Short Stories Religion

After Tessa lost her parents suddenly and finding herself both incredibly wealthy and entirely alone, Tessa decides to return to the first place she ever called home. But Cripple Creek doesn’t take kindly to what they call Tessa’s new “airs,” and even Blake Donahue, the boy Tessa loved in childhood and still loves now, is less than warm and welcoming. Initially, he and Tessa butt heads, but as Blake begins to see that the woman he still loves hasn’t really changed all that much, he realizes maybe the problem lies with him. But will he get the chance to tell her that when danger ...

Jessamine Grant is strong-willed and independent. All her life, she’s worked hard to carve out her own path, even if it doesn’t always fit with society’s ideas of what women should be allowed to do. While successfully running a boarding house in Cripple Creek, Colorado, makes Jessamine proud, she also can’t help but notice that her dear friends are finding love all around her, and she hasn’t found the same. When she stumbles upon Duke Rollins’ encampment, she’s immediately intrigued by the handsome carpenter. Duke is also captivated by beautiful, stubborn Jessamine, but the ...

Joya Hernandez is in love with her boss. It happens all the time, but for Joya, it’s something new and wonderful and a little bit frightening. It’s new to Drew Benedict, too; he’s a wealthy and successful businessman who’s made his own way in the world. He doesn’t deny that he’s as experienced as Joya is innocent when it comes to love. But this is different, and he realizes how much he loves her when he agrees to act according to her rules while they’re unmarried. He respects her boundaries, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to make it easy on her, as he demonstrates one ...

Bible Stores includes 33 of the best known stories from the Holy Bible, including Adam and Eve, Noah and the Ark, Hagar and Ishmael, Abraham and Issac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, Samson, Ruth, David, Solomon, Elijah, Daniel, Jesus' birth, the Wise Men, Jesus in the temple, the Sermon on the Mount, the good shepherd, the betrayal of Jesus, and many more.

Gus has traveled out of state and up to the city of Seattle to visit his daughter. She’s sharing an apartment with two criminology majors. Naturally their thoughts turn toward talking about crime and they ask Gus to talk about one of his cases. Since he doesn’t want to discuss anything too recent or else his daughter might know the people involved, he digs down deep into his memory banks for the perfect case from his first year as a sheriff. It also just so happens to be the first case he crossed path with Father Xavier. As he remembers it, Gus was called in to investigate an apparent ...

In these two famous short novels, Leo Tolstoy takes readers to the brink of despair. At the end of life, worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul, but Tolstoy is the master of themes and redemption. He turns his morbid topic into hope, leading toward spiritual awakening. Tolstoy offers his readers a lifetime of perspective on death.

The 100 most beautiful short Bible stories from the Old and New Testament - told in a child-friendly way. Included from the Old Testament.

In Firstlight, best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd offers readers an intimate glimpse into the early years of her journey as both writer and spiritual seeker. Drawn from the author's early writings for Guideposts and, to a lesser extent, other publications, this selection of personal reflections and essays is organized around 13 spiritual motifs and interwoven to create a compelling narrative about the author's spiritual awakening.

Who has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have been told around campfires and family gatherings and handed down through the generations. Now, for the first time, the best of these tales have been gathered together and presented in this volume.

Black Boy Say All Lives Matters sheds some light on the "All Lives Matter" perspective.

Across time and across the world, an ancient serpent cult once dominated mankind. Then a great battle ensued and Christianity stamped its authority on the face of the planet. Now, after years of research, the real religious history of the world can be told. In Secrets of the Serpent, Philip Gardiner for the first time reveals the secret of the Holy Grail and Elixir of Life, and how the world's most mysterious places were once sacred to the serpent cult.

As Many Hands As God, by critically acclaimed literary fiction author Brian Ames, surveys wide-ranging landscapes – both tangible and psychological – in posing the questions: If there is a creator, and if that creator intervenes in human affairs, how does that intervention come about? Ames explores themes of loss and recovery, ache and joy, offense and reconciliation, sin and redemption. Ultimately, he stakes out a position that if God does have hands and intervenes in humanity, those hands are people – of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds.

After centuries of feuding over the use of mysticism for good vs evil, two families, both powerful practitioners of the mystical religion of bopama, agree to a truce. Finally, the Latraviattas and Travaglias peacefully co-exist. Decades later, Colette Latraviatta exhibits capabilities that far exceed those expected from a seven-year-old child. As her abilities become widely known, she follows her grandmother's footsteps and uses her power to help others. But when Axel Travaglia realizes the child's ability will soon surpass his, he sees her as a threat and will stop at nothing to keep her ...

Available as part of a value boxed set AMZN.COM/B01GDTRTQE (copy and paste the link into your browser)Clean and Wholesome American mail order bride historical western short story romance. It's 1879 and love is starting to blossom in the nearly lawless town of South Dakota. This series is about four young brides from the East Coast looking for love in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. The stories are about their challenges, their test of faith, and their triumphs of discovering true love and real men. Meet Gretchen, ever since she was a little girl, she had seen herself as a great ...

The events in the seven short stories are based on actual paranormal occurrences that are described in haunting detail in The Dead: A True Paranormal Story.

In an experiment that goes horribly wrong, in which a woman’s memories were to be duplicated, recorded and stored in a computer, she finds herself conscious and self-aware within the machine, not knowing whether she’s the duplicate and conscious or her consciousness was ripped from her body and begins an evolution discovering firsthand how efficient the universe is.

Even as Mae and Elsie adjust to the worsening symptoms of the disease that has forever altered their lives, their families struggle to do the same. And though little is as it was, life and all it brings continues for all of them.Where We Turn is the third book in the continuing story of two families who meet at a time in their lives when change seem to be taking place almost every day. Hyde Hills Township is home to two women who meet at a time in their lives when they find themselves looking for answers beyond the obvious. As both Catherine and Grace come to quickly realize the status quo ...

Family is complicated...but that's okay... Resolute is the second novella in the ongoing Andersen Family Saga. Noah Andersen had built his successful company from the ground up. He isn’t thrilled that several of his conference rooms have become a home-away-from-home for a team of government auditors trying to ferret out evidence to back up the anonymous tip received pointing in his direction. Noah knows where the tip came from. And now that he’s got his sister safely ensconced with their aunt he’s ready to take on the person responsible, her husband. But if he turns his brother-in-law...

Not your average devotional for girls. This one was written for girls who feel deeply, think deeply, and want their faith to mean something—every day, in real life. Girl, God Gets You is a life-changing 40-day Bible-based journey packed with powerful short stories, relatable lessons, daily scriptures, guided journal prompts, and real-life faith challenges designed specifically for Christian girls navigating middle school, friendships, emotions, family, and self-worth.

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by award-winning narrators Renee Raudman and Alan Sklar. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales.