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Ash Lancaster is a farmer who has lost his wife and struggles to raise his young son alone. Greta Jorgenson is a widow with a son also, and when Ash's son needs a tutor, the school chooses her for the job. It doesn't take long for her and Ash to be at odds with each other, however, as she encourages young Chase to learn more about the very sport that Ash doesn't want him to be involved with. To make matters worse, Greta is a committed Christian who makes God seem very appealing to his son. The school wants his son to improve his reading, but all Ash wants is to be left alone by everyone, including God. As his past is slowly uncovered, Ash is forced to come to terms with his life and to decide how to go on with his future. Greta is also affected by the tutoring arrangement as she finds herself falling in love with a man who keeps his distance from everyone. Can she help Chase without hurting herself? Brenda Stacy Mastromonaco lives on Martha's Vineyard Island with her husband and son, whom she home schools. Margaret's Kitchen is her first published novel.

Does innocence outweigh guilt when one violates the law if doing so benefits the greater moral good? This is put to the test when Jake, a young successful civil engineer, completes his project in a West African diamond-laden country and opens his luggage in London and finds that it is not his and that it contains smuggled contraband diamonds. He knows immediately that a Middle East diamond smuggling operation has gone awry with him ending up with the illicit goods, and that the violent cartel’s interest will be in retrieving their lost cache. The country of Sierra Leone, known for its diamonds and nefarious smuggling operations, is also a land where his late venerated grandfather served as a mission doctor. The gravity of possessing illicit contraband forces Jake to wrestle with his conscience over the moral dilemma of surrendering the diamonds to corrupt authorities or violate English law by returning them to the country of origin in the form of a hospital. The weight of innocence in using the diamonds for the hospital project becomes greater than the guilt of breaking the law. When he chooses to keep the diamonds for the greater good, events unfold that change his life forever: the meeting of two beautiful women in London who come to his aid and staying one-step ahead of the smugglers and the law.  After several violent attempts by the smugglers to retrieve the diamonds, he seeks advice and help from a beautiful Nefertiti-looking Sierra Leonean barrister practicing in London, whose late mother is English. Jake is a prodigal, the barrister a saint. The unreachable saintly barrister becomes the challenge for Jake, both emotionally and professionally.  To market the smuggled rough diamonds, Jake joins forces with an enchanting Nordic beauty, a prodigal like himself, whose experience is extensive in the diamond industry. Of the two women, one makes him millions for the hospital project in Africa with the rough, uncut diamonds, the other leads him back to the faith he rejected as a youth.

This is a story of two families living comfortable lives. Trials come to each of them, and they are faced with very real issues of life and death, joy and sadness, sickness and loss as well as decisions concerning marriage and most importantly, the decision to trust the all-sufficient Savior - or to refuse Him. This is a book of action, love, choices and decisions. It shares happiness, failure, love, enjoyment, loss and gain. It includes physical and spiritual victories as well as failures. It shares the lives of those who have never thought to include God in their plans.  Neurosurgeon John Allen, his wife Laura and their son, Jonathan, live on Cape Cod, MA. Bill Sanders is a well-known lawyer who lives with his wife, Martha, and two daughters, Judith and Brittany, on Beacon Hill in Boston. The interaction of these two families, along with the friends who share their joys and sorrows, provide the background for this true-to-life story. Chaplain Will Garrett clearly lives to do the work of God. Through young David Wilkerson, the son of missionaries, the gospel is made real to these families. There is acceptance. There is also refusal. But in the end, each one has to decide where to run when faced with calamity, and where to find peace in the storms of life. The answers are given in the book, but an individual response is demanded.

