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Perhaps your professional and other life ambitions are simply a means to an end—a way to pay the bills or pursue a lifestyle. But what if there was something more? What if you could have success and fulfillment in equal measure? In response to these fundamental questions, Professors Jeffery A. Thompson and J. Stuart Bunderson draw on research, personal experience, and gospel truths to dispel common myths that can stand in the way of seeking your true calling, the work that brings the greatest meaning and satisfaction to your life.Is there only one true calling for you? Can you still find your calling if you choose to stay at home?What if your calling doesn't pay enough to live on?Discover the answers to these questions and many more as you learn to tap into the spiritual gifts of God and realize how your talents can bring gratification to your life and blessings to those around you. Brimming with practical activities and applications, this guidebook to pursuing your ideal life's work will inspire the confidence you need to translate aspiration into action.

About "Why Me, Lord?""Why Me, Lord?" speaks to the theological struggle of victims after sexual or physical abuse. It helps victims understand how a loving God could allow abuse. It helps victims understand that God wants them to be safe from harm. It answers difficult questions victims ask: Where was God when I was abused? Why didn't God answer my prayers to stop what was happening? Is God punishing me? "Why Me, Lord?" brings comfort and healing to victims of all ages, adult and child alike. It is fully illustrated with poignant images. "Why Me, Lord?" appeals to children, because it is illustrated, but also brings spiritual peace to adult victims. The words of the book help victims regain sight of the God they thought deserted them in their time of need and affirms the goodness of God and his desire for all people to heal from their pain.About the AuthorSybil A. Bissell, M.A., C.Psych.(AB), J.D. is a retired Christian Psychologist from Alberta, Canada. She graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy in 1985. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 1999 with a Juris Doctorate from the Faculty of Law.Sybil specialized in the treatment of sexual assault and incest, providing counseling services for victims and offenders for 20 years.

Sabrina's had it up to here with being constantly compared to her older sister, Kate. It seems everyone is always warning her to learn from Kate's experiences. Sabrina doesn't drink or smoke or even cuss and her friends are good LDS girls that she has gone to church with for years. But it's more than obvious that everyone is expecting her to get into the worst kind of trouble. Meanwhile, Kate, although very happily married to Mike Jeffries, is encountering some new challenges as a high school history and drama teacher in a small Idaho town. She has her hands more than full trying to please the school principal, who was against hiring her, and trying to help her students, who have their own problems. Like Bev, who can't get over the death of her mother and accept her new stepmother. And Karen, whose mother has just been released from prison. And Terri, who wants so desperately to fit in, she'll do almost anything. When Sabrina and her parents come to visit Kate, Sabrina meets Bev, Karen, and Terri, and all their lives are forever changed by one night on a dark mountain.

Think the Harry Potter series is pure fantasy? Think again! Discover the real-life parallels, mystical encodements and hidden truths in Harry Potter’s rich storylines – a magical work of art in itself. What is Harry’s amazing connection to world events? What are its four most captivating messages? Explore what may be its greatest contribution – a guide for the transformation of humanity into higher evolution.The world you look at will never be the same.

JR Ferguson has spent the past eight years hiding a troubling personal secret. When the secret is about t resurface, the 16-year-old runs away even though this means leaving behind her precious dog who is dying. Unfortunately JR is abducted from the streets of a big city and sold to a terrorist group who plan on sending her into Times Square with a bomb stuffed into her backpack. Can anyone stop the terrorists from blowing up JR and thousands of tourists in Times Square?