God has a plan for the lives of each and every human. For author Linda K. Barnett, that plan called for her to become a nanny and positively impact the lives of the families for which she worked. In her memoir, My Purpose Revealed: Ms. Linda, the Nanny Not Just the Help, she narrates her journey to finding this God-given purpose. Linda shares her experiences and insight of her life as a nanny with more than twenty-two years of experience and uses this story to illustrate the greatness of God and his work in our lives. My Purpose Revealed shows that wisdom, compassion, integrity, character, loyalty, professionalism, and love are the most important traits to becoming a trusted and successful nanny to make a difference in children and families. My Purpose Revealed illustrates how God shapes our destinies through our careers and demonstrates how God used Linda's strengths to influence and change many young lives a gift that will be passed from generation to generation.
God has a plan for the lives of each and every human. For author Linda K. Barnett, that plan called for her to become a nanny and positively impact the lives of the families for which she worked. In her memoir, My Purpose Revealed: Ms. Linda, the NannyNot Just the Help, she narrates her journey to finding this God-given purpose. Linda shares her experiences and insight of her life as a nanny with more than twenty-two years of experience and uses this story to illustrate the greatness of God and his work in our lives. My Purpose Revealed shows that wisdom, compassion, integrity, character, loyalty, professionalism, and love are the most important traits to becoming a trusted and successful nanny to make a difference in children and families. My Purpose Revealed illustrates how God shapes our destinies through our careers and demonstrates how God used Lindas strengths to influence and change many young livesa gift that will be passed from generation to generation.
Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, “Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible.” That journey starts right here. In her latest book, The Path Made Clear, Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. The book’s ten chapters are organized to help you recognize the important milestones along the road to self-discovery, laying out what you really need in order to achieve personal contentment, and what life’s detours are there to teach us. Oprah opens each chapter by sharing her own key lessons and the personal stories that helped set the course for her best life. She then brings together wisdom and insights from luminaries in a wide array of fields, inspiring readers to consider what they’re meant to do in the world and how to pursue it with passion and focus. Renowned figures such as Eckhart Tolle, Brene Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jay-Z, and Ellen DeGeneres share the greatest lessons from their own journeys toward a life filled with purpose. Paired with over 100 awe-inspiring photographs to help illuminate the wisdom of these messages, The Path Made Clear provides readers with a beautiful resource for achieving a life lived in service of your calling – whatever it may be.
The whole manifested world goes to show us what use we have made of God's gift. Receiving a gift does not mean that we are going to use it wisely, but we have the gift. Everyone has the gift; and the world simply reflects the use of that gift.In "The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare puts these words into the mouth of Portia: "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine who follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching."So you and I have been given a gift. To what use have we put it? In a book written in the First Century, written at the time of our Gospel, -- it's called the Hermetica, and this is a translation by Walter Scott. It is a wonderful series of four volumes; and in this he says: "There are two gifts that God has given to man alone, and to no other mortal creature, and these two gifts are Mind and Speech. And the gifts of Mind and Speech are essential and identical with Immortality. If they are used rightly, man will not differ in any respect from the immortals; and when he quits the body, these two will be his guides and they will lead him into the troop of the gods and. to the souls that have attained to bliss."
Beholding His Glory, a twenty-two session course, shows us how all Scripture points us to our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. As we look at Old Testament people and events, we'll encounter problems that only Christ will solve, needs that only He will satisfy, and promises that only He can deliver. We'll learn to recognize and appreciate God's plan for our own lives, His awe-inspiring majesty, and His desire for personal intimacy with each one of us.
Water is a core symbol in the Gospel of John and is particularly prevalent in passages that involve the revelation of Jesus's identity. Using Richard Bauckham's category of a "Christology of Divine Identity," That He Might Be Revealed explores the way the Fourth Evangelist plays on the memory of the major water events of Israel's history and mythology in order to incorporate Jesus into the divine identity. In the water stories of the OT, the distinctive identity and abilities of Yahweh are at stake. Yahweh's victory in these events forever fuses his identity to water imagery so that control of the waters becomes one of the major markers that characterizes and distinguishes him in Jewish thought. The water imagery in John is the author's attempt to tap into this rich accumulation of images and memories to identify Jesus as God himself incarnate.
