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As relaxed views about marriage evolve the question, "Is marriage designed to last forever?" begs to be answered. Marriage can last a lifetime or be nothing more than a 15 minute plight. <br><br>A living breathing organism, marriage must be nurtured. But an enemy has come to kill marriage. It is divorce. A living death, divorce destroys marriage.<br><br>Regardless of the pain and heartache, that comes with divorce, more and more couples are contemplating it or opting out of marriage altogether. But is this God's plan?"<br><br>An insightful discussion of God's perspective on love, marriage, divorce and relationships is shared through the practical precepts in "15 Minute Marriage". This simplistic guide will help those seeking marriage and relationship to: <br><br>* Identify "the one" God has created for them to marry<br>* Embrace God's ideal solution when preparing for marriage<br>* Understand the attributes needed to maintain healthy marriages and relationships<br>* Overcome the setbacks that lead to stumbling blocks in marriage<br>* Identify and avoid attacks that come against marriage relationships<br>* Cultivate and nurture marriage relationships<br><br>Sound, creative and informative "15 Minute Marriage" is based on testimonials and triumphs of those who have survived the impact of divorce and the difficulties of relationships. Sincere and honest "15 Minute Marriage" provides a message that inspires readers to overcome the challenges, fight the battles and achieve the victory in their marriages and relationships.
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Comprehensive and monumental work on the sources, principles and practices of Islam:<br><br>a) Sources of Islam, its essentials and doctrines – The Holy Quran, Hadith, Ijtihad and Ijma<br><br>b) Principles of Islam, Iman (Faith), Attributes of God, Angels, Revelation, Revealed Books, Prophets, Finality of Prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, Life after Death, Taqdir, etc.<br><br>c) Institutions and Practices of Islam: Prayer, Zakat (Charity), Fasting, Hajj (Pilgrimage) Jihad, Apostasy, Social Relations (Marriage, Property, Inheritance, etc.) Food, Penal Laws, the State, etc.<br><br>Detailed index including an index of Arabic words and phrases.
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This is a book about a mother and her son and their talk about God. She tells him that God is inside all of us and how we learn from him on a daily basics. <br><br>The son learns about God, Jesus, and being born again. He also gets all his questions answered from his mother.
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Michael Zarlengo, author of Tabernacle Gifts, Our First Day in Heaven, has deeply searched the Scriptures, this time for God's secret to answered prayer. He follows the fragrant incense of answered prayer throughout the Bible to learn God's secret. His discovery will astound you.<br><br>Did you know that in the Old Testament God's people were given eight prayer laws? When God's people prayed according to their eight prayer laws they always had their prayers answered. In the New Testament Jesus and the apostles explain the true meanings of these eight prayer laws for us today. These eight old prayer laws reveal God's New Testament secret of answered prayer to receive anything we request in His name.<br><br>"You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it" (John 14:14 NIV).<br><br>What a promise! However, do you receive everything you ask God in prayer? If not, you aren't alone. Many Christians do not have the answers they seek. "I thought God answered all prayers," one might say. God does answer all prayers; however, we often do not receive what we request.<br><br>"That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord'' (James 4:3 NASB).<br><br>God's Word says that this is because we are asking incorrectly.<br><br>"You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss"(James 4:3 NKJV).<br> <br>How do we ask correctly and, as Jesus said, receive anything we request? In this book, we will learn the truth about prayer so we will receive the answers we are looking for.<br><br>"The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him, and He will make them know His…"(Ps. 25:14 NASB)<br><br>The author using only the Bible, listed-out and studied every prayer recorded, every Old Testament prayer law given to Moses, every example of praying, and every teaching on prayer by the Lord Jesus and the Apostles and noticed a repeating pattern for effective prayer of the same eight elements, given in the same order. The book describes his astounding discovery; it is not eight things we are to say in prayer, but the eight ways we are to live in order to receive anything we ask.
