Easter, the Christian celebration of the rebirth of Christ, is just around the corner and with that in mind we have compiled some spiritual books you can read this Easter!
Easter Fun Fact: Eggs have been considered symbol of fertility since ancient times while springtime is considered a symbol of new life and rebirth. We still have Easter Eggs today because of these ancient ideas!
Don't know what to read? Here are a list of Christian, spiritual books, and non-fiction that you may enjoy!
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Spiritually Circumcise Your Heart & Mind by Timothy Leigh Walker
For over the past sixteen years, I have been in the process of writing what God has put on my heart and mind. Of course, with time, both has been through a lot of things, changes of life, but most importantly, the process of being circumcised of the norms of what is being taught in our Sunday schools, pulpits, and the traditions of men throughout a lot of churches. Yes, things have changed, but the core of what was given me is in full labor, ready to be birthed. Well, those days are over; I have to let what is in me out so God can replenish me with a fresh revelation of his Word and plan for mankind. His Word never changes, but it will impregnate your mind to whereby you are in labor pains to birth that which has been given to you. I hope this book will open the eyes and understanding of many, answer some questions, drive you into the Word, and most of all pierce the heart to be more receptacles of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Remember, Jesus said in Mark 13:13, “And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
God is guarantee of deliverance for his children who believe in and on his Son, Jesus Christ, and because of his love (level of victory eternally) that his children may have eternal life with him. Jesus said in Matthew 24:13, “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved,” and the opposite of that statement is “those who do not endure until the end will not be saved.”
Through Fire and Rain by MaryAnn and Joseph Anselmo
In 2012, MaryAnn Anselmo was at the height of her career, headlining at Chico’s House of Jazz—a premiere venue in New Jersey for jazz singers. It was a sold-out show. The love of her life and husband, Joe, was by her side when she brought the house down. Her dreams were becoming a reality. Two days later she lost everything including the will to live when their son Dustin died unexpectedly.
A month later, MaryAnn and her father, Artie, suffered a devastating car accident. Dad was going to be okay, but she shattered dozens of bones, and had a string of strokes that resulted in a coma. This ultimately left her without the use of her left vocal cord.
With Joe’s love and constant support, she worked hard to recover, even starting from scratch with her old vocal coach. MaryAnn was determined to sing again. Then in mid-November of 2013, she was given eighteen months to live, diagnosed with a high-grade glioblastoma—a later stage brain tumor.
How is this possible?
Why me?
Why us?
Through Fire and Rain is a story of deep loss and salvation found through love, prayer, and faith in the future of medicine. “Not my girl. Cancer will not win.” Joe uttered as he watched his wife sleep. They had decided to stop chemotherapy; it was going to kill her faster than the tumor. They had made it through the fire, he thought. They had survived so much. This is just a little rain…. And he got to work, studying everything, and calling doctors worldwide to learn more about genomic sequencing, their last hope.
Aura by K M Aul
Time is up.
There is nothing you can do and no place that you can hide. Your comfortable existence is about to vanish forever. Darkness is falling and none of us may survive.
Near the end, a handful of heroes will emerge that may or may not be able to save us. The evil that we face is all-consuming and those that stand between it and us are so very few. Each of these heroes has a disability that is tied to their unique talent.
Jacob is blind since birth, yet able to see and manipulate the very life-force that is in and surrounds each living thing. He, along with Rachel and Clarisse, will battle the human shaped simulacrums that their real enemy uses.
Survival isn’t just winning this battle, it’s finding others like them to help, and winning the war.
Reality is not what you think.
Save an Angel's Kiss for Me by Joanie Chevalier
After 12-year old Mar’s father unfortunately dies in a car crash during the Christmas holidays, she not only has to recuperate, but also has to live with her mentally ill mother without the calming presence of her beloved dad. Fast forward three years and Mar is now 15-years old. Because Mar had blocked out her dad’s death, she’s never really admitted to herself that he’s gone forever, let alone acknowledged or visited his gravesite. She suddenly decides to take a 14-hour journey on a Greyhound bus to finally visit her dad’s grave and to face the truth: that her dad is really gone. Will Mar finally get the closure she so desperately seeks?
