God's Artistic Design

A New Heaven's and A New Earth

John David Harwood
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From A Jewish Girl Fell in Love with Jesus

How a Not-So-Kosher Jewish Girl Fell in Love with Jesus
Authored by Gail Baker / Forward by Philip D. Yancey



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Matzah Balls to Communion Wafers

A Must Read Christian Novel

Christian Reading - Author Mark Norris, Sword of the Spirit  - To most in the Realm of Drugolin, otherly spirit lore lingered as mysterious legends best suited for late night hearths. 

On rare occasions one might hear of strange visitations. Some of huge, radiant beings bearing aid and guidance. Others of dark, evil creatures summoning dread and death. All were a part of Drugolish legend, but few took them seriously.

The westland village of Noy couldn’t afford the apathy of its unenlightened, middleland neighbors. Its enclosing fortress walls stood as a monument to the frightening visitations it experienced, day and night.

When the town’s most celebrated otherly adventurer receives a prophetic lamp, he teams with one final group on a faith empowering mission into the dread regions of evil that could usher in an eternal age where mortals are like angels and God reigns supreme.

Yahwin (God), Krystos (Jesus), Sahron (Satan), a host of otherly foes, warrior angels, and warrior prophets endued with extraordinary power all inhabit this peculiar realm in which author Mark Norris tells an eschatological tale that wars for the Millennium’s victor’s rights.

What would you do if an angel materialized in your bedroom tonight, handed you a prophetic lampstand that projected the events of Satan’s rebellion, and invited you to brave the powers of hell?  ................. The otherly is waiting,…will you go?

What others say about Sword of the Spirit:

In Sword of the Spirit, Mark takes us on an intense and imaginative quest that parallels our own lives. A great piece of work that captivates the reader while increasing our ability to remain free from the schemes of darkness. I love  it. It is lush in imagery.“ ~ Gary Crawford

This book really made me think. It delves into spiritual warfare, and considers some of the ways God could anoint believers who resist the enemy in the last days. 

This book challenged me to believe God for some things I had never considered before. But, it is also a good story. It has plenty of action and I found it hard to put down. I recommend it!” ~ Tom Miller

A Great Read

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A Life Changing Christian Book

Christian Reading - God, I’m Angry at You! Where were you God when I was hurting? by Lawrence W. Stanfield, PhD, offers the story of Joseph captured in the book of Genesis as a backdrop to come alongside trauma survivors, giving hope and instruction that will usher in a progressive approach to inner healing.   

Lawrence W. Stanfield has written a much-needed book that should be recognized not only by the Christian community, but by the secular community.  His purpose in writing the book is to address the silent epidemic and the alarming deterioration of family units and individuals. The author teaches Biblical principles that intertwine with Joseph’s story to help readers understand their past in order to move forward in their present.  This book also has the potential to bring much healing of the mind, soul and spirit with a look at Joseph who is much like us today.

The story of Joseph is one of family dysfunction and victory (in the end of course); but not before unimaginable trauma, separation, betrayal, loss and heartache took place.  Readers will embark on a journey through progressive chapters such as: Home, Your Launchpad for Self-Destruction, Caution! You Have Hidden Baggage, Is Your Past Your Present? Are You Programmed to Self-Destruct? God, I am Hurting! Where Are You God? and more ...

His book reveals a flurry of wrong choices beginning from Rebekah (Jacob’s mother) to a wide range of emotions, mindsets and self-destructive thoughts and ways that keep us from God.  Encouraging all to look up to God, the author speaks from a psychological standpoint as one who was well-acquainted with failure and certainly understands feelings of hopelessness, despair, and not measuring up. Yet, he adamantly states God is the only One who can meet us in our darkest nights and pit experiences to see us through. God’s compassion, love, and instruction is revealed through the life of Joseph, similarly we can expect the same.  Insight into the human psyche gives us a front-row seat and the author challenges readers to thought-provoking issues that will bring enlightenment, healing and the grace of God upon one’s life.  

God, I’m Angry at You! Where were you God when I was Hurting? further sheds light in the statement and thought of, where were you God when I needed you the most?  His book provides answers to human suffering and offers hope through that pervasive question prevalent in the story of Joseph and in our own lives.

This book comes highly recommended due to the author’s vast experience with trauma victims, his trauma counsel experience, as well as a being a pastor and minister for many years, including work in the social services serving children and families. Get your copy of God, I’m Angry at You! At Amazon.

An Amazing Transformation

Author Henry Miranda 

Before becoming Christians, we all came from different backgrounds.  Some of us were at our worst end and didn’t know where to turn.  Some of us like the apostle Paul were drawn by God.  Some of us grew up in the church knowing Christ.  But, it makes no difference how we came into the Kingdom of God. All we need to know is that until we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we were spiritually dead. We could not understand spiritual truths. We became spiritually alive only after we believed the truth about Jesus and were willing to yield ourselves to Him.

Ephesians 2:3-5 (KJV) "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ," (by grace ye are saved;) 

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new". 

The “new man” is comparable to a grain of popcorn: it is the same grain, but it has gone through an amazing transformation. What the heat does for the corn; the grace of God does for us.

We were transformed from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to the power of God.

Romans 6:3-6 (NKJV) "Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified" with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin."  

You must live your life in obedience, for obedience changes our relationship with God and obedience brings a greater degree of personal purity. Obedience acts of our sincere love for one another. We must think with a new attitude. Faith and repentance involve the mind, and repentance begins in the mind. Our minds should be self-controlled. We must die to self. We are not to indulge in formal evil practices. We must direct our life with proper goals.

Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV) "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." 

You turned your life 180 degrees when you come to Christ. You see differently and you have a new beginning. You can’t live your life the same as before you were transformed into a new creation. You turned your back to the old way of life and headed in the new direction towards Christ.

How sad it is when we want to follow our own way and do what we want to do. We want to make our own decisions without ever consulting God, and yet when we get in trouble, or when we come to a roadblock in our lives that we can't move, we cry out to God to help us. Then when He doesn't answer, we wonder why.

God is omnipotent, all-powerful, and able to do anything He chooses to do. And He is omniscient, all-knowing. He hears and sees everything we say and do. If God doesn't act on our behalf, it is not because He isn't able to; it is simply because He has chosen not to because of our rebellion and stubborn refusal to obey Him.

Isaiah 59:1-3 (NKJV) "Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue has muttered perversity." 

Often when God doesn't act immediately on our behalf, we begin to think that He doesn't hear us or that He "can't save us," that He's not able to meet our needs. Yet, Isaiah points out in verse two that it's our sin that keeps God from working in our lives, not His inability to act or to hear us. It's our sin that separates Him from us.

God hears our prayers before we even speak. Just because we call ourselves Christians doesn’t mean that we have a guaranteed that God will answer our prayers, it is only by abiding in Christ that we get a guarantee that our prayers will be answered.

Psalms 37:4-6 (NKJV) "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday."

There are Christian who is spiritually dead, they are blinded by this world as to their lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life. The spiritually dead don’t care for the things of the Spirit. They spend their entire time talking about earthly things like food, entertainment, sex, and comfort. If they do speak on the spiritual it is out of ignorance and in the comfort of a god that is made up in make-believe; living only in their imagination.

What does it matter to you when you received Christ at the end we are all equal. The calling of God comes to man at different ages of life. They who have lived a life of holiness, and they who have given to God only the dregs of their ill-spent days, receive the same salvation.

God’s grace is sometimes defined as unmerited favor. God’s grace goes beyond our understanding. It is the very nature of God, who is defined as love, to pour out His love upon His people in a way and in a measure that is both undeserved and unexpected.