Download or read book Grace in the Rearview Mirror written by Kelly Demo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These stories are poignant, inspiring, moving and, above all, real." —Michael Curry Have you ever wondered if God is missing in the mundane? Four women priests have found God in the most unexpected places: in a dive bar, at the drugstore, and even at the grave. As we go about our everyday lives, the divine can feel illusive: grappling with the realities of cancer, infertility treatments, searching for a birth story, and honoring the divine in a child with autism. Yet God was there all along. This book is a guide to help you name God’s presence in your own history. Reflection questions and instructions are included for writing and sharing your spiritual autobiography in the hope that you, too, discover grace in the rearview mirror.
Download or read book Faces of Faith written by David Kerrigan Fly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Faces of Faith: Reflections in a Rearview Mirror, David Fly writes, A few years ago, I noticed that automakers had come up with the line Ive looked for all my life. They put it on the rearview mirror on the passenger side. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. Thats the way it is with my family. They are the faces in my rearview mirror. Telling stories about them has brought them closer, has taught me who I am and where I belong, and has revealed the Spirit of God. If I didnt tell those stories again, I would miss them terribly. Thats what this book is all about.
Download or read book God in the Rearview Mirror written by Roxanne Herrera and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was twelve I heard Psalm 51:10 while I was at a church youth group meeting. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. This has become the scripture of my life. Whenever there has been a time that I felt impure or hollow, these words would ring in my memory, clear as an echo ringing through mountains and bring an avalanche of love that would wash over me. These were the words I kept close to my heart when I feared the worst. Psalm 51:10 served as a steadfast reminder that there was a place out in the world for me, and that I was meant to feel happy. Though she has led a life of struggles, Roxanne Herrera has overcome them all through her faith in God. Surviving molestation, abuse, rape, homelessness, asthma, and cancer, Herrera persevered to find that God had always been on her side, even though there were times she didn't realize it. Her book shows the trials and tribulations of her life, and how she finally came to realize that God was with her all along.
Download or read book A View of God From My Rearview Mirror written by Jim Rice and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Rice is a general contractor, the owner of Forest Construction Company, Inc., Showcase Kitchens & Baths, and DeNeal Construction Services, Inc. In addition to his business pursuits, Jim has spent most of his adult life in the ministry as the leader of the well-known Christian country band Brush Arbor, and as a popular speaker and teacher. Jim is a graduate of Fuller Seminary with a degree in marriage and family counseling. Jim lives in Camarillo, CA, with his wife, Daryl. They have one grown daughter, Jaime, who is now married and living nearby. Oftentimes we can't see God's involvement in our lives on an everyday basis. We don't see what He is doing until we look back at the events of our life, after they are past, and see how God has done incredible things, miracles sometimes. A VIEW OF GOD FROM MY REARVIEW MIRROR is stories, lessons and miracles from the life of Jim Rice. Jim brings an insightful look into issues that we all face in daily living, and he imparts a fresh faith to believe God for His participation in the everyday aspects of our lives. These stories will encourage you to see what God is doing every day in your own life.
Download or read book Lessons in the Rearview Mirror written by Phil J. Baker and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordained minister, Phil J. Baker is founder and CEO of Hosea 4:6 Ministries, which is dedicated to exhorting Christians to learn about the Bible, American history, church history, and current events and to become active in the political and cultural issues of America. He retired in April of 2008 after almost 30 years in the newspaper industry to pursue full-time ministry. A 1977 graduate of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tenn., Phil has garnered numerous writing awards through the Alabama Press Association and has also been recognized for his writing by the Alabama Medical Association and the Alabama Association of School Boards. He was a 2003 finalist in the Amy Foundation national awards for religious columns. Phil and Sandra, his wife of 28 years, have two grown daughters. Katie is a graduate student at the University of Montevallo in Alabama. Shelly and her husband Michael live in Nashville, Tenn., where Michael is youth minister at Christ Church in Brentwood, and Shelly works in the Spanish ministry and tries to keep up with their 2-year-old daughter, Nadia. "Phil Baker's life is one that so many of us baby boomers can identify with. His life experiences, like ours, are both joyful and painful. Phil has the God-given gift of being able to take his "rear-view mirror" experiences and turn them into practical road maps for his own life as well as our own. Superb!" - Daniel A. Moore, nationally known sports artist and author "Lessons in the Rear View Mirror" is a powerful book that drives home the realities of the gospel. This book is great for a sit-down read or to be used as a daily devotional. Phil does an amazing job communicating the principles of scripture, in a real life way. - Keith Hodges, pastor of Liberty Church, Arab, AL
Download or read book Life in the Rearview Mirror written by Greg Campbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life is meant to be lived " Books communicate ideas, yes, but they are more than that. The book you are holding, along with Greg's previous writing (A Journey Shared, 2005), invites you on a journey. It's the life he has lived over the past year or so-shared. It's the ups and the downs, not compressed into scholarly jargon, but hopefully fresh and real, and like a conversation at the corner cafe. There are some deep things in this book, and some more light-hearted. Subjects ranging from the character of God (love, grace, mercy), to life with small kids, to divorce and blended families, to death, taxes, and a whole section on money. But all of it is an invitation to think along with the author, to travel together on the path trod over the past twelve months. The book does not assume to present all the answers to the questions posed. Certainly not. But Greg has pondered the side things, and invites you to do that with him.
