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title: Hearing Our Brother’s Voice: How to Meet Jesus in the Psalms
author: Charles D
category: nonfiction • subcategory: biblestudy • date submitted: 8.28.2024 • author id: DrChHe21324
word count: 48750
Content(Working title: Hearing Our Brother’s Voice: How to Meet Jesus in the Psalms) Believers love the psalms, but often find it difficult to make Christian sense of them. Hearing Our Brother’s Voice shows them how. In twenty-two brief and self-contained chapters (the book is about 200 pages long), the author invites readers to receive the psalms not just as their “songbook” but as Jesus’, giving expression to the hopes and griefs of his own life. After explaining the rationale for this approach, the book walks chapter by chapter through a wide range of experiences documented in the psalms (delight, hope, determination and desolation among them), showing readers how these psalms provide windows into the life Jesus chose freely to share with us in order to help us manage it and in the end to rescue us from what has gone wrong with it. Three chapters near the end offer exercises aimed at increasing readers’ skill in the task promoted by the book. Prayers at the end of each chapter add an element of worship throughout. As readers meet Jesus in the psalms under discussion, his incarnation and the love that drove it, together with the benefits of being united to him, become more vivid and life-changing.
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title: Ransomed - One Man's Journey from Despair into the Light of Truth.
author: Mark S
category: nonfiction • subcategory: academic • date submitted: 8.6.2024 • author id: ScMaRa18424
word count: 42000
ContentRansomed tells the harrowing true story of a young man suffering under demonic oppression, his desperate, years-long, search for the “one Truth,” and the miraculous deliverance and unexpected joy found in the supernatural power of Christ. For both Christians seeking a deeper understanding into the reality of the unseen realm, and the skeptical but searching nonbeliever, Ransomed offers a reasoned defense for the story’s claims along with its deeper Biblical implications.
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title: A Game Plan for the Fourth Quarter: For men in their golden years
author: Loren V
category: nonfiction • subcategory: selfhelp • date submitted: 7.6.2024 • author id: VaLoA 17024
word count: 47043
ContentI’ve been working with men for almost fifty years. Twenty-one years as a Federal Prison chaplain. Counseling. A father to many father-less men. In “retirement” I realized that a lot of men my age and older were really struggling. Health problems. Marriage issues (or death of a wife). Changes in their sex life. Missing work and career. Money problems. And it seemed no one really cared, or knew what to say. As I tried to find books that addressed “golden age” men, I found cars of the sixties, financial planning in retirement, and dealing with ED and prostate issues. Meanwhile, men were spending what was supposed to be those “golden years” depressed, wasting time on the internet, addicted to porn, and even committing suicide. This book addresses the changes going on in your life, what you’re feeling inside, which you probably have no one to talk to about. As death gets closer, we start thinking about heaven. What do you think about God? How can you be sure you’re going to heaven. We’ll learn some lessons from the later years of men in the Bible and see what God may have for you. All the angles possible to make your senior years as fulfilling as possible.
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title: Antisemitism: American and Otherwise
author: Fenton W
category: nonfiction • subcategory: academic • date submitted: 7.6.2024 • author id: WaFeAn16424
word count: 30000
ContentEvents have overtaken me! I began a manuscript, expecting antisemitism to increase in America—and it has exploded before I could predict it! Understanding Antisemitism: American and Otherwise springs from the view that antisemitism is Satanically sponsored. Existing explanations miss its source by only crediting human causes, such as jealousy of Jewish disproportionate success. Satanic hostility against the Jewish people comes from their chosenness as God’s initial and eventually returning band of missionaries to the nations. Knowing the day will come when they awaken to the Messiah and their call, Satan tries to kill ever last one of them to inhibit God’s redemption plan. The Jewish people have yet to do their job. Though the early missionaries were Jewish, the Jerusalem Church did not reach beyond its ethnic roots. In fact, it seems God had to move his missionary base to Antioch because of their provincialism. Thus, Satan enlists willing human coconspirators in his effort to prevent fulfillment of the Jewish missionary call. With increasing numbers of Jewish believers, little wonder antisemitism is growing.
