With her gift for “surprising emotional honesty…[and] an impressive ability to get inside the heads of [her characters],”* Tess Stimson grips readers with this internationally bestselling novel of six lovers, two marriages, one affair—and what happens when a lifetime of secrets begins to unravel. Ella Stuart is a pediatrician with a fulfilling career and a marriage any woman would envy. William Ashfield is a devoted husband, a good father, and a successful businessman. Beth Ashfield married the love of her life and loves him still, but the light inside her is going out and she has one last chance to rekindle it. And Cate, Beth and William’s brilliant but troubled teenage daughter, is trying to negotiate the rough waters between adolescence and womanhood. But when tragedy strikes, the repercussions spiral through all of their lives—and in an instant, nothing will ever be the same. Now Ella, William, Beth, and Cate will discover that trying to have it all might be keeping them from the very thing they each want most…. With sharp wit and moving honesty, Tess Stimson has written a brazenly unsentimental yet deeply felt novel of hearts gone astray that somehow keep the faith—even when everyone seems to be cheating. *Publishers Weekly

This book will help counselors understand and deal with the typical problems that arise in a marriage. The approach is to offer not merely solutions, but biblical solutions. Chapter by chapter, each problem that is brought into focus is addressed by Scripture, and a solution arising from Scripture is developed. Unless one understands what a biblical marriage is supposed to be, it is difficult to solve marriage problems. For that reason, Dr. Adams spends the first few chapters developing a biblical model. Then he treats many of the specific kinds of problems that typically arise : life patterns, priorities, children, sex roles, in-laws, and so forth. - Back cover.

Author and Iraq Veteran’s discovery of Marriage Heart Trouble In America that’s taking marriages by storm. This author inspires readers through his wife’s heart attack and revelation from God regarding heart trouble upon the marriage. Author and Minister Jeffery Mathews as a Bronze Star Iraq war veteran has experienced troubled nights and days. What allowed him to endure the battle was his faith in God. One night chest pains came upon my wife and turned to trouble. The cardiologist said your wife has suffered a major heart attack. The life I knew of a wonderful marriage went dark temporarily. Through faith much prayer and a mighty God our marriage went from darkness to light. The spirit of the Lord revealed to me through my wife that many marriages are experiencing spiritual chest pains. The Lord revealed if many don’t see the doctor (Jesus Christ) marriage heart attack is at the door. This heart attack can lead to death of the marriage. Many marriages are in a dark place due to blockages in the arteries of their marriage. I discovered that marriage is a major heart issue. My wife recovery went very well upon following the doctor’s commands. I want my readers to know that marriage when Christ is the center is mighty and powerful. I have seen the hand of God over the heart of my wife and the heart of our marriage. Our purpose now is to encourage marriages that they must have an experience with God. We desire also to bring awareness to women of human heart diseases that is on the rise in America and abroad. Hear our story of our only child and daughter of no known medical issues dies at the age of 39 from cardiac arrest.

WHEN BLACK AND WHITE BECOME GRAY Whether we talk about Right from Wrong, Good from Evil, Black and White in contradiction of Gray, Capitalism in opposition to Socialism, Conservatives in opposition to Liberalism, Humanism, Secularism or Naturalism versus Christianity, and leading the horde Atheism opposing all and anyone believing in the Christian values of the originator Jesus Christ, as taken from Scriptures of the Holy Bible and formed into our Constitution. The lack of legitimate authority caused by the denial of God reinforces the Christians belief that God must be recognized as ruler in every sphere, including local and federal governmental politics. We are now seeing violations taking hold in this 21st century by men who want new awe-inspiring laws that bind man to authority, with exception of mans pleasure, fitness or convenience, which is not binding at all. The twentieth-century should have taught Americans that even the most basic of human rights cannot exist yet again and again apart from an absolute Christian standard. This standard is given to you in this book. Who is sovereign, and to whom is man responsible to? This source of sovereignty resides only in following Jesus Christ, and has been for over two-hundred and thirty-four years in America and is still, if we in simple terms want this very source of American freedom. But if sovereignty resides in government, whether a monarchy or a democracy, behaving in an overbearing dictatorial way, man has no appeal beyond the law of the state, and has no source of Christian truths, principles and ethics. Leading only into oppression and totalitarianism, Freedom, first of all is a question of self-determination and responsibility. In the two-years it took to do research, study and having the strength or tendency to condense not by opinion but by history, common sense and reality regarding, Capitalism, Atheism, Socialism and the strategy used by Marxists liberals to overthrow our American freedoms.

Probably no other dimension of human experience has been pondered, discussed, debated, analyzed, and dreamed about more than the nature of true love. Love is everywhere—in songs and in books, on televisions and on movie screens. Yet, for all of our thinking and talking, how many of us truly understand love and where can we turn for genuine insight in matters of true love? In The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage, Dr. Myles Munroe provides the answers to questions surrounding the true nature of love as he also exposes the false images created in our culture. Throughout this book he eloquently illuminates the many facets of love while at the same time tackling the really tough subjects of separation and divorce. This book is sure to become a classic that will last for a lifetime and beyond as it responds gently and practically to those seeking to resolve the challenges of human relationships.

This book familiarises readers with a new way to treat the subject of gender, foregrounding the real voices of women, their experiences doing ethnographic work, and their courage in sharing their stories publicly for the first time in the context of India. A useful companion to more theory-based anthropological studies, the book connects ethnographic data to what eventually becomes theories formed from the field. Chapters by women from a variety of disciplines – Anthropology, Literary and Translation studies, Political Sciences – transcend the academic boundaries between social sciences and humanities. The book shows how the researchers navigate in the field, write in ways that defy their academic life and work, and call into question their narrative voice. The book presents a space for women to reflect on their individual themes of research and at partially filling the vacuum mentioned above, the silences of women’s voices and expressions. The experiences described in the chapters differ, both along the divide of a "native" and a non-"native" fieldworker and along different disciplinary fields, but they share the experience of a long-term fieldwork in India and the need to self-reflect on the impact of this experience on the way the field is represented, on the people encountered in the field, on the way the field impacted on the fieldworker. The book is a useful presentation of how female researchers act in the field as women and scholars. Filling a gap in the existing literature of ethnographic research methods, the book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the fields of Gender Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology and Asian Studies.

Are Christians who are dating being led astray into ungodly, and sinful marriages? Should pastors preach that dating is sin? Finding God ordained love is not meant to be "casual"; it's meant to be a "covenant relationship"- looking only for that special person God has set aside for you. It is not meant to be a guessing game based on one's feelings. There's a Biblical path to God ordained love, and a way to know exactly who you should marry. Dating Is Sin! Breaking God's Heart can help you avoid the heartaches, and disastrous pitfalls of sin most people go through in dating and marriage. Making one sacrifice after another, trying to fix a lackluster relationship can leave you: tired, bitter, confused, and ready to give up! Don't let it happen to you. However, obedience to God, will not hurt you, but will protect your heart, your emotions, and your spiritual relationship with the Heavenly Father. God ordained love will never leave you in a vicious circle of sin, via the world's idea of romance: dating, marriage, divorce - dating, marriage, divorce. It is not a list of rules, but a lifestyle to keep your body and your heart right with God. Be patient, wait on the Lord . . . trust in Him!

Jomuna Chowdhury has it all and in 2006 she gets married. However, as time goes by the foundations of her marriage become unstable and it’s only a matter of time before her loyalty to her husband becomes severely tested.