Build Your House Upon Rock shows how a happy and holy marriage demands more than attraction or affection. It demands God's expectations high expectations! This Bible study lays out a formula for a great Catholic marriage rooted in God. You'll learn what God says a good marriage requires. You'll get challenged to reflect on your own ideas of marriage, faith, and virtue. You'll uncover the hopes and fears that can help and hinder your marriage. You'll discover how marriage is a vocation, a path to holiness, a path to God. You'll prepare to receive grace, courage, and determination to live this most sacred commitment. You'll be a model for individuals and couples discerning or preparing for marriage, and married couples looking to enrich their marriage. You'll meet God's high expectations for marriage and the rewards that come along with them!

Profane & Sacred examines religious discourse in contemporary Latino/a fiction, exploring how religion creates, mediates or changes Latino culture and identity. Much contemporary literary criticism on Latino/a literature has focused on the bilingual and bicultural nature of Latino identity, history and cultural production. But just as the multiplicity of cultures and languages has shaped Latino identity and history, so too has religion. Studying the religious discourse found in fiction can clearly enrich not only our perception of the diversity within the Hispanic communities, but also the diversity between sociologists and creative writers.

This book was written for anyone who needs some encouragement in his or her life, or just needs some motivationsomeone who feels that life has dealt them a raw deal. It was written to givean illustration and to challenge you to pursue your hearts desire. After reading this book youjust maybemotivated to lead amore productive and fulfilling life. Just remember, nothing that is worthwhile comes easily. There may be some challenges or some setbacks in life, but dont let that stop you from reaching for yourgoal.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

A year's worth of ideas you can expand upon to create great messages. Each nugget uses simple, concrete methods of illustrating biblical truth.

This book is a collection of poems loosely based on Bible stories I have heard since I was a child. I tried to keep the subject matter as close to the Bible stories as I could, with a little bit of creative leeway. The poems touch on a wide variety of biblical stories, including the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, Mary, Christ, the crucifixion of Jesus, and much more. Some poems touch on our relationship with Christ and his teachings and some anecdotal poems and poems about Satan, angels, hell, rapture, and some personal thoughts. I can only hope this collection of poems will inspire the reader to want to learn more about the stories and help develop their own relationship with Christ.