“It happened on a Sunday night, even though I’d been a good girl and gone to church that morning.”One brisk November evening during her senior year at a small Midwestern Christian college, two armed intruders broke into the house Ruth Everhart shared with her roommates, held all five girls hostage, and took turns raping them at gunpoint. Reeling with fear, insecurity, and guilt, Ruth believed she was ruined, both physically and in the eyes of God.In the days and weeks that followed, Ruth struggled to come to grips with not only what happened that night but why. The same questions raced through her mind in an unrelenting loop―questions that would continue to haunt her for years to come:Why me? Where was God? Why did God allow this to happen? What am I being punished for?Told with candor and unflinching honesty, Ruined is an extraordinary emotional and spiritual journey that begins with an unspeakable act of violence but ends with tremendous healing and profound spiritual insights about faith, forgiveness, and the will of God.

Product Description: Faith Under Fire: Dramatic Stories of Christian Courage celebrates the lives of eighteen Christian men, women, and children who chose to do what they knew to be right, even if the rest of the world hated them for it. Read the fascinating behind-the-scenes true stories of Christians who made the headlines, including: Mother Antonia Brenner, Heather Mercer, Fr...read more

Product Description: Acclaimed worship leader, musicin, and speaker Chris DuPré tells the story of growing up in small–town, upstate New York with his abusive dad, a WWII vet struggling with PTSD before PTSD could be diagnosed. Even amid financial frailty and a broken family, Chris traces the finger of God that, against all odds, led him through emotional and physical abuse in childhood to a miraculous conversion in adolescence, and, years later, to a pivotal decision in a garden between two options: love, or bitterness...read more

Product Description: Rosemary is a spunky, outspoken little girl growing up in Kansas. She and her family don’t have a lot of material things, but that doesn’t mean Rosemary is missing out on life. She has much to enjoy on the family farm, including her dogs and the assorted farm animals she takes under her wing...read more

Product Description: Undone is author Michele Cushatt’s quest to make peace with a complicated life. It is an honest confession of a diagnosis of cancer and the joys and disappointments of motherhood and marriage, ripe with regret over what is and, yet, still hopeful for what could be...read more

Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal..."Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm" (Sunday Times); "Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight" (Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph)

Product Description: For anyone who has ever daydreamed of another life . . .Most days, you wouldn't trade what you have for the world. You love your husband and your kids, and you are grateful to God for your life. But there are days when you feel as though life is rolling over you in waves and you are just going through the motions...read more

The revised edition of this best-selling text covers manufacturing processes, manufacturing systems, and materials for manufacturing.

In this one-of-a-kind volume, an architectural journalist, an architect, and an architectural historian collaborate to show that architecture is not an "ism," style, or vogue, but simply the solution to basic design and building problems. Illustrated.