Called to Radical Devotion" offers readers a practical and comprehensive manual on all aspects of worship. A world-renowned worship leader discusses the nature and character of God, how He pursues believers, how believers respond in worship, the importance of corporate worship, and misconceptions of worship.
An examination of the role of PTSD in American life by an ex-Marine, war correspondent and PTSD patient shares discussions of its widespread impact on families and the taboos that challenge its treatments.
A personal archive of poetry and lyrics that I have collected over the years that were just laying around. I figured it was about time to do something with it all and this is the first book in that series. Special thanks to ""Outlaw Poet and Scholar"" Ron Whitehead for the inspiring forward!
A collected book of the best visual art styles from, 6 time published writer and distributed director of the movie Nailed Down, Harley David Morris. This collection is culmination of influences from Simon "The Biz" Bisley, H.R. Giger, Martin Emond, James O'Barr, Frank Frazetta, David Hatman and many more ranging from Erotic, abstract, surreal, pop, comic and tattoo styles. Special quote: from (Rob Zombie artist and Transformers Prime Director David Hartman
Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology shows how the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense or meaning within nature, and how this quest calls for and develops into a radically new ontology. David Morris first gives an illuminating analysis of sense, showing how it requires understanding nature as engendering new norms. He then presents innovative studies of Merleau-Ponty's The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception, revealing how these early works are oriented by the problem of sense and already lead to difficulties about nature, temporality, and ontology that preoccupy Merleau-Ponty's later work. Morris shows how resolving these difficulties requires seeking sense through its appearance in nature, prior to experience—ultimately leading to radically new concepts of nature, time, and philosophy. Merleau-Ponty's Developmental Ontology makes key issues in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy clear and accessible to a broad audience while also advancing original philosophical conclusions.
The West's Last Bastions Feral Country is a celebration of the rugged, stark, and primitive landscapes of Northwest Colorado and Southern Wyoming. Many of the rivers, mountains, canyons and deserts that inspired these reflections are being irrevocably changed due to rampant development. Native plants, animals, and archeological sites all over this unique territory will soon be gone. It is the author's hope that the high Western Desert country will come to life in these poems. and that people will be moved to help preserve what survives.
This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. The greatest surprise I encountered in discussing this topic over the past ten years was the consistency with which I was asked a single unvarying question: Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? The overwhelming consistency of this response convinces me that modern culture rests upon and underlying belief so strong that it grips us with the force of a founding myth. Call it the Myth of Two Pains. We live in an era when many people believe--as a basic, unexamined foundation of thought--that pain comes divided into separate types: physical and mental. These two types of pain, so the myth goes, are as different as land and sea. You feel physical pain if your arm breaks, and you feel mental pain if your heart breaks. Between these two different events we seem to imagine a gulf so wide and deep that it might as well be filled by a sea that is impossible to navigate.
Rejected by God or called to an uncommon path? The eleven apostles cast lots to determine whom the Holy Spirit would pick to replace Judas Iscariot; he must be someone who had been with Jesus the whole time. That left either Joseph bar Sabbas, called Justus, or Matthias. The stones were cast, and the lot fell to Matthias. Even so, Justus wouldn't be denied his dream. He had mingled among the disciples for more than three years. He had been close to Jesus, held private conversations with him, and had laughed with him. He'd slept around the same campfires, visited the same homes, and eaten at the same tables. Now, Justus would chart a new path. He would reveal everything he knew about his Lord from the viewpoint of a privileged witness. Justus began to write. What was it like to be near Jesus in everyday situations or to see him in action in his greatest moments? Did Jesus have a childhood best friend? How did he relate to his fish-breathed disciples? What did he feel when the crowd cried out for his death? Justus logged all of this in a series of scrolls and began a journey to house the treasure at the great library in Alexandria, Egypt. Perhaps, someday they would be seen.
Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history. Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Morris has brilliantly recreated this crucial battle that nearly changed the outcome of the Persian Gulf War. Storm on the Horizon is war writing at its finest. On January 29, 1991, Saddam Hussein launched his three best armored divisions across the Kuwaiti border and into the Islamic Holy Land of Saudi Arabia. Their mission: to disrupt the massive U.S.-led Coalition preparing to evict them from Kuwait, and to bloody the Americans on CNN. Caught without warning in the path of this juggernaut were scattered groups of lightly armed U.S. Marines and Special Forces soldiers. Storm on the Horizon is the gripping and compelling story of how these elite fighting men escaped the Iraqi onslaught and reversed the assault with an unprecedented combination of high-tech weaponry and American know-how. This is the story of the first battle of the smart-bomb age. Storm on the Horizon drops you in the middle of the most intense battle of the Persian Gulf War. The Marines are trapped and outnumbered, their weapons no match against the Iraqi tanks bearing down on them. Their only lifeline to the rear is a barely functioning radio. Drawing upon extensive veteran interviews and previously classified reports, David J. Morris's vivid minute-by-minute narrative takes you through the battle from its beginning as a scattered collection of skirmishes to its fiery final act in the streets of the abandoned Saudi Arabian town of Khafji. Morris captures this ordeal through the eyes of the men who were there, giving readers a rare front-row seat to an incredible sequence of events. Max Morton, the pilot of a Cobra attack helicopter is forced to make an emergency landing in the heart of Khafji as the Iraqis are attacking. He and his crew narrowly escape after locating a tank of mystery fuel at a local oil refinery. Medic Kevin Callahan, member of a team of Marines caught behind enemy lines, watches helplessly as a female U.S. Army soldier and her male comrade are captured by Iraqi soldiers and spirited to Baghdad. Ronald Tull, suffering untold wounds, wakes up next to his burning light-armored vehicle thinking that it has been struck by an enemy tank round. Only later does he learn the full horror of the events that led up to the death of his seven buddies who were on board. But Storm on the Horizon is far more than a battle saga. It is a thoughtful examination of a new generation of fighting men coming to terms with its own war, a journey into the minds of men under supreme stress, and a heartfelt account of the innocence lost in a heartbeat and mourned for a lifetime. At once an unflinching chronicle of men at war and an appalling tableau, Storm on the Horizon looks into the savage heart of modern combat and raises troubling questions about the era of conflict that lies ahead.
