Whether you are seeking a deeper understanding of prayer, or simply looking to revitalize your spiritual life, The Guide to Deeper Prayer is a resource to accompany you on your journey toward a transformed prayer life with practical insights, understanding and keys to both talking and listening to God more effectively using the model prayer of Jesus.

Are you longing for a deeper, more meaningful prayer life?Look no further than the Guide to Deeper Prayer - the essential companion for those on the journey toward a closer relationship with God. Prayer is the key! Yes Prayer! As with any relationship, communication is the key and it goes both ways - from us to God, and God to us. Prayer is your communication link to God.Through anecdotes, the author shares her own struggles and triumphs on the pat...

No one is immune to grief and the emotions that follow it. All of us will experience it at some point in life.To grieve is to experience such intense sorrow and anguish that you feel as if it will never end. Along with grief comes an extensive list of emotions, one right on top of the otherfear and anger among them. Grief can be caused by any type of loss, from the loss of a loved one to loss of a job.How can we cope? How can we get past the emotions that drag us down? The ...

Shattered trust is prevalent in our society. People dont know who to trust. More and more, we see disrespect and rebellion because of doubt and lack of trust. Life is hard. How do we trust anyone when everything around us seems to be crumbling?Rock Solid Trust is an inspiring study guide and biblical commentary that explores what it means to trust God with your whole being, and the author invites fellow believers to recognize in God the stability we need t...

Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless.Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected Calvert, Oregon from vampires by strengthening the land with spellcraft. Pushing back against tradition, Joan defied her father and left town to become a war witch, one who fights the monsters hand-to-hand. But when her father dies, Jo...

Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey, who went to Gisborne Girls' High together, met again after thirty years at a school reunion. they rekindled their friendship and began writing, discovering in the process a shared passion for gardening - despite their having created two very different gardens. Janice lives in central Wellington where her riotously colourful mix of flowers, fruit and vegetables surround her tiny house in the midst of the CBD. Virginia helps run a South Island high countr...

Free-thinking Thomas Jefferson established the University of Virginia as a secular institution and stipulated that the University should not provide any instruction in religion. Yet over the course of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth, religion came to have a prominent place in the University, which today maintains the largest department of religious studies of any public university in America. Given his intentions, how did Jefferson's university undergo such remarkable t...

How American slavery engendered a new political vocabulary used on both sides of the AtlanticHow is it, Samuel Johnson famously asked on the eve of the Revolution, that Americans could so vociferously demand freedom for themselves while so conspicuously continuing to deny it to those they held in slavery? With Seeking the High Ground, Matthew Mason helps answer that piercing question. As he shows, the language of slavery and freedom had long suffused Anglo...

Ginger Visel contracted polio in the winter of 1950, when she was not yet five years old. Her life would never be the same. By the time the virus was through with her, she had a withered leg, weak muscles, and hip trouble that required multiple surgeries.The University of Michigan Hospital became a second home, the March of Dimes a reliable support system, and leg braces an everyday part of her wardrobe. In the era before ramps and automatic doors, Ginger had to learn to adapt to a...

Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, establish...

The events surrounding the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a fireman fighting the fires, a girl whose home is destroyed, and a resident of Chinatown as readers act out the scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as readers engage and read aloud. This book includes a ta...

In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners for Democracy movement to conduct interviews with participants in, and observers of, the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Appalachian mine wars of the 1920s and ’30s. The set of oral histories she collected—the only document of its kind—circulated for many years as an informal typescript volume, acquiring an almost legendary status among those intrigued by the subject. Key selections from it appear here for the f...