This 21 day prayer guide is purposed for leading God's people back to the cross, where the proper perspective of who God is and who we are compel holy living, sacrificial service and bold evangelism. Bible study and prayer are the conduit through which spiritual renewal ignites a Christian's heart with the passion and zealousness for living as an ambassador for Jesus Christ. Prayer is to bend our will to God's will, not God's will to ours. This practical application-styled prayer guide helps Christians one day at a time move closer to God and position themselves deeper in His will, which is to reconcile all of creation to Himself. Go on a journey over the next 21 days and find yourself igniting revival in your heart and in your church

I experienced a life-altering event when I was 22, which resulted in the loss of my arm. As a result, I made a series of bad decisions that affected me, my family, and my friends in ways I regretted for a long time. I slowly realized that one day I would have to create my own change or life would not get better. When one day became my day one, I took responsibility for my life and decided to be better, not bitter. I realized that focusing on losing my arm was keeping me from focusing on the good things in my life. I took action using a 5-step process, which I now use to help others discover how to be better versions of themselves.

Everyone experiences peaks and valleys in the course of a lifetime. Some peaks are heavenly, and some valleys are hell. How you manage those peaks and valleys is what matters in the long run. The decisions you make and the actions you take will determine whether you stay on the peak or dwell in the valley. Are you ready to make good decisions, transform your life from the emotional stress of dramatic peaks to valleys to the more peaceful and fulfilling ebb and flow that can come from knowing and living your purpose? Are you ready for one day to become day one?

What can I say to a person who is angry, withdrawn, hopeless, in crisis, confused, or obstinate? How can I discuss and resolve problems in a way that preserves relationships and is consistent with my Christian values? How can I bring hope and solutions to situations that seem daunting? How can I convey the truth in love?

In this story, Michael, Mariana, Katy, and Josh find the answer in the four steps of The L.O.V.E. Approach: Listen and Learn, Open Options, Vision and Value, and Extend and Empower. You follow their stories and observe as they learn each step. Then you can practice the steps yourself, either alone or with a partner. Then you listen as each of the characters uses the steps in a difficult dialogue with a person they care about (Michael's with his wife, Mariana with an employee, Katy with a young woman in her ministry group, and Josh with his son). Finally, you discover what has been transformed in their personal and professional lives as a result of using the 4 steps.

The story is based on real people and situations known to the author, but particulars have been changed to protect confidentiality. In this book, you also practice the 4 steps (in special practice chapters), and have the opportunity to use them with another person, so you see for yourself how transformational they can be.

In creating The L.O.V.E. Approach book, Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D., draws on her professional communications expertise and 20 years background as a college Professor and her decades of experience as a wife, mother, friend, peer counselor, and leader in faith-based Christian organizations. She first wrote The L.O.V.E. Approach as a method of problem solving for ministry to pregnant women in crisis. It has been used in life-affirming pregnancy help centers since 1994, taught in person and on-line by Heartbeat International to pregnancy help organizations in over 60 countries. The L.O.V.E. Approach has proven its effectiveness for over 25 years to transform problem solving and relationships and bring hope and healing in the most difficult situations. In her new book, Dr. Peggy Hartshorn offers this invaluable tool to people of good will everywhere, for use in your homes (with spouses, children, other family members), with your friends and colleagues, in your ministries and nonprofits, on leadership teams, and in church settings of all types. The book has been reviewed, welcomed, and endorsed by Protestant, Evangelical, and Catholic pastors and leaders, and by experts in business, leadership, counseling, and psychiatry. While The L.O.V.E. Approach is based on 1 Corinthians 13:1-8: Love is patient, love is kind, . . . it is not pompous . . . it does not seek its own interests, this book is not didactic, nor is it denominational or theological.

How to Use The Book

Narrative chapters demonstrate the foundational basis for The LOVE Approach and how to use each step--L (Listen and Learn), O (Open Options), V (Vision and Value), and E (Extend and Empower)--and they show each of the characters using the steps in a real-life scenario. These chapters are interspersed with others that offer practice for each step, including space for personal reflection and questions and answers.

You can read and practice on your own, but it's even better to have one or more partners working with you so you can share your responses and learn from each other, just as Michael, Mariana, Katy, and Joshua do in the narrative chapters. This book is an indispensable resource for individuals, couples, book clubs, couples' support groups, small group ministries, women's or men's groups, home-based ministries, study groups, or retreats (for groups, couples, families, church staffs, or organizational and ministry teams). A companion website: TheLOVEApproachBook.com contains downloadable key graphics and charts, useful in learning and using The L.O.V.E. Approach.

