Helen McLeod Rogers shares her experiences of love and faith that have shaped her calling in life. This collection of short stories from her years in ministry, teaching, and life shows the goodness of God that shines through even in the darkest night. Even through the dark night of her husband's final battle with leukemia, Helen tells how God gave her blessings to get her through it. When times are tough, we hold on to the "son flower" blessings that come from God's hands.
Parentless Parents is the first book to show how the absence of grandparents impacts everything about the way mothers and fathers raise their children--from everyday parenting decisions to the relationships they have with their spouses and in-laws. For the first time in U.S. history, as the average age of women giving birth has increased significantly, millions of children are at risk of having fewer years with their grandparents than ever before. How has this substantial shift affected parents and kids? Journalist, award-winning television producer, and parentless parent Allison Gilbert has polled and studied more than 1,300 parentless parents from across the United States and a dozen other countries to find out. Through her pioneering research, Gilbert not only shares her own story and the significant and poignant effect that this trend has had on her and hundreds of other families, but also the myriad ways these mothers and fathers have learned to keep the memory of their parents alive for their children, and to find the support and understanding they need.
Don't become weary in well doing because in due season we will all reap when we don't faint or throw in the towel when we become discouraged. (Galatians 6:9 KJV) When we act on our human emotions, we are led unto our own desires, but are our desires the desires that God has for us? Every one of us had and still have challenges in our lives but no matter what may influence our lives, we should know that we are more than conquerors and that our Heavenly Father will never leave us or forsake us. But he could, if and when, we dash our feet against the stone but remember that the rejected stone became the chief corner stone, solid as a rock with a strong foundation of salvation and liberty. (Psalm 118:22 KJV) We are free, so let's pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and stand firm like the women of God that we are. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trails which is to try you as though some strange thing has happened to you. (1 Peter 4:12 KJV) Our Heavenly Father knows the way that we will take, and when he hath tried us, we shall come forth as pure as gold. (Job 23:10 NLT) Purged, a vessel of honor, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use and prepared to do every good work. (2 Timothy 2:21 KJV - NIV). I love you all!
Zieglitz's Blessing tells the story of a multigenerational search for identity and the meaning of a man's life. From childhood, Rod Zieglitz questions the truthfulness of his Hebrew name, which means "God will show mercy." Sometimes that name seems fitting. At other times, though, it strikes Zieglitz as a cruel joke. Only on his deathbed, grappling with the challenges he's faced, does Zieglitz rightly understand the notion of God's blessing for the first time. While Zieglitz's Blessing is often comic and even irreverent, it's an ultimately serious tale that runs the gamut from suffering to consolation, transgression to forgiveness, and faith lost to trust restored.
It tells a story of grandparents in the 1800s as judges in Missouri and those on the Supreme Court of Missouri on my mother's side of the family, then Congressman Frank W. Boykin of Mobile, Alabama, on my father's side of the family. Some highlights from the manuscript: Congressman Boykin started the multiethnic, multireligious Kounter Klan to challenge the corrupt Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and other Southern States. He served in Congress for over twenty-eight years but remained a man of the people. Boykin was also involved in real estate, where he purchased more than three million acres during his lifetime, developing Homosassa Springs in Florida with President Truman's brother. He had over eighteen different businesses, including in timber, farming, cattle raising, and shipbuilding. Boykin's suggestion is untold history setting the English Channel ablaze during World War II and helped thwart the Nazi invasion of the country of England. Also, a movie that was to be made in the '50s and '60s by Breedlove Production Company in Los Angeles, California, have been unable to find out if it is sitting in a can in a Hollywood, California, studio and if it was ever made. Charlton Heston was proposed to star in it, and the title was trademarked called Everything Is Made for Love, Frank Boykin's motto for over forty years. It tells of sexual and physical abuse, bullying through childhood to adulthood, divorces, being conned, and the con receiving seven years in prison, having four fathers from age two to fourteen. Travel experiences to other countries and of family, children, cousins, abduction, and the way to learning one's true self and identity.
Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/nVZ4-YBHSvY Through the eyes of a bullied child, a bully is 3D: dysfunctional, distant, and disconnected. Dysfunctional is the root that grows on an evil tree. It starts first within the home environment, Distant from God because he would upgrade your name, not degrade you by no means, Disconnected from the love of people. You are detached from the emotions of other human beings.
Here is the story how the decadent Hindu society of pandits turned a loving man into a beast of revenge. The gallant Kala Chand who was ready to die for his faith but lived for love, was transformed into Kala Pahar, the perverse killer and destroyer of Hindu faith. Abandoned by this loving Muslim wife and affectionate Hindu relations, Kala Pahar though he won an empire, lost his soul......
After Xu Xin returned to his home country and took over his father's property, he still wasn't willing to get married. However, after he returned to his home country, he used all sorts of methods to get rid of the support of his Xia Family, making it so that Xia Jing had no reason to force him to marry again.One day, when he entered the company, there were too many people. A security guard was protecting him, so the purse in front of his chest fell off. When Xu Xin saw the photo that fell off, he realized it was the face of this security guard and a familiar woman. It turned out to be Ivy's brother.Xu Xin found it hard to calm his heart. He understood that after so many years, he was still waiting for something.However, the security guard left after learning of Xu Xin's relationship with his sister. In the end, he found them in Xiaoshan Village. Even though he wanted to escape so badly at that time, in the end, he still couldn't find a way back to the mountain village.Ivy found out later that she was pregnant, but she couldn't find Xu Xin, and she didn't want to lose her child, so she insisted on dropping out of school and returning to the village. People in the village began to laugh at the family, but Ivy, who had experienced all of this, had already let people down, and her brother finally became sensible and began to work.After learning the truth, Xu Xin insisted on taking Ai Wei away, but was rejected by Ai Wei. Xu's mother also saw her son's insistence, understood his heart, and came to a small village.Ivy was finally moved and brought to the city with her family."
This contributed two-volume work tackles a fascinating topic: how and why God plays a central role in the modern world and profoundly influences politics, art, culture, and our moral reflection—even for nonbelievers. God—in the many ways that people around the globe conceptualize Him, Her, or It—is one of the most powerful, divisive, unifying, and creative elements of human culture. The two volumes of God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure provide readers with a balanced and accessible analysis of this fascinating topic that allows anyone who appreciates any art, music, television, film, and other forms of entertainment to have a new perspective on a favorite song or movie. Written by a collective of both believers and nonbelievers, the essays enable both nonreligious individuals and those who are spiritually guided to consider how culture approaches and has appropriated God to reveal truths about humanity and society. The book discusses the intersections of God with film, television, sports, politics, commerce, and popular culture, thereby documenting how the ongoing messages and conversations about God that occur among the general population also occur within the context of the entertainment that we as members of society consume—often without our recognition of the discussion.