This is a touching short story about grief, loss, acceptance and forgiveness. It’s about the comfort of a gifted Christmas angel. It’s about the miracle of healing and unconditional love.
Saving Grace by L B Johnson
It started with a piece of paper—a birth certificate, sent to the author's parents long after her birth. There is much history in that piece of paper. For she was born to an unwed mother in the generation prior to Roe v. Wade, on a warm day in August–a small, painful beginning in which she had been an unwilling participant, yet one that would shape her destiny. She is adopted into a loving Christian home with another child that would become her beloved brother. Then as her brother leaves for the military, her mother dying from cancer, and her Dad consumed with grief, she finds herself alone, to emotionally fend for herself.
A dark journey into the light by Josef Smith
A Dark Journey Into The Light is an interesting and thought provoking read for anyone who has questioned urges and desires familiar to us all. I spent sixty years of my life in “limbo” trying to understand what was driving me to explore every fantasy I could find. We all enjoy sex but the book provides interesting insights into the workings of the mind of a sex addict. We are much more than what we feel, and less than what we think. This book explores what is possible when we find balance between the two. This is not a story of finding redemption through “finding God”. It’s simply the story of finding myself.
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Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Sadhguru
The practice of hatha yoga, as we commonly know it, is but one of eight branches of the body of knowledge that is yoga. In fact, yoga is a sophisticated system of self-empowerment that is capable of harnessing and activating inner energies in such a way that your body and mind function at their optimal capacity. It is a means to create inner situations exactly the way you want them, turning you into the architect of your own joy.
A yogi lives life in this expansive state, and in this transformative book Sadhguru tells the story of his own awakening, from a boy with an unusual affinity for the natural world to a young daredevil who crossed the Indian continent on his motorcycle.
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Defeating Disease by Ron Harder
This book talks about human health in terms that are easy to understand. It discusses human health from a nutritional point of view, and talks in detail about why the things that we consume have such a huge impact on our well-being.
It explains in layman’s terms how we develop disease in our body, and lets us know what we have to do to get rid of any disease that we may have. It covers a variety of important health topics, and looks at the concept of health from a new perspective.
This new perspective discusses human health from an “Electrical Compatibility” point of view. The more we learn about health and the human body, the more obvious it becomes that all aspects of nature are designed to be compatible, and to work in harmony. Read this book to find out more about this harmony, and find out how this new perspective in health can benefit you. Find out how you can achieve the high level of health that you deserve.
The Book of Barkley by L B Johnson
How Much Dog Hair Does it Take to Heal a Broken Heart? Jet pilot turned LEO investigator L.B Johnson.thought she 
had the world by the tail, until a bundle of mayhem disguised as a lab puppy came into her life. After heartbreak as a young teen Mom, and witnessing too much violence for one lifetime, she wasn't going to get too attached to another living creature, but Barkley had other plans for her.
The Amazon #1 Best Seller “The Book of Barkley: Love and Life Through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever” takes readers from the author's depths of grief and loss at a young age to an empowering new life chock-full of love. But Johnson's radical life change didn't come from just her renewed faith in God or from friends, but instead from a black Labrador called Barkley who taught her the real, innate meaning of love.
In a wholly-unique and uplifting new memoir, Johnson tells the deeply-personal story of her life and experiences with a rambunctious Labrador Retriever named Barkley. It's not just a story of one woman and her dog; but a bold journey to discover what love really is, and why learning to live like a dog gives humanity a powerful new meaning.
Julian's Journeys by Julian Worker
These are my stories about me interacting with wherever I am in the world, ranging from the USA to Bhutan, via Malta and Qatar.Sibelsnaat by Dan Dial
Sibelsnaat is an non-classifiable book with a point to it. A sharpened, topical, frightening point. Dan Dial, whoever he is, or was, writes from a place of angered pessimism, but not without some humour and humanity.
You could call the book ‘short and sweet', or you could call it ‘short and sour'. Short, it is. The other descriptor is up to you, the reader.
Retirement: Different by Design by Rick Steiner
My name is Dr. Rick author of Retirement: Different by Design. I wrote the book because I failed; and, I hate to fail at anything. Indeed, I “failed” to accept what retirement offered, a second chance, a mulligan, life's one and only do-over. I, like many of us, expected retirement to appear fully formed just turn the work switch off and the retirement switch on. But I was wrong, really wrong!
