When We Believed in Mermaids

When We Believed in Mermaids

Author: Barbara O'Neal

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781542004527

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From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth. Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news... Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It's what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit's world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions--grief, loss, and anger--that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who's been living a lie. After arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Of a lost teenage boy who'd become part of their family. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives. Now, if two sisters are to reunite, it can only be by unearthing long-buried secrets and facing a devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long. To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything.


Lies We Believe About God

Lies We Believe About God

Author: Wm. Paul Young

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1501101412

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From the author of the bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of twenty-eight assumptions about God—assumptions that just might be keeping us from experiencing His unconditional, all-encompassing love. In his wildly popular novels, Wm. Paul Young portrayed the Triune God in ways that challenged our thinking—sometimes upending long-held beliefs, but always centered in the eternal, all-encompassing nature of God’s love. Now, in Wm. Paul Young’s first nonfiction book, he invites us to revisit our assumptions about God—this time using the Bible, theological discussion, and personal anecdotes. Paul encourages us to think through beliefs we’ve presumed to be true and consider whether some might actually be false. Expounding on the compassion fans felt from the “Papa” portrayed in The Shack—now a major film starring Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer—Paul encourages you to think anew about important issues including sin, religion, hell, politics, identity, creation, human rights, and helping us discover God’s deep and abiding love.


Why We Believe What We Believe

Why We Believe What We Believe

Author: Andrew Newberg

Publisher: Free Press

Published: 2006-09-12

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780743274975

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Draws on neurobiological and societal research to present a scientific analysis of how the brain perceives and transforms reality into a wide range of personal, moral, creative, and spiritual beliefs.


The Hour I First Believed

The Hour I First Believed

Author: Wally Lamb

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 0061980315

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New York Times Bestseller The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True “The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience. . . . Lamb’s wonderful novel offers us the promise and power of hope.” —Miami Herald When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Connecticut to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm back east. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues. In The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.


Why We Believe in God(s)

Why We Believe in God(s)

Author: J. Anderson Thomson

Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0984493239

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In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious belief. Dr. Thomson, a highly respected practicing psychiatrist with credentials in forensic psychiatry and evolutionary psychology, methodically investigates the components and causes of religious belief in the same way any scientist would investigate the movement of astronomical bodies or the evolution of life over time—that is, as a purely natural phenomenon. Providing compelling evidence from psychology, the cognitive neurosciences, and related fields, he, with Ms. Aukofer, presents an easily accessible and exceptionally convincing case that god(s) were created by man—not vice versa. With this slim volume, Dr. Thomson establishes himself as a must-read thinker and leading voice on the primacy of reason and science over superstition and religion.


Have You Received the Holy Ghost Since You Believed?

Have You Received the Holy Ghost Since You Believed?

Author: Lennox Anthony Blaides

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1438914768

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Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed is a book written to challenge the spirituality of every believer; for not everyone that says 'I believe' is a true believer. This book will take you to another step in your spiritual walk and cause you to examine the scriptures in greater depth with clearer insight. This topic has brought much debate in church circles, and though it is not an issue that should cause division, it has given way to factions even in the smallest of congregations. You will be introduced to a man who believed but may not have received the Holy Ghost. I also speak of the baptism of John, the baptism of Jesus and the baptism by the Holy Spirit. Some Christians are still in doubt about the baptism by the Holy Spirit as taught in 1st Corinthians 12:13. Topics in this book include: Signs of the Baptism Role of the Comforter Is it possible to believe and not receive? The Waiting period As many as Believe He gave power and more... I also give my testimony how the Lord saved me and my family from destruction; it will surely break your heart. This book is a must read. Thank you for reading about the book.


Because I Believed in Me (My Egyptian Fantasy Came True)

Because I Believed in Me (My Egyptian Fantasy Came True)

Author: Randi D. Ward

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1477289178

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BECAUSE I BELIEVED IN ME (MY EGYPTIAN FANTASY CAME TRUE) is a love story of Egypt and Egyptians. An ordinary American woman traveled to Cairo alone to teach and had the greatest adventure of her life. She went there to enable young Egyptians to become more fluent in English, but she became a student again herself. She learned to become an Egyptian woman and to survive successfully in a culture so different from hers. What she learned, experienced, and enjoyed in the Land of the Pharoahs is captured in her own words and emotions. She shares her many exciting adventures, her interesting but sometimes difficult daily life, her incredible teaching experience, and her students and her many friendships formed there plus her new and profound insights and understanding of Islam-once an extremely unfamiliar faith to her-and its true meaning. The reader will hopefully share her passion for a country that has now become like her second home and for its people who have become like her family.


Did You Receive the Holy Spirit When You Believed? (Acts 19:2)

Did You Receive the Holy Spirit When You Believed? (Acts 19:2)

Author: Bob McArthur

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2011-06-08

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1449715087

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Do you know how to lead someone to Christ? This book will make you think again. Do you know the gospel message? Do you know the purpose for church leaders? Are you fully birthed into the family of God? Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? Think again. That is what this book will challenge you to do. The Rev. Paul Hoyt, a retired Church of the Nazarene pastor, said of the book, My mind is being challenged and stretched. The question is simply, What does the Bible say about how New Testament believers became Christians? What were their experiences, and what does the Bible say they believed and understood about those experiences? This book will challenge you to rethink commonly held positions and universally understood practices and beliefs. Dont be alarmed. This book is completely Jesus-focused. The age-old biblical truths about Christ are not being challenged. Jesus is God, the second person of the triune Godhead, born of a virgin, crucified and resurrected bodily and spiritually to new life. His blood cleanses mankind of all sin, no one comes to God except through Him, and the Bible is the Word of God. But the evangelistic message and experiences of the Bible of those early believers about this saving Jesus should correspond to the thought and practice of present-day evangelism. The disparity, however, might surprise you. This book will help the Church get back to a New Testament evangelism that has somehow been lost along the way.


Everything I Believed

Everything I Believed

Author: Jennifer Suzanne

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1460288068

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From the outside, it seems like Sam Davis has it all: a successful actress, singer, and songwriter, she's earned the respect and adoration of Hollywood and legions of fans. But her parents' recent deaths have left her devastated and with the responsibility of raising her elevenyear-old brother. Not to mention the return of her childhood love, who's come back to town intent on picking up where they left off. While her career is taking off, it appears as if Sam's personal life is falling apart. Danny Gallo, famous movie star, director, and producer - charming and gallant - sweeps Sam off her feet and teaches her about love, trust, and faith. But trusting Danny with her tragic past is not easy for Sam, and she can't help but push him away. Leaning on her friends, Sam tries to heal her heart. But in the face of such unspeakable grief and loss, will Sam be able to let her guard down and finally trust again?...