Unlike many individuals who enter medicine, it was not something I contemplated from the beginning. I wanted to be a scientist...until I became disillusioned with that enterprise. Currently I'm a physician executive recently retired. Following medical school, I trained in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. It's the latter that I practiced clinically.

Through an exploration of great thinkers and philosophers, coupled with my own interactions with patients and colleagues, I've come to understand that medicine is a social, moral, philosophical, and existential enterprise, of which science is only one aspect.

I respect science, but don't worship it. Science is about facts that can be tested; philosophy and the humanities are about ideas that can be imagined, and stories that can be told.

Through the presentation of philosophical and normative issues, elucidated through stories, my goal in writing this book is to inspire tomorrow's physicians, medical ethicists, and other healers and thinkers to reject the roles we've been assigned, become more authentic in our everyday lives, and transcend the inadequacy of science through imagination and improvisation.

This is how the Soul of Medicine will be restored.

This book takes you on an emotional journey deep into the Slovak and Slavic inner world. Follow the trail that opens your eyes to the magical realm guarded by the Linden tree and its sacred heart-shaped leaf. It is a code that carries the story of the people born at the crossroads of worlds.

This is a book about 48 Super Slovaks and their true stories of bravery and adventure, creativity and skill. And since there are no heroes without villains, this book also represents two stories of not so super Slovaks. Together they reveal a history of Slovakia.

Do you know....

*Which Super Slovak was the last human on the moon?

*Which Super Slovak escaped a Nazi prison by jumping out of a window?

*Which Super Slovak built the first skyscraper in Asia?

*Which Super Slovak changed the course of the Second World War?

Find the answers. And much more, inside Super Slovaks.

Climb Every Mountain: Dr. Linda's Leadership Lessons is a culmination of over 20 years of reading leadership books and gathering inspirational quotes and poems that helped Dr. Linda grow, become a better leader, a better speaker, a better coach and inspire others. The word Inspire means to Breathe Life into another.

Her vision was to gather a lot of great leadership information in one book to help other leaders and future leaders be efficient with their time when preparing a talk, writing an article or just wanting to be inspired.

As a national class marathon and triathlon competitor and running coach she often used the poems and quotes she has gathered in this book for inspiration.

The book also talks about her leadership and athletic journey to show anyone that with enough grit and determination and removing the words can't and impossible from your vocabulary anything is possible. After all Disneyland was started with a mouse.

Take a journey into the borderland of the red empire, during an ideological battle that saw the world ripped in half. Dare to step into communist Czechoslovakia, where the controlled 'east' and the free 'west' converged at their closest.

This is a story of ordinary people caught up in the midst of the 20th century's greatest political experiment. Through tales only told in whispers, glimpse into the everyday reality of those whose entire universe was ruled by the hammer and sickle.

Did you know the synthetic B-vitamins found in supplements cannot be absorbed well or easily converted into the bioactive forms our cells actually use? Even other vitamins can't work well if there is not enough of the naturally occurring B forms called vitamers. For example, without B vitamers, taking vitamin D won't prevent osteoporosis. Learn how the naturally occurring vitamers DO work and Why, and start on your pathway to healthy living and longevity today!

Your Vitamins are Obsolete explains:

Why vitamer B deficiencies make your vaccines less effective.

How taking B vitamers assists vegans and vegetarians in maximizing their dietary benefits, in some cases even increasing fertility.

Why regular use of B vitamers can decrease your appetite for red meat, promoting personal and environmental health.

How including B vitamers in your diet reduces chronic inflammation, leading to improved health and longevity.

Married for forty-one years, the Thompsons reflect over their child rearing and marriage experiences and have completed what their children's psychiatrists long recommended. They've put into writing their story of faithfulness to each other, to their children and to God. Having adopted three apparently normal children, they discovered quickly the emotional, behavioral and educational challenges that faced Heather, Dylan and Molly. The Thompsons delineate the choices they made to solidify their marriage, choices of Trust, Commitment, Resilience, Health and Optimism. They worked to pass these values to their children as they matured.

They share the conflicts experienced by their children in the school system, in the community and even within their immediate families where outsiders judge yet never know the depth of problems they faced. This is a story of love and commitment to each other. It teaches a lesson of determination and of seeing the positive and funny in times of crisis. The lessons demonstrate the flexibility and tenacity that too often is sacrificed in marriages. It encourages the reader to stay the course, to look far into the future, and to focus on progress not perfection in all aspects of life. This is a marriage book that offers parenting guidance, openly embraces their faith and will be helpful to a young couple, a couple with years of marriage and couples with or without children whether adopted or not and without regard for special needs.

Women entrepreneurs do not go into business to become a professional sales person, however it doesn't take very long before they find out that sales is the heartbeat of their company. They soon come to realize that without making friends with sales, they won't be in business for very long.

OH SH*T, I'm in Sales? Is an entrepreneur's guide to making sales her new BFF and her ticket to becoming a revenue generating machine. In this fast-paced and fun spirited book, Susan introduces the reader to a foolproof process to reset their sales mindset and learn how to generate revenue without feeling sleazy or pushy. Sales CAN be fun, and Susan is the one to show you the way!

As Brent Cassity stood at the gate of Leavenworth prison to voluntarily surrender his freedom for the next five years of his life, a million thoughts flooded through his mind. But, the one thought he couldn't push away is this: How did the thing I most feared...the one thing I told myself would never happen...happen to me?

Nightmare Success is for the person who has lost hope, to show that a second chance is possible. Brent shares survival tools that helped him adapt to prison that can be used in everyday life for those who are stuck and fearful of continuing to step forward. There are business lessons shared about how to build a national company, and minefields to avoid.

Brent coined the phrase, Nightmare Success because everything you want is on the other side of fear. What key will unlock the prison of your mind and set you free?

During an era when millions of Jews fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe, the Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage. At the time, she was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built and many of her 2,200 passengers were Jewish. At 23:40, April 14, (28th of Nissan 5672) the Titanic swiped an iceberg and sank within two and a half hours. Most of her passengers lost their lives. The sinking of the Titanic was one of the worst and well known maritime disasters of the 20th century. The entire world mourned the Titanic. The grief was universal and shared by people of many nations and religions.

This book focuses on the lives and deaths of the Jewish passengers who sailed on the Titanic. It covers various Jewish aspects of the voyage and of the sinking. Aspects, such as keeping kosher, the Agunot dilemma and Jewish burial. The book outlines the life story of the passengers and the effect the disaster made on world Jewry. This book is the result of a long research on the subject, including an attempt to compose a unique and complete list of all the Jews who sailed on the Titanic, and identifying many of them who were previously unknown.

Lead Like a Queen is required reading for the next generation of young women who are eager to make their mark in the world.

Too many young women feel confused, anxious, uncomfortable in their skin, and worried about the future. They're struggling to figure out who they are, what they want in life, and how to feel happier and more fulfilled along the way. They're meant for something bold and audacious in their lifetimes, but fear and paralysis keep stifling their voices and potential.

But they're not alone...and author Sarah Kenny knows why and what to do about it. Based on decades of experience developing women leaders and her own turbulent teens and twenties, she wrote this book to save countless girls the headache and heartache that kept her stuck and miserable for way too long.

Lead Like a Queen is an inspirational self-help guide for any young woman who is sick of suffering from anxiety, overwhelm, and doubt, and eager to find more happiness, purpose, and fulfillment much earlier in life. Sharing heartfelt (and hard-earned) advice, practical strategies, and expertise gained from the author's own healing journey, this book teaches readers how to break through the fear and angst that is holding them back from reaching their full potential and unleashing their power. Most importantly, it inspires young women to become autonomous, audacious Queens: the bold leaders and change agents our world desperately needs.

Specifically, it covers the major issues affecting young women's mental health and leadership development-ones that the author has also spent years researching and personally working through, including how to:

- Embrace emotional discomfort for growth

- Overcome perfectionism and people-pleasing

- Develop body confidence and acceptance

- Build self-trust and make hard decisions

- Manage stress and anxiety while building resilience and confidence

- Discover one's why and find more meaning and purpose in life

Lead Like a Queen teaches young women things they can start doing today to build confidence, discover their passions, and start living more authentic, audacious lives. Because what the world needs right now is an army of Queens who are stepping into their power and leading humanity in a better direction.

Living beyond the boundaries of prescribed inferiority requires an attitude of audacity and a determined code of conduct. Still some African-Americans defy societal limitations and built lives of achievement by coloring outside the lines.