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title: The Red Goblin Strikes Again
author: Danel L
category: fiction • subcategory: youngadult • date submitted: 7.4.2024 • author id: LaDaTh15724
word count: 44550
ContentAs a librarian, I have seen the teen market succumb to lots of violence and sexually descriptive novels. Most recently, there is a glut of "paranormal novels" whose protagonists are vampires, witches and werewolves. Such things are fine in small doses, but I believe that there is a market for more positive and uplifting teen/upper elementary novels, novels that don't make one want to go out and slit one's wrists after closing the cover. (I've known that to happen.) The Red Goblin Strikes Again describes a boy who finds his solace in more normal pursuits, who lives in a rural area of the late 1970s and is closer to nature than most urban teens. He has parents who care for him, even if it isn't normally expressed and who has friendships not only with his peers but with neighbors who are adults and the elderly. He is a close friend, for example, with his neighbor, Ruby Arnold, Corey's grandmother. She is lonely and reads too many detective novels and like Don Quixote with his novels of chivalry accepts them as the literal truth. She decides that the best way to serve her tiny community and surrounding areas is to become a detective herself and search out enemies of her own fair village. David becomes her Sancho Panza and accompanies her in her occasional nocturnal sorties of neighbors' homes for murder victims, terrorists, communist spies, and other miscreants who populate her novels The novel is written from a Christian worldview. But as a boy and teen, I didn't like the didactic novels found in the church library, where everyone "gets saved" at the end. I prefer to write in a humorous and at times silly vein. Scenes take place in church from time to time, not to deliver sermons, rather to flesh out the personalities of some of the characters, and yes, to sow that normal people can be people of faith, in spite of their failings. I choose to write in a Christian manner because my reception from secular publishers has not been good, and one of the agents I contacted wanted me to spice up my work with sexual encounters between the characters. Yes, sex happens in the imaginary village of Lindenwald, as everywhere, but I chose not to go into the bedrooms of my characters. And David is experiencing these feelings as teens do, but rather than get down to the "nitty-gritty," his glasses fog up when he has such feelings. I submitted this novel to you before, you liked it, and you made several suggestions, which I've followed. For instance, it is about 1/4 longer than the previous submission. I've been careful to note WHO is speaking rather than assuming that it is understood. I've better described my characters...brown eyes or blue, thin or heavy, hair color, etc. And finally I decided that it fits more in the past rather than in 2024 and removed reference to the Internet and other things that didn't exist in the 70s.
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title: The Young Knight
author: Lydia R
category: fiction • subcategory: historical • date submitted: 6.27.2024 • author id: ReeLy960224
word count: 189827
ContentArcher was never more than an orphan - all his life he seemed to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Facing the bullies of his childhood had taught him tenacity and courage, but those challenges turn out to be the least of the trouble he will face in the coming months. War was sweeping Europe in 1183, the king's empire was crumbling, and as a page boy, Archer would soon take his place as a soldier in the ranks of the army. In this vibrant, medieval tale filled with laughter, tears, first love, and wild action, Archer uncovers answers to the dark mystery surrounding his father's death and becomes tangled in a dangerous plot against the king. Now more than ever, Archer will need the courage to survive being hunted by traitors, become a squire to Prince Richard, play a spy for the Crown, and above all, find the strength of character to choose what he will stand for as a man. Will he become a victim of circumstance? Or will he claim his destiny and change the course of history?
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title: Ladder Learns to Pray and Other Emergency Vehicle Prayers
author: Anna C
category: fiction • subcategory: children • date submitted: 6.25.2024 • author id: CaAnLa14524
word count: 615
ContentWe, like many parents, include a prayer as part of our bedtime routine with our toddler, yet there aren’t any prayer books that target young boys with exciting topics like trucks. However, many secular bedtime books do such as Sheri Rinker’s bestselling Good Night, Good Night Construction Site. Ladder Learns to Pray and Other Emergency Vehicle Prayers is a series of 6 board books targeted at young boys. Each book is one prayer, 6 spreads in length, which focuses on an emergency worker and its corresponding emergency vehicle. The relationship between the emergency worker and its vehicle mimics a father (the worker) putting his son (the vehicle) to sleep at night and teaching him to pray. There is also a prayer focus for each book, e.g., Ladder Learns to Pray focuses on bravery and sacrifice and Cruiser Learns to Pray focuses on wisdom, justice, and grace. Because children learn by repetition, the first, second and last stanza of each book is the same; this also gives the child a structure to create his own prayers. Additionally, each book has “What does this mean to me?” call-outs to help parents discuss big concepts with their child at an age-appropriate level.