Retirement–A Different Way of Life
Work for many of us was who we were and what we did–it's how we defined ourselves. But retirement changes everything–what's so hard about “doing nothing” we think and truly believe. Oh my friends, that's when it all can go wrong. You see, retiremen
t is more than the absence of work–it's a different way of life requiring new vision, new purpose and new life perspectives. Retirement, disconnects us from our familiar daily routines and what structured our lives, our social networks, our paychecks and our reason for getting up every morning.
Who Should Read this Book?
- The soon-to-be retired wanting to know what retirement “can” be like for them; and, if they are really ready to retire
- Reluctant retirees fearful of what they will find on the “other side of work”
- The already retired who are flirting with failing retirements wanting to know how to turn them around
Providing Answers, Not More Questions
Trained as a journalist and educated as a Social Psychologist I decided to find out what “retirement” is all about–to understand why some retirements thrive while others descend into boredom, dull routine and dysfunctional and unhealthy behaviors. It quickly became apparent that I had to challenge and replace commonly accepted retirement and age myths and misinformation with new integrated models Retirement's Six Fundamental Building Blocks and Retirement's Ages and Stages redefining the retirement experience.
It's Not Always about the Money
We all can live socially rich, emotionally balanced, intellectually nourishing, healthful and physically active retirements no matter the size of our bank accounts because retirement isn't about how much money we have in the bank, but how much “richness and joy” we have in our lives.
Surviving Hunter S. Thompson by Craig Vetter
La Vita by Don Arsenault
1920. Assunta and her young daughters, Marietta and Maddalena, leave their mountain commune in the Gran Sasso of Italy and begin their journey to the promised better life in America where Camillo, her long-absent husband and father of the girls, waits for them. The story takes us from the confusion of their departure in Antwerp, the crossing of the Atlantic in steerage, their detainment on Ellis Island, to the mountains of northern New Hampshire where, after the birth of two more children, their better life is cut short by Camillo’s death.
Left with four dependent children, Assunta, a non-citizen, must find ways to keep the family together through the Great Depression, the Bank Holiday that wiped out her substantial nest egg; Prohibition, World War 2 with its intensified anti-Italian prejudice, the threat of deportation, and the consequences of her mistaken marriage of convenience – all of which leave her with bittersweet memories of the life she lived on three continents with two husbands and six children.
Small Town Roads by L B Johnson
t has a giant cow perched on the roof. It was not the life she had expected.Babylonian Harlot by Steven Ira
God’s end time saints will need to be warned. It has been fifteen months since the Rapture removed all Christians from the earth and something new, something big, is about to happen. Daniel Goldman senses this. And since he remains—as far as he knows—the only man on earth commissioned by God for these end times, the task falls to him.
Daniel’s intuition is confirmed when the Antichrist and the False Prophet begin to circulate among select Israeli leaders photos of an ancient ivory carving of a Jewish temple. Many believe the temple depicted by the carving represents an actual structure, the Jewish Second Temple as it appeared before its destruction in 70 AD. They also believe that with those circulated photos the Beasts are promising the Jews a Third Temple to be built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Although still new to his assignment, Daniel knows enough to recognize the problem with such a structure: a Third Temple in Jerusalem would ignite all-out war with Islam whose own holy structures already occupy that contested piece of real estate.
On a mild December day, pursuing his vaguely understood divine mission, Daniel arrives in Rome with the single imperative of returning to the Beasts’ Roman Lake League headquarters to investigate this temple carving. The first problem he faces: only two months ago they tried to kill him in this very place. He has since taken great pains to hide himself and the handful of people dependent upon him from these supernaturally empowered enemies. Nonetheless, with only a promise from his inner voice and a young prostitute he believes God sent to help him after he arrived in Rome, Daniel confidently attends a church service conducted by the False Prophet, Akiva Sharabani. The service will take place in the heart of the Beasts’ domain, the miniature Coliseum reproduced in the center of their headquarters building.
