Drawing from many years of professional software development and teaching experience, I prepared an innovative text that presents the COBOL language in a simple, yet powerful way, at the same time integrating Biblical perspective. Few textbooks address the simplicity of COBOL, many are unable to address the complexity of real-world systems, and few if any have attempted to integrate faith with content to prepare the Christian student for the workplace. This textbook has three goals. The fi...

Drawing from many years of professional software development and teaching experience, I prepared an innovative text that presents the Visual Basic language in a simple, yet powerful way, at the same time integrating Biblical perspective.Few textbooks address the simplicity of Visual Basic, many are unable to address the complexity of real-world systems, and few if any have attempted to integrate faith with content to prepare students and new programmers for the workplace. This text...

Drawing from many years of professional software development and teaching experience, I prepared an innovative text that presents the C# language in a simple, yet powerful way, at the same time integrating Biblical perspective.Few textbooks address the simplicity of C#, many are unable to address the complexity of real-world systems, and few if any have attempted to integrate faith with content to prepare students and new programmers for the workplace. This textbook has three goals...

Traveling to Europe and skiing in the French Alps may sound fun but it brought me no lasting fulfillment. Falling off a horse as a young child didn't help much either. This is a short story of some struggles in my own life, especially as a teenager and young adult, and how God intervened so that I could become not only a child of God but a workman approved unto God. "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." (Romans 10:17) May you be blessed by what you discover as y...

I wrote this essay as an unsaved person, contrasting Ben Franklin and Jonathan Edwards. So as I read through the works discussed here I had only head knowledge of what they meant. Since 1986 I have had a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for my sins and yours, and who rose from the grave to demonstrate his authority and power over death. As a Christian, I would have written this with a different point of view, so please recognize the spirit in which this essay was ...