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Introduction: Ruins fascinate me. Especially castles and palaces where someone arrogant once ruled, once roared, but now cannot even whisper. They cannot stop even the fading of their memory amongst the living. Memory, only a thing in the minds of mortals, and all mortals destined to die. I’ve heard death described as ‘humiliating’ to mankind. It just happens – heart, mind and body – and there is nothing anyone can do about it. And no matter how high the towers you built, the tomes of wisdom you published, the vaults of money you had or gave away, you disintegrate and disperse ...

As the King's young cousin, an admired scholar living in Italy, it falls to Reginald Pole to make the case for Henry's divorce from Katherine of Aragon. And it falls to the hapless Michael Throckmorton - the younger son of an impecunious titled family - to become Thomas Cromwell's messenger to Pole in Rome.

‘God, don’t leave us here!’ My friend, Brian, had whispered this prayer the night before. Just outside his door there had been a violent, cold-blooded fight. Many against one, kicking the young guy unconscious. Brian’s one line resonated with my soul. It expressed my own heart’s cry at many times, with many feelings of fear in this world. After hearing Brian put this cry into words, it was a prayer I whispered many times after that. It's OK to pray like this. It’s OK to feel like this. Prayers in the Bible press even harder: ‘How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How ...

(excerpt from the text) '... This is critical, my friends, the issue of what we can and do know regarding sin andsuffering, and what we don’t and can’t know. We got to stay in our ‘truth’ lane.There will be paradoxes in our understanding, and therefore (hopefully!) inour communications and interactions with people. This is good! In some areasof God’s revelation, to be true to it, we must be limited, this far and no further, thisclear and no clearer… We’re called to weep with those who weep, not to tell themthat God ordained the disaster, and has a plan in it. If that truly ...

A father’s acceptance. A father’s delight in you. Listen, whether your father gives you this or not, it doesn’t change your true worth, the true you. Jesus said, ‘Do not call anyone no earth ‘father’, for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.’ (Matthew 23:9) You might have some DNA from an earthly parent, but that is surface stuff. The real stuff is that you have been ‘made in the image of God’, and that he has put eternity in your heart. The deep truth about you comes from the throne room of your Creator, your Father in heaven. And your true and ‘secret’ name will...

It is 1967, and as America's allies hesitate over whether to send more troops to Vietnam, and the strains of "All You Need is Love" echo from Abbey Road, students take to the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, to protest the war. Among them are Race, Candy, Chadwick, and FitzGerald, and their elusive, electrifying friend Morgan Tawhai. They are young and hopeful, and the world is all before them. Forty years later, in Washington, DC, Race's son Toby is navigating his own path across a landscape still trembling with the reverberations of 9/11.

Mozliwe, ze jestes zly na Boga albo obecnie w niego nie wierzysz. A moze wierzysz w Boga, ale zostales zraniony. Moze jestes muzulmaninem, wyznawca hinduizmu, buddysta lub innego wyznania. Byc moze jestes w zupelnie innym miejscu, którego nawet ty nie potrafisz okreslic... Niezaleznie od tego, przyjacielu, jak sie czujesz i gdzie jestes, Bóg Biblii - od pierwszej do ostatniej ksiegi - zaprasza cie, a nawet "prosi", bys zapytal: "Kim jest Jezus?"

We crave to know true love. That’s the deep well of thirst in every eye, every soul. It’s not in our control, however. Our own spirits are not the source, the spring—that’s why our ‘love’ breaks down. When we see this, when we feel this, our hearts cry out to God to know true love. We need his touch, not just a story. We need the healing Spirit of God’s love, not a religion. In this short book, I share with you the simple, powerful story of Jesus and his offer of God’s love and Spirit to you.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. (Psalm 139:7-10)

A short booklet that asks this most important question.

When we enter through the Gate of Jesus - by repentance and faith - we enter into his eternal kingdom. In that moment, we become citizens of heaven. Yes, we still find ourselves here on earth, but everything has changed. Earth is no longer our home nor our future. Once we belonged to this world, and it was all we had, all we could invest in and build. But now we belong to a different kingdom, we serve a different king, and we live to advance his kingdom.

The heart can break in many ways and for many reasons. However, in this short audiobook, I am writing to you who have been hurt - sinned against, taken advantage of - by another. I am writing to the abused. The broken heart I hope to speak to is the one that was robbed by man, and now finds it hard to hope, to feel, to believe. Jesus loves you. He is with you. He pursues and will judge him who hurt you.

The global humanitarian system, already under considerable strain, will soon be tested as never before.

Annabel receives a horse as a Christmas Present and she calls him Reindeer. He causes havoc on the race course before finding a winning streak... A delightful story for all horse lovers.

The Crow's second report from Little Bubblesqueak tells the tale of Bertrand the Slippery Eel. Accident prone Bertrand causes havoc in the supermarket, before finding fame with Ellie on the Ice-Rink.

I didn’t choose to be born. In other words, I didn’t choose to exist. I didn’t choose my parents or my circumstances. I definitely did not choose my looks or my personality. And yet these things and these people seem to define me. I didn’t choose for those bad things to happen. But they mark me. They made me fear, fight, be insecure, and even do things I wish I didn’t do. And now these things seem to define me. How do I get out of this maze? Who am I really? Where do I belong? God says, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love,’ and ‘before you were born I called you by ...

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They say if you are going to identify a problem, you have to also identify a solution. That is not really a requirement of ‘truth’, but we’ll do that here regardless. Solution to what? Shepherds of the sheep (or rather, pastors, ministers, priests), rarely leave the ninety-nine and pursue the lost sheep. (Luke 15:4) Rather, now that they have a salary and many other excuses (I mean, duties) they redefine the pursuit of the ‘lost one’ as sending out a mailer to invite them to the pen. So what the shepherds are now doing is putting it on the lost one to come find them... (Excerpt ...

I remember when I was six years old and saying goodbye to a friend. Our family was moving country. We had everything packed and the car engine running. This buddy came running out and handed me his prized keychain as a gift. I knew it was his favorite of all time – a little Lego man on a chain. Our friendship meant more to him than his favorite thing, so he gave me the thing to make sure I knew that. Jesus had an amazing experience like this one time. It was shortly before his death, and a woman named Mary sensed this. Jesus had meant a lot to this woman; he had forgiven her sins and had ...

Elias Girawong, Earth Wizard and knowledge keeper, must act. His ceremony, calling the thirteen, heralds a long overdue change to shake the foundations of life itself. But there are those who covet power beyond reason. Each of the thirteen "called" have their assigned roles. Each of them must travel to join the circle of thirteen. Each of them must face the challenge of their journey and the will and power of those who would thwart them.