Exchange the pressure of accomplishment for the peace of God’s grace When the world demands: achieve, succeed, earn, God says: lean on me, trust me, believe me. That is grace. And that is what God offers: unconditional acceptance of a believing heart. Your heavenly Father loves you enough to hold you in his grace. Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado will help you release a false sense of self-sufficiency. rest in God’s unbending and unending gift of grace. remember that God is for you and will carry you through every circumstance. Today, leap from the cliff of self-sufficiency and land in the strong arms of the Father who loves you . . . the Father who catches you—every time—in the grip of his grace.

Did God create us so that we could be His children to love and care for? Is He really in control of what happens in our lives? With all the pain, suffering, and unfulfilled dreams in our lives how do we find answers? Travel with the author on a journey of one woman’s life who was lured into rebellion at a young age, experienced grief, sorrow and hatred toward God, was provided glimpses of grace and mercy along the way, was rescued by salvation, and irrevocably gripped by redemption as she grappled for her answers. Kay Lynne Ege invites you to be encouraged and strengthened in your quest for your own life solutions as you read her intimate account of how God crafted her life-mosaic.

For every person who has tried to "earn" his way to heaven, only to burn out in an attempt to live "the Christian life", McDowell affirms that our task is to recognize and gratefully accept God's amazing gift of grace--a gift He gives us that we can never earn.

This book contributes significantly to Law and Literature studies. Arguing for the political relevance of their work, the editors open the volume with an introduction that summarizes topical developments in law enforcement and penal politics including the 'prisonization' of American society and popular support for &la" no tolerance approaches to crime. The fourteen essays that follow - six on trials and eight on prisons - discuss subjects ranging from the political ramifications of Captain Kidd's trials for piracy to a reading of South African prison memoirs and include treatments of prison films, courtroom dramas and works by Dickens, Shakespeare and Scott. The volume demonstrates powerfully how concepts of criminality are constructed and how literature participates in, and sometimes enhances, general discursive traditions of adversarial litigation and carcerality.

Religiously-inspired novels, inspirational writings and biographical works on people who are models for spiritual growth are among the recommendations found in this reference.