Divinely Designed

Dear Reader. I may not know you, but I bet I know you. You love your { HOME } and you want it to be beautiful! You have an idea of what you want it to look and feel like but getting it there is overwhelming. Darling friend, I see you---drowning in analysis paralysis when it comes to making the design magic happen. There's chaos in selecting paint colors, choosing the perfect hardware, perusing seemingly endless lighting options, and let's not even talk about wrangling a minor anxiety attack in the middle of a home décor store!Do not worry, darling friend---I get you and I've got you! As a professional interior designer, I have 15 years of experience in serving clients just like you. You see, designing and decorating a beautiful home comes easy to me and I'm happy to share all that I know. I want you to love your home and I want to teach you how to curate it in a way that beautifully reflects you and your family. That's where this gorgeous book comes in. Inside, I share with you a handful of our most loved projects, in addition to my own home, and I reveal thousands of hours of interior design intel, as well as the heart-warming stories behind each design.You may not know me, but if you do, you know that I wear my heart on my sleeve when sharing my work and my love for faith and family. In these pages I write openly and candidly about the reality of discovering beauty and function in my own home---all while surviving the chaos of being a mompreneur.Whether you come to this book for the design details or for the testimony of faith, family and home, you will be richly served.XO, Sarah

She reads people, and he reads manuals. He doesn't ask for directions, and she doesn't appreciate his advice. She is so mysterious, and he is so practical. He does not seem to listen, and she seems so emotional. The list goes on and on . . . In a world where men and women are constantly told they are not different, His Brain, Her Brain shows couples what they instinctively know--men and women are different, and these divinely designed differences, when understood, make a marriage stronger and happier. Combining the latest brain research along with their experiences in over three decades of marriage and counseling, Dr. Walt and Barb Larimore explain how the unique design of each sex, particularly the unique brain and hormones of each, results in different habits, tendencies, and nuances of thought and action.

The subject of marriage is a timely subject. The Bible simply defines marriage as "a man takes a woman." Happiness and well-being in marriage is based on a specific design. This design along with society's mores, civil government expectations, and ecclesiastical laws and fantasies are addressed. Jesus' message is compared and/or contrasted with Moses, the Prophets, the Pharisees, the Apostles, and Medieval church leaders. Over 40 translations of the Bible were consulted in addition to comparing the ancient Hebrew with its Greek equivalents through interlinears, word studies, lexicons, dictionaries, textual variants, and scholastic articles and comments. The appendix gives the history of Christendom's changing positions on marriage, divorce, and remarriage.

Nick Brennan investigates the depiction of the Son's divine nature in the Epistle to the Hebrews; despite little attention being directly given to the Son's divinity in recent study of Hebrews, Brennan argues that not only is the Son depicted as divine in the Epistle, but that this depiction ranges outside the early chapters in which it is most often noted, and is theologically relevant to the pattern of the Author's argument. Beginning with a survey of the state of contemporary scholarship on the Son's divinity in Hebrews, and a discussion of the issues connected to predicating divinity of the Son in the Epistle, Brennan analyses the application of Old Testament texts to the Son which, in their original context, refer to God (1:6; 10–12), and demonstrates how the Pastor not only affirms the Son's divinity but also the significance of his exaltation as God. He then discusses how Heb 3:3, 4 witnesses to the divinity of the Son in Hebrews, explores debates on the relation of the Son's “indestructible life” (Heb 7:16) to his divinity, and demonstrates how two key concepts in Hebrews (covenant and sonship) reinforce the Son's divinity. Brennan thus concludes that the Epistle not only portrays the Son as God, but does so in a manner which is a pervasive aspect of its thought, and is theologically salient to many features of the Epistle's argument.

Presents the complete text of the New Revised Standard Version Bible, with the Aprocryphal/Deuterocanonical books; and features annotations in a single column across the page bottom, in-text background essays on the major divisions of the biblical text, and other reference tools.

A Guided Journal to Help Introverts Step into Their God-Given Strengths When God created you as an introvert, he didn't make a mistake. You're exactly what he had in mind all along. As an introvert, you have unique strengths that the world needs--now more than ever. But that doesn't mean those strengths are always easy for you to see. Building on insights she introduced in her popular book The Powerful Purpose of Introverts, bestselling author and counselor Holley Gerth leads you through an interactive adventure of personal discovery. Designed to take you from insecurity to holy confidence in who God made you to be, each daily reading includes inspiration from Scripture, practical advice from Holley, and writing prompts to help you · examine your thoughts and feelings in this moment · process the experiences of yesterday · and step boldly into what God has for you today You don't have to change who you are to fit someone else's expectations. Discover new freedom, confidence, and clarity in the pages of this beautifully designed guided journal.

Divinely Designed tackles the issue of femininity, God's design for women, and the biblical truth about how to be a godly woman in the midst of societal expectations and pressures. Over the years, this topic has caused confusion for many women. And yet God has not kept His plan secret. He has written it indelibly in the hearts of humankind and in His written word, the Bible. As we understand and embrace His design for us, we will find the fulfillment, balance, and peace that He intends for us to enjoy. Like previous volumes in the Focus on the Family Women's Bible Study Series, Divinely Designed includes leader's notes.

Men and women really are different---even their brains are different---and they were divinely designed that way. Using the latest research, Dr. Walt and Barb Larimore show how the God-designed differences between the male brain and the female brain complement each other to help couples build a delightful, lasting marriage.