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As a child growing up in rural Suffolk, I was surrounded by the countryside, in awe of this amazing creation in which I lived. As a child every Sunday I would attend my village Sunday school. There the teachers would give us extracts from the Bible and the Scriptures and explain them to us, so that we would learn how our world was created and the importance of God in our lives. As I grew older, I attended secondary school. Here the education and the...
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This book starts out as an insecure boy searches for an experience with God. Join him in his journey into the supernatural, and eventually to find inspirational faith. His life starts with a dysfunctional family, in a church where he is unfulfilled. He tried to experience God but to no avail.
So, he instead fills his life with crime, adventure and excitement of the wrong kind. Eventually, he has not just one experience with God, but many experiences...
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This book was written solely as an accounting of real-life adventures; wild adventures that some may find a little difficult to believe that all these things could happen to one in a relatively short space of time. Hopefully, you will be inspired to see our great God as the most awesome adventurer that could be known because that is an exact representation of what He's really like. I say these are wild adventures because they are out of the ordinary...
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An enlightening adventure that reveals the power of trusting faith - not fear.
"My heart quickened, senses suddenly alert. Through the fading light a pair of dark, sandaled feet approached beneath a flapping Bedouin robe. I scrambled up. Should I run out, or try to hide?"
Kristina Hurrell has always sought adventure. Growing up near Windsor in England, she used her fast-paced Dior modeling career as an escape to explore Global cultures....
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The stories in this book are about real people, known personally to the author, during more than years of missionary service in Brazil. He tells movingly of the loss of his first two children and the miraculous healing of a sick child in the Amazon rainforest and of a young man cured of cancer, having been given two years to live by the doctors. In this book, the author describes how he was hit by a car and held at gunpoint in his own home. Why does...
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Astonishing True Story of the Miracles That Are Changing Africa Born into a long line of witch doctors, Surprise ("Surpresa") Sithole was destined for a life of fear, oppression, and poverty in the jungles of Africa. But at the age of fifteen, he was awakened in the middle of the night by an unfamiliar voice. Urgent, but not harsh, it told him to get up and leave his family immediately. As Surprise stepped out into the night, away from everything...
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It's one of the greatest challenges one can face on Earth; an ascent to the top of the world on the slopes of Mount Everest. Eric Alexander experienced grace and a faith-empowering journey he will never forget as part of a record-setting team in May 2001, scaling the heights of Everest with his friend, blind climber Erik Weinhenmayer. Experience some of the most dangerous locations in the world, including abject terror on Amadablam, a blind ski descent...
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It's a Wonderful World is a celebration of ordinary people whose lives cross in extraordinary ways at different parts of the world. Coming to the end of their own strength, and unsure of what to do next, the characters discover God's plan through His marvelous matchless grace in receiving the revelation of Jesus and what he can do, and how He heals and changes lives. Shown in the past lives of Jill's grandmothers, and Paul's grandparents, a binding...
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Chitokoloki Mission Hospital is a remote but remarkable facility in the North-Western Province of Zambia. This book comes from a compilation of daily reports about life in a remote African mission hospital. It is written from a personal and clinical angle and with a surgical emphasis because that formed the bulk of the activity that has been recorded. The detailed experiences of many patients has been captured and the author conveys the almost unbelievable...
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“I have always said I didn't care about being average, but that was before I found out I could be more. Life is the greatest journey any of us will ever take, and it is up to us to determine where that journey will lead.”
In A Less Than Golden Life, author Jason Golden invites you along a journey through his 'average' life. With honest humor and hilarious self-revelation, he shows that both beauty and meaning can be found in even the most average...
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Leukemia had ravaged Pop's body for more than a year. On October 2, 1991, he fell into a coma. It was then that I made a desperate attempt to bring him back to consciousness by slapping his sallow face. At first, the strikes were temperate, but they grew harder. I was hoping he would come to at any moment and hit me back. I thought I could hear Pop calling to me like he always did, "Boy." "Kid." "Son." Images of our many shared experiences, undervalued...
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God has a plan for your life! What puzzle pieces or nuggets has he left for you along the way? How do you define your story? Where have you seen his grace and mercy in your situations? In This Means More, Author Nina Evans helps make sense of life's interruptions to help you see how each moment has been a significant part of God's master plan for your life.
The Means More will help you identify and reflect on the lessons from your past and expect...
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As the foundations of her identity crumbled, Emily Dobberstein was, left questioning everything. Searching to find life again, she set off on a solo road trip with only one direction in mind: West.
This unpredictable, vulnerable, winsome, and inspirational seven-thousand-mile travel memoir is the story of how one woman found the courage to go, to tell the truth, and to make peace with the shadows in her life that she had been trying to ignore. All...
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During spring break in March 2013, Mary Owen, a twenty-three-year-old student at George Fox University, went missing.
She was an avid adventurer and outdoor enthusiast, who had previously hiked the 2653 mile long Pacific Crest Trail (PCT).
This is a story of the agony one mistake can precipitate, a story of blunder, peril, and reckoning on a hazardous mountain at a dangerous time of year. It is a compelling story of obsession, the allure of the...
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