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God Thoughts, One Hundred Essays and Devotions, represents well over four decades of intense pursuit of the knowledge of God. With various subjects of all kinds in no particular order, this book is designed to provoke fresher and deeper thinking about the things of God and the Bible and to evoke within its readers richer insights from their own knowledge and experience of him.
This book is a transparent, personal account of one person's lifelong battle in overcoming the ominous dark clouds of depression. It is written for those that struggle with it and those that love them. The book also contains informative, practical tips all can use in their life journeys, both for themselves and for those they love..
Forty Days on the Mountain with God is a devotional and meditation book from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus's most famous teachings. The book is not a commentary but rather is intended to be a thought-provoking consideration of the meanings and applications of the Sermon, complete with thought and discussion questions at the end of each chapter.
Everyone lives by faith. It is impossible to not do so. Thus it is paramount that we carefully choose where we place our faith. Faith is merely a measure of the strength of our beliefs in the ideas, the people, the disciplines, the religions, and any other things that we hold to be true. The ones we accept with the highest degree of certainty are the things we hold with the greatest faith. The things we believe in the most and that exert the greatest bearing on our lives and existence are the things we can say we live by faith in.
Faith is not easy though. It comes with risk. It comes with challenge. Its implications to us and to others are significant. Strong faith is one of the greatest feats of all. It is easy to live by little faith or even in doubt and fear. It is easy to live by misplaced or misdirected faith—faith in the wrong or the less important things, or faith in ideas or in people that are patently incorrect or insincere. However Jesus said that faith is in fact the work God requires of us.
Reflections on Faith represent the thoughts, devotions, insights, and beliefs of Ronnie Worsham, who has spent most of a lifetime of over six decades pondering faith. The author has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and the natural sciences, a master’s degree in the behavioral studies, a master’s degree in business, and has as well studied extensively in philosophy and religion. He has also for twenty-five years owned and operated his own management consulting practice. Ronnie has served as a pastor and as an evangelist since his calling over four decades ago, ministering for the last eighteen years at the Northeast Church in Garland, Texas. He is a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. He is a friend and mentor to many. His other books include Discovering Jesus, Forty Days on the Mountain with God, Fighting and Beating Depression, and A Funny Little Cow Ponders Pain.
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Seeing God as he really is in all his majesty and grandeur is a tall order. Seeing ourselves for who we really are sometimes seems almost as difficult. The reality is that to see ourselves clearly we must first see God clearly. The gospel of Christ is a message from God about how he sees us. And seeing him see us changes in wonderful ways how we see ourselves. Rather than unloved, rejected, and worthless, we are loved, valued, and seen by God as perfect in Christ because of who he is—loving and merciful beyond human imagination, not because of who we are. Seeing God Seeing You is one man’s exploration and owning of the gospel of Christ.
Glowing Embers, named after its theme poem, is a collection of 65 poems written by the author over the course of many years. Written originally either for someone in particular, a church service or a wedding or a funeral, for personal reflection, or simply for personal worship and praise, these poems are the product not of a professional poet, but of spiritual, melancholic guy who needs and seeks to express his heart in ways only poetry and song can, and now to use his poetry to spur others to search out and express their own hearts. The poems are in no particular order and come in many different lengths, moods, and subjects. Most however are God and Spirit-focused. A few are poetic expressions from the life and teachings of Christ. As Ronnie Worsham has written a book on depression (Fighting and Beating Depression), some of the poems represent the dark expressions of one probing the inner darkness of heart and soul.
The funny little cow meets a human in the worst way possible—the man steps on her. From this painful first meeting the two become friends. The funny little cow discovers her new friend is a pastor (she calls him a pasture), and he knows a lot about pain and why God allows something that feels so bad to exist.
The pastor has another friend, a fourteen-year-old girl named Hailey. The little cow can’t pronounce Hailey’s name either—she says Hayleaves. Hailey has cancer, which causes her pain and suffering. Together, the pastor and the funny little cow explore the reasons for pain and how pain is part of life.
The funny little cow certainly understands that—she’s always getting hurt. Sometimes the pain is physical, like when a grown man steps on her. And sometimes she’s hurt emotionally, like when she feels lonely. She learns everyone gets hurt at some point, and that pain is an important part of life.
Written for the real-life Hailey, A Funny Little Cow Ponders Pain helps children and parents understand and cope with pain through a unique blend of humor, compassion, and biblical concepts.
