Face to Face with Your Father: A Devotional Journey Through the Gospel of John By: Gloria Kustes Gloria Kustes began her journey of healing and getting to know God as her Father two and a half years ago, where she learned we cannot truly experience the deep love of the Father until we know and trust His character. Face to Face with Your Father: A Devotional Journey Through the Gospel of John is relevant to anyone who, like Gloria, has pain and a void in their heart from the wounds inflicted by their earthly father. Readers will grow in knowledge and understanding of God the Father and experience His love that sets us free from the need to receive affirmation from others or live up to others’ expectations.

Face to Face with the Father is a chronicle of the men and women who saw the face of God and lived. In this work of Biblical fiction you will join men and women throughout the bible who experienced up close and personal encounters with God. Have you ever puzzled over passages such as Genesis 17:9: "And God said unto Abraham..."? What must that have been like? Does God speak to us in like manner today? Have you longingly envied when you read in John 21:20 how John the beloved "leaned on the master's breast at supper"? Have you wondered what Ezekiel must have experienced when he said in Ezekiel 1:1: "the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."? Are such visions available to you today? This book is a work of inductive fiction. Reading these chapters will plunge you into the rarified atmosphere of a FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTER with God. Over the centuries Christian mystics have disclosed stunning accounts of open visions. Face to Face with the Father makes that experience accessible to you, the reader. Reading Face to Face with the Father will leave you undone at the feet of the Master. Each chapter will fire your passion for your own unique experience that awaits every seeker.

Have you ever wished you could just wake up one day, reach across your nightstand and hit the Life Reset button?Let’s face it. The struggles and frustrations of everyday life leave millions of women and men around the globe yearning for a new way. Awareness Integration is a new model in the field of psychology synthesizing concepts from cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and body-mind theories that offers an opportunity to choose and reset life. This model enhances self-awareness, increases self-esteem, releases psychological blocks, heals emotional wounds, and reduces anxiety and depression. It promotes a clear, realistic, and positive proactive attitude for learning and implementing new skills for an effective, productive, functional, and fulfilling life. The hunger for more satisfying relationships, more fulfilling careers, a release of stress and anxiety, and the freedom to be who we really are in our hectic and disconnected culture has become paramount for anyone seeking the best they can be. Life Resetoffers a comprehensive resource for re-envisioning and rebuilding your life. This accessible, hands-on guide escorts readers through the steps of the time and trial-tested Awareness Integration Model. Life Resettakes readers on an interactive journey with 12 simple open-ended questions to promote self-awareness. This guided process, designed to facilitate healing past traumas and removing blocks related to the seven major areas of life, is supported by the author’s instructions, guidance and real life examples. Readers visit crucial areas of their lives, examining relationships they have with friends and coworkers, parents, siblings, partners and children. Life Resetis about creating a depth of awareness, understanding, acceptance, responsibility and accountability toward the way we think, feel, and act toward ourselves and others, owning the impact of our attitudes in the worlds we create, healing the past that is creeping constantly into our present, and creating an intention with goals to create a fulfilled and joyous life from here on out.

This collection of translations of the more important non-canonical Old Testament books. It is both accessible and completely up to date with modern scholarship. Edited with introductions and brief bibliographies, it is suitable for general readers as well as for students.

The Portrait of a Lady is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who in "affronting her destiny", finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. "The Wings of the Dove" tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honorable motives, while others are more self-interested. "The American" is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Table of Contents: Confidence Roderick Hudson The Ambassadors The American The Awkward Age The Bostonians The Europeans The Golden Bowl The Other House The Outcry The Portrait of a Lady The Princess Casamassima The Reverberator The Sacred Fount The Spoils of Poynton The Tragic Muse The Whole Family The Wings of the Dove Washington Square Watch and Ward What Maisie Knew The Ivory Tower (Unfinished) The Sense of the Past (Unfinished) Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.

Xuya Zhao runs from America to China, running away from her American problems. However, China is full of surprises for her, all kinds: the secrets her family has kept over the years, the unbreakable bond with her girlhood buddies, the magic power of her grandmother, the mystery of the jade pendants, the reunions and encounters with friends, sweethearts, acquaintances, and old enemies. Now she has a chance to settle those unsettled en en yuan yuan (passions and resentments) from the Cultural Revolution and to make sense of her complicated lives in both China and America. Thus, her return-home adventure turns into a journey of self-rediscovery.