Each believer will be tested in seven essential relationships. These include our relationship with God’s word, our relationship with the world, with authority, with God’s plan for our lives, in the way in which he deals with us, in our personal relationship with God himself and with his glory. Seven Essential Relationships describes each relationship and its corresponding crucial test, which must be passed by all believers in order to progress spiritually. The author uses candid examples from his own life, as well as an exposition of the life of Joseph, to illustrate each of these seven crucial tests.
God used adversity to shape Joseph into a vessel able to accomplish his plans, as Joseph passed each successive test. Although sold into slavery by his brothers, wrongfully accused and thrown into prison, Joseph grew into each crucial relationship and progressively passed each corresponding test. God’s plan was accomplished as Joseph ultimately governed Egypt and all of Israel was saved. The author’s unique revelations into Joseph’s life make the story come alive with fresh insight into how Joseph’s afflictions shaped his character.
As a continuing theme throughout the story, each relationship is prefaced by a description of how an ancient Israeli potter would have fashioned a clay vessel. Each of the seven steps in the creation of a clay vessel mirrors one of the seven essential relationships. The process begins as the clay is removed from the earth and completed with the final firing―resulting in a beautiful vessel exclusively designed by the potter―fit for his specific use.

Seven Essential Relationships: How to Pass God's Crucial Tests

Religion & Spirituality

Katz, Howard

Christian Books & Bibles

Believe Books, LLC

This is the Study and Discussion Guide to "Becoming A God Magnet", the recently published book by Harvey Katz. Katz’s book, which has received very positive reviews, is a practical guide to evangelism. Filled with personal stories and principles of how to share the Gospel with others, in his book author Harvey Katz describes his own journey of discovery as a Jew to find his purpose and meaning in life through Jesus Christ. If you've ever felt your heart pound as you opened your mouth to share your faith...This book and study guide are for you!! The secret is becoming a god magnet – living a life that genuinely draws a hurting world to Jesus. The Study & Discussion Guide is meant to be used by groups where a leader oversees the discussion (leader’s material in back of study guide) with each member of the group having their own guidebook or alternatively, by individuals for personal study. The materials (book and study guide) are ideal for churches desiring to reach out to the lost by guiding their own members in methods and tools of personal evangelism. Principles of faith-sharing include: Do your part and leave the rest to God; Speak to people’s hearts; Build real relationships with those you want to reach; Pray for people; Invite the Holy Spirit to guide you; Respect people’s boundaries and read their spiritual barometers; Be of Godly character; Don’t make assumptions; Don’t let criticism distract you; Build relationships; Don’t be afraid to discuss death; Share your personal testimony. Each person is uniquely designed by God to express His life message to others. This study guide helps the reader discover―through practical tools of personal evangelism―how every believer can be used by God to reach the lost. (Harvey Katz)

Becoming a God Magnet Study & Discussion Guide: The Secret to Sharing Your Faith

Katz, Harvey

Reverend Mother’s Daughter is the extraordinary real life story of author Mary Haskett. In her rivetting account, the author experiences racial rejection, abuse and the terrors of war but is lovingly adopted by a compassionate Reverend Mother. Starting in England in 1934, Mary takes the reader on a dramatic journey—from the time of her rejection by her birth family and her adoption by her benefactor (the Mother Superior of a nunnery) through years of struggle, abuse and confusion to the joyful life that she lives today.
Mary skillfully writes of her experiences and of the people who were part of her life—those who were very dear to her and those caregivers who abused their authority when she was separated from Reverend Mother by the war, of her many childhood experiences away from her care, the reunion with her at age fourteen and the gradual emergence into adulthood. She tells how she followed Reverend Mother’s wishes, reluctantly pursuing a career in nursing, despite her desire to escape the real world through a life in show business.
She introduces the reader to Mario, her first love, who swept her into a new world, took her to Paris for their honeymoon, to Italy, to meet his family and eventually to the Bahamas, where they lived with their children. One day her world comes to a crashing halt when Mario leaves her for another woman.
Mary’s poignant search for her birth family, their rejection and eventual acceptance of her, make for a heart-rending, dramatic story that will bless every reader. 
This book reads like a novel and yet it is a real life story and true in every way. Only towards the end of the book does Mary come to an understanding of the love of Jesus for her and embrace it with all her heart. She presents the wonderful message of God's salvation in such a gentle way that all readers - those who believe and those who do not yet believe - will receive the message with joy and be glad they have read this uplifting book.

