Champions Of Hope

Champions of Hope brings together five lectures that Daisaku Ikeda dedicates to the young people who will carry on the Soka Gakkai's mission for creating happiness and peace. He covers five key topics:COURAGEINVINCIBLE SPIRITSUCCESSORSHUMANISMKOSEN-RUFUUsing passages from Nichiren's writings, he offers lessons for humanistic leadership and guidelines to help young people become champions of life and hope.

All beings live to die. Some live life in human knowledge and others live life before and after death in God wisdom. Some hope in created entity and others hope in God-the Creator. The choices are in us. Every life has a story and a testimony. Every being lives within a perishable season of time and an inevitable reason of confinement hoping to be freed from hope prisoners to Hope Champions under God. The unique contribution of this book is to reveal the mystery of general imprisonment on earth and is to unveil the miracles of special salvation in heaven from God to fellow men. This book meant to earn your partnership by sharing God’s truth. God is omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience. Any unknown idolism and unseen ritual adulterated by prisoners of hope is known to God and seen by God. Every hopeful message in this book is written not as view of an author but as event of a witness testified with God’s words and deeds. Ultimate salvation to mankind only from God regenerated life before death and resurrected life after death under the Great Commandment of loving God and others; and the Great Commission of spreading the gospel to all nations.. ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.’ John 3:16 NIV

A Champion of Hope YOU can be 'a champion of hope' to others An e-book (or perhaps even a paperback) from my various blog posts at www.achampionofhope.wordpress.com How to turn your blog into a e-book (or even a paperback)... "so easy peasy"! 1. Copy your blog posts and paste them into a Word doc (control C and V) 2. Submit your ebook to Amazon (kdp) 3. It should be published within about 8 hours 4. After publication you can "tidy-up" and edit your submission. Really easy (though I loath editing - it shows, c!) Next we'll show how to do a paperback version of your book. Hope this helps "had lots of practice (makes "purrfect") C # "The best way to predict your future is to create it. So believe in your dream. Never throw it away. Believe in the dream even when it is impossible. Believe in the stars, even when they're hidden in the storm. Believe in love, even when you can't find it or feel it. Believe in faith, even when God is silent. So turn your hurts into halos and your deepest scars into the brightest stars. And when it's time eventually to take your last breath... you will come to the end of your journey with pride behind you, love around you and hope ahead of you." - Benediction from Coretta Scott King's funeral by Robert H. Schuller PPS "The best way to predict your future is to create it. So believe in your dream. Never throw it away. Believe in the dream even when it is impossible. Believe in the stars, even when they're hidden in the storm. Believe in love, even when you can't find it or feel it. Believe in faith, even when God is silent. So turn your hurts into halos and your deepest scars into the brightest stars. And when it's time eventually to take your last breath... you will come to the end of your journey with pride behind you, love around you and hope ahead of you." PPS "The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God's podium that anyone stand on." - c "Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win." from www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com http: //racetothechequeredflag.wordpress.com/ and http: //www.godandformula1.wordpress.com

A Champion of Hope YOU can be 'a champion of hope' to others "From the depth of the valleys, in the deserts of despair, there is hope... as there is the unquenchable oasis, the immense breadth and depth of the human spirit... always." from https: //achampionofhope.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/from-the-depth-of-the-valleys-in-the-deserts-of-despair-there-is-hopealways/ An e-book (or perhaps even a paperback) from my various blog posts at www.achampionofhope.wordpress.com How to turn your blog into a e-book (or even a paperback)... "so easy peasy"! 1. Copy your blog posts and paste them into a Word doc (control C and V) 2. Submit your ebook to Amazon (kdp) 3. It should be published within about 8 hours 4. After publication you can "tidy-up" and edit your submission. Really easy (though I loath editing - it shows, c!) Next we'll show how to do a paperback version of your book. Hope this helps "had lots of practice (makes "purrfect") C # "The best way to predict your future is to create it. So believe in your dream. Never throw it away. Believe in the dream even when it is impossible. Believe in the stars, even when they're hidden in the storm. Believe in love, even when you can't find it or feel it. Believe in faith, even when God is silent. So turn your hurts into halos and your deepest scars into the brightest stars. And when it's time eventually to take your last breath... you will come to the end of your journey with pride behind you, love around you and hope ahead of you." - Benediction from Coretta Scott King's funeral by Robert H. Schuller PPS "The best way to predict your future is to create it. So believe in your dream. Never throw it away. Believe in the dream even when it is impossible. Believe in the stars, even when they're hidden in the storm. Believe in love, even when you can't find it or feel it. Believe in faith, even when God is silent. So turn your hurts into halos and your deepest scars into the brightest stars. And when it's time eventually to take your last breath... you will come to the end of your journey with pride behind you, love around you and hope ahead of you." PPS "The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God's podium that anyone stand on." - c "Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win." from www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com http: //racetothechequeredflag.wordpress.com/ and http: //www.godandformula1.wordpress.com

