Mountain Religion

The little mountain hamlet of Bryson City, North Carolina, offers more than dazzling vistas. For Walt Larimore, a young "flatlander" physician setting up his first practice, the town presents its peculiar challenges as well. With the winsomeness of a James Herriott book, Bryson City Tales sweeps you into a world of colorful characters, the texture of Smoky Mountain life, and the warmth, humor, quirks, and struggles of a small country town.

The Sermon on the Mount contains some of the most popular teachings of Jesus. But what did He really mean by each unique and unprecedented statement He made? In this study, Pastor Skip Heitzig delves into the practical applications that Jesus' famous sermon has for our own lives.

Have you ever wondered about your destiny? This 7 day devotional was designed to help you get through life better with understanding. Get something to write with along with your notebook, journal, or piece of paper. Let’s be transparent, get understanding, and have breakthroughs! Let the journey begin!

In Climb Every Mountain, Trudy Cathy White invites you to join her on an expedition toward, up, and over the mountains most of us face in life—challenges such as figuring out our identity in Christ, understanding the gifts and calling God’s given us, godly parenting, and leaving (and living) a legacy for others to follow. She’ll also guide you through the rocky terrain of adversity, aging, and grief.

The cup of author Alma L. Carr-Jones runs over with the need to tell her story about God’s loving kindness, justice, and righteousness! Inside, you’ll discover Sister Alma’s inspirational pieces, written with her delightful and warm voice that makes you feel like she’s your new best friend. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll sigh, and you’ll pray as her stories envelop you, while entertaining, inspiring, and motivating you every step of the way.

As Tammy explores mountains and beaches in paradise, she’s fueled by the allure of new cultures, creating memories that have made her who she is today. Throughout her island adventures to the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and Curacao, as well as hikes through national parks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, surprises lurk at every turn—from navigating floods to fending off avian ambushes. Embracing the chaos, Tammy turns each misadventure into a story worth telling.

In this memoir of the craft, Ben Palpant unpacks a lifetime of wisdom gained through the long, hard work of learning to write and to live well. Delivered as a series of letters from father to daughter, he patiently and gracefully paints a vision of what it means to enter into one's creative work as an act of generative obedience - an act that blesses the writer, the work itself, and the world that receives it.

Come learn from Sister Alma how to keep your faith intact when you are thrown way out of your comfort zones. With the advent and progression of COVID-19, many of us felt like the bottom of our world was falling out and nothing made sense anymore, from toilet paper shortages to hundreds of thousands of deaths and the way we, as a world, dealt with all of it. Lift Up Your Voice reminds us that we are in the spotlight as Christians and that we train by example as well as well as with words. Remember that our voice needs to be heard, and understood, by the next generation.

From the time she was a small child, Donna Lynn experienced night terrors that were so disturbing they affected her waking life and relationships. Eventually she chose to consciously venture into that territory of the unknown to do battle with otherworldly beings who had haunted her dreams since childhood–only to find out they are not here to do battle at all. They come with powerful messages of love and healing on both personal and planetary levels. This book is a message of hope that we as a species can overcome the pervasive consciousness of fear and anxiety in our world today.

Based on Isaiah 30:20-21, Walking in the Way: A Devotional Journey Through the Scriptures Jesus Read provides a devotion from all 39 Old Testament books. Both familiar and obscure passages of Scripture are expounded to challenge and encourage you with the glorious truths of God's Word. While the Old Testament can certainly be challenging, Walking in the Way helps make these truths more accessible and applicable and shows how even the Old Testament Scriptures point the way to Jesus.

A research trip to Guatemala illuminates truths both intimate and global for four young travelers. The graduate students arrived in Guatemala energized and ready to take on the world. They planned to follow the path of coffee beans from a peasant coffee-growing community in the western highlands through the chain of buyers, co-ops, exporters, and roasters, all the way to a café in San Francisco. As the students investigate the profit made at every link in the coffee chain, they confront a series of unexpected events that illuminate globalization in surprising ways.

Grief leaves us with empty arms and fistfuls of questions. If we don’t get help processing our loss, we can easily get stuck there. But take heart—there is hope to be found for the way ahead. When Mountains Crumble offers you an interactive, healing journey through the big questions and emotions of grief. This book serves as your companion and guide, providing practical wisdom and thought-provoking questions that will help you wrestle with the pain you’re feeling.

SoleNumbers decodes the energy of numbers and the impact that your birth date has on the whole of your life. Numbers give structure and language to your own unique life experience and personal growth opportunities. They give order and direction for your life journey, illuminating your purpose and the impact you will have on others. The understandings in SoleNumbers inspire you to align with original number energy and live your best life because there is a part you are to play that no one else can play; a life you are to live that no one else can live.

Loved is a timeless message to reveal the very essence of God. Each chapter will challenge listeners to look within and overcome the bias that has swayed their belief in the Creator. Through an inner healing journey, the listener will not only be overcome with gratitude for the Savior but overcome with Love. The character of Love will become personal, real, and tangible instead of solely a belief or vacillating (or indecisive) idea. Loved has endless depth and will encourage the listener to pick up the Word of God and find the answers we are all searching for.

You have just one life to live, so why not learn how to live it to its fullest? Our beliefs, no matter how large or small, shape every facet of our lives and together they form a greater picture upon which we shape our destiny. No matter if you are wanting a larger income, more friends, more peace of mind, or even if you're searching for the love of your life. Inside this inspiring, one-of-a-kind program you'll learn how to transform your thinking day by day, hour by hour and even minute by minute to redirect the quality of your life.

Meet Me in the Mountains is an edgy, uplifting, and truthful memoir that is sure to bring hope and inspiration to those who listen to it. A stubborn and determined eight year old girl named Candy Cotten finds her own way of dealing with her parents’ divorce - along with a father who drinks too much. She moves through life facing fears and unexpected challenges with determination. Her faith in Jesus Christ was apparent in grade school, and continues to this day. She strives to find hope in all situations even when life is not fair.

Ten year old James is amused by the Mormon preachers who visit his mountain homeland. A small community that lay protected from outsiders by towering Alpine mountains. The strength of these mountains has allowed James' people to thrive for centuries in the face of terrible persecution from outsiders. Now James' family faces a new and unexpected threat. One that many in the community fear will be more dangerous than anything that has come before. Mormon Missionaries have come to their mountain.

On December 15, 1967, trauma erupted in West Virginia as the small river town of Point Pleasant had just experienced the deadliest bridge collapse in US history. Early that evening, lives in the Ohio River Valley were forever altered as the Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant to Kanauga, Ohio collapsed into the icy river below.

Is there something in your life that is keeping you from fulfilling your purpose? What is the mountain standing in your way, preventing you from becoming your best self? In Mountain Mover Manual, entrepreneur, speaker, and executive coach Kevin Carey helps you identify what that mountain is in your life and how to move it.

Mountains: They’re always a challenge, especially if you want to get from point A to point B.If point A for you is fear, despair, guilt, shame, or any combination of heartbreaking life setbacks, getting to point B may seem impossible. That’s what Bill Butterworth thought too.