Nathan Krupa didn't believe in demons. In fact, he didn't believe in much of anything. Everything seemed to be going great. Working in Hollywood, starting a business, living the dream. But his life shattered when he suffered a horrific nervous breakdown. Fiancé - gone. Job - fired. Home - nearly destroyed by his own hands. The professionals who examined him told his family that he would never recover and would spend the rest of his life in an institution. Except he wasn't just crazy. He was possessed by the devil. After returning to Georgia and encountering Jesus in the dark of night, he and his mother started casting out demons. Lots of demons. So began a decade long battle with the devil that transformed him into a servant of the poor, devoted husband, and proud father. In this raw and gripping testimony, Nathan tells the story of his descent into madness and the long journey back to sanity. And how the devil fought him every step of the way.
A tree just fell through the roof of the church!!!" "OH NO! Let's have a bake sale so we can fix it!" If you've ever heard this conversation or one like it, you might realize that you need better tools than cookie sheets to raise big money. But where do you start? Great fundraising starts with a powerful mission… and you have a mission that comes straight from Almighty God: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations…" "Letters from the Almoner" will teach you how to raise money for your church or ministry. Join the Almoner as he writes to both his parish priest and a determined volunteer about the ins and outs of fundraising in a small, poor church. You'll learn the nuts and bolts of how to raise money effectively. You'll also discover that fundraising can be a powerful opportunity for conversion for the fundraiser and the donor. "Letters from the Almoner" will help you move beyond bake sales to mission-focused fundraising that really works. It has to… souls and lives are at stake. "A very useful tool for pastors, so many of whom are called upon to seek funding for projects in their parishes. There is a fair amount that is available for them regarding what is commonly called ‘stewardship,’ but not a lot on fundraising. There should be a willing audience for this helpful volume in the epistolary style." - Bishop Joel M. Konzen, Archdiocese of Atlanta
This is a book for all readers who want to learn about amphibians, the animal group that includes frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians. It draws on many years of classroom teaching, laboratory experience, and field observation by the authors. Robert Stebbins and Nathan Cohen lead readers on a fascinating odyssey as they explore some of nature's most interesting creatures, interspersing their own observations throughout the book. A Natural History of Amphibians can serve as a textbook for students and independent learners, as an overview of the field for professional scientists and land managers, and as an engaging introduction for general readers. The class Amphibia contains more than 4,500 known living species. New species are being discovered so rapidly that the number may grow to more than 5,000 during our lifetimes. However, their numbers are being rapidly decimated around the globe, largely due to the encroachment of humans on amphibian habitats and from growing human-caused environmental pollution, discussed at length in the final chapter. The authors focus our attention on the "natural history" of amphibians worldwide and emphasize their interactions with their environments over time: where they live; how they reproduce; how they have been affected by evolutionary processes; what factors will determine their destinies over time. Through the experienced eyes of the authors, who are skilled observers, we come to see and understand the place of amphibians in the natural world around us.
By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I - serving chiefly in labor battalions. Domestically, clashes between blacks and whites vying for the same jobs in boomtown defense-plant cities and the wretched treatment of northern black draftees in the South - where Jim Crow discrimination was prevalent - were all too common. In Harlem at War, Nat Brandt vividly recreates the desolation of black communities during World War II and examines the nation-wide conditions that led up to the Harlem riot of 1943. Wherever black troops were trained or stationed, Brandt explains, "rage surfaced frequently, was suppressed, but was not extinguished." Using eyewitness accounts, he describes the rage Harlemites felt, the discrimination and humiliation they shared with blacks across the country. The collective anger erupted one day in Harlem when a young black soldier was shot by a white police officer. The riot, in which six blacks were killed, seven hundred injured, and six arrested, became a turning point in America's race relations and a precursor to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
A tree just fell through the roof of the church!!!" "OH NO! Let's have a bake sale so we can fix it!" If you've ever heard this conversation or one like it, you might realize that you need better tools than cookie sheets to raise big money. But where do you start? Great fundraising starts with a powerful mission… and you have a mission that comes straight from Almighty God: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations…" "Letters from the Almoner" will teach you how to raise money for your church or ministry. Join the Almoner as he writes to both his parish priest and a determined volunteer about the ins and outs of fundraising in a small, poor church. You'll learn the nuts and bolts of how to raise money effectively. You'll also discover that fundraising can be a powerful opportunity for conversion for the fundraiser and the donor. "Letters from the Almoner" will help you move beyond bake sales to mission-focused fundraising that really works. It has to… souls and lives are at stake. "A very useful tool for pastors, so many of whom are called upon to seek funding for projects in their parishes. There is a fair amount that is available for them regarding what is commonly called ‘stewardship,’ but not a lot on fundraising. There should be a willing audience for this helpful volume in the epistolary style." - Bishop Joel M. Konzen, Archdiocese of Atlanta
The title "writings" is slightly misleading; this is not a reader but a survey of jazz and jazz musicians from its inception through the rising stars of the 1990s. Davis (U. of Pittsburgh) writes in the personal tone of someone who has long been active in the jazz scene (the preface is by Donald Byrd, one of many musicians Davis has played with), offering many frank opinions that seek to correct historic misconceptions about jazz and jazz musicians. The audio CD features classic works from Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Coleman Hawkins, among others. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was a formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.
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