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Struggle to read your Bible on a regular basis? Find some parts confusing, complicated, or even contradictory? Wonder how to make sense of certain passages, or question its relevance to your day-to-day life? Rest assured, you are not alone! While Christians are often encouraged to study and obey the Scriptures - very few are taught how.

She's 22 or 39. She's from Texas or from Alaska. Her mother left her when she was little...or was she abducted? She's stalked by a loan shark, but she's never taken a loan. And him? A soft-spoken, SLR-wielding hero, passionate and sincere - yielding, even...except in love. When David decides to take the wacky, quirky Kalifornia Mooney as his housemate, he doesn’t expect his world to be turned upside down. As their mutual affection grows, so does the inexplicable chasm between the two friends.

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No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Gregory Zuckerman’s The Man Who Solved the Market in 23 minutes or less. Math prodigy Jimmy Simmons was born in 1938 into a modest family in Newton, Massachusetts. He was mischievous yet top of his class. He was quite the thinker. His friends would remark on how he would lay down doing nothing but thinking, mostly about mathematical theories and concepts.

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Being sent to patrol the Earth was supposed to be the greatest honor. To control who lives and who dies, world hunger, war, and sickness is the ultimate power. But on our first night as humans, we failed. Cursed. Our powers bound against our will to a group called The Elders. Now, they dictate how and when we use our gifts. For centuries, we’ve tried to find a way to break the curse but to no avail. And then, we saw her. The one who is the key in setting us free.

The Gospel of Grace made simple: A must-have for every grace preacher! Grasp the wonder of the New Covenant like never before through this simple and succinct presentation of the Bible's unfolding story. Abraham, Moses and Jesus represent the three major covenants God has offered to mankind throughout history. Each has come with the great and precious promise of God’s presence and provision, and each with its own qualifying conditions. The good news of Jesus Christ is this: He qualifies you!

We see the world through the lens of our beliefs. But where did those beliefs come from? Are they even ours? Did we choose them? Or, were they passed on to us like an unfortunate inheritance? Chad brings you along as he shares his own inspiring story of learning to manage the consequences of an abusive upbringing in rural Arkansas.

My momma always said that my curiosity will get me killed one day, and boy was she right. I just never thought my death would come at the hands of the four men I love.

Eddie Hawkins, Browning M2 .50 caliber gunner, is good at his work. Some say the best in the business, although he still has plenty of demons to fight. Doubts about his ability still bug him, and things get worse with the arrival of a new platoon lieutenant determined to make his mark. No matter what the cost in men and morale.

Carrie Rhodes is escaping lifetime of abuse. Now she must hide from her boyfriend and the gang that wants her dead. When her car breaks down just north of Chicago, hope fades and she resigns herself to her inevitable fate. But hope returns in the form of an extraordinary man with dark secrets and an unusual occupation. For the first time, Carrie finds herself as part of an extended family where love is given freely and unconditionally.

A waiter, strapped for cash, has a watchful AI implanted before work. With a new body, an injured woman is brought face-to-face with trauma from her past. A microchip lets pet owners gain too much insight into their dog’s thoughts. In their debut anthology, Futures Gleaming Darkly, Clinton W. Waters offers a window into the human experience in a world that is both mundane and fantastic. Join a host of queer characters as they navigate love, loss, and life in a technology-enhanced, not-so-distant future.

You may think being a superhero is all about dodging bullets, fancy armor, secret identities, and thwarting supervillains - but not in Spire City. Here, you have to deal with crazy shamanic visions, and Nazi butchers brought to USA after World War II. Need we mention the malevolent thought forms and gangs of freakish mutants? Modern city life is tough enough, but in Spire City even the superheroes are stretched to the breaking point when the villains have better lawyers.

Why do so many of us postpone life until after death? What makes it so difficult to enjoy right now? This can be traced to a lack of presence. Rushing for tomorrow while forgetting today. Understanding presence requires an investigation into the conditioning mechanisms forming our identity and skewing our perception.

Josephine Locke has always been unlucky in love, in life, and definitely in finances. On the cusp of eviction and newly unemployed, she inherits a bookstore in the sleepy little town of Little Comfort, Massachusetts in the wake of her aunt's death. However, strange occurrences in the store make her wonder if her aunt's ghost is trying to send her a message. But ghosts aren't real…right?

As an adult, Craig is reclusive and avoids facing his past, only to discover strange abilities that won't let him escape it. His struggle to find normalcy is challenged by his cousin Danny, a Chicago police detective who uses him to uncover clues at murder scenes. As Craig becomes involved with Lauren, he finds himself pulled ever further into Danny's pursuit of a vicious serial killer - the Tourist. But even if he chooses to forgo his chance at happiness in order to help his cousin, will he understand in time that both he and Danny are being hunted?

During March of each year, 70 million people fill out the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament bracket, either in national contests or office pools. The goal is to predict all the winners for a tournament of 68 teams. The odds against perfection are astronomical. A small group of social media marketers, led by mathematician Sinclair Dane, see this annual quest as an under-appreciated opportunity to make money on sports betting. For a $2 entry fee, they offer one billion dollars for anyone who can predict the winners of all the games.