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All through life we experience a multitude of events that change us and alter the course of our story. Sometimes those events are planned; other times they happen to us with little if any explanation at all. How does God use our experiences to reveal the purpose he has for our lives? In The Master’s Key, you will be challenged to re­flect on the pain and joy of your life and consider how God has used those very experiences to reveal his purpose and plan - both for you and for his people.

Melanie Simpson is desperate when she calls 911 for help controlling her psychotic husband, Jared. When a dangerous and brutal police lieutenant responds, he shoots Jared with his Electric Gun, initiating cardiac arrest. After their son seeks revenge, the police lieutenant kills him as well. A shocked and grieving Melanie asks family for help. Now it is up to her brother, Jason “Bear” Judge, an ex-FBI agent turned trial attorney, to vindicate Melanie.

Island of the Assassin is about two kinds of silence in conflict. A covert killer, Kai Landrie, contracted by the CIA to target Islamic terrorists, develops moral scruples. He shares his doubts in confession with Peter Quince, a priest, who gets renditioned for receiving classified information. The result: two unconditional secrecies, sacred and profane, tragically collide.

There are trials and struggles. In the midst of all this, mistakes are made. Guilt and shame are the driving force in the search for hope. Pain and sorrow cause us to question more than we ever did before. Life is leading us somewhere, but where and why? He never promised a life without these issues. What he promised was that we wouldn’t be alone during them. He waits for us to enter his gates to find rest and peace. His courts are ready for forgiveness and healing if we’d only come. He calls us to come enter his courts.

Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946 — despite having no money or professional skills — his inventions helped revolutionize both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering.

The sacrificial death of Jesus Christ is the most important and cherished event in human history. Still, the accurate cause of how Jesus died remains a mystery to this day. Dr. Gary Hassmann relies on his years of experience as a physician and surgeon to utilize his findings gathered from three decades of extensive scriptural studies, medical research, and pilgrimages to the Holy Land and Rome to unravel and solve the mystery of how Jesus died.

Lima the dog just wants a friend. When he is not chewing up the furniture or sleeping in his crate, he looks outside his bedroom window for someone to keep him company. Unfortunately, all he sees are squirrels and birds. Lima feels sad. Then, one morning, when Lima sees a teenage boy walking by with a dog, he gets so excited! Little does he know he's about to get the surprise of his life when he realizes who the teen is really walking.

Destry Cotton was not from Amity, nor did she care about its rich and colorful past. However, this Christmas, her husband insisted they travel to his home, where Destry met her in-laws for the first time. Trapped with the Cottons by a terrible blizzard, Destry not only began to learn about Amity, but Bill Cotton spoke of his own struggle with life and the impact that doubt and fear had taken on his family, his friends, and his nation. As Bill told of God's supernatural intervention, Destry began to wonder if the God she professed to believe would actually interact with humans.

A fearless Jewish-born Israeli-American Marine and survival expert, Jasmine “Jaz” Steiner, is sent on her final covert mission in Afghanistan—only to be abducted by the Taliban. Major Selim Aslan, a skilled Muslim-born Turkish-American operative, is sent to rescue her, but their plane crashes deep in the Afghan wilderness, leaving Selim gravely injured. Jasmine’s survival skills, courage, and resourcefulness, keep them alive.

This book traces the lives of a lion and an antelope, with the lion learning the hard way that life is not meant to be easy. The antelope also learns about the unforeseen values of friendship resulting from his saving of the lion’s life.

This mostly true book is about a golden retriever named Montmorency. He was raised by a loving rural family in Australia after being rejected by others because of his color. His outstanding loyalty is shown in the six stories contained here.

The moon, stars, wind, the sea, and occasionally even the sun, paint every nuance of his feelings with the music of words. In 42 poems that capture the magic of the night, we get to share a palette of emotions by one who sees and loves life in all its moods and shades, the dark and the light, and every facet of the spirit.

Arlo’s dream was to leave a system of oligarchy and turmoil in the lands of Boorish, where it’s survival of the fittest. To escape war, he had to seek Nirvana. Here, Nirvana is not only a state of mind, but rumored to be a physical place, a paradise. Join Arlo and others on their attempted pilgrimage for a better life, steered by a bunch of heroic pirates aboard the Imhotep, flying through dangerous skies. Here lies a quest in question: Will the Imhotep arrive safely in Nirvana?