Download or read book More Than Most written by Feliz Lucas and published by OMF Literature. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than Most takes readers on a journey of faith, pain, loss, and love, as seen through the eyes of Feliz and Jay Jay Lucas, the parents of Caitlin “Courageous Caitie” Lucas. Caitie was a three-year-old girl who suffered from a rare disease. After months of inconclusive diagnoses and medical procedures in the Philippines, she was brought to Singapore, where she was finally diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML). Caitie’s courage and her parents’ faith throughout the ordeal, chronicled in the news and on social media, touched the hearts of thousands of people across the world. Caitie passed away in 2016 but despite her brief life on earth, she lived a life of influence and hope."

Download or read book Without a Prayer written by Susan Ashline and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrifying true story of a fatal encounter inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-turned-cult in upstate New York. Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar—he’d practiced witchcraft and conspired to murder his parents, among other horrific crimes. The confessions earned him a brutal beating by a gang of angry church members, including his parents and sister. Lucas arrived at the hospital dead, awakening the sleepy community of Chadwicks, New York, to the horror that had been lurking next door. Nine members of Lucas’ church would eventually find themselves facing murder-related charges. But how did they get to that point? And what made Lucas confess? The full story has never been told—until now. Emmy-nominated journalist Susan Ashline delves deep into the Leonard family history, the darkness within the Word of Life Christian Church, and what led Lucas, his family, and his community to that fateful night.

Download or read book Liquid Church written by Tim Lucas and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's fluid culture, many churches are adrift--longing to reach spiritually thirsty people, but failing to make an impact. Have you noticed? Congregations are stuck or declining. Millennials and Gen Z are walking away. Volunteers and their generosity are drying up. Is your city, town, or neighborhood spiritually dry? Do you long to see more of the living water of Jesus flowing freely through your community, generating a fresh wave of ministry momentum? Buckle up: you're in for a whitewater ride! Liquid Church tells the fascinating story of a New Jersey church that began "on accident" and grew into one of America's 100 Fastest-Growing Churches, with over 5,000 in weekly attendance and more than 2,400 baptisms to date. Their secret? They harnessed the power of six powerful ministry currents sweeping across North America including: special needs, creative communication, ministry mergers, compassionate cause, radical generosity, and leadership development. With powerful stories and scriptural insights, backed by national research, Tim Lucas and Warren Bird describe dozens of fresh ideas, new ministry wineskins, and hard-won leadership learnings that resonate with rising generations in today's "show-then-tell" culture. Each chapter includes practical tools, real-life examples, and links to "Other Churches Making Waves" with cutting-edge ministry ideas designed to help saturate your city for Christ. Ready to dive deeper? Whether you serve a brand-new church plant, fast-growing congregation, or an aging ministry ready for reinvention, Liquid Church is an inspiring and practical guide for leaders ready to reach their spiritually thirsty neighbors--those who have given up on church, but haven't given up on God.

Download or read book Blessings for Leaders written by Dan R. Ebener and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blessings for Leaders, Dan Ebener skillfully weaves an understanding of one of the most powerful and familiar Bible passages with insights drawn from his experience developing faith-filled leaders in churches, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. Each chapter begins with Scripture, reflects on the inward journey of leadership through the virtues associated with that Beatitude, and addresses some of the outward challenges of leadership. The book makes specific suggestions about mission, vision, core values, followership, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, communication and listening, team-building, meeting facilitation, innovation, and leading change. Straightforward, easy to read, and filled with illuminating stories, this book is ideal for anyone searching for Christian insight into leadership and for groups journeying to a deeper understanding of Jesus' Vision for leadership.

Download or read book 107 Questions Children Ask about Prayer written by Daryl Lucas and published by Tyndale Kids. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes more than 100 entries, beginning with real questions which children have asked and followed by answers, key verses, related verses, and related questions. Notes to parents offer additional tips for handling certain issues.

Download or read book A Sister s Prayer written by Lauren Cox Escoto and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Cox Escoto uses her own cross-cultural experiences in the United States and Mexico to bring this heartwarming debut novel to life. A moving tale of the search for love and family across two cultures, A Sisters Prayer explores the common bonds of human nature that unite all people. When Dulce was a little girl in rural Mexico, her favorite brother, Manolo, ran away, never to be seen again. Now Dulce is old and frail, but she cant get Manolo out of her thoughts. Hoping against hope, her grandson Enrique takes up the quest to find his grandmothers missing brother in time. Along the way, Enrique finds the unexpecteda young woman who may become the love of his life! Meanwhile, Dulce begins the final journey of her life, setting her hope on the One for whom nothing is impossible. Her grown children in Mexico grapple with faith, forgiveness, and the approaching loss of their beloved mother. But one son struggles alone. Living in the United States, Marcos cut ties with his mother Dulce long ago. No one knows the secret pain he carries which divides them. Will Marcos find healing and make peace with his mother before its too late? A Sisters Prayer will touch your heart and lift your soul through its insights into family relationships and its refreshing cultural richness.

Download or read book Dodging Prayers and Bullets written by Karen Beatty and published by Paper Angel Press. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s. In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and dubiously ordained preachers. Young Skyla Fay Jenkins is often forced to choose between what’s labeled “righteous” and what she knows to be right. When her family moves up north to an urban setting, she struggles to overcome the social and gender limitations of the late 1950s and 1960s. Decades later, a chance encounter with a childhood nemesis prompts her to revisit the abiding love and playful river romps of her youth, along with a traumatic abduction and family violence. This fictional story celebrates the ability of a child to survive and thrive, despite those who would do her harm and the failed intentions of those who would protect her. It also explores decades of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, from the perspective of an evolving free-spirited female.

