Download or read book Fifty Three Days of Silence written by Nancy Wilcox and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book about the tragic fall from health, to healing, to revival, to renewal, and love. Some details are given about the wife before her marriage, during her marriage and then the conclusion about the mercies of a great God who answered her desperation prayer when healing took place. The intriguing journal is a compilation of emails that were written often to her family, her friends, and prayer warriors of her church, so they would know how to pray. God answered their prayers. About the Author Nancy Wilcox was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina in 1943. Her parents were simple, hardworking Christians who loved their children and instilled in each of them memorable lessons. Nancy was the last of seven children. God called her to Christian ministry at an early age and she developed multiple skills during those early years. God placed people in her life to strengthen her. She graduated from Mars Hill College in the mountains of North Carolina. She attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary for one year. She taught physical education in Dillon High School, in Dillon, South Carolina for 12 years; taught Science, Math, and physical education at Corriher Lipe Junior High School for one year; and fifth grade elementary school at Curtis Baptist School in Augusta, Georgia for eighteen years. Her final 9 years of education was spent as principal/assistant principal of Curtis Baptist School in Augusta, Georgia.
Download or read book Fifty Three Days on Starvation Island written by John R Bruning and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race of Aces. On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines between the U.S. and Australia. The night after the Marines landed and captured the partially completed airfield, the Imperial Navy launched a surprise night attack on the Allied fleet offshore, resulting in the worst defeat the U.S. Navy suffered in the 20th century, which prompted the abandonment of the Marines on Guadalcanal. The Marines dug in, and waited for help, as those thirty-one pilots and twelve gunners flew against the Japanese, shooting down eighty-three planes in less than two months, while the dive bombers, carried out over thirty attacks on the Japanese fleet. Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island follows Major John L. Smith, a magnetic leader who became America’s top fighter ace for the time; Captain Marion Carl, the Marine Corps’ first ace, and one of the few survivors of his squadron at the Battle of Midway. He would be shot down and forced to make his way back to base through twenty-five miles of Japanese-held jungle. And Major Richard Mangrum, the lawyer-turned-dive-bomber commander whose inexperienced men wrought havoc on the Japanese Navy. New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning depicts the desperate effort to stop the Japanese long enough for America to muster reinforcements and turn the tide at Guadalcanal. Not just the story of an incredible stand on a distant jungle island, Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island also explores the consequences of victory to the men who secured it at a time when America had been at war for less than a year and its public had yet to fully understand what that meant. The home front they returned to after their jungle ordeal was a surreal montage of football games, nightclubs, fine dining with America’s elites, and inside looks at dysfunctional defense industries more interested in fleecing the government than properly equipping the military. Bruning tells the story of how one battle reshaped the Marine Corps and propelled its veterans into the highest positions of power just in time to lead the service into a new war in Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Losing Beck written by Susan Hahn and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young poet’s relationship with a predatory professor is explored through a diary, a play, and a novella dealing with themes of grief, trauma, and desire. Jennie Silver has been seduced, abused, and abandoned by Benedict Eck, a Midwestern literature professor known for being influenced by Hungarian émigré novelist Avigdor Element, and a notorious womanizer known for preying on vulnerable graduate students. In the process, Jennie keeps a diary and writes a play and a novella in her attempt to control her desperate, high-pitched emotions focused on a man she is uncontrollably drawn to and at the same time finds repugnant—a man who is one of the keepers and part of the legacy of Element’s bad behavior. Spanning a hundred years of history from when Nijinsky danced “The Afternoon of the Faun” in Paris in 1912, through World Wars I and II, to very close to the present, Losing Beck is not only a portrait of one woman’s relationship with one man, but an exploration of obsession, grief, desire, and the effects of historical trauma. “This triptych of narratives contains a plenitude of characters driven by overpowering emotions and dark motives . . . I was especially fascinated by the meticulous scrutiny of family relations, especially mother-daughter attachments, often dramatized against a backdrop of twentieth-century Jewish history.” —Laurence Goldstein, author of The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History
Download or read book Beware of This False Doctrine written by NngmingBongle Bapuohyele and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware of This False Doctrine, a vivid teaching of the born again experience, is presented with a touch of suspense. It is a thrilling and very insightful exposition on Elohiym’s salvation and is based on a conversation Yahushua had with Nakdimon, discernment between forgiveness and remission of sin, the significance of baptism, and the Great Commission of Yahushua to His talmidim. This book brings to the fore the issues of altar calls, Sinners’ Prayer recitals, and the practice of inviting “Jesus Christ” into hearts. It teaches that these rituals, commonly pursued by many as the means of seeking entrance to the Kingdom of Elohiym, are incapable of bringing mankind to the realities of being born again. Beware of This False Doctrine! A multitude of revelations on the mystery of baptism, all laid bare in this teaching, will provoke Bible students to learn even more. This book is a must read.
Download or read book When Leadership and Spiritual Direction Meet written by Gil W. Stafford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern church leaders need to cultivate innovative and creative leadership skills, as they navigate today’s post-Christian world, and as their congregations look to them for insight and guidance. Gil Stafford takes a fresh look at this vital need, drawing upon his experience as a college coach, university president, and parish priest, and interweaving them with ancient spiritual practices found within the discipline of spiritual direction. Personal anecdotes help the reader envision their own life-transforming pilgrimage, as they develop into the type of adaptive leader that churches need in today’s rapidly changing world. This book challenges church leaders to foster sacred safe space, holy listening, silence, and wisdom storytelling, in order to create a discerning church community. These techniques of spiritual direction can be applied to every aspect of the church, from small group studies to conducting parish business. Gradually the leader will be able to delegate some of his responsibilities to the congregation, liberating them to be leaders, and rescuing him from trying to be all things to all people.
Download or read book Starting Monday written by Anne Commire and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution of an Unorthodox Rabbi written by John Moscowitz and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent Canadian rabbi John Moscowitz charts the shifts in his views over the years — controversial for some, exciting for others — on the issues that matter most to Jews today. John Moscowitz spent his early twenties as an anti-Vietnam War activist. Eventually dubious about the radical left and alive with love for Israel, he entered the rabbinical seminary in search of his own people. This set him on a path to becoming, as Senator Linda Frum put it, one of Toronto’s “most cherished and effective rabbis.” In this book, John Moscowitz charts the shifts in his thinking on the charged matters among the Jews today: the viability of peace in the Middle East; how we misjudge the nature of evil; and, once having been exposed to the savannahs of East Africa, even the relationship between evolution and the Bible. Part memoir, part social history, this book is a deep examination of a long personal journey, one travelled in public as a prominent rabbi. Along the way, it captures what unites and divides an ancient people today.
Download or read book Playing on the Roof written by Jerry Waxman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day my grandfather came to me and said, Its time you went to a baseball game. Get your jacket. The year was 1950; I was nine years old. . . . After purchasing tickets, we walked into the darkened building and up a long, shadowed winding ramp. In the distance, at the end of the ramp, was a rectangle of daylight. . . . When I stepped into the light, [w]hat I saw changed my life forever. The field was gigantic, larger than anything I had seen before. And the colorbefore that moment, I did not know what GREEN meant. . . . It was pure magic. I was stunned. I was speechless. I was in love. Thus begins Playing on the Roof, a collection of funny and tender stories about Jerry Waxmans childhood in Brooklyn and Long Island, his passion for baseball and the Giants, his interest in girls, his brushes with death and with the law, and his love affair with solar eclipses. Also included are his two forays into science fiction. Although most of these pieces were written during a long and difficult illness, all convey the wonder and joy Jerry found in living.
Download or read book Overwhelmed By The Grace Of God written by Jeffrey M. Rifkin and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After suffering a life-changing trauma at the tender age of four when he found his infant brother dead in his crib, Dr. Rifkin went on a lifelong quest to know and understand the workings of God. His journey took him to northern California to study with the Beatles' guru and to Machu Picchu to study with Incan shamans. He lived in an Indian ashram for eleven years and studied Zen, yoga, and the occult But it wasn't until Jesus revealed himself that his pain was overtaken by the love and peace that only Jesus provides. Despite being raised Jewish, Dr. Rifkin fully embraced his Messiah and led many of his family to salvation. He has spent nearly forty years as a licensed therapist, helping others to repair their marriages and work their way through their own emotional pain. In 2011, his practice was interrupted when he learned that despite knowing Jesus and living a very healthy lifestyle, he inherited his family's genetic and devastating disease which destroys and eventually shuts down the functioning of both kidneys. Polycystic kidney disease had him on daily dialysis at home which exhausted him. His thirteen-year-old son would keep him company, all the while fearful that his father would die before finding a new kidney. To make matters worse, his wife of eighteen years no longer wanted to remain married. Feeling very alone, he turned to Jesus and was told by the Holy Spirit that he was about to be the recipient of a miracle. Then, eleven months later, after being prompted by the Holy Spirit, he put his request for a living donor on social media, and he received a perfect kidney from a complete stranger. Today, Dr. Rifkin is remarried to the love of his life and has recently learned that polycystic kidney disease has affected his liver to the point where he will need a transplant. After hours of prayer, he was reassured that he will be successful in this transplantation and looks forward to living out his life with his beautiful wife serving the Lord.
