Download or read book God is Stronger than Morphine written by Penny Bourke and published by Penny Bourke. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Catherine, born with Cystic Fibrosis in 1974. Always a tiny little person, she overcame the enormous challenges that were placed in her way to lead a life full of miracles in the true sense. This is a book about life, about love, about sacrifice and most of all about my daughter, my mate and my inspiration.

Download or read book Let God Arise written by John Whitman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of this book evolved over a period of time as I was listening to young Christians talking about different subjects and realizing the lack of understanding and Bible knowledge they were getting from different sources. Seeing most young Christians don't have any real access to Bible school training and receive a lot of their information from friends, family, and various sources I became burdened to teach them in depth about the subjects they would talk about. I began to write these things down that enabled me to give them something to read over and refer to when they needed to refresh their memory. These different subjects are basic information that I believe all Christians should understand to help them stay on the path God intended and not be drawn into doctrine misunderstandings. Having been to Kenya, Africa, on a mission trip where I had the ability to teach some of the things in this book I was asked if I could give them all of these teachings in a book as they are hungry for the teachings of the Word of God. That prompted me to publish these sixteen Bible lessons for the benefit of those pastors in Africa and anywhere else that people are hungry for the understanding of the Word of God. I hope the reader finds these chapters both inspiring and encouraging in their search for knowledge and understanding in their walk with the Lord.

Download or read book Empire of Pain written by Patrick Radden Keefe and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.

Download or read book The Man Who Loved God written by William Kienzle and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This nineteenth Father Koesler mystery is packed with Kienzle's signature twists and turns, but is different from the previous mysteries. In this story, Father Koesler takes a vacation from his parish and the sleuthing is carried on by his replacement, Father Zachary Tully." —London (Ont.) Free Press From William X. Kienzle, the author of the classic mystery, The Rosary Murders. "What if he were killed? What if someone killed him? She shuddered. But . . . it would go a long way to solving her problem. She wondered idly if such a thing could be . . . arranged?" An unplanned, unwanted pregnancy. The grand opening of a branch bank in a dangerous part of town. A vacation for Father Robert Koesler. Half-brothers who have never met, one a visiting priest, the other a hometown cop. A dinner party with unsuspecting guests. A philanthropic bank president described as a man who love God. And that's just the beginning of the intrigue in William X. Kienzle's nineteenth murder mystery. If you're not familiar with Kienzle's mysteries, his mysteries typically are solved by Father Robert Koesler, who is often called in by the local police to help with cases that involve Catholic motivation and dogma. In The Man Who Loved God, things are different. Father Koesler goes on vacation, leaving his parish and the sleuthing to the visiting Father Zachary Tully. During Koesler's absence, a bank manager is killed in an apparent hold-up. Father Tully, who has come to Detroit to meet the half-brother he never knew he had, Lieutenant Zoo Tully, is drawn into the investigation. As the story unfolds, the possibility is raised that Father Koesler may turn his mantle over to another priest. The plot has twists and turns to keep you guessing. And what about that bank president, the book's namesake, the man who loves God? Well, he's no angel.

Download or read book Hearing the Silent Cries written by Shirley Gunstream Poland and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET'S STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE! Hearing the Silent Cries: Exposing Wife Abuse puts relationships under a microscope! -- Is your relationship more like a see-saw or a slide? If it feels like a slide, which end are you on? -- Do you know if your spouse has the 15 Personality Traits of an abuser? Learn the dangers of abuse through the stories of two Christian women who committed murder after years of various forms of spousal abuse. Learn how it starts in the dating stage of life, what it is, why it is used, and methods to diffuse it. Date violence is experienced by one in four teens. This is why we need to educate teenagers of the 15 Personality Traits of an abuser, so they know the difference between sick and healthy relationships. Be sure the teens you know learn the traits! By exposing wife abuse, maybe we can prevent the death of one of the approximately 3,000 women beaten to death by their partner every year. Shirley Poland is a teacher and a storyteller, who received a B.L.S. degree from the University of Oklahoma; a B.S. in Education from Lamar University in Beaumont, TX; and a M.S. in Education from McNeese State University of Lake Charles, LA. After teaching 30 years, Shirley is retired from school districts of Orange, Beaumont, and Plano, TX. Her avocation is an after-dinner speaker and as "Mother Goose" for daycare centers, elementary schools, festivals, and health fairs. She has five adult children, and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Poland has taught Bible classes for many years and continues to serve in her church. Shirley grew up in Orange, TX and recently married her grade school sweetheart, now a retired minister, who has helped her discover her talents in painting and writing.

