Download or read book The Pastor s Replacement Bride written by George H. McVey and published by Mountain Man Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the daughters, sisters and mothers of several town men approach the Pastor Joshua for his blessing on a church endorsed mail order bride scheme the frazzled Minister see's a way to stop all the advances of the mayor's daughter. He slips his own letter into the packet before it is mailed out to the churches in Richmond, Philadelphia and Chicago seeking his own bride. When the stage arrives with the brides Joshua finds his didn't make the trip. However, his heart has chosen another, his intended's best friend. Can he help her overcome her guilt at stealing her friend's beau, or are they destined for heartache? Can he truly prove he loves her and make her The Pastor's Replacement Bride? In Chicago, Hattie Long is about to end her indentured service as a cook's helper in one of the upscale brothels in Chi town. The gangster who owns the brothel informs her that when her service is up he will take her under his wing and show her how to please his customers and make her his star attraction. At the advice of her pastor's daughter with the same name as her tells her about a group of women going west to become mail order brides including herself. They arrange for her to join them. But on the day of departure Hattie's friend is struck down with scarlet fever. When the brides arrive in Sanctuary her friend's beau, Pastor Joshua Bryce, decides to court her to escape a forced marriage by the deacons. Soon trouble follows and Hattie has to escape her past. Can she finally find her happily ever after as the Pastor's Replacement Bride?
Download or read book The Preacher s Bride written by Jody Hedlund and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1650s England, a young Puritan maiden is on a mission to save the baby of her newly widowed preacher--whether her assistance is wanted or not. Always ready to help those in need, Elizabeth ignores John's protests of her aid. She's even willing to risk her lone marriage prospect to help the little family. Yet Elizabeth's new role as nanny takes a dangerous turn when John's boldness from the pulpit makes him a target of political and religious leaders. As the preacher's enemies become desperate to silence him, they draw Elizabeth into a deadly web of deception. Finding herself in more danger than she ever bargained for, she's more determined than ever to save the child--and man--she's come to love.
Download or read book The Substitute Bride written by Janet Dean and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can't be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father's gambling debts. But Ted Logan's rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove to be more of a challenge than Elizabeth expects. She doesn't know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn't even know how to tell Ted the truth about her past—especially as her feelings for him grow. Little does she know, Ted's hiding secrets of his own, and when their pasts collide, there's more than one heart at stake.
Download or read book The Preacher s Bride Collection written by Kimberley Comeaux and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Takes an Extra Special Woman to Be a Preacher’s Bride Six men are dedicated to proclaiming God’s Word—and six women wonder if they’re cut out to support that calling. Being a helpmate to a pastor is no easy task. They must step out in a special kind of faith and love to become preachers’ brides. . . . Remember Me by Kimberley Comeaux North suffers an injury, loses his memory, and believes he is a Scottish pastor. Helen hopes he just might fall in love with her, if he isn’t bound by his social standings as a duke. Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy by Kristy Dykes Shirley feels like she’s never known anything of life beyond her little country church. She wants more out life. Then she meets Forrest Townsend, the new parson—who just might change her mind. In Miss Bliss and the Bear by Darlene Franklin Annie knits hats and mittens for soldiers. But chaplain Jeremiah Arnold isn’t sure he wants a woman hanging around the fort—even one as beautiful and well meaning as Miss Bliss. . . . A Bride for the Preacher by Sally Laity It’s Emma’s dream to doctor the needy, and she hopes there might be a place for her in new territory out west. She isn’t interested in marriage—until she nurses a certain preacher’s fever. Renegade Husband by DiAnn Mills Audra moves to frontier Colorado to marry the local pastor and is assured a life of adventure. She never realizes how much adventure until her stagecoach is robbed and her future husband seems to be the culprit. . . . Silence of the Sage by Colleen L. Reece Ever dutiful and just, Reverend Gideon Scott takes a bride in name only. But soon the reverend abandons both family and church in search of truth that will clear his tarnished name.
Download or read book The Substitute Bride written by Linda S. Glaz and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jared Callahan's mysterious bride Rancher Jared Callahan eagerly awaited the arrival of his mail-order bride. But instead of the kindhearted woman who wrote about escaping her constrained city life, the beauty who arrived in his remote frontier town couldn't remember anything. Not him, not their long-distance courtship, not even her own name. What is he going to do with this petite spitfire? Dazed and confused from a railway accident, Rebecca Layne finds herself saying "I do" to the handsome stranger who claims to be her betrothed. But as feelings for Jared blossom, the mysteries of her past threaten to unravel her life at the seams. Only when the truth is finally revealed can this marriage of convenience ever become a true union of love.
Download or read book The Substitute Bride written by Carrie Fancett Pagels and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christmas Carol meets It's A Wonderful Life A letter for Sonja's deceased friend arrives at the post office in Michigan, and with it a proposal. With her father threatening to kick her out of his home, Sonja impulsively responds, offering to travel west to be a substitute bride. At the same time, Louis's railroad promotion sends him back to Michigan, the one place on earth he'd hoped to never return-where Christmas past was full of pain. A mysterious stranger leaves him marked copies of "A Christmas Carol" as he considers romancing Sonja in Christmas present. Will Louis discern the best choices for Christmas future? Does it include the Poor House, again? Even so-will God bring healing and love to him this year?
Download or read book Redeeming Reputation written by George H. Mcvey, Sr. and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ya'll best be fearin the Preacher. He'll either change you with religion or send you to Hell hisself. One way or another, when you meet the Preacher you're gonna be meeting the Good Lord too, either in your heart or in person. Either way the choice is yours." - Joe Cattleman, Franklin Bartender Nathan Ryder wants nothing more than to get to Redemption, New Mexico, and start his career as a circuit riding preacher. He stops to meet up with his grandfather in Franklin, Missouri only to find that his grandfather has died. He steps in to save a damsel in distress and at the end of the night Nathan has gained the reputation as a fast gun hand. Every time he tries to be who he thinks he's supposed to be another gunslinger comes and the body count rises. Nathan's anxiety rises with it. How does a man who is called to save sinners from the pits of hell reconcile that he is responsible for sending some there personally? As he continues to try to leave Franklin he wonders about his own reputation. He's been saddled with a young single woman and he worries about her reputation. How does he fulfill his obligations and still redeem his own reputation? How will he reconcile his talents with a gun and the reputation he's gained with the one he wants to have, as a man of God and peacemaker? Especially with the area's most notorious gunslinger dead set on a showdown. If he only knew how to have a Redeeming Reputation instead of the one he stumbled into.
Download or read book The Replacement Bride written by Cynthia Woolf and published by Firehouse Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Donovan spent the last four years chasing gold, hoping to convince his New York fiancee to join him. He's now rich, successful, and eager for his wife-to-be to make the trip out west. But now that it's time to travel to Hope's Crossing and marry Jesse, the New York socialite sends him a letter informing him of her intention to marry another. Heartbroken and lonely, Jesse contacts Matchmaker & Co. for a mail order bride. Clarissa "Clare" Griggs is the eldest daughter of a poor farmer who is barely surviving off the land. At twenty-three, she is an old maid and a burden on her family. Clare knows what love looks like, and she wants a family of her own. Volunteering as a mail order bride seems to be the perfect answer to her dilemma. Her family will be better off, and she can find her own love story, happiness and finally become a mother. But Hope's Crossing isn't the ideal location that Jesse or Clare dreamed. A bitter rival is trying to kill Jesse and take his mine. Jesse's broken heart won't allow him to love Clare the way she needs, and Clare refuses to live with a man who doesn't love her. When the enemy threatens Clare's life, Jesse realizes Clare has become a part of him, a vital piece of his heart and soul -- but is he too late?
Download or read book The Substitute Bride written by Carrie Fancett Pagels and published by Hearts Overcoming Press. This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Award Finalist 2016 in Romance NovellasA Christmas Carol meets It¿s A Wonderful Life A letter for Sonja¿s deceased friend arrives at the post office in Michigan, and with it a proposal. With her father threatening to kick her out of his home, Sonja impulsively responds, offering to travel west to be a substitute bride. At the same time, Louis¿s railroad promotion sends him back to Michigan, the one place on earth he¿d hoped to never return¿where Christmas past was full of pain. A mysterious stranger leaves him marked copies of ¿A Christmas Carol¿ as he considers romancing Sonja in Christmas present. Will Louis discern the best choices for Christmas future? Does it include the Poor House, again? Even so¿will God bring healing and love to him this year?
Download or read book Parkside Community Church written by Katie Crabapple and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a set of five shorts stories that chronicle the changes taking place in a church when a new pastor takes over from one who has been in place for twenty years. They are five short romances, most with a comedic bent that will thrill the romance lover in anyone.
Download or read book Substitute Bride written by Angela Devine and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Substitute Bride written by Devine, Angela and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Preacher s Wife written by Kate Bowler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket
Download or read book The Substitute Bride written by Clare Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Download or read book Emboldened written by Tara Beth Leach and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are central to the mission of God. Pastor Tara Beth Leach issues a stirring call for a new generation of women in ministry: to teach, to preach, to shepherd, and to lead. Providing practical advice and encouragement, Leach shows how God not only permits women to minister—he emboldens, empowers, and unleashes them to lead out of the fullness of who they are.
Download or read book God Redeeming His Bride written by Robert K. Cheong and published by Christian Focus. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly practical and gracious advice on church discipline. Includes interviews with over 30 pastors from different countries and backgrounds.
Download or read book Pastors Their Rights and Duties According to the New Code of Canon Law written by Charles Joseph Koudelka and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