The Audacity Code shines a spotlight on 13 of these disruptors including:

o the little known African-American car manufacturer

o the visionary African-American farmer who turned ninety cents into an agricultural empire

o the pioneering African-American television chef and food ambassador.

Now for the first time, the foundational principles employed by these and other mavericks to do well for themselves and the world are revealed in The Audacity Code.

The question is...are you willing to employ these principles in your life to color outside the lines of the status quo?

Presumption of Guilt analyses the genesis and aftermath of the notorious kids for cash scandal. Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. was an unethical juvenile court county judge who was willing to plead guilty to federal crimes as a result of his failure to properly account for millions of dollars he and his colleague received. However, he vehemently denied government allegations that he accepted that money as a quid pro quo for jailing juvenile delinquents.

Nonetheless, media dubbed Ciavarella the kids for cash judge and relentlessly covered the ensuing scandal. Pennsylvania officials presumed his guilt and enacted a commission to investigate how to remove the scandal's taint from the Commonwealth's juvenile court system. Crimes committed by juvenile delinquents during the period the scandal supposedly occurred were summarily erased, regardless of the severity of those crimes, leaving thousands of innocent victims devoid of justice.

Yet, prosecutors never proved the scandal ever happened. Although the lead prosecutor continued to give it lip service, no evidence was provided. Instead, prosecutors quietly removed the very allegations that had spawned kids for cash from the Superseding Indictment at the end of Ciavarella's trial. Ignoring the utter lack of proof of the scandal's existence, media falsely reported that Ciavarella was convicted for his participation in a scheme to jail juveniles for profit.

Afterwards prosecutors continued to insist that the scandal was real, referring to those redacted allegations as if they were proven facts. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit adopted those same unproven, redacted allegations as part of its precedential opinion on the matter.

This book demonstrates that fake news is real and the Presumption of Innocence is in jeopardy, especially when heinous allegations are presented. It is a reminder to make the government prove its case before accepting what it alleges. That is something neither the media nor public officials did for Ciavarella.

College is one of the most exciting and growth filled times in your life. What you do there, learn there - your overall experience of the college life, both in the classroom and outside of it, will lay the foundation for the course of your life. Your motivation, mindset, and goal achieving will be put to the test daily. Your habits, whether defined as good or bad, will present themselves in every aspect of your life. The habits you've created and followed since you started primary school, way back when, are influencing you today. As you moved through middle and high school these habits became more ingrained. Now you are in college, and these habits are controlling your actions even more - with little to no parental supervi-sion.

You know that habits are just a sequence behaviors your mind has memorized, so it can think less about them, and prioritize more energy toward learning and experiencing new things. The main problem is some of these habits you have cultivated throughout your childhood and teen-age years are not healthy - and in many cases, aren't even the behaviors you chose, but rather be-haviors instilled in you by your family, friends, teachers, and anyone else you came into contact with that influenced you - on purposefully or inadvertently.

We both know that new habits can be formed and old habits dropped. Imagine if there were a set of principles you could adopt that gave you the keys to success in college and throughout your life.

This book will provide you with the steps you can take to rewire your mind and beat the over-whelm you feel in the many aspects of your day-to-day life. College Success Habits will draw your habits into your awareness. Here you will have the oppor-tunity to decide if you want to keep, alter, or eliminate that habit altogether. There will be effort on your part. Anyone who tells you change can be effortless is a charlatan because while deciding to change takes a second - the follow through is where the effort lies.

You can accomplish anything you want in life. Everything this amazing world has to offer is at your fingertips. You just decide what it is you truly desire in your life and then you begin to work your tail off until it comes to fruition. That's the part of the you can have and be anything you want clich that is so often left out. You have to put in the work, you have to do little tasks every day toward your projects in order to achieve your goals and see the vision of your life actualized. College Success Habits is your guide, your road map, and it's up to you to stick with it and follow through in order to achieve your meant to be in your life.

It's a blustery December day in Springfield Massachusetts. The year - 1891. James Naismith, age 29 is a rare combination of violent rugby player and Presbyterian minister. He has his dream job as an athletic coach at the Y.M.C.A. but his boss threatens to fire him if he doesn't come up with a game to be played between the football and baseball seasons. Determined not to fail, he prays in earnest and through logic and elimination invents a New Game - Basketball. A few days later he sees a pretty Southern lady who just happened to invent the first football helmet and they fall in love. He keeps his job and gets the girl all in the same week They marry and have children.

