Live Hard

According to Google, the phrase “I’m offended” has increased in usage by more than 5,600% in just the past century. Humans have always taken offense, but never have we been so obsessed with it. Offense stunts our conversations and divides our relationships. It infects our families, politics, entertainment, and churches. Yet few seem to be asking why or what it might be costing us. If you trace the offense deep enough, you’ll find a culture and our individual lives drowning in insecurity. For all our self-help, self-affirming, and self-esteem rhetoric, we can’t seem to overcome it.

Stop Wasting Money—Start Living Smarter! Are you tired of wondering where your paycheck actually goes? Do you want to save money without feeling like you're missing out on life? Frugal for Hard Times shows you how to live well on less—without sacrificing fun, comfort, or your daily caffeine fix. This isn’t another boring finance book that tells you never to eat out again. It’s a practical, funny, and totally doable guide to saving money, shopping smarter, and taking control of your finances without feeling deprived. Inside this book, you’ll discover how to: Budget like a pro—...

Don't Sink Your Own Ship equips believers with simple truths for living fulfilling lives, because sometimes it's all too easy to sail into trouble unnecessarily. In this lighthearted guide, bestselling author and Bible teacher, Max Anders, gives powerfully practical insights that, if heeded, can keep you afloat in even the most treacherous of seas.

Having outstanding credit allows you to apply for all of the best credit cards in today's market. What happens if you have some negative information on your credit profile? Are you just out of luck? There happens to be a Free Way to Build Credit or start re-establishing your credit through something known as the "Shopping Cart Trick" or SCT, also known as the soft pull trick, is a clever method that allows consumers with poor credit to acquire store-specific credit cards during the online purchase checkout process. This method for applying for store credit is a free way to establish credit ...

With refreshing honesty, candor, grace, and ease, Johnny Sirpilla—a master storyteller—serves as our guide through a life story that seems too traumatic to be true, yet true it is. Johnny and Susan Sirpilla were a happily married couple. Like so many couples, they wanted to be parents. This is their astonishing story that included 13 different scenarios to build a family.

Drawing from an extensive study of 246 direct references to the Holy Spirit in the New Testament, It Doesn't Have to Be This Hard reveals in-depth what God’s Spirit does—and what’s left for you to do. (Hint: It’s not what you think!) If you want to live your Christian faith with joy, power, and passion, then right here is where your new life begins.

PAST AND FUTURE CLASH in the final book of the globe-spanning paleontology thriller that began with Living Memory. The threat of extinction by killer organism leads to world war as national powers vie to control the powerful technology uncovered in Thailand. Samira and her team are on the run from the United States, even as a Chinese scientist mirrors their discoveries and resists her own government's demands. Will the ancient creatures they found turn the tide and save humanity before it tears itself apart?

the NEW Payton Sherwood Mystery Novel, sequel to EAST OF A New 2011 eBook Edition with BONUS mystery story "East Village Noir" Down-and-out East Village private eye Payton Sherwood finds himself once again at the bottom of a pig-pile of murder, lust, and greed on Manhattan's Lower East Side. By the author of EAST OF A, this is another modern-update of the classic hardboiled private eye novel. A complex, fast-paced murder mystery with a high body count. "[O]ne of the best private eye novels of recent years...fast and funny and contemporary." James Reasoner, ROUGH EDGES blogspot

Talking About Race argues Christians must understand why they avoid honest conversations about race if they want to enjoy authentic racial unity in their churches. Isaac Adams shows that if we can understand the reasons for our reluctance to speak about race, we can grow together in love rather than apart in bitterness.

In fact, the reason relationships are hard is because relationships are good...and all good things are hard. Now, you can throw your hands up in surrender or you can cling to a promise that God made to those who don't give up. My hope is that by the time you finish listening to this little book, you'll stop seeing the hard times as something to avoid and instead see them as something to cherish.

When she was 7, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in Detroit. Bullied in school and caught between the world of her traditional family and her tough American classmates, she rebelled early. Elias moved to New York City to become a musician and kept herself afloat with an uncommon talent for cutting hair. At the height of the punk movement, life on the Lower East Side was full of adventure, creative inspiration, and temptation.

Through an inspiring work of spiritual teaching, the author explores the strength and rest that is found in Christ to help believers overcome any challenge in life. With profound wisdom and revelatory biblical insight, Rest in God: How to Keep Living When Life Gets Hard shares the powerful truth that you are never alone when you place your trust in the Lord.

Teen years can feel like a rollercoaster—pressures from school, friendships, and family. It's a lot to handle. One moment you're up, the next you're crashing down. If you often feel overwhelmed by anxiety or stress, this guide will help you regain control. What if you had the tools to manage your emotions? What if anxiety and stress no longer ruled you? This groundbreaking audiobook is packed with techniques designed just for teens to help you navigate life's challenges.

In her latest mystery, Sammy Keyes feels responsible for the death of an old man whom she discovers on the fire escape and who, with his dying breath, begs her to take his wads of cash and throw them away!

The brain is the seat of our consciousness, identity, and higher thoughts. But it is also a flesh and blood machine that can wear down, grow tired, and malfunction. Learn how to prevent this and be your best. The Brain Boost Blueprint is a guide to how to revitalize, polish, and fix-up your brain. The truth is, you’re probably underperforming mentally. It’s not personal, it’s just how you’re wired. This audiobook provides a series of steps and plans for you to get on track to your best thinking days.

The fact is that some truths of the Christian faith are difficult—hard. Not because they are complex or complicated. For they are not. But many Christians are unaware of these truths, avoid or ignore them because they are uncomfortable, or reject them outright. Why is this so? Because we all live in societies and legal systems, with cultural norms, and ever-changing moral standards alien to what the Christian Bible teaches as facts established by a Creator God. The purpose of this book is NOT to spell out the rules and regulations of Christianity. Christianity adheres to specific, ...

It was the biggest job she had ever had, 10 times bigger in fact! And she thought she was ready. Ten days after accepting the job offer, Doe Hentschel smashed both her elbows in a bicycle accident. Six months with both arms in casts presented incredible challenges, generating numerous stories that Doe, a natural storyteller, recounts in Look Ma! No Hands!

There is great satisfaction when we see purpose in our circumstances. It is easy to find our purpose when things are going well and life is skipping along nicely, but what happens when we have a tough situation to go through? Is there purpose in the hard times? Unfortunately too many of us see difficult circumstances as something to get away from, or find a way to change, and never embrace the purpose for our challenges that God has in mind. All of your circumstances have a purpose. In Mastering Your Seasons, author Lisa Schwarz guides you through the seasons of life and uses biblical ...

Hope for Hard Days is just what you need when the world feels overwhelming and heavy. Through 90 encouraging devotions from pastor and bestselling author Max Lucado, you will be reminded that God is close beside you no matter what you are facing. In Him you have comfort for today, hope for tomorrow, and a future in heaven.

Since the beginning of humanity, people have recognized the distinct creation of the male and female gender in God's design. But with today's gender revolution, people are increasingly questioning who they are designed to be. In our society, gender identity has been divorced from biology and rerooted in psychology. Do the core teachings of the Bible uphold these modern ideas?