But when Daniel and his providentially-provided assistant enter the Coliseum to observe the service, they enter not only a physical structure but a satanically energized world over which the Beasts will exercise iron-fisted dominion. The False Prophet already revealed supernatural power when Daniel was here the first time, but Daniel soon discovers that power has now vastly expanded—and that the new Third Temple promised for Jerusalem is but the beginning of the Beasts’ plans to establish world-wide control. What the beasts have in mind is nothing less than returning planet earth to its roots, to the place where idolatry was born.
From Rome to Jerusalem, from an archaeological dig to the birth pangs of a new Tower of Babel, Daniel and his young helper pursue the mission—and are in turn pursued by God’s Enemies, visible and invisible.
Under the Approaching Dark by Anna Belfrage
Adam de Guirande has cause to believe the turbulent times are behind him: Hugh Despenser is dead and Edward II is forced to abdicate in favour of his young son. It is time to look forward, to a bright new world in which the young king, guided by his council, heals his kingdom and restores its greatness. But the turmoil is far from over.
England in the early months of 1327 is a country in need of stability, and many turn with hope towards the new young king, Edward III. But Edward is too young to rule, so instead it is his mother, Queen Isabella, and her lover, Roger Mortimer, who do the actual governing, much to the dislike of barons such as Henry of Lancaster.
When it is announced that Edward II has died in September of 1327, what has so far been a grumble grows into voluble protests against Mortimer. Yet again, the spectre of rebellion haunts the land, and things are further complicated by the reappearance of one of Adam’s personal enemies. Soon enough, he and his beloved wife Kit are fighting for their survival – even more so when Adam is given a task that puts them both in the gravest of dangers.
Under the Approaching Dark is the third in Anna Belfrage’s series, The King’s Greatest Enemy, the story of a man torn apart by his loyalties to his lord, his king, and his wife.
The Warrior by Joyce Swann
James is sitting at a Ft. Worth intersection waiting for the light to change when he hears the roar of a truck speeding toward him. Before he can react, his motorcycle is crushed, and he is thrown fifty feet onto the median.
At that precise moment in Dallas, Elizabeth’s sleep is interrupted by a vivid dream in which she witnesses James’ accident. As she watches him begin to pass from life to death, she extends her hand and cries, “Don’t die if you don’t know Jesus!”
Although neither James nor Elizabeth is aware of the other's existence, they begin a ten-year odyssey in which their lives are inexorably intertwined, changing their futures and the futures of those they love most.
“The Warrior” is a moving testimony to the power of prayer and God’s desire to redeem every life.
Steps in My Shoes by Ron Deming
Steps in My Shoes is a true account of my journey through the foster care system and beyond. Going through four foster homes, two adoptive homes, five behavioral facilities, and battling with reactive attachment disorder (RAD), and sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) certainly taught me a lot.
The abysmal college graduation rate of less than 3% for foster youth did not prevent me from bagging a bachelor’s degree and becoming a licensed teacher. If I could go through all that and still found the courage to become a teacher and author, then I believe other foster youth can too.
Reading this book will totally educate you on what an average child in the foster care system passes through on a daily basis. This intriguing book is a must have for teachers, social workers, foster/adoptive parents, people considering being foster/adoptive parents, and current/past foster and adopted youth.
Fat Girl by K L Montgomery
What happens when you're forced to swallow your pride and move back home during your divorce? When you're about to turn 40 and you're stumbling through a series of terrible first dates? When you've landed your dream job but you feel too fat to celebrate?
You laugh, sip wine with your gay best friend, and promise to start your diet on Monday, that's what.
Join Claire Sterling on her journey to reclaim the word “fat.” You'll laugh, you'll cry, and in the end you'll realize that there's a little bit of Claire in all of us.
Fighting Back by John F Harrison
When Eddie Caruthers comes to the aid of a friend being harassed on the street, his good deed backfires. Friends, family, and church all condemn his actions. Even worse, the man he confronted is bent on revenge, and innocent people become collateral damage in an undeclared war. With a shrinking list of allies and a growing roster of enemies, Eddie must outwit his foes and rescue the unexpected victims he finds during his quest for justice. Woven throughout the story is a thoughtful exploration of the morality of violence, the workings of temptation, and the sometimes surprising road to redemption.
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