As coffee revives the soul, God's Word revives our spirits. With humor and conversational style, this verse-by-verse study offers meaty insights that will satisfy the spirit and quench the soul. Each Morning Coffee devotional includes a verse or two from the book of James, a few paragraphs of study and application, a prayer, and more!
Full-time Air Force recruiter and part-time youth pastor, Robb Jones's world was filled with people looking for answers, a better tomorrow, or a brighter future. Overwhelmed with negativism magnified by social media, he found himself seeking a way to make a difference. One morning, enjoying coffee with his friend Alberto, he asked a question. Realizing social media had somehow replaced his grandpa's morning paper, "What if every day it provided something positive or inspirational?" He pondered writing a blog each morning to inspire, encourage, or teach others utilizing the Word of God. New Year's Eve 2013, during prayer, Robb was inspired by the Holy Spirit and committed to spend each morning communing with God. He vowed to take his morning inspiration to social media in the form of a daily post. January 1, 2014, the journey began. Over the next 365 days, Robb awoke early, made coffee, and sought inspiration from the Holy Spirit. Posts were personal, inspirational, and often, educational. Some were reflections of past experiences and some were miniature Bible studies. Many included dissection of the written Word and breaking down scriptures over several days. On January 1, 2015, the journey concluded. Morning Coffee is not just a collection of scriptures to jump-start your day. It is a real-life journey of a military man walking with God and sharing his experience with the world. It is a man up before the sun, praying, looking for inspiration, and writing before putting on his uniform to go to work. It is personal, inspirational, and educational. Most of all, it is real. It was the most difficult, sacrificial year of his life. It was never intended to be a book; it was only intended to be a tool for God to use to reach the hearts of His people. Hometown: Date of Birth: Heathsville, Virginia September 30, 1971 Place of Birth: Education: Mountain Home AFB, Idaho Columbia Southern University
WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE TO HAVE MORNING COFFEE WITH GOD? What would it be like to meet with him every morning, enjoy his magnificent presence, and have the opportunity to ask him all the questions about any subject you have ever wanted to know? And to have him answer with great depth and detail, and a wonderful sense of humor. God (who asked Michael Dennis to refer to him as Mr. Divine) said that he wished he could communicate with everyone. To quote him, "I am as real to you as your capacity to receive me is, and your capacity is much greater than you can ever begin to imagine". But is it real? Or just a series of vivid dreams? That is for you, the reader, to decide. As Michael says, There is much more truth to so-called fantasy than people realize. So what is reality and what is fantasy? Discover extensive insights on the complex subjects: Love Your soul Creation Past lives Transcendence Other worlds Healing Magic Fear Anger Hatred Mourning And more
In this day and age, it can be hard to find things to keep our faith strong. We're so distracted by the minor things in life, television, money, work, we forget to focus on the major things, like our spiritual well-being. God for Today helps you overcome that problem. It relates God with things in our everyday lives, like credit cards, trees, and mail. These simple, overlooked things become reminders of God's presence in our lives. In just a handful of minutes, items like these can become powerful tokens of our connection to God. This Christian book is intended to be used as a daily devotional, so you can receive the reminder multiple times. It contains twenty days of ways to relate the life we have, to the God that has given us that life. God for Today is a very practical, non-religious book that will teach you to see God in the smallest things in your everyday life.
On Dee Branch’s first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to leave “for just a minute”—and he came back to the car with a corpse. Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming southern gentleman when he passed away suddenly in 2007. Determined to carry on Johnnie’s work, Dee earned her mortuary science degree, only to find herself no longer needed in the family business. So Dee crossed the racial divide in the most segregated industry in America and joined the staff of an African-American funeral home as a single white woman. In The Undertaker’s Wife, Oliver draws from her wealth of experience to provide candid and often hysterically funny advice on dying well and surviving the loss of those who have gone before. Her insights on the common ground of grief, survival, and the ever-present faithfulness of God (to all of us, regardless of our race, religious upbringing, or socio-economic background) will help readers prepare for one of life’s only certainties—and do it with wisdom, grace, and a healthy dose of joy.
Scott Seay and Brandon Russo are chasing down legendary creatures, one monster at a time! Scott, a cryptozoologist photographer, is on the trail again, this time following the legends of Sasquatch into the mountains of West Virginia. Brandon, still an unbeliever, has some vacation time coming up and enjoys hiking, so he accompanies his lover, along with a small group of Sasquatchers, in search of the elusive Bigfoot. On their trek through the mountains, Scott and Brandon hear tales of other close encounters, deal with a pair of snobby lumbersexuals, and find mysterious hairs tangled in the underbrush. When the weather turns foul, and the group has to make it down the mountainside in front of a dangerous storm, will legends come to life? All they know is something is following them down the trail ... something with very bad intentions ...
Take a new journey through the Bible you thought you knew. They may not be quite as you remember them, but each story in this ingenious collection—some whimsical, some serious—finds its roots in a close reading of the Bible and interpretations of it that originated centuries ago. Take a look through God's telescope and see how it all really happened: What was it like to be in Joseph’s sandals as his brothers sold him into Egyptian slavery? How did Esther use her pretty face as a tool to save the Hebrew people? And what in the name of ... well, you know who ... happened to the unicorns included on the ark’s original passenger manifest? Your guide will be a sassy angel named Gabriella. The territory you cover will be familiar. But the questions and insights that these clever, profound stories will prompt you to grapple with—may surprise you. Biblical characters explored include: Adam • Eve • Cain • Abel • Noah • Sarah • Abraham • Isaac Jacob • Esau • Joseph • Moses • Jonah • Mordechai • Haman • Esther Ahasuerus • Naomi • Ruth •Samson • Delilah • David
What impossibly big dream or impossibly big failure is God calling you to take a journey circling around the promise and to fail better? Sharing inspiring human experiences from her own journey to fail better in prison, Anmy Tran will help you uncover your heart’s deepest desires and God-given promises and unbridle them through the kind of audacious communication that God delights to give you the desire of your heart. Hidden in ancient biblical stories and scriptures from the Old and New Testaments, the mysteries of promises revealed in To Fail Better are as raw as a reality show because they are the omens of the present; the scriptures revealed the secret is here in the present. If attention is paid to the present, it can be improved upon. And if the present is improved, what comes later will also be better. The revelations are so specific that you can forget about the future and walk each day in the scriptures, confident that God’s love always prevails and his promises to his children are always fulfilled—it’s real. Written in an absorbing narrative style, To Fail Better opens with the appearance of a woman burdened with unexpected storm. Through it are a series of messages she has received in the form of travel photography through a pen. Each travel unveils a failure and a prophetic mystery concerning failing better that will change the way one sees living forever. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure” (Paulo Coelho).