The Struggle of Life as True Love Prevails


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The Struggle of Life As True Love Prevail's, is about two young people that met when they were teenagers and became partners for life. One had a family that had struggle in life to resist from being poor and living in a large city. How they dealth with racial prejudice and the gangs in the neighborhoods. The way two cultures came together as one and also some history and nostalgia about their families. The contents in this book has accurate perception of what it was like to grow up in a large city. It contains many activities the authors did as they were growing up. The programs they watched on television and the programs on the radio they had listened to. The games they played. The places they had visited. Some of the friends they had while growing up. The jobs they did and the schools they had attended. This book also talks about the leadership and faith of Abe's mother, and how true love for each other had prevailed. It also talks about both authors family members and how they cope with the life in the big city. The authors, Abe and Pat want you the reader to better understand how the "Struggle of Life and how True Love Prevails" effect's all of us as we continue growth within our families. No matter where you had lived as a child you will relate to situations told in this book. When you read this book you will want to talk about the contents to other people. This book does not contain any profanity or obscene events.




Hope Prevails


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Neuropsychologist Offers Hope to Those Struggling with Depression As a board-certified neuropsychologist, Dr. Michelle Bengtson sees the devastation of depression. Early on, she practiced the most effective treatments and prescribed them for her clients. But when she experienced depression herself, she found that the treatments she had recommended were lacking. Her experience showed her the missing component in treating depression. In Hope Prevails, Dr. Bengtson writes with deep compassion, blending her training and faith, to offer readers a hope grounded in God's love and grace. She helps readers understand what depression is, how it affects them spiritually, and what, by God's grace, it cannot do. The result is an approach that offers the hope of release, not just the management of symptoms. For those who struggle with depression and those who want to help them, Hope Prevails offers hope for the future.




Learn to Love


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Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life is a book about learning to improve your love life. After 30 years of clinical research and treatment of patients with unhealthy love lives, I now recognize that most people are not in control of their love lives. Why? Because most people don't know what they've learned about and from the love relationships in the course of their lives. Love relationships that started in their families of origin the moment they were born. If you don't know what you've learned about love relationships, then what you've learned is in control of your love life, healthy or unhealthy. If what you've learned was healthy, no problem. Chances are you'll simply replicate what you've learned about love relationships. If what you've learned was unhealthy, you could be unwittingly making the same love life mistakes over and over again because of what you've learned. Learn to Love will show you how to identify what you've learned about love relationships, how to unlearn what is unhealthy, and practice something new, healthy, and the opposite of what you've learned, now as a corrective in your adult love life. This simple learning formulate has helped many of my patients begin taking control of their own love lives, as well as helping me improve my own love life. Learn to Love will help you learn how to take control of your love life. Dr. Thomas Jordan




Breaking Anxiety's Grip


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Ours is an age of anxiety. We worry about our children, jobs, homes, health, and finances. News and social media feed our fears. Even the fear of missing out leads to anxiety. The solution isn't to rid ourselves of the sources of anxiety but to recognize that anxiety originates from a spiritual influence--and then use the weapons of power, love, and a sound mind to fight back and live in God's peace. Sharing her own story of emerging from the battle with anxiety as well as the stories of others, Dr. Michelle Bengtson reminds you of your identity as a follower of Christ and of the peace he promises you in spite of everything. She provides tools to cope with the crushing emotional burden of anxiety now, and, more importantly, shows you how to reclaim God's peace as a way of life so that you can break anxiety's grip.




