Thomas Atkins wanted to be a preacher or brain surgeon. It didn’t happen. One month shy of completing a two-year sentence for violating probation, the 21-year-old man was brutally murdered inside his cell. How to explain this tragedy? Was it disguised grace?
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Do You Know the Real You?
Do you know the real you?
At one point, Linda Goldfarb, a well-known speaker, book narrator, coach, actress, author, and podcaster, didn’t know the real Linda.
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Among the Fortunate: Overcoming Foster Abuse
Esme Schmidt is among the fortunate. And she knows it. Had it not been for her adoptive parents, where would she be now? In jail and drug-addicted like her biological mother? Involved in toxic relationships? Chronically depressed? Suicidal?
No.
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Trials Didn’t Stop Them: Living Beyond the Limits
Stephen and Kerry Neander have weathered hurricane-force storms in their lives, but the tempests haven’t submerged them. Their trials have transformed and challenged them. Living beyond the limits has become their mission in life.
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Forgiving Her Son’s Killer…And Herself
For Tammy Horvath, forgiving her son’s killer was easier than forgiving herself.
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A Story Only God Could Write
Angela Spier’s story is one only God could write. How else to explain the dreams and signs that compelled this mother to dramatically alter her life, her husband’s, and the lives of their children and grandchildren?
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