Download or read book God s Healing Power written by Karen Henein and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a need for healing in your life? This book can help you access God’s amazing healing power. Karen Henein explores the Bible’s teaching about healing, referencing hundreds of verses and relating encouraging stories. Why not learn how to actively use every point of access to God’s healing power? God loves you and wants to extend His kindness, compassion, mercy, and grace. In response to your prayers and other steps of obedience, God will choose the measure, method, timing, and duration of the healing He will provide for you and your loved ones. While generating faith for healing, God’s Healing Power also explores why God allows seasons of suffering, what the Bible says about life span, obstacles to our healing, the reality of death, and the promise of eternal life. Hope for healing and hope for heaven can run simultaneously on side-by-side tracks. Those distinct hopes will merge at the believer’s last earthly horizon. God will fully restore us some day, providing a resurrected body that’s immortal, indestructible, and forever free from pain. Here or there, now or then, a positive outcome awaits each believer. Whether you need faith for healing, or peace and comfort as life nears its end, God’s Healing Power will provide substantive help for your journey.

Download or read book Pathways to Our Destiny in God written by Jill Shannon and published by Manifest Publications. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our soul is our most precious possession. What would a man give for his soul? Do we need to intentionally nurture our soul and protect it from harm and defilement? Can a broken soul be fully restored? The pathways of our soul are a vast network of voluntary choices. The Lord has given us freewill, but not every path will lead to the desired outcome. How do we guard our paths? In this compassionate analysis of these troubled times, Jill shares about the wounds of abuse, deceptively-marketed opioids, sexual predation, and cruel injustices that seem to go unpunished. Many have been led away from their original calling and have been diverted to destructive paths. There is healing for victims of abuse. Knowing the depths of the Lord’s covenantal love and determination, our futures will be restored and aligned with God’s original purposes. The Lord is a loving Shepherd. His leadership is perfect, and He will lead us into paths of righteousness. He will restore our souls! The Lord has predestined us to be conformed to the full maturity of our Messiah (Rom.8:28-30, Eph.4:13-14). The Lord is weaving a glorious destiny for each of our lives, before time began. We are His workmanship. When His tapestry is complete, we will know the joy of having run our race well, in the completion of His purposes for our priceless soul.

Download or read book When God Is Faithful and Your Husband Isn t written by Janice Porter Lynch and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are challenging days and even bad days, but then there are days when our lives are turned entirely upside down - our very world changes. After nine years of marriage, that terrible day of deceit, betrayal, and abandonment came for Janice Lynch, seeking to destroy her. Far from being destroyed, Janice rose from the ashes to thrive in life through her faith in God and the truths she shares in this book. By reading this book you will: gain 7 keys to help you walk through even the most soul-crushing crisis with victory; build your faith in God and in His Word to thrive in His plan for your life; learn how to pray more effectively, even in the midst of crisis; recognize the signs of an unfaithful spouse; and understand the hidden dangers of pornography. God has plans for each of us, to prosper us and not to harm us. No matter how life may look right now, this book will help you to thrive.--From back cover.

Download or read book You Don t Have to Suffer written by Susan S. Lang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 2, 1994, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (a division of the Public Health Service) made headlines by releasing new cancer pain management guidelines. That report revealed that pain is frequently undertreated, and that relief is not only possible for most patients, but actually aids in recovery. For many cancer victims, the agency's guidelines offered new hope; for Dr. Richard B. Patt and coauthor Susan S. Lang, it was a resounding vindication of the findings they set forth in You Don't Have to Suffer. Written by one of the country's leading cancer pain experts and science writer Lang, You Don't Have to Suffer provides an invaluable, no-nonsense handbook for anyone with cancer, for anyone caring for a loved one with cancer, and for the doctors and nurses who treat these patients. The authors first illuminate the reasons why patients are so often undermedicated, including unfounded fears of addiction, patients thinking they need to tough it out, time-consuming paperwork for doctors who prescribe narcotics, and laws that fail to distinguish between drug abuse and the legitimate employment of narcotics. In a careful argument now taken up by the AHCPR's guidelines, Lang and Patt demonstrate that properly medicated patients are better able to resume active lives and marshall strength to fight their disease--while those in chronic pain not only suffer, but also may jeopardize their potential for recovery. You Don't Have to Suffer explores all the pain-relieving options available in the modern medical arsenal--from drugs and high-tech medical procedures to psychological and cognitive techniques and home nursing tips to make a patient more comfortable. Detailed chapters discuss the medications that can fight cancer pain or relieve the undesirable side effects of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and other cancer treatments; anaesthetic and neurosurgical options for pain that has not responded well to simpler techniques; ways to prevent or relieve constipation, nausea, drowsiness, and other complaints of cancer patients; and mind/body techniques and other ways of coping with depression and various psychological symptoms that contribute to the relief of suffering. Pulling together a wealth of long-needed information on the latest medical advances, You Don't Have To Suffer is a volume for the growing numbers of patients, family members, and health-care professionals who are determined to relieve needless cancer pain.

