Good News for Those Trying Harder by Alan Kraft
211 pages, 10 of 10 reviews are 5-star
Countless believers are pursuing spiritual growth, only to repeatedly find themselves spinning their wheels and making no progress. Many are driven to just try harder. Others feel a growing sense of failure and distance from God. But for all involved, it’s a frustrating cycle. What can we do when trying harder isn’t working?
Author and pastor Alan Kraft invites us to be still.still enough to hear the twin melodies that comprise the good news of the gospel-brokenness and faith. These core strains have the power to lift our exhausted heads so we may experience life to the full as Jesus promised.
Discover the power of a broken spirit, embrace the wonder of living by faith, and experience the joy found when you just stop trying.
Everard (Not-So-Fairy Tales) by Chautona Havig
284 pages, 5 of 5 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
A Prince, a friend, and a lizard walk into a trap…
Everard of Havilund—fierce warrior, brave soldier, loyal friend, heir to the throne, and painfully shy.
The war is over! Or is it? After four long years fighting in a war that has spanned a millennium, Everard is finally going home. He has faced everything he fears most—he thinks. Alas, trouble is brewing in the little hamlet of Hidden Hollow and he has only himself to blame.
Follow Everard as he tries to slay the Dragon of Ironia, face the Giant of the Tripp Mountains, bring the Enchantress of Enervatia to justice… just for starters.
Will he succeed? Will he overcome his personal demons that threaten all he is working for? Find out in this second installment of the Not-So-Fairy Tales.
Her Minnesota Man by Brenda Coulter
379 pages, 15 of 17 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Rock star Jackson Bell has just given his heart to God. Resolved to abandon his wicked lifestyle and eager for instruction in Christian living, he heads home to Owatonna, Minnesota and the girl-next-door he’s secretly loved for years. Dismayed to find Laney Ryland in the midst of a faith crisis, “Jeb” quickly formulates a plan: He’ll help Laney get her faith back, and then he’ll find her a good Christian man to marry so she can get started on that big family she longs for.
It won’t be easy watching another man slide a ring onto Laney’s finger. But she deserves only the best, and Jeb means to see that she gets it.
Now if only her great-aunts, those pesky 79-year-old matchmaking triplets known as the Three Graces, will just stay out of his way .
The Daily Devotional Series: The Gospel of John by Kristi Burchfiel
28 pages, 4 of 4 reviews are 5-star
Does a cup of coffee or an energy drink typically start your day? While that may wake you up physically, what are you doing each day to wake up spiritually? How do you find time in your busy, hectic schedule to focus on truth from God’s word?
The Daily Devotional Series is designed provide each day with a quick and simple devotional that can be read in less than 5 minutes. However, it focuses on one truth from the Bible that a person can take with them, think about, and apply all day long. Each devotional includes the verse from the Bible, a truth from that verse, and a response to pray back to God.
The Daily Devotional Series: The Gospel of John gives readers a brief introduction into using The Daily Devotional Series, a synopsis of the Gospel of John, and then twenty-one brief devotionals that cover each of the twenty-one chapters in the Gospel.
Enjoy taking one devotional a day as you work your way through the Gospel of John as part of the Daily Devotional Series and “wake up” to God’s truths from His word.
The Remnant by Alana Wellington
279 pages, 2 of 3 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Corianne Bennett, an American anthropology student, struggles to find a topic for her master’s thesis. Eventually, she finds one that captivates her interest, and it leads her to explore her faith, to learn its roots. While this is going on, she must decide if she will face the issues arising in her family and other aspects of her personal life. As events trigger a crisis, she gets an opportunity to be transplanted into an adventure that carries her halfway round the world, and thrusts her into the tension between religious history, the modern reality, and truth.
Who Told You That You Were Naked? by Candi Dugas
244 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
Traditionally the Black church tends to teach more about religion than spirituality and is virtually silent regarding sexuality. Who Told You That You Were Naked? focuses on how this tradition adversely affects the single, heterosexual Protestant Black woman’s understanding of herself as a sexual being.
Using the qualitative research method of phenomenology, this research explores how Black women’s experiences and other sources for theological ethics can inform their desire to reconcile sexual and spiritual goodness. Who Told You That You Were Naked? reveals that the difficulty in this reconciliation has roots in the larger issues of church-condoned gender hierarchy, Christianity’s hierarchal dualism, and American (USA) race-based oppression and injustice.
Inside these pages women will find relevant responses to their cry that the church is absent — or impotent — in helping us to navigate the everyday issues regarding love, sex, and romantic relationships. We rewind the text to (re)consider what the Bible actually says about non-marital sex, masturbation, and the submission of women to men. Who Told You That You Were Naked? also provides creative ways to (re)configure our own lives in light of these discoveries — with meditation, exercises, and small-group study.
103 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
In this comprehensive little book, Andrew Cort brings to life the history and legends of the twelve hundred years between the conquering of the Promised Land and the birth of Jesus. It includes the stories of Saul, David, and Solomon, the building of the Temple and the origin of the Freemason legend, the fate of the Ten Lost Tribes, the miracles of Elijah, the Babylonian Exile, Queen Esther and the Purim Festival, the influence of Aristotle and Epicurus, Judah Maccabee and the story of Chanukah, the building of the second Temple, the canonization of the Hebrew Bible, Caesar and Cleopatra, the Roman oppression, the origins of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes, the birth of Jesus, plus much, much more.
