Your author has written this story with the hope that, maybe, as you near the end of your very short journey called “life,” this book may become a real treasure to you, a sort of best friend, to help you through your difficult times. May this book become like a golden key, which will come, from time-to-time, and unlock those heavy doors that seem to lock us into our very own internal prison cell. Perhaps you are familiar with the horrible names of this real-life, internal, prison cell that has entombed so many with its iron bars. As we walk by it, we see the horrible names of “Fear, “Doubt,” “Discouragement,” “Depression,” and “Disappointment” inscribed on its walls. The primary purpose of this story is to provide the readers with a way, a real, legitimate way, to keep themselves out of this horrific cell that has become the final resting place for so many millions of people.

As a Bible teacher, Gayle had taught for decades about the amazing power of grace in a person's life. Yet it took a crisis in her husband's life and the crumbling of her own life around her for her to have an epiphany about the true nature of grace. In Courageous Grace, Gayle chronicles and explains her newfound insights. Despite common misperceptions, grace is not safe. It's not easy. Frankly, it takes courage to show grace to those who deserve less. Oftentimes, the person showing God's grace gets counted among the sinners, just as Jesus experienced centuries ago. Gayle explores the story of Jesus forgiving the adulterous woman to reveal the courageous side of showing grace. We live in a society that vacillates between glorifying sin and crucifying those who fall. Gayle encourages us to take the road less traveled--daring to do the hard work of showing God's grace to the sinners among us. It's what followers of Christ are called to do.

An unbelievable survival story in the face of the Holocaust While the Holocaust rages, two very young brothers, Yoseph and Yitzhak, adopt false Christian identities and hide in the Aryan side of Polish cities and countryside. Their lives, as well as the lives of their parents, swing wildly between the terror of being apprehended by the cruel regime and collaborators of the Reich, to their desperate need to continue living "freely" outside the ghetto walls. They undergo an agonizing five and a half years, mostly in constant fear that their false identities will be exposed and their lives ended. "Courage and Grace" is the chilling story of one small family's bid for survival against the brutal Nazi occupation, aided by the courageous, uncompromising support of non-Jewish acquaintances and strangers all the way through to their rebirth in the new State of Israel.

What an incredible resource and source of encouragement! In Transitioning to Retirement with Courage and Grace, Jane Owen provides unique insights and practical activities that lay the groundwork for a God-centered retirement. It is a must-read for women of all ages. - Anne Harrison, Women’s Ministry Director, First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas. Jane Owen’s book Transitioning to Retirement with Courage and Grace is a woman’s do-it-yourself, tailor-made guide to retirement. This helpful guide can be used years before you actually retire. - Ann Work Goodrich, author of Your 650,000 Hour Deadline. Dr. Jane Owen doesn’t just help you prepare for a successful and fulfilling retirement; her Biblically-based hints for the reader’s “prime time” are good guidance for women of any age. It will help you focus on an investment with the best return—God’s plan for you and your lasting legacy. - Marjorie Hodges Parker, author of Shaken to the Core (and Finding God’s Strength).

Jennie Liston's memoir is a depiction of a life that is fully lived and is truer than fiction. It is a powerful testimony of God's grace in her life experiences, written with honesty and personal vulnerability. In a fast-moving life story, the author depicts events in war-torn Germany seen through the eyes of a child, running from bombs and the horrors of WWII, adjusting to a new life as an immigrant in America, and facing the struggles and challenges of her childhood and adolescence. Jennie exposes the reality of her relationships, the agony of separation from a spouse fighting in Viet Nam, and the difficulties of dealing with a returning stranger who has seen death all around him. It is also a historical description never before documented of the Soviet Union as it falls apart, as countries such as Ukraine gain their independence, told by a CIA analyst standing in the midst of Soviet crowds...of working in Moscow after the disintegration...and of returning to her native Latvia fifty years after the Iron Curtain closes, opening to a world no longer her place in the sun.

It goes without saying that everyone wishes to live a life that matters. But how do we harness this potential and positively impact the world around us? In Be Audacious: Inspiring Your Legacy and Living a Life that Matters, author and motivational speaker Michael W. Leach offers a simple, four-part game plan for overcoming adversity, living authentically, uncovering purposeful passion, and developing vision. Leach encourages readers to embrace nonconformity—to "shed the shackles of societal norms"—in pursuit of their dreams. Fresh, vulnerable, and contemporary, this call to action speaks to millennials and any others who aspire to break out of the box on the path to a purposeful journey uniquely their own.

Dr. Rutland shows hurting souls--and those who love them--a doorway of hope. This resource will give readers inner healing through Spirit-led counseling, prayer, Bible reading, and the power of God's grace.od's grace.