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title: God's Hidden Hand Unveiled: How My Jewish Ancestral Family Eluded Extinction
author: Doug E
category: nonfiction • subcategory: generalinterest • date submitted: 6.15.2024 • author id: EiDoGo13324
word count: 50000
ContentFor millennia, Doug Einfeld’s Jewish ancestral family endured unspeakable adversity and the continual threat of annihilation. As he unearths the harrowing story of their survival, he discovers the ever-present hidden hand of ancient Israel’s God. Their story begins in antiquity during the biblical era of Abraham and ends in seventeenth-century Germany. It provides a behind-the-scenes view of everyday Jewish life during biblical Old Testament, Intertestamental, and New Testament times. It retraces their near-annihilation by the Roman empire and their eventual migratory journey from Palestine to Italy -- and then from Italy to Germany. It recounts their subjection to brutal anti-Jewish terrorism during the Middle Ages. And it concludes with their arrival in remote northern Germany as expelled refugees fleeing a pogrom elsewhere in that country. Perils of all sorts were scattered along their path: deadly famines; ravaging socio-economic conditions; subjugation by foreign powers; Jewish civil war and religious strife; tyranny, bigotry, terrorism, and warfare. Miraculously, they survived. Undeterred by fear and tragedy, they clung to faith and hope, pursuing opportunity and freedom in defiance of impoverishing and repressive forces. Readers will: Be captivated by the riveting drama of the Jewish peoples’ journey through history. Tour behind the scenes of everyday life during biblical times and gain a refreshing new perspective on what it was like. Discover enriching new insights regarding the Jewish foundations of Christianity, the person and mission of Jesus, the beginnings of the Jewish Jesus movement, the formation of the New Testament Gospels, how and why Christianity and Judaism split and went their separate ways, and more. Witness an often-hidden disturbing reality about medieval life in Europe -- a persistent, rampant, genocidal anti-Semitism, and be persuaded to remain vigilant against its susceptibility to historical recurrence. Be inspired by the enduring faithfulness of the God of the Bible, and be encouraged to keep trusting him in the face of calamity.
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title: How Education Was Kept Alive: The Impact of the Protestant Reformers
author: Harley A
category: nonfiction • subcategory: academic • date submitted: 6.7.2024 • author id: AtHaHo12724
word count: 96000
ContentThe Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century, such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, as well as many others, championed the idea that every individual should have direct access to the Scriptures, encouraging literacy and a personal engagement with knowledge. This book is an exploration of the multifaceted ways in which the reformers' ideas and principles shaped educational systems--both general or pubic and religious or church--in Europe and beyond. From the establishment of new schools and the promotion of vernacular languages to the emphasis on critical thinking and individual interpretation, the reverberations of the Reformation in the realm of education were profound and enduring.
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title: The Big Change
author: Heather S
category: fiction • subcategory: children • date submitted: 5.17.2024 • author id: SoHeTh10724
word count: 673
Content‘The Big Change’ is a story of two caterpillar best friends. It’s the day of the bug village running race, and both caterpillars are ready to go! That’s until one of the caterpillars starts to change, and the two best friends start on a journey to understand what is happening. Death is the big change we all must face. ‘The Big Change’ provides a Christian metaphor for families to sensitively discuss death. It is aimed at preschool-Kindergarten (2-5 years) aged children, who are facing death themselves, or they may know someone facing it. In 2022, more than 3.2 million persons died in the United States. Talking about death, or the big change, is difficult. The way people approach this topic will be different for many reasons, including age, where we come from, whether we are sick, and what support we have around us. Therefore, this book deliberately uses pictures and simple language as this format may be understood by people from a range of backgrounds and situations. The death-related themes that may come up through this story include shock, sadness, acceptance in faith, companionship, grief, and the Christian hope of new life in heaven.