Download or read book In God s Time Behold We are Walking on Holy Ground written by Tara Steckler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara Steckler has worked as a hairdresser for over 401 years. She is member of the Denver Metro Colostomy Support Group sharing her story with nursing students and helping patients adapting to their new colostomy. She has been on staff at the Contemplative Outreach Center for sixteen plus years sharing mindfulness and centering prayer meditation. Her next endeavor is to be an oblate of Saint Benedict - a monk living in the world, aiding the fight against human trafficking and working in the homeless shelters. Closing thoughts... What is my life's purpose? Tears are a sign you've hit divine purpose (to always give back and have the awareness to do so). Thank you for reading my book. I thank all God's people who helped me along the way. I have learned so much from so many. I'm still praying and learning. This is my life's journey to complete this walk with Jesus my savior inside my heart, filling me with gratitude...

Download or read book Life Light and Love Beyond Covid Kelly s True Story of How God Grants us Hope for Miracles Always written by Tim Pleacher and published by BookLocker.com. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Life, Light and Love Beyond Covid,” is the story of Kelly’s struggle for her very life; as told by her husband Tim. Kelly would struggle first against Covid, then against a debilitating stroke, and finally move forward into a challenging recovery. It’s the story of a dedicated hospital staff, the turmoil of family and friends, and the depiction of how a wife’s love, and God’s grace, can rescue a man adrift. She was vibrant and carefree just days prior; but mid-morning of October 3, 2021 found my wife of 39 years on full life support. I watched as the machine breathed for her. I was soon asked to add “Do Not Resuscitate,” to Kelly’s orders. We reluctantly decided to add those distressing words. This could not be happening. In a nightmare from which I could not awake cold sweat gushed, hope faded, and darkness grew. Kelly would spend 17 days on full ventilation, 43 days in Intensive Care, and a record 80 total days hospitalized. She would enduring life threatening complications, and be near death several times. Could God perform the miracles necessary to sustain Kelly’s life? I pray that you are intrigued enough to read the true story of her courage. As the journey unfolds we will perceive God’s love in the lessons the journey imparts. No matter how dreadful the situation, in our most desperate moments we learn that we can speak to the living God, and He will answer. May you receive hope as you read and discover how God can grant us: “Hope for miracles always.”

Download or read book Forensic Science written by Kathy Mirakovits and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic Science: The Basics, Fourth Edition is fully updated, building on the popularity of the prior editions. The book provides a fundamental background in forensic science, criminal investigation and court testimony. It describes how various forms of evidence are collected, preserved and analyzed scientifically, and then presented in court based on the analysis of the forensic expert. The book addresses knowledge of the natural and physical sciences, including biology and chemistry, while introducing readers to the application of science to the justice system. New topics added to this edition include coverage of the formation and work of the NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSACs), new sections on forensic palynology (pollen), forensic taphonomy, the opioid crisis, forensic genetics and genealogy, recent COVID-19 fraud schemes perpetrated by cybercriminals, and a wholly new chapter on forensic psychology. Each chapter presents a set of learning objectives, a mini glossary, and acronyms. While chapter topics and coverage flow logically, each chapter can stand on its own, allowing for continuous or selected classroom reading and study. Forensic Science, Fourth Edition is an ideal introductory textbook to present forensic science principles and practices to students, including those with a basic science background without requiring prior forensic science coursework.

