Removing The Dragon Skin

For anyone who has ever longed for God but always felt like his love was just out of reach; for anyone whose messy story has made them feel like a third-string player on God's team; for anyone whose soul feels beaten, battered, and in desperate need of some healing, C. S. Lewis just may have a remedy. This collection of essays and memoirs, delivered by an author whose fundamentalist upbringing painted a picture of a God who was simply impossible to please, are written for anyone whose has struggled with their spiritual self-worth. After life threw him a few curveballs, he was convinced that the God whose approval he yearned for, simply had no use for him. Lewis helped to changed that. This story about falling back in love with God takes the reader on a three-year journey in which the author digested just about every word Lewis ever wrote, including many of his classics, his lesser-known writings, and even personal letters he wrote to family, friends, fans, and even children. The memoirs will journey to Lewis's home and favorite pub in Oxford, his office in Cambridge, his church, his gravesite, and more.

"Perhaps it is good for the soul to stare blankly at itself in the mirror and think of nothing for awhile." An eclectic mix of poetry and prose, Shedding the Dragon's Skin examines the restorative benefits of exposing your "inner scars" to give rebirth to your spirit. Subjects like motherhood, God, love, and desire all combine to create a poignant account of how author Celeste DC Simons has struggled to understand herself. Lighthearted at times and deeply introspective at others, this book will cause you to rethink your own life. Join with Simons in the journey to spiritual rebirth. Let your soul stir to the echoes of the past and listen for the possibility of the future. Shedding the Dragon's Skin is an awakening; an open, vulnerable offering of the poet's soul in the hopes that others may find the way toward renewal. Awake! Arise To joy behold The trials of this sphere. --Encouragement

An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers guidance on living with a terminal illness. Based on research funded by the Soros Foundation and extensive interviews with dying people. A profound and practical book about living with a terminal illness over a long period of time. It offers guidance, solace, and helpful strategies for people who are terminally ill, their families and caregivers. Facing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Western medicine has accomplished a great deal in addressing physical pain and controlling symptoms for people with a terminal illness, but much slower progress has been made in understanding and alleviating psychological and spiritual distress. In What Dying People Want, Dr. David Kuhl begins to bridge that gap. He does so by addressing end-of-life realities — physical, psychological and spiritual — through his own experiences as a doctor and through the words and experiences of people who know that they are dying. He presents ways of addressing the pain, of finding new life in the process of dying and of understanding the inner reality of living with a terminal illness. He acknowledges the despair and recognizes the desire for hope and meaning. Dr. Kuhl also makes the provocative case that insensitive communication by doctors creates more suffering for patients than either the illness or the knowledge of impending death, and offers both the dying and their caregivers guidance on preventing painful interactions. He provides ways of speaking about difficult topics with physicians, family members, friends and those who have a terminal illness. “This book started with a research question: What is the daily experience of living with a terminal illness? How does that experience affect your sense of self, your relationship with others, and your understanding of the spiritual? Many of those I interviewed asked me to share what they had given me with others who would follow — those with a terminal illness as well as their friends and family members who would care for them and about them. They asked specifically that I write a book for a general audience, and not only for my colleagues in the medical profession. This is the book that grew out of that research.” — Dr. David Kuhl

This new edition of the best-selling The Bearded Dragon Manual will help you take quality care of your pet and describes why these attractive lizards are the best reptiles to own. From breeding, egg-laying, and basic genetics to creating a comfortable habitat, understanding typical bearded dragon behavior and personality quirks, diet and nutrition, and so much more, each detailed chapter will bring you closer to this remarkable reptile! Also included are insightful answers to dragon owners’ frequently asked questions, as well as illustrated chapters on color morphs and the care and breeding of frilled dragons. New edition includes updated information on care and feeding, breeding, habitat, and habits, as well as eight new sections.

Have you ever wanted to go to another level? Another place? This collection of stories will take you on journeys you never thought possible until now. These fantasy stories, invite you to journey; to come, see and discover other exciting possibilities. As you read each story and meet the main characters, (women and men) your imagination is launched on a unique journey. You encounter creatures, situations in Death Stealers. You enter into dimensions, time, space and places unknown in The Darkness. There is love at first sight in the Touch stories. The stories provide you with quick choices; challenging reading. Is experience your best way to know about life? Do you welcome experiences whether theyre mental or emotional; more than physical? If so welcome to some very unique experiences. J

Do you think living the Christian life is hard? Many do, and it can be. Do I really have to forgive everybody? Do I really have to tell others about Jesus? It is filled with religious rituals and commands that may seem like a dictator is at work. It may seem exasperating at times. If this is true for you, you may have found the love of God but not the love for God. When you fall in love, the commands of God are no longer difficult. The Salvation of Maven Storm helps the Christian develop this covenant relationship and dispels the idea of Christian slavery. Just as Jesus told parables to help the people understand God and heaven, The Salvation of Maven Storm uses personal stories to explain theological truths. It explains how Christianity is about a relationship and not a bunch of rituals and rules to follow. It explains exactly why and what God wants and expects of this relationship. It explains the riches God offers us in return. Overall, the entire book is about what it is like to be in a covenant relationship with Jesus. The relationship is so much more than life itself.

It is no secret that C. S. Lewis's imagination was shaped by his beloved medieval and Renaissance literature. Here, Marsha Daigle-Williamson demonstrates that Lewis used Dante's Divine Comedy throughout his writing career, from The Pilgrim's Regress to The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces. Book jacket.

Union with Christ is an important theological and practical concept that has received considerable attention in recent years. But not much consideration has been given to this union and its benefits in light of Jesus's resurrection and ascension. In this follow-up to his monumental A New Testament Biblical Theology, G. K. Beale summarizes and expands on that work with an eye to fleshing out the theological implications of the resurrection and ascension. Beale explains that Christ's resurrection and ascension place him as the beginning of the eschatological fulfillment of the new creational kingdom. Specifically, Christ is the fulfillment of a cluster of nineteen Old Testament end-time expectations. These eschatological realities attributed to Christ are imprinted on believers through their dynamic union and identification with him. Through careful exegesis, Beale explores these facets and deliberately draws out important practical applications for everyday Christian living in the overlap of the old creation and the new. Students of the New Testament will benefit from this important contribution to New Testament theology.