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Most of us spend a lifetime trying to avoid pain and insecurity while overlooking the power we inherently possess. If you’ve ever felt vulnerable, weak, or like a complete failure, you can transform those feelings into fierce superpowers. Life can leave you feeling raw, naked, and skinless. Learning to live without skin can turn you into the superhero of your dreams! Prepare for an extraordinary and sometimes humorous journey that begins with a child’s imagination and ends with an ordinary adult’s transformation on unexpected paths.

Mercy might seem insignificant - until the moment you’re the one in need of it. Although it’s a small word, it yields big impact. Yet, too often, it is misunderstood. Author Linda Oberbrunner learned the power of mercy firsthand. Born in the Midwest back in the 1950s, she found herself caught up in economic, racial, social, and political tension.

Game On! will inspire and encourage you to keep going against all odds. You will discover how to expose “valid reasons” as excuses not to move forward, set small attainable goals to help you reach your destination, trust your gut in spite of opposition, change your perspective, overcome self-doubt, and much more.

Is it time for a change? Many people go through each day feeling like someone hit the repeat button on their lives. They experience a recurring cycle of frustrations, problems, and a lack of purpose. Others are not sure how to move forward, grow in their faith, or find fulfillment. If you want to experience a changed life...let Changed Through Faith be your guide - starting today!

Unemployed and brokenhearted, Sydney Murphey catapults herself to the other side of the state and into the home of her beloved Great Aunt Josie. While reinventing herself and deciding what to do next, she becomes a substitute teacher - a.k.a. Miss Snickers, due to managing her classroom with candy bars.

You don’t find your purpose - it finds you. The greatest quest in life is the pursuit of a deep and sacred sense of purpose. But when your soul finds its true home, you will discover your path of purpose. Author Daniel Stemen knows the pain of healing firsthand. In Called, he shares the journey he took to overcome decades of shame caused by the sexual abuse and bullying he experienced as a young boy. That journey led to the realization that the masks he wore to hide his pain also covered his true identity.

It's the day after Armageddon. Now what? Aneera Henderson knows. She is one of an elite force of Universe Healers. As a former Emergency Room technician, she's seen every kind of trauma. But nothing prepared her for the shambles the entire Universe is in from Satan's rebellion. Her brother, Jarl, delivered the Revelation 19 sword to Jesus, who used it to put a decisive end to the rebellion at the epic battle of Armageddon on Earth.

Stacey Greene takes the listener through a subject many people have experienced, but few are comfortable talking about...infidelity. Greene's book puts one couple's decision to grow from this episode into narrative non-fiction. The character, Michelle, made assumptions about her marriage that did not allow her to see anything out of the ordinary. To further complicate the relationship, one spouse uses faith in God while the other vacillates on the existence or not of a higher power. Do the children figure it out?

Millions of adults are squandering their talents and wasting their time in jobs they don't love. They feel trapped and dissatisfied. But where did it start? Many times, it started in childhood. My Father Said I Could is about four African-American siblings who have big dreams and how they overcome doubt, fear, and naysayers by listening to one steady, comforting voice.

Many of us have been hurt and must endure emotional pain and suffering every day. But there is a path of healing. This story is one of heroic recovery. Darcy is a classically trained violinist who, soon after graduating from the Boston Conservatory, connects with her dream to play bluegrass and old-time fiddle music, much to the dismay of her parents. Her sights are firmly set on winning the National Oldtime Fiddle Contest in Weiser, Idaho. She barely gains traction with her quest when tragedy strikes.

Gaze into the wounded soul of an innocent child and experience a different perspective of soul damage and the destruction left by sexual abuse. Through the eyes of author Shari Rickenbach, go on a healing journey of overcoming the shame, rage, guilt, fear, and pain of sexual abuse. Choice is the beginning to your life lived free - free from the shackles and pain of abuse - free to be who God created you to be - free to live life to your fullest potential to co-create with God. Choose your beginning to restoring your voice and value.

When your innocence crumbles because of sexual trauma or regret, damage is inevitable—defeat isn't. Life took your innocence, but shame is snatching everything that remains. Maybe someone took your choice, or perhaps you regret the choices you made, but with dysfunctional sexual incidents on the rise, so are the numbers of women living with the shame incurred from these detrimental experiences increasing as well.

Do you have a difficult person in your professional or personal life? Is there a conversation you know you should have but don’t want to risk damaging the relationship? Would you like to move past the pain into a more productive relationship? Relational hurts are like pebbles in our shoes. Strained relationships, failed conversations, and unresolved conflicts drain our energy and sabotage our success.

How much longer will the memories and pain of childhood hinder you from achieving your dreams and living the full life you were promised and created to experience? The world needs what is on the inside of you because you are an answer to a problem. Inwardly, you know this, but you have to see yourself as the new you versus the little, broken you.

As young girls, we dream big dreams of finding our Prince Charming and living the successfully every after fairy tale - but then life happens. I know, because it happened to me. I found myself waking up at a point in life wishing it was a bad dream. I knew I wanted a different ending to my story. Then I sucked it up, realized I controlled my own future, and started making my own edits. Just as an editor uses proofreader marks to make stories more readable and understandable, we can use those same edits in life to add more clarity, success, and joy to our stories.

Are you like most people-growing their bank account instead of growing a successful life? Most people define success by what they have. Few people define success by the life they live. In his new book, author Mark Schinnerer takes you into a fresh story where he unpacks, through a corporate/agricultural allegory, the success of setting and achieving goals.

How do we get past our past? How does a person say goodbye to shame? What are we to do in the "moment of the maybe" when we face times of temptation? Joshua Finley gives timeless truth in a personal and actionable way. On this journey, you will learn that grace is more powerful than sin. Open your heart and get ready to overcome.

Words create worlds. Whether it is the mom speaking to her child, the speaker motivating a crowd, or the voice inside our own heads, words greatly influence how we see ourselves and the world around us. For much of his life, Travis secretly battled with the destructive narratives born out of childhood sexual abuse. Living under the weight of believing in words like worthless and unlovable, he struggled to embrace joy and peace while battling debilitating anxiety, substance abuse, a suicide attempt, and, what he calls, a series of painful train wrecks of poor choices.

Your crisis is not the beginning of the end; it can be a whole new beginning. Our culture has taught many of us that trouble is the beginning of the end. Doors are closing. Life will never be the same. Your best days are now behind you. Yet, when Jim Henry and his wife heard the dreaded "C" word they decided things had to change. God doesn't think that way. Within hours of the time they heard the diagnosis, they were challenged to celebrate life, and in so doing began to discover some keys for unlocking abundant life during a major life-threatening crisis.

The bombing of an all-black school strikes fear but, miraculously, kills no one.*Under the direction of Washington DC, the FBI descends. Those responsible burrow underground to plot again. And a white basketball coach finds himself in the middle of it all, but will he and his family survive?