Religious and spiritual Books

This all started on October 8, 2010. I'm on my way to work when this fifty-one-year-old with a learner's permit lost control of his car and decided to slam on his brakes; oops! He hits the gas instead, and he puts me into a spin. I end up crashing into...

Practical messages with amazing insights! This book contains six spoken messages given by this martyred Christian missionary before he left for the mission field in Ecuador. They were transcribed from a wire recorder, a forerunner of the magnetic tape...

This study strives to understand the teaching of the CCC in the voice of Scripture from which it draws. The CCC directs us to this very effort: "The texts of Sacred Scripture are often not quoted word for word but are merely indicated by a reference (cf...

O Livro de Neemias, base destes sermões, tem como personagem principal Neemias, Copeiro do Rei Arterxarxes, que reinou sobre a Pérsia de 464 a 423 a.C. Neemias recebeu seu irmão Hanani e alguns judeus remanescentes de Jerusalém e, após ouvir os tristes...

Benedicto XVIEl papa de la fe y de la razónBenedicto XVI es el papa de la fe y de la razón. El papa alemán se enfrenta a la "dictadura del relativismo", a la crisis del indiferentismo y a la falta de sentido en el mundo contemporáneo. En este contexto...

La Independencia de México (1821) cambió las relaciones entre la Iglesia y el Estado. Éste buscó mantener a aquélla sometida, como lo había estado durante el período hispánico. Para esto usó las instituciones jurídicas hispánicas e intentó ajustarlas a...

Im Streit um den Umgang mit globalen Flüchtlingsbewegungen heben heute viele abwehrend die Hände, sie wollen die Grenzen dichtmachen. Da erinnern sich viele Deutsche ihrer eigenen Flüchtlingsvergangenheit: Rd. 22 Millionen Flüchtlinge, Vertriebene und...

Na turas de màthair òg, cò 'nn an ceartair beir do 'n pàiste sèthamh aice bh' i gu aodann na diagnosachd de Aillse marbhach (Aillse-leoicéime). Sgeul do-chreidsinn de marthanas, diagnosachd ann aimsir nuair...

A memoir written by Sister Helen Warman, an Australian nun of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Sister Helen spent sixty years as an educator in Catholic missions to Papua New Guinea, primarily in Milne Bay Province (including the Trobriand...

This book is used to show people that it is never too late when life seems to have deteriorated so much for them. The author is showing through his own life that no matter how bad of a person you may be seen in the eyes of other people, or your own eyes,...

In approximately AD 48, the Apostle Paul, his coworker Barnabas, and Barnabas' cousin, John Mark, boarded a ship at Seleucia and headed for Cyprus to initiate what is now known as the first Pauline missionary journey. It was during this mission that an...

This autobiography was written by God: fact of fiction? It will tell you God's story from creation to the end time in God's words, based on insights that I believe that God has given me. These insights include new interpretations of the Bible that will...

In the biblical days, there was not a man who was greater than Job. Job was a very wealthy man with seven sons and three daughters, he possessed more than anyone in the land of Uz. Job was a man of God who lived a blessed life, protected under God's...

John Moynihan Tettemer entered the Passionist Order of Monks in 1894. After years of solitude, prayer, and strict monastic observance, he pledged his vows on September 21, 1896.He took the name of Ildephonsus of the Sorrowful Virgin. After five years of...

If you don't like the harvest you are reaping, check the seeds you are sowing. Harvest season is HERE for you to enjoy a fruitful life. You were not created to live a droughtful life. Don't deprive yourself of living the purposeful life God has...

Finding your purpose in life can be one of the most strenuous tasks to accomplish if you intend to do it yourself. But when you discover the Father's love, everything begins to clear up, and with greater ease, you understand the plan that he has designed...

In Gaze Long Into The Abyss, acclaimed Marvel Studios screenwriter Dalan Musson plunges us into a vivid but desolate world: An apocalypse has snatched away most of humanity; the ragged, remaining few are picking up the pieces. Was it the...

After experiencing the triumph of accomplishing her childhood goal -- capturing a state high school basketball championship -- Jamie, now eighteen, embarks upon the next adventure in her journey. As she finishes high school and says goodbye to her...

What happens when a young pastor's inexperience and personal problems make him feel inadequate to feed his flock? After accepting his first pastorate, Scott Daniels finds himself wrestling with this very question. Is his faith deep enough to withstand...

Tuve una pesadilla anoche. Estaba pidiendo ayuda a gritos, PERO NADIE ESCUCHÓ MIS SILENCIOSOS GRITOS. Al crecer en el hogar de un padre ausente y una madre emocionalmente abusiva, Tom Stewart, era un blanco fácil para un depredador. Condicionado por la...

Kukulia kwenye nyumba isiyokuwa na baba wa kutegemewa na yenye mama anayekunyanyasa kihisia, ilikuwa rahisi kwa Tom Stewart kuingia kwenye mtego wa kundi la watu wabaya. Huku akizoea desturi ya kufuata ushawishi wa wengine na kutaka uthibitisho kutoka...