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The Holy Qur'an EBook version<br>English Translation and Commentary<br>¥ Detailed commentary with extensive references to standard authorities, both classical and modern<br>¥ Comprehensive introduction deals with Islamic teachings and the collection and arrangement of the Holy Qur'an<br>¥ Extensive Index<br><br>Reviews<br><br>"There is no other translation or commentary of the Holy Qur'an in the English Language to compete with Maulvi Muhammad Ali's Masterpiece."<br>– Al-Haj Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar, translator of the Holy Qur'an<br><br>"To deny the excellence of Maulvi Muhammad Ali's translation, the influence for good it has exercised and its proselytizing utility would be to deny the existence of the light of the sun."<br>– Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi, leader of Orthodox Muslim opinion in India)<br><br>…has all the merits of what is desired in a translation."<br>– The Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam, Lahore, Pakistan<br><br>"…By far the best text currently available in the English language…incontestably one of the finest interpretations of the scared scripture of Islam. I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this translation to students and others seeking to understand the essence and epitome of the Quranic message."<br>– Prof. T. Hargery, Director, African Studies, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville<br><br>"…an austerely faithful translation in English…based on a close study of commentaries of the Qur' an – the work of my learned name-sake Maulvi Muhammad Ali of Lahore…The translation and the notes…all demonstrate the labour of love and devoted zeal."<br>– Late Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar of "The Comrade"<br><br>"It is certainly a work of which any scholar might legitimately be proud."<br>– The Quest, London
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Is This the Best God Could Do? (nonfiction, approximately 115.000 words) was born of a crisis of faith of the most cruel kind, the loss of my mother who lingered on the brink death for five weeks, and that is where the book begins. I was living the American dream, a happy wife and mother, and by most measures, charmed, and then she died, suffering terribly in the process in spite of my ardent prayers. <br>Like many in this position, I felt that God had let me down, but once my grief passed, I realized that the God of traditional Christianity keeps us in thrall by fear and guilt, by insisting we are small when we are really quite "big" beings. When the World Trade Center collapsed, I also realized that the end of the world might well be upon us because it is a self-fulfilling prophecy brought about by the zealot believers in the Abrahamic religions, fear carried to an illogical extreme. This epiphany made me angry. Is This the Best God Could Do? is also the result of that anger.<br>However, although the topic is obviously deadly serious, I debunk the warped monotheism of the "Big Three" with humor and wit as well as reasonable, albeit edgy, argument. What follows the section in which I recount the loss of my mother (and the realization that the Abrahamic version of God has been messing with us for a couple thousand years) is part dialogue with that big guy (picture Groucho Marx as interlocutor: "Hi, God of Christianity, Sarah here. I can appreciate your dilemma, I really can. But the next time one of your angels gets out of hand, please try to take care of the problem instead of making it one of ours…"), part personal history, and part reasoned deconstruction.<br>But the conclusion I reach about religion does not amount to an advocacy of atheism. Although the monotheistic God is discounted as a manmade thing, one used to control us, I also argue against the godless scientism of Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation), and Christopher Hitchens (God is Not Great). In fact, I argue against this limited perception of human being as a random function of extraneous forces in favor of a more profound participation of humans in reality leading to a profound spiritual transformation on the part of individuals and eventually all of humanity.<br>I also argue for a kind of pandemic version of the dramatic "wake up" effect (Eckart Tolle's concept from A New Earth) I experienced when my mother died. The human race, indeed the very planet, is going through extraordinary changes – all cause for great alarm among the monotheists as the beginning of the end. I insist in Is This the Best God Could Do? that, on the contrary, our situation is karmically inevitable and the dire straits in which we find ourselves an invitation to spiritual growth and thereby a renewal of civilization. I also call for those born to relative wealth, the American populace in general but also most of the Western world, to accept responsibility for charting the way forward because it is easier to evolve beyond the traditional notions of religion when one's belly is full and one is warm and dry.<br>But Is This the Best God Could Do? is not just a polemic about the medieval grip of fundamentalism that holds humans back from the self awareness necessary to find a way forward through the difficulties of history to an enlightened way of life – the book also charts the path. I offer guidance to the reader for achieving the kind of awareness that allows them to hear "God's voice" and to participate in the world as an active agent instead of being just a passive believer, to understand the "magnitude of our spiritual reality." <br>Although my book is utterly unique in its mixture of elements (the strident debunking of monotheism, the hopeful recognition of the "bigness" of humans as spiritual beings to stand in opposition to the "smallness" of fear and guilt, a hope-filled recipe for saving us from ourselves, and memoir – and all in a tone worthy of British humorist Russell Brand in My Booky Wook), the various aspects of the manuscript can be compared to other well known books. <br>Like James Redfield in The Celestine Prophecy, I invoke Jungian synchronicity as the mechanism by which we can hear "God speaking." It is through the development of our intuition that we recognize these moments in the first place, and as Rick Warren advocates in his A Purpose Driven Life, I argue that this recognition is not reserved for the few but is available to anyone who becomes self aware – in place of Warren's scriptural references are ideas from Eastern religious practices. Ultimately, I am advocating an evolution of the spirit, from medieval servitude born of fear to what Gary Zukav refers to in The Seat of the Soul as a necessary move beyond reliance upon our senses (the atheism of scientism) to the cultivation of our intuition in order to bring about a better future for ourselves and civilization as a whole.
