Author: Gary L. McIntosh Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1441238522 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 208
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A startling 85% of churches in the US are plateaued or declining, a trend that has been building for the past fifty years. In the face of shrinking attendance and lagging spiritual growth, pastors and church leaders are understandably discouraged and demoralized. But the first step to turning things around is hope. Church health expert Gary McIntosh offers this hope by showing church leaders the first things they need to do to make a new start for their church. God can and does restore churches to new life, even as he restores individuals. The street-smart ideas and step-by-step instructions found in this book are ones that pastors and church leaders can put to use immediately in their churches to bring about solid growth and renewed hope for the future.
Author: Elizabeth Smart Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250115523 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 286
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In her fearless memoir, My Story, Elizabeth Smart related, for the first time, the horrific experiences she went through as a fourteen-year-old girl, when she was abducted from her home and held captive for nine months. Since then, she's travelled the world as the president of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, sharing her story in the hopes of helping others along the way.Over and over, Elizabeth hears the same question from women who've gone through horrible experiences: How do you find the hope to go on? In this powerful book, she seeks out others who have overcome adversity to help find the answers. Through conversations with victims of violence, disease, war, and the loss of loved ones, Elizabeth explores the meaning and power of hope to heal our lives.Through discussions with well-known figures like Anne Romney and Diane Von Furstenburg, spiritual leaders like Archbishop John C. Wester and Elder Richard Hinckley, and her own parents, Ed and Lois Smart, Elizabeth gives readers the tools they need to take control and embrace life.
Author: Jetta Johnson Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466953454 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 405
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If you believe in aliens, this book will whet your appetite. This book just might have some truth to it. Have you ever wondered how come people are living longer and longer? One hundred twenty-five is no longer a pipe dream. But we're still too dumb and elect kids aged forty ad fifty to rule us.
Author: Marvin McQueen II Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312993669 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 60
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This book is designed to help anyone find the hope in their life. There maybe trouble, hard situations, and desperate times, but we must hope and trust that things will get better.
Author: Elizabeth A. Smart Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 1250115531 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 284
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Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller (October 2013), My Story—about being held in captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive—with a powerful and inspiring book about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one’s life. Author. Activist. Victim—no more. In her fearless memoir, My Story—the basis of the Lifetime Original movie I Am Elizabeth Smart—Elizabeth detailed, for the first time, the horror behind the headlines of her abduction by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. Since then, she’s married, become a mother, and travelled the world as the president of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, sharing her story with the intent of helping others along the way. Over and over, Elizabeth is asked the same question: How do you find the hope to go on? In this book, Elizabeth returns to the horrific experiences she endured, and the hard-won lessons she learned, to provide answers. She also calls upon others who have dealt with adversity—victims of violence, disease, war, and loss—to explore the pathways toward hope. Through conversations with such well-known voices as Anne Romney, Diane von Furstenburg, and Mandy Patinkin to spiritual leaders Archbishop John C. Wester and Elder Richard Hinckley to her own parents, Elizabeth uncovers an even greater sense of solace and understanding. Where There’s Hope is the result of Elizabeth’s mission: It is both an up-close-and-personal glimpse into her healing process and a heartfelt how-to guide for readers to make peace with the past and embrace the future. From the book: “I was not willing to accept that my fate was to live unhappily ever after. Everything—my family, my home, my chance to go to school—had been given back to me, and I didn’t want to miss a second chance of living my own life.” —Elizabeth Smart “There are two types of survivors: the ones who did not die, and the ones who live. There will be those who will always remember and be the victim, and ones who just won’t. You have to go on, you have to learn, and you have to heal.” —Diane von Furstenberg
Author: Doris Washington Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1984534106 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 107
Book Description
Where Theres Hope - Theres Love is a collection of poems that inspire with hope for today and tomorrow. The author shares poems of hope for brighter tomorrows. In the poems A Rainbow of Hope and Over the Horizon, the author expresses that even through the most challenging of times in ones life, tomorrow will be brighter. In the poem Gathering Stones, the author shares that there comes a period in our lives when we experience disappointments and we gather stones, in search for inner peace through healing and forgiveness. Also, in this collection, the author, who is a mother of an adult son with autism, shares three poems about autism to help bring a better awareness and understanding about autism, which is so expressed in her poems Do You See Him? Do You Hear Him? Do You Know Him? Tears, and John. And in the closing poem, Beyond the Sunset, the author shares that we can come to know love. Where Theres Hope - Theres Love inspires us to believe that on any given day, we always have hope to hold on to and our faith to keep us going, and above all, as we come to know love, we will live our best selves.
Author: Frank Tayell Publisher: Frank Tayell ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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There is always hope. Northern France is a frozen morass of mud and snow across which rampages a horde of the undead, a hundred million strong. That won’t stop Chester Carson and his comrades. Seeking a way across the Channel, they make for the coast, unaware that Britain has been abandoned, Belfast is a ruin, and that radiation is seeping into the Irish Sea. If they knew, that wouldn’t stop them either. They’re on a quest to save their family, their friends, and humanity itself; failure is not an option. As they journey through war-ravaged ports and storm-wrecked beaches, a new truth becomes clear. The flotilla that found refuge on Anglesey wasn’t the only group of sea-borne refugees to have survived the outbreak. There are other survivors. Some good, some evil, some just determined to do their duty no matter the cost. Danger lurks along the French and Belgian coasts. So do answers, and hope that humanity now has a future.
Author: Richard Arrington Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 081731623X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 288
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On a sultry September morning in 1955, a young African American man, the son of share corppers, boarded a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, Alabama, to leave his home state for the first time in his life. He was headed for the University of Detroit on a teaching scholarship from Miles College. Richard Arrington could not have guessed then that his future as a teacher would be postponed for decades by big-city politics--and that he would serve a record-setting five terms as chief executive of Alabama’s largest city. Under Arrington’s leadership, Birmingham rebuilt itself from a foundering, steel-driven industrial center to one of the most diversified metropolitan areas in the Southeast, with an economy fueled by health care, biomedical research, engineering, telecommunications, and banking. As mayor, Arrington’s economic legacy is impressive. When he left office, Birmingham boasted a record number of jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in its history. Additionally, Birmingham had built the strongest tax base in Alabama, expanded its city limits by 60 square miles, reduced crime to its lowest level in 25 years, and funded a $260 million school construction program. Today Birmingham is financially sound and is the only city in the Southeast with a $100 million endowment fund.
Author: Aaron J. House Publisher: ISBN: 9780368307782 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Discover hope, love, and peace with this wonderful devotional book. This devotional uplifts, encourages, and provides hope to those who need it!
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