God is close by. However, by our frequent disobedience we wander away from him. In his immense love, he nevertheless keeps on talking to us through visions, dreams, and prophetic revelations.

Andy Konigsmark is more than an American Gladiator: he is a role model and the embodiment of what it means to stay focused on your dreams. He managed to overcome dyslexia, a bipolar disorder, and thrive as a true renaissance man. It is difficult to label...

The Book of Missionary Heroes tells the stories of brave and faithful missionaries who carried the message of Jesus Christ to people around the world. From the pioneer work of Raymond Lull in the Muslim world to the medical missions of David Livingstone...

In the Catholic faith God calls each one of us to do something for him. We are all called to fulfill a purpose and a task in our lives.Many Australians no longer consider or reflect on these 'vocational' questions. Yet in a world of personal chaos,...

Jesus was not just the Saviour of humanity but also the teacher - the one God anointed to bring truth to the Earth so we can truly live again!In the life of Jesus Christ there are a few pivotal moments when He gave His foundational teachings. The message...

The contemplative tradition in Christianity traces its origins back to Jesus himself, who frequently withdrew to quiet places to pray, and it has nourished and challenged disciples in every generation since.Journey to the Heart is an in-depth and richly...

The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls...

Saint Cecilia is among the first female Christian saints, being born in the Roman Empire during the early 3rd century AD. This is the story of her life, the discovery of her remains, and her veneration.This biography recounts the various tales...

In this book we encounter a man whose twentieth-century life and ministry mirrored a concern for faithful preaching, pastoral care, and the mission field. Leslie Land avoided labels, but his gentle, impeccably courteous, yet penetrating expositions laid...

What would life be without encouragement? That is why testimonies are so important; without them, the finish line so often becomes obscured by fear and disappointment... That is the beauty of this book. Every page is filled with wonderful stories of...

In her book, My Journey as a Servant, Rev. Brockington chronicles her submission to the call of God to serve and lead under the direction of the late Dr. Sallie A. Bruce, a Washington, DC area titan in the church world and local community. The reader...

She Endured 9/11 . . . Would She Survive COVID-19?It was March 2020, and rumors of a mysterious virus filled the air. But busy New York City tour guide Christina Ray Stanton paid little attention. After all, she and her husband had survived 9/11; it...

The last thing on earth I ever thought I'd do was to write a book. The reason, obvious to me, was that I had nothing worthwhile to say. I couldn't write about the past because it was obscured by a filter of guilt, the present was irellevant and the...

Pier Giorgio Frassati is situated in the social and political upheaval of early-twentieth-century Italy. The Roman Catholic Church read the warning signs of atheistic Marxism; Mussolini filled Italy's political vacuum with fascists; and Rome was still...

2020 Reprint of the 1915 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  According to the author, his only … “object in sending forth this volume to the public is with the...

The Beauty of Service is a true story . Non fiction. It is based on the experience of the author, Ezinne Matilda Igbokwe. Her cherished childhood with loving parents and siblings. She talks of her marriage to Mr Bernard Igbokwe who contributed to her...

In October 2012, I published my memoir, with photos, about my life in the US Army during World War II. The name of that book is The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army. Several readers of the book were astonished to find a photo of their family...

SHARING A JOURNEY OF SURVIVAL IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOUL STRIPPING SEXUAL ATTACKS. GRATEFUL IN THE END FOR THE ABILITY TO DREAM AND ACHIEVE A DREAM. ENCOURAGE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT TO MOVE TO LIVE A FULL LIFE. " IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT."

My book is to encourage people to put their trust in god no matter what you dealing with and trust in him on your journey to recovery from anything that you are dealing with in life no matter how large or small trust in god to be your salvation. Dear...

I'm Not Supposed to Be Here. But God, an autobiographical life's journey, by Dr. Barbara "Mom" Bean, is a naked testimonial, and prescription for victory with God's help.It is a reality that life is difficult, as it is a hard schoolmaster because it...

This memoir describes the lives of a loving Catholic couple who persevered through poverty, illness and bigotry due to their undying faith in God. This story covers Ignacio T Martínez life's journey from childhood to death with God shadowing his every...

Reminiscent of Bombeck's style, Hoffman once again relates true stories of how everyday situations can go so wrong. Cringe with her as she reveals the stories behind her first date ... laugh as her many dogs conspire against her ... sigh as her Sunday...

I had always felt "Called" from the time I was little. I had signs leading up to a day, when I was 16, sitting in my chemistry class, when God spoke to me. He said, "I really want to use you..." God then said, "But, you are going to have to go through...

The purpose of this book is simple: to journey through the remarkable and (literally) astronomically remote events that led to the single, solitary Son of Man walking among us. And in doing so, to take a journey similar to the first authors of antiquity,...

In the spring of 1925 the writer purchased from a London antiquarian bookseller a small volume, dated A.D. 1555, containing the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew, followed by a series of Jewish objections to the Gospel to the number of twenty-three, also in...