Becoming God’s Friend: Understanding Your Growth From Servant to Friend by Jonathan Jenkins
214 pages, 10 of 10 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Friend. No word is its equal in capturing the power of the most needed relationships in our lives. Marriage without friendship is bondage. Family without friendship is just genetics. Friendship is a choice made in the partnership of two united souls. It is strengthened over time and grows stronger each time it is tested. Friends make life’s sorrows softer and its joys sweeter. People need friends.
This book has one goal. It wants to show how you can be a treasured friend to God. You can rise above just being a servant in His house. Your place can be even higher than an obedient child in His family. You can stand beside Him as a cherished and needed friend. All it takes from you is for you to fulfill the promise of your faith.
One man in the Bible is called “the friend of God” – Abraham. He is the “father of all who believe.” His life shows the potential in faith. His life shows the power of the faith that dwells within your heart. This book will help you retrace the steps of Abraham’s faith from his call out of Ur to the altar which held his son, Isaac. You will see his growth from God’s servant to His friend. It will challenge you to walk in the steps of Abraham’s faith. It will call you to see your faith in a new light. You can be more than God’s servant.
You can become God’s friend.
Dancing Through Fire by JoAnn Hague
318 pages, 7 of 8 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
In 1775, Sarah Himmel, reared parentless in the Moravian Christian community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, marries a stranger to accompany him as a missionary to the Indians of the Ohio wilderness. On the banks of the Elk’s Eye, Wind Maiden dreams of a man but marries a boy. Despite the two women’s differences, friendship grows. Against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War, through joy and misery, birth and death, they sustain one another until strength triumphs over weakness and life reigns over death.
Although fictional, the novel’s main characters are accurate depictions of Indians and Moravian missionaries of the Revolutionary War period.
Holy Enigma: Bible Verses You’ll Never Hear in Sunday School by Steve Ward
210 pages, 6 of 8 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Do you know much about the Bible? Have you ever read this verse?
Deuteronomy 25:11-12 If two men fight and one’s wife tries to help by grabbing the testicles of the other man, her hand will be cut off without pity. (Living Bible)
The Holy Bible is chock-full of fascinating, sometimes shocking and almost never discussed lexis, verse after verse you will never hear in Sunday School.
A distinctive Bible study, Holy Enigma! takes a humorous look at the most ancient stories of the Near East. It introduces candor, humor, and commonsense into a careful assessment of “God’s word.” In a heartfelt desire to spawn interest in reading the Bible, the author opens Pandora’s Box by questioning the divinity of some of the most bizarre text. Holy Enigma! is sure to astonish and entertain while inspiring deep reflection for believers and non-believers alike.
God Loves You – Chester Blue by Suzanne Anderson
134 pages, 4 of 4 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
What if when you most needed help, a blue bear appeared with a note from God?
One night, Miss Millie of Blossom, Ohio turns her face to the stars and asks God for help. The next day, a package arrives on her doorstep containing a blue teddy bear and a very special note.
Over the course of a year, this remarkable blue bear travels across the country, showing up just when he’s needed most.
During his journey, Chester Blue helps a young girl trying to impress her big sisters; saves a sailor caught in a terrible storm; reunites two constantly fighting brothers; helps a cowboy become a rodeo clown; and aids a father and daughter in bonding after divorce.
If you ever needed a message from God, it’s here…
Whisper of the Sun by Pamela Carron
272 pages, 3 of 3 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Generations of Chains by Kristen Hawkins
46 pages, 3 of 3 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Dorothy Stein was a middle aged woman who was unsettled and looking for answers in her childhood haven. She found them in the most unexpected ways after an encounter with a supernatural stranger. Follow her through her journey of the discovery of herself and God.
God Speaks: How We God the Bible by Ken Adams
143 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
Why doesn’t someone write a book for the nonprofessional? Someone has. You don’t need to learn Hebrew or Greek to understand God Speaks: How We Got the Bible. You don’t need to know scholarly jargon. You just need to read God Speaks: How We Got the Bible to acquire confidence that you truly carry God’s Word to church with you every Sunday.
