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  Making Marriage Easier - How to...

  Arlene Pellicane

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  A joyous summons to love (and like) your spouse for a lifetime.Many people today are pessimistic about marriage. It’s hard. It will end in divorce. If you marry, you exchange romance for responsibility. Yet research tells us the happiest people on the planet are those in healthy marriages.Can marriage be great—not just for the rare few—but for you? After twenty-five years of marriage, Arlene Pellicane has stories and biblical wisdom to share. Full of real life that will make you laugh, Making Marriage Easier addresses common threats to our marriage—poor communication, tension over differences, lack of physical intimacy, parenting stress, and more.Four key decisions will help you clarify your values and create a clear path forward. Each short chapter ends with life lessons, questions to ponder with your spouse or in a group, and prayers to strengthen and encourage. Marriage is part of God’s awesome, wonderful plan. It’s meant to be a celebration, not a life sentence.      Whether you’re holding a baby for the first time or figuring out retirement, this book is fresh kindling for a bettermarriage that can go the distance.

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  Pastoral Confessions - The...

  Jamin Goggin

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  Discover how personal vulnerability can revitalize your soul, ministry, and church 
   
  · A timely and unexpectedly honest exploration of pastoral sin 
  · Learn to identify the root causes of pastoral sin, embrace the practice of confession, and find healing in forgiveness 
  · Helps pastors maintain an open and honest relationships with themselves, God, and their congregations to facilitate repentance and restoration 
   
   
  Many pastors are tempted to conceal their sin rather than risk vulnerability or disqualification from ministry. But this is spiritually dangerous, for both the pastor and the church. Unconfessed sin leads to guilt, shame, exhaustion, and loneliness. Instead, God invites pastors to confess, repent, and be healed, just like every other Christian. 
   
  With great vulnerability and refreshing honesty, Jamin Goggin writes of those temptations and sins that uniquely plague the pastoral vocation. He shows pastors how to integrate regular confession to God and others, leading to a more hopeful, fruitful, and virtuous life and ministry. 
   
   
  "Especially timely and profoundly needed."--Rick Warren, Great Commission ally and author of The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church 
   
  "I can't remember the last time I read a book so convicting."--Collin Hansen, vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition  
   
  "This is more than just an excellent book; it's an important book."--Lee Strobel, New York Times bestselling author  
   
  "These pages could bring genuine and deeply needed healing and wholeness to the body of Christ."--Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author 
   
  "This isn't vague 'vulnerability' but a specific message to pastors that we all need to hear. Goggin's handling of this sensitive topic is so wise and experientially deep that I hope every pastor reads it. Even preachers can be saved."--Michael Horton, J. G. Machen Professor of Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary, California 
   
  "Our fractured churches need this book. More than that, pastors need this book. Read it slowly, prayerfully. Read it with other pastors. Confession is God's way to healing, and we need that today."--Ed Stetzer, dean, Talbot School of Theology

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  Crows and Ravens - Mystery Myth...

  Rick de Yampert, H. Byron Ballard

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  Exploring history, folklore, mythology, and science, this book gives you a unique look at two of the most popular magical creatures of all time. The crow and his cousin, the raven, are featured players in many cultures throughout the world, including Norse, Celtic, Jewish, and Indigenous traditions. This guide teaches you how to welcome these highly intelligent birds into your own spiritual practice, whether you follow Wicca, Heathenry, Druidry, or any other path. 
   
   
   
  Crows and Ravens presents rituals, meditations, and exercises that help you discover the magic and mystery of corvids. Learn about crow and raven divination, create your own crow-raven talisman, uncover the shadowy side of corvids, and more. Found in nearly all urban and wild environments, these birds present you with magical opportunities and life lessons wherever you go.

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  The Bridge to Belle Island

  Julie Klassen

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  An Island Shrouded in Mist. A Woman Haunted by Dreams. A Murder Yet Unsolved. 
   
  After a humiliating mistake, lawyer Benjamin Booker resolves to never again trust a beautiful woman. When an old friend is killed, the senior partner isn't satisfied with Bow Street's efforts and asks Benjamin to investigate. Eager to leave London for a while, Benjamin agrees. Evidence takes him to a remote island on the Thames, a world unto itself, shrouded in mist and mystery. Soon he finds himself falling for the main suspect--a woman who claims not to have left the island in ten years. But should he trust her? 
   
  On Belle Island, Isabelle feels safe and leads a productive life, but fear keeps her trapped there. When Mr. Booker arrives with news of her trustee's murder in London, Isabelle is stunned. She has not left the island, yet she has a recurring dream about the man's death. Or is it a memory? She had been furious with him, but she never intended . . . this. 
   
  When a second person dies and evidence shockingly points to her, Isabelle doesn't know who to trust: the attractive lawyer or the admirer and friends who assemble on the island, each with grudges against the victim. Can she even trust her own mind? While they search for the truth, secrets come to light and danger comes calling.

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  Perilous Obsession (Cornered...

  Natalie Walters

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  With a target on her back and a stalker on her heels, safety proves to be a commodity no longer.  
   
  Leaving her home in Hawaii, Lahela Young moves to Texas to plan for a future with her boyfriend, but when he becomes her ex, she's left to grapple with every bad decision she's ever made. It's only made worse when someone begins sending her anonymous text messages and calling at all hours of the night. The stakes escalate and lead to accidents that put her newfound friends in danger, forcing Lahela to pull away for their safety.  
   
  Briggs Turner may have left his career as a police officer, but he still has the instinct to protect. The last thing he wants is for Lahela to push him and their friends away, leaving her isolated, vulnerable, and the target of someone with a twisted obsession for righting a wrong. Briggs is worried about Lahela's safety, but there are few clues to who might be behind the obsession, and when feelings are stirred up between them, he'll stop at nothing to keep her safe.  
   
  With a balance of suspense, mystery, and romance, Natalie Walters composes a chilling novella incorporating small town, new girl in town, and faith themes.

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  Profound Truths from the Gospel...

  Dr. Elden Daniel

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  This book concentrates on Jesus in the Gospel of John by looking at stories, lessons taught by Jesus, and what Jesus said about some topics. The author seeks to identify, state, and distill specific profound truths from these passages. Knowing the truth is preliminary to believing the truth which leads to doing the truth. As you read through the chapters and consider profound truths, watch for some keywords and concepts. Watch for commands to obey and examples of obedience. Watch for commands to love and examples of love. Watch for examples of commands to give glory and examples of glory given. Watch for gifts and promises given. The format is to glean profound truths from the passages. Sometimes stores are paraphrased. Other times a lesson is summarized. Sometimes interesting points are added. Some chapters are very short while other chapters are much longer. Each chapter is a stand-alone chapter. Each is structured to be a lesson. Jesus is the greatest teacher and we can learn from Him. You will find some duplication because the passages overlap from stories, lessons, and topics.Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me,for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long (Psalms 25:4-5).

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