Author: LaShawn J. Tracy
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098071778
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Faith Brought Me Through - Fortitude Taught Me is one of the few 2-in-1 books on the market today. This book is about the everyday struggles of life that many of us go through, from childhood to adulthood and everything in between. I bring you directly into my life and speak about my ups, downs, glaucoma, cancer, divorce, single motherhood, and how I conquered both through my faith and fortitude. This book will allow you to see life through my eyes and see how you too can conquer your challenges and have triumphs!
Author: Jamie Aten
Publisher: Templeton Press
ISBN: 9781599475752
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Is there a meaning to our suffering? Is hope realistic when tragedy befalls us? Is a return to normalcy possible after our life is uprooted by catastrophe? These are the questions that disaster psychologist Dr. Jamie Aten wrestled with when he was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. In this gripping memoir, Aten shares the life-affirming and faith-renewing insights that he discovered during his tumultuous struggle against the disease. Aten’s journey began in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck his community. After witnessing the devastation wrought by the storm, he dedicated his career to investigating how people respond to and recover from all manner of disasters. He studied disaster zones around the globe and founded the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College. His expertise, however, was little comfort when a fateful visit with his oncologist revealed advanced and aggressive cancer. “You’re in for your own personal disaster” was his doctor’s prognosis. Thrust into a battle for his life, with cancer cells and chemotherapy ravaging his body, Aten found his professional interest taking on new meaning. His ordeal taught him firsthand how we can sustain ourselves when burdened with seemingly unbearable suffering. Some of his counterintuitive insights include: to find hope, be cautious of optimism; when you want help the least is when you need it most; and spiritual surrender, rather than a passive act, is instead an act of profound courage. This last point speaks to the element of grace in Dr. Aten’s story. As he struggled to understand the significance of his suffering, he found himself examining his Christian faith down to its bedrock and learned to experience the redeeming presence of God in his life. Dr. Aten has a natural exuberance that shines through his writing. Infused with his compassionate voice and humanitarian concern, A Walking Disaster is ultimately an inspirational story about the power of the human spirit to endure trauma with courage.
Author: O.J. Brigance
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069814175X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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As the Baltimore Ravens made their improbable march to victory in Super Bowl XLVII, they turned to their senior advisor of player development, O.J. Brigance, for inspiration each and every Sunday. Following a stellar twelve-year career as a linebacker, including a Super Bowl win with Baltimore in 2000, O.J.Juice Brigance joined the Ravens front office. But in 2007, O.J. was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and told he had only three to five years to live. As a player, he'd battled hundreds of injuries and setbacks. None of them prepared him to face ALS. With faith and determination in his heart and his wife, Chanda, praying by his side, O.J. fought back against the debilitating disease, even as ALS robbed him of the ability to walk and speak. He kept working, smiling, and touching his players lives all the way through their remarkable Super Bowl run more than five years after his diagnosis. Now, O.J. shares his incredible story, offering lessons in resilience and reflecting on the championship team that inspired him in turn. Along with his own journey, O.J. recounts the struggles and successes of Ravens players, including Ray Lewis, Joe Flacco, and Torrey Smith, as well as the strength of head coach John Harbaugh. Having watched their season from the best seat in the house, O.J. highlights their perseverance, confidence, and leadership, and the best that sports can bring out in people. Full of profound revelations and never-before-told anecdotes, Strength of a Champion is a celebration of the human spirit from a man who left everything on the field. O.J. Brigance never asked to be a hero. That's what makes his story so courageous.
Author: Michael Reagan
Publisher: Humanix Books
ISBN: 1630060542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." —Ronald Reagan Noted political commentator Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman, has traveled across America, giving speeches and meeting the public. Time and time again, people tell him how much they love and miss his father, and what his presidency meant to them. In a world where role models are few and far between, Ronald Reagan’s legacy stands strong. In Lessons My Father Taught Me, Michael Reagan looks back over his years with his father and reflects on what he has learned from the greatest man he has ever known—and one of the greatest men the world has known. When Michael was growing up, his father would drive him out to his ranch. There Ronald Reagan taught Michael how to ride a horse, how to shoot a gun, and much more. As they drove together or did chores together, Michael’s father told him stories and taught him about life, love, family, faith, success, and leadership. Michael didn’t fully appreciate those lessons at the time, but years later he remembered—and he understood. Now, Michael Reagan shares his father’s wisdom and experience in this inspiring book.
