God Is in My Sandbox

God Is in My Sandbox
Author: Kris Jepsen
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 150430814X

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Silver drops of floating stars held in grass to drink as tea funnelled down to roots and soil to form a dewy starlight sea Kris Jepsen Kris Jepsen has learned to be readyand to listen to Gods voice whenever He speaks. In her first collection of writings, she shares prayers and poems intended to lift others up to reflect on their lives and reach for something better through faith and Gods love. In her short prayers, Kris encourages others to embrace hope as the day begins and peace as the sun sets, to see the loveliness of the world and impart kindness, to be comforted by Gods presence, and to be meaningful and useful to all. Within poignant poems, Kris reflects on love, wonder, and nature while exploring an inspirational encounter with a homeless woman, the relationship between mother and daughter as life comes full circle, and a beautiful conversation between St. Peter and God. In this compilation of poems and prayers, a woman of faith reflects on the wonder of love, nature, and the daily inspiration that surrounds all of us.

God's Feet are in My Sandbox

God's Feet are in My Sandbox
Author: Rick Anderson
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1617398101

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God's Feet are in My Sandbox is one of the most powerful and captivating first-hand accounts of God's movement in our world to affirm life, love, forgiveness and hope. Rick's story will rock your world! Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and The Death of Innocents Having spent 16 years as chaplain for a unit of 2200 men, and ministering to 95 men on their last day in the Death House, I am totally committed to the fact that this is an important ministry and that these are people. Rev. Anderson writes greatly of how important it is to see them as people and to understand the fact that restorative justice is possible. He still has to face the system. Rev. Carroll Pickett, author of Within These Walls Dare to enter one man's Spirit-filled world that overflows with the rejuvenating power of Almighty God. Join him as he ministers to condemned men in their dungeons and testifies to God's unbridled love poured out. Walk beside him as he risks it all to reach out to the most hated man on Texas' Death Row.

Today and Tomorrow

Today and Tomorrow
Author: Timothy Paul Green
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2004
Genre: Christian devotionals
ISBN: 9780873988919

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When Texas Prison Scams Religion

When Texas Prison Scams Religion
Author: Michael G. Maness
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1728377552

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When Texas Prison Scams Religion exposes corruption in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, especially in the abuse of religion. In many ways, this book is a literature review of 1,800-plus works that defends freedom of conscience in prison while exposing the unconstitutionality of the seminary program that “buys faith with favor” from prisoners. The state veritably ordains the prisoner a “Field Minister” that represents the offices of the Governor, TDCJ Director, and wardens throughout the prison. Therein, TDCJ lies about neutrality in a program all about Christian missions and lies again in falsely certifying elementary Bible students as counselors. Why is the director sponsoring psychopaths counseling psychopaths? In fact, TDCJ pays $314 million a year to UTMB for psychiatric care and receives not a single report of the care given, and worse, for UTMB generates no reports itself. The underbelly TDCJ’s executive culture of cover up is exposed. TDCJ has hired the lowest qualified of the applicant pool many times in the last 25 years and regularly destroys statistics on violence. TDCJ Dir. Collier led the prison to model Louisiana Warden Burl Cain, the most scandal-ridden in penal history according to a host of published news stories for 20 years. Therein, Collier led TDCJ to favor the smallest segment of religious society within Evangelical Dominionism. Texas has no business endorsing the truth of any religion over another. We close with a proposal that utilizes the 400,000,000 hours of officer contact over ten years as a definitive influence in contrast to a commissioner that spends less than 10 minutes on each decision. Maness has been lobbying Austin for 15 years to definitively access staff for his “100,000 Mothers’ 1% Certainty Parole Texas Constitutional Amendment,” which would revolutionize prison culture and save Texans millions of the dollars.

