Treasures of Darkness
Treasures of Darkness

Author: Tara Soughers

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1426731779

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Treasures of Darkness: Finding God When Hope Seems Hidden People generally consider dark times in life as times that are filled with pain, fear, anxiety, depression, loss, or sadness. Tara Soughers recognizes such moments in her own life. When hope seemed hidden, however, she encountered God. She tells us that she does not always recognize her times of darkness as grace-filled. “There are times when God seems absent in the darkness. There are times when I feel lost and even abandoned. But my journeys through the darkness have revealed God to me in ways that I could never have imagined.” She shares personal stories about dark times in her life and how she encountered God through the experiences. She invites us to embrace the darkness as an opportunity to experience the treasure of God’s love, presence, and power. Soughers invites us to explore several biblical stories in which darkness plays a major role, and each of the scripture readings offers a unique treasure in the darkness. Psalm 139:12 proclaims a powerful truth about God. “Even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.” God creates in darkness (Genesis 1). God gives us “life . . . the light of all people” in Jesus Christ (John 1:4). Abraham, Paul, Jacob, Job, Nicodemus, and Jesus encounter treasures from God in the darkness. As Soughers explores each biblical account, she offers a unique point of contact for contemporary Christians, treasures that can sustain us as we encounter darkness in our lives. Book contents contain: Prologue: Discovering Treasures in Darkness 1. Darkness is as Light to You (Psalm 139:7-12) 2. Let There Be Light: Creation and Creativity (Genesis 1:1-5) 3. Count the Stars: Hearing God's Promise (Genesis 15) 4. Who Are You? Overcoming our Blindness (Acts 9:1-19) 5. Why Have You Forsaken Me? Bringing Life Out of Death (Matthew 27:45-56) 6. Wrestling with God: Transformation (Genesis 32:22-32) 7. Listen to this Dream: Enlightenment through Dreams (Genesis 37:1-11; 41:1-36) 8. Out of the Whirlwind: God as Mystery (Job 3:1-8; 38:4-21) 9. How Can These Things Be? Being Born Again (John 3:1-10) 10. Gate of Heaven: Encountering God Where Least Expected (Genesis 28:10-22) 11. The Light Shines in the Darkness: God's Self-Revelation (John 1:1-15) 12. The Night Is as Bright as the Day (Psalm 139:7-12) Epilogue: Treasures of Darkness Each chapter includes questions for reflection and discussion.This book is ideal for use in local church book groups.

Daughter of Darkness
Daughter of Darkness

Author: V.C. Andrews

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-10-26

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1439181152

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Dangerously enticing and deliriously intoxicating, V.C. Andrews's Daughter of Darkness will leave readers thirsting for more. Beloved bestselling author V.C. Andrews’s passion for vampires comes to spellbinding life in a long-awaited novel of dark desires as all-consuming—and forbidden—as in Flowers in the Attic. One night, with the sound of a young man’s scream, high school senior Lorelei discovers that her stern but loving father, who adopted Lorelei and her sisters as infants, is no ordinary man. He has raised his beautiful girls for one purpose: to lure young men into their world of shadows. Like her sisters, Lorelei has been trained in the art of seduction and warned never to fall in love. But when she meets a handsome and charming classmate, she boldly defies her family and follows her heart—even if love is a poison...

Shapers of Darkness
Shapers of Darkness

Author: David B. Coe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1429911069

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The Forelands are at war. The magic-wielding Qirsi and their Eandi masters have mobilized their forces. The Eandi have had to look beyond past differences to make alliances for the sake of the future, praying it isn't too late for them to change the outcome of the war. Tavis, an Eandi prince who was framed for murdering the princess to whom he was pledged, and endured torture before winning his freedom, has at last avenged her death. Still, the murder and its aftermath have brought war to the Forelands just as the Qirsi conspirators who bought his love's blood had intended. Now Tavis and Grinsa, a Qirsi shaper with more powers than he reveals, who saved Tavis when nobody else would believe his innocence, venture across the Forelands, risking death to help save the land they love . . . A powerful Qirsi weaver has brought this terrible war to the land, bending the minds of those he controls and of his enemies in an effort to forge alliances and mobilize forces to destroy the Eandi. His powerful magical ability estranges lovers, betrays leaders, and wreaks murder and death throughout the land. But even with his powerfully malign intelligence, he underestimates the mettle of his opponents. In a psychological duel with Grinsa, the Weaver's formidable powers are sorely tested. Grinsa withstands the Weaver's most powerful attacks at nearly the expense of his own life, and in the process discovers the Weaver's identity. Will Grinsa's challenge to the Weaver spell the end of the Weaver's reign of doom? Or has Grinsa's discovery come too late to help the Eandi cause? The answers lie in the growing war that may sunder the Forelands forever.

LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS
LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS

Author: Temitayo Oyediran

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13:

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"Life in Christ Jesus" is a book inspired by the Holy Spirit. Its purpose is to guide and enlighten individuals within the body of Christ, helping them understand how to live the abundant life given to us by Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Reading this book can provide you with valuable insights and guidance on how to live a fulfilling life as a follower of Jesus Christ. This book is filled with wisdom and illumination that could help you understand the importance of reflecting Jesus Christ's life and teachings in your everyday activities. By doing so, you can enjoy the freedom and abundant blessings that come with living a new life in Christ Jesus. This is an excellent resource for those looking to deepen their faith and understanding of Jesus Christ.

