Bible Jewels

The Queen of Encouragement has brought a dozen amazing friends to inspire and encourage you! Barbara Johnson's heart-touching, laughter-laced story has given hope to millions of readers worldwide. Now she brings together twelve courageous women who have triumphed over challenges and endured heart-rending losses. With Christlike serventhood, they have reached beyond their own anguish to extend a helping hand to others in need, turning their tears of heartache into jewels of blessing. In their awe-inspiring stories, you will meet women who have faced: a husband's brutal murder the death of a young child poverty and bigotry eating disorders an adult child's homosexuality the death of two sons due to AIDS abusive marriages heartbreaking divorce family members' estrangement clinical depression physical disability a husband's struggle with homosexuality Today these women, like Barbara, spread hope and joy wherever they go. To celebrate their ministry of encouragement, each of their stories concludes with Barbara's trademark collection of wit and laughter. Open this book and find a pathway out of sorrow and into the sunlight of a life warmed by love and filled with meaning. Read these stories and learn how to turn misery into ministry.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... ful, and is valued at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, --a quarter of a million of dollars. We read in history about a Roman senator who had a famous opal. It was as large as a hazel-nut, and was reckoned to be worth eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It is said that the Eoman emperor wanted the senator to give it to him. But he was not willing to give it up. I don't blame him for that. But the emperor did. He sentenced him to be banished from Rome. So the man took his jewel with him and went into exile rather than stay at home and lose his beautiful and valuable opal. All the colors of the most beautiful of the other jewels are found to meet in the opal. But it is most easy to see in it the red of the ruby, the yellow of the topaz, the purple of the amethyst, and the green of the emerald. And now the question is, what Bible jewel shall we consider the opal as representing? What is it that we read of, in the Bible, that brings all blessings to us, and does us more good than anything else ? It is prayer. Then H we may take the opal as representing prayer. This is a jewel that the Bible has a great deal to say about. And there are so many bright and beautiful things connected with this Bible jewel, --prayer, -- that when* we think of them, we may well be reminded of the opal, with its rich, soft rays of many-colored loveliness. We may speak of three of the colors seen in the opal, --the red, the purple, and the green. These colors represent three of the jewels we have already spoken about. They are the ruby, the amethyst, and the emerald. These all seem to meet in the opal. We may take these as representing three of the benefits of prayer, of which the opal may remind us. The red color in the opal reminds us of the ruby. Aud..

Join Rica Peralejo-Bonifacio every week of the year in Better than Jewels. In this weekly devotional she shares her reflections on the joys and trials of motherhood, generosity and gratitude, love and sacrifice, and hard lessons from her past. Each weekly entry comes with a page for journaling. You are encouraged to write down your own reflections and applications after every devotional entry. As you read this devotional, may you discover that the wisdom found in God’s Word is far better than all the jewels in the world.

In Jewels of the Bible, Dianna Blake Davis uses her gift of engaging storytelling to masterfully create a very special version of iconic Bible stories. Loving Dr. Seuss as a child, Dianna retells each story so that children can anticipate the rhyming endings and get caught up in the exciting adventures of men and women from the Old and New Testament. The book features stories of Noah, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale, the Birth of Jesus, and many other stories that have been passed down from parents to their children through the generations. Now you can enjoy reading these amazing stories with your children and grandchildren and share the good news of God's love, compassion, and redemption for all his children!