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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Connie Pagsgren; Peter Woest
This won't come as a surprise to anyone who's read it, but the Bible says some very unpopular things. It takes definite counter-cultural positions on certain hot-button controversies.10 THORNS tackles ten of these "thorny" topics to see what the Bible does, in fact, say about them and to face them head-on; topics, such as: intolerance, sex and sexism, homosexuality and abortion. Culture's issues with the God the Bible portrays are also addressed.10 THORNS was written for the person wondering how anyone can believe the Bible, given its difficult teachings. It was also written for the person who believes the Bible but is wondering for himself about its "thorny" teachings. Or perhaps it was written for the person who believes the Bible and is wondering how to build bridges between himself and those who don't believe the Bible -- often because of its "thorns."
SHE WOKE UP KNOWING SHE CHEATED DEATH Imagine waking up one morning knowing nothing except you have a huge scar on your head and its clear someone tried kill you. That's what happened to Ky Taylor. Lucky enough to fall into friendly hands, she is now a blackjack dealer on a Mississippi riverboat casino where she's healed from her injuries.But this day is different. A bounty hunter shows up and tells her she murdered her banker father and ran out on her bail. He's there to take her back, willing or unwilling.He isn't the only one who wants her because she hides a secret that they all want. Trouble is, it's buried among the lost memories of her entire life. Soon the bounty hunter becomes her ally . . . and much, much more . . . in a chase that leads from the docks of St. Louis to a jailhouse in Indiana. Did Ky Taylor kill her father? Lots of people say she did and she's driven to learn the truth. But in order to survive she must trust no one and learn to KNOW WHEN TO RUN.
A New Start Large Print Edition
Connie Cockrell
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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She's a master at spotting a forgery . . . and knowing how to create one. But can she solve a decades-old mystery?The media spotlight is the last thing art thief and forger Sophie Williams needs. But when one of three long-missing royal portraits turns up in Germany at her best friend's art gallery, the spotlight is exactly what she gets. Since the tragic deaths of Princess Johanna of Neuhansberg and her two children forty years ago, the whereabouts of these portraits have been unknown . . . and the timing of their reappearance--just days before a new prince's coronation--reignites questions surrounding the infamous accident.Then Sophie's best friend vanishes, and a rumor about hidden treasure connected to the paintings surfaces, seemingly confirmed by a cryptic message on the back of the first canvas. Convinced that finding the other two portraits will lead to her friend, Sophie begins a twisty investigation that pits her against other ruthless treasure hunters, a handsome who seems to dog her trail at every turn, and a mysterious group that offers help, wearing an emblem identical to one on the painting.From Germany's grand castles and soaring cathedrals through the Alps to the canals of Venice, Sophie must choose her allies carefully if she hopes to find the portraits, rescue her best friend--and perhaps save a throne--before time runs out.A clean, contemporary adventure with a dash of romanceA thrilling cold case mysteryIncludes discussion questions for book groups
Beyond Measure is a "beautiful and insightful" narrative that unites ten women from various walks of life. As their worlds collide in the most unlikeliest of places, Living Positive Kenya, a non government organization located in Ngong Town, Kenya, bonds are formed and lives are changed.First time author and global HIV/AIDS advocate, Connie L. Johnson, introduces the world to Anne, Agnes, Leah, Tabitha, Fridah, Monica, Regina and Naomi, eight amazing Kenyan women who chronicle their lives from childhood to theirchance encounters with Living Positive Kenya and its founder Mary "Mum" Wanderi Muthoni. Each story is uniquely compelling and celebrates the trans-formative power of compassion and community. This book is "a testament thatevery story is valid, every life matters and that each of us was born with the potential to become powerful Beyond Measure."
Cookville Kids, Private Investigators: Mini-Mysteries
Connie Cook
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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COOKVILLE KIDS, PRIVATE INVESTIGATORSMeet the Cookville Kids, Private Investigators, seven neighbourhood friends with a talent for solving mysteries, large and small. Although Cookville appears to be a sleepy, little town, the Cookville Kids, Private Investigators find plenty of mystery and mayhem to keep them busy.The clues are right there, just waiting to be found, and if you can spot them, you can join the Cookville Kids in the race to be the first to catch the bad guys. Some cases will be "elementary, my dear Watson," and some will challenge even the most observant of private eyes.So put on your thinking caps, and come along for some fun and adventure with the Cookville Kids, Private Investigators.