The Unmistakable Hand Of God

The Unmistakable Hand Of God
Author: Roy Comrie
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1640794409

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When I speak about "unmistakable," it references God, not us. We stand amazed at His mercy, forgiveness, and patience. We are utterly unworthy of any of His interventions in our lives. My dear friend Jack says it best in his foreword to the book: "Turn these pages slowly and swallow these words carefully as you take in what God is still doing today. Roy's story pulls you into the darkest corridors of pain and through the most impossible of barriers to witness what the Almighty does to change the heart of a man or a woman." Jack continues, "What can you say when you encounter a Bible that survives a fire that reduces everything around it to ashes, a paralyzing black mamba bite that takes Roy to the brink of death, amoebic dysentery in a child hundreds of miles from medical care, the death of children in a vehicle accident-moments attributable only to the hand of God? It is the stuff of desperate prayer. Roy is always on duty, whether in a hospital with his own life-and-death drama, deep in a jungle faced with dark spiritual forces, or weaving back and forth on dirt roads mined to destroy. Without manipulation, he speaks straightforward truth and finds joy in each proclamation." The rape and murder of my sister Sheila triggered a series of events that continue to bring glory to God among the men and women murderers of Westville prison. Track with me the hidden hand of the One who alone can reverse impossibilities in my life and yours. We worship Him alone.

Why God Lets People Suffer

Why God Lets People Suffer
Author: Nancy C. Gaughan
Publisher: Magnus Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780965480659

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In this compelling work on a subject that touches us all, Nancy C Gaughan shares her discovery in the Scriptures of God's reasons for allowing suffering in the lives of his people. She relates many of her own experiences from the days of her childhood, as well as those of friends and people in the Bible to show us how -- even in suffering's worst moments -- God's love and joy will flood our souls. For anyone who has asked, 'Why does God let me suffer?'.

God, My Rock

God, My Rock
Author: Carol Nordman
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2020-06-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1973691876

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Through her poems, letters and journal excerpts, author Carol Nordman tells the true story of living abroad as she steps into God’s calling and gives up “the good life” to become a missionary. In God, My Rock, she illustrates God’s promises, goodness, and faithfulness and tells how she; her husband, Vance; and eventually their children encounter and overcome the secret police, political instability, economic collapse, events of the last days of the Cold War, illness, and giving birth in a foreign hospital among other challenges. Nordman provides glimpses of her day-to-day life raising and traveling with three children on the mission field in Turkey, Egypt, the Philippines, Russia, Europe, and Japan. This memoir chronicles the family’s surprising cultural adjustments, both abroad and upon returning to the United States. The stories span Nordman’s life from finding God in her teenage years, being a UCLA student and serving as a single missionary for five years before marrying at the age of twenty-six. She shares the great adventure of following God’s call and watching him work powerfully to bring people into his kingdom by personally knowing his son, Jesus.

Rescuing God from Christianity

Rescuing God from Christianity
Author: Sven E. Erlandson
Publisher: Variocity
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1933037415

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Erlandson articulates the growing frustration that many people have with Christianity and shows how a church is not needed to create a challenging and life-changing new path based on the simple call to love God and love one's neighbor.

Dance on the Wind

Dance on the Wind
Author: Terry C. Johnston
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2010-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307755843

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Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass fears one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late one night he snatches a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, flees into the woods, and doesn’t look back. From Louisville past the Chickasaw bluffs and the Natchez Trace all the way to New Orleans, he plunges into the rough-and-tumble life along the banks of the Mississippi: a volatile, violent country of boatmen and river bandits, knife fights and Indian raids, strong liquor and stronger women. Yet beyond the great river stretches the vast, unexplored expanse of the Great Plains. And it is here that young Titus will seek his future, and risk everything to seize it.

Any God-Given Day

Any God-Given Day
Author: Annegret Werner Shaw
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450207421

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Kitty Arnold, the 29-year-old granddaughter of Mavis Peterson, struggles with the responsibility of taking care of her grandmother who is afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. After the death of her mother, Peggy, when Kitty was two, she came to live with her grandmother and together, they became a family. As her grandmother loses more and more of her short-term memory and dives deeper and deeper into her past, she makes Kitty aware of a secret that has been hidden in her family for decades. As Mavis remembers the events of her past in her moments of lucidity, she struggles to tell her granddaughter the truth about that past. But much of what Mavis wants to tell Kitty becomes lost in the wasteland that is Alzheimer's disease. Kitty's quest for the truth about her family leads her into her grandmother's past. As the mystery unfolds, we begin to understand the pain and frustration that this disease brings to those who must suffer through the different stages of memory loss.