Only God Can Make a Butterfly
Only God Can Make a Butterfly

Author: M. D. David J. Delnostro

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1613795025

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God's ultimate plan for His people is one of transformation. All of us are born in God's image, but His ultimate desire is for us to be transformed into His likeness. For this metamorphosis to occur, we must stop competing with God to be the master of our lives. Just as a butterfly changes from a larval caterpillar, all human beings are to be transformed into their mature form, a person possessing the nature and character of Jesus. Butterfly people see the world from God's perspective and experience more joy and peace in life. Caterpillars are left behind to see the world from man's perspective and suffer from immature, pathological thinking, dysfunctional relationships, and self-serving religions and governments. God designed our world for Christ-centered butterflies that can live in the light of His wisdom and truth, not caterpillars that stumble through life and remain lost in the darkness of their self-centered world. In Only God Can Make A Butterfly, David Delnostro, M.D. walks you through the psychological, interpersonal, political and medical advantages of soaring through life as a butterfly and the pathological consequences of crawling through life as a caterpillar. David J. Delnostro, M.D. is a graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine. He began his medical career in 1980 in Savannah, Georgia as an emergency room physician at Candler Hospital. For the past twenty-six years, he has practiced family medicine and currently is a member of Southcoast Medical Group in Savannah. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest of six children. Although he was raised by a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, he never practiced either religion. At age forty, he began his life-changing relationship with Jesus. Currently, he serves as a deacon and Divorce Recovery leader at Savannah Christian Church.

Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World
Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World

Author: Joanna Weaver

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307569020

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CBA BESTSELLER • More than a million copies sold! An invitation for every woman who’s ever felt she isn’t godly enough, isn’t loving enough, isn’t doing enough. “Easy to read, personal, and well-written with a message much more than surface deep. Joanna probed, challenged, and encouraged me to live day by day as Mary in a Martha world.”—Carole Mayhall, author of Come Walk with Me and Here I Am Again, Lord The life of a woman today isn’t all that different from the lives of Mary and Martha in the New Testament. Like Mary, you long to sit at the Lord’s feet . . . but the daily demands of a busy world just won’t leave you alone. Like Martha, you love Jesus and really want to serve him . . . yet you struggle with weariness, resentment, and feelings of inadequacy. Then comes Jesus, into the midst of your busy life, to extend the same invitation he issued long ago to the two sisters from Bethany. Tenderly, he invites you to choose “the better part”—a joyful life of intimacy with him that flows naturally into loving service. With her fresh approach to the familiar Bible story, Joanna Weaver shows how all of us, Marys and Marthas alike, can draw closer to our Lord: deepening our devotion, strengthening our service, and doing both with less stress and greater joy. This book includes a twelve-week Bible study for individual or group use. A Study Guide and a corresponding ten-session video series on DVD or online are available separately.

Reading Through Pictures
Reading Through Pictures

Author: Meredith Froese

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2019-03-11

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 1525537962

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This book, Reading With Pictures, was created for people that can hardly read. Children that haven't learned to read, and for elderly who's eyes are dim. Some people are created to read visually by studying the pictures. With short quotes, verses, and titles to bring the pictures more alive. Especially if someone is kind enough to read it to them, the words alongside the pictures will bring new life to the book. I want to sell this book to whoever needs a simple picture book to be encouraged. This book is to minister to their heart and soul. I hope to open up a whole new world to those who like and are able to read pictures. Books that contain only words don't have much meaning when we can't read the words. For those God has created visual words without pictures take away from the true meaning of the book. People need to buy this book to be encouraged to live a life that they get spiritually fed. God's ways are so much higher than ours. "For our thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" Isaiah 55:8,9. God has a reason why some read through pictures, some only words, and yet others who like both together. It is so good to look at the book to see the pictures with the words and feel the spirit of God satisfying our inmost being.

Adventures in Thackerville
Adventures in Thackerville

Author: Steven R. Thacker

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-11-04

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1467043141

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Adventures in Thackerville will carry you, your children, and your grandchildren to the wonders of Gods little miracles and the joyfulness of childhood in a refreshing new way. Experiences include a beloved quote:that it is never right to do wrong and never wrong to do right. Written from individual experiences of his or of his children or a friend of the family, each account could be read as a bedtime story or they could be read by the children themselves. The Author has inserted his children and grandchildrens names to personalize each story. Other names mentioned are his grandma, siblings, two cousins, an uncle and some family pets. It is the desire and prayer of the Author that these stories will be significantly used of God to stir the hearts of children and adults alike.