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title: Spiritual Breakfast on the Run
author: Curtis A
category: nonfiction • subcategory: devotional • date submitted: 5.17.2024 • author id: AlCu34224
word count: 28700
ContentThis 365–day Devotional is designed especially for people on the go. They are awakening to the importance of planting in their minds and hearts, first thing every day, portions of God’s Word and its timely wisdom. They comprehend the importance of starting the day with Scripture and a brief thought about that passage. But they are also rushed at the beginning of the day. Consequently, they are looking for a quick spiritual breakfast, and are open to a more in–depth interaction with the Lord later in the day. Each brief daily devotional is limited to 75 words, making it suitable for a busy morning that also opens a window for God to shine His blessings into their day. The paragraph can also prepare for a closer, more focused examination of the passage or another study that satisfies their soul’s need for a rich spiritual feast. The goal of SPIRITUAL BREAKFAST On The RUN is to invite busy people into a closer, more intimate relationship with God. It is designed to make Scripture a daily part (dare I say, a ‘habit’?) of their lives.
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title: 40 Daily Jolts of God’s Grace: Joy Through Christ and Coffee
author: Susan S
category: nonfiction • subcategory: devotional • date submitted: 5.4.2024 • author id: SqSu409524
word count: 48000
ContentWhat brings you the most joy in life? Having trouble answering this question, then take a walk through 40 Jolt's of God's Grace: Joy Through Christ and Coffee. We all want to feel joy and in this hectic world which never seems to slow down, we can often feel lost, sad, and lacking. Through God's great grace and a lot of coffee, we can be sure to find what we have lost and begin to see a a place to turn when we are spiraling out of control. Whether you are looking to develop a deeper faith in Christ, find joy in a busy life, understand how abundant God's grace really is, or find hope in your hurting, you will have the opportunity to read daily devotions specifically chosen by you based on your need in this book. Then, be encouraged by ending each devotion time with a prayer and a challenge for the day. Get ready to take hold of the jolt you need and hang on to God as He leads you to His grace and joy.
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title: Yeshua. The kingdom (first volume of the tetralogy)
author: Stefano R
category: fiction • subcategory: biblical • date submitted: 4.22.2024 • author id: RiStYe7924
word count: 125000
ContentYESHUA is the tetralogy dedicated to the story of Jesus. Written after a long process of exegetical, historical and spiritual study, the tetralogy recounts the life of Jesus starting from his birth, going through the two and a half years shared with his disciples, and ending with his death: from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, from the manger to the tomb, from the revelation made to Miriam to the one addressed to each of us. Through the language of the historical novel, the author retraces step by step the story of Jesus; he does so by reserving a particular sensitivity towards the human and psychological aspects of the protagonists, leading the reader to empathize with the same doubts and weaknesses of the disciples, to identify with their expectations and their falls, to marvel at the bending of the normal natural order, to kneel, with amazement and confusion in their eyes, before the mystery of Heaven made earth. These four novels will take the reader from the dusty streets of Galilee to the golden rooms of Jerusalem, from the nets cast in the lake of Tiberias to the blood spilled on the temple altar; they will lead the reader to empathize with the same doubts and weaknesses of the disciples, to empathize with their expectations and their downfalls, to marvel at the bending of the normal natural order, to kneel, with amazement and confusion in their eyes, before the mystery of heaven made earth. The tetralogy: Yeshua. The kingdom Yeshua. The flee. Yeshua. The birth. Yeshua. The passion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiAFkBhiiEQ&t=1s
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title: Mere Spirituality: A Rational Embrace of the Supernatural in the Crisis of Our Age
author: Joshua S
category: nonfiction • subcategory: spiritualgrowth • date submitted: 4.19.2024 • author id: SpJoMe7724
word count: 69000
ContentWestern civilization is decadent and in decline and Western man is in an existential crisis. While the Enlightenment began with an explosion of energy fortifying the pillars of natural sciences, philosophy, and spirituality, increasingly the West has tried to precariously balance an enormous and complex society on but a single pillar. As science gained preeminence in society, materialism soon followed, creating an anemic worldview and existence devoid of moral virtue and meaning. In our pursuit of shallow technological achievement, the spiritual was sacrificed for the superficial, but man longs for something far deeper. Suffocating in the spiritual vacuum of his own making, modern man has grasped at surrogates, but there is no substitute for breath. As the West continues toward collapse, we may want to consider the possibility that to pull back from the brink, we’ll have to return to where we deviated and embrace ancient biblical wisdom, historical models, and spiritual practices which have stood the test of time. If we do, we may find that what was lost actually enhances what was preserved. For spirituality and rationality are not mutually exclusive, but two halves of the whole.
