Download or read book Colton s Salvation written by Kristine Allen and published by Demented Sons Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The army taught me to kill. Every flex of hard earned muscle was for my country. I didn't need shit else except my rifle, my brothers, and the enemy. I was born to fight. Then the military cut me loose. Civilian life. Two words dirtier than the bloodshed downrange. I didn’t want my freedom. I wanted my goddamn purpose back. I wanted my government issued rifle in my hands. I wanted to taste the grit of foreign soil. I wanted to fight until I drew my last breath... Then she crossed in front of my path—carrying our child.
Download or read book Heaven Is for Real written by Todd Burpo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear. Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us. Told by the father, but often in Colton's own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.
Download or read book a Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition written by Todd Burpo and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller with more than 11 million copies sold! When 4-year-old Colton Burpo emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven, his family doesn’t know what to believe. Heaven is For Real details what Colton saw and his family’s journey towards accepting their young son had visited the afterlife. “Do you remember the hospital, Colton?” Sonja said. “Yes, mommy, I remember,” he said. “That’s where the angels sang to me.” Colton told his parents he left his body during an emergency surgery–and proved that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital during his operation. He talked of visiting heaven and described events that happened before he was born and how he spoke with family members he’d never met. Colton also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, even though he had not yet learned to read. With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton recounts his visit to heaven, describing: Meeting long-departed family members Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us How Jesus called Todd, Colton’s father, to be a pastor The Battle of Armageddon Retold by his father, but using Colton’s uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, “Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses.” Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child. Praise for Heaven is for Real: “A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe.” —Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me
Download or read book Mason s Resolution written by Kristine Allen and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watching your best friend find happiness and salvation can cultivate a longing and desire for that level of devotion. Even if that wasn't what you thought you were looking for.Mason Lange had always been the fun, happy, life of the party guy. But sometimes laughter covers deep wounds. He loved the Army and being a spotter for his best friend, Colton, but injuries and loss ended his desire to continue putting his life on the line. Haunted, he returns home to join the Demented Sons MC in an effort to find the comradery he lost. Betrayal and a promise to his sister had resolved him to trust lightly and never ruin another's relationship. But when the club goes to Vegas to celebrate his best friend's wedding, he meets the woman who will bring him to his knees.Becca Kannan grew up wild, carefree and happy. "No party too big" was her motto. When she became an elementary school art teacher she knew she needed to curb her wild ways and put on the respectable hat. She thought Trevor was the perfect man to keep her on the straight and narrow. Not to mention, her parents think he's perfect and she fears leaving him would just be another disappointment to them. But wearing a shell of someone she's not, eventually smothers her. Vegas, for her best friend's wedding, is the perfect opportunity to let loose, have fun and find herself again. She never expected to find the man who would complete her. A misunderstanding ends their relationship before it can begin and it takes the disintegration of Becca's job and life as she knows it, to put him back in her path.As soon as Mason and Becca are in the same room together, the undeniable chemistry they share sends sparks flying. Can they learn to open their hearts and trust each other enough to build something lasting from the flames? Or will they let their past heartaches destroy the possibilities of their future.Mason's Resolution is a story of the masks two stubborn souls feel obligated to display to their friends and families. A story of resolutions born from hurt, and how love can overcome it all, if only they have the courage to let go.
