Download or read book Bent Hope written by Tim J Huff and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of 3 book awards as best book in it's category, Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff’s first twenty years of unique and extensive work among homeless and street-involved youth and adults, in one of North America’s largest urban centres—Toronto, Canada. Bent Hope is a collection of thoughtful narratives birthed beneath crumbling bridges and in the hidden alcoves of darkened alleyways after midnight. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly from unforgiving corridors of fear, hurt and uncertainty—and unexpectedly and supernaturally transform them into fascinating places of intimacy and godly anticipation.
Download or read book What the Oceans Remember written by Sonja Boon and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying “I’m Dutch-Canadian” to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity. It was an opportunity to answer the two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to? Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present. Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.
Download or read book The Defilers written by Deborah Gyapong and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award tells the story of a policewoman who finds redemption, aided by a man she suspects of murder. Linda Donner, a Boston native, travels north to rural Nova Scotia, and takes a post as a policewoman with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in hopes of finding balance in her life. Instead of a slower pace, things heat up as she becomes preoccupied with a controversial pastor she suspects is guilty of arson, murder and child abuse. She breaks into a church and finds the suspected pastor exorcising demons from a child. She believes she has caught him in the abuse act, but finds her own self powerless as she spirals into what appears to be a nervous breakdown. As she realizes she is fighting supernatural forces, she decides she must find God’s help--a God she had stopped believing in after a priest seduced her when she was a teenager. The only person who seems able to help is her chief suspect--the pastor.
Download or read book The Fully Lived Life written by Merry C Lin and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel yourself sleepwalking through life? Are you soul weary? Do you long to fully live? So how does one break free from soul depression? Respected psychologist Dr. Lin believes that only biblical truth can wake a sleeping soul to the full life Jesus promised. With her personal experience and powerful therapeutic principles, The Fully Lived Life details the emotional and spiritual steps to finding God beyond, and even in, the chaos of real life. Showing you how to see deeper into your life and relationships, Dr. Lin challenges and encourages you to: • Face the truth of recurring struggles • Stop sabotaging the rich rewards of true love • Begin the journey to the Rescuer’s heart When you finally slow down and take the time to listen to your heart, you will discover the very life you’ve been searching for—a life to the full. Each chapter includes unique self-assessment & action steps for real life change; Suitable for personal or small group use; Author is a noted Canadian clinical psychologist, featured on The 700 Club Canada and 100 Huntley St.
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Download or read book Discarded written by Michael J Allen and published by Delirious Scribbles Ink, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They threw him away, but Power lurks in the trash... Magic is sold on every corner alongside designer coffee. Spells and constructs offer the ultimate in convenience. Until the magic starts murdering people. Caught between magic’s monsters and a shadow war against long extinct fey, a homeless ex-con barely scraping by is called upon to save the city from the ‘friends’ who framed him. Eli is forbidden the spells he designed. He’s barred from purchasing magical components. With more than his own survival on the line, he must forge a new kind of magic. Can Eli master dumpstermancy before magic devours the world? One Click today to join the Dumpstermancer, a hero readers are calling the Alton Brown of Magic, as he races to save his city from the people that betrayed him!
Download or read book Vision That Works written by David Collins and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your church seems to be "stuck," this is a book you need to bring to your next leadership meeting. Vision That Works follows the journey of a pastor of a plateaued church as he struggles with stagnation and discovers the importance of his churches "mission, vision and values" and their ultimate impact on church health and relationship to planning. In the course of the story the reader is introduced to a 5-step process that has revolutionized this church and has the potential to change your church from a vision into action.
Download or read book Hope Courage Triumph written by Connie Bent and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope, Courage & Triumph is the story about one young widows journey through adventures and madness. Determination and love were the key elements of her being as she struggled to face the demons of the illness of her husband, Jerry. Tragedy was no stranger to her. No one knew what horrors lay behind the closed doors of her life, yet hope drove her on. One evening, after work, Jerry held her in his arm, confessing his love to her. Suddenly, a glaze covers his eyes, and a look of hatred crosses his face. Looking at her, he began talking weird about things she knew nothing of. He said, Ive heard that before. You know what Im talking about. She couldnt move. The glaze left his face as suddenly as it came, and moving toward her, he said, I love you more than life itself. Hope drove her as she struggled to pull him out of the pits of hell. An earlier marriage between two teenagers is also addressed in Hope, Courage & Triumph. One day, after I said, I love you, he squeezed my hand, opened his eyes, and looked directly at me. There was no more joy, for hope and courage were lost, and there was not triumph.
Download or read book Reconnect written by David Sherbino and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The banal and heart-denying culture of materialism and secularity is having a reverse effect: people are more intentional in their search for spiritual life. David Sherbino has been on the leading edge, providing those from a wide range of spiritual heritages with a new and refreshing means of entering into the life of Christ. RECONNECT, is filled with daily exercises and spiritual disciplines to help you draw close to God. David takes us, day by day into this rich and inviting life, pointing us in directions in sync with the Spirit. David's understanding of biblical theology and historic patterns of spiritual practise come together in providing a wonderfully helpful guide. It covers a period of seven weeks and if you follow it carefully, you will notice a change in your spiritual practice and devotion."
