Author : Michael Catt
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0805448675
Sherwood Baptist Church pastor Catt uses biblical and modern stories to show how brokenness can be a blessing.
Author : Michael Catt
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0805464514
What could be good about being broken? Michael Catt, innovtive pastor and executive producer of hit films Facing the Giants and Fireproof, finds treasure at rock bottom in The Power of Desperation, a book for anyone who has ever cried out for God’s strength in life’s moments of absolute weakness: “Maybe you are feeling alone, immersed in a time of darkness. I’ve got good news: God is on the verge of getting you alone with Him, so He can get the ‘you’ out of you and fill you with Himself.” Through biblical and modern stories of incomplete people whose only path to victory is through total surrender, Catt introduces yet another breakthrough concept worthy of widespread personal application. Discover the power of desperation.
Author : Megan Nolan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473578507
'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?
Author : Heather King
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0829445153
2019 International Book Awards, Finalist: Christianity 2018 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Third Place: Prayer, Books about Prayer 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers’ “Excellence in Publishing Awards,” First Place: Inspiration 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers’ “Excellence in Publishing Awards,” BOOK OF THE YEAR When life has driven you to your knees, the only thing that works is prayer. Desperation has many faces: the addict who has hit bottom; the laid-off worker struggling to make the next house payment; the person who seems to have it all together but is wracked with fear, guilt, anger, or shame. We know we need help, but we are afraid to let anyone—especially God—see how broken we truly are. In Holy Desperation, Heather King demonstrates that, when we’re desperate, it’s precisely the right time to cry out to God. King, a survivor of addiction and other forms of desperation, begins with the basics of how to pray when you’re uncertain that God exists or when you feel that you’re beyond God’s reach. She challenges the assumptions that only the saintly can pray and that prayer ought to be tidy and nice. She reveals how prayer leads us beyond ourselves and into a life of purpose, lived for the good of others. Ultimately, Holy Desperation is an invitation to engage in bold, come-exactly-as-you-are prayer, offering a way forward, upward, and outward for anyone desperate enough to cry out for God’s help and presence. You are not alone.
Author : Doug Farrar
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1641250828
If necessity has been the mother of invention throughout the history of professional football, it could also be said that desperation is the father. Rare are the football innovations that have occurred without an owner, general manager, coach, or player up against the wall and reaching for a way to succeed anyway. In this meticulously researched, lively book, Bleacher Report lead NFL scout Doug Farrar traces the schematic history of the pro game through these "if this/then that" moments—paradigm shifts in the game from 1920 through the present. More than just a book about schemes and strategies, The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL also tells the stories of the game's most prominent innovators, the adversities they endured, and the ways in which they learned to exceed their own expectations on the path to true greatness. Everyone from George Halas to Greasy Neale, Paul Brown to Sid Gillman, Bill Walsh to Chip Kelly is featured, as well as many more. The Genius of Desperation is a narrative arc through the history of the game as it's never been told before.
Author : John Piper
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433530287
Only two weeks from his crucifixion, Jesus has stopped in Bethlehem. He has returned to visit someone important—the innkeeper who made a place for Mary and Joseph the night he was born. But his greater purpose in coming is to pay a debt. What did it cost to house the Son of God? John Piper shares a tale of what might have been through the story-poem of an innkeeper whose life was forever altered by the arrival of the Son of God. Ponder the sacrifice that was made that night. Celebrate Jesus's birth and the power of his resurrection. And encounter the hope his life gives you for today—and for eternity. This imaginative story has been redesigned and makes a great gift for families.
Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1101607734
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything. Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life. Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. And in her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals. It is these three prayers – asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us – that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas. Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.
Author : Vance Havner
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2020-09-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781619583177
Are you feeling desperate? "Every one of the great heroes of faith were desperate people," Vance Havner reminds us. "Daniel in the lion's den, the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, Elijah and Isaiah, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, the disciples in the storm, Jacob at Jabbok, Moses at the Red Sea, David facing Goliath, the four lepers at the gate of Samaria-every one of them on the spot, desperate."God delights in blessing those who are desperate for Him. When we feel far from God and need a fresh touch from Him, when we want to obey Him more than anything else, we are becoming desperate. And when we desperately need God and want God more than anything else-we will find Him and be blessed.If you're tired of mediocrity and long for a move of God in your life, you need Holy Desperation!
Author : Sarah Mae
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400204674
Desperate is for those who love their children to the depths of their souls but who have also curled up under their covers, fighting back tears, and begging God for help. It’s for those who have ever wondered what happened to all their ideals for what having children would be like. For those who have ever felt like all the “experts” have clearly never had a child like theirs. For those who have prayed for a mentor. For those who ever felt lost and alone in motherhood. In Desperate you will find the story of one young mother’s honest account of the desperate feelings experienced in motherhood and one experienced mentor’s realistic and gentle exhortations that were forged in the trenches of raising her own four children. Also in Desperate: QR codes and links at the end of each chapter that lead to videos with Sarah Mae and Sally talking about the chapter Practical steps to take during the desperate times Bible study and journal exercises in each chapter that will lead you to identify ways in which you can grow as a mom Mentoring advice for real-life situations Q & A section with Sally where she answers readers questions
Author : John Eckhardt
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1629995355
EXPERIENCE BREAKTHROUGH IN YOUR PRAYER LIFE. When you have exhausted all your options and everything you were holding onto has failed, God steps in. He hears your cries and remembers His promises to you. He never turns away the desperate. He never ignores your tears. The dreams and visions God has placed in the hearts of His people will come to pass. All you have to do is learn to pray desperate prayers. Using the prayer of Hannah as a model, best-selling author John Eckhardt invites you to a life of prayer that consistently sees results. Through biblical teaching and practical application, you can persevere in prayer no matter where you are in your life, how bad things may look, or what situation you find yourself in. Have the last word over the enemy and experience joy in God's presence.