This book tells the story of the Bible in five chapters:
Chapter 1: The Origin of the Bible
Chapter 2: The Inspiration of the Bible
Chapter 3: The Preservation of the Bible
Chapter 4: The Translation of the Bible
Chapter 5: The Canon of the Bible.
Recent books like Lost Scriptures, and Lost Christianities as well as a mountain of new translations have cast doubt on the validity of our present Bible. God Speaks: How We Got the Bible will renew your faith in the Bible as God’s completed Word whether you prefer King James, NIV, or any of a number of reputable versions.
Harry Potter’s Book of Virtue: Volume 1: Work by Connie Neal
139 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
Harry Potter expert and Hogwarts Defender, Connie Neal, is author of WHAT’S A CHRISTIAN TO DO WITH HARRY POTTER? (Random House / WaterBrook Press); THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HARRY POTTER, (Westminster John Knox Press) and WIZARDS, WARDROBES, AND WOOKIEES: NAVIGATING GOOD AND EVIL IN HARRY POTTER, NARNIA, AND STAR WARS, InterVarsity Press). Connie also a mom who raised her kids on the Bible and the virtues she found in Harry Potter. The amazing original artwork for each volume of this series is created by Disney-trained-artist, Casey Robin who also happens to be Connie’s daughter. Her stunning work bears testimony to the validity of this volume while also beautifully adorning it.
Other volumes will follow on Kindle, including: The Virtue of Love, The Virtue of Self-Sacrifice, The Virtue of Courage, The Virtue of Resolution and Perseverance, The Virtue of Justice, and more. When these volumes are concluded the entire collection will be published in print as well.
The Fine Art of Female Friendships: Being a Good Listener by Jane Freund
25 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
These lessons are excerpted from “The Fine Art of Female Friendships – A Bible Study on Women’s Friendships” written by Jane Freund and based on research done of about 1,200 women and men in all 50 states, District of Columbia and 18 foreign countries. The whole book focuses on the top ten characteristics women look for in friends and is an eleven week study and is in a workbook format.
The Physical Death and Resurrection of a Jewish Carpenter by Mark Hodges
82 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
This book looks at the central doctrine of the Christian Religion; the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The ancient story of the Jewish carpenter is brought out into the harsh light of 21st Century beliefs and cultural “truths” and tested to see how it stands against the modern presuppositions. Who was this poor Jewish carpenter’s son? Can belief in miracles really be acceptable in the modern reality? How does the modern concept of entropy, the second law of thermal dynamics play into the ancient story? Was the resurrection a physical reality? How does the promise of the Jewish carpenter relate to us today? These questions are addressed and more, and the author relates his own experiences with death and the loss of loved ones.
Noble Cause: A Civil War Novel of Love and War by Jessica James
384 pages, 18 of 22 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
In April 2012, it was named a Finalist in Foreword Magazine’s BOOK OF THE YEAR contest in the Romance category. Winners to be announced in June.
Often compared to Gone with the Wind, Midwest Book Review called Noble Cause “a riveting piece of historical fiction.”
This is the tale of Colonel Alexander Hunter, a dauntless and daring Confederate cavalry officer, who, with his band of intrepid outcasts, becomes a legend in the rolling hills of northern Virginia. Inspired by love of country and guided by a sense of duty and honor, Hunter must make a desperate choice when he discovers the woman he promised his dying brother he would protect is the Union spy he vowed to his men he would destroy.
Readers will discover the fine line between friends and enemies when the paths of these two tenacious foes cross by the fates of war and their destinies become entwined forever.
Author Jessica James uniquely blends elements of romantic and historical fiction in this deeply personal and poignant tale that, according to one reviewer, “transcends the pages to settle in the very marrow of the reader’s bones.” Winner of numerous national awards, James has received critical acclaim for this page-turning story of courage, honor, and enduring love.
Destined for an honored place among the classics of the American Civil War, Noble Cause is a book to read, and keep, and remember forever.
Rebirth: Live Reborn Through Christ by Aimee and Abby Pellegrin
57 pages, 3 of 3 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Why do bad things happen? What can we learn from them? When her daughter Aimee was arrested at age twenty for terrorism, because she sent an email to her old junior high, a school where she was bullied. Abby went from denouncing God to thanking God for the arrest of her daughter, because it lead to their healing and salvation.
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