How can so many appear to be living an accomplished life but still feel empty inside? Why are some still marking time on the same spot, doing the same unfulfilling tasks and unable to break the cycle? What prevents us from taking the necessary steps towards changing our condition? Christine Titih approaches these questions with astounding simplicity and forceful conviction. Punctuated with powerful stories about her life, friends and family, including key biblical passages, she guides us eloquently on a discovery of our purpose and how to find happiness amidst the limitations, uncertainties and deprivations that encumber our lives. How I Discovered my Purpose provides precise and practical instruction with applications suitable for our times and for those stormy days when hope is rare to find.
When vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker is witness to the murders of a family he has befriended, and his lover's husband and son disappear, his investigations take him to the darkest places he could ever have imagined ... The stunning fourth instalment in the critically acclaimed Claymore Straker series. 'A stormer of a thriller – vividly written, utterly tropical, totally gripping' Peter James 'A fast-paced action thriller, beautifully written' Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography 'Hardisty is a fine writer and Straker is a great lead character' Lee Child _____________________ It's 1997, and eight months since vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker fled South Africa after his explosive testimony to Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In Paris, Rania LaTour, Claymore's former lover, comes home to find that her son and her husband, a celebrated human rights lawyer, have disappeared. On an isolated island off the coast of East Africa, the family that Clay has befriended is murdered as he watches. So begins the fourth instalment in the Claymore Straker series, a breakneck journey through the darkest reaches of the human soul, as Clay and Rania fight to uncover the mystery behind the disappearances and murders, and find those responsible. At times brutal, often lyrical, but always gripping, Absolution is a thriller that will leave you breathless and questioning the very basis of how we live and why we love. ____________________ Praise for Paul E. Hardisty 'A trenchant and engaging thriller that unravels this mysterious land in cool, precise sentences' Stav Sherez, Catholic Herald 'This is a remarkably well-written, sophisticated novel in which the people and places, as well as frequent scenes of violent action, all come alive on the page...' Literary Review 'Gripping and exciting ... the quality of Hardisty's writing and the underlying truth of his plots sets this above many other thrillers' West Australian 'Searing ... at times achieves the level of genuine poetry' Publishers Weekly 'Beautifully written, blisteringly authentic, heart-stoppingly tense and unusually moving' Paul Johnston 'The plot burns through petrol, with multiple twists and turns' Vicky Newham
What can God do in a life totally devoted to walk in the footprints of our Savior? Marv Knipfer, just a simple concrete man, is a perfect example of what can happen when one is truly born again (John 3:3) and the transformation of a new heart and mind take place. I had the honor and privilege of being the wife of this wonderful man, full of love and generosity for fourteen years before God took him home. He truly was given a supernatural gift of writing, especially about the Word of God. He left behind many books he wrote just taking them to a printer in town and giving them out to family, friends, or anyone interested. The idea of sending them to a publisher never seemed to occur to him as he was just humbled to think anyone would like to read them. I personally have never seen anyone mature so rapidly in their faith, and I have been around lots of people who profess to be Christians. It was obvious it was because of his love for God and the time spent daily in the Word that caused this growth. He loved people of all ages, and they loved him back. He was always more than willing to give of his time, service, and finances to those in need. To know "Grandpa Marv" was to love him because just being around him brought one closer to Jesus who was the real One loving through him. Many lives have been touched for eternity because of this simple man, including mine! Heaven got sweeter on June 7, 2010, when he arrived home, and I am confident he heard the words he most wanted to hear: "Well done, good and faithful servant." To God be the glory! Carolyn (Carol) Knipfer-Broome
Enoch's Journey will shed light on Enoch's walk with God, as well as your own. The book discusses Enoch's three-hundred-year walk, including some of the issues that he would face along the way--problems that would come to hinder and impede his close fellowship with God. It also discusses the more clearly defined journeys of Joseph and Job. If you have read their stories in the Bible, you know that both faced plenty of challenges, fraught with peril and trial. However, there was a purpose to reshape them so that they could be transported into the next phase of their lives, ready to fulfill the larger calling that God had always intended for them. Many other biblical figures are also discussed in this book, generally in a lighthearted manner. Rest assured that there is always a higher purpose to every trial and challenge that we face in life. Reading this book will encourage us to continue to walk with God and keep up the pace so we can see the end of the journey, as well as the beginning, and we can know how to thrive in God's true purpose for our lives.
