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"Behold, My hands and My feet . . ." - Luke 24:39 NKJVOnly when Jesus revealed His scars did His disciples truly believe He was alive again. Ironically, followers of Jesus often hide their scars, not realizing He can do amazing, transforming work with them.The Gift of Scars explores God's redeeming and restorative grace for those who fail to see their troubled pasts as treasures in the hands of an almighty, all-loving God. Addressing the issues of abuse, rejection, guilt, and self-hatred, author Melissa McCormick courageously shows the scars of her own tragic childhood while extending hope and help for the hopelessly hurting. Today she considers her scars to be gifts that God can use. But that wasn't always so.As part of her restoration to wholeness, God sent Melissa down a path she would never have chosen or dreamed of. Her experience as a beauty pageant contestant and eventually as the winner of Mrs. Michigan International 2000, is evidence of the incredible transforming power of God in a chronically insecure life.

Back in college, Marty Brown coached a ragtag basketball team of inner-city sixth graders, who went from barely able to dribble a ball to earning a spot in the Nor-Cal Championship Tournament. But the joyful memory of that winning season is overshadowed by the dark reality of a murder case gone cold-until a familiar face appears on TV and dredges up memories of a season Marty will never forget. "I was on this case from the day it happened." The caption on the screen identified the man speaking as Detective Pete Willover. "We had a good idea who did it, but we couldn't prove it. We wouldn't be able to prove it .¿.¿. not for twenty-six years." Ankle Breaker is based on the true story of two dedicated men. The coach teaches his players about hard work, determination, friendship, and God's love, while the detective doggedly investigates and solves a decades-old murder. Through the power of teamwork and the advancements in DNA technology, both stories careen toward a shared conclusion. Bolstered by God's grace in a world that is often cruel and unpredictable, a group of kids who could have given up on life before they even got started discover surprising victories, uncommon friendships, and help with navigating challenges in their young lives.

"Growing up, I wanted to desire God. But I never desired him like I desired popularity, pizza or People magazine. .¿.¿. It was infinitely easier to play the part of the good Christian than to actually live like one. Hollylu Jostes was a good Christian. From the outside, she was everything Proverbs 31 required. But inside her foundation was fundamentally flawed. She wanted God but not at the cost of everything. She wanted to be "in the fold" and saved from damnation without it affecting her decisions on any given day. In the club but not a Gold Star member. This is the problem with lukewarm faith-it kills you before you feel it killing you. Weary of claiming a faith that promised supernatural and transformational power, yet living with fear, anxiety, and doubt, Hollylu was at the ultimate fork in the road: reject her faith or stop thinking so deeply about it. The third option wasn't even on her radar: total commitment to God. Salty: The Deconstruction of a Good Christian will take you on Hollylu's journey as she examines her faith in relation to her everyday life. Her refreshingly candid story-full of feisty exchanges with God-will inspire you to live as salt of the earth and as an agent of change, fully surrendered and transformed by Jesus.

Famous last words are important as they draw our attention to the heart and soul of the speaker. What could be more important at Easter than being drawn into the heart of Jesus through his own words? In this devotional journey to Calvary, you will prepare your heart for Easter by examining the last words of Jesus, as well as his first recorded words in ministry, and crucial ones in between. Delve into the heart of Christ by following this forty-two-day devotional journey through Lent and toward Resurrection Day. Daily readings follow his ministry and journey to the cross through his spoken words. Each day's reading offers Scripture, inspirational stories from real life, reflective questions, and selected quotations. This wonderful tool will help readers focus their hearts and minds on Christ, and grow in love, knowledge, and intimacy with the Savior.

Do we spend time listening to God so that we will know His will for our lives? Or do we just glide through, day by day, doing our own plan for life? When God tells Caleen Moreland Stankus she will adopt a child during one of their daily bubble bath chat sessions, her first instinct is to ignore His call. But as time goes by, she feels the pull stronger and stronger until, at last, she relents. As she seeks to follow God's will, she must give up the comforts of home-like her sacred bubble bath time-but what God provides turns out to be much more inviting. In No More Bubble Baths, Caleen takes the reader with her and her husband as they travel to the Ukraine in search of the little girl God has told them they will adopt. Along the way, Caleen and her husband meet some amazing Ukrainian people but sometimes find themselves in uncomfortable situations. Yet in her obedience, God guides and provides for them every step until His purpose is finally revealed-and not at all what Caleen expected.

Eighteen-year-old Hilary Bonn was just starting out in life, preparing for college and adventures beyond her small-town beginnings, when leukemia interrupted all of her plans. To help her body fight the ugly disease, Hilary required a stem cell transplant. While she endured PICC lines, pills, and endless precautions against germs, her family encouraged her and one another with Christmas lights, thoughtful words, warm hugs, soft music, action movies, entertaining books, and their abundant love.During this time, Jan Bonn kept family and friends updated of her daughter's treatment and progress through frequent e-mail messages. Love, Jan is a compilation of these messages. Jan's accounts of medical consultations and procedures, the uncertainties of life-changing decisions, and times of expectant waiting are infused with humor, insight, and hope told from the heart of a loving mother and faithful child of God.Love, Jan, Hilary's story of faith, hope, and joy, will inspire and encourage stem cell transplant patients and those who love them.

Start a clinic on the farm. When Renee Marini hears a voice speaking to her spirit while in church, she has no doubt that almighty God has just given her an assignment. She and her husband, Sal, are to travel halfway around the world to establish a medical clinic at Sons of Thunder, a ministry in Zambia, Africa. But what do they know about starting a clinic in Africa? What begins as a three-week mission trip to lay the groundwork for the clinic becomes a twenty-five-year (and counting) calling on their lives. By just taking the next step as God lights each stone, Renee and Sal witness God doing amazing things .¿.¿. over and above anything they can ever imagine. Fighting against the expected hardships-chiefly, AIDS, malnutrition, and a high number of maternal deaths-they are also confronted with corruption, poverty, and indifference in the medical community. They face snakes, killer elephants, and perplexing local customs that involve witchcraft and body mutilations. But for all the heartbreak, they witness even more miracles as it becomes clear that God's purpose for them goes beyond healing bodies. He is using them to help Him heal souls. At every opportunity, they share the gospel of Jesus Christ, and their clinic is a light to the people they serve. In this engaging, thought-provoking memoir, they prove that God can use anybody-you just have to be willing.

Reading and understanding the New Testament are essential to life transformation through Jesus. But twenty-seven books, nine authors, various audiences, and cultural contexts make it intimidating for new believers and mature Christians alike. When he came to Christ at age seventeen, Robert Hedenstrom dove into reading his Bible but struggled with foreign concepts like justification, righteousness, and propitiation. He quickly lost interest.Having since earned his master's in divinity, Hedenstrom now helps others avoid the confusion and frustration that waylaid his own journey with the Savior. Everlasting Kingdom: Faith, Hope, and Love in Christ from the Gospels to Revelation delivers a comprehensive and straightforward synopsis of the New Testament designed to illuminate the Spirit-inspired Word of God and encourage deeper study of the Scriptures. Key features include: A brief synopsis of the Old TestamentAn overview of each New Testament bookClear and understandable commentaryInsight into historical and cultural contextsEverlasting Kingdom draws on scholarly insights-but uses clear language-to touch and inspire searching hearts. Readers at any stage in their walk with Christ will recognize the Savior's love and experience the gospel's transformation effect.

"When we receive the key to biblical eschatology, a whole new world opens up to us. The scales fall from our eyes and we see Christ, His covenant, His kingdom, and His people in all Scripture. In The Great End Time Debate, Dean Davis offers us the key." -- Simon WartanianFor the last 150 years the evangelical church has been embroiled in a great debate about eschatology: about the true shape of Salvation History, and about God's plan for the Consummation of all things at the return of Christ. In this book, retired pastor and author Dean Davis seeks to resolve that debate once and for all.He begins at the beginning, asking how it got started and what keeps it going. He answers by suggesting that we have failed to listen to God's Son, who alone can guide us into all truth, including eschatological truth.Making that commitment afresh, and therefore anchoring to the New Testament, Davis invites us on a rich theological journey with Christ in which we listen to the Lord on the four underlying issues of the Great End Time Debate: the Kingdom of God, the interpretation of Old Testament Kingdom prophecy, the meaning of the Millennium, and the Consummation of all things.The journey is no cakewalk, for along the way we must earnestly wrestle with complex issues and honestly consider competing options. But the prize ever beckons: a final ascent to the highest peak of all, the peak where the High King of Heaven grants his beloved Bride a fresh vision of her Blessed Hope, and the winner of the Great End Time Debate.