Author: Horatio Willis Dresser
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Author: Dr. Brenda F. Graham
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664297995
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Romans 10:17 informs us that faith comes when we read and meditate on the Word of God. That means the Word of God has life-giving power that produces faith in the heart of born-again believers. But how does that happen? God’s Word is living and powerful. It contains seeds programmed to prosper and produce fruit. When sown in the heart, each seed reproduces itself and yields the spiritual fruit of faith. In Word Seeds that Produce Faith and Remove Fear, Doubt, and Unbelief, author Dr. Brenda F. Graham provides a comprehensive look at how the Word of God plants seeds in the heart to produce faith. It presents an overview of: • The power of the word of God in creation and the manifestation of Jesus Christ as the “Word” through a discussion of fear, doubt, and unbelief, and how they can be overcome; • The importance of meditation and prayer in developing strong faith with examples of ways to meditate; • The names of God, including His attributes and characteristics; • God’s plan of salvation with a review of the various terms included in the salvation process. • Word Seed meditations that will grow your personal faith and guide you into a deeper understanding of God’s Word. This guide takes you on a spiritual journey toward wholeness, helping you uncover and embody principles of faith essential for spiritual growth. You learn how to put faith into action through the full meaning of Word Seeds.
Author: Antonio Montes Orozco
Publisher: Antonio Montes Orozco
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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In this work, Antonio Montes Orozco explains how to mature our Faith to levels that give us peace to live, discovering the advantages of being with Jesus. These advantages entail: • Knowing that we will be saved. • Knowing that the decisions we make will be the right ones. • Receiving some miracles. • Having economic solvency. • Getting rid of some diseases. • Giving meaning to our life. • Being able to help those around us. • Having the necessary knowledge to understand that this is real and perfectly demonstrable. • In short, introducing ourselves on a path of continuous improvement toward Sanctity, and find Peacefulness. All this synthesized, reasoned and explained with examples, dialogues and summaries, especially for people with little time and who need to deepen quickly into Faith, so they begin to benefit as soon as possible. This is also indicated for people who have lived a long time in atheism or agnosticism, and find themselves in a difficult situation in life, almost bordering on despair.
Author: Michael Leach
Publisher: Image
ISBN: 0307423638
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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A celebration of the treasured traditions, rituals, and stories that run through the bloodstream of American Catholics For Andrew Greeley, it is the reverence of Christmas night and the exultation of Easter morn. Martin Scorsese, like many others, remains grateful for the nuns who rapped his knuckles but built his self-esteem. Mary Gordon recalls the sense of lightness that follows confession; Vince Lombardi, the strength he derived from Mass; and Christopher Buckley, the role St. Thomas More plays in his writing. I Like Being Catholic brings together the memories, thought, and hopes of famous Catholics and ordinary parishioners, lapsed and "good-enough" Catholics, and those who have devoted their lives to the faith. It captures their abiding ties to and deep affection for the Church and offers the wide-ranging, sometimes surprising views on the good things that come with being Catholic. This is not a book of theology. It is about the beauty at the heart of Catholicism. It is about what Teilhard de Chardin called "the chosen part of things." It is about family and community, the value of Catholic education, the significance of sacraments and milestones, and the cultural impact of Catholicism—there are lists of the ten best Catholic novels, the ten best Catholic movies, ten Catholic heroes of the twentieth century, ten good reasons to raise your kids Catholic, fifty things Catholics like best about being Catholic, and much more ... I Like Being Catholic is a book for all those who have ever called themselves Catholic. It is a book of warmth, affection, humor, and love.
Author: Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Publisher: Emmaus Academic
ISBN: 1645851818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 727
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In On Divine Revelation—one of Garrigou-Lagrange’s most significant works, here available in English for the very first time—he offers a classic treatment of this foundational topic. It is an organized and thorough defense of both the rationality and supernaturality of divine revelation. He presents a careful yet stimulating account of the scientific character of theology, the nature of revelation itself, mystery, dogma, the grace of faith, the powers of human reason, false interpretations thereof (rationalism, naturalism, agnosticism, and pantheism), the motives of credibility, and much more. Though written a century ago, On Divine Revelation will restore confidence in theology as a distinct and unified science and return focus to the fundamental questions of the doctrine of revelation. It also serves as a salutary corrective to contemporary theology’s anthropocentrism and concern with what is relative in revelation and religious experience by reorienting our theological attention to what is most certain, central, and sure in our knowledge of divine revelation: the Triune God who has revealed his inner life and salvific will. Readers will see the great splendor of the gift of divine revelation: radiant with credibility before the gaze of reason and drawing our supernatural assent to the mysteries through the gift of faith. As Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. observes, “On Divine Revelation . . . is a stunning work of inestimable value. No other subsequent work on this topic has come close to meeting it (much less surpassing it).”
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
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