World War II left thousands of New Zealander families without husbands and fathers when they answered the call to serve in the ANZACS military. Many of them owned working cattle or sheep stations where tremendous responsibilities fell on the young shoulders of sons and daughter left behind. Nineteen year old Matthew Patton is no exception, but as well as his deceased father he is now facing the stark reality of raising his brothers and sisters when his terminally ill mother also passes. Finally reaching a desperate moment of need he is encouraged to seek help from a young Aussie governess looking for a new post. There is just one problem. The letter he composes and sends her is written as though it were penned by his father. Matthew is painfully aware she may come, realize he has lied to her and leave immediately as did the other prospective but undesirable governesses. But nothing prepares him for the tenacious personality of Srenna Adelaide James when she not only excepts the position but attacks the young orphaned family's needs with a zeal unlike anything he has ever experienced. In spite of their rocky beginning the two find themselves facing the daunting every day challenges of five children, 1200 acres of land and 1500 sheep. Their greatest test will be their budding relationship as they learn to love, heal, forgive and trust ultimately in the God who never missed a single step they took.

Can you imagine what it must be like to stand in the presence of God? The Gospels give us stories of that very thing. All through the Gospels people found themselves face to face with God in the form of Jesus Christ. As the encounters developed, the people found themselves confronted with their needs and desires. Jesus was ready to do something about their needs. He was not only ready, but he had the authority and power.  Lives were changed by these encounters with Jesus. The people who encountered Jesus were asked to believe and let their lives be changed. Not all did that. As we read the stories of encounters with Jesus, we may find our own stories in there somewhere. As Jesus moved through the days of his ministry, the blind were able to see. The lame were able to walk. People gave up their old ways for new life. The hungry ate. People who were dead were given life. As we read these stories, we can ask ourselves a question, “Does Jesus still do these things?” It is up to you to read about the encounters and decide for yourselves.

Three men, three events, where each finds his place within the rapidly unfolding system that was foretold of so long ago. As the world prepares to go its own way in defiance of the biblical God, each learns the truth of those biblical prophecies. As events that have taken decades, if not centuries, to be set in motion, each man faces his situation as the events play out.  Stan Robinson begins a typical Sunday morning with his wife. Something in the world around them seems more alive, though they are at a loss for what.  John Hernandez, struggling in a dark and dangerous world, seeks only safety and peace for himself and his family. John learns what it means to find the merciful Lord of the Bible, even as the world begins to experience the wrath of that same God.  Living a life of peace, farming the rich and revitalized mid-western lands of America, Benjamin is able to leave the darkest period ever experienced by the world of man behind. Still, Benjamin carries the scars of those lost years, with memories that rise up from time to time. Memories of the day when the light returned to a world without hope. The day when the armies of heaven finally put down the forces that had subjugated the entire world. The day when Christ returned to take His place on the prophesied throne.

Gallop off to another century in this action-filled adventure that crosses two continents. Set in the 1850’s and 60’s, Vladimir is a hunter who becomes the hunted. Come with Vlad on attacks in the Russian Army, follow him to Alaska, cross the pristine wilderness of the Alaskan frontier and the Canadian west, and thrill to danger in the American Civil War. Enjoy the beauty of the wild Alaskan-Canadian wilderness with gold-filled creeks, breathtaking vistas, and abundant wildlife, where man was not always at the top of the food chain. See how a young woman intrigues and captivates Vlad as they fall in love. Through this epic tale, see how faith, perseverance, and love overcome all barriers.

Are you overwhelmed by debt? In over your head? Don't know where to go or what to do? Feel like you have no plan for the future and that your creditors are attacking you left and right? Do you just look at finances and purchases with a blind eye hoping that the numbers will work themselves out? Then this is your guidebook. "Christian in Crisis" provides practical and Biblically based solutions to those drowning in debt with guidance from an expert on numerous issues and situations. It is also an excellent financial guide to those not yet in debt, with key insights into the workings of the debt market and how to avoid the pitfalls and snares which creditors so willingly allow us to fall into in our modern financial world. The text deals systematically and proactively with the most common financial situations facing Christians and non Christians alike today. Do you have what it takes to become debt savvy?!!! You do, but each and every purchase you make and each paycheck you receive is either one step closer toward financial freedom or financial crisis. "Christian in Crisis" provides a chapter by chapter guide to the most common problems and situations facing those in financial trouble today. The text explores how one gets into debt, how to budget your way out of debt and what to do when you are sued or feel the walls are collapsing in around you. Guidelines for buying a car and a home are just a few of the many topics delved into with numerous rules of thumb on how to make wise choices when facing the many common financial choices facing consumers today. We live in a world which looks at your credit score as it as if it were a modern Rock Star or Idol if you will. But our Idol should not be our credit score but the Lord. With a focus towards the wisdom of Solomon, the trials of Job and the teachings of our Lord Jesus, you too can escape debt's hold and be free, debt free!