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title: The Man Who Had No Feet Mephibosheth - A story of hope and courage
author: John C
category: fiction • subcategory: biblical • date submitted: 4.9.2024 • author id: CoJoTh6824
word count: 94000
ContentMephibosheth lived around the beginning of the 10th Century BC. His father was Jonathan, a great friend of the future King David and the grandson of King Saul. When his grandfather and father died in battle, the shock was so great that the little boy of five years old was dropped by his caregiver rendering him crippled in both feet. His family fled in fear to a remote village called Lo Debar. Eventually, King David remembered his covenant with Jonathan and restored Mephibosheth to Jerusalem, where he lived in the palace. Very little is known of Mephibosheth from Biblical history. We know that he lived during the rise of the new city of Jerusalem, lived in the palace of David, and undoubtedly witnessed the building of Solomon’s Temple. He would have known of David’s adultery with Bathsheba, his songs and psalms, and the challenges to his power from his son Absalom and others. How did this man, falling from prince to pauper, from able-bodied to a cripple, then restored to the king’s palace, navigate such a turbulent journey? This is the imagined story of Mephibosheth’s life and times. A life overcoming disappointment with courage, hope, and faith.
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title: The Son of Thunder Goes to School
author: Kristina P
category: fiction • subcategory: children • date submitted: 2.29.2024 • author id: PoKrTh3024
word count: 900
ContentA troublesome kindergartener. A troublesome disciple. A kind and patient teacher who knows the answer for one is the answer for both. Young James does not want to be in Kindergarten. He’d rather be at home with his grandpa Jesse. He tries everything to get kicked out. Any instruction given from his teacher, he does the opposite, whether it’s in the classroom or on the playground. He likes to sing his ZYXs and stand on the swings. But are his tactics enough to send him home to his grandpa? Or does Ms. Hemsworth's tolerance outweigh his trickery? How will these two interact on the first day of Kindergarten? How will Ms. Hemsworth react to his poor attitude and outbursts? Follow along as Ms. Hemsworth helps young James overcome his difficult day, both mentally and physically, by telling him about a disciple similar in nature and how his leader helped him find peace during difficult times.
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title: Eli Does His Best
author: Deanne K
category: fiction • subcategory: children • date submitted: 2.13.2024 • author id: KyDeEl1124
word count: 700
ContentA spirited dog with big dreams leaves havoc in his path, but his love for a little girl inspires him to do the impossible. ELI DOES HIS BEST is for readers of Kobi Yamada’s WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A CHANCE and Karen H. Kerstein’s ROSIE THE DRAGON AND CHARLIE SAY GOODNIGHT.
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title: LifeTimesTwo
author: Susan B
category: nonfiction • subcategory: inspirational • date submitted: 2.3.2024 • author id: BoSu8572
word count: 50000
ContentYou may be coming to this book because you are in active addiction or have a loved one or friend in addiction. You may be coming to it because your struggle with sexual identity and decision to follow Christ have left you conflicted. You may be coming to it because you are agonizing over a friend or a loved one trapped in these bondages and wonder if your prayers will ever bear fruit. LifeTimesTwo takes the reader on the personal journey of a woman headed for success – a Ph.D. in literature and faculty positions at universities - while increasingly bound by drug addiction and her own homosexuality. A near fatal overdose in 2019 sends her to a faith-based treatment center in the hills of Tennessee. While there, she finds Christ - all the while living with a cast of characters whose stories and struggles are also humorously and compassionately told here. But ultimately, this book is not just about addicts and alcoholics or those struggling with identity. Despite our differences and circumstances, which can appear extreme, these stories can describe the path of all followers of Christ. The stumbling blocks are the same for each of us: shame, pride, unbelief, disobedience. But so is the solution: Jesus
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title: Hey God, can I ask you something?