Demonikas, a demon witch, that has come back to our world to bring forth Lucifer to rule! This book is of 5 screenplays about Demonikas, each a different chapter in the series. Two have been made into short, the other 2, plans are still in the works. -Demonikas -Demonikas: The Coven -Demonikas: Blood Slave -Demonikas: The Book of Satani
A deadly plague has come to a little county in Louisville Ky. A place where everyone knows everything about everyone and the dead coming to life is just a horror movie. Unprepared for the worst thing to happen in this little county, the night has only begun. No answers to questions but one thing is for sure, fantasy is about to become a horrid reality for a group of young adults that have to find a way to survive. With death and destruction in their path, they have to rely on their inner strength, and each other, and let go of the ones they love the most to do so.
We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era—roughly the period since World War II—as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring these changes, David B. Morris tells the fascinating story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique. Even as he decries the overuse and misuse of the term "postmodern," Morris shows how brightly ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture. Modern medicine traditionally separates disease—an objectively verified disorder—from illness—a patient's subjective experience. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make no such clean distinction; instead, it demands a biocultural model, situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture. Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of being sick. The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for investigating both biology and culture. In many ways Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age leads us to understand our experience of the world differently.
Guy Scorpion is a gun for hire in a world that has been fighting far longer than man has existed. Heaven and Hell have been at odds for so long, angels and demons are finding it hard to see that there is a line that was drawn. Gabriel has decided that there is no one more fit to rule over Heaven than himself. With the backing of many angels in the search for God's own personal Bible that only God can see from front to back. Any other that holds and looks upon the book can only see so many pages into that individual's future. Gabriel wants this book to gain control of Heaven. Forces are forming against Gabriel behind the scenes to make sure Gabriel fails. Sometimes the enemy of our enemy.....is our friend!
Three girls from an orphanage that have becomes sisters connected to each each other by their individual abuses by men closest in their lives. Taking over their own live, they have become vigilante serial killers, killing men that abuse girls and women alike. The concept for the girls was to bring parts of personalities from the original Charlie's Angels tv series and the Power Puff girls and inspired by The Chainsaw Sally Show, with a grindhouse/b-movie flavor.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is Eros? -- Part One: The Contraries -- Chapter 1. The Ambush: An Erotics of Illness -- Chapter 2. Unforgetting Asklepios: Medical Eros and Its Lineage -- Chapter 3. Not-Knowing: Medicine in the Dark -- Part Two: The Stories -- Chapter 4. Varieties of Erotic Experience: Five Illness Narratives -- Chapter 5. Eros Modigliani: Assenting to Life -- Chapter 6. The Infinite Faces of Pain: Eros and Ethics -- Part Three: The Dilemmas -- Chapter 7. Black Swan Syndrome: Probable Improbabilities -- Chapter 8. Light as Environment: How Not to Love Nature -- Chapter 9. The Spark of Life: Appearances / Disappearances -- Conclusion: Altered States -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Preparing to provide for your family during a crisis takes much more than stockpiling beans, rice, and water.You only have to look back as far as Sandy and Katrina to see how desperate people get when shelves are empty and utilities stop working.And for those who do have stockpiles of supplies, they still need to prepare to defend it.In "Fastest Way To Prepare" you'll learn:* How to get 7 weeks of delicious, nutritious "normal" food that you'll LOVE to eat for $100 per person--in a single 30 minute trip to your local big box store. (You can't afford NOT to do this) * Jedi mind-hacks that will help you keep your cool in a crisis situation that's been proven to reduce PTSD by up to 80%.* Cheap intrusion detection devices, including improvised alarms made from a clothespin, thumbtack, a 9 volt battery, and other "trash" you can find almost anywhere.* The top items to keep on hand for improvised trauma and medical care. We'll even touch on how to address pain control for surgeries in the event that pharmacies have been ransacked and there's no resupply on the horizon.In short, you need this book--regardless of how prepared you are.
A history of 28 hymns along with an explanation of each one in terms of Christian faith. Book includes a score of each song, and a CD of 17 of these songs.
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