Download or read book Selected Works of Arthur Willis Colton written by Arthur Willis Colton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN the Fall of the year when Krakatoa blew its head off in the East Indies, and sent its dust around the world, I fell sick of a fever in the city of Portate, which is on the west coast of South America. Portate had the latest brand of municipal enterprise and the oldest brand of fever. But they call any kind of sickness a fever there, to save trouble, and bury the alien with as little trouble as possible. I started for home, and came as far as Nassau, which is a town in the Bahamas. There, a wasted and dismal shape, I somehow fell into the hands of one Dr. Ulswater, who tended and medicined by back into the world of sunlight and other interesting objects. Nassau runs up the side of a bluff and overlooks a blue and dimpled harbour. Dr. Ulswater at last began to take me with him, to lie on the rocks and watch him search in the harbour shoals for small cuttlefish. He used a three-pronged spear to stir them out of their lairs, and a long knife to put into their vital points with skilful surgery. They waved and slapped their wild blistered arms around his neck and shoulders, while he poked placidly into their vitality. So, being entertained and happy, I recovered from yellow fever. By that time my handsome name, given by parents who recognised my merits, "Christopher Kirby," had come down handily in Dr. Ulswater's usage to "Kit," and we loved each other as two men can who are to each other a perpetual entertainment. Dr. Ulswater was a large, bushy man in the prime of a varied life. Born an American, he had studied in German universities, practised medicine in Italy, and afterward in Ceylon. One of his hobbies was South-American archaeology. He owned a silver mine in Nevada, and kept a sort of residence in New York at this time, and was collecting specimens for a New England museum. So that he was what you might call a distributed man, for he had been in most countries of the globe; yet he was not a "globe-trotter," but rather a floater,—in a manner resembling sea-weed, that drifts from place to place, but, wherever it drifts or clings, is tranquil and accommodating. He seemed to me suitable to the tropics and their seas,—large, easy, and warm of body; his learning like the sea, mysterious and bottomless; his mind luxuriously fertile, but somewhat ungoverned. His idioms were mixed, his conversations opalescent; his criticism of himself was that he had not personality enough. "No, my dear," he said, wrapping a dead cuttlefish up neatly in its own arms, "I am like a cuttlefish whose vital point is loose. You are an ignorant person, with prepossessions beyond belief, and absurd deferences for clothing and cleanliness; but you have personality and entertaining virtues. Therefore I will let you smoke two cigars to-night instead of one, and to-morrow maybe three, for your sickness is becoming an hypocrisy." Then we went over the rocks to our boat and the sulky sleepy negro boatman, the doctor with his flabby bundled cuttlefish, and I with a basket full of coral and conch-shells. The boatman rowed us out over a sea garden with submerged coral grottos; pink and white coral, branching and the "brain" coral, sea-fans and purple sea-feathers, coral shrubs, coral in shelving masses; also sponges, and green hanging moss, and yellow, emerald, and scarlet fish, silver, satin, ringed, fringed, spotted;—all deep beneath in their liquid, deluding atmosphere,—a cold vision, outlandish, brilliant, and grotesque, over which we floated and looked down.
Download or read book The Search for Social Salvation written by Gary Scott Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their studies of social Christianity, scholars of American religion have devoted critical attention to a group of theologically liberal pastors, primarily in the Northeast. Gary Scott Smith attempts to paint a more complete picture of the movement. Smith's ambitious and thorough study amply demonstrates how social Christianity--which included blacks, women, Southerners, and Westerners--worked to solve industrial, political, and urban problems; reduce racial discrimination; increase the status of women; curb drunkenness and prostitution; strengthen the family; upgrade public schools; and raise the quality of public health. In his analysis of the available scholarship and case studies of individuals, organizations, and campaigns central to the movement, Smith makes a convincing case that social Christianity was the most widespread, long-lasting, and influential religious social reform movement in American history.
Download or read book Heaven written by Randy Alcorn and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 Million Copies Sold! Have you ever wondered . . . ? What is Heaven really going to be like? What will we look like? What will we do every day? Won’t Heaven get boring after a while? We all have questions about what Heaven will be like, and after twenty-five years of extensive research, Dr. Randy Alcorn has the answers. In the most comprehensive and definitive book on Heaven to date, Randy invites you to picture Heaven the way Scripture describes it—a bright, vibrant, and physical New Earth, free from sin, suffering, and death, and brimming with Christ’s presence, wondrous natural beauty, and the richness of human culture as God intended it. This is a book about real people with real bodies enjoying close relationships with God and each other, eating, drinking, working, playing, traveling, worshiping, and discovering on a New Earth. Earth as God created it. Earth as he intended it to be. The next time you hear someone say, “We can’t begin to image what Heaven will be like,” you’ll be able to tell them, “I can.” “Other than the Bible itself, this may well be the single most life-changing book you’ll ever read.” —Stu Weber “This is the best book on Heaven I’ve ever read.” —Rick Warren “Randy Alcorn’s thorough mind and careful pen have produced a treasury about Heaven that will inform my own writing for years to come.” —Jerry B. Jenkins “Randy does an awesome job of answering people’s toughest questions about what lies on the other side of death.” —Joni Eareckson Tada About the Author Randy Alcorn is an author and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit ministry dedicated to teaching principles of God’s Word and assisting the church in ministering to unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. A New York Times bestselling author of over 50 books, including Heaven, The Treasure Principle, If God Is Good, Happiness, and the award-winning novel Safely Home, his books sold exceed eleven million copies and have been translated into over seventy languages.
