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New Beginnings Class for FPC of Paris

How do you get perspective and encouragement to focus forward when you are in the middle of a sad, distressing, or life-altering challenge in your life? Mess to Message serves as a great start. It provides a story in each chapter about a life challenge and the good - the message - that resulted. It provides a reflection after each story that encourages us to see and seek God in the mess. It provides hope - through a positive lens - to negative situations.

Would you sacrifice your humanity to live free from pain and suffering? Conservationist Anja Lapin always stood firm against her father’s profiteering. But in her wildest dreams, she never guessed his tech company would stumble on an algorithm enabling humans to digitize their bodies and secure artificial immortality. Before Anja can stage a protest, terrorists take out the research team, along with her father. Billions adopt the new technology in record time, lured by an eternity free from pain and filled with pleasure - even if it means losing a few pieces of their identity.

T.R. Scott spins short stories with a dark comedic twist. Her offbeat tales offer us a look into the strange and sometimes evil side of human nature. "Happy Mother's Day" takes a look at a real problem in today's world. This is a story of cruel intentions and in the end...just desserts. "The Tortoise and the Hare Revisited" is a humorous story that takes you tearing through the hills of Oklahoma - this little back-roads adventure is sure to make you smile.

Running yet again from bullies who have no reason to pick on him other than because of his parents successful careers, Sammy leaps into his mother’s car one afternoon, and she decides he must change schools. They meet Sir Lok Ragnarok, Headmaster of Dragamas School for Dragon Charming, and things change very quickly. But as he settles in, Sammy learns of a dark fate hanging over the school. An enemy, known only as the Shape, is trying to destroy all dragons and close the school, unless Sir Ragnarok can pay their ransom.

The birth of a devil in the 18th century resonates in today's world. A storm hits a small mountain town and the resident must evacuate, where will they go? Visit a zoo unlike any you have experienced. The sins of the past haunt the present in a once thriving industrial town. Discover what lies beneath the boardwalk. Take a walk down memory lane as a woman is haunted by that thing she most loved. Escaping from a zombie hoard may not be the worst danger you face. What does it really mean to "Keep it Jersey"?

They call him Spider. And people come to him when they have a problem. So when teenager Parker Cole approaches Spider at night school, he figures she's just another problem waiting to happen. But then she tells him about her father, who runs a cult called Cloudland based at the foot of mystical Mount Shasta, California. And then she tells Spider about her best friend, who is now dead, her body completely drained of blood.

They call him Spider. And people come to him when they have a problem. So when teenager Parker Cole approaches Spider at night school, he figures she's just another problem waiting to happen. But then she tells him about her father, who runs a cult called Cloudland based at the foot of mystical Mount Shasta, California. And then she tells Spider about her best friend, who is now dead, her body completely drained of blood. Spider wonders if the death is the work of a fellow vampire...or if he's now the target of a sinister game designed to lure him to Cloudland.

Blind American Idol alum Scott MacIntyre and his wife Christina know that hope is found in the hardest of times. No matter what you’re facing, the right perspective can change your life. Say goodbye to fear and discouragement, and find faith in the promises of God!

Imagine Monty Python writes horror...Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations. Prepare yourself, dear listener, for a journey into the unknown reaches of terror, from which you can only hope you will return with your sanity intact...

Feeling stuck between who you were and who you're becoming? You're not alone. The Lost Chapters helps high-achieving professionals break free from burnout, overthinking, and self-sabotage to reclaim their personal power and write new chapters of success. Founded by a former sales and marketing leader who experienced complete burnout, lost everything in failed investments, and spiraled into depression before discovering the principles that transformed his life, The Lost Chapters offers authentic guidance from someone who's walked the path from rock bottom to recovery.

Wie kann man ein glückliches Zuhause haben? Wie können wir unseren Kindern in einer Welt, die der Ordnung Gottes für eine Familie feindlich gegenübersteht, eine solide Grundlage vermitteln? Matthew Henry beschreibt in diesem Buch die Schönheit einer Familie, in der Gott im Zentrum steht, die Ihn anbetet und für Ihn lebt, einander liebt und füreinander betet. Henry appelliert besonders an Familienväter, dass sie ihre großartige Pflicht und Verantwortung wahrnehmen, ihre Familie in der Gottesfurcht zu leiten, als solche, die darüber Rechenschaft ablegen müssen.

Authors Scott Brown, Jason Dohm, and Carlton McLeod survey the biblical record of weddings in the Bible, showcasing key principles, including the marriage covenant, wedding garments, and the processions of the bride and groom. They then give practical counsel on how to steward your relationships and resources wisely and make God-honoring decisions related to music, wedding attire, personal testimonies, and more.

From Genesis to Revelation, a unified thread unfolds that teaches us what clothing means. In Beyond Modesty, Scott Brown traces the biblical theology of clothing from Adam and Eve in the Garden to the white-robed saints in Revelation.

We invite you into our conversation about an unexpected and unique journey we took together over a thirty month period in the middle of our lives. We were both stuck, rattled and rolled into a sense of acceptance of our different circumstances. We had been dealt some hard cards, but life was good. Good enough. Little did we know, a chance meeting on December 8, 2008, would change our lives forever. And provide us a chance for a second honeymoon neither of us dared to hope for. What follows is the wonder, hope, disappointment, surprises and thrills from both of our perspectives.

Goodbye Mary Lou is at once a tribute to an extraordinary, vivacious woman, adventure story that ends tragically at seventeen thousand feet on fabled Mount Kilimanjaro, a love story of a "perfect" young marriage which struggles, nearly breaks, and regrows stronger than ever, and a spiritual journey of cremation, grieving, desperate loneliness, and surprising contact with Mary Lou after death.

Passages collects twenty-five stories and eight poems that explore the triumphs and losses, hopes and fears of entering—and surviving—a new stage in life.