The Brazos Valley Files

Whether it is the increased traffic of a game weekend or the issues involved with adding over seventy thousand students to the population of the area annually, life in a college town like College Station, Texas, can present a variety of challenges.

Follow the cases and issues raised in this book as they play out in the Brazos Valley.

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BUT GOD

Being still in Christ in God’s presence and love gets more accomplished than motion and effort. Transitioning in faith on your journey, there is valuable preparation and perseverance to enjoy the view of the mission in front of you. We are running the marathon of life, training us to be effective in everything, yet we are getting nowhere even when we adapt to change. We are just shifting gears t...

Flight 614

Nineteen-year-old Rachel Brockman has aged out of the foster care system and gambled everything on her newest online boyfriend from Australia. She's supposed to meet him in Japan for a week of luxury dining and adventure where she's expecting he plans to propose. Instead, she's greeted with an apology letter and a one-way ticket to Sydney. With her hopes high and her money low, she boards the flig...

401 Verses

This Is Why You Should Read This BookJeremiah 31:33-34,But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts: and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying Know the Lord: for they sha...

WHISPERS to your Heart from GOD

Do you have a hunger and thirst to deepen your relationship with God, but you oftentimes find yourself on a tight schedule? This is just the book for you. Whispers to Your Heart from God is a daily devotional that contains brief poems, stories, scriptures, and analogies about life and nature that direct you to Christ's love, forgiveness, and faithfulness. Many days, when author Pamela Fay Ellis wa...

Is there anything in the corner?

Have you ever climbed a volcano in flip-flops or fled your home at night during the middle of a typhoon? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave home at the age of thirteen and attend boarding school?

In this honest reflection, Tami not only gives us a window into her childhood memories but also reveals her vulnerability through failure, pain, and loneliness. Tami witt...

I Am a Child of the Most High God

I Am a Child of the Most High God is a book about our identity in Christ and who God made us to be. So often, we identify with who this world says that we are, but that is not who we are at all. God created us in His image. That means we are spiritual beings with three parts (spirit, soul, and body). Also, God created us as male and female, with distinct roles and gifts that He has given...

Tales of a TEAMSTER PREACHER

The world is a tough place to be in sometimes, but fear not, because others are going through some of the same things that you are right now. Join me on a spiritual journey through the year with real-life experiences from an ordinary guy that God called to use his gifts to share the good news with you!...

An Ecuador Compendium

After twenty-nine years of marriage and being in their fifties, Gary and Kathy Meier touched down on Ecuadorian soil January 1, 1993, as missionaries with HCJB World Radio (now Reach Beyond). Immediately, their lives were turned upside down as they experienced a new culture, language, geography, and climate. These short stories reveal the ups and downs missionaries throughout the world encounter a...

Easter Bunny and Chick (The Play)

This play puts the story Easter Bunny and Chick into action right away with an eyes-wide-open and ears-straight-up Bunny who is magically drawn in from the start of a glowing angel. Next, Bunny meets up with Chick in a lowly stable, where they greet the newborn King, Jesus. Throughout, Bunny and Chick take their adventurous journey along Jesus's side, where they face many trials, tribulations, mir...

Afternoon Reflections

These lines were written in hope that they will bless, cheer, encourage, comfort, inspire, or challenge someone....

Follow Your Dream: A Grandmother's Legacy

Lina Ladonal (Randolph) Harris was born in Missouri in 1885 on the old homestead. Growing up, she heard many family stories of her forefathers going clear back to England in the early sixteenth century.When Grandmother was young, she loved listening to the family stories of immigration, her famous Randolph cousins, pioneers walking along the mountain wilderness trails of the Allegheny Mountains, a...