Now That Makes SenseI is an entertaining and educational resource on history's most brilliant sayings around communication, human relations and human nature. Use this book to entertain, educate, persuade, and as a resource for your blog, newsletter, social media, writings or presentations.

Although she had been journaling for many years prior to writing this her first book, Jane Litchmore-Grant would be quick to confess that this autobiography was a labour of grace. Jane is thankful for the lady who visited her home during that stormy day - someone she believes was an angel from the Lord.It All Makes Sense Now is a direct result of that remarkable visit. It chronicles her own journey from childhood to adulthood, recalling how God found her at an early age and has guided her through miracles, God-encounters, challenges and questioning about her purpose in His plan.Born out of an adulterous relationship, she was one of a pair of 'hidden children' in her father's family. However, because our heavenly Father specialises in the impossible, He made possible that which seemed impossible through her life of dedication and commitment to Him. A failed suicide attempt sensitised her to 'the voice of God.' Now she gives all the praise to God. Jane is a teacher by profession and holds a master's of science degree in psychology. She has served in various capacities in church over the years and alongside her husband in his pastoral ministry for the past 20 years. She is a conference speaker and is passionate about seeing people's lives transformed by teaching the word of God.

This revised edition of The Bible Makes Sense is a unique how-to book about the Bible. Brueggemann proposes that Christians should approach the Bible not as a collection of ancient documents, but as our partner in an ongoing dialog about our life here and now. This book explains how to enter into this dialog, how to listen and how to respond. More than simply introducing readers to major themes, the author reveals an engaging biblical understanding of the world that leads to a life of joy, wholeness and peace. Suggestions for reflection, discussion and meditation on particular passages provide outlines for group study and for the individual reader's own prayerful Bible reading.

An Experienced and Trustworthy Voice Offers Hope for Tough Times Readers trying to figure out how the world and God "work" can't help but learn from Leslie Haskin's indomitable spirit and compassionate heart. Since surviving the 9/11 attacks, she's faced post-traumatic stress disorder, the loss of her home, tough times between jobs, a broken engagement, a cancer scare, and perhaps most challenging, raising a teenaged son by herself. In this book, Leslie interweaves personal stories, biblical insights, and uplifting wisdom to address common questions such as Why do things seem so out of control? Is praying even worth it? and What do you want from me, Lord? She provides down-to-earth encouragement to all who want a better life.

Through fascinating case histories and revealing encounters with patients, Dr. Kramer provides a compassionate, immensely eloquent view of how psychiatry really works. Written by the author of the national bestseller, Listening to Prozac.

"Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical humanities and digital humanities before it, overcomes traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Like its predecessors, energy humanities highlights the essential contribution that the insights and methods of the human sciences can make to areas of study and analysis once thought best left to the natural sciences. This isn't a case of the humanities simply helping their cross-campus colleagues to learn the mechanics of communication so that they might better articulate their ideas. Rather, these fields of scholarship are ones that demonstrate how the scale and complexity of the issues being explored demand insights and approaches that transcend old school disciplinary boundaries. Energy Humanities : A Reader offers a carefully curated selection of the best and most influential work in energy humanities that has appeared over the past decade. To stay true to the diverse work that makes up this emergent field, selections range from anthropology and geography to philosophy, history, and cultural studies to recent energy-focused interventions in art and literature. The three readers all agree that this is an important, ground-breaking collection of work"--Provided by publisher.

Nora Brooke drowned last year. Her heart stopped: long enough to leave, deep inside, a shadow of death that opened her to other shadows. Coming to Holdfast Island for remedial school, Nora finds a garden in the woods: an old, overgrown prison yard. She enters by a gate that then vanishes, glimpses a restless figure who is suddenly gone, and finds thousands of blue flowers like watching eyes. She finds friends, especially irrepressible Jack McKie. And Adam: seen in the prison ruin and met underwater while swimming, when Nora nearly drowns again. A local boy, they think, until they learn of an old tragedy. Three teens died here: Ursula stabbed, Graham hanged, Adam drowned. Triple suicide? Or murder? Adam says he loved Ursula but lost her. Now he's bound here. Questions swarm. Why does Nora sleepwalk nearly to her death? Why is Jack suddenly accident-prone, like Graham? Who haunts the prison, where the warden, Adam's grandfather, was called the Hangman? What will happen if Nora sets Adam free?

A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more. What's the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alison Lurie, and others? Divine assistance? Otherworldly talent? An unsettlingly close relationship with the Muse? While the rest of us are staring at blank sheets of paper, struggling to come up with a first sentence, these writers are busy polishing off story after story and novel after novel. Despite producing work that may seem effortless, all of them have a simple technique for fending off writer's block: the writing exercise. In Now Write!, Sherry Ellis collects the personal writing exercises of today's best writers and lays bare the secret to their success. - In "The Photograph," Jill McCorkle divulges one of her tactics for handling material that takes plots in a million different directions; - National Book Award-nominee Amy Bloom offers "Water Buddies," an exercise for writers practicing their craft in workshops; - Steve Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and Candyfreak, provides a way to avoiding purple prose in "The Five-Second Shortcut to Writing in the Lyric Register"; - and eighty-three more of the country's top writers disclose their strategies for creating memorable prose. Complemented by brief commentary from the authors themselves, the exercises in Now Write! are practical and hands-on. By encouraging writers to shamelessly steal proven techniques that have yielded books which have won National Book Awards, Pulitzers, and Guggenheim grants, Now Write! inspires the aspiring writer to write now.

The Brotherhood continues the spiritual adventure of a young archeologist in his quest to find the second sacred site located on the Earth's energy grid. Marked for death, he and four close friends are relentlessly pursued by a priest from an ancient religious order desperate to suppress forbidden knowledge that will awaken mankind from life's illusions. Their adventures lead them to discover a darkened map room in the Ancient City of Prophecy, a dangerous geologic experiment in New Mexico and travelers from the Star Nation. Follow the group, as they "drop all the rules to gain their spirituality" and race against time to activate the sacred site and stop a geologic disaster of unprecedented proportions from occurring to the Earth Mother!