Download or read book When the Servant Becomes the Master written by Jason Z.W. Powers and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to all things related to addiction and its treatments—newly revised. The updated and revised second edition is a must-read for anyone struggling with addiction, their families, and the professionals who desire to know more about this baffling disease. Jason Powers, MD, approaches addiction from a variety of different angles, clearly and carefully attacking myths and misinformation, and bringing the reader up to date with the most current scientific and popular literature on addiction. Dr. Powers illuminates the entire spectrum of addiction-related topics, from neuroscience to treatment options, and guides the reader through the extensive material and to a more humane yet medically driven view of the true meaning of the disease of addiction. • Written with empathy and compassion by a physician specializing in addiction medicine who is in long-term recovery. • Updated with contemporary neuroscience and state-of-the-art information that includes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). • Integrates the author's vast clinical experience with a thorough review of related literature into a passionate and compelling guide for patients, loved ones, and clinicians. Jason ZW Powers, MD, DABAM, DABFM, is a board-certified addictionologist and family medicine physician. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. Powers is the Chief Medical Officer of Chief Medical Officer of TRS Behavioral, Inc.

Download or read book The Nightingales of Troy Connected Stories written by Alice Fulton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Outstanding....Alice Fulton reveals herself to be triumphantly at home in the short story.”—Boston Sunday Globe In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville—a passion both lonely and funny—shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy, the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love.

Download or read book A Medicated Empire written by Timothy M. Yang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia's most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshi's connections to Japan's emerging nation-state and empire, and on the ways in which it embraced an ideology of modern medicine as a humanitarian endeavor for greater social good, Yang shows how the industry promoted a hygienic, middle-class culture that was part of Japan's national development and imperial expansion. Yang makes clear that the company's fortunes had less to do with scientific breakthroughs and medical innovations than with Japan's web of social, political, and economic relations. He lays bare Hoshi's business strategies and its connections with politicians and bureaucrats, and he describes how public health authorities dismissed many of its products as placebos at best and poisons at worst. Hoshi, like other pharmaceutical companies of the time, depended on resources and markets opened up, often violently, through colonization. Combining global histories of business, medicine, and imperialism, A Medicated Empire shows how the development of the pharmaceutical industry simultaneously supported and subverted regimes of public health at home and abroad.

Download or read book Original Sin in the Twenty First Century written by Richard J. Coleman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Sin in the 21st Century begins with a cold, hard fact: Christians, we have a problem! No one is listening to us when we talk about original sin. That will change as you follow an exploration of original sin as an enduring truth about human nature. This book is not another exposition of either the history or the doctrine of original sin. Rather, it opens up new avenues of consideration, such as original goodness as a counterweight to original sin, a contemporary interpretation of the Adam–Eve narrative, the new relevancy of Reinhold Niebuhr’s recognition that we are not as good as our ideals, and a soul-searching inquiry into whether original sin is too dark or perhaps not dark enough. The twenty-first century is far more than a backdrop. This book invites us to rethink what sin looks like when the world warms, when AI is created in our own image, and when sin thrives on indifference and willful ignorance. The author will quickly convince you this century is both an opportunity and an imperative to rethink original sin for what lies ahead.

Download or read book Christian Ethics Revised Edition written by Wayne Grudem and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 1648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Does the Bible Teach about How to Live in Today's World? How should Christians live when the surrounding culture is increasingly hostile to Christian moral values? Granted, the Bible is our guide—but how can we know if we are interpreting it rightly with regard to ethical questions about wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship, and dozens of other issues? And on a very practical level, how can we know God's will in the ordinary decisions of life? To address questions like these, Wayne Grudem, author of the bestselling book Systematic Theology, draws on 40 years of teaching classes in ethics to write this wide-ranging introduction to biblical moral reasoning, organized according to the structure of the Ten Commandments. He issues a challenging call for Christians to live lives of personal holiness and offers a vision of the Christian life that is full of joy and blessing through living each day in a way that is pleasing to God. Written by Wayne Grudem: Bestselling author of Systematic Theology and the What the Bible Says About series Biblical and Applicable: Teaches readers how to protect 7 central tenets of God's law: God's honor, human authority, life, marriage, property, truth, and purity of heart Accessible: An ideal textbook for Christian college and seminary ethics classes, with straightforward language and a bibliography for the topic at the end of each chapter Replaces ISBN 978-1-4335-4965-6