Reverend Mother's Daughter: A Real Life Story

Haskett, Mary

Parenting & Relationships

One of the most fascinating conversion stories of the 20th century, My Father Was a Gangster tells the dramatic life story of Jim Vaus, the former associate of crime syndicate boss Mickey Cohen. Rarely, if ever, has there been another story of a gangster who turned so radically from a life of organized crime to a life focused on leading others to Christ. In this book, son Will Vaus tells the inside story of his father’s nefarious life in the syndicate and describes how close his father came to being caught for devising a scheme that was later said to have been the inspiration for the movie, “The Sting”. Just before carrying out his plan, Jim Vaus was persuaded to drop into the famous Billy Graham tent meetings taking place in Los Angeles in 1949 and almost against his own will, found himself compelled to “walk the sawdust trail” to the front of the gathering and along with hundreds of others, give his life to Christ. The author then describes the dramatic transformation that took place in his father’s life as he makes amends for his many wrongs and sets his course on a new life that is honoring to God and that brings many others into the Kingdom. This story has been recounted in Time Magazine, Life Magazine and Reader’s Digest and was chronicled in a motion picture, “The Wiretapper.” Now it is told from a son’s perspective, a son who watched his father go on to live an exemplary life, dedicated to saving others from falling victim to the life of crime that had sought to destroy him.

My Father Was a Gangster: The Jim Vaus Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Vaus, Will

Leaders & Notable People

This is the story of God's miraculous work through one indigenous missionary and his ministry in eastern India. It begins as the story of Yesupadam, whose name means “Jesus Foot”, a starving Untouchable boy embittered by his caste and poverty. He turns to communism, atheism, gambling, alcohol and gang violence in his search for purpose but becomes radically born again through a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. His life as a deadbeat husband, father and drunkard is transformed and Yesupadam becomes a tireless evangelist. His growing ministry begins to target the unreached tribal peoples in the mountains of Andhra Pradesh and dramatic miracles take place as the message of salvation is shared. While many books about missions revolve around Westerners bringing the Gospel to other ethnic groups and struggling to break through cultural barriers, the real lifeblood of world missions today springs from the effective evangelism of Christians reaching their own peoples. Yesupadam and the others in Love-n-Care Ministries have lived lives of great sacrifice to bring the Gospel to their nation. These men tell of God using their prayers to cure cancer, heal sickness, restore deaf ears, cast out evil spirits and raise the dead. More importantly, they tell of people coming to Christ. Through the preaching and praying of these pastors and evangelists, Love-n-Care Ministries is doing what no other Christian group is doing in Andhra Pradesh: planting churches not only in Indian villages but in every major village in the tribal areas. In a tribal region with over 6 million people, LNC has already planted more than 300 churches since 1995. However, this is not a story of the finished past but of the continuing present and unfolding future. Yesupadam and the believers in LNC have great faith to believe for more ― more churches, more reached villages, more children's homes and even a university. Clearly, God has much more to do through Yesupadam and these faithful Christians in east India.

Yesupadam: Reaching India's Untouched

Whitaker, Terri

Rising From the Holocaust is the astonishing real life story of an indomitable young Jewish girl who miraculously survives the horrors of Hitler’s plot to destroy her people. Here is the quintessential account of survival while all around is being destroyed. Fanny’s determination and irrepressible spirit keep her from bitterness as she forges ahead to make a joyful life in North America and to wield influence in the political and social fabric of her community and nation. Rising From the Holocaust is the astonishing life story of Holocaust survivor, Fanny Goose of London, Ontario, Canada. Though it was extremely difficult for Goose to face a myriad of terrifying memories in the telling of her story, in doing so she has fulfilled a promise she made a long time ago to herself―that she would live to be a witness to tell all she had seen. Indeed, she has survived as the only witness of some historical events, involving the obliteration of her community, battles between the Germans and the Russians, partisan skirmishes and brutal murders in front of her eyes. Fanny was a young, irrepressible teenage girl (then known as Fanie Stenbock), growing up in Skalat, a small Jewish town in Poland, when the Nazis took over. By degrees, the community unravels until it is totally destroyed. Only by an endless string of miracles does Fanie survive. No matter how horrible the devastation, including the loss of her family and friends and entire community, her inner resolve and her faith in God keep her hopeful for a better future. And she is determined that she will live to be a witness of all the atrocities she sees. Her indomitable spirit cannot be destroyed and her constant goodwill towards others brings the support and intervention she needs to help her survive. Many risk their lives to save hers, including a priest and nuns who hide her in a monastery where she is kept dressed in religious garb to disguise her race and religion. She is also hidden in a barn by Polish farmers, saved from the trains heading to a death camp by a young Judenrat police officer who pretends to be her fiancé, and spared certain death before the final destruction of the ghetto when a sympathetic railroad official ushers her out. When the war is over, Fanie returns to find her whole town obliterated, with only a small tree remaining on the grounds where her family home had once stood. This tree was one that had been planted by her father on the date of her birth and beneath its trunk, among the roots, she finds in the dark soil heirlooms that had been hidden by her family who had since perished in the ovens of the Holocaust. She meets Jerzy Gusz, a hero from the Jewish underground, who she finds attractive and exciting. They decide almost immediately to get married as the only way for Fanie to get an exit visa is for them to be a married couple. Fanie and Jerzy eventually find a way to travel to North America where they make a new life for themselves. They take new names – Fanny and Jerry Goose – and become respected members of their community, with Fanny in particular becoming politically influential. No would-be politician in her city could hope to be elected without first coming and getting Fanny’s blessing. This story, with its many twists and turns and with the uniqueness of its main character – Fanny Goose - leaves readers in both tears and laughter. And readers cannot help but acknowledge the miracles that spared Fanny and allowed her life to be a blessing to many.