Download or read book Looking Through the Rearview Mirror written by Nancy Brinkley Weems and published by Genesis Communications Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journey of Spiritual Growth Looking back at the events of our lives, we can choose to see only the bad things that have occured. That was Nancy Weems' way of thinking until someone challenged it and caused her to appreciate all that God had done through her life. In Looking Through the Rearview Mirror, Weems begins with chronicling her years of growing up in the Miami of the 1960s. After the tragic deaths of her brother at a young age and then her cousin when she was 16, Weems began committing to paper the experiences she had and the lessons she learned. Culled from these writings and written from a mature perspective, this book shares the highlights of a journey spent walking with God. We may not be able to undo our past, but we can learn from it if we look through the rearview mirror of life. College students have raved about Looking Through the Rearview Mirror with comments such as, "The book is like having a conversation. It's so refreshing. It was written to people who need to be reminded that there is a God who loves them just as they are and that He is in control." and "I could identify with your thoughts and conclusions."
Download or read book Looking in the Rearview Mirror written by Gloria Sudler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Gloria shares how she suffered the loss of her mother, her marriage and the struggle of raising three sons as well as 5 foster children. How she got addicted to drugs and she got clean to be hired by Eastern Authority Transportation Company in Philadelphia. Gloria struggled with relationships and struggled with self-esteem. She struggled with herself about who she really was and she always felt she had to be who someone else thought she should be. When Gloria met her lifetime partner of 20 years, Janice Reid, they move to New Castle, Delaware. In Delaware, Gloria received her real estate license and worked as an agent with Keller Williams. She also became a tax preparer for H&R Block and worked in the Delaware office. Gloria is the Founder and CEO of GLOWS PARADISE TRAVEL LLC. She has overcome great obstacles that has stood in her way; death, marriage, children, drugs, alcohol, and career. She writes to inspire others struggling with self-esteem, relationships and identities.
Download or read book God s Unstoppable Favor written by Grace Vidrine Sibley and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is divided into two parts. In book one, Grace Vidrine Sibley shares her journey of faith to affirm the life changing impact of God's UNSTOPPABLE favor. Born into poverty in rural Louisiana, she experienced a string of miracles. Covered by God's favor as a teenager, Grace was given the strength to climb a mountain of racial hatred as she alone desegregated her local school district and battled racial insensitivity on a white college campus. Embraced by God's grace, she endured the struggle of living homeless on the far south side of Chicago and later survived a life-threatening pregnancy with twins. Protected by favor, Grace pulled through a near tragic car accident that left her body badly bruised, cut and battered, but her faith intact.In book two, Embraced by God's Grace, the author reflects on the miracles embedded in her past trials of her journey when she was broken, bruised, and burdened with pain, embarrassment, and disappointment. She wrestles with the question, "Do ALL things REALLY work together for my good?" As she looks back at God's previous interventions in her life, Grace shares seven meditations that helped her on her journey. Her words continuously reassure readers that when obstacles and curve balls are thrown at them, that they, too, are protected by God's power, embraced by His passion, and surrounded by His presence. At the end of the book, they are inspired to initial, date, and sign forms that signify their personal commitment to trust in His Unstoppable Favor.This book is a unique one, with an unconventional format. It invites, and will reward, serious reflection.
Download or read book Glances Through the Rearview Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Look Into the Rear View Mirror written by Carolyn Noah Graetz and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Girl in the Rearview Mirror written by Kelsey Rae Dimberg and published by HarperLuxe. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young nanny for a prominent political family gets drawn into a web of deadly lies—including her own—in this stunning debut thriller with the menacing twists of Megan Abbott and the exquisite suspense of Laura Lippman. They are Phoenix’s First Family: handsome Philip Martin, son of the sitting Senator, an ex-football player who carries himself with an easy grace and appears destined to step into his father’s seat when the time is right; his wife Marina, the stylish and elegant director of Phoenix’s fine arts museum; and their four-year-old daughter Amabel, beautiful and precocious and beloved. Finn Hunt is working a dull office job to pay off her college debt when she meets Philip and charms Amabel. She eagerly agrees to nanny, thinking she’s lucked into the job of a lifetime. Though the glamour of the Martins’ lifestyle undeniably dazzles Finn, her real pleasure comes from being part of the family: sharing quick jokes with Philip in the kitchen before he leaves for work; staying late when Marina needs a last-minute sitter; and spending long days with Amabel, who is often treated more like a photo op than a child. But behind every façade lurks a less attractive truth. When a young woman approaches Finn, claiming a connection with Philip and asking Finn to pass on a message, Finn becomes caught up in a web of deceit with the senate seat at its center. And Finn isn’t exactly innocent herself: she too has a background she has kept hidden, and under the hot Phoenix sun, everything is about to be laid bare. . . .
