Like a miniature billboard, the church sign offers an unparalleled opportunity to promote God's kingdom beyond the walls of the congregation. Thousands of cars pass each day with potential readers of its content, so the church sign has the potential to be a powerful pulpit from which silent words are loudly spoken, communicating brief but significant messages of God's love to a spiritually thirsty world. Silent Words Loudly Spoken provides a wealth of fresh and inspiring messages that will maximize the impact of your church sign. With more than 700 uplifting, thought-provoking statements conveniently formatted to easily fit most church signs, it contains enough material to last several years. A humorous but pithy "Ten Commandments for a Good Church Sign" offers plenty of specific nuts-and-bolts advice for making the most of this powerful but sometimes overlooked ministry tool: Phrases should be short enough and letters large enough for effortless drive-by reading. Messages should be changed regularly, especially date-specific ones. "In-house" announcements better suited for the church bulletin should not be wasted on a disinterested public. Give the gift of a positive, inspirational message; negative statements turn off those the church wants to attract. David J. Claassen has been the pastor of Mayfair-Plymouth Congregational Church in Toledo, Ohio, since 1975. He is a contributing editor for his denominational magazine (The Congregationalist), and writes a weekly inspirational newspaper column. He is also the author of Object Lessons for a Year (Baker). Claassen is a graduate of Central College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

""This Memoir will take you on twisting journey of love, life and relationship."" What should be the best year of Nik's life turns out to be the worst. Feeling all alone, she becomes self destructive, hurting the people she loves most. Can she find herself before it's too late?

Micah Harlan leaves home as a teenager after almost killing his sisters boyfriend. Alone on the streets with only a few bucks and a backpack of a few things, Micah must start a new life for himself. Only being sixteen and seeing no way to start on his own, his luck changes when he meets Walter, a shady man outside his motel room. Now after years of the life Walter presented, he wants to find a way out, if he wants to spend the rest of it with a girl he met at a party. Micah must fight to quit his addictions hes developed over the years and learn to accept his challenges in order to defeat them. Filled with addiction, complications, love, and determination, Micah must find a way to fight his demons, past and present, in order to survive and provide a life for his new family.

Our author, Jeanne Arensman, is a seventy-nine-year-old mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She has been a widow since 1981 when her husband Don died of cancer. There were eight children to raise-one son and seven daughters. Now was a time for faith and courage. The journey ahead required strategy, daily attention, patience, discipline, and lots of prayer. Among the noise of life and the screams of silence, everyone was continually challenged. She prayed to survive while remaining faithful to what she believed. She wrote it all down. Only in Silence a Little Louder is for everyone who has walked such a journey. "As you turn the pages of the book you read, you will smile, you will hurt, you will cry. You will know that I've touched your heart when you no longer need to ask why?" At the end, there are "No more words. No more sound. They've all been spent. They've all be spent. Did we find any common ground?" Yes, and we survived!

With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

When you have reached the summit, you have come so far up that you can’t see your own reflection in the water below. You think you are fully accomplished, yet you crave for something more. That’s when you must dive down and submerge yourself in the river of thoughts to cleanse every spec of negativity within. The perseverance in pursuit of inner peace can feel like a challenge, as Raylene is desperate to find the link of dots between her and Bryan. She’s compelled to look deep within her and travel back to her past in her mind. She discovers the connection between the thoughts of an innocent girl and to the one of a mature and successful adult. She uses the power of positive thinking to face her fears and achieve what she had been searching for all her life. She can silence her echoing thoughts but will she fulfill her craving desire? Love is a feeling, not an action. It flows with no friction, no pressure, no expectation...