Download or read book Let the Nations Be Glad written by John Piper and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Piper's bestselling book on missions draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. Piper offers a biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things, providing readers with a sound theological foundation for missions. This 30th anniversary edition of a contemporary classic, now in paperback, incorporates insights from the author's refined thinking over the past 10 years. Used extensively as a textbook for missions courses and a resource for ministries, Let the Nations Be Glad! provides a passionate plea for God-centeredness in the whole enterprise of world evangelization and explores the role of prayer and spiritual warfare. The book is essential reading for those involved in or preparing for missions work. It also offers enlightenment for students, pastors, youth workers, campus ministers, and all who want to connect their labors to God's global purposes.
Download or read book Find A Broken Wall written by Brian C Stiller and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it is assumed there is little more to say about leadership, Brian Stiller surprises us with new, fresh and creative insights. Unwrapping the ancient Old Testament story of Nehemiah, he identifies 7 principles on building and renewing ministries and organizations. Surrounding these principles are workable concepts connected to inspiring stories of faith. Drawing on a lifetime of leadership, he writes about what it takes to lead. He examines the challenges leaders face, surveying them first from 33,000 feet, then at ground level describing what it takes to move from an idea to effective completion. The freshness of his stories and the clarity of his counsel come from a real life experience—this is what he has done. Framed by the ancient story of Nehemiah, the Hebrew who returned to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, Stiller examines the text and draws from his own life experiences, then skillfully applies the principles of Nehemiah to 21st Century leaders. Stiller doesn’t back down from facing the challenges of leading: he makes it clear it is not for the faint hearted. He faces what leaders inevitably must deal with—politics isn’t everything but everything is political.
Download or read book The Passionate Bride written by Alan Davey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians is a bold declaration of love. We were in the ruminations of Abba before the stardust formed into galaxies and the earth coalesced into its present shape. Indeed, Abba’s dream for his people already existed in those primordial days. Today we have the opportunity to wake up and embrace his dream with enthusiasm and intentionality. As members of his church, individually and collectively, we want to embrace God’s desire for a dynamic people infused with his passionate love. The church as the bride of Christ is a powerful metaphor engaging the apostle as he writes his letter. Paul’s passion becomes ours as we meditate on his words, which evoke spiritual desire. It is in this relationship of love that the central purpose of our lives is found. As we gratefully receive Christ’s amity, and as his bride returns it, so the entire earth is enflamed with the fires of his love. At the same time, we recognize it is a mystery—this love between Abba and his church. When we receive and reflect Christ’s overtures of love as a community of faith, a synergy is created and released through the interconnectedness of our gifts, talents, and zeal. The church contains the spiritual energy of a nuclear explosion, and when it detonates, it releases a fallout of love, mercy, and compassion, bringing healing to the world and drawing others to the divine presence.
Download or read book Our Father written by Bruce Smith and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Father is a compelling memoir by Bruce Smith chronicling his life as a fatherless boy growing up in segregated Texas and his rise to fame and fortune as a star professional football player and real estate mogul. As his story unfolds, ghosts from his past and the lingering effects of being raised without a stable father figure, haunt him. Throughout the book, Smith takes the reader on an emotional, sometimes funny, at times painful journey, illustrating how the power of personal redemption and salvation transforms his life. A thought provoking read, it draws attention to the problem of fatherlessness, described by social commentators as one of the most serious issues facing society today. Statistics on youth crime, addiction, drop out rates and teen pregnancy, paint a picture of the devastating effects, the lack of engaged fathers in our homes is having on children. Pastor Smith s story gives insight into the feelings of hopelessness and confusion that fatherless children, particularly boys tend to experience and the self-destructive choices they make as a result. While Our Father speaks candidly about the harmful effects of fatherlessness on youth and society, it is a story about hope that illustrates how through the saving power of Jesus Christ, we can all conquer our demons and triumph.
Download or read book Certainty A Place to Stand written by Grant Richison and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries before Christ, the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes experimented with the lever. He declared that he could “move the earth” if he had a place to stand somewhere in the cosmos. People need a certain place to stand, a point of reference beyond the self. In this bold critique of the emergent church of postevangelicals, Dr. Grant Richison, well-known Bible expositor (versebyversecommentary.com), draws a line in the sand to prevent further erosion of the certainty that we can stand on the absolute truth of the Bible. In his rejection of relativism, he lights the way for those who would present the gospel with certainty and clarity.
Download or read book Predators Live Among us written by Diane Roblin Lee and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child molestation is epidemic in our society. We have to find new ways to protect our kids! In the time it took for Ward Cleaver and Fonzie to morph into Homer Simpson and his South Park neighbors, the fiber of humanity changed. Once-safe sidewalks, filled with active children, emptied into avenues where anxious parents now drive their children to school...GET ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS AND MORE! Out of personal heartbreak, award-winning author Diane Roblin-Lee shares her extensive research in the field of child sexual abuse. Having written and co-written over 20 books on a variety of subjects, her passion for the strengthening of families, pro¬tection of children, prevention of abuse and res¬toration for broken people, is presently focused through her work with Winning Kids Inc.® / Plan to ProtectTM and the Heart to Heart Marriage and Family InstituteTM.
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