Download or read book A View of God from My Rearview Mirror written by James Rice and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Only Survivors written by Megan Miranda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and “master of suspense, Megan Miranda” (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl), a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident—only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy. A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine—a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who managed to escape the river that night were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide on the anniversary of the crash, the rest of them make a pact: to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. To keep one another safe. To hold one another accountable. Or both. Their annual meeting place, a house on the Outer Banks, has long been a refuge. But by the tenth anniversary, Cassidy Bent has worked to distance herself from the tragedy, and from the other survivors. She’s changed her mobile number. She’s blocked the others’ email addresses. This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. But on the day of the reunion, she receives a text with an obituary attached: another survivor is gone. Now they are seven—and Cassidy finds herself hurling back toward the group, wild with grief—and suspicion. Almost immediately, something feels off this year. Cassidy is the first to notice when Amaya, annual organizer, slips away, overwhelmed. This wouldn’t raise alarm except for the impending storm. Suddenly, they’re facing the threat of closed roads and surging waters…again. Then Amaya stops responding to her phone. After all they’ve been through, she wouldn’t willfully make them worry. Would she? And—as they promised long ago—each survivor will do whatever he or she can do to save one another. Won’t they? A propulsive and chilling locked-box mystery filled with the dazzling hairpin twists that are the author’s signature, The Only Survivors is New York Times-bestselling author Megan Miranda’s best novel yet.
Download or read book Faking Grace written by Tamara Leigh and published by Multnomah Fiction. This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Stewart must make a decision to deliver the dirt on Steeple Side Christian Resources and secure her future as an investigative reporter, or move her life in a new direction. Original.
Download or read book Saving the Saved written by Bryan Loritts and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White-knuckling can never get you where you want to go. But grace can. You already know because you’ve tried: repeated attempts to earn God’s love and approval get you nowhere and leave you exhausted. When performance taints our relationship with him, the Christian life can turn into an unholy hustle. It was never meant to be like this. In Saving the Saved, Pastor Bryan Loritts reveals the astonishing truth that God doesn’t want your spiritual scorekeeping. He simply wants your surrender. The punchline of the gospel of Matthew is just that—a message of grace and performance-free love to do-good, try-harder Jews who thought they had to earn their way into God’s favor. It’s an ancient message, yet it can be a lifeline to us today as we live in a world of performance metrics. Just as Matthew wrote to the Jews in his gospel, we were never meant to flounder under the pressures and anxieties of show Christianity. Make no mistake: we are called to live in obedience, but Jesus wants us to save us from the illusion that our actions can ever earn God’s acceptance of us. In Pastor Bryan’s relevant, uncompromising style, Saving the Saved proclaims the good news that once the pressure is off to perform, we are free to abide. Beyond the man-made rules and the red tape, there is a God who knows you by name. Come and meet him as you’ve never known him before.
Download or read book Irreverent Prayers written by Elizabeth Felicetti and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two pastors share their experiences with serious illness—and their candid, darkly humorous prayers for making it through. Samantha Vincent-Alexander almost died from a septic leg infection. Elizabeth Felicetti underwent aggressive treatment for both breast and lung cancer in the space of a few months—and then the cancer came back. As Episcopal priests, they know well the typical prayers offered in times like these. But when you’re seriously sick, you need more than psalms and sentimentality. You need to tell God how you really feel. With vulnerability and wry humor, Felicetti and Vincent-Alexander share the prayers they wish they had when they were ill: thanksgiving for one-size-fits-all hospital underwear, curses against Tylenol, frustrated appeals when well-wishers call you brave or inspiring. At once faithful and brutally honest, these prayers offer readers a more candid way of communicating with the God who understands human suffering with an incarnational intimacy. Talking to God when you’re fighting serious illness can feel impossible. But God can bear our doubt, anger, anxiety, and grief. This unconventional prayerbook helps readers access a deeper relationship with God in raw times—and offers them a place of solidarity and spiritual rest.
