Sin rarely begins with action. It begins with desire. Long before choices are made or habits formed, the heart has already been captivated. Captive Desires exposes how disordered desires quietly rule the heart and shape behavior, often while remaining largely unnoticed.This book challenges the common tendency to focus on external behavior while ignoring the internal cravings that drive it. Rick Thomas makes clear that lasting change does not come from managing sin ...

Most couples want a better marriage, but many settle for partial solutions-improved communication, fewer arguments, or shared routines-without addressing what truly completes a marriage. Complete Marriage invites husbands and wives to pursue something deeper and far more durable: a Christ-centered, gospel-shaped union that reflects God's design for oneness.This book begins with a clarifying conviction: marriage is not primarily about happiness, compatibility, or self-fulfillment. I...

Describes the process of how hurricanes can form. Also includes explanations of tropical storms and a storm surge.

Helping others is rarely as simple as giving advice or sharing Scripture. Many well-intended helpers enter conversations eager to fix problems, offer answers, or relieve discomfort-only to find their efforts fall flat or even cause harm. Before You Help Them calls helpers to pause, examine themselves, and prepare their hearts before stepping into another person's life.This book confronts a foundational but often overlooked truth: you bring yourself into every helpi...

Describes the causes and the effects of flooding.

About the BookWhat would you do?Frank Peterson is a respected, successful businessman, father, and grandfather in a small Texas town, until a small girl enters into his world in a dream. The girl is in danger and is asking, begging, pleading for his help. What would you do? The dreams continue nightly until Frank confronts a pedophile, drug dealer with ties to a Mexican drug cartel. What would you do? Suddenly Frank and his family and friends become targets of this madman. In...

Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a long shadow across our culture and politics. In Churchill & Orwell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas E. Ricks masterfully argues that these extraordinary men are as important today as they ever were. Churchill and Orwell stood i...

New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review"Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of DefenseThe Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling auth...

**A New York Times bestseller!A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history...

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.Unabridged CDs - 20 CDs, 24 hours

Growing up, the authors of this book didn't see families that looked like theirs. As the gay dads to 4 adopted kiddos, they're here to show the world that ALL kinds of families are beautiful and possible! These dads share their journey in becoming parents and the empowering message that no matter who you are, you can build a family-all you need is love (and maybe ice cream and silliness) to make it happen.Core themes in thi...

This "toothy follow-up to Datlow's first-rate Blood Is Not Enough " offers "admirably inventive variations on vampirism" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a "consistently engrossing anthology" from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow ( Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expan...