Download or read book Colton written by Melissa Belle and published by Autumn Ink Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She never thought she'd see him again...A second chance sports romance in the bestselling Wild Men series by USA Today Bestselling author Melissa Belle. Sky Colton Wild isn’t just the famous football player everyone sees on their television screen. I met Colton one summer vacation when we lined up on opposite sides of a flag football field. He was the cocky kid with clear blue eyes and a constant smirk. When he picked me up over his shoulder and ran with me the length of the field, I wanted to hate him. But somehow we were the last two left around the campfire that night. We talked for hours under the stars. And when he kissed me, I didn’t want him to stop. The next morning, I left. I thought I’d never see him again. And for ten years, I didn’t. Colton Sky Rosewood was the one that got away, the fiery redhead with a temper to match. It felt like way more than a teenage crush, but what did I know back then? I tried everything to find her, but it was like she’d disappeared into the ethers. Ten years later, I’m out for my morning beach run and I crash into…Sky Rosewood, just before she gets knocked out by an errant wave. I try to be a gentleman and give her mouth to mouth, but she comes to and tells me off, her temper still intact. And so is my crush. Except now Sky’s a woman. A beautiful woman. I’ve got my second chance with the woman I never forgot, and there’s no way I’m letting her get away again. Turns out I shouldn’t have been so cocky…
Download or read book Kayde s Temptation written by Kristine Allen and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes fate is kind enough to give us a second chance...Kayde Maguire became a Marine so he didn't have to watch the woman he loved, marry his best friend. The problem was, she had been his best friend, too. So leaving home still left him feeling like he'd cut his heart out and left it lying on the ground. For years, he felt like the cold, heartless bastard many people called him. He could kill a man without batting an eye, but being part of the Marine's Force Recon taught him those necessary skills; It wasn't what he'd aspired to become. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, deep down, he was still the sensitive young boy who stopped to help the little girl who always fell behind, despite desperately trying to keep up to three rambunctious boys. To keep her "out of sight and out of mind," after the Marines, he relocates states away and joins the Demented Sons MC with his buddy, Hacker.Serafina Hernandez claimed Kayde as her best friend when she was only four years old, and she thought he would always be there for her. Kayde, Tyler and her brother, Christian, were known as the "Three Musketeers," and so when she married Tyler, she never anticipated Kayde would desert them for the Marine Corps. When tragedy strikes, her world crumbles, and she barely keeps her sanity. Lawrence seemed like the savior she needed, but he wasn't Kayde. When life shows her it can always get worse, and she needs her best friend more than ever, he isn't there. Unfortunately, he's the only one she can think to contact when she needs to disappear. Kayde and Sera were destined to be together, but people don't always follow the path laid out for them. Hesitation and feeling he wasn't good enough, cost him Sera once. Can Kayde take advantage of the second chance fate has handed him? Will Sera admit she loves him, or will she continue to push him away, because she feels like she loses everyone she loves?
Download or read book Heaven is for Real for Kids written by Todd Burpo and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven is for real, and you are going to like it! Colton Burpo came back from his trip to heaven with a very important message: Jesus really, really loves children. In an effort to reach even more families with this eternally significant story, this runaway bestseller is now told from Colton-kid to kids! Children will receive the same comfort and assurance that so many adults have received from the trade book. Beautifully illustrated under Colton's direction, he shares his experiences in first person and comments on things that will be important to kids. A letter to parents is included to guide them as they talk to their children about heaven. Scripture along with a Q&A section with answers from the Bible are also included in the book.
Download or read book The Degan Incident written by Rob Colton and published by Rob Colton. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely spaceport worker Devin McSmith meets Bastian Drago, an exotic and beastly alien from the planet Dega, and begins an adventure that takes him to the stars and beyond. While working at Earth's Spaceport Prime, Devin McSmith meets Bastian Drago, an exotic and beastly alien from the planet Dega. Devin and Bastian get to know each other and their relationship quickly heats up. Just as they begin to fall in love, Bastian disappears without a trace. When Devin's encounter with Bastian triggers a startling change in his body, he is taken captive and held in a top-secret research facility. Will Bastian find Devin before it's too late?
