Bøger af Dan Carroll

Are you hungry for God to reveal Himself to You?Do you want to know more about God? How He works in your life? What about your purpose in life? Maybe you wonder, why did God create the world? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why pray? Is there a heaven and a hell? Does God heal? What does He think about women in ministry? How can the Holy Spirit live within you?When it comes to serving God, we have thousands of questions. While this book doesn't answer all of them, it does provide a solid framework for our faith. Knowing what we believe and how God works in this world and in people equips us with answers. It opens up new vistas of faith and helps us relate to God in our everyday lives.

Unwrap the real Christmas. The malls are packed, the tree is up, and the Christmas cider is sumptuous. The manger scene is erected, the cards are sent, and everyone is guessing what is in the big blue box under the tree. The holiday buzz is at full pitch. Many people look forward to the big day with its traditions and family celebrations. But some find Christmastime over-commercialized--even a time of anxiety or sadness. Christmas is a season that should provoke hope in us, but often it stirs up despair and loneliness. No matter your reality, the real Christmas is more than a time of gift giving and family gatherings, and it's more even than a story about a baby in a manger. It is the story of a King--the King of hope. Pastor Dan Carroll unpacks the real Christmas, showing you a King who came to fill you with possibility, destiny and hope. This little book has been compiled from popular messages preached by Pastor Dan at Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, California. He starts off several chapters with fun pop quizzes that will help you separate Christmas tradition and myth from the real biblical story--see how many your get right! Then, in a fast-moving, conversational style, he shows how Christmas is really a story of hope and life for you. From Joseph and Mary to the shepherds in the field to the wise men who traveled so far, this is your journey too. These biblical characters battled through real struggles and had real questions. They had to learn to hear God, obey God, and then receive God's blessing. Mary and Joseph, the shepherds and the wise men were all part of the greatest miracle of all time--the virgin birth of the Savior. Yet they were real, every day people, just like you and Pastor Dan. Open your heart to God's hand touching your circumstances and see if the Christmas story doesn't become your story too.

After his father was killed by terrorists at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and his mother killed by a mugger a year before, Brendan is determined to make sense of the world, to see if life has any real meaning. He shuns a carpentry career and embarks upon the study of philosophy to seek truth in everyday existence. He lives in a rustic cabin with no electricity on a lake in Maine, but becomes intrigued by a waitress named Cosette, and together they tour Canada, having no idea who will be waiting for them after they get back-Brendan's wife. She attacks Cosette in a bloody catfight which lands Cosette in the hospital.As a result of the many twists and turns of that summer, Brendan-through Cosette-discovers the truth he'd been searching for, a truth embodied in the acceptance that everything has a price to pay, including happiness itself.

Have you ever asked God how He wants to use you to touch neighborhoods and nations? If we are to become the people God hungers to make us-people who know God, surrender fully to Him, care for others, and invest in God's kingdom-then meeting with God each day is crucial. As with David, who often worshiped the Lord alone in creation, spending time with God will lead us into deep friendship with Him. God wants to meet our deepest needs and build His destiny into our hearts-and He does that when we grow deep into His heart. Walk with Jesus on this ninety-day devotional journey, and see how He transforms you and leads you to His destiny for your life.

BLACKNBLUE TAVERN...WHERE DISCOVERIES HAPPENWelcome to The BlackNBlue Tavern and the lives of the men that arrive there with a thirst. Everything's on tap including a can of Grow the Fuck Up! When a former pro wrestler named Joe opens a bar catering to men who love manly combat, not even he could predict the arrival of the men that would soon become like a family to him. After meeting a man out of his past and taking an unexpected heart-punch, Joe and his partner leave the bar in the capable hands of Fist, a man known for being a rough street brawler but with a heart of gold.Standing up, CJ grabbed Fist by one arm and waved at Joe and Jeff, who waved back as he led the bartender toward the door. As the door closed, Jeff said, "You know, babe, I just realized...it's NOT about the fights here, is it?"Suddenly, the men and the bar find themselves threatened by a mysterious pair and it's up to all of them to band together and defend their place. Boys will be boys, but it takes some MEN to fix the problems...Meet the men of the BlackNBlue...they'll never be the same, what makes you think you will?

Webster's defines the term 'love' as "a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties or from sexual desire and attraction". As well, throughout history, love has come to mean many different things to many different people, but in the end, this strongest of emotions seems to find a way to win out over all adversity.What follows within is a series of short stories concerning love between two men set in different locales, times and situations in which love blossoms and grows in unexpected and surprising ways.That being said, the fourteen stories contained in this anthology all show that, regardless of the time or the place, it is love that is the ultimate victory that can overcome any obstacle, no matter how hopeless the situation seems.These stories move between different time frames and eras from the present day to the Old South to gladiatorial times to the future, but all of them have the ultimate theme of love winning out in the end.As you read these stories of love and hope between men, it is my hope you'll come away with a better understanding of how love truly can conquer any problem, big or small.

For $2.99 eBook go to- amazon.com/author/dancarroll SLUM: A ROMANTIC ADVENTURE (Book one of The Slum Trilogy) is not a typical boy-meets-girl love story. Their situation is impossible. Robert is a sophisticated executive in New York City. Julianna is a former stripper living in a slum on a Caribbean island. Besides, he already has a girlfriend and is not looking for someone else- especially not a married ex-stripper from a far-away Caribbean slum! But as fate would have it, a dying six-year-old girl is the force which throws them together into a passionate entanglement which transforms both of them. An intoxicating love story? A tale of hope for a dying child? An inspiring moral drama? It's all rolled into this fast moving page turner.

THE SLUM TRILOGY, BOOK THREE Eight people narrowly escape death on a revolutionary island by fleeing to America in a small plane. One person, though, is intentionally left behind because he had naively thought he wanted to be part of the revolution. But he was wrong. Sergeant Gabino realized too late that he should've been on the escape plane with the others, as his life as a soldier became in peril due to his crazy, neurotic general. As Robbie, Julianna, baby Vic, Alba, Mama, Natalia, Lucita, and Chris try to adjust to America (some successfully, others disastrously), a communication blockade sets in. They could no longer talk with Gabino, whom they last knew as desperately wanting to get away from his neurotic general, fearing for his life. A rescue of Gabino is impossible because the revolution raged. But when a dangerous, long-shot chance presents itself, Robbie fearfully returns to the island to see if he could locate the naïve soldier, Gabino, and bring him to America to join the people he loved.

Is a verbal portrait a valid concept? If so, these pages contain two vastly different portraits- one of a dying drunk, another of an 18-month-old child. The preface makes it clear these are not stories. The first portrait is drawn within an old farmhouse. The second portrait is drawn with an amusement park in the background. Like traditional portraits, these two verbal portraits may be analyzed from various angles. But, ultimately, the viewer is seeing the portrait painter himself. "Every man's work," said the novelist, Samuel Butler, "whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself."

When this group of men met and discovered their differences as well as their commonalities, they realized that they had formed a sort of family like none other. Even though they all loved to fight and wrestle, they knew deep down that there was more to each of them than just the fights. Now that the threat of Matilda and Ed has come to an abrupt end with her untimely death, the men of the BlackNBlue Tavern settle down into their respective relationships and their connection with each other. Suddenly, however, they find themselves threatened once again only this time the threat is not only against the bar but against all of them as well. Add to that an unlikely new member of their group and revelations about certain past events and Fist, CJ and the others realize it's time to band together again and prevent the oncoming danger from destroying not only the bar, but themselves as well! How do they solve the new threats? What happens to them when they discover the real truth