Bill Gaither, legendary Dove and Grammy Award-winning performer and composer, shares the moving story of his life and ministry. In his own words, Gaither recounts his early professional engagements while still in his teens and the spiritual and professional journey that led him to become one of the most influential figures in today's gospel music industry. Revised edition.

In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual--and potentially subversive--meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus. Reassessing the contributions of such figures as Aldine Kieffer, James D. Vaughan, and Bill and Gloria Gaither, Then Sings My Soul traces an alternative history of southern gospel in the twentieth century, one that emphasizes the music's interaction with broader shifts in American life beyond the narrow confines of southern gospel's borders. His discussion includes the "gay-gospel paradox"--the experience of non-heterosexuals in gospel music--as a cipher for fundamentalism's conflict with the postmodern world.

The story follows Cerise Flitswick, who encounters Miss Moonlight, whom she suspects is a witch. Cerise becomes Miss Moonlight's apprentice and learns witchcraft while also helping with farm chores. She impresses Miss Moonlight with her cooking skills and is put in charge of cooking. Cerise's siblings, Orlando and Carita, visit and also want to learn witchcraft. Miss Moonlight reveals that her cows can talk, and Cerise practices magic with her wand, accidentally setting a fire. The lesson ends, and Cerise befriends Dottie, the talking calf. The story showcases Cerise's adventures as she learns witchcraft and interacts with magical creatures. rest of the things I think you can explore as you keep on reading the small chapters.

Emma is about to have another child and Ellen is praying that it will die. A powerful story of searching for and finding God's love and forgiveness.

Love is untangled by the hidden truth. Passion is experienced through thoughts and emotion and conveyed by only words. Life is shown through an untold adventure of feeling and not being afraid to feel.

Catherine and Richard are nearing the end of their lives. An intelligent, introspective couple, they want to die with dignity and without the pain that often accompanies dying. They are also realistic, unafraid to look death in the eye and try to deal with it on their terms. They have lived long and are ailing, and for people like them, as life spans lengthen, end-of-life questions have become more urgent. Those who guide patients and families through life’s final stage call for wiser discussion, better services and a clearer ethical framework. Catherine and Richard, as a final gift to their children, have decided to create an ethical will, a document that spells out the values and principles that have guided them throughout their lives. We listen in as they discuss these very personal guideposts in a conversation full of insight, wisdom, and sometimes humor, but always love.

A powerful new movement is sweeping across America:Christian men are coming together to make a difference in their families, churches, businesses, and communities.They are helping one another acknowledge a deep-seated need and hunger for spiritual nourishment and Christian fellowship. They are "sharpening" one another's understanding of what it means to be a man today. The first book of daily meditations created expressly for men in search of spirituality, Promises to Keep draws together the words of hundreds of prominent Christian authors and leaders. Offering inspiration and motivation, this little treasure provides the spiritual dimensions lacking in the lives of so many and proves that men can be strong and tender, can lead without tyranny, can be authoritative without arrogance, and can have relationships with each other that are full of meaning, insight, and even love.

Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer! A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home... Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the girls she was kidnapped with a decade ago. The two women—along with Rafael and his sister, Louise’s girlfriend, Rosa Maria—spend the night at the Dove, drinking and talking. The next morning, Rosa Maria wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the previous night. Nora is lying dead in the middle of the dance floor. Louise knows Rosa Maria couldn’t have killed Nora, but the police have a hard time believing that no one can remember anything at all about what happened. When Louise and Rosa Maria return to their apartment after being questioned by the police, they find the word GUILTY written across the living room wall in paint that looks a lot like blood. Someone has gone to great lengths to frame and terrify Rosa Maria, and Louise will stop at nothing to clear the woman she loves.

Michael O'Shea is a professional thief, descended from a long line of professional thieves. A seemingly simple, well-prepared heist in the jewelry district goes slightly awry, and propels him into a heist for hire in Sunset Cove, Florida. He is enlisted to restore a painting stolen by his new employer's daughter and her drug dealing boyfriend, who are not aware it hides something of very high value. But a killer is also burglarizing homes and condominiums in Florida, and has targeted the condominium occupied by the daughter of Michael's new employer. The killer strikes almost on the heels of Michael's burglary, and kills the daughter of Michael's employer, leaving Michael as the logical suspect in her death. Michael must find and expose real killer before he is caught, and perhaps killed, by the police, his employer, or the mob-connected father of another of the killer's victims. And before long, the killer is stalking him as well. But a chance meeting with Nicki Fontaine may offer his only hope of survival.