When Hannah dares to love across the boundaries of tradition, will she lose everything? Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, forgo baptism into the faith, and marry outside the cloistered community. She’s been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before returning to college for his senior year, Paul asks Hannah to be his wife. Hannah accepts, aware that her marriage will change her relationship with her family forever. On the evening of their engagement, tragedy strikes and in one unwelcome encounter, all that Hannah has known and believed is destroyed. As she finds herself entangled in questions that the Old Ways of her people cannot answer, Hannah faces the possibility of losing her place in her family, in her community– and in the heart of the man she loves. When the Heart Cries is book one in the Sisters of the Quilt series.

Why does God not see Samantha's yearnings for a child and answer her prayers? Does God even listen when a heart cries so fervently and long?

This ebook edition contains artwork adapted from the print edition to fit the digital format. "My hope is that this volume will help you to see the Savior more clearly, to understand his grace more deeply, to confess your struggle more honestly, to worship him more fully, and to find in these meditations the motivation to continue to follow the Savior even when he’s leading you into unexpected and hard places.” —Paul David Tripp Best-selling author Paul David Tripp invites you into his personal reflections on his experience of God’s ever-present grace through the ups and downs of his life. He shares his celebrations, disappointments, cries for help, confessions, and confusions in the form of 120 meditations that were written over many years through various joys and struggles. Vulnerable yet pastoral and wise, these meditations in the form of verse showcase how God’s amazing grace intersects with the mundane, unexpected, messy, and beautiful moments of everyday life.

Unlock a relationship with God that will transform your life… forever! If you have seen me you have seen my Father (Abba)…. Jesus – (John 14:9) Throughout His life and ministry, Jesus revealed Father God to humanity. Because of what He accomplished on the Cross, now it is possible for everyone to cry out “Abba Father.” While Jesus walked the Earth, He was perfect example of what intimacy with the Heavenly Father would look like for every believer throughout the ages. Revealing Abba will: Help you unlock the powerful relationship with the Father that is available through Jesus. Show you how to relate with God in a more personal, intimate way Remind you of the Heavenly Father’s unfailing love that never forsakes His children Jesus modeled intimacy with God because He knew, one day, you too would be able to experience this same life-transforming relationship. Get ready to know and encounter the Father like never before!

Cries from the Heart offers an honest look into the lives of real men and women whose adversities were overcome through turning and listening to God, even if their problems worked out in the way they least expected. Ranging from the unusual to the ordinary, these stories may challenge you, but they'll comfort you as well, by reminding you that you're never truly alone, and that even the worst anguish can be overcome by the healing power of inner peace.

LOOK BEYOND THE CONFUSING OR CHAOTIC BEHAVIORS OF YOUR TEENS. COULD A RELENTLESS LONGING BE HIDING BEHIND THE OUTWARD ACTIONS?

In this profound message from one of the great thinkers of our generation, Zacharias explores the inner feeling of futility that can overwhelm a human heart and helps us to see a reason for our suffering, be comforted in loneliness, and experience an abiding faith in our daily lives. Cries of the Heart is a book that both inspires and reassures...a search that uncovers our hidden sentiments and reveals God's continual inescapable presence in every moment of our lives.