This book has creative ideas, real-life stories, and Scriptural guidance for being the family that loves being together in the second book of the Faithful Family series where Stone applies his practical, conversational, and humorous approach to the challenge of building families.
Practical life lessons, real-life stories, and Scriptural truths for being the family that glorifies God. Raising Your Kids to Love the Lord is the first of three books in the Faithful Families series where Pastor Dave Stone applies a practical, conversational, and humorous approach to the challenge of building a strong spiritual foundation for the family. Topics include: Authenticity, Discipline, Modeling Godly Principles, Sharing the Load, and more. Preaching is his gift, but Pastor Dave Stone’s family is his life’s blessing. While raising three kids with his wife, Beth, as well as shepherding the diverse families of his congregation, his heart, and passion for building strong families rings louder than ever. He knows that raising faithful families is a key to the future of the church. “The world needs more people like Dave Stone. He is an astounding communicator, tremendous minister, terrific dad, and a dear friend. He writes from a wellspring of experience and character. Read this book! You will be glad you did.” —Max Lucado
In May, she was in awfully bad shape, and it was clear that her time was getting short. Nevertheless, when the end came, it took me by surprise. I had been sleeping next to her and waking up at every little noise. She went into the toilet to relieve herself and had a heart attack while on the commode. I heard her fall and called her, but there was no answer. Jumping up, I rushed to her. She had fallen against the tub, gashing her head, and was bleeding heavily. I couldnt get her to wake up or completely stop the bleeding and had to leave her to call the emergency squad. After rushing back to her, I managed to stop the bleeding and held her in my arms, trying to help as much as I could. The emergency team still didnt come, so I called again, rushed back, and held her some more. I reminded her she had said she wouldnt leave me and begged her to hang on. She told me she saw the most beautiful white light she had ever seen and had to go to it. I could not see it and was devastated to think that she was dying. Much more recently, as I have read the Bible and discussed it with my pastor, I have learned that this was the light of Jesus she could see, because she was seeing in the spirit. I find it very comforting to know that she was going to be with him. Just after she stopped breathing, they arrived at the door and resuscitated her. She was breathing as we got to the hospital. However, shortly after she arrived in the emergency room, the doctor came to tell me that she was dead.
In this third book from the Faithful Families series, How to Raise Selfless Kids in a Self-Centered World, Dave Stone continues to share his practical, conversational, and humorous approach to the challenges of building a strong spiritual foundation for the family.
Dave Stone, veteran pastor, missionary, counselor and author, states the theme of The Heart and Soul of God right in the introduction: "It is the assurance that [God] is able to use even our worst experiences to work something good in our lives." In extremely approachable language, Pastor Stone relates how God is able to transform evil into good, tragedy into triumph, sorrow into joy, and a curse into a blessing. As we learn to trust God in every situation, He is able to use all of life's circumstances to develop godly character and positive results in our lives. It is the heart and soul of God to do us good. Rev. Dave Stone has been a licensed minister with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel since 1974. He has served as a pastor in the US for 21 years and as a missionary to Panama, Mexico, Venezuela and Puerto Rico for 18 years. He is presently serving as the Area Missionary to the Caribbean for the Foursquare Church. He received his B.A. from LIFE Pacific College and his M.A. from Fuller Theological Seminary. Dave has been married to his wife, Nancy, for 38 years. They have three married children and seven grandchildren. They presently reside in Puerto Rico. Connect with me online at: Facebook: http: //facebook.com/dave.stone.16144 My Blog: http: //HeartAndSoulOfGod.wordpress.com
A hilarious story about thinking the grass is greener somewhere else Have you ever wished you were someone else? Stanley the stonecutter has, because cutting stones is hard work for a frog! So Stanley wishes he could have it easy like the tea-drinking businessman . . . and, boom, he's transformed. Then he decides he'd be better off as the majestic king. But even that isn't good enough when he sees the radiant sun. Why, if he were the sun, everyone would look up to him, right? Hmm, will Stanley ever be satisfied? Dave Horowitz's fantastic collage illustrations bring this classic folktale to hilarious life as Stanley's endless comparisons bring him full circle. Maybe being yourself is not half bad after all!
