The autobiography of international karate instructor, Seamus O'Dowd. The book chronicles his journey, over a period of thirty years, from complete novice to high-ranking and respected international instructor. Simple, humorous and heart-warming, the book will inspire and entertain martial artists of all levels.

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AS THE WIND BLOWS as I think of the writing of this book every tree of creativity I have shook hoping fruit would fall down all over me as I penned this manuscript of poetry and for me it has been a labor of love praying it will be blessed by the heavenly Dove that what I have put my heart so into it will give other’s overcast some sky blue that as life has rained on their parade they will be uplifted by the poems I have made that as the wind blows through my heart it will give the discour...

Buoyed by Grace is a book to encourage those going through struggles. It has vivid word pictures and thought provoking rhymes, and other poetic forms, to inspire the reader. Trusting the Lord amidst difficult times is a main theme in the book.

Awaiting the King is a study in Scripture. There are forty chapters that can be read one sitting at a time. There are topical chapters relating to various issues on the Christian life. Most of the chapters are in-depth studies on specific portions of the Bible. Some tough issues are tackled, but written in an easy to read style. This book is a refreshing encouragement to love the Word of God.

Is our Christianity that of the New Testament?"God and men and their relation to each other—this I believe to be all that really matters in the world, and that is what I have written about here."—A. W. TozerLike a physician running a biopsy on lifeless faith, here A. W. Tozer offers one of the most compelling critiques of feigned spirituality you may ever read.In Of God and Men, Tozer exposes false religious notions and lift...

Over 300,000 Copies SoldThere is joy and triumph in the Christian life. But victory often comes through struggle. John White knows this tension well, and he gives us encouragement to persevere.The Fight is an accessible, classic guide to the basics of Christian living: faith, prayer, temptation, evangelism, guidance, Bible study, interpersonal relationships, and work. Beginning with an exploration of what happens at conversion, White o...

Guarding Your Joy is a very inspirational book. Seldom is an entire book devoted to the subject of joy. Rather, joy appears as an aspect or a fraction of a book. How important is the subject of joy today? In most lives, joy is almost absent. For most people who are struggling in their walk with God assume that most of God's blessings, including joy, belong to a privileged few — but they are excluded.There are many Christians whose lives are virtually drained of joy. This is toxic an...

Suffering engulfs our lives in an unavoidable darkness, leaving answers and explanations obscured like a sorrowful fog. The gospel of Christ, however, gives us something infinitely more valuable than answers or explanations. Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment is not an attempt to decode or decipher every nook and cranny of sorrow and suffering. It is a journey wherein faith, hope, and love are unexpectedly found along t...

From Sunday School days on we are often asked to take sides in order to shape our moral universe: we learn about right and wrong, good and evil, saints and sinners, villains and heroes. Especially the Old Testament offers a wide range of easily identifiable and categorizable characters: Cain and Lamech and Pharaoh and Goliath belong in one box; Abel, David, and Job in another. The world view which emerges after such simplified reading is clear, fixed, almost dogmatic. But life isn't that s...

MARRIAGE IS TO BE ENJOYED AND NOT TO BE ENDURED.THIS BOOK CONTAINS SIMPLE RULES TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE

Since the beginning of time, men have engaged in hand-to-hand combat. In Ancient Greece, they called it Pankration, a no-holds-barred battle. Over time, one complete combat system was replaced by a variety of limited ones like karate, boxing, and wrestling. In the modern age this created an eternal question: who was tougher? Could a boxer beat a wrestler? Could a kung fu artist dispose of a jiu jitsu man?The Ultimate Fighting Championship answered those questions emphatically in 1993 - an...