Friesenpress: 1356 books

Have you ever been confused and frustrated by passages in the Bible that don’t seem to make sense? Have you ever thought that parts of the Bible are contradictory and therefore find it hard to accept any of it as the truth? Do you find yourself more confused than fulfilled when you spend time in the...

Each day life presents us with new experiences. Some are positive while others cause us to question our deepest beliefs. I Can Do All Things addresses a variety of these topics, relating them to strong faith and diverse life stories. In each chapter the author shares in-depth thoughts, personal stories,...

When twenty-eight year old Lea Mahy is hospitalized miles away from home in October 1932, she maintains a connection with her family by writing letters to her husband and mother. What transpires is a heart-wrenching account of a young wife and mother yearning to be with her family once again. Set in...

Navigating the events of everyday life, we who have chosen the Christian path or are seeking faith may sometimes feel a sense of disillusionment with the relevance of spirituality in today’s world. Even when faced with great disappointment or loss, it may be hard to remember Christ’s teachings when...

I was a perpetually single thirty-something who managed to find love on a dating website. My journey (and it was a journey) was not the shortest distance between two points. In fact, the best words to describe my journey into, and out of, the land of dating is “evolutionary”. Hello, my name is Linda, and I am flirting impaired: here is my story...

Each fascinating anecdote in this remarkable collection of stories reveals how the power of God can change someone’s life in a heartbeat. Drawn from Ross Robbins’s personal experiences, these true stories of human problems solved by God’s grace, of sorrow changed to hope, and of disappointment...

Ravenscraig is a post WWII fictionalized memoir told from the perspective of Alasdair Marshall who is raising his son Ewan, by himself, after his wife’s death. When Alasdair’s father Alex is struck with Alzheimer’s, Jean, Alex’s wife admits him to a full-time care facility called Ravenscraig...

"This is the story of Carmen, who loses her life to lung cancer at age 60. Told by her sister Nicole, it is the gut-wrenching account of Carmen’s final year and her family’s journey through this crisis with her. The story is graphic, often humorous, and always intensely moving. Above all,...

Initially this writer had the opportunity to share my personal Miracle Bedtime Stories with an 8-year-old child who would regularly ask, “Sharron, would you tell me a bedtime story?” I thought for a while and replied "Emily, I’m not good at fairytales but I can tell you stories that are...

Safety, Acceptance, Belonging. These words come to mind when we hear about families. Having a mother, father, and twelve siblings living in a strong Christian faith should mean plenty of love, laughter and companionship. But what if, inexplicably, one’s parents selectively manipulated and mistreated...

It’s shortly after World War II in Eastern Europe when a tormented young woman steps up to the door of a speeding train…and prepares to throw her baby outside. What happens next will forever alter the lives of the young woman, the horrified teacher who steps up to stop her…and the three-month...

How do you see the world when you are blind? How does the world see you? Blind Insight shares one woman’s experience growing up legally blind. In poetry and art, the author takes us on a journey through memory, introducing the main characters in her life and ones she’s crossed paths with time and...

Shortly after his father’s death, Terence began writing a weekly blog about his life adventures as a memoir for his children. What begins as a journey of grief evolves into a series of evocative, candid and often humorous adventures about his life as a child in rural Australia to his current cosmopolitan...

Mrefu is a story of growing up--in England during wartime and in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, which forever shatters the privileged lifestyle of the European settlers. A serious illness dashes some of his dreams but Sheridan learns self-reliance when, as a young boy, he travels alone on a troop-ship....