With Strong And Active Faith

Admirers of Franklin Delano Roosevelt will appreciate this collection of some of his most astute and inspirational sayings, which have proved timeless. Inspiring words from one of America’s most popular and influential presidents As America struggles with an economic meltdown that threatens to rival that of the Great Depression, the time is right to look back at the president who so masterfully dealt with that earlier crisis: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This elegantly designed compendium gathers his best, most thought-provoking statements. It will make a wonderful gift for the millions of Americans who admire FDR—and who wonder how his ideas might help us through these difficult days. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.” —Franklin Delano Roosevelt

In controversial and uncompromising terms, Ralph Reed, director of the Christian Coalition--and the most eloquent and visible leader of the Christian Right--explains the organization's meteoric rise and forcefully articulates its agenda for transforming the nation. Addressing both religious and secular leaders, Reed explains the reasons for the movement's phenomenal success and charts its future, confidently predicting that it is here to stay.

Enduring Art, Active Faith is a collection of short stories, essays, poetry, photographs, and depictions of artwork (prints, sculptures, and paintings) prepared by three generations of Robert Proudfoot’s family. A sense of reverence, celebration, and respect shines through Robert’s writing and that of the rest of his family. This book includes the work of several artistic but passionate individuals: Norma Proudfoot (mother), Alicia and Annora (daughters), and Valerie (wife) in collaboration with her friend, Donna Entz, a former West African missionary and celebrated Edmonton friendship bridge builder with Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Part I, African Safaris, highlights Robert and Valerie's poignant cross-cultural experiences while working for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) as an agro-forester and a primary healthcare nurse, respectively, among Kanuri Africans in northeastern Nigeria from 1988 to 1991. The Guard short story harkens back to Lusaka, southern Africa during the early 1970s, when recently independent Zambia was coming of age as a vibrant, African-dominant society, while European colonialism and apartheid were fading from the scene. Part II, What If?, is a diverse collection of essays, short stories, and poetry that deal with serious, rather dark themes, including: sacrifices made by minorities to assimilate into mainstream Canadian culture; loss of family mixed farms; the need for Christians, Jews, and Muslims to collaborate; validity of war crimes; reconciliation between indigenous and settler Canadians; an awakening of a young husband to his wife's bipolar mental health; and a young woman's relations with boyfriends and God. Part III, On a Lighter Note, is a collection of prose and poetry about: humans encountering nature and the supernatural; young men learning to better relate with women and their elders; friendship built through a mutual interest in sports; musings about our relationship with God; and inter-generational fellowship. Part IV, Family Memories, reflects on Robert's extended family: Norma's ties to Prince Edward Island; the loss of Norma's brother Gordon in a northern Alberta plane crash; and Robert's bittersweet struggle with being a Mennonite pacifist despite his respect for his ancestors who were decorated war heroes in battles to protect Canada's sovereignty.

Christians are invited to practice the way of Jesus by engaging in four formative practices representing central themes of the Wesleyan way: humility, hospitality, healing, and holiness. These four practices function as counterpoints to four growing dangers based on fear in the contemporary church and in society: 1. Christian fundamentalism 2. Nationalism 3. Dispensationalism 4. Antinomianism. Each of the four practices is an antidote related to the quest for a particular virtue as well, namely, truth, joy, peace, and love in resistance to these dangerous movements. Each of the four chapters discusses the relationship of these practices to scripture, identifying a signature biblical text or story related to each. They introduce the reader to a spiritual mentor who can help them understand and embrace the practice more fully. They describe contemporary forms of Christianity that distort or compromise our received faith tradition, directing their attention to a contemporary issue in which these distortions figure prominently and in which a progressive Wesleyan perspective offers an alternative vision of Christian authenticity. Finally, the chapters offer guidance showing how readers can engage in these practices on a very practical level.

