John Blackwell's insights into transformation and togetherness will help you find your way into an astounding new world.What would it mean for me to live in a new way—with a new outlook, with completely new methods? What would this mean for my relationships? What would this mean for the ways in which I conduct myself? What manners would I change? What kinds of things would I stop saying? What kinds of things would I begin to say? Mark's Gospel brings us right into ...

Providing penetrating insights into the world of transformation, A Whole New World will revolutionize your understanding of the presence of God.How do we become righteous? How does the ability to do the right thing at the right time become a habit? How does life become fulfilling? These are the questions that John Blackwell answers in A Whole New World: The Gospel of Matthew. This book will give you the keys to unlock Matthew's insight into the wa...

As the world becomes increasingly fragmented and polarized, churches are dividing, and people are making themselves Number One at the exclusion of others, many are searching for a way to feel whole.Wholeness Through Vulnerability takes believers on a journey into wholeness—personal wholeness and wholeness in relationships.Discovering the wholeness of Luke may seem daunting at first as it requires some time, effort, and openness. Wholeness Throu...

John Blackwell recounts his own spiritual journey and invites us to discover the source of life and wonder found in God's mystery.One of the best things that can happen to any person is to connect with the Source of Life and to know God directly. Many people know about the Source. Many learn about God. The ones who learn to know God directly become more fully human. They enter into communion with the Source of Life. They learn to recognize the mysteries that are un...

Reflections will not only give you something solid to chew on; it will also feed it to you one bite at a time. Reflections is a short book with a tall agenda: to serve you bite-size ideas that will nourish your soul. Each of these Reflections is a timeless lesson from ordinary experience. In a mere one hundred short pages, you will find wisdom, beauty, goodness, and hope. Reflections will clear your head and show you the next step on your journey. You can read it in one sitting, or you can...

Reflections will not only give you something solid to chew on; it will also feed it to you one bite at a time. Reflections is a short book with a tall agenda: to serve you bite-size ideas that will nourish your soul. Each of these Reflections is a timeless lesson from ordinary experience. In a mere one hundred short pages, you will find wisdom, beauty, goodness, and hope. Reflections will clear your head and show you the next step on your journey. You can read it in one sitting, or you can...

Fin Finagin is a boarder at Nellie's Cafe on the bay at the Eagles Nest Marina in a previous era when things were presumably simpler, quieter and kinder. He is a prankster but never laughs harder at anyone than he does at himself. His best friend, Scotty, lives on a small houseboat in the slip next to Fin's old wooden skiff, affectionately referred to as Creature. Each story is related to fishing and the outdoors and highlights values associated with friendship, honesty, humbleness, and ge...

Waaaahooooooo!!! Take a ride in Jack's souped up '57 Chevy. With Charlene at his side, scream along the blacktops and fish-tail the gravel roads of the Big Thicket of East Texas. Jack, a birder, is in pursuit of woodpeckers. Ivory bills are hunted and piliateds abound while love comes a knocking and peckerwoods confound. A naturalists delight!

It is said that all of our fingerprints are unique, and that even our footprints are different, based on the width and length of our feet, the weight of our bodies, and the way that we walk. But what about love? How will the impact of your love on this world be measured? How many "love footprints" will you leave behind, and how well will your love be remembered?This is the story of a ten-year-old boy who was literally thrown 150 feet into faith and into a continuing, inter...

This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals. It also describes how to address referees’ comments, approaches for composing other types of scientific communications, and key linguistic aspects of scientific writing.

This anthology of biographies presents an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the lives and achievements of fifty individuals who significantly shaped the course of human history. Spanning diverse eras and regions, this collection provides detailed insights into figures whose actions and legacies continue to influence the modern world. The volume explores pivotal leaders such as Akhenaton, whose revolutionary religious reforms in ancient Egypt introduced monotheism, and Alexande...

Since the mid-twentieth century, apocalyptic thought has been championed as a central category for understanding the New Testament writings and the letters of Paul above all. But “apocalyptic” has meant different things to different scholars. Even the assertion of an “apocalyptic Paul” has been contested: does it mean the invasive power of God that breaks with the present age (Ernst Käsemann), or the broader scope of revealed heavenly mysteries, including the working out of a “many-staged ...