Susan Anderson owns and operates a hip hair salon on the Las Vegas strip, decorated with her collection of world-class disco memorabilia accumulated decades ago when she was one of the beautiful people on New York's disco scene. She's come a long way. Now happily married, Susan is known for her business savvy, her fabulous vintage ensembles, her faith, her big heart—and the impromptu disco dance numbers salon staff and clients join in when the spirit moves. If life is a dance, Susan's mastered all the moves. But an exciting business opportunity and her husband's impending retirement rock her world, shaking Susan's foundation and revealing regrets and painful memories she thought she'd dealt with. Will Susan be able to face her past, reinvent her marriage, build her dream, and keep on dancing?
This paradigm-shifting book helps believers understand the process of being transformed by God's grace and truth, and challenges them to be a part of the process of discipleship in the lives of their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Counseling One Another biblically presents and defends every believer's responsibility to work toward God's goal of conforming us to the image of His Son-a goal reached through the targeted form of intensive discipleship most often referred to as counseling. All Christians will find Counseling One Another useful as they make progress in the life of sanctification and as they discuss issues with their friends, children, spouses, and fellow believers, providing them with a biblical framework for life and one-another ministry in the body of Christ.
My address didn't change to easy street after becoming a Christian, but the sorrows and struggles and even the persecutions that followed were still a light affliction compared to the darkness of my past. There's one big difference. Before I became a Christian, I was completely alone. There was no one! It was dark, empty, and very, very lonely. But since my salvation, I have never walked it alone. That was thirty-five years ago—half a lifetime ago—and I am more in love with Jesus than ever.When she was only eighteen months old, Janet DeAngelo was placed in an orphanage where she stayed until the age of ten. For the next five years, she was in and out of foster homes and suffered sexual abuse at the hands of foster parents and her birth father. Her adult relationships were equally tumultuous, and her husband Nick brought her even more pain. But what Satan intended for evil, God used for her good. After a lifetime of afflictions, Janet had a miraculous encounter with the Lord and was Rescued.'Janet's heart-wrenching story reveals the life changing way out of every 'fire' and gives hope to those walking in the very shoes she once wore. Rescued will unveil the lies and tactics of Satan that is operating in many lives today. Janet is living proof that God's saving grace is for ALL, no matter how deep the pit. Get ready to be touched and delivered from deep wounds that have been hidden for far too long.' —Minister Merari Rodriquez, Radicals-4-Christ, Boca Raton, Florida.
A woman's experience as a mother is influenced by the mothering she received as a child. If neglect was a part of that upbringing, the woman who holds a newborn and faces the responsibility of parenting needs a healthy vision of motherhood. T. Suzanne Eller compassionately discusses how a woman can turn from a painful past and embrace a godly example of motherhood. She shares how shattered legacies can be put back together the path to restoring the broken image of motherhood ways to let go and embrace a new story This is a celebration of God's healing power and how all women can become the mom they want to be.
The Christian life isn't always a walk in the park. Children of Christian parents do die. Christian businessmen do lose their jobs. And husbands of Christian wives do cheat. Being a Christian doesn't protect you from the tough punches life throws. Taking fourteen strategies from the biblical account of the Israelite journey, Walking with God on the Road You Never Wanted to Travel offers real hope to those on an unexpected, difficult journey. For forty years the Israelites wandered through a devastating wilderness, suffering many losses, and yet learning some timeless lessons. These lessons, presented here as strategies for modern believers, are simply stated, clearly explained, and beautifully illustrated with dramatic and inspiring stories.
The authors share remarkable stories from brave soldiers who reveal how God was with them and answered their prayers during their often-dangerous times in uniform.
The WritersNet Anthology of Prose reverses the trend of the publishing industry expanding onto the Internet. What began as an on-line evaluation and editing workshop on the WritersNet website turned this trend on its head when the best of the material submitted by writers across four continents, both published and unpublished, both previous best-sellers and those seeking their first appearance in print, was published in this two-volume anthology. This project not only showcases the widely diverse talent of new and established writers and has established a new common-purpose dimension of community among the writers participating in WritersNet, but it also serves the community at large, as all profits above production costs are being donated to the Salvation Army in remembrance of the events of 9/11. The resulting fiction collection of sixty short stories by fifty-three separate authors provided in this volume one of the anthology, WritersNet Anthology of Prose: Fiction, is much more eclectic than is normal with such works. These stories defy the normal “common thread in content” rule. You can find something here to entertain you—and to make you ponder—no matter what your reading pleasure. Explore and enjoy.
The second volume in the U-Turn collection is filled with true stories of people from all walks of life who have made U-turns in their lives. These stories show how faith in God can inspire, heal and give hope.
Where is God when one is experiencing the pail of chronic illness? He may have the whole world in His hands, but sometimes it feels like He trips, hollering Oops as we are flund from His hands, and our lives shatter into pieces. We look at the fragments of our former self, relationships, careers, and dreams, and wonder. Where did I go wrong? Why did God allow this into my life? Will God ever heal me? Mosaic Moments is filled with over 200 devotionals that encourage readers to remain hopeful in the face of illness, because ever though they may feel like a broken pot, God is transforming them into something noble - a mosaic This book is spiritual glue for those feeling crushed in spirit. Through Lisa's devotionals and the contributions of twenty wrtiers, readers will discover that, despite the pain of feeling broken, God is working through their illness to create a precious work of art where they will find unexpected joy.