Inspirational

Jack Jordan Ammann Jr. touched many lives with his generosity, strong personality, loyalty, kindness, and humor. After Jack's death, friends shared their favorite “Jack stories,” funny and serious, short and long. Enjoy favorite memories of a special man.

These forty-seven devotionals (for the forty days of Lent, the six Sundays in Lent, and Easter) include a Scripture, typically a parable told by our Lord, a short meditation on the Scripture, and a brief prayer. Each daily devotion is short but impactful.

Time set aside daily for prayer, Scripture reading, and meditating on God's Word will enrich your spiritual life as you prepare for Easter. May His blessings abound in your time alone with Him in these daily meditations on the Epistle to the Romans from Ash Wednesday through Saturday before Palm Sunday and Matthew's account of the Passion, Crucifixion, and Resurrection for Holy Week and Easter.

Each anecdote from barber-osopher and motivational speaker Terry L. Sumerlin illustrates an important leadership principle. The entertaining and easy-to-read stories are filled with humor, common sense, inspiration, and practical wisdom. Readers will chuckle and nod their heads in agreement as they improve their leadership skills.

Motivational speaker and author Terry Sumerlin blends fact and fiction in this novella about a cruise ship lecturer who teaches the principles of success, yet somehow has lost his own inspiration. How does Terry regain his enthusiasm? This is the experience of one "human becoming."

Truth and Fiction: Essays & Short Stories on Life shows the extraordinary impact of seemingly ordinary past experiences. Through them, we learn how they challenged and enriched us. True stories can seem as imaginative as fiction, and fiction can feel realistic.

Essays written in the style of Cherry Tree Dares: Essays on Childhood, my first book, range from humorous to thought-provoking. One treasured memory is having Saturday night snacks and television time at my uncle and aunt’s house. Another examines my amazement at the lack of people’s common sense. A third reveals how my first ship cruise to the Bahamas became a chaotic and frustrating travel adventure.

In the fiction section, short stories range from the inspirational to the suspenseful to the comedic. In one, a lonely woman encounters an astute young lad who needs a friend. Another features a man who finds death to be the permanent solution. A third show how laughter sometimes is all one has left after life’s bruises.

Truth and Fiction can help readers develop insights into life. They may then gain more understanding of their own journey.

How to deal with: Forgiveness, Guilt, Loneliness, Worry, Disappointment, Depression, Temptation, Boredom, Pride, and Death

Acrostics are word puzzles in which the word itself is broken down and used to form other descriptive words around an idea. The word becomes rounded out and elaborated upon, embroidered into a beautiful pattern of ideas. IDEA becomes Image Defining Each Acrostic. Message in a Word 2 contains 52 devotionals, one for each week of a year. Each devotional is based on an acrostic, a message in a word. Each thought-provoking devotional is filled with Scripture quotes and Biblical truth. The Reflections at the end of each devotional includes additional Scripture passages for further study along with questions and a prayer. Read and do the exercises, then meditate and reflect upon the message for a week. You will be inspired and blessed as you deepen your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Acrostics used to explore powerful words from the bible and how they can help you live a better Christian life.

We as a body of believers each have our own personal walk of faith—a journey with the Father, crammed full of countless testimonies of answered prayer and unexpected, awe-inspiring miracles. This is a glimpse into one of those many walks. A single mother and her daughter invite you to step inside the pages of their personal spiritual diary. Experience, through their eyes, the faithfulness of a loving Father, in times of happiness and joy and in times of heartache and financial crisis, through faith grounded in the Rock, Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our faith. (Hebrews 12:2)