Parenting with Scripture
Parenting with Scripture

Author: Kara Durbin

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1575675285

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Kara Durbin's passion is for parents to capture those teachable moments and use Scripture to shape their children's behavior. She offers Parenting with Scripture, a unique topical guide to prepare parents with scriptural teaching and helpful activities on 100 specific behaviors.

In the Spring of My Remembrance
In the Spring of My Remembrance

Author: Victoria Huggins PEURIFOY

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0557027403

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DESCRIPTIONIN THE SPRING OF MY REMEMBRANCE is a book of prose, poetry, memoirs, and photography. The poet has chosen to break the poems down into categories that fit her moods such as "Inspiration, Love, Fun, Memorials, History/Political, these are just some of the categories. Photography is also a passion of the author and she shares a few photographs just for fun. This book includes pictures that were favorites, but in no way exhibits the many pictures that she has taken around her hometown Philadelphia, PA. Memoirs included in this book reveal another side of the author who believes that everyone goes through some things in their life that may resemble other folk's lives but talking about it or thinking about those situations just hurts too much. This is a small world and we all can relate to many times of happiness, experiments, experiences and tragedies that make up who we are. Victoria wants you to be inspired, have fun, have total recall and just enjoy.

The Treasure
The Treasure

Author: Marty Machowski

Publisher: New Growth Press

Published: 2023-10-02

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1645073173

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Best-selling author Marty Machowski takes young readers on an exciting biblical voyage to discover the treasure of God's love revealed in Luke's letters to Theophilus—Luke and Acts.

MOMENTS CAPTURED IN RHYMES
MOMENTS CAPTURED IN RHYMES

Author: SYNDA BURTON

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0359600425

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I started writing poetry or little jingles for my morning posts on Facebook in 2009...it was and still is a way to pass time while I drink my coffee. From jingles, it grew into verses of ABAB poetry. My inspiration comes from photos, old sayings, a word...an incident, or anything that strikes a nerve. Many of my poems have been inspired by a high school friend and a photographer, her name is Ruby Karmann.

Walking the Tightrope Without a Grace Net
Walking the Tightrope Without a Grace Net

Author: Brenda M. Myers

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1450237630

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The Christian life was meant to be danced but not on your tip toes. A tightrope walk was my spiritual life. One missed step meant you were falling into hell if you didn't repent immediately. I was taught that true Christians never sinned, or if they did, they would have to "get saved" all over again. An unreasonable standard of "holiness" and a constant striving of perfection flowed from this belief. Lists of dos and don'ts were in abundance in an effort to practice the "idol of holiness." Are you walking that tightrope? By understanding God's true character through His saving grace on the cross, you can break free from the bondage of legalism and unholy fear, anxiety, and frustration, into a life of gratefulness for God's love, mercy, and grace. You can begin the balancing act of leaving legalism behind and finding true liberty in Christ.

Sled Driver
Sled Driver

Author: Brian Shul

Publisher: Lickle Pub Incorporated

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 9780929823089

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No aircraft ever captured the curiosity & fascination of the public like the SR-71 Blackbird. Nicknamed "The Sled" by those few who flew it, the aircraft was shrouded in secrecy from its inception. Entering the U.S. Air Force inventory in 1966, the SR-71 was the fastest, highest flying jet aircraft in the world. Now for the first time, a Blackbird pilot shares his unique experience of what it was like to fly this legend of aviation history. Through the words & photographs of retired Major Brian Shul, we enter the world of the "Sled Driver." Major Shul gives us insight on all phases of flying, including the humbling experience of simulator training, the physiological stresses of wearing a space suit for long hours, & the intensity & magic of flying 80,000 feet above the Earth's surface at 2000 miles per hour. SLED DRIVER takes the reader through riveting accounts of the rigors of initial training, the gamut of emotions experienced while flying over hostile territory, & the sheer joy of displaying the jet at some of the world's largest airshows. Illustrated with rare photographs, seen here for the first time, SLED DRIVER captures the mystique & magnificence of this most unique of all aircraft.