Kirjahaku

Are you hungry for God to reveal Himself to You?Do you want to know more about God? How He works in your life? What about your purpose in life? Maybe you wonder, why did God create the world? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why pray? Is there a heaven and a hell? Does God heal? What does He think about women in ministry? How can the Holy Spirit live within you?When it comes to serving God, we have thousands of questions. While this book doesn't answer all of them, it does provide a solid framework for our faith. Knowing what we believe and how God works in this world and in people equips us with answers. It opens up new vistas of faith and helps us relate to God in our everyday lives.

Have you ever asked God how He wants to use you to touch neighborhoods and nations? If we are to become the people God hungers to make us-people who know God, surrender fully to Him, care for others, and invest in God's kingdom-then meeting with God each day is crucial. As with David, who often worshiped the Lord alone in creation, spending time with God will lead us into deep friendship with Him. God wants to meet our deepest needs and build His destiny into our hearts-and He does that when we grow deep into His heart. Walk with Jesus on this ninety-day devotional journey, and see how He transforms you and leads you to His destiny for your life.

THE SLUM TRILOGY, BOOK THREE Eight people narrowly escape death on a revolutionary island by fleeing to America in a small plane. One person, though, is intentionally left behind because he had naively thought he wanted to be part of the revolution. But he was wrong. Sergeant Gabino realized too late that he should've been on the escape plane with the others, as his life as a soldier became in peril due to his crazy, neurotic general. As Robbie, Julianna, baby Vic, Alba, Mama, Natalia, Lucita, and Chris try to adjust to America (some successfully, others disastrously), a communication blockade sets in. They could no longer talk with Gabino, whom they last knew as desperately wanting to get away from his neurotic general, fearing for his life. A rescue of Gabino is impossible because the revolution raged. But when a dangerous, long-shot chance presents itself, Robbie fearfully returns to the island to see if he could locate the naive soldier, Gabino, and bring him to America to join the people he loved.

THE SLUM TRILOGY, BOOK TWO "Life turns on a dime," Robbie says in the final paragraphs of Book One-and the pages of Book Two fulfill his cliched statement in ways he never could've foreseen. Little did they know they'd be dealing with the cold blooded murder of one of Julianna's employees, the fiery death of her brother, fear and hunger, and Julianna's near rape, as the island is thrown into turmoil. As Robbie's headquarters and Julianna's General Store become engulfed in flames, and the entire slum finds itself in a state of panic, Robbie must confront the reality of an island convulsed in unexpected upheaval, while at the same time support and comfort Julianna who struggles to bring life into a world that knows only death. Love, passion, and hope drive Slum Song: Disaster in the Wind-a fast-paced adventure which takes twists and turns to the point where Robbie and Julianna have difficulty holding onto the life they've built, but a life which thrusts them into a new beginning.

We find 'passion' in each story-not only the passion of love, but also lust, infatuation, fury, and self-determination. In the first story, JULIANNA, we find the roots of "The Slum Trilogy" which launched the author into becoming a prize-winning novelist. In CARESSE, we learn how an artist is overtaken by lust who tragically ends up with more than what she wanted. In HOLDING HANDS we find that 'puppy love' or infatuation can be an experience as powerful as full-blown love. Here a Moslem-influenced teenager arrives in New York from Abekestan and is exposed to a one-on-one encounter with a boy for the first time in her life. In PURGE we meet Emily, a sixty-five-year-old woman who has lived a life of fury, but who ends up realizing that only the experience of love can bring happiness. Finally, in CHRISTMAS TEARS, we follow a six-year-old girl, Millie, who emerges from a life of parental abuse to the realization that she can develop her own personal inner strength.

After his father was killed by terrorists at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and his mother killed by a mugger a year before, Brendan is determined to make sense of the world, to see if life has any real meaning. He shuns a carpentry career and embarks upon the study of philosophy to seek truth in everyday existence. He lives in a rustic cabin with no electricity on a lake in Maine, but becomes intrigued by a waitress named Cosette, and together they tour Canada, having no idea who will be waiting for them after they get back-Brendan's wife. She attacks Cosette in a bloody catfight which lands Cosette in the hospital. As a result of the many twists and turns of that summer, Brendan-through Cosette-discovers the truth he'd been searching for, a truth embodied in the acceptance that everything has a price to pay, including happiness itself.

Book One of a Trilogy. Readers are welcomed to the BlackNBlue tavern and the lives of the men who arrive there with thirst.

Book Two of a Trilogy.

Book Three of a Trilogy.