The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prizewinning cultural critic From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city's shifting fortunes. In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, Detroit has held on to its franchises, and there is currently great hope in the revival of the city focused on its downtown sports complexes—but to whose benefit? Szymanski and Weineck show how the fate of the teams in Detroit's stadiums, gyms, and fields is echoed in the rise and fall of the car industry, political upheavals ushered in by the depression, World War II, the 1967 uprising, and its recent bankruptcy and renewal. Driven by the conviction that sports not only mirror society but also have a special power to create both community and enduring narratives that help define a city's sense of self, City of Champions is a unique history of the most American of cities.

Ask most of the millions of pre-teen soccer-playing girls in America if they plan to make the U.S. Women's National Team someday and the answer for them - and most of their parents - will be a resounding "Yes!" Among the most successful international teams in any sport in the past three decades, the USNWT has emerged as a collective cultural icon, with its individual members redrafting the very definition of female across the globe. With the lines blurring between male and female behavior, girls are competing ferociously and celebrating wildly without apology. Women are demanding gender and racial equity, while dressing and speaking authentically, and loving however and whomever they choose. The reality is that making the National Team is about as likely as winning the lottery. Of the tens of millions of soccer players since the team was formed in 1985, fewer than 250 women have ever made it to the highest level as of 2020. In Raising Tomorrow's Champions, one of those players, 16-year professional Joanna Lohman, joins current soccer dad and 40-year journalist Paul Tukey to share the team members' stories, from the early pioneers like Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm, who are now parents themselves, to modern-day household names like Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. For a true picture of what makes these women champions, Joanna and Paul also talked to their parents, coaches and teammates. The result of this unprecedented access to the National Team is an intimately revealing portrait of what it takes to make it to the top, not just in soccer, but in life. Not every child will make the most elite team, but the choices they - and their families - make in the face of challenge and adversity may define their childhood, their high school experiences, their college options, and their path forward in life. Not every child will necessarily even play soccer, but the lessons shared within Raising Tomorrow's Champions can help him or her become accomplished, authentic, and satisfied adults no matter what path they choose.

A Celebration of Everyone Who Fulfills Their Purpose Through Unexpected Challenges Until two years of age, Craig and Samantha’s son Connor was just like other kids—playful, verbal, and affectionate. Then everything changed. He stopped talking, displayed behavioral problems, and withdrew into his own world. The official diagnosis—autism. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, Craig and Samantha refused to believe a meaningful life for Connor was impossible. God confirmed their faith by revealing to Craig that Connor would one day touch the lives of thousands of people around the world. Craig and Samantha held that unlikely promise in their hearts during the agonizing years ahead. Champion is a spellbinding chronicle of the twists and turns of Connor’s journey—guided by his parent’s steadfast hope in God’s promises. Through the unexpected breaking of their spirits, the Holy Spirit was poured out, culminating in a miracle that has launched a global ministry to the disabled.

A "guide to success in all aspects of life-- not just sports-- from business to relationships to personal challenges of every variety"--Amazon.com.

“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly