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Like a cool drink on a summer day, "e;Hope When the World Shut Down"e; offers an oasis of hope from a world that often leaves us parched and exhausted.A compilation of short stories from believers in all walks of life, these snapshots, written during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, will leave you laughing and crying as you read how ordinary people held onto God's promises.You'll be sure to identify with these easy-to-read stories by doctors, educators, students, ministers, homemakers and grandparents, packed with uplifting Scripture. Whether reading it as a daily devotional or all in one sitting, you will come away refreshed, feeling like you just spent an evening with an old friend.

Kirby and Gracie have been best friends their whole life. They do everything together. One special activity the girls enjoy is helping Mrs. Clark, an elderly lady in their church whom they dearly love. But all of this is challenged when a new girl, Penelope Parrish, moves to town.Penelope thinks her family's wealth and prestige allows her to do anything she chooses. She soon finds she has crossed the line when she messes with Kirby's little brother and Mrs. Clark.Stand, a story for middle readers, follows two best friends as they struggle through new challenges, understand the importance of doing the right thing, and learn how the Lord works in their lives. It communicates the message that all should stand on the promises and truths communicated in the Bible.

Have you been there? Have you been in place where you felt abandoned, forgotten, down trodden and without hope. If you have, join the crowd. We all have at some point in our lives. The author considers the dark times as Gethsemane moments. This inspirational book explores these times and more importantly offers encouragement and possible ways to get through Gethsemane. Life is beautiful, yet into every life comes periods of darkness, or you can call them Gethsemane moments, we can and must go through Gethsemane.

Written during the course of five decades in moments between sending her older sons off to elementary school and giving her newborn son a bath, JudyAnn Krell Morse shares a host of moments when a simple sign of God's love filtered into her consciousness.In Simple Signs of God's Love, she offers a collection of personal narratives showing how God is always present in both the dramatic and mundane events of life. Morse tells the stories of God at work in her life while she was riding her motorcycle, kneading bread, ice fishing, and even hunting mushrooms.Morse, who has survived some of life's harshest storms, offers her testimony in the form of devotionals to prompt others to recognize the signs of God's love.

Whenever a Child Is Born offers the perfect message for parents as itcharmingly tells the story of how all of heaven and earth react to thenews that a child is about to be born. The story comforts parents withthe knowledge that their baby is a special gift from heaven to them,and that they will never be alone raising their child, and that their childwill never ever be alone in life. No one journeys alone through life because whenever a child is born, heis given a guardian angel.

In spite of their relationship with the Lord, many women have found themselves facing shame, guilt, abuse, rejection, brokenness, and even betrayal. Overwhelmed, unable to cope, and afraid of revealing themselves to others, they disguise their pain and pretend everything is alright.But what happens when the masks are stripped away and they can no longer rely on their projected images to hide their suffering? They must come face to face with their own reality.In Becoming a Wholly Woman, author Carolyn Crow shares her own stories and experiences, explaining how she used biblical and practical strategies while pursuing a life of wholeness. She carefully takes you along on her journey of healing by teaching you how to nourish your whole body through a threefold approach: spiritual, mental, and physical. When the right healing environment is established, the spirit, soul, and body can work together in unity to obtain wholeness. This is the key to living a richer and more meaningful life.

Do you struggle to commit to heart God's word? This coloring book is a creative, family friendly way to encourage the young and young at heart to enjoy and memorize Bible verses.

The year 2020 has brought tremendous upheaval to the world, leaving many anxious about the future and, perhaps, feeling unworthy of God's love due to past mistakes. But He cared enough to knit us together and create us in his image; He knows us intimately, values us, and loves us.Journey of the Heart presents a devotional intended to lead you through a forty-day journey of transformation. During these tumultuous times, you can develop ways to deal with anxiety, focus on prayer, and learn the importance of surrender to your destination of a transformed life. Along the way, authors Sheila Vanaman and Donna Hopkins Smith describe four important steps: Calming the Storm, Attitude of Prayer, Surrendering to God's Will, and Road to a Transformed Life. They also provide space to use for journaling and an accompanying study guide. As you take this journey, their hope is that you will learn to be still and listen to God's voice.Uplifting and engaging, this forty-day devotional guides you through scriptures that can show you how God's marvelous love will transform your life.

Even our deepest desires realized can't compare with the soul-rest that comes from abiding in God and His presence. We long for something more than anything or anyone in this world can fulfill. Yet striving to achieve comes almost as naturally as breathing. God's Kingdom is the opposite. He created us for rhythms of grace and rest in His strength through the power of the Holy Spirit.We want God's will for our lives, but when we try to work it out in our own strength, it becomes daunting. When our daily rhythms are dependent on what we can accomplish, we burn out; we give up, we fear, we lose our identity.This 90 Day Devotional is for you if you've ever been:Tired of doubtingTired of comparingTired of strivingTired of fearTired of being tiredTrue rest isn't found in a vacation or holiday. It can be found every single day by intentionally shifting your thoughts, mind, and heart toward the Lord.

This story is about a late teen that runs away from a dysfunctional home to find a better life. Taking unlikely roads and divergent trails leads him to Somewhere, a fictional but possible, town and ranching community in Western Wyoming where he finds something he never expected.If you were to turn off the main road on an obviously little used gravel road, would you expect to find what you are looking for or just trying to be sure you will be lost as Terry does. What he discovers is so unexpected that not only does his outlook change but his sense of purpose is born and brought to a conscious, satisfying life in the wilderness of Wyoming.

The Lord has anointed all believers to demonstrate His power by operating in their anointing, and yet it remains one of the most misunderstood topics in the modern-day church. In Marked by the Anointing, Anthony Trezzatakes readers on a journey through the Bible, revealing what the anointing is according to the word of God and not according to the tradition of men.As you read this book you will clearly see that the anointing is not a power, it the process by which the Lord marks and sets apart ordinary men and women for an extraordinary work, and that the power of the anointing is the Holy Spirit.

Alice Gunness writes of farm life, growing up in Minnesota and raising a family in North Dakota. Readers meet her Swedish immigrant parents and Donald Gunness, her husband, in a family of fourth-generation Norwegian immigrants. Alice's stories show us a farm family and a business family working for the betterment of coming generations. Humor, faith, love, and hard work sparkle in Alice's stories. In Nurtured by Nature Book II, readers meet Alice and Donald as children, learn of their married lives, and follow Alice into the present. As a little girl, Alice and her father scramble under a train car, coming home from a movie. Teenaged Alice sits on her skis down a snowy slope. As a mother, she carries bread bowls with her in the car, to let the dough rise and be punched down, while traveling to bring her daughter home from college. Now widowed, Alice Gunness reflects on faith during a pandemic. Alice writes in her own voice, with sensory detail and dialogue. Her writing moves the heart.

Educational research has shown the significance of children learning to recognize numbers, their spelling, and simple arithmetic facts from early childhood and into the beginning years of formal education. Knowing that his grandchildren were involved in virtual education as early as the age of four, Dr. Bowman started writing and illustrating stories for this age group around the theme of mathematics. This book is an outgrowth of those early projects. Children, parents, and teachers will enjoy the marriage of a fictional story along with the presentation of number facts. Parents and teachers who are concerned about helping their children to live in a multicultural world will appreciate the varied ethnicities of Bowman's characters, too.