In August 1995, Margaret Wurtele got the worst news any parent can receive: Philip, her twenty-two-year-old son, had just died in a climbing accident on Mount Rainier. At the time, Wurtele was absorbed in an intense midlife spiritual awakening. Suddenly she felt betrayed by the God she had only just embraced. In this beautifully written memoir, Wurtele takes us along on her spiritual journey in the aftermath of Philip's death. With a novelist's eye...

"This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia....

First published in German in 1923 and English in 1928, "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" is Felix Salten's coming-of-age tale told through the eyes of a young male roe deer named Bambi. By following Bambi's life from childhood, through adolescence, and into adulthood, Salten gives the reader a charming story of the life of one deer. Bambi lives in the woods, a place that is both wonderful but also dangerous, for from time to time, hunters come to hunt...

This book will prepare the Biblical counselor to aid people facing the many types of crisis situations that they inevitably will encounter in a world of sin. The counselor will be shown how to help in three vital areas: · To make a biblical analysis of the crisis situation · To take a personal inventory of his state, attitudes, behavior, and resources. · To follow biblical directions in responding to the issues in the crisis situation. Dr....

We want to say or do something that helps our grieving friend. But what? When someone we know is grieving, we want to help. But sometimes we stay away or stay silent, afraid that we will do or say the wrong thing, that we will hurt instead of help. In this straightforward and practical book, Nancy Guthrie provides us with the insight we need to confidently interact with grieving people. Drawing upon the input of hundreds of grieving people, as well...