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In this book, Michael Zarlengo uses Scripture to describe our first day in heaven.<br><br>God has incredible rewards waiting for His people. Jesus Christ taught that all Christians should seek to be rewarded when we enter heaven. We will receive our rewards from God based on our actions on earth. As we know, these actions cannot earn us heaven. That only occurs by grace, through faith. However, on our first day in heaven our earthly actions, after salvation, are evaluated by God in order to determine the magnificent rewards He will give us.<br><br>Did you know that the Bible describes our rewards and the exact actions we are to carry out in order to receive them? In the New Testament, the apostle Paul uses the Old Testament examples of the Tabernacle and Day of Atonement ceremony to teach us which actions, called gifts, we can bring to God for our rewards. Paul also teaches us that the Tabernacle and the Day of Atonement conceal the secret of what our first day in heaven will be like.<br><br>We work hard in this life to retire well. Yet earthly retirement lasts for a short time. Our life in heaven will last for an eternity. Don't you want it to be a well-rewarded time?
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Maybe you were born to Christian parents and raised as a Christian. Or maybe you are just a part of a Christian nation. You might have attended church regularly, or maybe just on special occasions. If asked, you say that you believe in God, but you really never thought about what that means exactly. You are a well-educated person who accepts the idea of Biblical miracles, but only the more "reasonable" ones. You have read some of the Bible, mostly just parts of the New Testament, but never committed to reading the Bible cover to cover. You are a good person who admires the many "Christian values" as demonstrated by Jesus Christ. But something does not feel right. <br><br>* Science tells us that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, but the Bible tells us it's 6,000 years old.<br><br>* Science tells us life is the result of emergent properties in combined molecules, and we have evolved from a very primitive life form, but the Bible says that God made us, as is, from dust, and blew life in our noses.<br><br>* You see a world where little bunnies burn to death in forest fires, and wonder why an all-good and loving God would allow such a thing to happen.<br><br>* You pray to God and you realize that sometimes your prayers are answered, and sometimes they aren't – just as if you didn't pray at all.<br><br>* You hear about other religions and wonder why your religion is right and every other religion on the planet is wrong.<br><br>* You have a real problem with the idea of all your non-Jesus-believing friends and family spending eternity in Hell.â¨<br><br>In fact, the more you look around, the more you see a world absent of this perfect image of a perfect God. As much as you want to avoid critical thinking and "just let go and have faith", you find that you cannot believe in something contrary to your logic and reason – no matter how much you want to. This might lead to feelings of guilt, insincerity, and/or hypocrisy. Yet you just can't imagine living life without God, and you don't have to.<br><br>When you start asking serious questions about God and religion, you begin to see through the stories of people living inside the stomachs of big fish, 900-year-old men, and bodies coming back to life after three days, and understand how man created God, and not the other way around. By daring to question "sacred" religion, challenging your childhood beliefs, and risking eternal damnation (okay, so there might be a minor side effect to reading this book), you will discover an appreciation for religion on a new level, as well as a renewed appreciation for the human race.<br><br>Through a unique blend of science, philosophy, theology, and a touch of humor, you will see how you can trust your logic and reason, be true to yourself, and embrace God – not as a being, but as a concept – The Concept.
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God has incredible rewards waiting for His people. Jesus Christ taught that all Christians should seek to be rewarded when we enter heaven. We will receive our rewards from God based on our actions on earth. As we know, these actions cannot earn us heaven. That only occurs by grace, through faith. However, on our first day in heaven our earthly actions, after salvation, are evaluated by God in order to determine the magnificent rewards He will give us.<br><br>Did you know that the Bible describes our rewards and the exact actions we are to carry out in order to receive them? In the New Testament, the apostle Paul uses the Old Testament examples of the Tabernacle and Day of Atonement ceremony to teach us which actions, called gifts, we can bring to God for our rewards. Paul also teaches us that the Tabernacle and the Day of Atonement conceal the secret of what our first day in heaven will be like.<br><br>We work hard in this life to retire well. Yet earthly retirement lasts for a short time. Our life in heaven will last for an eternity. Don't you want it to be a well-rewarded time?
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Get ready to climb back up the Mountain to listen to Christ's teachings once again. Though you may have read this great Sermon many times, discover exciting promises that many have missed.<br><br>The purpose of this book is to help Christians be the Overcomers Jesus wants them to be and to help them gain their own entrance in the coming Kingdom. Learn what seeking the Kingdom of God is all about and be among the chosen few who will "enter into" the coming Kingdom. "Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock." (Mat. 7:24)<br><br>Also learn about: <br>* The link between Beatitudes and Fruit of the Spirit <br>* What the "law of Christ" really is <br>* The critical importance of the "Lord's prayer" <br>* How to be an Overcomer <br>* THE SIGN of Christ's soon Coming<br>* A new song entitled: LOOKING FOR THE SON which has the message of how vitally important it is to be Watching for the Lord's return and the consequences to those who are not looking.