A rabbit in a picture book is very glad when a reader turns up.

Get a cell phone. Stay home alone. Go to the mall with best friend and No Parents. Wear makeup. Get contact lenses. Attend a boy-girl party. Rory Swenson has been waiting her whole life to turn twelve. And she's got a list to prove it. Whenever Rory asks her parents for something, they always say, "When you're twelve . . ." Well, in exactly, 18 hours, 36 minutes, and 52 seconds it will finally happen. Rory's life will officially begin!

The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text's meaning and freeze the hearers heart. With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech?differently voiced and therefore differently heard. This speech, as suggested by the Bible itself, is "poetic" speech, enabling the preacher to forge communion in the midst of alienation, bring healing out of guilt, and empower the hearer for "missional imagination." As an alternative to theological/homiletical discourse that is moralistic, pietistic or scholastic, Brueggemann proposes preaching that is artistic, poetic, and dramatic. The basis for the 1989 Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School, Finally Comes the Poet is a unique and transforming guide for powerful preaching.

His words of Wisdom, were sent from above, low and behold by his precious white doves. His words are far greater than mans, he speaks of his love and our lives in his great hands. His words of wisdom I will treasure until the end of time. I will love him dearly in Heart, Soul, and Mind. He's here in whole, He's here in half, and He's here forever as time passes on at last.....

Finally, enough is enough! Do you wonder if you will ever find freedom from the shame, bitterness, resentment, and brokenness that you carry around with you every day? Do you wonder if anyone will truly love you the way that God loves you? Do you believe that you can live a victorious life free from fear, from always looking over your shoulder, or wondering how you are going to make it through today? If you said yes to one of these or all of these, then you have picked up the right book. It is time to say, "Finally, enough is enough." It is time to believe that you are worth much more than a punching bag, and you deserve to be loved, feel loved, and be free to live a victorious life. We all have wounds of many different sizes that have shaped us into who we are, and that is not how God sees us. Our past does not define us. Through God's grace and forgiveness, we are set free from our past. If you have dealt with sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, spousal, spiritual abuse, or abandonment, all of this will affect you as a child and then alter the way you think, act, and feel as an adult. It will rob you of the life that God intended you to live. God does not expect us to live a life full of abuse that would bound and cripple us from a life of freedom. In Finally, Enough Is Enough, Amber shares her story with you, explaining how she broke free from thirty-eight years of abuse. At the age of thirty-eight, she finally had an aha moment--a moment that she realized she is worth much more and deserves much more. She dug in deep and broke free from all the lies by healing her heart, letting go of the hurt, and learning the true meaning of forgiveness. Amber is no longer living her life as a victim; rather, she is living a victorious life that God intended her to live. The purpose of telling her story is to help guide you to freedom and true happiness, to help break you from living as a victim and embrace living a victorious life.

Overcoming many obstacles and risking her life she escaped from a Third World Country and her abuser. With her 3 and 4 year old children she had to board a U.S. Army Helicopter in the middle of war, in enemy territory, determined to make it home to the United States and her 15 year old daughter who was living a hell of her own. Those 3 years of exile in The Third World Country are just a fraction of the Hell that she lived during 18 1/2 excruciatingly long years. After getting beat-up when she was 7 months pregnant she spent 29 days in a Hospital fighting for her life. She had knives placed at her throat and slept 5 months next to the Machete with which she was threatened daily. One day she resolved to get out of her Hell and although it wasn't easy, she made it. In this book she tells it ALL!

Jaded by the judgmental people from her past, Elizabeth Strutton ends up relocating halfway across the country after heartbreak caused by a devastating life-ending accident, with her three-year-old twins in tow. Hoping to move on but still carrying the hurt she brought with her, Elizabeth focuses on creating a new life for the three of them while doing her best to keep people at a distance. Despite her best efforts, she finds that the people she meets and the town of Spring View, North Carolina, itself just might be a place she can truly call home. From a very young age, Lucas Walker knew what his future looked like, that is until life threw him a curveball. His plans of playing professional baseball ended after fighting for his life—twice—ultimately leading him to become one of the two lead pastors in his local church and completely dedicating his life to Christ. God clearly knew what He was doing all along, and from the very beginning, as the two meet and are forced to deal with past hurts, Elizabeth’s struggle with forgiveness, and the unexpected feelings they have for one another right from the start. Will this family that God put together step out in faith and accept that life for the four of them was just beginning?

Friend. Lover. Groom? Running out on her own wedding is the only way Molly McClintock can stop herself from making the biggest mistake of her life. But running to her childhood friend Eric South could land her in even more trouble. Ever since the second grade, Eric's always been there for her. Now the wounded war hero is back in her life… and igniting enough sparks to turn friends into lovers. How could Eric forget the girl who accepted his boyhood marriage proposal? Now, twenty years later, he's getting a second chance. With Molly back in his arms where she belongs, will Eric finally get his lifelong wish and meet the woman he loves at the altar?

A new world. A new hope. An unexpected love. What life awaits these brides? With the cotton mills closed and hunger rampant in Manchester, England, Willow Rhodes’s family encourages her to join the bride ship bound for the Pacific Northwest, where she is assured of employment. Willow agrees to go with the hope that eventually she can save enough money for her family to join her. Rebellious knuckle-boxing champion Caleb Edwards loves Willow more than life itself. But Willow has been adamant that she sees him as a friend and nothing more. Unable to watch her sail away, Caleb uses his prize money to pay for passage to Vancouver Island to be with Willow. After arriving, Willow finds work as a maid and Caleb is a farmhand on the same property. As Caleb struggles to keep his feelings for Willow from growing, he’ll do anything for her, even take the blame for a theft to keep her safe. As the crime catches up to them, they’re forced to make choices that could finally rip them apart forever. Bride Ships: New Voyages Book 1: Finally His Bride Book 2: His Treasured Bride

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