A comparative study of women who have converted or returned to conservative Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities, looking at the way they reconcile modern secular ideas--feminism in particular--with the demands and rewards of traditional religious participation.

The child of a raped housekeeper who was deaf, mute, and poor, Jerry Smith had trouble before he even started. Does God Give Us More Than We Can Bear? takes readers through disappointments and failures as Jerry does his best to battle overwhelming odds with a deck seemingly stacked against him. Did God give Jerry more than he could bear? As an aging Jerry ponders this very question, he is diagnosed with an untreatable and terminal lung disease. With nowhere left to turn and a deadline with fate, God then reveals his plan for Jerry's life. Now, cured of his previously incurable disease but still suffering the damage caused, Jerry has been given new direction and shares with readers his struggles, stories, and wisdom. In these recollections, he reveals hope, a light for the darkest days, years, and even decades. Jerry's story is the perfect example of how God will use anything for good, even when it seems most unlikely. He now lives to share his story, the hope he has, and how the lessons he learned can change lives.

You make decisions every day, and it is truly one of the most essential elements in your daily life. More importantly, as a believer, your future success in manifesting the promises of God in your life is rooted and grounded in your resolve to seek God and His Word in your decision-making. You see, it is vitally important to know and to understand that God has empowered you for decision-making. That power--His power--is inside of you! While the enemy has tried to take this liberty and gift away from you, you only have to seek God to make a decision based on the Word of God! With godly decisions based on the Word of God and a made-up mind, there is absolutely nothing-- including the enemy--that can stop your decisions from coming to pass! But the enemy uses weapons of confusion, doubt, fear, and unbelief to flood your mind to stop or hinder you from making a decision based on the Word of God. God wants you to understand and believe this; His Word is true, and it never changes. He always gives everyday answers to your everyday questions! You have a position in Christ, through a relationship with Him, where the word of the Lord dwelling on the inside of you eliminates all confusion, doubt, fear, and unbelief in your life. As you read God's Power of Decision Belongs to Us, start today and make the decision to take this journey with me to have this incredible, remarkable level of intimacy with God and to trust Him at the point of complete transparency and obedience. This decision, second only to your decision to accept Christ as Lord and Savior, is where revelation knowledge in His word allots you a revolutionary understanding of the power of a decision. This process empowers you to experience as well as manifest Christ on the earth. As you read God's Power of Decision Belongs to Us, don't allow anything to take your mind captive! Keep your mind stayed on Him, and do not give permission to the enemy to cause distractions as you read this book. Seek God as you believe that He has and will do awesome things! Just keep your mind dedicated to Him, and you will see the manifestations of the awesomeness of your God as He adds His power to your decision-making. A heart of commitment to move forward, a made-up mind not to turn back, and the Word of God as a guide is all that is needed to experience the manifestation of God's glory in your life. Go ahead and launch an unchangeable resolve that impacts not only your life but the entire world.

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

Compromising has always been a common practice to all of us even before we became believers. It had become apart of the way we lived or was taught. There was never a question of whether we should practice compromising or not. It was considered necessary if you were going to negotiate in a situation or consider a deal with another person. It was the mutual thing to do. In this book we examine compromise for all its worth briefly. Regardless of the definition that you give it, there is a missing truth about it that we might be overlooking. Not a question of right or wrong for many of us but a cause and effect on our life. Compromising is not acceptable to people of faith even though we have good intentions. Because we are a people of faith we have only one example of how to handle situations based on our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And that’s with prayer and Christian principals. We have no room for including another standard only the righteousness of God. “God gave us a Covenant not a Compromise”.

Award winning entrepreneur and author Connie Rankin challenges the concept that God is Dead in her stunning tell-all stories of God Gave Us Wings. Her focus in writing this book is to demonstrate by example–anything is possible if you believe in the power of I AM. While focusing on her core mission to empower others through faith, Connie shares ten true stories from Oprah’s amazing journey to a Wounded Warrior’s heroic battle. Each woman in this book has defined her own word for success, and you can too. In her new book, Connie provides you with inspirational stories of success from different life experiences to help you see that at any moment, GOD can ultimately change your life, if you believe HE can. All readers, not just women or entrepreneurs, will benefit from Connie’s ability to share the wisdom from various life’s journeys to help you finish strong. As these stories testify, you can fly higher than you ever imagined...if you believe.

This book contains spiritual and heartfelt words that will lift your spirit, touch your emotions, and give you inspiration for your lifes journey.

Table of Contents 1. Our Salvation Was Prepared in the Righteousness of Jesus Even before the Foundation of the World (Ephesians 1:1-4) 2. We Have Become God’s Possessions by His Grace (Ephesians 1:1-14) 3. We Have Been Saved through God’s Love and Sacrifice (Ephesians 1:1-6) 4. We Thank God for Calling Us as the Members of His Church (Ephesians 1:20-23) 5. We Have Redemption According to the Riches of God’s Grace (Ephesians 1:7-14) 6. Were We Made for the Lord’s Righteous Work? (Ephesians 2:1-10) 7. We Must Acknowledge God’s Authority and Grace In Our Life of Faith (Ephesians 2:1-22) 8. What Kind of People Were We in God’s Sight? (Ephesians 2:1-7) 9. We Had Been Estranged from God the Father Because of Our Sins (Ephesians 2:14-22) 10. Immeasurable Blessings of Christ Are in the Heart of Every Saint Who Believes in the Gospel of The Water and the Spirit (Ephesians 3:1-21) 11. Defend Your Faith in Your Life (Ephesians 4:1-6) 12. Emulate God as His Beloved Children (Ephesians 5:1-2) 13. Do Not Partake in the Sins of the World (Ephesians 5:1-14) 14. What Does It Really Mean to Live with The Fullness of the Spirit? (Ephesians 5:1-21) 15. Those Who Live with the Fullness of the Spirit (Ephesians 5:15-21) 16. Stand Against the Wiles of Satan (Ephesians 6:10-17) Do You Know What God's Church Is Like? By believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, you must have your spiritual eyes always open. If you have received the remission of your sins by truly believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, then you would be able to recognize God's Church properly; otherwise, you would be incapable of discerning what false churches are. Today, God has founded His Church on the faith of the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God's Church is the gathering of those who have been saved by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Therefore, if your hearts now have faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, you can then lead the true life of faith. Such a life of faith is possible only in God's Church. Furthermore, only such faith qualifies us to live forever in the Kingdom of the Lord. Through this faith, we must receive the love of salvation and all the spiritual blessings of Heaven from God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. I give all my thanks to God. The New Life Mission https://www.bjnewlife.org

The Gospel comes to us in an inexhaustible variety of ways: in reading Scripture and praying together, in thinking hard and arguing in faithful community, in the Holy Spirit and in flesh and bone. These sermons engage heart and mind, all of the senses (including our senses of humor and tragedy), and the real lives of real congregations, to proclaim a thoughtful, embodied vision of the gospel of Jesus Christ.