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This book is for those who need a spiritual jumpstart. Maybe you feel distant from God. Your life is not headed in the right direction. You don’t like who you have become. Your spiritual life has stalled and you don’t know how to get it going again. Or perhaps you are new to the faith and don’t know where to start. What can you do to grow as a Christian? Where do you focus your efforts to get the best results?

The political ideas that fully came together under the name “liberal” in the early 19th century—the ideas we often now refer to as “classical liberalism”—emerged out of major debates and developments from the late 1600s to the late 1700s. These were part of the broad European intellectual movement of that era that came to be known as “the Enlightenment".

Fifteen-year-old Joey Burkett wonders if he will ever be successful at anything. He always thought he would grow up to be a rodeo performer like his father, a world-champion cowboy, had been, but Daddy died in a rodeo accident. Joey hopes that whatever his future, Matthew Kane, the new man in his mother’s life, will not be a part of it. One day, Joey goes along with a friend to “borrow” an expensive sports car. They wreck the car. Matt Kane comes up with a plan for Joey to work on his ranch and raise beef calves for the summer to earn money to pay for the damages.

Trail Posts is an inspiring memoir of faith-filled adventures as Rich answers God’s call to one of the world’s unique, complex, yet rewarding careers - Bible translation. Rich takes his family to live among the Wayuu, the preliterate people of Colombia and Venezuela. He and his wife learn their unwritten language, provide a basis for literacy, and translate the Bible. Rich follows divinely placed trail posts. Some lead to hardships and extreme challenges - which he takes on with faith and tenacity.

Your faith is a long-distance run, Pastor John Van Pay tells us: an everyday endeavor to follow Jesus that will sometimes feel impossible, even painful. To give us strength, Van Pay retells the inspirational stories of 20 believers in the Bible who persisted, endured, and thrived in their faith by applying the fundamental principles of endurance running to the single most important journey - the journey to loving and following God.

Der Waise Victor wächst zusammen mit seiner Stiefmutter Ludmilla und seiner Stiefschwester Hanna auf. Eines Tages verlässt Victor jedoch schweren Herzens die gewohnte Umgebung um ein Leben als Beamter zu beginnen. Doch zuvor bittet sein Onkel, der Bruder seines lange verstorbenen Vaters, ihn zu sich auf eine abgelegene Alm in den Bergen. Victor erzählt ihm, dass er nicht heiraten möchte. Sein Onkel macht ihm aber klar, dass das Alleinsein im Alter nicht erstrebenswert ist... Bearbeiter: Klaus Gmeiner, Regie: Hans Conrad Fischer.

We all make mistakes in life. In this book, “The Greatest Mistakes in My Life,” I am sharing with you, the listener, some of my mistakes I made in my life. Of course, I made plenty of them, and hoping you will learn from my mistakes. You will gain wisdom and knowledge and apply them to your daily life. Even, if it is only one, I would have reached my goal touching your heart, the listener.