This book focuses on the powerful prayer of Jesus found in John chapter 17, often called the High Priestly Prayer. Spoken just before the cross, this prayer reveals the heart of Jesus and His deep love for God and for all believers.The book helps readers understand what Jesus prayed for Himself, His disciples, and future followers. It explains how prayer connects believers to God and strengthens faith. Readers will learn how eternal life begins by knowing God personally and why uni...

This book summaries faith, trust, assurance and confidence. Faith is based on the objective of God's Word therefore faith is crucial our daily walk with God. As we face many trials and tribulations in this, we must understand that living faith is not just believing that God exists. It is demonstrated by one's service and obedience to God for one will increase our faith if we fervently seek to draw closer to the Lord in prayer and the studying of his Holy Word.

This book explores the divine blueprint for building and maintaining strong, faithful, and loving families. Grounded in biblical principles, this insightful book reveals how God instituted the family as a fundamental part of His creation, designed to bring stability, love, and spiritual growth to all its members. From understanding the roles of husbands and wives to fostering an environment where children can learn and develop, this book offers guidance on how to build a home centered arou...

Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor's musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland's Connemara coast, travel through John Elder's exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology.John Elder's memoir through music is permeated by his unique combination of prose and learning how to play the Irish flute. Elder revisits his time teaching at Middlebury Co...

"Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and Earth considers the question of how we can best, most responsibly inhabit both our b...

So Little Time is a revolving door of political activism, spirituality, nature, and humanity. It is a call to action, where urgency meets poetry in no uncertain terms, and asks, What hour are we in? Edited by poet, Irish and U. S. citizen, and Vermont activist, Greg Delanty, it takes its cue from the grassroots sensibility of Vermont, stripping down decades of unwavering ideals to arrive at an interpretive look at what it means to be 'Green' in an evolving world. A work of educati...

In this book Elder John Henry Henderson Jr. D.D. delves deep into God's divine plan for families, presenting an in-depth look at how biblical principles shape the structure, purpose, and function of a Christian household. Drawing from Scripture, this profound exploration highlights how the family unit is not just a social construct but a vital part of God's creation, meant to bring spiritual fulfillment, harmony, and love to each of its members.John Henderson provides a clear and i...

This book summaries faith, trust, assurance and confidence. Faith is based on the objective of God's Word therefore faith is crucial our daily walk with God. As we face many trials and tribulations in this, we must understand that living faith is not just believing that God exists. It is demonstrated by one's service and obedience to God for one will increase our faith if we fervently seek to draw closer to the Lord in prayer and the studying of his Holy Word.

From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits - an inclination to blurt out non-sequiturs, obsessively dismantle radios or dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them) - had earned him the label 'social deviant'. It didn't help that his mother conversed with light fixtures and his father spent ...

Imagine hearing the words of a song but not feeling the passion that lies within. Imagine living for years with someone in need and not being able to sense their sadness. Imagine your world turned upside down…Like so many others, John Elder Robison was born with Asperger’s. Over the years, he misread others’ emotions or missed them altogether. Yet he’d also married, raised a son and become a successful businessman, designing sound systems for rock bands, creating robot games for Mi...

"A fascinating ecocritical evaluation" of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and other works of the master fantasist ( Northeastern Naturalist).The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion are rarely considered to be works of environmental literature or mentioned together with such authors as John Muir, Rachel Carson, or Aldo Leopold. Nonetheless, Tolkien's vision of nature is as pass...

Elder John T. Huett repented of his sins and was water baptized in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the year 1987 according to John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. And Elder Huett obeyed that command He gave His Holy Apostles according to Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins....