As Blake Blackman left Monroe, North Carolina, to go to college, she thought she had a plan for her life. She'd get a degree, build a career, then probably get married and have kids-someday. But the school she chose was all wrong for her, and then she met a boy. The boy. Before she knew it, she and Zach were inseparable. And then she discovered that she was pregnant. By the time Blake was twenty-one years old, she had already renegotiated her dreams to become a wife and stay-at-home mother. Her personal losses grew deeper when she and Zach lost a child and their marriage dissolved under the...
As Blake Blackman left Monroe, North Carolina, to go to college, she thought she had a plan for her life. She'd get a degree, build a career, then pro...
Life is turbulent. On that, we can all agree. Disappointed dreams, broken relationships, identity crises, vocational hang-ups, wounds from the past--there are so many ways life can send us crashing up against the rocks.
In this deeply personal book, Jonathan Martin draws from his own stories of failure and loss to find the love that can only be discovered on the bottom. How to Survive a Shipwreck is an invitation to trust the goodness of God and the resilience of your soul. Jonathan's clarion call is this: No matter how hard you've fallen, no matter how much you've...
Life is turbulent. On that, we can all agree. Disappointed dreams, broken relationships, identity crises, vocational hang-ups, wounds from the past...
We all know that life can be hard, and working in the garden and trying to grow a garden is hard work. In our lives, if we want to grow spiritually closer to God, it takes work and effort in each of our hearts. The truth that God gives us is from his Word. It is the seeds that we need to plant in our lives and be willing to accept. The seed has to have water so it can grow. We need the active working of God in our lives so the truth can come alive in our lives. As we grow, we need be close to God's will in our lives, in the light of His will for our lives, so we can continue to grow for...
We all know that life can be hard, and working in the garden and trying to grow a garden is hard work. In our lives, if we want to grow spiritually...
