Ce livre comprend 40 jours de réflexions quotidiennes visant à renforcer votre relation avec Jésus-Christ et vous encouragera à accompagner celles et ceux qui sont en recherche d'espérance.Pourquoi 40 jours ? La Bible relate plusieurs événements importants qui se sont produits pendant ce laps de temps : la pluie est tombée pendant 40 jours lors du Déluge. Moïse est resté sur le mont Sinaï avec Dieu pendant 40 jours. Les espions d'Israël ont pris 40 jours pour explorer la Terre Prom...

When disaster struck at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith was among the first to arrive on the scene. Report from Ground Zero is his insider's account of the heroic efforts of the firefighters, police and emergency workers who rushed to downtown New York to face the greatest challenge of their lives.In all, 343 firefighters gave their lives. Entire companies were lost. Among the dead were a father and son; the department's beloved chaplain; commanders and r...

Do you desire a more meaningful study and prayer life? Do you feel the need to reach out to others for Christ? If so, you've come to the right place. This book contains 40 days of devotional studies designed to strengthen your relationship with Christ and enable you to lead others to Him.God wants to do something significant in your life, too. Not only does He long to draw you into closer fellowship with Him--He also wants to minister to others through you. And as you spend 40 amazing days wi...

In this volume Dennis smith invites you to spend 40 days continuing the work God has given you while exploring a wholistic view of health-the importance of caring for mind, body, and soul-and the integral role of the health message during these last days of earth’s history.

Jesus told His disciples that only God the Father knows the day and the hour of the Second Coming. He didn't leave His followers in the dark, though, and described the signs that would alert us to the nearness of that glorious event. The devotional studies in this book draw from these signs and other prophecies scattered throughout the Bible to trace the events that will take place just prior to Jesus' return. Knowing what will happen is only a small part of being ready to meet Him, though, b...

From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.

In the style of Smith’s popular 40 Days: Prayer and Devotions to Prepare for the Second Coming, this book can help revive the spiritual experience of individuals, small groups, and entire churches. Find out for yourself what an amazing difference 40 days can make.

An unforgettable journey through the daily lives of the brave men and women who have made saving lives their profession.Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82, traveled across the country talking to dozens of America’s firefighters to put together this powerful collection of their own descriptions of their most dramatic and intense experiences on the job. Their stories, compiled here, are timeless testimonies to the human capacity for heroism and nobility....

Theft. Deceit. Murder. All in the name******of God.Black on Black is a story set on Chicago’s deadly streets, where it seems every day, every time we open a newspaper or turn on the news, another child has been hit by a random gang bullet.Black on Black is the story of Porsche, daughter of church pastor James Williams—everybody calls him “Pastor James.” She’s young, idealistic, an...

First published in 1990, Capitalist Democracy on Trial explores the long transatlantic debate on capitalist democracy. It examines the conflicting verdicts of writers and politicians in the USA and Europe. The first section focuses on democracy and the rise of big business. It discusses the views of Tocqueville, Mill, Carnegie, Chamberlain, Bryce, Ostrogorski, Veblen and Hobson. The second section covers capitalism and the rise of ‘big government’. The writers represented are Lask...

Civilized Rebels compares in depth four very well-known literary and political figures, who all opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores the long-term process of the retreat of the West from global power since the late nineteenth century, relating this to the decline and fall of the British Empire and the trauma surrounding Brexit. Drawing on rich empirical materials ...

First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order.The book follows the divergent paths of two cities - Birmingham and Sheffield – in their social development. These paths reflect the complex process of conflict and compromise as the ‘old’ order was gradually replaced by the ‘new’. It studies i...