Every believer has been given the opportunity to know God because of Jesus Christ and His work. This book is designed to highlight how to make this a daily reality. We can listen to and hear God speak. You will find answers to the most important questions in how to hear God speak and learn to grow in your relationship with Him as you become familiar with His voice. Let your journey begin today with the help found in these pages.

If you desire success in all areas of your life then it is essential that you have emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions as well as recognizing and identifying the emotions of others so that you can influence thinking and behavior. Studies done in the area of emotional intelligence have found that when it comes to being happy, successful in your career and relationships emotional intelligence is actually more important than y...

Robin Hood was not always an outlaw. This is the tale of how he became one.

Ten years after the incident with the Ouija board, Nadia and Jim meet at a friend's funeral and fall in love again. This time, their love will be real and lasting. But their friend had raised a disciple of Satan from the dead. When this Magellan smells the purity of Jim and Nadia's affection, his master orders him to rend and corrupt their love. Magellan obeys with relish.In the Rain with the Dead is both a horror novel and a romance set in the tired English town of Gaffney. But be...

The first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522 is generally erroneously attributed to Fernando Magellan, but actually completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano after the death of Magellan in what is now the Philippines. The documents that relate to the life of this man are scarce.This is a historical fiction combining the known facts of Elcano's life before he joined Magellan's voyage with imagined events from his early years.

American culture is adversarial to the teachings Jesus Christ laid out in the Sermon on the Mount. The pace of modern living challenges us to embrace a cultural understanding of our faith that is absent of the life Christ taught. In these pages you will find the necessary reminder about the importance of what Jesus said and how living His words should look in our culture. National reawakening must begin with individual reawakening. We hope to begin a new Christian lifestyle that is centere...

The United States spends more than 17% of its GDP on healthcare, while other developed countries average 8.7% of GDP on healthcare expenditures. All this spending doesn’t equate to value, quality, or performance, however. Among 11 high-income countries, the United States healthcare industry ranked last during the past seven years in four key performance categories: administrative efficiency, access to care, equity, and healthcare outcomes.This book presents the implantable medical ...

Each society that consumes alcohol has its own unique drinking culture, and each society deals with the drunken products of that culture in particular ways. As Mark D. West shows in Drunk Japan, the distinctive features of Japanese drinking culture and its intoxication-related laws are not simply interesting in and of themselves, but offer a unique window into Japanese society more broadly. Drawing upon close readings of over 5,000 published Japanese court opinions on drunkenness-...

America is broken. Dissension, anger, and hopelessness, all describe the political feelings of many Americans. Families and friendships are fractured. Our struggles seem to grow worse with each new election as we hear the same old hype: "This is the most important election of our lifetimes." These realities apply to Christians and non-Christians alike. Yet, aren't Christians supposed to offer hope? Sadly, there's little evidence that Christians have the answers for America's strug...

America is broken. Dissension, anger, and hopelessness, all describe the political feelings of many Americans. Families and friendships are fractured. Our struggles seem to grow worse with each new election as we hear the same old hype: "This is the most important election of our lifetimes." These realities apply to Christians and non-Christians alike. Yet, aren't Christians supposed to offer hope? Sadly, there's little evidence that Christians have the answers for America's strug...

In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence—2,700 court opinions—describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections. In compelling, poignant, and sometimes horrifying court cases, West finds that Japanese judges frequently opine on whether a person is in love, what other emotions a person is feeli...

Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic court battles, large-scale social issues, and corporate governance? Mark D. West's Law in Everyday Japan fills a void in our understanding of the relationship between law and social life in Japan by shifting the focus to cases more representative of everyday Japanese life.Compi...