The Chocolate Pages Show

Ingredients for Prayer

—In times of economic turmoil in the lives of so many, people are turning to whatever financial bailout that comes their way. These stimulus packages include reduced costs for services, rebates, two for one deals, and even prayer.

The Rev. Eric A. Lambert Jr. believes prayer is the stimulus to improving people’s lives not as a gimmick but by, for one, giving them peace even though they have a bleak financial outlook.

“Through prayer we find a place that guarantees peace,” Rev. Lambert says. “God wants to solve our problems and give us peace.” In his latest book, Ingredients for Prayer: A Practical Approach for Maximizing Your Time with God, Rev. Lambert, pastor of Bethel Deliverance International Church north of Philadelphia, details what he believes is the true purpose of prayer in contrast to the ‘give me syndrome’ of prayer that so many with financial woes seem to have.

JACQUELIN THOMAS is the national bestselling author whose many novels include the highly popular award-winner The Prodigal Husband, Saved in the City, Soul Journey and Singsation. She is also the founder of the annual Faith-Based Arts Conference.

Visit her at www.jacquelinthomas.com and www.simplydivinebooks.com.

FORSAKEN is Vanessa’s newest book, due out in October 2009. Forsaken is the story of a fallen pastor’s journey back to God.

Vanessa believes that each of her books will touch readers across the country in a special way. It is, after all her God-given destiny to write novels that bring deliverance to God’s people.

www.vanessamiller.com for free excerpt

Want to know how you can move closer to your business and financial goals? Does your brand help you or hurt you?

We all want a life of wealth, health and happiness. What do you dream about? This show will inspire you to connect to your calling and speak your truth to activate your brand to live your best life.

www.BrandYOURBestLife.com

These are tough times. How do you bounce back from any adversity including economic and personal? Hear authors Francyne Ellison and Dr. Jarralynne Agee of Tears to Triumph: Women Learn to Live, Love and Thrive (Souls of My Sisters Book) talk about lessons learned.

And LaCricia A’ngelle, Christian Fiction author of "Girl, Naw" discuss how to really forgive and live.

9/11 affected everyone. How do we view those of different religion today. Aaron D. Taylor came face to face in a hard seat in a warehouse with a radical Jihadist.

Thus he wrote a book about it: In Alone with a Jihadist: A Biblical Response to Holy War, missionary and evangelist Aaron Taylor details his meeting with a militant jihadist named Khalid.

Out of this one conversation, Taylor came to the revelation that Christians are taught in the Bible to live outside of the policies mandated by government and instead practice the philosophy of pacifism.

Once an advocate of military aggression and the just cause of violence on behalf of fellow Christians, Taylor now works toward his goals of promoting brotherhood and a love for others as modeled by Jesus Christ

In his first book for adults, the NAACP award-winning, New York Times Bestselling Hill Harper sparks honest dialogues about the crisis in African American relationships.

Only 34% of African-American children today are raised in two-parent households. That is down from 1966, when 85% of black children were raised by two parents. Harper brings a variety of issues out of the shadows in THE CONVERSATION: How Black Men and Women Can Build Trusting Relationships (Gotham Books, September 8, 2009; $20.00)

see www.theconversationonline.com

Join me and Leah Hubbard on this special episode!

Using your God-given gifts to the glory of GOD - that's what these two authors (Angela Benson, author of "SINS OF THE FATHER" and Dr. Cheryl Wilson-Bridges, author of "LEVITE PRAISE," are doing. Writing, speaking, singing - they are turning their talent and passion into a ministry in the arts. Both authors are highly-acclaimed and doing awesome things for in the industry of ministry and for the Kingdom of GOD. Hear how you can discover your purpose, burn with passion and make a profit to help others fund their dreams too!

Stars of MTV’s Run’s House – dubbed “the new Cosby family” – celebrate family values in this inspiring guide to modern parenting.

Despite being a hip-hop icon, an ordained minister, and a reality TV star, Rev Run’s greatest accomplishment has been raising his six children—Angela, Vanessa, JoJo, Diggy, Russy and Miley—with his wife Justine.

Their journey has been captured on Run’s House, a show that celebrates – finally – a reality TV family that is functional instead of dysfunctional.

In an age marked by shallow materialism and fragmented families, Rev Run and Justine have inspired millions of viewers by teaching old-fashioned family values applied with a hip-hop twist.

In Take Back Your Family, Rev Run and Justine celebrate the role of parents and share their secrets to raising a respectful and loving family that can enjoy the good times while surviving the hard ones.

Take Back Your Family: How to Raise Respectful and Loving Kids in a Dysfunctional World

Rev. Run, Justine Simmons, Chris Morrow - Authors

Inspirational Novels! That's what ESSENCE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, Tia McCollors, writes. She is a dreamer and living her dream. Hear how she did it and hear how all these characters come alive in her head first and she translates them to paper.