Sherman is a happy little hamster who has a wonderful human and a cozy home. He loves spending his days running on his wheel and cuddling with his best friend, Henry. But, what happens when Henry is gone and Sherman is left to face a scary thunderstorm alone in his cage? Will Sherman learn to conquer his fear?  Join Sherman and his animal family in this compassionate story of hope and bravery. Sherman and the Storm is a furry tale of faith and friendship, and a warm-hearted reminder that there is a hero in all of us.

Secret Suicide transports the reader into the mind of a surviving wife. One Saturday afternoon while the kids were home watching a movie and she was drinking a cup of Starbucks coffee during a summer rainstorm, her husband, with no warning whatsoever, committed suicide. In an effort to protect her children, she decided to cover up the suicide and lie to EVERYONE. This bizarre true story describes the life events that lead up to the suicide, the grim discovery, her lies, understanding why and her healing process.   Although she feels alone, suicide among grown men is an epidemic. She is confident that she is not the only woman out there who is lying to protect her children and her husband’s legacy. This story is an honest depiction of the wake of destruction that is left behind when family members take their own lives. Feel her honestly and raw emotion.

Fifteen years after sending her college sweetheart off to Vietnam, Barbara Mayfield travels to a reunion of her Colorado alma mater, hoping that time has not run out for her. All she has are memories of Rick Jenkins, the California surfer boy who vagrantly stole her heart and left her tearfully standing at the station. Their adventures take them from the white slopes of the Rockies to the wild surf of the Pacific.   But the war is not the only obstacle separating the couple. Their differing spiritual views often cause a rift in their relationship. Barbara must decide if she can forget the past and trust God enough for her future—with or without Rick.

The mantra of the New Age Religion says all men are gods. It is the same lie the Serpent told Eve in the Garden of Eden. “Eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and you shall be as gods,” he said.   A time travel experiment opens a window on the events of Easter week and an opportunity for the New Age scoffers to prove Christianity is a hoax. Modern technology sends a team of five time travelers back to the trial, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ. Did Jesus die on the cross and did he arise from the grave? Is the central tenet of Christianity true or was His body stolen by His disciples to perpetuate the biggest hoax in history?   Would the Time Travelers observations destroy the faith of millions and swell the ranks of New Age Religions? The witnesses return to tell the truth and breathe new life into an age old story and bring the message to a weary world that Christ’s return to Earth is imminent.

Teenagers John and Kaitlyn Rivers have a simple life in their 1870s outpost, running their family's general store for the surrounding communities and operating the stagecoach stop. But one stormy night, the stage's visit is anything but ordinary. Kidnappings, attacks, and shady characters change a usually boring existence into a fight for life.  Confronted with their past, John and Kaitlyn begin to unravel a mystery that left them survivors of not one, but two kidnapping attempts. Their questions uncover facts different than the truth they had always believed. Now they have to decide whom to trust - and the lives of those they care about depend on it.  The Vanishing Kidnapper follows John and Kaitlyn's harrowing adventures in the Wild West and their discovery that people are not always what they appear to be.

