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The thoughts you have when you're depressed come from the devil. And the good news for you is that the devil is a liar.Do you feel weighed down all the time? Perhaps, although you are a Christian and know you're going to heaven, your spiritual life seems mediocre at best. You know the Bible says to rejoice always, and you'd like to be living joyfully, but you just don't know how.In this sequel to How to Be Free from Bitterness, Jim Wilson returns to talk about how to deal with (and get rid of) depression, feelings of guilt, and problems with self-esteem. Many Christians feel like they are enslaved these sins, like there is no way out. But this is not true. The truth is that Christ has freed us from the penalty of sin and the power of sin. If you are a Christian, you are already free. Depression, guilt, low self-esteem-whatever your problem is, it can be put to death. "And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (John 8:32).

Africa was their home. Could they ever go back? Physical weakness coupled with civil unrest in the Ivory Coast had extended a six-month furlough to several years and threatened to derail the Leidenfrosts' plans to return to their beloved Africa and continue mission work with the Bakwé people. But now they were finally going home to their village...or so they thought. "On top of all this, a subtle grief over the loss of Africa continued to grip my heart. In my dismal state, I felt the clouds part and God's presence come down to touch His child. God saw the pain, the loneliness, the need, and was telling me that I was not forgotten. It was too easy to focus on my troubles. I needed to remember that His love is stronger, more real, than the pain I was suffering at that moment. Was I going to focus on His love, or on the pain?" Join Lisa Leidenfrost as she walks through trial after trial and learns to keep her eyes on God, whom she finds by her side through it all. This book is especially recommended for anyone experiencing a long-term health challenge or other hardship with an uncertain outcome.

God is good, all the time. Jim Wilson was born in 1927 and raised in a Depression-era farming family. At the age of sixteen, at the height of World War II, he became the primary breadwinner for his parents and four younger siblings. At age seventeen, eager to fight for his country, he enlisted in the Navy. Germany surrendered while he was in the recruiting office, and the war was over by the time he entered boot camp. But God had a plan for Jim Wilson in the U.S. Navy...Through adventures of sickness, poverty, hard work, and war, this is the story of God's provision and protection in the life of one Nebraska farm boy turned ardent evangelist. "For sixty years, Jim helped me apply my Christian faith to life-not through eloquence, power, or wealth but through a demonstrated commitment pointing the way to life's Source. This is the story of an American life well lived." - John Knubel, Lt. Cdr. USN Retired, Naval Academy Class of '62."My grandfather has been telling fantastic stories for as long as I can remember, and living them for far longer than that. His influence is a huge contributor to my own career as a story teller, and I'm incredibly grateful-for myself and my kids-that he found the energy to compile his life story in book form. Just one caution: don't go thinking he's a reliable narrator. He isn't. He undersells himself constantly, but only because his eyes are so firmly locked on the true Author, the One who wrote every one of these Jim Wilson stories while the concrete for time's foundation was still wet and churning in the trucks." - N.D. Wilson, author

Do you feel weighed down by sin? Is there one area where you keep tripping up? Or perhaps your spiritual life seems mediocre. You'd like to be living joyfully, but you just don't know how.

"To preach effectively the message of joy, we ourselves must find it springing up within our own hearts." - Paget WilkesDuring his time at Oxford, a friend asked Paget Wilkes one day, "I say, Paget, do you tackle everyone who comes into your rooms about his soul?" "Yes, ' answered Paget, "if he comes in alone."Wilkes was convinced that even the humblest Christian is responsible for bringing men to Christ. "If we have been forgiven and know it, if we have been made new creatures in Christ Jesus, then we...are commissioned to minister this same salvation unto men and to witness of all these things which Jesus our Savior has revealed to us. Hallelujah!"The primary need of the mission field today, as it was in Wilkes' time, "is not for a highly educated and cultured pastorate, but for red-hot evangelists, filled with the Spirit and with the Word." Join Wilkes as he expounds the living Christ from Scripture and reveals the power of the Holy Spirit to uphold and enable converts and evangelists alike.

There have probably been times in your life when you could say that your joy was full. Jesus is interested in this being your normal state of affairs. "These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full" (John 15:9-11). "Though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and...you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory" (1 Peter 1:8). In this collection of short meditations, Heather Torosyan explores the theme of joy in Scripture and discusses how it applies to our daily lives. This is not an academic treatise, but a study meant to encourage the reader-that you also may be filled with inexpressible, overflowing joy. Heather Wilson Torosyan was known for her overflowing joy in the Lord and her love for the lost. Heather was born in post-World War II Japan to Bessie, a Canadian missionary, and Jim, a U.S. naval officer who resigned his commission to enter full-time Christian work. Heather, too, pursued missions, serving in Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey before marrying Ararat Torosyan in Istanbul. God blessed them with three children and four grandchildren before Heather was called to her heavenly home to be with her beloved Lord and Savior in 2020.