Dream Again tells the true story of the love and passion of a man nearly destroyed by a traumatic divorce. Johnnie T. Jones takes you on a personalized and detailed journey through the tearing down and rebuilding of his life. You will be enlightened and inspired to move forward when faced with challenging times as he welcomes you into his pain and his fight to reclaim his place in life again.
Martyrdom. Fraud. Stoning. Beheading. Miracles. The early church experienced it all! The Bible's Book of Acts includes page after page of high drama, yet the average reader can't help but be struck with the gaps that exist in this New Testament account of the early believers. What happened to those individual, unsung followers who risked their lives to participate in the birth of the church? What pain and crises occurred among those who gave their all to advance the cause of Christ? In his dramatic novel, Acts of the Spirit-Filled, Johnnie R. Jones helps the reader envision how common, oppressed people became empowered by God's Spirit and turned their world upside down with a powerful Gospel. Interweaving fictional dialogue, narration, and historic events, Jones paints a graphic picture of the struggles, trials, and passions that propelled Christianity forward during a dark and dangerous time. This theatrical account of the early church is the first volume in Jones' Acts series and is based on events described in Chapters 1-12 of the New Testament Book of Acts.
Paul is under arrest for civil unrest. Facing imprisonment in Rome, he travels in chains to the capital of the empire, where the Spirit reveals to him a far greater plan-and peril -for spreading the Gospel. Meanwhile, the treasures of the Judean temple capture the greedy eyes of Emperor Nero, as his plans for a golden palace are put on hold for lack of funds. + Whose life is expendable in this psychotic emperor's future? + Did Nero really start the Great Fire of Rome? Or did the Christians do it? + Was Peter crucified upside down? The drama and the suffering increases in Acts of the Spirit-Filled-Volume 3, as followers of Jesus begin infiltrating the capital and outer territories of the Roman Empire. Based on events recorded in the Bible's Book of Acts and further into rabbinical and Christian traditions, journey to the end of the first century through this fictional narrative. Discover possible answers to centuries' old questions and debate about the last days of the first-century Christians. Volume 3 begins in Acts, Chapter 25 to AD 95 (circa).
This is Our Story, For to God be the Glory To the remaining matriarch of the Hill family and matriarch; Aunt Georgia Lovick, and Uncle W. Hill, and my siblings, it is with much love I thank you all for the inspiration to write about your experience of our grandparents, and your parents' aunt Georgia. Let's continue the love, caring, and humbleness characteristic they showed while living. The two most beautiful people whom we all admired and love so much, and respected so very much must never cease.
Dream Again tells the true story of the love and passion of a man nearly destroyed by a traumatic divorce. Johnnie T. Jones takes you on a personalized and detailed journey through the tearing down and rebuilding of his life. You will be enlightened and inspired to move forward when faced with challenging times as he welcomes you into his pain and his fight to reclaim his place in life again.
johnnie howell" is the pen name of John H. Hicks Jr. which he used for seven and one half years on a weekly newspaper column, "There. I said it , " Two early events shaped his life, on Resurrection Sunday (Easter) in 1936 he received the Lord Jesus as his Savior. After being drafted he was stationed at Fort Belvoir and met Anna Wright of Martins Ferry, Ohio on July 23, 1943. They were married on September 25th, of that year. He was sent to Europe with the 61st. Engineer Combat Battalion to serve in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge as an Infantryman), Rhineland, and Central Europe. They returned to Louisville where he enrolled as Pre-Med student at the U of L. During the following three years and three months, prior to graduation, his wife gave birth to a daughter and a son and he built them a home, beginning a part-time career in construction. He was a substitute teacher for a year. They moved to Greenville South Carolina for two years when he enrolled in the Graduate School of Religion at Bob Jones University. An elective course in Evangelistic Song Leading was instrumental as he served in about 40 revivals after they returned to Louisville. His wife soon gave birth to a daughter and in four years a second son. He worked various jobs; builder, farmer, rental property manager, radio newsman and ad writer, developed a subdivision, real estate sales, construction manager for 2 architectural firms, the school board, and satisfied a war time ambition...learning to fly. He received 2 patents on football face masks and was the Speaker/Teacher at the Louisville Bible Church for 2 years. In 2005 his first novel, "Simon of Cyrene; the Black Ostrich, (ISBN 1-4116-2788-1) was published. (Lulu.com / Amazon.com)
Do you know the four types of aliens that have hidden themselves amongst governments and armed services throughout the world? No? Well, neither did Air Force Captain Scott Ryan until one night when he encountered a UFO while flying a training mission and was ordered by his superiors to forget what he saw. When Scott learns that airmen at his base had been experiencing the same thing he did for years, he ignores the order and begins digging deeper. Scott’s investigation quickly snowballs from innocent research into revelations of a covert war between humans and aliens and a full-blown government conspiracy and coverup. With a group of aliens known as the “Naturals” going extinct, they are creating more and more alien/human “Hybrids” to ensure their survival—a process that threatens human free will and existence. With the survival of both humans and aliens at stake, Captain Ryan suddenly becomes the only man with enough knowledge to stop the Naturals or . . . to join them? Winner of two 2022 BookFest awards, recognizing best science fiction and fantasy books, and a 2022 Literary Titan Book Award.
