God? I can’t feel him, touch him, see him, or hear him, so how can he be, and what could he ever want with me?” Illegitimate, poor, bi-racial in 1960s America – searching for an identity and unconditional love. As she recalls a childhood trauma and hair straightening “torture” sessions, we feel her heartache, pain, and sense of not being good enough. A critical choice leads her down a path of self-destruction as she denies her authentic self in search of wealth and worthiness. Fleeing to Australia, suffering a dysfunctional marriage, battling with alcohol, drugs, sugar, and relationships with all the wrong men, it’s a chance meeting with a long lost friend that is her saving grace. His belief in her music and God’s purpose for her life leads her on a path to salvation, devastating loss, and ultimately, Perfect Love.

Perfect Love is a triumphant story of looking for love in all the wrong places, and the sex/money/power lifestyle of a successful medical professional. This is a truly unique experience to read whilst also being able to listen to her story put to music, in essence, the soundtrack of her life woven through the pages. This story is not for the faint-hearted. It is raw, real and reveals the depths of despair that so many of us endure on this journey of life, and the consequences of our choices born from early childhood traumas. Ironically, the pursuit of a Doctorate in Anesthesiology, from an Ivy League school, didn't numb her pain. Showcasing her true gifts and talents as a singer, songwriter, musician and author, you will find a poignant selection of songs and their lyrics from her first album "Perfect Love" to her most recent release, "Hope." You will be taken from depravity to divinity through the music in these albums which form the bookends of her life... so far.Shari Hall has bared her soul and shame, and has laid it all down before us in the desire that those who have taken a similar path, can grasp the hope, the new life and the perfect love she has found in the forgiveness of her Savior, Jesus Christ.--Julie Coulson

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them? What if it is God who wants us to face these questions? Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined. Love wins.

The story of one woman's journey of learning to trust Jesus, no matter the circumstances.

Inside every woman is the need to feel loved, cared for and cherished. Many fantasize about their knight in shining armor and dream of children who never challenge boundaries and go on to live perfect lives.Unbridled Love is a love story that recounts actual significant life events the author lived and how through those events she came to know a deeper and more fulfilling love than she ever dreamed possible. She demonstrates what faith really looks like. Through her deepest heartaches, surrender, and sacrifice she finds unbridled love and freedom waiting for her, in her Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. Her willingness to travel along the unknown and often rocky path God was charting for her, resulted in her discovery of the true Agape love of the Father and how His Agape love can win over those who are far from God. Her journey brings her to a deeper faith and freedom that is given in abundance.

“God is love is the radical claim of Christianity,” writes Frederick Bauerschmidt at the beginning of this little meditation on the essentials of Christian faith. In a rich yet accessible style reminiscent of C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton, Bauerschmidt breathes life back into that claim, drawing from Scripture, great Christian and non-Christian writers of the past, and his own lived experience to show just how countercultural and subversive Christianity is actually meant to be. Eschewing the abstract and dogmatic in favor of the relational and inviting, he offers something for everyone, from lifelong churchgoers and students of religion to the growing population of “nones” among younger generations who are increasingly seeking spiritual fulfillment outside of institutional Christianity. With further reading suggestions (both scriptural and nonscriptural) at the end of each chapter, The Love That Is God is the perfect starting point of a spiritual journey into deeper relationship with God. Michael Ramsey Prize (2023)

I don't know where I am. I'm the last of nine. He calls me Faith, because he said that faith is blind. That's how he justified taking my eyes. See No Evil. That's the role I play here. If you can hear me. If you can see me. My name is Ione Winslow. PLEASE HELP.