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What was God thinking when He made man and woman? Are they really created equal? Is the church today in divine and biblical order regarding equality?




Author Jori Sams has accomplished a remarkable feat in this eBook. With such eloquence and precision, she takes us on a necessary journey back to the beginning to unpack some of life’s most challenging questions for women, using Scripture to support her beliefs. See the effects of society on the role

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Giant angels with metal wings and visible song. A blind demon restored from the pit of darkness. And a girl who has never felt more broken.

Brielle sees the world as it really is: a place where the Celestial exists side by side with human reality. But in the aftermath of a supernatural showdown, her life begins to crumble.

Her boyfriend, Jake, is keeping something from her—something important. Her overprotective father has started drinking again. And he’s dating a much younger woman who makes Brielle’s skin crawl. Haunting nightmares invade Brielle’s sleep, and flashes of Celestial vision keep her off kilter.

What she doesn’t know is that she’s been targeted. The Prince of Darkness himself has heard of the boy with healing in his hands and of the girl who sees through the Terrestrial Veil.

Brielle has no choice. She knows evil forces are converging and will soon rain their terror down on the town of Stratus. She must master

"Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night" gives a framework for prayerful devotions with a morning and evening prayer for each day of the year. The prayers have been selected to reflect the seasons and the liturgical calendar.

They are intended not to replace your personal, spontaneous prayers but to serve as a springboard for them. Editors Jeanie and David Gushee have collected inspiring contributions from Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sources; from all continents; from the Old Testament; and from each century of Christian history. "Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night" will enhance

In a memoir of missteps and misdeeds, Deanna Nowadnick writes of the hugeness of God's love and faithfulness. Reframing life in God's grace, she discovers an indescribable, indefinable, inexplicable love that has encircled her without fail through joyous, sad, cringe-worthy, heartwarming, forgettable, memorable moments in life.

I found myself relating to Deanna's life, and I am sure others will too. It is very well written, and honest. I really enjoyed her honesty in this book; she puts her life right out there good and bad. I enjoyed knowing that I

Overview: At age twenty-one, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refugein the company of men who left her lonely and friends who pushed the boundaries of what she once held sacred.In this deeply personal memoir, Andrea navigates the doubts that plague believers and skeptics alike: Why does a good God allow suffering? Why is God so silent, distant, and uninvolved? And why does the church seem so dysfunctional?Yet amid her skepticism, she begins to ask new questions: Could doubting be a form of faith? Might our doubts be a longing for God that leads to a faith we can ultimately live with?

My Review: After Andrea graduated from college, she left the church for 2 years, because she was tired of church. She also left because of her questions that nobody at the church could answer for her. Such as; “How am I supposed to relate to a God I can't see, touch or hear?” “Why did a good God allow suffering?” “And why is God so silent, distant, and uninvolved?” “Could doubting actually be a form of faith?” “Why couldn't the church answer my doubts?” I have asked these questions myself in my Christian walk, and I believe allot of us have had our doubts.

I found ‘Faith and Other Flat Tires’ to be down to earth honest (from the gut honest), humorous, and very inspiring. I found myself in this book because it is for real honesty from the gut. I have found someone who has actually felt the same way I have felt for years, and the same questions and doubts I have had, I don’t feel all alone in feeling this way now. Dilley actually had the guts to put it out there for the world to read. I recommend this book to all Christians who have had these questions and doubts and have never shared them with anyone in fear that that person or the church may look down on you. I have never shared my doubts in fear that the church will look down on me. I once read in a Max Luccado book that doubt is a form of sin, so I have been sinning for many years if that is the case. Awesome memoir!

This book was sent to me for free by Zondervan in exchange for my review. The opinions are my own.

Click here to download a sample chapter of 'Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt'

About The Author: Andrea Palpant Dilley grew up in Kenya as the daughter of Quaker missionaries and spent the rest of her childhood in the Pacific Northwest. She studied English literature and writing at Whitworth University. Her work as a writer has appeared in Rock and Sling, Geez, and Utne Reader, as well as the anthology Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical. Her work as a documentary producer has aired nationally on American Public Television. She lives with her husband and daughter in Austin, Texas.

Stumbling Into Grace by Lisa Harper, was for me a witty and very refreshing book to read and review. I would read anything by Lisa Harper after reading this book by her.

I think Lisa Harper is one of the most honest writers, along with Anne Lamott who can talk about being a stumbling Christian and laugh, cry and rejoice all at the same time.

We all sin, we all make mistakes on a daily basis, and there

This book was a bit out of left field for me, I did not care for it much at all.

For instance in the beginning of the book I found it to be quite confusing. I am not a very science oriented thinker to begin with, so some chapters were hard to comprehend. I am a not a very mature Christian so it was hard for me to follow quite a bit of this book.