Download or read book Internet Plays For Improvisations and Revisions written by Paulette Fein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 6 original plays, by Paulette Fein, are of various lengths, types, and interactive! Suitable for the internet,stage,indie film,cable,etc. Their improvisations, and revisions can easily be made adaptable for theatre groups' target audiences, as well as classroom exercises and experimentation. The improvisations will help free the actors for their performances with creative directors! The actors may also "keep" some of their improvs, while revising the script for a performance - in many innovative ways!

Download or read book Prayer of the Publican written by Joseph Lucas and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers has inspired Christians for generations. In Prayer of the Publican, Joseph Lucas takes a fresh look at this classic text to see what these ancient sages tell us about dikaiosyne - the righteousness of man and God's justification. From the workshop of the desert comes an approach to justification with implications for both personal spiritual renewal and ecumenical dialogue. "What do the Fathers of the Christian East say about the meaning of justification and righteousness? Whereas "justification" became an important doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church and in the various Protestant denominations, the Eastern Orthodox Church did not develop such a teaching. And yet the language of dikaiosyne is common to both the Septuagint and the New Testament, read and interpreted by all the Greek Fathers. In Prayer of the Publican, Joseph Lucas explores the usage and understanding of dikaiosyne in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers. In the Semitic mindset, the search for truth is manifested in "doing the truth" (the Greek is more important than "to be"). These monastic fathers and mothers interpreted Scripture through the lens of the ascetic life, developing a view of "justification" exemplified in the Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee: to be justified by God, you must actively condemn yourself. The mortification of self-love and egocentricity - those sources of biological death - leads to the rebirth through baptism and repentance unto life in the kingdom." - Rt. Rev. Dr. Maxim (Vasiljevic), Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Western American Diocese "Joseph Lucas has provided a very welcome and illuminating study of dikaiosyne in the writings of the Desert Fathers. His study offers a very fine treatment of the varied meanings of dikaiosyne in these writings, as well as the role of dikaiosyne in the spiritual lives of the Desert Fathers. His appendix on the reception of the Desert Fathers is an added bonus." - Rev. Dr. John D. Jones, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University

Download or read book Ruined by Love written by Bean Sprout and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia thought she had it all, but who could have guessed that her world would be turned upside down. Abortion. Disfigurement. A failed career. A tarnished reputation. She could not figure out how things turned out like this. Maybe it was all because of Curtis! After all, love could destroy a woman’s life.

Download or read book The Little Way of Ruthie Leming written by Rod Dreher and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations-Mardi Gras, L.S.U. football games, and deer hunting. As David Brooks poignantly described Dreher's journey homeward in a recent New York Times column, Dreher and his wife Julie "decided to accept the limitations of small-town life in exchange for the privilege of being part of a community."

Download or read book For Prayers Not Answered written by Melynda Taylor and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhausted by her day-to-day existence of running a demanding business, rearing a teenage son alone, and still recovering from a marriage to a cruel and controlling man, with her son at sleepaway camp, Sybil is getting away for a few days. As she awaits a delayed flight to Lisbon, the nervous flier in the seat beside her at the gate initiates a conversation. They talk most of the way across the Atlantic, and Antonia soon introduces her to Lucas, her husbands best friend, at a large formal party arranged for this purpose. The serious and playful love affair that ensues becomes the crucible of Sybilsand Lucasshealing and transformation.

Download or read book The Fog written by Shelby Nolan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crying, Rocky slid down onto the floor and John walked around to ease down beside her. Pulling her against him, they sat and listened to each other's heartbeats. "He's gone, baby." Sometimes an event happens in life that affects you so strongly it makes you wonder how the people involved in the event feel, how they handled their emotions. This book is about a woman who lost her son and is struggling to hold her marriage together without him. You must decide if The Fog is real. . . or if it's only in her mind. . .

Download or read book Child of Dreams written by Barbara Roose Cramer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child of Dreams is a journey--a journey of two incredible women, both challenged by their individual struggles and goals, who are brought together by an unknown, yet, inspiring destiny. One woman, paralyzed by a childhood disease dreams of winning a paralympic gold medal and the other after a tragic injury leaves her paralyzed, dreams of finding true love. The book is based in part on the true stores of two women with strong family ties, an even stronger faith, and their individual desires to overcome their physical limitations.

Download or read book Rancher Defender written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding fast to his family Lucas Texas Ranger Lucas Ryland was shocked and hurt when Hailey Darrow disappeared after a shared night of passion. Then he found her unconscious in a wrecked car with a fake ID. The one who got away was leaving town with his baby. Now Hailey is awake and still in danger. And Lucas must use every protective instinct in his arsenal to keep Hailey and their infant son safe. Drury When FBI agent Drury Ryland returns to his family's cattle ranch in Texas, he's confronted with the ghosts of his past…and a threat to his future. Caitlyn Denson, the woman who broke his heart, arrives with a killer on her trail and a newborn daughter in her arms. Drury must protect the family he never had, but professional boundaries blur as their enemy shifts into stark focus… USA TODAY Bestselling Author Previously published as Lucas and Drury

Download or read book The Winter Pearl written by Molly Noble Bull and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888, Colorado was a dangerous place for a girl on therun. But Honor McCall had to escape from her drunken uncle. She never imagined that she'd be rescued by a handsomeyoung minister or find a place to call home in his church. The Rev. Jethro Peters' kindness was more than she couldever repay. So how could she stay on—accepting charity whilehiding the truth about the danger that stalked her and hidingher love for a man who might never return her feelings? She had to leave, but she just couldn't seem to go—andthen Christmas brought a special miracle.…

Download or read book No Turning Back written by Milana Abramov and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a young man who changed his gender because he didn’t want to be like his gay father and his adventure after his transformation. 2