author: Brad E
category: nonfiction • subcategory: theology • date submitted: 1.29.2024 • author id: EmBrHe824
word count: 8900
ContentHey God, can I ask you something?” is a Q&A style book designed to provide Biblical answers to some of the general questions primary school aged children ask about God, Jesus, and the authenticity of the Bible. These include: “Hey God, who are you really?”; “Hey God, how do I talk to you?”; “Excuse me God, was Jesus just make believe or was he a real person”; and “Um, God, what if I’m scared of dying.” “Hey God, can I ask you something?” not only provides elementary aged school aged children with answers grounded in scripture, it’s also an excellent resource for parents, school teachers, and scripture teachers to work through with their kids. Each chapter of “Hey God, can I ask you something?” ends with a quirky ‘Did you know?’ factoid to help further illuminate each chapter. The book also has the option to feature amazing illustrations by professional artist, Tiarne Hookham.
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title: I, Judith
author: Cheryl D
category: fiction • subcategory: historical • date submitted: 1.5.2024 • author id: DeChI,33723
word count: 252
ContentThe Book of Judith is part of the Catholic Bible apocrypha that is unfamiliar to many readers, but art lovers are likely to know her story through several famous paintings such as Judith Slaying Holofernes, by early Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. Thought to be set in the first century B.C., most experts believe the story is loosely based on true events which occurred when the Assyrian armies attacked various parts of Judah. As the soldiers drew near to her home in Bethulia, the town panicked while Judith, a beautiful widow with great faith, did not. Her faith leads her to visit the Assyrian Commander Holofernes in his camp where she proceeds to beguile him. One night when he is drunk, she uses his own sword to behead him, leaving his troops without a leader or purpose. My book creates a potential backstory for the events of Judith's life, both before and after her heroic deed. It also raises the question of when it is right to use violence against and enemy and how the events of this world are but a moment in time. It will appeal to readers who enjoy religious, historical and women's fiction, much like the best selling The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.
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title: Understanding Homosexuality and Transgenderism
author: Lester Z
category: nonfiction • subcategory: currentissues • date submitted: 12.20.2023 • author id: ZiLeUn34223
word count: 34000
ContentThe discussion around homosexuality and transgenderism can be really confusing and fraught with emotion. Even among Christians you find varying opinions and interpretations of scripture. In this book we take another look at what the bible has to say, along with scientific insights from practitioners in the field working with homosexuality and gender issues. No one has fully figured out why some people struggle with sexual identity issues. There is no pattern that fits everyone, so we do well to approach this subject from a place of humility. We are all broken, and we each have our own battle to overcome. As followers of Jesus, we are called to reflect his heart of love and compassion. We are to be full of grace and truth as we engage our broken world. My hope is that this book will bring hope, clarity, and help to all those struggling with their sexual identity. I also pray it brings a deeper level of understanding and compassion to those walking alongside them. My heart’s cry is to see people walk in freedom from the host of struggles that are part of living in this fallen world. Our country and world are in crisis on many levels. This book focuses on a deepening crisis where our identity as male or female is being questioned. The Judeo-Christian biblical moral standard and understanding of sexuality has been thrown out and replaced with a multitude of sexual identities that you can choose from. This attack on sexual identity is not only against us but against God himself who created us in his likeness and image and established a moral standard for us to live by. As Creator and God, he gets to establish the boundaries for humanity. My heart is especially broken for children who are being indoctrinated with ungodly ideology and are abused with puberty blockers and surgeries to alter their bodies. I cry for the children. In this book I provide a biblical perspective and response to some of the arguments put forth by the homosexual and transgender communities.
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title: Hymns & Devotions for Daily Worship
author: Chris F
category: nonfiction • subcategory: devotional • date submitted: 12.19.2023 • author id: FeChHy33923
word count: 200000
ContentA collection of hymns and devotions for the liturgical church year, based closely on the Revised Common Lectionary, incorporating devotional commentary by living hymn writers, hymn scholars, and historic writers and theologians, with essays explaining the meaning and design of the church year, with full music and sources for each hymn. Although there are other hymn-based devotional products on the market, none are liturgical in arrangement, none follow a lectionary, and none are this rich with contributions from leaders in the world of Christian hymnody.