Rising From the Holocaust: The Life of Fanny Goose

Goose, Fanny

Historical

God Will Not Fail You is the inspiring life story of Samuel Doctorian, a poor Armenian boy from Jerusalem who grew up to bring dramatic revival to the Muslim world. Read the gripping account of miraculous healings, daring escapes, earth-shaking revivals, supernatural provision, and angelic visitations that will stir your faith. Samuel has led revivals in some of the countries most closed to Christianity in the world: Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Indonesia. Every year, he travels to hundreds of countries, preaching and seeing God move supernaturally in response to the needs of His people. Samuel has preached to kings, heads of state and the British Parliament. This book reads like a modern-day version of the Book of Acts. It is for everyone who is hungry to know that miracles still happen today. Samuel’s compelling story will inspire readers to live a life of extreme faith. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE

God Will Not Fail You: A Life of Miracles in the Middle East and Beyond

Samuel Doctorian

Elizabeth Moll Stalcup

When Faith is Enough by Fern Willner is the story of a missionary wife and mother of seven, living in the wilds of Africa with her husband and family before the days of modern medicine and Internet communications. The family must rely on God and God alone - when money runs out, children are feverish with malaria and their African neighbors bring them seemingly insurmountable problems. Fern and her family learn to trust God at a new level and to depend on Jesus to accomplish more than they could have imagined possible. 
This book is for anyone who needs fresh faith and fresh hope. The stories contained in each chapter illustrate the essential principles of truly living by faith. Readers cannot help but be inspired and encouraged to apply these principles of faith in the many challenges of life.

When Faith is Enough: A Safari of Destiny

Fern Willner

In The General’s Lady, Charlene Curry recounts all the struggles and challenges of a career Military spouse. While battling daunting social pressures, she experienced living in foreign lands, meeting world leaders, visiting the White House, praying her way through unnamed fears, depression, guilt feelings and grief over the loss of a child. She succeeded by relying on a spiritual power that transformed her life and the lives of countless others who came into contact with her. Readers of this book will laugh and cry and cheer her on as they experience deeper love and respect for the faithfulness of God. Audience: Those women who are married to high-powered spouses climbing the ladders of their careers bear a heavy burden. If they are not successful in meeting the many expectations placed upon them, neither will their spouses succeed. The General’s Lady by Charlene Curry is a poignant and inspiring account of one such woman who, by virtue of her growing faith in God, learned how to achieve the delicate balance between supporting her husband and family while retaining her own identity.

The General's Lady: God's Faithfulness to a Military Spouse

Curry, Charlene

From Private to General is the exciting story of an American general who learned the real source of his power and authority. God’s sustaining power was at work in the life of Jerry Curry from his early days in the Pittsburgh Steel Foundry through the many adventures that would follow, leading him into the places of highest authority in the land. It is the story of a young African American man who enlisted as a private at the age of eighteen and went on to become a General and after his retirement, to serve four Presidents. His tour of duty took him to Korea, Vietnam, Europe and Washington and many places in between, where he faced great danger and challenge. Most importantly, it is the story of Christian convictions, faith, hope and love.

From Private to General: An African American Soldier Rises Through the Ranks

Curry, Jerry

Community & Culture

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