Like God is filled with humorous and gripping true stories to help teens discover what it really means to know God, serve Jesus, and be led by the Holy Spirit. After each story readers are challenged to apply the message to their own lives.

No one can write about storytelling like Father Bill Bausch. Both his words and his stories are compelling, convincing, and completely absorbing. Here in this landmark work, which he insists is his last, his goal is to help readers see the centrality of stories, to read and hear Scripture as story and not as history, and to learn to enrich and expand their lives by looking at the ?story behind the story.? He wants to break readers out of the literalism that constricts their spiritual and social lives, so they might gain an appreciation of metaphor and symbol and the ?sacramentality? of the world.

As Amazing Tales—First Series by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644) made a hit, the publisher urged him to write a sequel to it. This gave rise to Amazing Tales—Second Series, which has become another bestseller for the last few centuries. Our English version of the Second Series features 19 stories carefully chosen from the original 40. In fascinating plots and a highly expressive colloquial language, they are mostly about women’s fate, their miserable existence in a polygamous society, their daring struggle for genuine love, and their implications in legal cases. All these shed precious light on the social mosaic of seventeenth-century China.

The Greatest Story Ever Told - Joseph J Randazzo Executive Producer, Director and Writer has spent over 50 years in research and study on “The Jesus of Nazareth Subject Matter” of foretold prophecy, the life and teaching of Jesus, the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus and the supernatural miraculous spiritual ability of Jesus witness by thousands. The Holy Scriptures contain over 300 prophecies about foretelling for centuries of a future Messiah, the anointed one, who would come upon the earth and present great teachings of truth from the Kingdom of GOD. The historic Christmas birth of Jesus in Bethlehem then set the date of our calendars. The Jesus birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension are the very best documented events in ancient history. In the beginning times GOD created male and female, Adan and Eve, to start humanity on the earth. However, the evil one, Satan, temped and deceived GODs new humans and the male and female fell into original sin – disobedience to GOD the creator. Thus, all the children from Adam and Eve as a civilization over thousands of years would carry this original sin and not be allowed into the Kingdom of GOD. This fabulous story says a visitor from afar is sent by GOD the Father in the heavens, instructing His first-born Son, Jesus, to go on a special force mission to earth and seed the truth of righteousness and spiritual connectiveness that GOD provided humankind as a birthright being held as ransom and hostage by the evil one. Jesus arrives on earth as a baby, born of flesh and blood though His Mother Mary. About the age of 30, Jesus starts his mission by redefining laws of Mosses and teaches His new loving spiritual laws of what is called “The Beatitudes”, and more. In order for Jesus to finally set the record straight, and free humankind from the original sin held as a trophy by the evil one.

This book provides reliable information about important world religious leaders, correcting the misinformation that can be on the internet. Religious leaders have shaped the course of history and deeply affected the lives of many individuals. This book offers alphabetically arranged profiles of roughly 160 religious leaders from around the world and across time, carefully chosen for their impact and importance and to maximize inclusiveness of faiths from around the world. Scholars from around the world, each one an expert in his or her field and all holding advanced degrees, came together to create an essential resource for students and for those with an interest in religion and its history. Every entry has been carefully edited in a two-stage review process, guaranteeing accuracy and readability throughout the work. Not strictly a biographical reference that recounts the facts of religious figures' lives, the book helps users understand how the selected figures changed history. The entries are accompanied by excerpts of primary source documents and suggestions for further reading, while the book closes with a bibliography of essential print and electronic resources for further research.

Submitted for your consideration: the blind man who designed and built an automobile, the "volunteertree growing out of a courthouse roof, and much, much more.