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HARRY BENTLEY'S SECOND CHANCE "To be a father like God, to have God as his father ... perhaps Harry was being given a chance at both." Retired Chicago cop, Harry Bentley, was lying low. He'd blown the whistle on a gang of rogue cops and was awaiting the day when Internal Affairs would call him to testify and help put their leader, Lieutenant Matty Fagan, behind bars. His cover was working as a doorman in a luxury highrise on Chicago's lakefront. Then Gabby Fairbanks and her husband moved into the building's penthouse. She brought home a bag lady, got a job at the Manna House Women's Shelter, found her life falling apart, and managed to entangle Harry in the whole affair. (Gabby's story is in Neta Jackson's parallel novel, WHERE DO I GO?) But there was an upside. Through Gabby, Harry meets the Yada Yada brothers and the classy Estelle Williams and envisions a second chance at romance. The Yada Yada brothers provide a new circle of friends to replace his old CPD cohorts. But when Harry discovers he has a grandson he didn't know about, will he find the faith to take on the boy as a "second chance" to be the father he'd failed to be to his own son-even when the boy creates new dangers in Harry's fight against corruption, and may derail his "second chance" at love? Dave Jackson and his wife, Neta, are the award-winning authors of the 40-volume Trailblazer series. The phenomenal popularity of Neta's Yada Yada Prayer Group series inspired them to write "parallel" spin-off novels, two stories taking place in the same context ... just the way it happens in real life. They live in the Chicago area, where these stories are set.

Just one shot, and Ray became a KILLER Provoked by his gang leader into shooting an innocent guy, Ray now faces a forty-year sentence in Chicago's infamous prison system. As far as he is concerned, it might as well be for life.In prison, he finds his gangbanger ties difficult to escape and even necessary for survival. Just when he's resigned himself to this new existence, Ray receives an unexpected gift-forgiveness. Even as he learns that the source of this forgiveness is God, Ray struggles with accepting it. And then the ultimate test comes: When faced with the man who ruined his life, can Ray extend that same forgiveness to him?* * * *Inspired by a true incident, this edition of Forty to Life includes interviews with the father and mother of the real victim as well as a follow-up with the actual shooter.

How can a blind pilot rescue a kidnapped nurse from desperate guerillas? Nick Archer was a bush pilot for the Missionary Aviation Support Team when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attacked Finca Fe, a boarding school for missionary kids, expats, and various local children situated along the Magdalena River in remote south-central Colombia. Nick and his plane were stationed there, but he escaped capture and injury. However, Terri Kaplan, the school nurse, was kidnapped along with two other staff members, one of whom was later killed while the other escaped. Driven by his love for Terri, Nick ignores his diabetes and its threat to his eyesight while he risks everything to find Terri and rescue her from the jungle camp where the FARC has taken her to attend to their wounded. Duplicity by the CIA and pressure from the United States on the Colombian government to curtail the rampant cocaine trade turn Nick's rescue efforts into a total disaster. Complicating their crises are spiritual battles: Terri becomes confused about what she should do when she actually has a chance to escape, and Nick wonders where God is or if He even exists when God does not seem to answer any of his prayers. When Nick loses his vision from neglecting his eye problems at the very moment he has a chance to save Terri, he ends up flying blind

ARRIESGANDO LA GRACIA Amando a nuestros familiares y amigos gais como lo har a Jes s Al ser una de las personas que en 1987 ayud a escribir un libro que propon a la terapia reparativa para las personas homosexuales, fue con amor desgarrante que mi esposa y yo no dejamos ir a nuestra hija cuando ella sali del cl set hace 16 a os. Primeramente, oramos para que Dios la cambiara, luego para que l lograra su prop sito en la vida de ella y finalmente fue, "Se or, qu est s intentando ense arnos?" Dios contest con percepciones que me condujeron a escribir ARRIESGANDO LA GRACIA, Amando a nuestros familiares y amigos gais como lo har a Jes s. Es la historia de un padre; se trata de mi viaje agonizante y personal para llegar a darme cuenta que nosotros los evang licos hemos perdido el camino cuando se trata de personas homosexuales y hemos substituido el mensaje claro del evangelio que la salvaci n es solamente por gracia por la fe por un requerimiento de justicia por obras. Yo exploro interpretaciones alternativas a los "textos prohibitivos", pero el fundamento principal para el cambio de mi coraz n es la vida y el ministerio de Jes s, como l abraz a personas marginadas y la manera en que l y la iglesia primitiva lidiaban con cuestiones dif ciles. Comparto nuestra historia con ustedes, nuestra familia espiritual, pues muchos de nosotros tenemos miembros de nuestra familia o amigos que son homosexuales, y todos necesitamos ayuda para aprender a amar como Jes s. He escrito con toda la vulnerabilidad y transparencia que pude, luchando con las cuestiones y presuposiciones del pap (o mam ) heterosexual com n . . . que ama a su hija y su iglesia, pero descubre que hemos estado ahuyentando personas homosexuales de Jes s.

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IMPRISONED IN THE GOLDEN CITYIntroducing Adoniram and Ann JudsonThe two young Burmeze girls had dreaded leaving their father but he told them that the only sfe thing was for the two of them to go live with the American missionaries, Adoniram and Ann Judson. May-Lo and Len-Lay really aren't sure what the danger is, and they don't know what to believe about their American foster parents. Could the accusations that the missionaries were English spies be true?When the Judsons leave the city of Rangoon to establish a mission work in Ava, the Golden City, the girls are taken along on the dangerous river trip that will separate them from their father by 350 miles. Will they ever see him again? Will they even make it to their destination? How will the emperor of Burma respond to Mr. Judson's petitions to give religious freedom to Christian converts?Their arrival is followed by eventual disaster. When the British attack the Burmese, all the white foreigners, including Adoniram Judson, are hauled off to the terrible Death Prison. Every clue indicates that the Judsons are spies, and a Burmese-English boy named Myat Rodgers is determined to prove their guilt. Should the girls tell the authorities what they know? Or will they all end up in the Death Prison?Without their father's help, whom could they trust?