Download or read book The Coltons of Eden Falls Complete Collection written by Justine Davis and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young girls disappear from an Amish community, law enforcement and America’s “royal” family join forces to investigate. Colton Destiny A series of kidnappings hits too close to home for FBI agent Emma Colton—and she’s determined to make things right. Unfortunately, a forbidden attraction to Paradise Ridge’s most eligible widower is a major step toward wrong. Carpenter Caleb Troyer didn’t expect to love again, especially an Englisher with her own haunted secrets. But one false move could destroy everything. The closer she comes to finding his sister, the closer danger comes to finding them…. Colton’s Ranch Refuge Ex-soldier Gunnar Colton’s only focus is shaking off the horrors of war in his remote cabin—until a murderer abducts another victim from the neighboring Amish community. Now it’s his duty to protect the eyewitness who’s the next likely target. But the minute Gunnar lets the starlet and her twin baby boys into his home, the guard around his heart starts to crack. One taste of passion shows him the future he could have with Violet—if the threat closing in doesn’t claim them both. Colton’s Deep Cover Running from an abusive past, nurse Chloe Moreno arms herself with a new identity and seeks an uncomplicated life in Eden Falls. But her security in the once-peaceful community is crumbling fast. She needs someone to trust…and no one fits the bill better than Dr. Derek Colton. And once desire puts her in his arms, he must destroy the threat that’s lingering far too close. Colton Showdown Hiding in New York City with a handsome detective? Amish seamstress and key witness Hannah Troyer’s more than a little out of her element. The big city—and men like detective Tate Colton—are part of a world that’s nothing like what she’s used to. As danger inches closer, he’s her only route to safety…and a forbidden attraction she dares to indulge in.
Download or read book Colton s Cowboy Code written by Melissa Cutler and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family secrets and a deadly stalker haunt The Coltons of Oklahoma… Cowboy Brett Colton has reformed his bad-boy ways. And he has ambitious plans to transform the Lucky C ranch. Then he discovers that his one passion-filled night with gorgeous accountant Hannah Grayson resulted in pregnancy—an unexpected hiccup. Though excited by the prospect of fatherhood, Brett puts the brakes on romance. He is determined to bring Hannah and his unborn child into the family. But he doesn't anticipate the strong feelings he has for Hannah…or that he is putting her in danger. Because a vengeful phantom is targeting the Coltons. All that matters is keeping his new family safe…and perhaps fighting for love in the end.
Download or read book Revering God written by Thaddeus J. Williams and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover profound insight into God's attributes and learn practical ways to live a God-centered life that bridges the gap between abstract theology and awe-inspiring devotion. The chief reason we exist is to glorify and enjoy God. But for many, God remains a vague cloud of cosmic kindness, a super-sized projection of ourselves into the sky, or an impossible-to-please killjoy. Who is God, really? Who is this being we should thank for our next breath? Written in the great tradition of classic discipleship works like A. W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God, J.I. Packer's Knowing God, and R.C. Sproul's The Holiness of God, this discipleship guide stands out as our generation's invitation to good theology that yields profound, reverent, God-centered living. Bestselling author of Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth invites you to live a more theologically robust and biblical life as you learn how art, cinema, music, philosophy, psychology, apologetics, church history, and most importantly Scripture, can deepen your understanding and enjoyment of God. This book is perfect for those who: Are looking to deepen their faith and understanding of theology. Feel that their grasp of theology has weakened their pure enjoyment of God. Want to rise to the call of selfless discipleship amid the moral chaos of our world. Throughout the book, you'll find stories from brilliant living theologians and leaders, including Joni Eareckson-Tada, Michael Horton, John Perkins, Fred Sanders, each sharing how a particular divine attribute has impacted their personal lives.
Download or read book Not a Fan Updated and Expanded written by Kyle Idleman and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a Fan has already called more than one million readers to consider the demands and rewards of being a true disciple--moving from fan to follower in their relationship with Jesus. After years of serving God, pastor and bestselling author Kyle Idleman had a startling revelation: for too long, he had been living as a fan of Jesus; someone who tried to make Christianity seem as appealing, comfortable, and convenient as he possibly could to others. Idleman decided something had to change--he needed to embark on the journey of becoming a completely committed follower of God, not just a fan. Fans want to be close enough to Jesus to get all the benefits, but not so close that it requires sacrifice, while followers are all in and completely committed to Christ. Not a Fan gives you the tools you need to determine exactly where you stand when it comes to your relationship with Jesus. No matter where you are in your walk with Christ, Not a Fan calls you to consider the demands and rewards of being a true disciple. With frankness and a touch of humor, Idleman invites you to: Examine your relationship with God Determine if you're following Jesus or just following the rules Pray the way Jesus prayed Start truly living for the one who gave his all for you This expanded and updated version of Not a Fan also includes a new introduction and an entirely new chapter about how to practically live out the book's core message. Join Idleman as he challenges you to take an honest look at your relationship with Jesus and discover what it really means to be a follower.
Download or read book Counting Coup written by Larry Colton and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles a Montana high-school girls' basketball team--made up of Crow Indian and white girls from a rural town--that carries on its shoulders the dreams and hopes of a Native American tribe during their winning season.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Thoughts written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