In 1905, the family moves to Lawrence, Kansas so Naismith can head the Kansas University Athletic Department. There he meets Phog Allen, a superb basketball coach with a foghorn voice. Phog starts a campaign to put basketball into the Olympics. As Naismith mentors many students (among them African- American John McLendon, who later becomes the Father of Basketball Integration), he wonders who would even want to go to the Olympics.

Now, it's the Depression. 1932 to be exact, and Joe Fortenberry at 21 years old, wants to play in the Olympics more than anything. Phog Allen protege, Gene Johnson, discovers Joe and hires him to play for the Globe Refiners with the goal of going to the Hitler Olympics in 1936. In preparation, at a Madison Square Garden game in 1936, the world sees the fast break, the zone press and for the first time Joe Fortenberry unveils his own invention - the Slam Dunk The Refiners join with the Hollywood Universals and they become the first U.S.A. Olympic basketball team.

After much controversy and many obstacles, they arrive in Berlin to win. However, the rules are changed, the ball is a balloon beach ball and the game is going to be played outdoors in rainy weather Their uniforms are stolen and other countries want to eliminate all players over 6'2. Still America perseveres. In the thrilling last game, it's pouring rain and even though the court is a mudpit, America wins 19-8 with Joe as the high scorer. The next day is sunny and beautiful for the awards ceremony. Naismith presents the first Olympic Gold Medal for Basketball to the U.S.A. team. The happiest day of my life. Indeed, James Naismith made the world a little better than he found it.

Openly Aging is the best book for tackling the topic of how successful aging involves proactively pursuing a plan that takes into account your financial situation, your family relationships, and your health. Openly Aging helps adult children of aging parents navigate the many options available to arrive at the best solution for everybody.

Allison addresses the elephant in the room by taking you on an eye-opening journey where the complexities of aging are clarified and embraced with wisdom and foresight. In a world where aging often comes with unforeseen expenses and emotional turbulence,

Allison presents her 4 Pillars of Aging as she serves as a lighthouse of knowledge and empowerment for both seniors and their loved ones. Delving into the four pillars of aging, Allison adeptly educates readers by equipping them with the knowledge they need and essential tools to stay independent longer and maintain control of their aging journey.

From confronting ageism to fostering intergenerational relationships, Openly Aging offers a comprehensive roadmap for a successful aging journey. By encouraging a proactive mindset, Openly Aging empowers individuals to anticipate and plan for their evolving needs while fostering independence and autonomy along the way.

Whether you are an aging parent seeking guidance or an adult child of an aging parent, Allison provides comprehensive aging education based on her experience and expertise. She shares many stories from her own experience as she tackles the aging journey head on with compassion and foresight.

Openly Aging will help you and your loved ones embrace the journey of aging with confidence as Allison arms you with the knowledge, insight, and options found within these pages.

What Readers Are Saying

Thanks for bringing to light such an important topic as it relates to our parents and ourselves eventually as we age and how we can best address the circumstances that we will all face at some point.

Jessica Garcia

Allison has a wealth of knowledge on senior services, and in this book, she's taking that knowledge and sharing it in a digestible and often entertaining way. I know this is a topic that many of us have a hard time facing - it's the elephant in the room - but Allison and this book make facing hard truths a bit easier. I'd recommend it to anyone who has aging loved ones!

Dr. Rachel Jerozal

This small book is packed with so much wisdom and practical advice for a topic that is really tough to think about, but one that we will all universally have to face. Allison shares not only her wealth of knowledge on the topic of aging, but also sprinkles in a lot of personal stories, examples of various choices, and empowers us with the tools to help make those decisions for and with our loved ones. Most of all, it helped me view long term planning for my aging loved ones as an act of kindness. I highly recommend this book to anyone aging or knows someone who is (which of course, is all of us!). Thank you, Allison, for sharing your knowledge with us!

Ginna Neel

For more information and to contact Allison to talk about your aging plan or to speak to your organization:

Email: Allison.oshea@openlyaging.com

This book is a compilation of quotes, prayers, and thoughts from various authors, and is dedicated to nurses everywhere. These quotes are meant to bring good feelings and positive energy to your day. Some are serious, some are silly. Some may provoke a change in attitude. You may want to read one a day, or scan through the book until you find the one that resonates with you at that moment. The quotes are numbered, so you can remember the numbers of your favorites and go back to them for a little boost. Enjoy