“Why do you look so happy?” people have been asking Notker Wolf for years, now. So he set out to answer them in this lively book. A relationship with God, he explains, can feel like falling in love, when it seems that butterflies are fluttering around in your stomach. Then, beauty, joy, belief, trust, and forgiveness are his subjects, all in an effort to show his readers how it is possible to have wings of faith – and fly! “Notker Wolf is a gift to the monastic community, the Church and the world in Christ. This book brings out the best of his multifaceted spiritual and natural gifts. I recommend it highly.” —John Michael Talbot “This insightful book can speak to the emptiness we all experience at times and perk us up so that we take notice of what really matters. By reading and reflecting on these ideas, you might just discover the beauty and fullness a faith perspective has to offer. You may even learn to soar!” —Sister Judith Ann Heble, OSB, Moderator, Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum, Sacred Heart Monastery, Lisle, Illinois

Award winning entrepreneur and author Connie Rankin challenges the concept that God is Dead in her stunning tell-all stories of God Gave Us Wings. Her focus in writing this book is to demonstrate by example–anything is possible if you believe in the power of I AM. While focusing on her core mission to empower others through faith, Connie shares ten true stories from Oprah’s amazing journey to a Wounded Warrior’s heroic battle. Each woman in this book has defined her own word for success, and you can too. In her new book, Connie provides you with inspirational stories of success from different life experiences to help you see that at any moment, GOD can ultimately change your life, if you believe HE can. All readers, not just women or entrepreneurs, will benefit from Connie’s ability to share the wisdom from various life’s journeys to help you finish strong. As these stories testify, you can fly higher than you ever imagined...if you believe.

Are you ready to soar free? Years of living unhealed have slipped subtle wedges into AmyLu's relationship with God, until one day she realizes her love for him has cooled--and the wedges are why. Not knowing how to fix the situation, she asks God to turn every wedge in their relationship into something that will help her love him more. But she could not have predicted what would happen next. As God exposes the lies that have tethered her, AmyLu becomes free--free to love him, and free to live in a whole new way. You're invited into that freedom, too. Come on an unexpected journey of truth, love, and freedom in Christ. This is a message of hope for every believer waiting for healing. Get ready to soar free.

The leaders of the American Revolution, unlike the leaders of the French revolution, did not set out to erase religion. Indeed, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pray to Divine Providence in the face of the British bombardment of Boston. In establishing a new model of self-government, the Founders believed that they were not only acting according to reason and common sense, but also obeying a religious duty. Benjamin Franklin proposed as their motto: “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” In telling the story of the forgotten—if not deliberately ignored—role of faith in America’s beginnings, Michael Novak probes the innermost religious conviction of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other of our Founders. He shows that while the American eagle could not have taken flight without the empirical turn of mind embodied in John Locke’s teaching on the ends of government and the consent of the governed, the men who made America also believed that liberty depends as much on faith as on reason. In the course of his illustrious career, Michael Novak has written several prize-winning books on theology and philosophy. In On Two Wings he has created a profound mediation on American history, and on human nature and destiny as well.

In this riveting memoir, a small family fights to survive during World War II-- first the Soviet and then the Nazi occupation of their native Lithuania. In 1944, as the communists return and their home is destroyed, they leave all they've know, determined to have a chance at life. On foot, then by horse and cart, they scavenge and beg their way through the ravaged lands of Prussia and Poland into Germany. The end of the war does not provide relief-- they're placed in a displaced person camp and pressured to go back "home" to Stalin's rule in Lithuania, where certain exile to Siberia awaits. When Father and Dalia, aged eleven, are allowed to go to England, it is on the condition that she lives with foster parents. If they don't like her, the family must return to the camp. Life in post-war Britain is demeaning to refugees, and immigrating to America feels impossible-- but with courage and determination, they achieve their dream of a better life in this inspiring tale of love and sacrifice.

Just in time for the holidays comes this uplifting collection of true stories demonstrating faith in action and the extraordinary power of God's love. Christians everywhere will find these real-life tales are proof that everlasting refuge is indeed found Under God's Wings. -- The Miracle on the Doorstep -- An elderly widower searches for a reason to go on. Then, just days after Christmas, his prayer is answered: he awakens to someone who desperately needs him -- an abandoned newborn left out in the cold. -- Heavenly Express -- A young missionary celebrates his birthday far from home. Back in the United States, his mother has only one desire -- to take her son's annual portrait. A quick trip to the mailbox brings her a surprise -- a package clearly delivered by Heavenly Express. -- Angel in the Garden -- Kathleen Treanor's four-year-old daughter, Ashley, asked, Mommy, would you be sad if I died? Stunned, Kathleen answered, Of course I'd be sad, Ashley. I'd miss you so very much. Then, her daughter went on. But why, Mommy? I'd be with Jesus in heaven. I'd be an angel watching over you. Only days later, Ashley was tragically killed, a victim of the Oklahoma City bombing.

In the Taylors' spiritual road map to a greater intimacy with God, a newlywed grandmother takes a leap of faith and becomes an Army chaplain's wife. She embarks with her new husband on his final military assignment abroad a week after being married. (Christian)