Photographer and carefree bachelor Miles Morris is always surrounded by beautiful women. When he’s behind the camera, he’s a pro. But when ladies ask him for personal services beyond the lens, it’s difficult to keep from mixing business with pleasure. Miles is considered a great catch, but does he truly want to settle down? Cheryl shares his love of sports but is that enough. The sexy neighbor Coco shares her weed as generously as she shares her body. Jackie an old high school flame is back in picture and lookin’ very good, now that she’s getting a divorce. The best friend Sydney has been his “pretend” wife for so many social functions, they’ve lost count. And then there’s Brenda, Sydney’s younger sister, who has a thing for older men including Miles. Juggling a busy work schedule and a hectic social life isn’t easy, but Miles makes it work. He tries to share his attention with every admirer, but someone isn’t happy. Miles and his ladies are tormented by a stalker, a woman who sends threatening messages, follows Miles on dates, and keeps an eye on his admirers. As the threats become more ominous, Miles needs to identify the stalker before someone is seriously injured – or killed.
Consider: •The church both learns and becomes what it truly is when it gathers to worship. •Worship tells the story of God’s salvation history and invites God’s people into it. •By doing so, the church offers the world both a stern warning and a hopeful promise. These are three of the key insights that animated the work of Jean-Jacques von Allmen, a Swiss Reformed pastor and professor who is among the most admired liturgical theologians of the twentieth century. Yet his work is largely and lamentably unknown to most worship leaders. In this book, Ron Rienstra provides an introduction to this important thinker. He offers methodological and biographical context and then explores von Allmen’s most generative insights concerning the church as it engages in its most foundational activity: worship. Viewed through the lens of the Nicene marks, Rienstra’s exploration yields the outlines of a “liturgical ecclesiology”: a way to help the church think more deeply about its identity and to help its leaders shape the worship they prepare and lead today.
Solutions for a Dangerous Environment We live in a perilous world, a dangerous environment. Watch television news or read your daily newspaper and you are subjected to a daily diet of robberies, rapes, riots, murders, fires, earthquakes, floods and famines. Do you find yourself becoming disturbed by what is happening around you? Do you feel helpless, unable to control these events? Do you even sometimes feel afraid? In this booklet, L. Ron Hubbard dissects this phenomenon of the dangerous environment, providing methods that will not only help you overcome your fears, but allow you to help others. Applied on a broad scale, this information brings about an enormous calming influence and enables people to lead happier lives. Used on an individual scale--by you--it will enhance the lives of your family, friends and associates. * Do you find yourself getting anxious over world conditions? * Do you feel helpless, unable to control these events? * Do you even sometimes feel afraid? For the solutions and answers to these situations, buy and read this booklet.
In keeping with the classic Christian tradition, Great Is the Lord sets out the doctrine of God in a way that illumines the mind, moves the heart, and stirs the soul to praise the triune God. Ron Highfield introduces students, ministers, and others to the “traditional” doctrine of God held by the majority of the church from the second to the twentieth century: God is triune, loving, merciful, gracious, patient, wise, one, simple, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, omnipresent, immutable, impassible, and glorious. Irenically challenging open theism and process theology, Highfield shows that the classical doctrine of God actually preserves our confidence in God's love and his liberating action better than its opponents do. This traditional doctrine, Highfield argues, grounds our dignity and freedom in the center of reality, the trinitarian life of God. Highfield's work maintains the highest intellectual standards throughout even as it offers a true theology for the praise of God.
A person could write a history story every day for the rest of his life and not come close to covering all the history of America. The history of America in the last five hundred years reflect every human experience that man possesses. The stories selected for this book depict men, women and events of every possible description. Most of these stories are not found in high school history books, yet are influential in the development of America. Kit Carson fought Indians, but also guided Fremont through the West. Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive a medical degree in America at a time when women were not even thought of as citizens. Then, there is the innovative genius of the Burma-Shave signs that sold shaving cream all over the country. History is a very delicate subject. The reader is at the mercy of the eye witness account of a person's actions or an event taking place. The eye witness from one side will see it one way while the person recording the event from the other side may see it differently. It is then up to the historian to decipher these varying accounts and determine what really happened. It is possible that both sides were wrong. Historians have the task of inspecting as many versions of the same story as possible to come to some reasonable expectation of what actually took place. A case in point would be the story of the Alamo. Texans tell the story as they wanted it, while the Mexicans tell a story that is completely opposite (See Dequello inside). The stories in this book have been compared and researched as honestly as it is possible to do remembering that there are precious few eye witnesses left.
Drawing upon his experience in teaching this material over the past twenty-five years in forty countries, Ron Man provides a rich and deep examination of biblical worship, drawing principles out of a rigorous study of the text of Scripture. He also writes as a practitioner, from the perspective of one who served as a church worship pastor for twenty-two years. Features distinguishing this book from other similar studies include: 1) a tracing of the foundational Revelation and Response pattern through the Scriptures; 2) a more thorough treatment of New Testament texts than is often found; 3) a comprehensive treatment of the crucial role of Jesus Christ as the true Leader of our worship; 4) a consideration of worship as it relates to world missions; and 5) a concluding summary of twelve “Biblical Principles of Worship,” synthesizing the results of the study.
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep is the life experiences of Ron McGregor. Born the youngest of six children by immigrants from North Dakota, USA, settlers carving out an existence in Canada's flatland called Saskatchewan. This is a biographical account of ups and downs created throughout the booms and busts of the oil patch. As the ups and downs of the oil patch occurred so did the ups and downs of Ron's bipolar condition making life difficult for those close to him. A story of a man trying to achieve great things but never realizing until too late what the best things in life are.
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