This is a non-fiction book about romantic love and its place in the Christian's life. The author endeavors to reach single Christians with the information they need to prepare for a happy and fulfilling married life, but married Christians will benefit from the information as well. Oh How I Love You! has been used as a marriage manual by some and others, like myself, have expressed the regret that they didn't have the information while they were young. It is never too late to correct our m...

Richard is ready to come home from Princeton and expects his cousin,Larry, to be there to start his collage years. He expects to travel back to the west coast with whoever escorts Larry to Maryland. Larry doesn't want to go to collage, but his mother is adamant that he will go. Mother nature intervenes in the form of an angry mother bear protecting her cubs and Larry doesn't go east at all. That means Richard has to travel back to the Willamette Valley by himself. He walks a ways in his st...

Wayne and Robert, Julie Baker Colter and Adam's two oldest boys are visiting their cousin, Mary, in the south when the Civil war breaks out. Linda Baker, Miles and Jane Baker's youngest and their cousin, John, Joanna and Stephen's youngest are also there. Opinions are divided about "State's Rights" and whether or not the south has a right to secede from the Union. Opinion has always been divided in the Baker family about the issue, but now Mary is married to a southerner and Wayne and Robe...

This is the second book in the Baker family Saga. Dianna is growing up and Richard is grown and ready for Princeton. Jonathan's not doing well and his doctor son, Miles, can't discover why. A death in the family effects everyone. Chester Thomas is as old as Richard physically, but he is worse with age, while Richard is more mature. Dianna looks good to him, but he scares and sickens Dianna. Then three other men move into Ferndale - a man and his two grown sons, Dianna looks good to both of...

This is a science fiction fantasy about space travel with a twist - no space ship. Oh, there is Captain Largo's space ship of course. He traveled in it from another galaxy and landed in Judith's back yard. Judith's parents died in a plane crash. She didn't see their bodies and doesn't want to accept that they are gone. She reads all the literature she can find that might have a hint that they are still alive on another planet or something. Then she meets Captain Largo, and goes on a mind t...

This is a 90 day devotional that will help the Christian to walk close to God. The Bible, through Paul, relates the athletic runner to the human race we run yoked to Yeshua/Jesus, God made manifest in the flesh, who felt the passions and pains of our life when he hung on the cross. Consequently, he understands everything we go through and wants to carry the greater part of our load if we will only let him. The purpose of these devotions is to show his children how to let him. God created m...

This is a conversation on the book of Genesis, not as though it was a science book, nor is it a history book. As I say in the preface, I like to think of it as an introduction to who Yahweh is.As we study the book of Genesis we will not impose any modern issues on the text. We will be studying from the point of view of the ones it was first written to and from; therefore, we will have to have some understanding of how the ancients saw their world and where the information for the bo...

Poor Joseph has been maligned as a spoiled brat by some. Sunday School teachers portray him as the boy whose brothers were mad because his daddy gave him a pretty coat. But Joseph was more than either of those portrayals. He was a human being, with human failings like you and me. The difference with Joseph was his God. God set him apart and molded him for a special job. He gave him a good reputation, a wife and sons - a new life in a foreign land when his position and natural rank were rip...

Previously published as Evelyn's anxious Bench,this is the first book in the Baker family saga. In 1842 the first wagon train left Independence, Mo. for the west coast. Jonathan Baker's family was grown and had families of their own, but Jonathan was the patriarch and when he decided he wanted his family to be among the first to settle the west coast and establish a town in the valley along the Willamette River he had his way. His oldest daughter, Evelyn didn't like it one bit. She had to ...

The book of the Revelation of John from the Bible is misunderstood by many to be a book full of monsters and terrible prophecies for the future. This book attempts to show its true character as a book of worship and promise. It does warn of a not so bright future for anyone who won't accept the love God offers, and we must be willing to warn them. Mainly, though; it is a book of praise and worship. Birth Pangs, Not Death Throes is a conversation on the Revelation given to John by Jesus thr...

Alice, Donna and Rose are on Going to California in the middle nineteenth century. They won't be hunting for gold, they have plenty of wealth, but Rose's parents, Joanna and Stephen, have heard California is cultured and sophisticated, with libraries and museums the girls will benefit from exposure to. Ray doesn't want them to go. He doesn't see how it could have healed from the sin-sick place he visited a few years earlier. Joanna and Stephen find out, to their sorrow, that Ray was right....