PREPARE FOR JUDGEMENT! In the vast overcrowded metropolis of Mega-City One, every single citizen is a potential criminal. A new kind of lawman is needed, one that has the power to dispense instant justice on the streets, and that's where Joe Dredd and his fellow Judges come in. If you're guilty, be warned - they are judge, jury and executioner! The criminal overlord Efil Drago San has finally been caught, but the Judges have a big problem. His crimes are so abominable and so global that his high profile demands that Mega-City One will have to give him something it has never given before: a fair trial!
Many people will never hear a sermon. Christians, however, are walking sermons. This great book can help you make a difference in the faith of people God brings you in contact with. You can touch lives with the message of grace and forgiveness. Evangelism doesn't have to be difficult or complicated. In an easy-to-read format, Dave Stone will guide you toward a more effective way to bring your friends to Christ.
AD 2117. There's something nasty up in Puerto Lumina on the moon, and across Earth people are dying; 3,600 carefully co-ordinated deaths a day, every day and twice on Sundays. It's been going on for months. Someone's laying the groundwork for a nightmare that will encompass the entire world. And they need Joe Dredd taken out of the picture. They need a killer. They need the best. She's the ultimate assassin: born into the horror of the Thai Territories breeding camps and trained with relentless brutality. Then they sliced into her head and streamlined her mind. She never stops until her designated target is excised. But now, for the first time, she has some ideas of her own.
When Detective Judge Armitage is sent to Mega-City One, he thinks that things can't get any worse. Then he runs into Judge Dredd - and discovers his problems have only just begun . . . Chicago, 1926: Mass-murderer Albert Fish is to be executed in the electric chair. But when the lever is pulled, a massive power surge opens a space-time gateway and sends Fish hurtling into the future. Mega-City One, 2116: Judge Dredd is fighting a desperate battle against the fanatical following of a charasmatic Brit-Cit sociopath. Meanwhile, across the city, something strange and frightening is happening to reality. These events are linked. To discover how, Judge Dredd must unwillingly unite with Brit-Cit Judge Armitage to defeat a menace that threatens both their cities - and perhaps the entire world.
Using a water-skiing metaphor, experienced pastor and humorist Dave Stone offers learning leaders key truths to strengthen their leadership and enjoy it like never before. This book features a stream of opportunities for leaders to assess their own ministry setting and capitalize on their personal style to develop a thriving, growing ministry. Great for individual study or church leadership training.
The keesh-eater collapsed into a nerveless heap, smearing a thin trail of blood down the pillar. Armitage watched him until he was sure he wouldn't move, then rounded, scowling, on the uniformed Judges. 'You think you can clean this up noe, or do I have to do everything?'" Travelling to Brit-Cit on the trail of a bloodthirsty, body-hopping alien, Judge Dredd is forced to work with Detective Judge Armitage. Dredd is a one man army who puts the law above evrything, even his own humanity; Armitage is thoughtful, cultured, a maverick who seldom goes by the book. It's hate at first sight. For once, Dredd may be out of his depth.
Tackling such issues as money, government, church, temptation, media and technology, and pleasure, Stone helps us to see that we can find God's intention in these tough areas of our lives. If you have struggled to walk faithfully in any of these areas in your life, then you will greatly benefit by reading this book. With his creative, easy-to-read style, Stone will help you understand how your perspective can help you live a life that honors God in the face of challenging issues. Study questions at the end of each chapter make this a great resource for small groups or Bible classes.
Part of Group Publishing's Flagship Church collection, 60 Simple Secrets Every Pastor Should Know reveals key ideas and principles that teaching churches have successfully put into practice.
Mitch Stone and his friends are back again and this time facing rogue nations and rogue agents. An unfriendly country has deployed deadly VX nerve agent in Lake Ontario. They have also hired an individual capable of getting the job done at any cost to supervise the project. Unknown to his employers he has his own agenda. He has plans to release the agent on his own and Mitch, Gary, and Karen must work against time and this ruthless sociopath to find the VX agent and neutralize it before it kills millions.
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books About Propaganda, Books About Public Opinion, Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media, the Theory of Moral Sentiments, the Social Construction of Reality, Diffusion of Innovations, the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Lti - Lingua Tertii Imperii, the Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, How to Read Donald Duck, the Calculus of Consent, Counter-Revolutionary Violence - Bloodbaths in Fact
In the final days of World War II, a series of strange coincidences happen in the jungles of Thailand. First, all the prisoners of a Japanese POW camp escape at once. Then a train loaded with stolen gold from Burma is stopped near the prison camp and some of the gold is stolen again. Finally, a plane carrying the camp's commandant and the gold takes off from a hastily constructed airfield and heads southeast. Nearly sixty years later Mitch Stone is on vacation in Thailand and learns of a local legend about a plane full of gold at the bottom of the sea. While he searches for the truth to the legend, he discovers a diabolical plot to use genetically engineered bacteria to extort money from the world's industrial powers. Mitch faces skepticism and death in his efforts to prove what he believes.
