The true lives of women who experienced nightmares during the day light hours. Women who loved their men and their men loved cocaine.

New York Times bestseller What is Jesus worth to you? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily... But who do you know who lives like that? Do you? In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a "successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment -- a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring.

Maybe you’re a bride-to-be who is about to gain a mother-in-law. Or perhaps you’re a mother-of-the-groom who is about to gain a daughter-in-law. Or maybe you’ve been in an in-law relationship for decades, one that’s been struggling in painful tension for years. No matter your age or stage, every daughter-in-law and mother-in-law needs help navigating their relationship sometimes. Whether the struggle is one of feeling unseen, unheard, or unvalued, authors and in-laws Barbara and Stacy Reaoch have been there, and as they’ve put the Bible’s wisdom to practice over the years, they’ve found that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law really can thrive in the midst of difficulty. In this biblical, practical, and heartfelt book, Barbara and Stacy Reaoch share from their own 20 years of forming a mother-in-law/daughter-in-law bond. As you walk alongside them in their own journey and lessons learned, prepare to be encouraged and equipped in these areas: Expectations Conflict Suffering Communication Parenting And more With the Bible as your foundation and this book as a helpful companion in the journey, take heart: a healthier relationship with your mother-in-law or daughter-in-law is closer than you think!

OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD! Revival isn’t just an emotional experience. It’s a complete transformation. It can happen in your heart, in your home, in your church, and in your world. Restore your first love. Develop a heartfelt desire for God’s Word. Resolve conflicts. Repair relationships. Remove bitterness, fear, and worry. Refresh your spirit. Renew your mind. Reenergize your life. You can get back your passion and zeal for the Lord. Begin by Seeking Him! "Seeking Him was transformative for me. ... It brought me nearer to the Father and helped me learn how to seek Him with joy. I totally believe it can do the same for everybody else." Jackie Hill Perry, Author, speaker, artist "Every pastor’s dream. Finally! A guide to assist every member in personal revival and every church in corporate revival." Tony Evans, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship "An intimate and insightful guide to holy living, a heaven-blessed soul, and a happy heart that can’t help but to be on fire for the Lord Jesus!" Joni Earackson Tada, Joni and Friends

Reflecting on the practice of disciple making in young adult, college, graduate, and local church contexts, Jonathan Dodson has discerned some common pitfalls. For many, discipleship is reduced to a form of religious performance before God. For others, it devolves into spiritual license and a loose adherence to spiritual facts. Both approaches distort biblical motivations for Christian obedience and are in need of reform. By explaining various motivations for discipleship, Dodson charts a biblically faithful, grace-driven alternative. Additionally, he provides a practical model for creating gospel-centered discipleship groups—small, reproducible, missional, gender-specific groups of believers that fight for faith together. This book blends both theology and practice to inspire and equip Christians to effectively fight sin, keep Jesus central, and make gospel-centered discipleship a way of life. Both new and growing Christians will learn to trust the gospel in community as they fight together for holiness as well as how to start gospel-centered community groups in any local church.

How Weeping Spends the Night. This story starts out with Al Hartung, a housing developer, getting amnesia either from a traffic accident or because of the financial mess his business is in. Three friends whom he’s known for twenty years – since college – try to help him get his memory back. These friends are Bernie Gross, a lawyer; Tim Slaton, a painter/artist; and Kyle Paulson, a Protestant Minister. Just as Al is becoming functional again, he and Kyle get caught in a drive-by shooting. Al goes back into shock and Kyle, hit by a stray bullet, becomes paralyzed from the waist down. Al’s other two friends show less obvious disabilities. Bernie has a barely paternalistic weakness for pretty women and Tim has a past with women of the night that he wants to keep from his live-in girlfriend. As each of the four men fall short of what is expected of them, their mates come more onto center stage. Al’s wife Linda, who manages a small chain of fitness centers, decides to divorce Al because, while she can stand to nurse him, she can’t put up with his bullying. Tim’s girlfriend britt, a model much younger than him, becomes frustrated with Tim’s secretiveness about his past and tries to start an affair with Bernie. Bernie’s wife Megan, who works as a lawyer in his law firm, decides that she has to take over their marriage to keep it intact. Terry, Kyle’s wife who once was a chemist but is now a long time home person, finds herself being pushed into the background as defeating his disability becomes more of a challenge to Kyle than keeping the spark of romance alive in their marriage. To get them through their difficulties, both Terry and Kyle have to come even more face to face with their Christian reality, probably not too unusual for a minister and his wife. All of the couples, except Tim and Britt, have kids in one configuration or another and these children for the time being seem to do a better job of growing up than their parents do of growing old. How Weeping Spends the Night is both a parody and a parable. It is a parody on how we change and rearrange partners. Its parable is that the hurt that comes from not giving is greater than the hurt that comes from not receiving. Beyond Divining. This story is about a man named Todd Farrell who loses his wife Daphne to her job at an advertising agency. Todd is irritated and bewildered because his competition is not another man, but rather Daphne’s lifestyle, a lifestyle that Daphne doesn’t necessarily want but thinks she should have. Drawn into the couple’s fighting are Paul Mournier, Daphne’s boss, who lives in terror as Daphne’s difficulties one after another spill over into her work place, and Becky Newton, their marriage counselor, who in the end has to resort to doing handstands to get Todd and Daphne’s attention. Daphne also has a teenage son, Eric; the two can never seem to get on the same wavelength. The person who is the straw who stirs the drink in the story is an old timer named McGillivary. McGillivary has a reputation for being able to fix things. He can fix anything from mechanical contraptions to city politicians. In the story he is asked to fix Todd and Daphne’s marriage. McGillivary has no patience for backsliding and reticence that people try to pass off as politeness. He tries to believe that in relationships there are some codes that are black and white and you should follow them. Although he is a Bible-thumper, he lives his life in such a way that he shows that it takes more courage sometimes to make exceptions than it does to make rules. The Portable Courmeer. Walter Courmeer is a passably well known novelist who wrote between the two World Wars. He is a person who has followed the crowd: an Ivy League education, Paris in the Twenties, social outrage during the Depression, out to the West Coast i

Imran Islam is a young very talented writer. He writes in an inspiring authentic way. Inviting young generation for finding meaning and purpose in their life. Every single poem transmits a strong form of understanding duty, commitment, faith and love as a driving inspiration in life. Imran's emotions of Faith and devotion transmits to the readers. His inner life experience with faith, hope, honesty, happiness, love; all life virtues are reflected in his poems, which makes his work inspiring to everyone. Readers love this poetry book as it is written in a fresh and flowing way. Imran Islam goes with his own style of expressing profound meaning and deep faith. It's always gratifying to read Imran's poetry. Readers can feel that he writes from the heart.

The true story of one family's battle with their middle son's addiction to drugs.

This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.