Religious Love

Tom Stodulka has loved to write for many years, though as a child he found this form of expression was a struggle. As the years progressed, through high school and law school, Stodulka gained an appreciation of language and how it could be used as a tool for making a difference. His confidence grew enough to write diaries of his life in the Navy and eventually in 1976, on board the HMAS Duchess, he wrote his first poem, The World and the Future, which features in his first publication, Storm Clouds and Silver Linings; My Journey.

From the author that brought you thought provoking novels such as Formula Forty Days and Forty Nights, The Testimony of Satan, and Is There Room in The Kingdom? has came back with another one that will possible change the way that you have been taught to view love. It will definitely be for the better and leave you with more answers to questions that we tend to sweep under the rug. Your Love Will Never Grow will make you look deep inside of yourself and ask questions that have the power to change your reality.

Beneath our culture's obsession with wealth and power, status and celebrity, millions of Americans are quietly engaged in a deeply religious struggle to free themselves from petty selfishness and to embrace a life of benevolence and compassion. Drawing on an extensive random survey of 1,200 men and women across the United States, Matthew Lee, Margaret Poloma, and Stephen Post here shed new light on how Americans wake up to the reality of divine love and how that transformative experience expresses itself in concrete acts of benevolence.

Poetry about love. Stories about sad, beautiful love.

Eventide is the heartbreaking tale of a long-ago romance that resurfaces in the fading light of a woman's life. Many years ago, Carrie experienced true love and was nearly destroyed by a soul-crushing betrayal. She moved on, but never forgot. Now, as Carrie faces an early death, her best friend Lauren sets out to confront the man who broke Carrie's heart.

Author of Sutter's Cross, a Booklist Top Pick, W. Dale Cramer evokes the ambiance of a small Southern town in this inspiring novel. Jeremy's mother has passed away, leaving him with an odd request. He is to find his Uncle Aiden, a hardrock miner, and stay with him, regardless of Aiden's wishes. Jeremy's faith in God gives him the courage to find the humanity behind this tough-as-steel man.

"...para el tiempo en que los signos vitales de Jeff estaban deteriorándose, él comenzó a orar y hacer las paces con Dios. Llamó a Kirsten y oró con ella y le dijo que fuera conmigo. Luego oró conmigo y me dijo "Ve con tu hija". Sabía que se estaba rindiendo y quería que estuviera con Kirsten para poder dar su último aliento. Lo miré directo a los ojos y le dije, "¡no te atrevas a dejarme! ¡Sigue luchando por mí! ¡Yo te amo!" Entonces comenzó a hablar en lenguas y la enfermera me preguntó si él hablaba en otro idioma."

This audiobook is Heidi’s story of learning to live with her clinical depression which lasted almost 12 years. Feeling crushed under the deepest despair she had ever known, she found that everything that functioned so well before, including her faith, simply didn’t in depression. Feeling lost in an endless sea of shame, judgment, confusion, anger, fear and grief, how could she live this way?

Right after college, Amy Peterson boarded a plane for Southeast Asia. She was hungry for adventure, eager to change the world, hoping to please God, and wondering if what she’d grown up believing would remain true on the other side of the world. As Amy immerses herself in the local culture and forges friendships across boundaries, her worldview expands. Then crisis hits.

Slowly the boat pushed us forward, away from certain shipwreck, and gained the upper hand in its struggle against the surging current. The victory did not spark spontaneous celebration; rather, we spent the next moments in a trembling recovery. Kent, an American, and Josephine, an Australian, journeyed to an unfamiliar continent and set out to live on a riverboat deep in the jungle. With their four young children and ministry team, they served on the Purus River in the Amazon, bringing education, health care, and the love of God to remote communities

Mary is about the mother of Jesus and the arc of her development from a peasant teenager to an icon in the church, to a bold witness of the Gospel who journeys from Jerusalem to Samaria, to the mostly Gentile church in Antioch of Syria, and finally to Ephesus, a major metropolitan city of Asia Minor. This book tells the story of Mary in the style of a memoir while still being faithful to the canon of scripture in the hopes that women who seek to have their voices heard in a male-dominated society will find inspiration and strength.

Do you seek truth? Have you ever questioned what you have been taught? World-renowned human and animal rights activist Kyle Ferguson was living in a bubble...until he saw something that forced him to question everything he had believed. In The Christian Bubble, you will discover: The greatest inventors in our history had religious fear and how they overcame it. How to break free from fear, think for yourself, and see how to truly love other beings. The shocking truth about Mother Teresa and her organization, The Missionaries of Charity.

A divorced Christian woman's somewhat successful life suddenly resembles an exploding fireworks factory! The white hot explosions spontaneously begin happening inside her innermost being. What is happening in her life to transform her into a woman who doesn't want to stay asleep because she might miss something? What does God want her to do?

If you think science can explain everything, then think again. Charlie Gardner, a construction engineer whose whole life and career was based upon measurable and observable facts, is not the person you would expect to have such an extraordinary experience and certainly not the person you would expect to tell the whole world. This is a book of miracles. Some are so subtle you make not see them the first time through. It’s also a book about love.

When your life falls apart - through a death, a lost relationship, a diagnosis - you want more than anything to know that your pain has a purpose. And that beyond your pain, a new day awaits. Tricia Lott Williford discovered this in a few tragic hours when her 35-year-old husband died unexpectedly. In And Life Comes Back, she writes with soaring prose about her tender, brave journey as a widow with two young boys in the agonizing days and months that followed his death.

Love like poets, live like saints. This unique exploration of people such as Saint Thérèse, George MacDonald, and C.S. Lewis offers insight into 11 of the world's most thoughtful and authentic Christ followers. Weaving biography and spiritual formation together, Poets and Saints reminds us of the convictions that set us apart as Christians - and the truth that has set us free in every generation.

Do you love listening to true adventure stories that capture your attention with nearly unbelievable, miraculous drama? Are you searching for a book that tempts you-or those on your gift list- to ignore time, phone calls, and internet feeds? Do you need a reminder that love is a choice-and a vision of how that plays out in life's most challenging times? Do you yearn for assurance that God intervenes for His children, guiding them through private heartaches and catastrophic upheaval? Then, this book is for you.

Deacon Robert Hesse is uniquely qualified to write this scientifically accurate and inspirational gateway into the mind and heart of God through the interrelationship between faith and science.

In this lyrical collection of personal essays, Lynne Golodner shares vivid visits to far-flung locations and insights on human nature, relationships and the journey to the self. Inviting the listener into her ten-year foray into the world of Orthodox Judaism—and her subsequent decision to leave the strictures of religion—Golodner writes about marriage and motherhood, divorce and single parenthood, and finding love again. She writes about the compelling ways nature calms her racing mind and invites listeners to experience and explore the living world as a grounding connection.

Is something crucial missing from your congregation's programs? Beneath the surface of churches' programs and activities lies the fundamental question of how leaders and churches can be enabled to discern and obediently cooperate with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This biblically grounded...