WELCOME TO LETHE "EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED" EST. 1888 POP. 5897 In 1959, outside an old cemetery in a small Alabama town, two teenagers were found burned to death in their car. Twenty years later, on a routine police check, a police officer finds the charred corpse of a dog in that very spot. A group of teenagers, intent on solving the crime themselves, finds the answers to their questions-but some secrets are best left buried. As adults, they would like to forget, but when the lives of their children are at stake, they will be finally forced to deal with the mystery that has been plaguing their town for decades.
Explores ethical issues & concerns commonly encountered by ESL faculty in practical terms & relates them to the classroom environment. Each chap includes several scenarios to generate discussion, debate, & reflection. Intended for ESL faculty & as a text
THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth. The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. This new edition of Guns Up!, filled with photographs and updated information about those harrowing battles, also contains the real names of these extraordinary warriors and details of their lives after the war. The book's continuing success is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.
Patriotic Service Leads to Victories in Romance Relive life on the American homefront as four women of the WWII era join the workforce and discover romance in surprising ways. Moonlight Serenade by Rita Gerlach 1941, Washington D.C. When Kate St. Claire takes over a sailor’s job at the Naval Yard in Washington, DC, she is thrown into a romance she never expected. Only Forever by Lauralee Bliss 1943, Springville, New York Marilyn and Arthur learn the hard way that it’s not the outside that matters, but the inward working of the heart that is precious to God and each other. Blue Moon by Johnnie Alexander 1943, Oak Ridge, Tennessee After humiliating each other, a WOOPs officer and an Army Intelligence agent team up to protect a top-secret atomic bomb facility from sabotage. Dream a Little Dream by Amanda Barratt 1945, Palm Springs, California When an army nurse and a former film star are reunited at a wartime hospital, can they move beyond their past and into a future together?
The period known as the 60's sparked several revolutions in America. It was the era of religious expression, communes, protests, long hair and sexual free will. But when the external liberties that the 60's introduced began to diminish, the 70's would begin a time period of pseudo-celebration for the freedoms that were "obtained." While America celebrated, the youth of the next generation were left home alone to face their own struggles. Johnnie Dent takes us on an astonishing personal journey while sharing with us three decades of his own life. He allows us to reexamine the social dilemmas of domestic violence, single parenting, teenage pregnancy, youth violence, drug trafficking, police brutality, the penal system and even religious intolerance. He provides us with a refreshing retrospective and introspective of what real life in America is like to be poor, ignorant, black and male. However, while he illustrates for us these startling facts that we seemingly overlook in everyday life, he also demonstrates that any person can transform the negative patterns of their lifestyles by beginning a new walk layered with faith.
This work sheds new light on the Battle of San Jacinto, correcting long-standing historical errors. In 1922, McDonald compiled 877 biographical entries for the most concise account of the battle ever published.
They were warriors, trained to fight, dedicated to their country, and determined to win. At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps’ machine gunners took everything the Japanese could throw at them in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II; their position was so hopeless that at one point they were given the go-ahead to surrender. Near the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, as the mercury dropped to twenty below, the 1st Marine Division found itself surrounded and cut off by the enemy. The outlook seemed so bleak that many in Washington had privately written off the men. But surrender is not part of a Marine’s vocabulary. Gunner’s Glory contains true stories of these and other tough battles in the Pacific, in Korea, and in Vietnam, recounted by the machine gunners who fought them. Bloody, wounded, sometimes barely alive, they stayed with their guns, delivering a stream of firepower that often turned defeat into victory–and always made them the enemy’s first target.
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