Books published by Covenant Books

This book is fiction. While there is no intention to teach anything about a special privilege to a few people in eternity as being true, the idea is to help people begin to look closely at the life they are living.Are you driven by a passion that people will identify when they come to know you?Are you truly a person that knows they have a purpose to fulfill in this life?Too many people go through this life from birth to death and never find anything that moves them forward. It has been rightly said that all men die but that all men do not truly live.Every Christian should find their first and most driving desire in life to be serving our Savior. There is no fiction in that statement. ­ The lives of the people in this book called the passionates are people who found a purpose to live for that they never let go of as long as they lived.You may be just an everyday, ordinary person as far as the world is concerned, but you were made by a loving Creator that did not make one other single person exactly like you. There may be people who look like you or sound like you. You may have spent your life trying to be like someone else. As you follow the lives of the people of this book, who did not ever live except in the imagination of one person, it is my hope that you will be able to see that a true passion can not only guide your life, but it can take you out of the humdrum of existence. The difference between you and these people is simple: you are real, and you are alive, and you can have a passion.Just as these individuals never dreamed of what the special gift of an "eternity delayed" could be, neither will you be able to imagine what God can do in your life if it is driven by a passion that he sees as a noble endeavor.Let your imagination free for a while and see what it could be like if you were driven by a passion that marks your very existence and converts your life into a life worth living. Remember, do not make any theological conclusions from this or any other work of fiction. This was not intended to be a children's book, but it is written so a child could follow the journeys of these people. But as C. S. Lewis said, a children's story that is not worth reading as an adult is probably not fit for children either.Go and live your passion.

A children’s book depicting the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand with a little boy’s sack lunch. It is written from the perspective of the boy providing the lunch and reveals the emotions and excitement of him seeing Jesus and the initial skepticism of his mother regarding the miracle his little sack lunch played.

It is May 1634 when Jonathan and Elizabeth Pratt arrive in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. They are as yet unaware of the beauty and dangers that they will encounter in this wilderness as they embark on their journey of faith. As they establish a home and family in this new world, they and their companions will experience loss, tragedy, and death. They will also experience joy, love, and renewal as they serve one another in compassion, love, and charity—the pure love of Jesus Christ. They will learn that family can include much more than blood relations as they band together with others in their community of saints to face the challenges life in the wilderness. They learn that when they are in the service of their fellow man and women, they are in the service of God. They also learn that as they do their best to keep the commandments and live the Gospel, they prosper in this land that is choice above all other lands. In doing so, they plant the seeds of what will become this great country of the United States of America.

This book lists a variety of activities that a grandparent may use to communicate effectively with grandchildren to help create a loving, learning, and bonding environment for both the grandparent and grandchild.

Eve Searle has led a life filled at different times with danger, adventure, fun, and a zest for living.Born in 1934 in what was then Czechoslovakia, she lived through World War II and the Russian front and then moved with her parents to British India, only to get involved in the horrors of the Indian civil war following the end of British rule and the formation of the countries of India and Pakistan. Her family then moved to Australia, where she finished her schooling and began a successful career in business. After several years she developed a passion for flying and, in quick succession, obtained her private pilot’s license, then her commercial license, and finally an instructor rating. She spent several years in the flying world, being at the time one of only three female commercial pilots in the country.After several years, she and her husband decided to join her family who had moved to the United States and applied for a resident visa. As they could not await the granting of this within the United States, they moved to Mexico, where they spent a colorful two years awaiting their US residency permit.When this was granted, they moved to Boulder City, Nevada, and then settled on a farm in Arizona. After several years the marriage fell apart; and Eve moved to a remote canyon in the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona, where she met her future husband, an Arizona cowboy and rancher.Together they developed a successful guest ranch visited by guests from all over the world. After several years they purchased an adjoining cattle ranch; and Eve then spent her time between hosting the guest ranch visitors and her “family” of animals, consisting of her favorite horse, Comanche, a pet cow called Clementine, three sheep, and a family of assorted goats, the main one, orphaned Snowball, being raised in the house, which had to be “goat-proofed” during her residence.Her husband having died in 2006, she ran both operations singlehanded and then sold the guest ranch and settled down to the life of an Arizona cattle rancher, a fulfilling life that she still enjoys today.

This book is the story of my very real struggle with suffering. Before I was a Christian, I never questioned “why?” As a young teen, I was incarcerated in the Milwaukee County Juvenile Detention Center. Homelife had been terrible; this was much worse.In the book, I share some of the steps I took to try to understand God in my life, eventually leading to a desire to be a clergy man in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. I tell people that I was called from “prison” to pulpit. Christian “love” was my real struggle. I wanted to know what it really meant.Then September 2012, my wife, Elaine, broke a hip. Soon after complete recovery, she broke the other one. After that, Alzheimer’s set it. Watching her die a bit at a time over an almost eight-year period, I was torn apart and wondered why a loving God allowed this to happen to her and to me. I questioned his love, looked for answers, then I began to understand why a tender forgiving, loving God would allow this to happen. I call what I learned a “divine diamond.”Spiritually, I rediscovered the phrase, “God Is in Charge!” Though it helped me spiritually, physically I was a wreck, still not completely recovered two years later. (This next sentence is not in the book.) At age ninety, I do golf three times a week, work out at the gym after golf, and am regaining some of my strength.I never let the reader forget that I am “chief of sinners” who is fiercely loved and cared for by my God.The “divine diamond” helps me look for ways I can be of service and is a guiding light. I’ve limited what it means to me in the book because I believe each of us who weep need to find our own “diamond” and how it can be used by others. Suffering is a real discovery time best left to each to find.

Every day when I wake up I acknowledge God in all my ways, so he will direct my life. I also pray that he will bless me with a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. I thank God for blessing me with his Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lets me know that God will direct my life.

“Teaching in the trenches” is an expression used to describe the obstacles and battles that teachers encounter in the daily classroom environment. This book has been written by a teacher with thirty years of teaching experience. She shares the hilarious and heartbreaking accounts of her journey as a teacher and the positive effects of discipline and classroom management.The author provides these details in the book:ΓùÅ    the importance of the first two weeks of school;ΓùÅ    disciplining the low-socioeconomic students;ΓùÅ    how to become a no-nonsense teacher;ΓùÅ    believing in your students;ΓùÅ    speaking their language;ΓùÅ    classroom management;ΓùÅ    lesson plans;ΓùÅ    goal setting;ΓùÅ    organizing paperwork;ΓùÅ    your confidence;ΓùÅ    learning to laugh;ΓùÅ    being spontaneous;and much, much more.Visit our website at: www.alphakidsinc.com and email alphakidds@gmail.com.

Jill Watson, RN, was also a traveling nurse and wildlife photographer who happily combined her two loves for several years. Emergency medical assignments in picturesque areas of the country afforded her the opportunity to pursue both of her passions—the best of both worlds. The combination worked successfully for years. In her most recent assignment in Estes Park, Colorado—high in the Rocky Mountains—she met her husband Rob, a police officer in Estes. And one sunny spring day in this beautiful idyllic mountain town, the unheard-of happened. A twelve-year-old girl was missing. The locals and tourists alike turned out to help locate the young daughter of vacationers from Oklahoma. She was nowhere to be found.