Download or read book Soulfull written by Farrell Mason and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soulfull is a gentle nudge to reorient our intentions and want more for our one precious life: a collection of spiritual reflections, recipes, activities, and prayers that come together as an encyclopedia of hope and spiritual direction. “Soulfull rebuilt and bolstered some corners of my soul that had been worn away. What a gift!”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author of I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet Are we truly living the life we want to live? Sometimes, but not nearly enough. Our souls crave authentic experiences, but seeking them is a challenge in our overcommitted world where often we are more focused on “making it through” than on “making it sacred.” We need regular soul wake-up calls and holy daily rhythms to live a life that feels good from the inside out, shines with meaning, and radiates joy. In this refreshingly original invitation to soulful living, Farrell Mason speaks to the universal human experience: navigating relationships, coping with change, rebounding from a setback or loss, finding peace, and prioritizing food, fellowship, faith, and regular joy. Soulfull offers balanced and creative ways to pull a little bit of heaven down to our patches of earth. Whether you’re taking a walk in nature, reading a meditation on hope, finding comfort in a prayer, creating a sumptuous recipe for family and friends, or planting an herb garden, Soulfull is an adventure—a mothering toward new growth, an exploration of life-giving experiences, and a joyous resource to nourish your soul and welcome a life filled with more wonder, delight, and meaning.
Download or read book Miscellaneous Documents written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Political Acts written by Fiona Coleman Coffey and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid–twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women’s experiences and in showing how women’s social and political status has changed with the transformation of the state. Throughout the North’s history, women’s dramatic writing and performance have often contradicted mainstream narratives of the sectarian conflict, creating a rich and daring trove of counternarratives that contest the stories promoted by the government and media. Moving beyond the better-known women theatre practitioners of the North such as Marie Jones, Christina Reid, Anne Devlin, and the Charabanc Theatre Company, Coffey recovers the lost history of lesser-known, early playwrights and highlights a new generation of women writing during peacetime. She examines how Northern women have historically used the theatrical stage as a form of political activism when more traditional avenues were closed off to them. Tracing the development of women’s involvement in Northern theatre, Coffey ultimately illuminates how issues such as feminism, gender roles, violence, politics, and sectarianism have shifted over the past century as the North moves from conflict into a developing and fragile peace.
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Download or read book Bring Out The Magic In Your Mind written by Al Koran and published by Embassy Books. This book was released on with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the key to the amazing untapped powers in your own mind. . . a secret that can transform your career and life. You don’t have to be a magician or a “super-brain” to command these mental resources. If you only learn to employ your own natural magnetism, using the techniques of this book, you can gain amazing influence over others, and “will” your way to business and social success. The author, who was one of the world’s greatest mentalists and magicians and was famous during his lifetime for his amazing mental feats on television and radio. Here, he reveals how ordinary people can develop certain mental powers deliberately through a simple, logical program. First he explains how you can cultivate belief in the “magic” of your mind, and use that faith to strength yourself. You see how to give yourself “success treatments” to build your confidence and direct your energies toward dreams and goals. The book tells how the personal electricity within you gives you magnetic powers. You learn how to use this to send out dynamic thought-wishes – silent messages that influence people to like you, trust you, and help you. You’ll find ways to improve your reasoning and problem-solving ability through your new-found mental forces. The author explains how the “hunches” arising from the subconscious can give you faster, better decisions. Unfolding all the wonders of the human mind, this book others a method of harnessing this magic to bring you a richer and more successful life.