Have you ever wanted to ask Jesus a question? Perhaps a question about life in our modern times, rather than 2,000 years ago? Maybe even a tough question, one that relates to our current problems and difficulties. Wouldn’t it be interesting to hear what Jesus might have to say about the struggles we deal with on a daily basis? Or perhaps hear His views on other religions, other value systems, even gay marriage?  Have you ever had difficulty with prayer? Perhaps you just couldn’t find the right words, or maybe you were not in the right frame of mind, or your thoughts were too jumbled? I once got a tip on prayer from a good friend. He told me to get a chair for Jesus and imagine Him sitting in that chair. Then simply…talk to Him. Like a good friend, the good friend He really is!   So I went and got a rocking chair for Jesus, and I put it on my porch where I like to sit in the morning, and I began talking to Jesus… Just one struggling Christian talking to his Savior. But no porch is an island, and soon others came by to talk to Jesus: friends, family and acquaintances, with different problems, different questions, and different perspectives. Jesus has something to say to each of them, and it all centers on love and forgiveness.

No werewolves, no sorcery, no cell phones. Travel back to a time when God was honored above all - a time when integrity was the measure of success. Smoky Mountain Heritage Series will remind you of the fundamental values and faith that shaped our nation. With evil lurking in the hills of Cottonwood Cove, the Tucker family must look to God for divine guidance. Will Jeb's faith triumph or will he be forced to move his family from their beloved Smoky Mountains?

Reviews and comments from distinguished readers: Pastor Dan Zirkle of Our Finest Hour Church in Broken Arrow, OK is also radio host of the highly respected Our Finest Hour broadcast on OASIS Radio Network. Pastor Zirkle writes: "I have read Harriett Ford's booklet excerpted from Faith Says What God Says. In it, she offers brief meditations and prayers and presents vital healing truths, examples of divine healing, and practical ideas for making the truth become reality for the doer of the Word. If you are looking for nuggets to build your faith, especially in the area of divine healing, this book will encourage your walk with the God of supernatural healing." Dr. Marla Woodmansee, president and radio host of the popular Kingdom Xperience broadcast (FM 88.1, Branson, MO) is also producer of the Kingdom Xperience Magazine, is a Bible communicator, popular women's conference speaker, and much more. She holds a Master's Degree from Assembly of God Theological Seminary and has studied abroad in Israel's Jerusalem University. She has been instrumental in bringing nationally known speakers to the 2019, "It Is Possible" Branson Kingdom Xperience Summit. See her web site at (www.marlawoodmansee.org). Dr. Woodmansee writes: Harriett gives understanding and the full mind of God in this excellent book on healing. She encourages us to believe God's word and have faith to receive healing. Informative and empowering! These messages are right up there with Kenneth and Gloria's. I urged her to publish this collection of healing truths." Doctor Dave Walker, practicing physician and author of the best-selling God in the ICU, (which is listed on Page One of Amazon for inspirational biographies) has honored me with his comments. Dr. Walker regularly prays for his patients and has seen miraculous outcomes. He also observes that, impressive as the testimonies of healing miracles are, there is nothing more profound than a victorious attitude in those who are living with difficulty. He names heroes of the faith who live with missing limbs, terrible scars, etc., fearless witnesses for Jesus. Dave Roever, Joni Erickson Tada and soul-surfer Bethany Hamilton come to mind. Dr. Walker writes: "This is not the sort of book one can just glance at. There is so much good content and so much wisdom, obviously gained from experience. I'm thoroughly enjoying it and applying much, although one really needs it by one's bed or in the closet of one's quiet time. "It's also making me think. Dorelle and I have just been involved with the son of our neighbor, who had pancreatic cancer. We prayed with him so much, and I was standing on God's Word. God undertook in amazing ways. He developed a deep closeness to the Lord and when he was in the hospital the Lord spontaneously sent all the people with whom he needed to be reconciled, to visit him. However, in spite of our prayers-and the prayers of SO many-he died at the age of 49. As you say early on, there are still mysteries in healing, but that should not stop us from continuing to do what Jesus did and pray for the sick.

This is an excellent book that comes from the mind of St. Ambrose. It focuses on what happens after death and helps build our faith and confidence in the Lord that Jesus is our resurrection after we die. It teaches us to bow to the Lord and realize that his act on the cross is our bridge to salvation and ever-lasting life!

