The Lord Is Our Light invites you to explore God’s hope and presence through a study of the scripture readings for Advent and Christmas. Key Bible readings call us to praise God as we actively wait for the coming of God’s redemption and new creation. Through the readings, we hear the call to celebrate the light of God revealed through Jesus Christ. The season of Advent offers opportunities to prepare for God’s coming in human form in the baby Jesus and for the approach of God’s kingdom with the second coming of Christ. Hope is the focus of Advent worship, study, and prayer. We will discover the light that began in the manger and that continues as we look forward with hope to Christ's return. The Lord Is Our Light is based upon the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for year B of the church year, a three-year cycle of Bible readings. The study includes commentary and reflection on readings from the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the Epistles. It offers the opportunity to explore these Bible readings in a five-session study. The goal is to help participants understand, appreciate, and engage in meaningful and joyous celebrations of Advent and Christmas and to live each day in God's light through Jesus Christ. The study book includes a leader guide with information about the season of Advent, suggestions for starting and leading small groups, Bible background, and discussion activities
Carrie learns early that men can't be trusted: Her father, a ruthless sheriff, nearly kills her first love. She soon gets her wish to be away from him, but it's at the hands of renegades who kidnap her. Only one outlaw is kind to her: Chama, a half-breed who has vowed to avenge the massacre of his people.
For more than three hundred years, black women have embodied a theology of hope which has enabled them to overcome a history of abuse and violence. While a theology of hope has been widely discussed in twentieth centry theology, it was born in slavery long before Jurgen Moltmann introduced it to America in 1967. Even womanist notions of hope have not explored the theological character of hope in abused black women's narratives. A. Elaine Brown Crawford argues that hope is the theological construct that moves black women beyond endurance and survival to transformation of their personal and communal realities. This book identifies and analyzes the theological vision of hope voiced within the narratives of enslaved, emancipated, and contemporary black women and brings that vision into discussion with contemporary womanist theologies.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, four delightful novellas featuring Cupid's quest to bring love to unlikely couples. Featured are Gingham and Gold, Heart's Desire, Music from the Gods, and Just Friends, Of Course.
A passionate new Wildflower romance that embraces the sizzling fury of the old West. Tomboy Georgette Pacquing thinks twice about her boyish ways when she meets arrogant riverboat gambler Pierce Kingston, His conceit and Southern charm makes Georgie want to teach him a lesson in love. So, she trades in her britches for a corset--only to have her scheme backfire.
Love breaks free from the hands of time in four breathtaking tales wherein a vintage dress-shop owner travels to Medieval England, a woman's dreams reveal a secret love from the past, an engaged workaholic experiences a romantic deja vu, and a heroine plunges off the Cornwall cliffs and into a knight's arms.
When a young, innocent beauty is falsely arrested in a brothel raid, she agrees to become a mail-order bride to keep from going to jail. Her new husband thinks he's marrying a wanton woman experienced in the ways of love. Instead he gets a headstrong bride determined to keep the marriage unconsummated. Includes a detachable full-color bookmark.
Debbie and Dave were the picture-perfect young couple moving to a new apartment building. So picture-perfect were they, that an executive of the company wanted them to model for a campaign to advertise all their apartments! All seemed good-in the beginning, that is. For once the photo shoots began, two people involved in the operations took their chances with the naive pair. There was Bart, the overseer of the campaign-whose insatiable lust raged stronger than ever when he laid eyes on the voluptuous Debbie. Then there was Rosalie, the nympho photographer who wanted Dave for her own private sessions in the studio as well as the bedroom! Could they get out of this extra-marital fiasco? Did they even want to? Or would this tender couple become victims of wanton remorse!Then there was Ronnie, a woman who delighted in gratifying her turbulent sex appetites with the men her husband brought home to dinner. Soon enough the country club dances became her prime hunting ground for fresh game. She maneuvered in and out of more bedrooms than the local real estate agent! That is until the night her husband Bill caught her in bed with Ned Steven, and the brick walls of suburbia came crashing down! A novel that rips the curtains from the big picture windows called suburbia!
To claim his birthday prize from his grandmother, Atlas Daltry, the entrepreneur of the Daltry family, must court Charlotte Clairmore, an eccentric widow who makes her living as a traveling saleswoman. Original.
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