The Challenge: Novel 2 of the Gulliver Station Series
Connie Cockrell
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T. Braun explores the multi-valences of silence within themes of loss, displacement, identity, heritage, and faith. Reflecting on her childhood in Canada, and her ancestral Mennonite homeplace, these pieces form a memoir about her maternal grandparents' and her mother's life in Poland, their experiences of war and displacement, and their eventual immigration and acculturation. In these pages, and in consecutive travels to Poland, the author invites the reader to accompany her as she traverses the territory of old and new worlds, war and peace, the landscape of dispossession, and the mass forced migrations of World War II within the ground of holocaust. Braun conveys through story that not only words, but silences, speak meaning. Private memory within the historical record reveals people caught up in catastrophe striving to survive with their humanity intact. These are stories crafted from silence and language, memory and obscurity, faith and doubt, chaos and hope, the past, and future possibility. Telling and listening to stories performs the acts of mourning and witness, and attests to the regenerative and transcendent qualities of narrative. ""Connie Braun offers us fragments of family past that refuse to be forgotten: glimpses of happiness, shards of horror and exile. Her meditations reveal how, at their best, food and sewing and photographs and family gossip can transform bits of memory into quiet, understanding beauty."" --Rudy Wiebe, Author of Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize ""'In the aftermath of violent histories, telling stories and listening to stories are acts of peace, ' writes this daughter of World War II refugees. Seeking family memories and public records, Braun engages a range of writers, and returns to Poland three times, on 'grief's long migration, ' to claim the lost homelands of the Mennonites, Jews and Catholics. With beauty and skill, she renders the implications of a history that reaches from the Crusades to the concentration camps, determined to trace its imprint on the generation born into elegiac silence. This book is essential to any quest to make emotional sense of the displacement, dispossession, and holocausts of the last century."" --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, award winning poet ""Silentium is that rarest of books: it accompanies us, thoughtfully and compassionately, on a journey into tragic and traumatic experiences without giving into either despair or sentimentality. Connie Braun shows us how honest, artful language can emerge out of a dialogue with silence and enable us to experience both grief and grace."" --Gregory Wolfe, Author of Beauty Will Save the World, founder and editor of Image Journal Connie T. Braun is an instructor of creative writing and the author of The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (2008) and two collections of poetry. Her academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews appear in various anthologies, journals, and publications. For over twenty years she has served on boards for the arts and writing, nonprofit organizations, and, most currently, an advisory committee for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of the Fraser Valley.
This book is for Christian readers of fiction who might experience difficulty trying to make an informed choice beyond what is being published by evangelical presses. Marketed to a specific target audience, evangelical fiction oftentimes leaves a reader with a strong emotional response but lacks the literary depth or the breadth of subject that could inspire life-changing spiritual growth. With this premise at the heart of her book, Connie Wineland includes her own story of conversion to Christianity by way of reading fiction. During her late twenties and early thirties, particularly while in graduate school, Wineland became immersed in literary and rhetorical studies while also practicing an Eastern form of religion as well as Native American spirituality. However, despite all her training in literary theory, her readings in Romantic, Victorian, modern, and postmodern literature (which she explains), as well as her personal interest in mythology and world religions, kept her questioning the existence of God and the possible nature of God. Then, as a relatively new convert to Christianity, she faced several challenges at a small Christian college where she taught literature and writing courses. Eventually wanting to reach beyond the academic community, Wineland began a local Christian readers' group, which she ran for four years. She includes in this book resources and materials such as sample syllabi and study-guide questions, useful Web addresses, and plenty of how-to information for starting and running your own book club. Also included is an extensive list of annotated titles of recommended reading to get anyone started Connie Wineland has taught English at the college level for over sixteen years. Currently she teaches at Ohio University Southern Campus in Ironton, Ohio. Among the courses she has taught are American literature, Middle Eastern literature, the Spiritual Memoir, and Women and Writing. She has traveled extensively with her husband throughout western Europe, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean region. She lives in Grayson, Kentucky.
Grassroots Unity in the Charismatic Renewal
Connie Ho Yan Au; Mark J Cartledge
Wipf Stock Publishers
2011
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