Redeeming Mama

Prayer will change your baby's life For many mothers, the job description of raising a little one, or several children, can seem daunting. Besides the never- ending to-do list, physical and emotional demands, and the eternal lack of time, there is the constant struggle of wondering - does what I do matter? Is there anything I can do to contribute to the eternal welfare of my child? There is. In Redeeming Mama, Katherine Hager meets mamas from all places in life and encourages them to walk through the Psalms and commit to a lifestyle of prayer. Through this six-week prayer journey, she models how mothers might start their prayer ministry to their families, and inspires them to use each moment to establish a spiritual legacy for their children.

A PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.

REDEEMED is the continuing saga of Eyja, the historical thriller of an unwanted infant left to die in the Norwegian woods, as revealed in the book, FORGIVEN. But now in REDEEMED, Eyja has fled war-torn Norway to the newly discovered land of Iceland. Her family and a small group of Christians live in peace with other Norse refugees. But after a brutal beating on the altar of the Norse gods, the group must come to grips with their first clash of religious intolerance. Then, following a cruel and violent murder, they travel to Ireland. Their voyage eventually takes them to Jerusalem and the Muslim world. In the course of their journey, separation and loss test Eyja's faith.Actual historical events and people of this era are interwoven within Eyja's story. The difficult trials that she and Arni had to endure are no different than the challenging situations families are struggling with today.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Nina Dobrev, with Logan Marshall Green and Eric Dane, special appearance by Famke Janssen. Distributed by Universal Pictures with a screenplay by Francine Rivers and D.J. Caruso. California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything. Michael obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation, until despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening comes overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she no longer can deny: her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael does . . . the One who will never let her go. A powerful retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love. Includes a six-part reading group guide!

“Chamuel, what have you done?” Those words echo through time and space as an exiled and favored Seraphim of Jehovah must earn his own redemption back home.

The author lays bare her otherwise hidden past held captive by despair. She describes how quieting herself during the pandemic led her to a path quite familiar yet untrodden due to her other preoccupations. As she walked down this path, she found herself gradually freed from the chains of her past to be who God created her to be by living her life to the fullest. As she narrates her story, she empowers you to discover and traverse your own journey to true freedom while availing of untapped help along the way.

The book is primarily about Alex and his friend Sarah. They began dating in high school and continued into University. They were married after their second year at University. Sarah's father was a Christian minister who gave Alex excellent advice about growing to adulthood. He encouraged Alex to become a minister. Alex was from a family that could not afford any expense for University. He joined an Army Reserve Company to earn some money for family and education expenses. During one combat mission in Afghanistan he was captured and spent eleven months in a Muslim POW camp. That event caused extreme emotional confusion for him and his relationship with God. His path to redemption with God brought issues that could be helpful to others who really seek a relationship with God. It also discusses issues that others might find helpful during their journey through Jesus to God.

August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths are all embodied in one character, Aunt Ester. She is as old as the number of years blacks have been on these shores. All of the characters in the ten-play cycle are her children. Their search is through circumstance and adventure, certainly. This author demonstrates how Wilson uses language--poetry, the blues--to bring each play's characters to a point of wholeness, redemption, and freedom, not from history, but ennobled and strengthened by it. Wilson employs fundamental theological doctrines to exhort Aunt Ester's children to remember by whom and how they were freed and made whole.