Get your hopes up. Raise your expectations. Your best days are in front of you. In challenging times, it may be hard to see better days ahead. You may feel as though your struggles will never end. Yet, this is exactly the moment to put your faith into action and expect God’s blessings. It’s your time to declare your faith, to look for God’s favor, and find fulfillment in His plans for you!

John Stott is an Anglican clergyman and is a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He is also an author and has penned several religious works including ‘Why I Am a Christian’, and ‘Basic Christianity’. He has also written and narrated christian audio books including ‘John Stott on the Bible and the Christian Life’,

The distracted man trembled from head to foot, partly from cold, partly from the struggle in which he was engaged. Hours passed and a fever assailed his body. His throat began to hurt and his teeth chattered. His feet on the study floor felt like two cakes of ice. Still he would not give up. “I will see this woman and will think the thoughts I have never dared to think,” he told himself, gripping the edge of the desk and waiting.

Listen to an extract from The Strength of God

In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Called to action in 1882, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that helped to save countless families. It has since grown to an international membership of 1, 7 million men. At heart, though. Father McGivney was never anything more than an American parish priest, and nothing less than that, either.

In an incredible work of academic research, Douglas Brinkley and Julie M, Fenster re-create the life of Father McGivney, a fiercely dynamic and yet tenderhearted man. Moving and inspirational, the Parish Priest audio books chronicles the process of canonization that may well make Father McGivney the first American-born parish priest to be declared a saint by the Vatican.

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is a Clark professor of history and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Tulane University, His most recent publications include New York Times bestsellers The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc and Tour of Duty, and The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation with Stephen A, Ambrose. is an award-winning author of historical books including Ether Day and Race Of The Century, Her articles have appeared in American Heritage, the New York Times and American History, She won the Audio Publishers Award for best original writing for Zeus: A Thunderbolt From the Sky.

JULIE M. FENSTER