Choosing Real


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Are you ready to release your control of needing to be everything for everyone? In Choosing REAL, author Bekah Pogue walks with us into life’s unplanned circumstances--specifically frantic schedules, pain, transition, feelings of unworthiness, loneliness, and tension--and reminds us it is in these.very.moments where God invites us to notice, respond, and even celebrate an authentic relationship with Him through every.little.detail despite our own efforts or work. The result? A connection between real life and faith so that they are one and the same. When we enjoy God's company first--the heavenly Creator will transform our minds to view our schedules, work, relationships, parenting, and responsibilities as opportunities to dance in life's storms and honor how beautiful simple can be. Better than our ideal party, it is He who is inviting us, setting the table, breathing peace and freedom into details we aren’t in control of. When we recognize how He surprises us by using our greatest pains and detours to draw us to a beautiful dependence on Him--freedom and peace replace control and worry. Put aside what-could-be and instead embrace what is? The invitation is yours. . .choose Real today.




I Choose Brave


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What if fear is the new brave? That's the question that you need answered if you are living afraid. Finding courage begins with fear itself--fear of the Lord. I Choose Brave reveals a countercultural plan to help you where you are--knee-deep in fears of parenting, the future, your marriage, and a world that feels unstable. When you're feeling fearful, the last thing you need is a social-media meme telling you to simply "power through" your fears. In I Choose Brave, Katie Westenberg digs deep into Scripture and shows that finding the courage to overcome our fears must start with fear of the Lord. Hundreds of passages speak to this foundational truth, yet we have somehow relegated them to antiquity. In sharing her own compelling story of facing her worst fear, Katie serves up theological truth with relatable application. In this book, you will · discover a fresh take on an old truth that displaces fear once and for all · understand why the culture's idea of "fearlessness" is a farce · access the holy courage you were made for With this new knowledge comes tremendous freedom. Hidden in the cleft of the Rock, the One truly worthy of our fear, you will begin to understand the only path to real courage.




Love Prevails


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"Twenty-five years ago in April 1994, a savage campaign of genocide was unleashed against the Tutsis of Rwanda. The violence of a hundred days left as many as a million people dead. This personal narrative tells the story of two survivors--Jean Bosco and his fiancée Christine. While most of their family members perished, they managed to escape to what is now famous as the Hotel Rwanda. Their story of survival is at once a love story and a harrowing inside look at what happens when a country is overrun by evil. But it is also a story of faith--an effort to find God in the midst of horror--and of their subsequent struggles to find meaning, healing, and reconciliation"--




Keeping Faith


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“A triumph. This novel’s haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget.” —Richmond Times Dispatch “Extraordinary.” —Orlando Sentinel From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care) comes Keeping Faith: an “addictively readable” (Entertainment Weekly) novel that “makes you wonder about God. And that is a rare moment, indeed, in modern fiction” (USA Today).




Why True Love Waits


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How can parents, youth workers, and teachers help teens resist the immense pressure to be sexually active before marriage? Josh McDowell's classic Why Wait? has been updated and revised in this new reference work to prepare adults with answers and a solution to kids' struggles to remain sexually pure in today's culture. Why True Love Waits equips readers with emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual reasons to share with young people to help them resist sexual pressure.




Prevailing Love


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Prevailing Love is all about what to do when everything else has failed, a common reason why our world is littered with bloody issues. It emphasizes the kind of love which enables individuals to forgive one another and live better lives. It also shows the different kinds of secular love and their weaknesses. It then points out that prevailing love is what we need to live better in this world. All other kinds of love have been tried by mankind but the results have left mankind heartbroken and unhappy. Much effort has not been made to learn and practice prevailing love. Without God's kind of love, our world and all relationships will continue to be shaky, bitter, and tumultuous. This book is divided into seven distinct chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the topic of love and a world without prevailing love, the main reason we have so many local and international human disengagements, hatred, and wars. Chapter 2 examines the limitations of secular love and explains why it cannot solve our social ills. Chapter 3 introduces prevailing love, its definitions and ramifications, and why it is the only option that can make a real positive difference in our world. Chapter 4 examines how one can develop prevailing love for dealing with personal, family, and societal social issues. Chapter 5 examines true life examples of some individuals who have lived in prevailing love. Chapter 6 discusses selected benefits of prevailing love if it is applied in our society today. Chapter 7 is designed to help people who do not have a personal relationship with God to be born again.