These are some of the excerpts from the book. • Why are we born? This question poses a great challenge for many of us. The best answer to this would be….. • The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a peaceful mind. • In order to perform optimally you need to nurture your body. You wouldn’t fill your car with sludge, leave it in the garage for five years, and then expect it to win a race. • Every day you are impacting the world, and every day you are creating your life through your thoughts. Think whatever you like, big or small, rich or poor, fair or unfair, and those thoughts will strive to become the things and events of your life. It’s an immutable law. • Every human action is either driven by fear or by greed. Beyond the shadow of a doubt both are negative vibrations. One of the best ways you can MAKE yourself happier, in all your attempts, is begin to come from a positive vibration and that’s love. • Your expectations can literally influence your real life experiences. So be aware and consciously choose to create positive expectation with everything you do... • Do what you love and enjoyment will follow. Do what you love and you will feel more fulfilled. Do what you love and the money will seem less relevant. Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. Alongside, love what you do and you come out a shining star. • Enjoy the process and be willing to accept what comes your way. No matter how successful you are, if you have not stopped to enjoy yourself along the way, your success is half-full. Secret of happiness is not found in receiving more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy more. • Mistakes come from: acting in ignorance or in innocence or through carelessness or acting hastily or acting in fear or acting in worry or acting in doubt or acting under anxiety.

Strong faith is about developing your faith and making it strong. Why do you need to develop, grow or make your faith strong? You need to develop and make your faith strong because you are a Spirit-led person endued with the ability to recreate your world for the benefit of all people to the glory of Almighty God. And this book will show you how to grow your faith from weak faith to little faith; to strong faith, and at the point when your faith is grown to great faith you are in total control of your destiny. This is because strong faith will help you rise above the sea of oblivion by making your faith to arise, take charge and control unwanted circumstances and conditions that sink men into the deep dark recesses of uncanny billows of setbacks and failure. Strong faith will pick and thrust you out of the dung hills of apathy and empower you with authority to stand tall on the immutable and infallible promises of Almighty Jehovah to confidently speak words that are spirit and life. This infers that strong faith being what it is; is a revelation in a class of its own which when you adhere, apply and practice will metamorphose and sail you on the ocean of the realms of the spirit to always see with the vista of God so you can define, align and accomplish purpose. This is why strong faith is irresistible revelation that will indefatigably coach you to shed the excess of the physical realm and plug your faith into the spirit realm as you practice daily the activation and unleashing of your faith to gain and accomplish supernatural heights that will cause you to walk victorious in life. As the author, I recommend strong faith to everyone in the battle field of life that wants to conquer instead of surrender to the enemy's flying bullet of apathy, challenges, opposition and failure. And as you practice and live the dictates of strong faith; may your faith be strengthened and strong to overcome in Jesus mighty name! Amen. Pastor Chucks Uzonwanne Christ House of Destiny Ministries London, United Kingdom

Prosperity through Living Active Faith is an eye-opener, a brainstorming, and heart calling book to every soul-seeking personal who seeks, wishes to know, and explores life challenges, empowerment, self-growth, and transformation to reach prosperity through practically living faith and implementing the private supervision of God in our lives. This book is intended for you to give you a direction, a new point of view, tools, and a road map that will be useful for your own private life. Have you ever arrived at a point in your life when you have done everything possible offered by the human mind, yet you never seem to find the peace in your heart, the balance in your life, and the love you want to experience all around you? Life seems to be a mystery you have tried to solve so many times, yet this puzzle never seems to be solved. The cry of your soul is yelling louder and louder. Some days, the hope seems to have vanished, and you cry so hard for Him to listen. This book is intended for you, the reader, to actively engage with, experience, feel, and become excited by the stories and experiences we will share about life, love, hope, prosperity, faith, and God. The stories we share in this book are intended for you to connect with, feel and find your own dialogue in your own private life with God. This book is being written from both an emotional and a believing state of mind, meaning that we have chosen life experiences that tell you about success, faith and actively engaging in faith, but, from an emotional standpoint, the feeling of the heart was involved in these experiences. The truth can be viewed in many ways once you observe it from your mind, especially if you try to rationalize everything. But there is nothing to compare to the truth the heart feels because the heart knows in a simple and clear way what the truth is. We hope these experiences touch your heart, influence and inspire, empower and strengthen you to hold onto hope, trust, and belief and to actively believe in God as a Father, a friend who is actively interested and engaged in your life, for your own success and prosperity. Join us for a once in a lifetime journey.

In this dramatic and authoritative account, the author shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his famous "fear itself" speech and the first 100 days in office to lift the country from despair and paralysis and transform the American presidency.