Of Darkness and Light
Of Darkness and Light

Author: Wendy Erd

Publisher: University of Alaska Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1602233748

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This is the hardest kind of listening. / And who will care? / Most do not. / It’s all applause, / applause applause. / How is it possible / to ask for more than that? An honest work, stunningly passionate: Kim Cornwall’s spirit-infused poetry weaves family and myth—strong women, wild landscapes, the search for reconciliation in circumstances beyond control—in a radiant language of pain, solace, wonder, and gratitude. This remarkable first and last collection of poetry celebrates and chronicles the borderless area between joy and suffering, like breath after long submersion: for one must breech the surface/where what we most need/ lives.

Flames and Fated Mates
Flames and Fated Mates

Author: Bec McMaster

Publisher: Bec McMaster

Published: 2022-06-10

Total Pages: 2000

ISBN-13: 1925491692

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Welcome to the McMasterverse. Escape the ordinary with these six steamy first-in-series fantasy and paranormal romances, all contained in one amazing box set! From wicked fae princes to powerful dreki shifters, dangerous vampires, cursed alpha shifters, demons and sorcerers, there’s a McMaster hero to whet every fantasy romance reader’s appetite. If tales of fated mates, epic quests, fairy tales, forbidden romance, and enemies-to-lovers make you weak at the knees, then this box set is for you! Find the following in Flames and Fated Mates: PROMISE OF DARKNESS (Dark Court Rising #1) A fairy tale twist inspired by the Hades and Persephone myth. He was supposed to be a wicked prince. The enemy. But from the moment my mother was forced to gift me to him as part of a peace treaty, I knew he was meant to be mine.... When the Queen of Thorns sends her daughter, Iskvien, as war prize to an enemy prince, she puts a knife in Vi’s hand and tells her she could end the war between their two countries with one strike. But one look into this wicked fae prince’s eyes and Vi knows she’s no assassin. THIEF OF DREAMS (Court of Dreams #1) Twenty brides. One prince. Who will survive when the competition turns deadly? When Prince Keir of the Court of Dreams sends out a summons in search of a bride, the Wraith King sees a chance to steal the powerful Dragon's Heart. He sends his best thief, Zemira Az Ghul, to penetrate the court as one of the potential brides. Get in. Steal the relic. Don’t get chosen as his bride. Should be easy, right? HEART OF FIRE (Legends of the Storm #1) The old eddas speak of dreki—fabled creatures who haunt the depths of Iceland's volcanoes and steal away fair maidens. Prince Rurik intends to claim Freyja, but to do so he must take mortal form. It's the only time dreki are vulnerable, and with a dragon-hunter arriving on the shores of Iceland, he can barely afford the risk—but lonely Freyja, with her elf-cursed eyes and pragmatic soul, tempts him in ways he's never felt before. MISSION: IMPROPER (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #1) He promised her vengeance. She threatened to steal his heart instead…. Caleb Byrnes works best alone. The cold and brooding blue blood is the best tracker the Guild of Nighthawks has, and he rules the vampiric craving within him with an iron hand. Nobody escapes him. Nobody gets the better of him. And nobody has ever come close to unleashing the hunger within him. Until now…. Ingrid Miller is the one who got away. The passionate and fiery verwulfen bounty hunter once worked a case with him—and left him tied to his bed. Naked. When they’re partnered together on a new case, Byrnes finally sees his chance to have his revenge. He will have her in his bed and he will ruin her with his kisses, and vengeance will be so, so sweet. SHADOWBOUND (Dark Arts #1) When a powerful relic goes missing from a secret society, Ianthe Martin is charged with finding it at all costs. She needs help, but all clues point to someone on the inside being the thief. The only sorcerer she knows that can't possibly be involved is the very man she saw locked in Bedlam a year ago... When the seductive Miss Martin appears in his cell, Lord Rathbourne fears he's finally lost his mind. The devilish sorceress played a hand in his incarceration, and now she comes asking for help? Perhaps she should begin by begging for mercy... NOBODY’S HERO (Burned Lands #1) Cursed alpha shifter, Lucius Wade, lives only for revenge. But when he kidnaps Riley in order to lure an old friend into a trap, suddenly the tables are turned. Riley has no intentions of being bait, and she tempts him in ways he hasn't felt for a long time. He's never played the hero, but suddenly a part of him wants to…. One click now to dive into six seductive worlds and escape the ordinary!

Theory and the Novel
Theory and the Novel

Author: Jeffrey Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-12-03

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0521430399

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Narrative features such as frames, digressions, or authorial intrusions have traditionally been viewed as distractions from or anomalies in the narrative proper. In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams exposes these elements as more than simple disruptions, analysing them as registers of narrative reflexivity, that is, moments that represent and advertise the functioning of narrative itself. Williams argues that narrative encodes and advertises its own functioning and modal form. He takes a range of novels from the English canon - Tristram Shandy, Joseph Andrews, The Turn of the Screw, Wuthering Heights, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are amongst the novels examined - and shows how narrative technique is never beyond or outside plot. He poses a series of theoretical questions such as about reflexitivity, imitation and fictionality, to offer a striking and original contribution to readings of the English novel, as well as to discussions of theory in general.

PRINCE OF DARKNESS
PRINCE OF DARKNESS

Author: Kate Proctor

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1459284844

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A Secret Never To Be Told Ros Bryant had been abandoned as a baby. Now grown up, she was determined to unravel the mystery surrounding her childhood. But in searching for her past she found Damian Sheridan. He was tall, dark and dangerous, and held the key to everything Ros needed to know…. Ros discovered that the truth was never simple or easy. Was Damian going to believe that she was just an innocent pawn in a game of deceit?