Life is all about the choices we make. Make good ones and you do yourself a huge favor. Make crummy ones and, well, you've got problems. Bad choices result in a life of more than your fair share of bad days. This book won't tell you what to do, but it just might keep you from making a terrible mistake in life that would derail your pursuit of happiness. The person you decide to marry, the career you pursue, even the friendships you choose to invest in these are some of life's biggest decisions, yet many are made far too casually. Dr. Ralph Carter has spent decades trying to point people in a direction that would enable them to live life well to make fewer mistakes to live life, as the writer of Proverbs puts it, "skillfully." The key to living such a life is to make good choices. It's not rocket science, nor is it dumb luck. So are you going to start choosing well? You make the call.
Come Now, Let Us Reason Together is a daily devotional guide and food for thought from the scriptures. It is also a resource for church bulletin articles, short devotional talks, and ideas that could develop into sermons. Besides 365 daily devotionals, there are a number of thoughts that relate to special occasions and holidays.
Learn when to say yes and how to say no in the context of your marriage relationship. In Boundaries in Marriage, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries, teach us that healthy boundaries are the property lines that define and protect you and your spouse as individuals. Once you have them in place, a good marriage can become better, and a less-than-satisfying one can even be saved. Boundaries in Marriage will give you the tools and encouragement you need to: Set and maintain personal boundaries and respect those of your spouse Understand and practice two key ingredients to a successful marriage: freedom and responsibility Establish values that form a godly structure and architecture for your marriage Protect your marriage from different kinds of "intruders" Work with a spouse who understands and values boundaries--or with one who doesn't It's time to deepen your love by providing a better environment for it to flourish, and Drs. Cloud and Townsend are here to help. Discover how boundaries can make life better today!
Have you ever felt like life is getting away from you? We all know what it is to sometimes feel like mere passengers along for the ride, victims of circumstances outside of our control. In this striking work of self-help literature, author Raymond Ngaiza takes up arms against this familiar feeling, showing the myriad ways we determine the course of our lives through the choices we make, whether they be personal or professional, big or small. Inspired by his own experiences of career and lifestyle changes in leaving his training for priesthood, going back to school, taking up writing, and becoming a husband and father, Ngaiza draws on a fascinating array of religious and secular texts—as well as politics, pop culture, and his own life—to show us how we can make the difference in our lives and in the world. Careful to examine all sorts of important dynamics that may come into play in decision-making—from being met with a lack of choice or its overwhelming abundance to the methods by which we actually execute our decisions, to the issues that may follow our choice-making, such as proverbial buyer’s remorse—Choice is a powerful wake-up call to readers everywhere, reminding us that we can and should become masters of our destinies.
This book was written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Inspired in the Hebrew is Theopneustos, which means the very breath of God. As you read from the pages of this book, know that they encompass the inspired Word of God.
One thing a parent should never have to deal with is the death of a child. When your child dies, your life, as you have known it, ends. Once the initial grief has past, we all have choices to make. How are we going to deal with this huge change in our lives? Do we curl up into a fetal position and stay there, nursing our grief, for the rest of our lives or do we take a deep breath and move forward. I cannot help you with the first option but, maybe, I can help you with the second. Anatomy of Grief chronicles the path we took back to life. I know you cannot follow that same path, but am hoping my experiences will help you to see that there is a way back. I am also hoping to shorten the time you spend in the grip of grief by teaching you how to open your mind and follow your heart.
The perfect gift for the Angels in your life. A book to be treasured forever. Personal protectors…divine messengers…pure spirit…seraphim and cherubim…agents of God. We all have a notion of what angles are and what they should look like. We’ve seen angels portrayed in paintings, sculpture, movies, and TV. But even with hundreds of books and TV shows on angels, is there something about them we’ve missed? The Secret Strength of Angels is about the remarkable qualities that angels possess and what we humans can do to emulate them in our own lives here on earth. What’s secret about these virtues is not so much what these angel strengths are, but the idea that we can penetrate the shroud of mystery that surrounds them and identify very specific attributes–seven in particular–that we can make a part of our own personalities once we understand and appreciate them. This may come as a surprise to some. Even those of us who do believe in angels have traditionally thought of them as belonging to another realm, pure spirit, sometimes impish, sometimes heroic, agents of God, our personal protectors. We have been encouraged to model ourselves after elders deserving of respect, remarkable figures in history, saints. But this may be the first time that anyone has considered angels themselves as models for human behavior. The Secret Strength of Angels reminds us that it is not what angels are that is important, but rather what they do. Angels travel the world protecting people, performing altruistic acts, and making life better for those around them. In fact, there are seven specific strengths that angels exhibit, which Dr. Flach reveals: ■ The freedom to choose ■ The power of knowing ■ Love and generosity ■ Communicating ■ A mission to guide and protect ■ Healing and helping ■ A mission to become a more spiritual person Written with quiet confidence and authority, The Secret Strength of Angels provides a unique guide to confronting the day to day in the healthiest manner possible. Whether it helps you heal old wounds and change your behavior, or merely confirms what you already know, The Secret Strength of Angels is thought-provoking and interesting, and contains a message that can appeal to anyone. For every Angel on Earth.
Who are you and how do you know? This statement should invoke some deep feelings within all of us. Your life is only a shadow of what it should be and needs to be. You may be one of the millions of people who are caught in the web of the lie that has taken countless people hostage. The lie holds people in bondage throughout our world today. Now is the time to break free from the effects of this deception and start the journey to find out who you truly are. This provocative book is sure to inspire critical thinking as the war for truth is raged not only for your mind, but your soul. Gary goes through several aspects of what the lie is to how it has been allowed to propagate since it first entered the world. What is the lie? Find out in The Greatest Lie Ever Told. Author Gary Hamer lives in Greensburg, Indiana, with his wife and son. He graduated with an associate degree from Indiana Wesleyan University in 1997. The author's first book, Visionary Living, was published in 2007 and was instrumental in his breaking into mainstream revelation. Please visit our website at spiritual411.org.
In the past decades, work has changed dramatically. Yet we are still sent into the new world of work with old, outdated tools, expectations, and strategies. This leaves us ill-equipped in our pursuit of meaningful work that will impact our communities and change the world. The result? Unmet expectations and unfulfilled longings. Not to mention curiosity about how to do the work we sense God calling us to. Make Work Matter provides a blueprint for a better future. Filled with stories and insights from faithful entrepreneurs and built on solid research, this book will help you - discover what God is calling you to do in a changing world - define where you are in this season of work - embrace what the Bible says (and doesn't say) about calling - develop a mindset and habits suited for the new world of work - reflect on and work out ways that sustain you on the journey It's time to close the gap between what you're doing now and the meaningful work you desire to accomplish. This book will help you chart your own way forward.
Too many financial obligations make the juicy things in life harder to have.Options, on the other hand, make them all possible.You get to pick.ONO is delicious and available to anyone at any income level. ONO will teach you the mastery levels of Family First Entrepreneurial thinking which will create options in your life. It will show you how to maintain a work-life balance.ONO gives busy moms and dads the permission they need to love their families more than their jobs-yet still create financial independence.Our children spell love T-I-M-E. Sadly, we have to buy that time.ONO will show you how. If you're tired of not having a plan that shows promise of breaking loose from the burden of life's financial obligations, you want ONO.At the end of life it will be the people we love, the places we saw, and how we grew as humans that we will remember.ONO will be your blueprint to create the time and money for all of these.
