God is still quite alive and active in our lives today. He will share with those who seek him, for God wants his children to know him intimately. As you read the thoughts found in this book, you will see that you are surrounded by Gods love as you live your day-to-day life. While some of the articles are funny, others are a bit more challenging. However, all are meant to be thought-provoking, and all are meant to lead you back to God, back to Jesus, and back to the things of God.
You know how you go through everyday life and it is the little things that need to be changed? This book will help you get past those little things. It is the little pieces in your daily walk that will lead to life-changing and great accomplishments. Sharing is giving. When I was little, my father would pick me up from school, and when I got in his car, he would pull out his lunch pail and out came a candy bar. My father would share his favorite candy bar, almond joy bar, with me. That is what we need to do with God. We need to share bits and pieces with one another. This book will be a life-changing tool that you can apply in your daily living.
Do you wonder why we are to be the salt of the earth? Have you stopped to think God gave us the gifts he wanted us to have and the ability to use them? Would you like to know how being absent from the body is to be present with the Lord helps with the loss of loved ones? In A Deeper Walk in God’s Love, author Dottie Burdette writes about God, the things of God, and what God shares with her and asks her to share with the world. In this, her second book, she encourages you to dig deeper into God’s word, creating a hunger to know God and his ways more intimately. Written in a devotional style, A Deeper Walk in God’s Love, reveals God’s love for us through Burdette’s experiences in her quiet time, in prayer time, and through his word.
This book is entitled Odds, Ends, Tidbits & Pieces of the Bread of Life from the Master's Table. The title of the book just about summarizes everything that's in the book. The book consists of a group of small articles concerning love, grace, mercy, peace, joy, comfort, and more. I've also added some cute little snippy sayings that sort of fit Christian living and will cause you to pause and ponder what I've put in the book. Being a Christian is like a billboard: I'm out there for the whole world to see! JUST READ AND ENJOY IT! I was born on May 31, 1924 in Columbus, Georgia. I joined the U.S. Navy in 1941 and met and married Joyce Attebery in December 1945. In 1950 I enlisted in the U.S. Army. After retirement, in July 1975, my wife suffered a stroke. Suddenly, while my wife was in a coma, I remembered, God is the great healer. I started to pray. God heard and answered my prayers, but I continued my life of sin. After nine months, the Spirit of God came to me and I made a definite and positive commitment to live for God by inviting Jesus Christ into my life. Since then I have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and been blessed with this amazing poetry, parables and other writings.
Author Deb Valainis has always felt the need to write even from an early age. When asked to write the children's messages for her church to present during their Sunday morning worship services, Deb was honored. As she sat to write each week's message, she felt each one to be God-inspired with each one being tied to Bible scriptures. She was pleasantly surprised to see that the messages seemed to have such a positive impact on children and adults alike. An animated storyteller, Deb made each story come alive, often using props and hands-on interaction with the children. Oftentimes, individuals would ask her where she acquired her stories and how people might get copies of them. She was encouraged to put them into a book format for others to share and enjoy. So having accumulated quite a large number of these messages or short stories, Deb was finally convinced to combine a few of them into this first book in the hopes that they might serve to inspire others. Whether used as a story time aid or as part of a family devotional, her hope and prayer is that they will encourage others to read their Bibles each day, as they seek a closer relationship with God and strive to follow His teachings. 3
In today’s society couched in secularism, relativism, and general moral decline, many people may have lost a sense of sin and are struggling to embrace the importance of spiritual healing. Thankfully God always welcomes us back to experience God’s merciful and healing love. In an uplifting and deeply spiritual presentation, retired priest William Kremmell underscores a basic truth of Christian faith: that our God is a God of unconditional, all-embracing love and forgiveness for all people, revealed in Jesus. Throughout his study, Father Kremmell examines why God’s love is everlasting, why we are all sinners, the major reasons why Catholics do not approach the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and the reasons why they should return to this grace-filled experience—all while helping believers find a healthy sense of sin, a new appreciation of the God who is love, and a better understanding of the Sacrament as a sign of God’s merciful presence and life-giving power in our lives. It’s All about God’s Love is a retired priest’s exploration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and why it needs to be renewed and restored as an integral element of the spiritual journey of today’s Catholic.
How often do you truly see that life is full of everyday blessings from God? Our Creator is present in our lives—even when we don’t realize it—and it is part of His plan that we have friendship and relationship with Him. So how does one live life with God, the omnipotent, omniscient Creator of all? In Tidbits and Pearls, Ladonna Shanks shares incidents from her life, recounting them in a way that touches the heart and enriches the lives of those who read these personal stories. Her insights and lessons learned offer profound yet simple wisdom, gleaned from her seventy-plus years of life experience. Many of her essays focus on her family—her children and “grandgirls”—as well as her personal gardening business. Her faith shines through the narrative as a shining light for others to follow. Humankind was created to have a relationship with their Creator, and everyday life presents the opportunities for that to occur. Tidbits and Pearls is one woman’s record of how God manifests himself in daily life, with the challenge to look beyond the physical and seek the spiritual aspect of life. So take the first step in this journey and be honest with yourself and with God, for you are His instrument, and without Him you can do nothing.
