Out of the Miry Clay is a compelling testimony of the everlasting love God has for His children, and the awesome power He has to transform our lives in this touching memoir. It becomes quickly apparent that God was always with Rev. Stigger, from the moment he came close to suicide at age 18, to narrowly escaping capture as a wounded soldier in Vietnam. With His unyielding grace, God took Rev. Stiggerout of the miry clay of drug use, alcoholism, pimping, and broken marriages, then molded him into an apostle of God with the relevant experience needed to save souls and build churches, not with bricks and mortar, but the church that is within-the spirit church. With engaging detail, clear prose and a remarkable sense of humor, Rev. Stigger uses his own fascinating experiences to demonstrate that only God, through the saving grace of Christ, can offer us true, unconditional love. Be prepared to go on an emotional roller coaster ride as Rev. Stigger looks back on his life with hard earned wisdom. Youll definitely find yourself laughing, crying, shaking your head in disbelief, and finally, rejoicing as you read these pages. Enjoy the journey! Brandon A. Perry Associate Editor, Indianapolis Recorder

Have you ever been deceived, rejected, hurt, despitefully used, and abused by those you love and trust? Ever suffered though the pain and shame of martial infidelity, sexual abuse, and betrayal? Well, I have! My life was a putrid pit of miry clay. No matter how hard I tried to climb out of it, I kept sinking deeper and deeper. I finally lost hope and gave up on myself and everyone else! However, Christ never gave up on me! When my circumstances were about to overwhelm me, He pulled me Out of the Miry Clay and set my feet upon a rock. Christ rescued, healed, and restored me! This book is an astounding testimony of Christ's love, mercy, grace, and healing power! Do you crave restoration, renewal, and healing? Jesus Christ can restore, heal, and rescue you from the Miry Clay of your life! Let Him minister to you through this book. Reverend Monita Dukhia has been preaching the Gospel globally for the last decade. She has a heart for those considered the least of Christ's brethren and her ministry has taken her to war-torn Sri Lanka and the jungles of Peru! She is an anointed and faithful minister of Christ, who will labour for Him under the worst circumstances. Reverend Dukhia is no stranger to grievous trials and afflictions: she bears them graciously in the name of Christ and for the sake of His Gospel. She faithfully presses onto the mark of the prize of Higher calling in God through Christ Jesus. Her global ministry - "The Lion of Judah Ministries,"- is a beacon of hope to those lost without Christ in a dying world. The proceeds from this book will be used to plant Gospel churches, set up orphanages and empowerment centres for the poor in developing countries.

My faith journey has been one that took many twists and turns as I struggled to figure out that Jesus needed to be more than just my Savior. Once I realized He had to be Lord and Ruler of my life, my passion and gifts for writing were revealed to me. I began with journaling during my devotional/quiet time. With pen and journal in hand, I would totally open myself up and pour out my heat to God. It was during this time that I began clearly hearing God speak to me and I would write in my journal the lessons He taught me. July of 2008, my husband, Billy, was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer and many people wanted to be kept up-to-date on his condition. Thus, I began composing update e-mails that I hoped would glorify God and how He was sustaining us through this cancer journey. However, I was determined I would wait on God to give me the words He wanted me to share. So with the keyboard at my fingertips, I began sharing the lessons God was teaching us along this journey. While everyone was very grateful to hear that Billy was being healed, they were very touched by how God was working in our lives. Little did I know that God would use the recipients of these e-mails to encourage me to see my passion for writing as a gift that God was using to call me to expand His territory. Therefore, during the summer of 2010, I finally heeded Gods call to put all my journaling skills and His lessons into composing this devotional book. I pray that God will be glorified as He uses these lessons to help you come to know Him in a deeper more intimate fashion: Broken Shells Chasing Crabs Lessons from The Boys Loving the Unlovable Root Bound Score Another for God Candy Along the Way Flowers From Fertilizer I Want One of Those Covered in Feathers Dead Trees and Deep Roots Foresight Dance With Me The Birds and the Bees Angels and Chemo Gods Orchestra Healing in the Journey Seeing the Wheat Scarcely Abundant Strolling Cracked Pots Give Em More These stories reflect Susans ability to see God in both the big and the little life events. They will inspire you to seek God in both the extraordinary and ordinary events of your life. Jennifer Reese - Academic Coach Dade County High School Trenton, Georgia

From her first breath of fresh air beyond the pit, it has never been enough for Beth Moore to be free. She is an author and Bible teacher who has opened the riches of Scripture to millions, has longed for you to be free as well--to know the Love and Presence that are better than life and the power of God's Word that defies all darkness. Beth's journey out of the pit has been heart-rending. But from this and the poetic expressions of Psalm 40 has come the reward: a new song for her soul, given by her Saviour and offered to you in Get Out of That Pit--friend to friend. This is Beth's most stirring message yet of the sheer hope, utter deliverance, and complete and glorious freedom of God. It is a story, a song--a salvation--that you can know too.

“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic

Tertullian, a native of Carthage in North Africa, was an Early Church writer who lived between 155 and 240 A.D. A Treatise on the Soul is a fascinating, philosophical work which reads much like Plato or Greek philosophers of antiquity.