The Knowing the Bible series is a resource designed to help Bible readers better understand and apply God's Word. These 12-week studies lead participants through books of the Bible and are made up of four basic components: (1) Reflection questions help readers engage the text at a deeper level; (2) "Gospel Glimpses" highlight the gospel of grace throughout each book; (3) "Whole-Bible Connections" show how any given passage connects to the Bible's overarching story of redemption, culminatin...

Considering the pervasive immorality and high divorce rate of our contemporary Christian culture, we evidently need a biblically based, theologically compelling, practical understanding of sex, dating, and relationships. Pastors Gerald Hiestand and Jay Thomas counteract this problem with their paradigm-shifting view of purity and relationships—a view that challenges even the basic assumptions of evangelical subculture.Unlike most books on dating, this one cuts straight to the heart...

Book 3 of Frost Zone Stories - Ten tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strangeStories by: Jay McKenzie, Andrew Humphrey, Thomas Nicholson, Damir Salkovic, E.F. Ritter, Rex Burows Mike A. Rhodes, Alistair Rey,Isabelle Nygren, and SJ Townend

In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a particular issue in sport: youth and sport; gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; sport, media, ...

You're keen to learn the secrets of those who seem to have what you want: the house, the holiday, the car. How do they make these possible?This is Jaye's story of how she got there while not sacrificing those things that were and are important in her life. Focus on those goals you want to achieve and know there is a way. Success is within your reach!We sometimes dismiss saving strategies and simple saving plans, yet these are the small things that add up to make it possible...

"What I Could Have Been, If Only," is a book that details the author's earliest memories to the end of his college years, how he could have been a better individual, had he the appropriate resources. He then concludes that it is useless to think about what should have happened, what could have happened, and what would have happened. The Almighty God sends us through trials, tribulations, storms, and obstacles; so that we will achieve our destiny, God sends us through these situations so th...

This is a novel about two boys who grew up in a rural area of East Texas. Neither of them had telephone, gas, or plumbing until later in life. They did get electricity by the time they entered first grade. Their early education was designed to poorly develop them. In addition, they both had schizophrenia as a strong genetic factor in their family’s history. You might say they both started from behind the eight ball. They both grew up with, according to their background, limited potential T...

This book puts forth the idea that rather than there being a “God, or a Balance in the Universe”: “God is the Balance in the Universe.” It also puts forth the idea that Jesus Christ was basically conceived by 300 Roman Catholic Bishops at the Nicene Council in 325 A.D. The Bible is indeed not the Word of God, neither was it influenced by God. It consists of Fables, parables, myths, folktales, and allegories taken from other mythical-religious doctrines. The Bible consists of too many incon...

I have written this book of eighteen short stories. A representation of my longing for the past, yet I realize one can never go back into the past. Each story contains approximately 2,500 words. They will take all of us back into our own private past. They imply that you can never go back home; because, home will be different after all these years. But in some cases, home can be better than it was at one time, if you can afford to add modifications to your environment. You will thoroughly ...

In going through life one learns many of life’s lessons. This book points out some of the lessons the author has learned. He also gives some of his personal thoughts and ideas. The author begins his life on a small-dirt farm in East Texas, plowing a mule from sunup to sunset: he then receives an inadequate education from a rural-all-Black school, where he was neglected and abused; after which, he goes to college in East Texas, where he was out of place; later to the military; back to gradu...

Each of these thirty-five short stories comes out of my night dreams or daydreams. The stories are approximately 2,500 words each. They are easy reading, original, and guaranteed to entertain you. Though each story comes out of a dream, they shed some light on my thinking. The stories are not all pretty, but all dreams are not pretty. Some of them are raunchy and will cut you to the bone of your very soul. I included the stories that were born out of nightmares as well. The stories invite ...

"White Folk's Voodoo," describes how white attitudes and behaviors has affected Blacks throughout the ages. It describes this attitude and behavior as white folks' voodoo. It suggests that white folks' voodoo is not your ordinary type of Haitian voodoo, but it consists of racism, discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice; disfranchisement, and unequal treatment; lack of equal access to housing, education, and employment. These are only a few of the many attitudes and behavior attributed to wh...