In the first half of life, we are naturally preoccupied with establishing ourselves; climbing, achieving, and performing. But as we grow older and encounter challenges and mistakes, we need to see ourselves in a different and more life-giving way. This message of falling down – that is in fact moving upward – is the most resisted and counterintuitive of messages in the world's religions. Falling Upward offers a new paradigm for understandin ...
She's yours. Up until now, Rosanna Mast's hopes for the future have all revolved around handsome Henry Zook. But when a young Englisch girl places her newborn daughter in Rosanna's arms and utters those words, shock quickly turns to fierce, protective devotion. Between helping her midwife mamm and caring for her own siblings, Rosanna has plenty of experience with babies. And who wouldn't love a sweet-natured boppli like littl ...
Leslie Rhoads is a small town girl on the verge of becoming a supermodel in the Big Apple. The 24-year-old is chosen for the cover of Style magazine, starring in the controversial Passion Nights' perfume ads. But before she can step into the spotlight, Leslie is assaulted; disfigured with a broken scotch bottle. Without her perfect face, she is lost and no amount of surgery can ever make her what she once was. Trying to hide her face from t ...
The Trinity is a basic teaching of the Christian faith. It defines God's essence and describes how He relates to us. The Forgotten Trinity is a concise, understandable explanation of what the Trinity is and why it matters. It refutes cultic distortions of God. It shows how a grasp of this significant teaching leads to renewed worship and deeper understanding of what it means to be a Christian. And amid today's emphasis on the renewing ...
Andrea Wenk raumt in ihrem Buch mit diesen Erwartungen auf und bekennt sich selbstbewusst zu ihren eigenen Grenzen. Dabei bezieht sie sich in ihrem Buch auf Psalm 147,14: «Gott schafft deinen Grenzen Frieden», aus dem sie immer wieder Kraft und Ermutigung in ihrem Leben geschopft hat. Frieden innerhalb der eigenen Grenzen zu finden, bedeutet fur die Autorin dabei nicht, starr zu werden, oder sich nicht zu verandern. Es bedeutet fur sie vielmehr, ...
Place an unpolished lawman named Nicholas Brentwood as guardian over a spoiled, pompous beauty named Emily Payne, and what do you get? More trouble than Brentwood bargains for. She is determined to find a husband this season. He just wants the large fee her father will pay him to help his ailing sister. After a series of dire mishaps, both of their desires are thwarted, but each discovers that, no matter what, God is in charge. ...
Jonah Miller thought he left heartbreak behind when he moved from Pennsylvania to Illinois, settling into a new Amish community as a buggy maker. But his heart is about to be broken again as Elaine Schrock ignores her love and rejects his courtship in order to care for her only living relative, a grandmother with dementia. Jonah is sure he won't find love a third time until he starts dating Sarah, a widow with a son. But now that Jonah appe ...
Having endured a grueling voyage from the British Islands, Miriam arrives at the Chance brothers' ranch expecting to help her sister care for two children and six men. But Miriam is shocked to learn that her sister has died and her two nieces have been neglected. When the Chance brothers order Miriam to take the next ship back to her home, she digs in her heels. Her place is with her nieces – even if that reduces her chances of marriage to ...
Fifteen years. That's how long it's been since Hannah McLean set foot in the Amish community where she was raised. Through it all, her heart has never forgotten Pontotoc – or Aaron Zook, her first love. Now widowed and left with little more than her hurting teenager and her prayers, she returns home, even knowing she and her son may be turned away. When Aaron learns Hannah has returned, he nearly falls to his knees. He's a strong ...