Signs and Wonders by Alex Adena
119 pages, 27 of 31 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Annie Grace grew up as the daughter of a faith healing crusader who told her she could perform miracles. But 25 years later, after she has inherited her late father’s ministry, Annie’s only remaining conviction is that she is a fraud — a fear she must face when the district attorney confronts her about the ministry’s past. As a pesky television reporter hounds her and a U.S. senator subpoenas her to testify before Congress, Annie is forced to reveal the truth to herself and to the world. When she does, mysterious things begin to happen. What is the meaning of these signs and wonders?
when Beauty pursues you by Elora Ramirez (Bookwi.se Review)
17 pages, 5 of 5 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
for the past year, i’ve felt her beckon me softly. sometimes she’s louder than the chaos around me – her silence booms across the sky in a sunrise painting colors through blackness. Sometimes she’s so quiet i can barely hear her.
this is for the girls who feel damaged and used and forgotten. it’s a manifesto, in the middle of brokenness, for those who feel like they’ll never measure up against standards set for them.this book does not require perfection but messiness, and i’m in no better place. are you?
Before the Trumpet Sounds: When Jesus Came to the Tennessee River Valley by Randall Stewart
218 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Amy and David Owen were not expecting the gift they received during Christmas of 2001. Corey Reynolds was not looking for the offer made to him in August of 2026. The cities of Guntersville and Arab in North Alabama were not seeking the publicity that came to them in the spring of 2027. When God decided it was time for Jesus to return to earth, everyone was caught off-guard. Who could have imagined the second coming would be like this?
Moms of Teens Devotions to Go by Robin Hutchins
133 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
There are many phases in parenting but none compare to that of parenting teenagers in this day and time. This phase can be filled with joy while at the same time present a unique set of challenges.
In Moms of Teens Devotions to Go, Robin shares from her heart some of her own experiences with humor and transparency. She illustrates spiritual truths through short stories.
These truths help moms survive the long days by reminding them that our heavenly Father is able to keep that which we have committed to Him (2 Timothy 1:12).
Endeavor in Time by Chris Hambleton
367 pages, 11 of 24 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Five years after the Challenger disaster, NASA launched their newest space shuttle, Endeavor, in a dramatic return to space. But several moments after lift-off, Endeavor exploded over the ocean, taking the lives of all its crew members, and killing the United States’ space program.
It’s 2009, seventeen years after the Endeavor tragedy in 1992, and NASA has been made part of the Department of Defense. America’s civilian space program has been permanently discontinued for over fifteen years.
Daniel Marks, the Chief Programmer at a research facility in New Mexico, is working on a cutting-edge electromagnetic device. While developing the controller software for the device, an accident occurs and he suddenly finds himself back in his old life in 1992.
With his unique knowledge of the future, what should he do with his new life? Should he use his knowledge simply for personal gain, or should he risk his freedom and future to stop a national disaster before it happens?
Mr God for President by David C Skousen
378 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
A top advertising man raises the bar when it comes to choosing political leaders in America. He focuses on the 2012 Presidential election and decides to run God as a write-in candidate. It’s a ploy to focus attention on moral principles, so he presents the campaign as if God is really running!
This causes some confusion, but the idea finally catches on. What are the odds of winning? Whatever the result, the campaign stirs up differing beliefs that threaten to divide, or perhaps destroy the nation!
When the dust settles, will the crusade leave the country in better hands than before?
In the Appendix, 26 public issues are briefly discussed and simply resolved, using God¹s Platform to heal the Nation.
Nothing like this has ever been presented in print, making this novel a handbook for a Gentleman¹s Revolution to return peace and prosperity to America.
Woman of Stones by Meredith Allard
95 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
If any one of you is without sin, let him cast the first stone. John 8:7
Though she has remained nameless throughout the centuries, her story is timeless. Who is the woman of stones? How did she come to be at that place, at that time, caught in the very act of adultery, left as a guidepost for the ages, a lesson for everyone always?
She is from a poor settlement in a powerful Greco-Roman world. When Othniel bar-Ismael, a textile merchant from Jerusalem, arrives in her village, he is determined to take her for his wife. But the reality of living as a fine lady is not as grand as she thought it would be. When she meets the man of her dreams, an acquaintance of her husband’s, her life is forever changed.
Caught with her lover, she is beaten and bruised, dragged and kicked to the Temple Courts. Her accusers hold their fist-sized stones, ready to challenge the new teacher and show him to be a fool who contradicts his own teachings. With a few wise words, the teacher makes her accusers go away. In the end, she must struggle to make sense of the second chance she has been granted.
Moses in His Own Words by Joe White
87 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
When you read this book you feel like you are sitting at Moses’ feet, listening to him tell of his adventures. The book is historically accurate, yet told in an easy to read format. Dr. Joe T. White is a published author, teacher and Bible scholar. Joe writes in a style that the new Christian can enjoy and learn from as well as the Bible scholar. You will enjoy this latest in a long list of books published by Joe T. White.
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