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title: Sowing with Intent: Jesus’s Galilean Harvest Movement as a Model for Missions
author: Kevin G
category: nonfiction • subcategory: missions • date submitted: 12.14.2023 • author id: GrKeSo31723
word count: 31797
ContentModern biblical scholars have declared that Jesus’s original intent for the parable of the sower, lost in the second century, can be known today. These same scholars come up short in declaring their supposition for Jesus’s original intent for delivering the parable. Using hermeneutics, Sowing with Intent, demonstrates Jesus’s original intent for delivering the parable of the sower and models its usefulness on the mission field. The phenomena of a harvest movement catalyst, often referred as “Person of Peace,” is core to mission strategists seeking to launch movements among unreached people groups. Sowing with Intent provides a hermeneutical foundation for using Jesus’s parable of the sower as a missionary’s ministry approach for entering new mission fields and offers a practical guide for implementation.
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title: On Holy Ground: Finding your Sacred Purpose
author: Keith A
category: nonfiction • subcategory: spiritualgrowth • date submitted: 12.9.2023 • author id: AnKeOn31023
word count: 51000
ContentBook Description: Reading your life story, practicing deep inner spirituality, and discovering your identity as the beloved of God motivates Christian followers of Jesus to enter the arena in our divisive culture to live as people of justice, grace, conviction and grace. We are moved to seek the kingdom of God as our priority as we address those issues that are so charged and divisive today: race, inclusion/exclusion, individualism, violence, and trauma. When we know our identity as the beloved of God, our lives take on practices that are urgently needed in our divisive culture today: thoughtful theological hospitality, discourse, and convictional practices of reading life as story and joining a movement to boldly proclaim Abba’s love. In this book I re-imagine vocation as spirituality that leads to sacred purpose.. I contend in a pastorally conversational style that vocation is a large and vibrant way to live according to Yahweh’s priorities through an intimate, lifelong companionship with Abba. Scripture, spirituality, and vocation form an ecosystem in which we understand that Scripture (the living word) points us to relationship with Jesus (the incarnate word) who calls us to vocation (a lifelong relationship of sacred purpose with Abba). Hunger for purpose is everywhere; hunger for sacred purpose is embedded in imago dei, our identity as ones created in the image of God. A subtheme of the entire book is to counter biblical illiteracy by teaching us all how to read scripture with a historical imagination. Too many today have reduced vocation to job, marketplace, and career placement. As spirituality, vocation is nothing less than companionship with Abba through the Holy Spirit. My own search tells me we find our sacred purpose in God’s world in at least these ways. In our spiritual identity as the beloved of God (“make yourselves at home in me ”). In the presence of God, Coram Deo. (Literally in the face of God where greater forces are always at work). As we are called to live all of life Soli Deo Gloria (this is our meta calling). As we recognize our intersectionality with others, we move from only asking, “Who am I?” to “who are we as God’s people in community and in the larger cultures of the world.” We embrace God’s sacred purpose for diversity, unity, and healing of our many human divisions. At our altar(s) in the world, our individual callings in ordinary time and place.\ Over a lifetime of kingdom choices. There are two subthemes: addressing the epidemic of biblical illiteracy and teaching readers how to practice historical imagination as a means of reading scripture as personal, revelational, and an ongoing conversation with Abba.
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title: Missional, Merciful, Worshipful Christians and their Churches: A Study of Luke Chapter Ten
author: Barney W
category: nonfiction • subcategory: spiritualgrowth • date submitted: 12.9.2023 • author id: WiBaMi30723
word count: 54000
ContentMissional, Merciful, Worshipful Christians and Their Churches: A Study of Luke Chapter Ten In this one chapter of Luke’s Gospel, we have three of the most important, if not the most important matters for those who follow Jesus, individually and collectively, a three-pronged approach to following the King and advancing his Kingdom. What would it look like if we arranged our lives to prioritize such first order things like reaching out to people outside the walls of the church, serving the hurting and marginalized, and pursuing a deepening intimacy with God in worship? Practiced in tandem, these three seminal Kingdom principles make for wholesome Christians and healthy churches. Our culture is desperate, maybe more than ever, for authentic expressions of faith that look more like Jesus. This book will help you gauge where you and your church are today concerning these three pivotal mandates and illuminate a path forward. In a word, you’ll become more missional, merciful, and worshipful.
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