During the War of 1812 a British warship sinks carrying its secret cargo to the bottom of Lake Ontario. Nealry two hundred years later a group of terrorists smuggle a nuclear missile equiped submarine into that lake and hold America hostage. Sheriff's Deputy Mitch Stone must fight an old nemesis and the new threat in a race against time and possible nuclear conflagration. As time is running out for America, our hero tries to escape death and inadvertently discovers the secret of the long lost man-of-war.
A millennium before Columbus, a rich and powerful Asian Empire sends out an expedition to the far east. They discover a vast new land and keep meticulous records of their discoveries. Catastrophe strikes, and all is lost to the ages. In the present day, a rogue DARPA scientist and his team develop an Electro-Magnetic Pulse weapon that has devastating effects on technology and humans. Mitch finds evidence to solve the ages old mystery and he and Gary must race against time and hazards to prevent the full development of the weapon that would revert the world back to the STONE AGE. I currently live, work, and write in Pittsburgh, PA. Like Mitch Stone, most of my free time is spent sailing in the summer. If I'm not on the boat I'm usually playing the guitar or writing the next Mitch Stone adventure.
The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing for the First Time Anywhere, the
The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing for the First Time Anywhere, the
A new edition of Dave Marsh's classic work on the three-chord song that rocked the world "A tale as compelling as any John Grisham thriller." -Rolling Stone "Dave Marsh's Louie Louie is part rant, part rock criticism and part cultural analysis, with a good dose of Ripley's Believe It or Not! thrown in." -The New York Times Book Review "Marsh keeps the story of one trashy song interesting by revealing how 'three chords and a cloud of dust' contains within it the history and future of rock 'n' roll." -Booklist "What you don't know about 'Louie Louie' probably won't hurt you. But everything you need to know is in Marsh's book, including the lyrics-the real ones and the ones people thought they heard. If there is a better measure of your pop-cultural IQ, I don't know where to find it." -USA Today Since his days as the original editor of Creem, Dave Marsh has been revered as one of rock's greatest critics. During the 70s he was record editor at Rolling Stone, and in 1983 he founded Rock & Roll Confidential. His other books include Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s (1987), and Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who (1983).
In this new addition to the bestselling How It Works series, beginning users will get the answers they need to start using Microsoft Access right away. The colorfully-illustrated book employs a unique graphical approach to simple tasks. The easy-to-use technique provides immediate help on basic tasks with all the steps needed to finish a project in front of the reader's eyes at one time.
The Perfect 10 by New York Times bestselling author Dave Liniger is a must-read practical primer for entrepreneurs of all ages. In The Perfect 10, Dave Liniger, cofounder of RE/MAX, the company that revolutionized real estate for agent sand home buyers everywhere, shares fifty-plus years of business insights to help guide future generations of entrepreneurs as they pursue their professional dreams. Beyond being a real estate magnate, Liniger is a major philanthropist, a serial investor in new ventures, a franchising expert, an educator, a former NASCAR team owner and driver, the proprietor of one of the world’s most successful Arabian horse breeding operations, the owner and operator of Sanctuary, a one-of-a kind private golf club and preserve, and the impetus behind the Liniger Center on Franchising at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. Drawing from his varied and unique life experiences as well as from the wisdom of successful friends, colleagues, authors, historical figures, and long-time inspirations, Liniger’s business magnum opus—a nearly five-hundred-page practical primer and love letter to young and future moguls—was written with the next half-century of innovative entrepreneurship in mind. Exploring everything from pitching to venture capitalists, developing leadership abilities in an ever-changing social and economic climate, marketing in an age of so many meaningful ways to reach consumers, to making the most of what AI has to offer, Liniger leaves no stone unturned. This book is a must-read for anyone with a penchant for new ideas, fire in their belly, and a deep-seated desire to be a perfect 10 in their respective field. It is especially enlightening for franchisors and franchisees!
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