The book, On care to be had for the dead, I wrote, having been asked by letter whether it profits any person after death that his body shall be buried at the memorial of any Saint. The book begins thus: Long time unto your Holiness, my venerable fellow bishop Paulinus.

It is laid down at the outset that the customs of the holy life of the Church should be referred to the chief good of man, that is, God. We must seek after God with supreme affection; and this doctrine is supported in the Catholic Church by the authority of both Testaments. The four virtues get their names from different forms of this love. Then follow the duties of love to our neighbor. In the Catholic Church we find examples of continence and of true Christian conduct.

St. Augustinspeaks of this book in his Retractations, l. ii. c. 63, as follows: "I also wrote a book on Faith, Hope, and Charity, at the request of the person to whom I addressed it, that he might have a work of mine which should never be out of his hands, such as the Greeks call an Enchiridion (Hand-Book). There I think I have pretty carefully treated of the manner in which God is to be worshipped, which knowledge divine Scripture defines to be the true wisdom of man. The book begins: 'I cannot express,'" etc.1087 The Enchiridionis among the latest books of Augustin. It was written after the death of Jerome, which occurred Sept. 30, 420; for he alludes in ch. 87 to Jerome "of blessed memory" (sanctæ memoriæ Hieronymus presbyter). It is addressed to Laurentius, in answer to his questions. This person is otherwise unknown. One ms. calls him a deacon, another a notary of the city of Rome. He was probably a layman. The author usually calls the book "On Faith, Hope and Love," because he treats the subject under these three heads (comp. (I Cor. xiii. 13). He follows under the first head the order of the Apostles' Creed, and refutes, without naming them, the Manichæan, Apollinarian, Arian, and Pelagian heresies. Under the second head he gives a brief exposition of the Lord's Prayer. The third part is a discourse on Christian love.

Augustin has made no mention of this treatise in his book of Retractations; for the reason, no doubt, that it belonged to the collection of the Epistles, for which he designed a separate statement of Retractations. In all the mss. this work begins with his usual epistolary salutation: "Augustin, to his holy brethren and fellow-bishops Eutropius and Paulus." And yet, by general consent, this epistle has been received as a treatise, not only in those volumes of his works which contain this work, but also in the writings of those ancient authors who quote it. Amongst these, the most renowned and acquainted with Augustin's writings, Possidius (In indiculo, 4) and Fulgentius (Ad Monimum, i. 3) expressly call this work "A Treatise on the Perfection of Man's Righteousness." So far nearly all the mss. agree, but a few (including the Codd. Audöenensis and Pratellensis) add these words to the general title: "In opposition to those who assert that it is possible for a man to become righteous by his own sole strength." In a ms. belonging to the Church of Rheims there occurs this inscription: "A Treatise on what are called the definitions of Cœlestius." Prosper, in his work against the Collator, ch. 43, advises his reader to read, besides some other of Augustin's "books," that which he wrote "to the priests Paulus and Eutropius in opposition to the questions of Pelagius and Cœlestius." From this passage of Prosper, however, in which he mentions, but with no regard to accurate order, some of the short treatises of Augustin against the Pelagians, nobody could rightly show that this work On the Perfection of Man's Righteousness was later in time than his work On Marriage and Concupiscence, or than the six books against Julianus, which are mentioned previously in the same passage by Prosper. For, indeed, at the conclusion of the present treatise, Augustin hesitates as yet to censure those persons who affirmed that men are living or have lived in this life righteously without any sin at all: their opinion Augustin, in the passage referred to (just as in his treatises On Nature and Grace, n. 3, and On the Spirit and the Letter, nn. 49, 70), does not yet think it necessary stoutly to resist. Nothing had as yet, therefore, been determined on this point; nor were there yet enacted, in opposition to this opinion, the three well-known canons (6-8) of the Council of Carthage, which was held in the year 418. Afterwards, however, on the authority of these canons, he cautions people against the opinion as a pernicious error, as one may see from many passages in his books Against the two Epistles of the Pelagians, especially Book iv. ch. x. (27), where he says: "Let us now consider that third point of theirs, which each individual member of Christ as well as His entire body regards with horror, where they contend that there are in this life, or have been, righteous persons without any sin whatever." Certainly, in the year 414, in an epistle (157) to Hilary, when answering the questions which were then being agitated in Sicily, he expresses himself in the same tone, and almost in the same language, on sinlessness, as that which he employs at the end of this present treatise. "But those persons," says he (in ch. ii. n. 4 of that epistle), "however much one may tolerate them when they affirm that there either are, or have been, men besides the one Saint of saints who have been wholly free from sin; yet when they allege that man's own free will is sufficient for fulfilling the Lord's commandments, even when unassisted by God's grace and the gift of the Holy Spirit for the performance of good works, the idea is altogether worthy of anathema and of perfect detestation."

"After I had written 'on the Good of Marriage,' it was expected that I should write on Holy Virginity; and I did not delay doing so: and that it is God's gift, and how great a gift, and with what humility to be guarded, so far as I was able I set forth in one volume. This book begins."

Then follow four books which I wrote to Boniface, bishop of the Roman Church, in opposition to two letters of the Pelagians, because when they came into his hands he had sent them to me, finding in them a calumnious mention of my name. This work commences on this wise: "I had indeed known you by the praise of your renowned fame."

From the Retractations, Book II. Chap. 60. "Then also I wrote a Book against Lying, the occasion of which work was this. In order to discover the Priscillianist heretics, who think it right to conceal their heresy not only by denial and lies, but even by perjury, it seemed to certain Catholics that they ought to pretend themselves Priscillianists, in order that they might penetrate their lurking places. In prohibition of which thing, I composed this book. It begins: Multa mihi legenda misisti."

The person to whom I had addressed the three books entitled De Peccatorum Meritis et Remissione, in which I carefully discussed also the baptism of infants, informed me, when acknowledging my communication, that he was much disturbed because I declared it to be possible that a man might be without sin, if he wanted not the will, by the help of God, although no man either had lived, was living, or would live in this life so perfect in righteousness. He asked how I could say that it was possible of which no example could be adduced. Owing to this inquiry on the part of this person, I wrote the treatise entitled De Spiritu et Littera, in which I considered at large the apostle's statement, "The letter kills, but the spirit giveth life." In this work, so far as God enabled me, I earnestly disputed with those who oppose that grace of God which justifies the servances of the Jews, who abstain from sundry meats and drinks in accordance with their ancient law, I mentioned the "ceremonies of certain meats" [quarumdam escarum cerimoniæ]-a phrase which, though not used in Holy Scriptures, seemed to me very convenient, because I remembered that cerimoniæ is tantamount to carimoniæ, as if from carere, to be without, and expresses the abstinence of the worshippers from certain things. If however, there is any other derivation of the word, which is inconsistent with the true religion, I meant no reference whatever to it; I confined my use to the sense above indicated. This work of mine begins thus: "After reading the short treatise which I lately drew up for you, my beloved son Marcellinus," etc.

The work constitutes an exposition of the several clauses of the so-called Apostles' Creed. The questions concerning the mutual relations of the three Persons in the Godhead are handled with greatest fullness; in connection with which, especially in the use made of the analogies of Being, Knowledge, and Love, and in the cautions thrown in against certain applications of these and other illustrations taken from things of human experience, we come across sentiments which are also repeated in the City of God, the books on the Trinity, and others of his doctrinal writings. The passage referred to in the Retractations is as follows: About the same period, in presence of the bishops, who gave me orders to that effect, and who were holding a plenary Council of the whole of Africa at Hippo-Regius, I delivered, as presbyter, a discussion on the subject of Faith and the Creed. This disputation, at the very pressing request of some of those who were on terms of more than usual intimacy and affection with us, I threw into the form of a book, in which the themes themselves are made the subjects of discourse, although not in a method involving the adoption of the particular connection of words which is given to the competentes to be committed to memory.