No. 1 Christian Weight Loss Memoir Is it possible to overcome food cravings and live free and healthy? Once weighing 430 pounds, Teresa Shields Parker tried every magic fix imaginable. After years of searching for the easy fix, she finally made a bold decision. "I faced the fact that I was addicted to processed sugar and flour," she said. "I literally grieved just thinking about giving them up." Faced with a death sentence if she didn't lose weight with God's help she gave up what she craved and began walking choice by choice into freedom. Sweet Grace chronicles her journey from childhood through adulthood. You will identify with many parts of the book. Sweet Grace will challenge you. It may shock you at times. You may shed a tear. However, one thing is sure, you will never again be able to say you don't know what to do to become healthy. If you are ready, really ready, to change your life. If you really want to lose weight and live free and healthy, I dare you to read this book. You'll be glad you did. Don't miss the Sweet Grace Study Guide sold separately. Perfect for personal or group study.

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For Lisa Velthouse’s whole life, Christianity had been about getting things right. Obeying her parents. Not drinking. Not cursing. Not having premarital sex. Vowing to save her first kiss until she got engaged, even writing a book called . . . well, Saving My First Kiss. (This, it turns out, does not actually help a girl get a date.) Yet after two decades of trying to earn God’s okay, she found her faith was lonely, empty, and unsatisfying. So she turned to more discipline, of course: fasting! By giving up her favorite foods—sweets—Lisa hoped to somehow discover true sweetness and meaning in her relationship with God. Until, one night at a wedding, she denied herself the cake but failed in such a different, unexpected, and world-rocking way that it challenged everything she thought she knew about God and herself. Craving Grace is the true story of a faith dramatically changed: how in one woman’s life God used a bitter heart, a broken promise, and the sweetness of honey to reveal the stunning wonder that is grace.

Sweet Tea and Southern Grace is in the genre of Christian Fiction and is the author's first published novel. It is in the style of Jan Karon's Mitford Series and its setting is a small Southern town in rural America where sitting on front porches, drinking sweet iced tea out of heirloom glasses, and participating in innocent gossip are the favorite pastimes of the good folks of Park Place, South Carolina. The story revolves around the town's Presbyterian Church and its almost meddlesome minister, Reverend Rock Clark, whose meddling ways quite often get him into trouble. There's a sweet romance brewing between the story lines, but the young preacher is too busy tending to his flock and putting out fires to recognize it. A culmination of mystery, intrigue and God's grace makes this book a delightful read.

Joshua Nun starts his first year in college with hopes of adventure, education and finding a girlfriend. Much to his surprise he meets not one but three ladies, all who want to help him find God. Joshua, with help from his friends, manages to travel down an often-hilarious road to where he comes face to face with his Lord. James Tom has been writing stories since he was in the sixth grade. But it wasn't until he recognized God's grace that his writing became his mission. This is his first novel. He lives with his wife and children in San Jose, California.