Cultivate

Cultivate
Author: Lara Casey
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718021673

A flourishing, fulfilling life is possible—no perfection required! Too many of us think we have to have it all together in order to live a meaningful life. Instead of feeling put together, we end up feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, and exhausted as we try to figure out how to do it all. Author, business owner, and mom to three Lara Casey has been there, too. In Cultivate, she offers this grace-filled advice: we can't do it all and do it well, but we can choose to cultivate what matters Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide, Cultivate offers wisdom from God's Word alongside lessons Lara has learned in her own life--and in her garden--giving you the tools you need to: Discern what matters most to you Embrace the season of life that you're in Find the joy and freedom that comes with cultivating what matters Let Lara be your guide as you learn to cultivate what matters, little by little, with the help of God's transforming grace. Praise for Cultivate: "Cultivate is rich soil for the soul! Whether you are a new sprout, just beginning to brave life in the light; a tender shoot fighting for space among rocks and weeds; or a mature plant in need of nurture and pruning, this book will help you thrive. With her characteristic honesty, humility, and patience, Lara Casey uses her spiritual 'green thumb' to gently nudge us toward an intentional life of godliness and growth. If you are ready for a new season of spiritual growth, dig into Cultivate and get ready to bloom!" --Elizabeth Laing Thompson, author of When God Says "Wait"

Grace Like A Garden

Grace Like A Garden
Author: Tom Battle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-04-10
Genre:
ISBN:

What People Say About "Grace Like A Garden""In Grace Like a Garden Pastor Battle has shown with simple illustrations how to operate in the grace of God and the results it produces in our lives. As we understand the grace of God it brings freedom and liberty to help us walk out the plans and purposes that God has for our lives. As we walk out that grace we can extend it to others and bring freedom and liberty to them."Pastor Mark Brown, Abundant Waters Fellowship, Houston, Texas"Tom Battle has done a phenomenal job of tucking some tremendous truths in his book. As you read it you will find blessings and encouragement on how to grow in grace and then share that blessing with others."Pastor Oliver Stillwell, Dayspring Church, Porter Texas"Grace Like a Garden gives clear understanding of salvation for yourself and others, your need for God's presence, and His seeds that produce - multiply exponentially - and open the windows of heaven in both directions. This book provides rivers of living water through God's Word and His Holy Spirit. You will see how Jesus' light will shine through you to a lost and hurting world, as you stay yoked together with Him who is the Author and Finisher of your faith. As you press toward the prize through His growing and pruning processes, as you follow His compassion that moves you in all seasons, as you are filled with His grace, His strength will be made perfect in your weakness, and you will overcome every challenge the enemy puts in your path."Rev. Renee Branson, Mountain Top Ministries, Houston, Texas "In his book Grace Like a Garden, Tom Battle offers vivid examples and teaching that move the reader to discover and experience the operation of God's Grace. For 30 years, I've witnessed Tom's and Schar's character, love, and daily venture of caring for the needs of others. Undoubtedly, this is reflected in Tom's exceptional ability to convey God's grace in this practical guide for Christian living."Rev. Carl Alan Luepnitz, Eternal Love Ministries, Saltillo and Oaxaca, Mexico"Thoughtful and timely. As I read it, my mind was challenged, my heart was warmed, my faith was strengthened and my focus was sharpened on God's grace. Praise God for giving us Jesus Christ and this book."Pastor Jerry G. Martin, The Light of the World Christian Fellowship, Humble, TexasAbout the Author - Tom BattleTom Battle is a graduate of Georgia Tech (1969) and Lakewood Bible Institute (1988). During his business career, he held prominent positions with several oil companies. He reached executive levels of President and CEO before leaving the business world to enter full-time ministry. He was ordained in 1990 by Lakewood Church (Houston, Texas) which was his home church from 1985 to 1995. During that time, he was mentored by Dr. John Osteen and traveled extensively in the United States and abroad as an evangelist and teacher. In 1995 he and his family founded The Lord's Glory Church where he is currently the Senior Pastor. He is the author of many Christian books and songs.

The Garden Party

The Garden Party
Author: Grace Dane Mazur
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399179739

A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in this sparkling, witty novel “This vital novel offers delicious echoes of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, and a touch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—but its magic is unique. The Garden Party is beautiful and full of life.”—Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals—academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal–reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden. As Celia Cohen, the eminent literary critic, sets the table, her husband, Pindar, would much rather be translating ancient recipes for his Babylonian cookbook than hosting this rehearsal dinner. Meanwhile, their son, Adam, the poet (and nervous groom), wonders if there is still time to simply elope. One of Adam’s sisters, Naomi, a passionate but fragile social activist, refuses to leave her room, while Sara, scorpion biologist turned folklore writer, sits up on the roof mourning an imminent breakup. And Pindar’s elderly mother, Leah, witnesses everything, weaving old memories into the present. The lawyers are early: patriarch Stephen Barlow and his bespangled wife, Philippa, who specializes in estates, along with Philippa’s father, Nathan, hobbled by age and Lyme disease. Then come the Barlow sons William (war crimes), Cameron (intellectual property), and Barnes (the prosecutor), each with desperate wife and precocious offspring. How could their younger siblings—Eliza, the bride, an aspiring veterinarian, and her twin brother, Harry, recently expelled from divinity school—have issued from such a family? Up and down the dinner table, with its twenty-four (or is it twenty-five?) guests, unions are forming and dissolving while Pindar is trying to figure out whether time is really shaped like baklava, and off in the surrounding forest with its ancient pond different sorts of mischief will lead to a complicated series of fiascoes and miracles before the party is over. Set over the course of a single day and night, Grace Dane Mazur’s brilliantly observed novel weaves an irresistible portrayal of miscommunication, secrets, and the power of love. “Lyrical and charming, this comedy of errors is a delightful summer read.”—People

40 Days with God in the Garden

40 Days with God in the Garden
Author: Melody Lowes
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1477208992

Is your heart hurting? Are you struggling to keep it all together under a heavy load? Is your journey leaving your heart battered and bruised? Are your life circumstances pinning you down and drowning your dreams? Ah, friend. I have been there, too. When your heart is hungry, when your spirit withers under fierce opposition, when your soul is desperate to find what it so desperately craves, nothing but more of Jesus, more of Gods peaceful presence will satisfy. Come with me to the garden its leafy boughs sing soothing songs, therapeutic to the soul. Its restful peace restores, its blossoms bless and encourage. The lessons a garden teaches are accessible to all and Gods green-leafed grace can bring health and vitality to your desolate spirit as you stroll its paths. So come with me to the garden. If you are anything like me, you will find what your soul thirsts for so frantically among its fruits and foliage. You may just find God there

A Gift of Grace

A Gift of Grace
Author: Amy Clipston
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2010-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145875989X

When Rebecca Kauffman's sister Grace, who left the Amish behind years earlier, is killed in an accident, it is up to Rebecca and her husband Daniel to raise Grace's two teenage English daughters in their Old Order Amish community.

The Color of Grace

The Color of Grace
Author: Tonia Triebwasser
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2000
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780800717759

In this reflective, poetic book, Triebwasser uses her experience gardening a dry, suburban flower garden as a touchstone for deep questions and truths of faith. Through 24 rich, perceptive vignettes, she traces the changes and requirements of her own plot of land month by month for a whole year. As she observes the changes in her garden, the author draws splendid observations about God and people's flawed relationship to the world.